skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the phenomenon is explained by the Predictive Processing model (which is explained well here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...)
Come on.

Poor people get scholarships, get dismissed from university cost even.

And aside from wealth, everyone can repeatedly enroll in classes for many years (although if you don't pass you have to payback what was given to you) and waste everyone's ressources for useless, unfinished degrees (hello first year of sociology or other bullshit).
Well, you just backed from your initial saying "pay". That was a great concern, being "cozy", etc. is not so.
As long as people want to pay for this it holds value. If someone is ready to pay 10k for it, it's worth 10k.
All the rights you brought up have a strong moral component. Moral questions can't be answered by looking to other countries with different morals.
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I hope you are either being sarcastic or are you actually equating a knife with an AR-15?
Please enlighten as to what would qualify as a wave of crime then, in your opinion.

A 600% increase in acid attacks? A 200% increase in gun offenses? A 70% increase in knife crimes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition
AWS exodus due to Amazon Australia competition 'doesn’t make rational sense'
That's genius, and would be such a neat addition to HN.
In the war between the big players, it becomes increasingly obvious that for important (to you) media, you need to get the actual bits. Buy a DVD/Blu ray disk; it'll still be sitting there in 20 years. All you need is a reader. Streaming entertainment will come and go, but I want my movies and music forever.
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It seems that it is not specuation, but rather reality.Nvidia is really into it
Cannot easily do that with a handgun either.
Usually? By which you mean "never"? Single payer is just a more equitable form of rationing. Don't over think this.

The rest I'm going to just ignore.
I’m genuinely confused by this response. All that URL does is have you click from Facebook, which makes FB the referrer, which WSJ has anointed a paywall free zone.

What am I missing?
Every time i open google-owned website in the Edge browser i get popup telling me to download or install Chrome

But I already have Chrome installed and use Chrome 90% of the time. I just find fantastically irritating to be badgered every time i don't use it. Now i see they are upping the ante and disabling accessing services because of corporate rivalry...

Amazon/Apple/Google are all engaging in this kind of passive aggressive low-level battle where they use their own consumers as weapons to fight each other and its a method that unfortunately works

I just hope that there will be some kind of backlash against this practice in the future, but given the level of Amazon-Apple-Google fanboism going around i'm really doubting it..
I agreee with the interruptions - I don't understand how they can accept popping up reminders over full screen games, or asking me whether i would "recommend windows 10 to a friend" etc.

But the mail/outlook comparison doesn't work: outlook is an old and enormous enterprise piece of calendar/mail thingy. Not a mail application. Even though many use it for just email, that's not what it is - and they can't change that.

This isn't an OS difference between Mac and windows. Windows has a simple/clean mail app, just like Mail.app.
http://uk.pcmag.com/windows-10-preview-release-date-news-fea...

Also, seems Outlook will get a makeover to be more like Mail.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16481190/microsoft-outlo...
The examples are not simply about storing two key value pairs. His new books do not include the facts from the examples given in this article. It seems to be easy to miss the technical point by being upset about we think is polemics.
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> less handguns = less deaths.

This does not follow. Take Brazil for example. 60k homicides per year, and guns are pretty much forbidden.

Of course, criminals don’t seem to care.
It's userland generics.

Containers are the level 0 of generic data structures: not only is an "array" significantly less useful than an "array of T" it also leads to loss of safety (you may intend your array to be an array of int, but codegen aside there's nothing precluding a user from shoving a string in there) inefficiencies (since the type of values must be erased you need an indirection, usually a pointer) and usercode-complexity (the user needs to downcast all values to the data type they hope they are).
> they are better at calculating risks and potential payoffs than most of us here.

They also have more play money to throw at risky ventures, and the connections to hear about them early
Everyone is stuck on an infinite loop
> If you can stream with vlc to chromecast

You can only if the device has Google Play Services installed.

Amazon doesn’t want to have separate versions of their apps for regular Android (as used on LineageOS, Amazon Kindle Android, MIUI, Replicant, CopperheadOS) and for Google’s version with proprietary Play Services.
They missed their first launch date by a week and a half. The lack of retailers is probably in part due to lack of APIs available til very close to launch day (within a week for orders) and a non existent sandbox for testing implementations.

