skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Hofstadter is more worried about people prematurely adopting this technology en masse simply because, by it's inherently impressive nature and mysterious inner-workings, it generates its own terrific PR which clouds the perception of its actual efficacy at a deeply cognitive task.

Kevin Kelly in his book What Technology Wants speaks to the same willingness for human societies to so eagerly jump into new, unproven or potentially dangerous technologies without ever stopping to consider the effects of the adoption and log-term usage on their societies. A whole chapter is about how the Amish culture is not necessarily anti-technology so much as they are slow, disciplined adopters of technology. They hold their people's culture above all other values including productivity or connectivity and so to them it's a clear decision to at first be skeptical of new technologies and to deliberate the adoption of these technologies until the elders of the community can come to a consensus. Even then they usually allow small "pilots" or testing of the technology with a select few individuals at first. Kelly doesn't suggest we adopt the Amish culture, simply that there is something to be learned here.

I think A.I would need to become a fully robust form of consciousness capable of generating its own novel ideas spontaneously and to form a sort of gestalt from a mix of information, logic, patterns but also "feelings" (or whatever term would be used for "feelings" in a conscious AI) in order to produce the same type of translation a human can. Granted, even without consciousness it will likely come extremely close over time with more training and improvements to the algorithms but as Hofstadter explains it takes more than a sort of algorithmic proficiency:

"..To me, the word “translation” exudes a mysterious and evocative aura. It denotes a profoundly human art form that graciously carries clear ideas in Language A into clear ideas in Language B, and the bridging act not only should maintain clarity, but also should give a sense for the flavor, quirks, and idiosyncrasies of the writing style of the original author. Whenever I translate, I first read the original text carefully and internalize the ideas as clearly as I can, letting them slosh back and forth in my mind. It’s not that the words of the original are sloshing back and forth; it’s the ideas that are triggering all sorts of related ideas, creating a rich halo of related scenarios in my mind. Needless to say, most of this halo is unconscious. Only when the halo has been evoked sufficiently in my mind do I start to try to express it—to “press it out”—in the second language. I try to say in Language B what strikes me as a natural B-ish way to talk about the kinds of situations that constitute the halo of meaning in question."

I predict we will prematurely adopt machine-learning powered translation at the cost of loosing depth, clarity and the richness of the human expression of ideas but for the majority of us the impact may be minimal especially if great human literatures are still translated by humans.
The SEC has a dedicated "Cyber" unit which targets Cryptocurrencies

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-176
99.99% service availability and compute when I need it down to the second, really excited at what comes next!
The subtitle appears to be "Intensive efforts to re-create human cognition will transform the way we work, learn, and play." So, functional copying, presumably.
> On window caption you see real FPS that is around 500 frames per second for the whole screen for the sample.

Sure, 500 fps, but that's not the important part. Latency would be. So at 500 fps with how much output latency to the display?
The mysterious origins of mac 'n' cheese
This is the appeal of sshfs - to be able to easily mount remote filesystems and use local tools against them.
Separating these concerns doesn’t strictly preclude (or at least needn’t strictly preclude) shipping a single, sub-megabyte binary.

The “classic example” of this would be Quake — a single binary implements both a server and a client, which communicate over a simple binary protocol.
PICLUSTER 2.3 IS OUT
If your plate and your bank account are full enough, does it matter?
Feds shut down alleged $600M cryptocurrency scam
It's not illegal to pass a bad law. When the Supreme Court finds the law is incompatible with the Human Rights Act or EU law, they rule that the law needs to be changed. They don't prosecute the MPs that voted for it.
That's exactly what mine does, it shuts off at 15% if I don't immediately plug it in.
I haven't started measuring it yet, but plan to. The idea of keeping the UI component light and doing all the heavy lifting in the core _might_ work well in Electron (as opposed to having all the logic in JS), and xi-electron is a good testbed for exploring that.
> Instead, if you think that BTC is at a peak in the short term and you simply want to sell at the peak and get back in once it drops, selling to USDT is just fine. That way you can buy back BTC once price drops.

Yes, I get that. But as you mentioned this is "short term". How does it explain that Tether is printing more and more Tethers? Do you think more and more people are selling BTC for USDT for a "short term"? We are talking about billions here.
I use tramp-mode to connect to remote systems, which provides comfortable editing without requiring anything other than ssh access to the target machine. It’s quite nice.
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Do you work in a niche? How do you get the word out that you're good/looking for work?
Pocket-sized DNA reader used to scan entire human genome sequence
Lenovo laptops use hard-coded pass on their fingerprint sensor(CVE-2017-3762)
Tom Scott did a video about that — “Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers”
App usage could definitely play a factor. But usually now turns off right after I get a low battery warning and it enters power-saving mode.
> There's a reason to temporarily move from say BTC to USDT

But what we are seeing does not look like a temporary move. All the printed USDT are "somewhere", and I want to understand where and why.
We know where everything is in Disney World. People still go there.
Link to the official advisory from Lenovo - https://support.lenovo.com/bg/en/product_security/len-15999
It's a kind of order that is regular enough to be (considered) a crystal in many way, but it has the same properties in every direction.

Some research show that it should be possible to create transparent materials out of particles that would be opaque without the particle position correlations a material with the disordered hyper-uniformity has.
Gemnasium is acquired by GitLab
> My main goal is to build something that feels entirely like a native app.