They aren’t yet offering their own products with a few exceptions for cables.

Disclaimer: worked on our implementation as a launch retailer.
It would be interesting to see if there were some way to extract a couple of new heuristics from AlphaZero that could be implemented fast enough to incorporate in Stockfish's evaluator though. I suppose this is the age old problem of black-box models: _why_ does it think this?
"Gentlemen, you cannot fight in here. This is the war room!"

It is a fantastic movie overall, but this quote alone would put it in the cinema Pantheon, IMHO.
I'm not sure why companies with a budget would use it, but if you want health-checks without paying, you use HAProxy. nginx excludes this for the open source version. Which really makes me unhappy. But so it goes.

I use both in my applications. nginx for reverse proxy on my python boxes and HAProxy to manage all of them.
Amazon blocked sales of Apple and Google streaming devices some years ago and was discussed heavily on HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312938
Back to zero at 41 ply... I shan't give a running commentary anymore.
Care to provide any source for your claim?

Here's mine: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/drug-use/b...

Singapore has 0.18 drug related deaths per 100k population. With a population of ~5.6 million people this means 10 deaths per year for whole country. In comparison Portugal has 3x higher drug related death rate.

Regarding executions you can check wikipedia:
> However, since the 2010s, execution has become far less common, with some years having no executions at all.
I was asking because we build a product that is deployed at customer site, so deployments would not be useful for that. But, we do deploy our own product to test environments for manual testing. (We also have automatic testing, but thats per commit and removed after testing... so not relevant here.)

We have the following branches (simplified):
master
release-4.2.x
release-5.0.x
release-5.1.x

Now, I was thinking to use the deployments feature to track the deployment of the test environment of each branch. So our testers can see the status of their test environment.
Will developers be able to build classic desktop (Win32) ARM applications?
Sounds a lot like me so horny, mi so coin... just the name already, oozes trust... </sarcasm>
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I don't want to be the obnoxious person saying "Stallman told you so", but ... well ... we should all know by now what happens when companies sell you devices that are under their control and not yours.

These devices are not designed to respect your wishes or freedoms. They are not designed to empower you. They are designed to keep you within a strictly limited set of options. You do not really "own" it and it does not owe you its allegiance; it acts in the best interests of its manufacturer, not you.
Only 1GB RAM? Really?
This is the future you chose :^)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con...
This dude on HN is worth some $3bn, assuming he HODLed (EDIT to add: he/she bought 259684 BTC for $3000 in the wake of Mt Gox)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263
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Primary Schools offer additional help to bring immigrant children up to speed with their german, though I'm not sure how many families use this option.

You can also almost always switch tracks, the farther down you are one track the harder it gets to switch up. I went for the second lowest (Realschule) and then went to a tertiary school (Fachoberschule). With that I can study in a University for Applied Sciences (different from normal University).

The german education system has many options open, the general push in the lower two tracks is to get you into a job as early as possible (there are lots of job fairs I went to) but still permit you to pick any of the other 20 options.
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I never comment on HN, but I figured out how to log in just so I could express my enthusiasm for how valuable the above comment is.

I wish everyone in every debate ever could read what is written above. People not doing the above is the one major problem with public discourse today.
> But to sell beef burgers to folks in a hurry for lunch, no.

Even if the person you're selling to is obese and will likely die an early death if the person in question continues his or hers behavior?
when asked "How many qualified software engineers they have locally produced?", you came up with TSMC as example? Is that a software related company? Do they build internet services to complete with Google? Let me respond to your high google marketshare in Taiwan claim again - Taiwan has far less qualified software engineers and thus impossible to come up with anything to complete with google services. As comparison, you probably see 1 million young graduates joining workforce to work as software engineers in mainland China every coupe of years, that is the difference you failed to even understand.

Is that nationalistic?

Now let's look at your ~30% marketshare claims - you intentionally refused to mentioned the fact that Baidu had its market share increased from 40% to 64% in the same period when google peaked in 2010 - baidu had bigger market share and even bigger market share growth. That is a typical sign of google losing the competition - winner takes all is the rule of the Internet, it is the rule served google so well in all other markets, it is the rule that helped google to completely wipe out yahoo search and bing.

https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/15/baidu-china-search-intelli...

learn to grow up.
I will assume that you do not actually want this. However I do feel that there could be a bit of more targeting options without being creepy.

For example Apple could infer categories of users according to their Appstore profile and permit you to target people by their trade.
My point was very clear, I spelled it out in the initial reply:

"The world is still extraordinarily backwards when it comes to gay marriage."

I then referenced the fact that 70% of European nations don't have legalized gay marriage, as partial supporting evidence for just how backwards most of the world is on this human rights matter.

The attempt was then made to rationalize the fact that the majority of European nations don't allow gay marriage. To which I replied accordingly. What's not clear about any of that?
> Gay marriage is a prime example

I think it's a horrible example in this context, because you can't compare being gay to being a drug abuser. One of them is nature, the other is nurture (at least, that's what research says, people are still debating though).

Also, you can't measure "corruption of society, or ruin the sanctity of marriage, or cause God to punish us", since they're all populist statements. The benefits of Portugal's drug policy are measurable however.
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The number of positions evaluated is the number evaluated. Speed doesn’t change that.

Speed probably made the initial self play training quicker though.
From what I remember the year handguns were banned was the year Harold Shipman's 100 odd patient deaths were reclassified as murders, leading to a spike that was characterized by the NRA as an increase in murder caused by banning handguns.
The actual hardware is fine, I've had one for two or three years and it's perfect.
> Some people are concerned that a frivolous game is now going to be crowding out more serious, significant-seeming business uses.

That’s the point. The open platform of the blockchain is usable by whoever is willing to pay what it costs in fees; not by how significant-seeming their activity is.
> Go is a better C

Setting the scale for language comparison to C (or Python) is setting the bar pretty low. There are so much better languages out there.
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A 600% increase in what was a tiny number to start with is not a "crime wave"
Uh, what? Literally all of this has been obvious if you've had your eyes and ears open within the past year in the valley.

In regards to what you claim is "downvote-baiting", I edited my initial response once I saw that I'd been downvoted (check the `updated_at` field).

But to please you, Master Dang, I'll make sure my responses are more P.C.
There's no other way in my opinion too. This is super stressful to me. I started working a few years ago, working my ass off with a full time job and part time one at night and I wonder if it's going to be of any worth someday or if I'm just working against my own later benefits by putting myself in the "too wealthy compared to my age class future average" fringe.
Atleast in germany, the only thing that matters is your grade.

When a course in a university has more applicants than slots, the required grades are lowered (1 or 15 being best, 6 or 1 worst depending on your previous education) until the number of applicants fits into the number of slots.

Since all previous education is free, family wealth matters little (though it still plays a role)
> hardware is cheap, why would crypto scaling be an issue?

Because the algorithms governing crypto may not be scalable.

Case in point: a simple game of CryptoKittens basically crippled Ethereum:

- Etherscan has reported a sixfold increase in pending transactions on Ethereum since the game's release, by the Axiom Zen innovation studio, on 28 November

- CryptoKitties has become so popular that it's taking up a significant amount of available space for transactions on the Ethereum platform

- the CryptoKitties game accounts for over 10% of network traffic on Ethereum. As traffic increases, transactions become more expensive to execute quickly.

All this for a number of transactions that wouldn't even register on the radar of ... well ... any of the "more traditional" paying systems (including the pay apps like Tez, AliPay, WeChat etc.)
Presumably tlb meant what is humanly possible...
What really is the "dread" factor for Amazon in Australia? My understanding from a linked article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/books/australias-amazon-b...

is that there is a culture of loyalty in Australia. So, this should be a walk in the part for other companies.

Though as far as I know, and all of this is secondhand knowledge, normal retail in Australia is costly. So, there is a market for cheap discount based retailing in Australia. But I could be wrong.
How about accidental deaths? If you don't have a gun, there's a very slight chance that your kid will accidentally shoot itself in the head. In most European countries, accidental gun deaths aren't a thing at all. In the US however, it's a daily thing.
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I'd assume that for pretty much any nontrivial game the best human players are nowhere near the limit of what's possible. Humans can play a perfect tic-tac-toe, but for everything in the realm of go, chess, poker, bridge, etc the theoretical ideal is far beyond currently best human players.
If you're going to look elsewhere, that opens up a new can of worms about what to consider or ignore. Take gun laws. Wildly divergent in law. Widely divergent in practice. wildly divergent in results.

I agree that the debate often ignored existence proofs, but... It can be hard to take this a whole lot further.

The Aussie gun example is used mostly because the narrative fits. The Tassie shooting leading to a buyback. But, there are lots of counties with all sorts of policies and realities. Which to compare to? Details can matter, as can all sorts of context.
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Take Europe for example. Less homicides than the States, guns are pretty much forbidden (yes, they are all but forbidden in Switzerland, too).
Frequent batch auctions may lead to unintended consequences. You end up with a deadline and there are information arbitrages and latency games in playing as close as possible to the deadline. Markets don't exist in isolation as the real world really does exist in the real world.
1) yes, support staff have a limited UI. There is always a balance between limiting support access and having them able to provide meaningful help. I have the same level of access as a support staffer, and I still get tagged into to work on some issues (particularly calendaring issues, a lot of people have died on the hill of calendaring and I'm currently still our primary expert on some parts of it), and often I need to view people's calendars and the emails related to scheduling in order to debug their issue. The nature of the job is that many issues can only be understood and resolved "in situ". Have I mentioned yet how horrible calendaring is? Thanks for reminding me :(

The UI given to support staff doesn't have the ability to update security credentials for users because they no longer have the "can update security credentials" role like they did in 2016. I don't even have it any more.

2) front line support still see all the tickets first, and they route them as appropriate. Sure this takes longer, we don't have 24 hour coverage of senior security staff (not entirely true, we have 24 hour coverage for emergencies. Somebody forgetting their password is not an emergency in this context)

3) the security incident involving ghouse was entirely via support tickets. His description was accurate, front line support send the pro-forma "we need a bunch of these details", got back some pretty half-arsed details that didn't meet the bar of what was supposed to be provided, and helpfully made the change despite our policy. The helpfulness of humans is a major bug with any security system, and this particular human tried to be too helpful.

4) The senior security team also use a UI. Operationally, they all have the ability to write code that directly changes things under the hood, but that code also has an audit trail and goes through review. It's always quicker and easier to use the UI, so that's what they do.

The UI is not just available to those three people, it's also available to anybody who has a multi-user account and needs to administer their own users. It's still a standard part of our system, just restricted in who can use it at an "any arbitrary Fastmail customer" level.
The edits on this comment make it the second best HN comment of all time.
But how many "cpu hours" of human work were used to design stockfish?
You can't really compare that.

Some scientist say the brain has a power of several petaflops, so if you use this, I guess the design of stockfish was way less efficient.

You can't really compare things to cpu years, it doesn't make sense. Power consumption would be a better metric I think.
If only a single person was willing to pay 10k then, after he has done so, it’s no longer worth 10k.
So Candy Crush and Facebook popping up in your Start Menu are not ads?
Do you carry all your wealth around in cash and hand it to the cashier for them to take their part?
Bundling Software was not part of clean installs with ISOs from Microsoft. Now they are.
I hit back as soon as I saw the top of this add. There was more below? :-/
The biggest waste of the legacy systems are currency wars. Keeping up the petrodollar is wasting millions or at least hundres of thousends of people's life every year. There may be one more war agains Bitcoin, but if all of us convert to sound money, the ROI of wars go down substantially.
I saw a talk on this paper a couple years ago. https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531 The method is to train a smaller model on the predictions of a large model or ensemble. I'd be interested in knowing other techniques as well.
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> On average, Americans throw away their own body weight in trash every month. In Japan, meanwhile, the typical person produces only two-thirds as much

That surprised me with the quantity of garbage due to overpacking in Japan, I'd have expected more. For example, I just bought 2 salads to eat at home, each salad is in a plastic container with some ice sticked to it and enveloped separately in a plastic bag. Then those two salads are in a plastic bag. It's an amazing amount of waste for no real reason.
Serious question: how does one evaluate the results reproducibility of this paper ?

Maybe I'm missing some things but:

- Are 1st gen TPUs even accessible ? You have to fill out a form to learn more about those second generation TPUs: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/

- I can't find the source code

This does not look like a scientific paper, but a (very impressive) tech demo.
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I'm just a user of Apple products so I wouldn't, but I could see how developers want better targeting.