It's not clear to me how this relates to the question. Emacs and vim are native apps.
If one cannot easily cash out USDT to USD or EUR or GBP or whatever else then USDT is also a garbage sea shell currency - you may as well sell for sea shells directly.
No. A foreign bank can hold USD without any US oversight.
Please. Spend a week on a cruise ship surrounded by rude, fat, entitled old people. I've never been more ashamed of my fellow Americans than the time I was forced to spend a week surrounded by a typical baby boomer's idea of a vacation.
Makes a successful lawsuit and recovery near-impossible.
Ex-advertising company employees do XYZ. Wish we could stop with the cult-like worship.
Introducing: the Gen2 Formula E car
Completely agree, but as with the VW case, I’d argue that many in management who knew and allowed it will not be punished.
Why is that question important?
It's an interesting strategy for sure. Instead of solving the problems facing the current lineup just add another car and a whole new set of problems.
Indeed. I was hoping to put more effort into xi-win than it's gotten, but for a variety of reasons have decided to focus on the macOS front end for now, as there's quite a bit of work remaining to get a daily-usable editor up on one platform.
Using AI to uncover the mystery of Voynich manuscript
Dude thank you. You're a freakin' hero. You've identified what I call the "Maximum Overdrive" problem and actually gotten people to take it seriously. That is amazing and I applaud your efforts. Thank you.
I've taken 3/5 of his Deep Learning MOOC and thought the calculus, at least its implementation, was very well explained. Were you dissatisfied with the lack of depth or lack of explanation? Just curious.
The CPU speed decreases. So doesn't matter if it technically is still able to reach higher clock speeds. In reality it runs slower.
That's my point precisely. Maybe you should be telling that to the other guy :-P
Yep all these ISA have a 16bit extension.
> That's because you (probably) haven't used a modern text editor.

Can you provide an example? Because I've worked on > 1MM line projects in IntelliJ with no performance issues, or at least none related to text editing.
Figma actually only uses FreeType for parsing fonts (fonts are rendered using a custom WebGL-based renderer). Figma uses HarfBuzz for text shaping, which is easy to run on the web with emscripten: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.
Adding noise to a signal to cause it to be perceived unintuitively. It's possible that, as others pointed out, optical illusions are an example of this. But in actuality, if such a thing existed, I'm not sure we'd be able to tell it's adversarial.
I much prefer human capital, myself.
It is ridiculous that isn't even a subject in most universities.
For $1, the Trump campaign will include your name on its SOTU livestream
It seems needlessly expensive to have engineers stamping letters as opposed to administrative assistants.
Amazon perhaps?
I think I did contribute, but you don't see my point, or you don't think it's important enough to comment on. Consider me "moved on" :)
In this coming utopia, how clean are the cars? Public anything always seems to become pretty nasty. A fleet of automated vehicles, especially at nights and on weekends, could get messy.
Amazon erased $30B in market value for healthcare’s biggest companies
I would start by watching the Linear Algebra and Calculus videos by 3Blue1Brown. This will give you an intuitive understanding of both.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53...
Yeah, not great. That sounds like an EOL announcement.

EDIT: Thanks for everything CoreOS team, and congrats on the sale! This immutable distribution was a breath of fresh air in a crowded "enterprise / kitchen sink" space.
“I would not be sleeping very well if I was involved in this,” said Jill Carlson, a blockchain consultant.
Your principle complaint seems to be a tautology: that a new technology has no track record before the date it was invented. People who routinely mock fanatical cryptocurrency proponents’ claims (e.g. “this is actually good news”) should look no further than this comment as an example of equally preposterous claims from cryptocurrency skeptics.
Actually, this is good for tether
Realistically...because it will remain the biggest one to breach the general public consciousness and by getting rid of such ease of access to promoting scams and the like it will prevent (at least in the short term) the public perception of cryptocurrencies from being tainted by a sea of scams that are difficult for novices to navigate through.
platform rendering is very hard to beat. i tried to make my own bitmap text rendering but the native is much faster. and you wont notice any difference between 1ms and 10ms due to monitor refresh rate and human perception. text editors like notepad++ and sublime is already at ~5ms input latency. i think text rendering is already a solved problem. and not the bottleneck in for example browser based text editors.
Like this, perhaps?

A = {{1,2},{3,4}}

vec = {x^2, x^3}

D[vec.A.vec, x]

Or perhaps like this, again the table of derivatives:

xvec = {x1,x2}

Table[ D[xvec.A.xvec,x] ,{x,xvec}]

(all untested... one typo caught...)
Is all the tagging manual?

I assume that in order to find images of relevant outfits for the expressed "needs", the images have to be tagged with colors, brands, garment types... If that tagging is manual, I wonder if it could be automated using the object detection feature of an image analysis service like Amazon Rekognition or Google Cloud Vision.

Maybe automated tagging would allow richer tagging, and that could be key to find the best results for each user's taste.
For that particular text editor latency of char typed to appear on screen will be 16ms (normal 60 FPS refresh rate).

Editor keeps each line in separate <text> DOM elements (like <p> but no margins and only text inside).

So we just need to relayout one particular line in order to show typed character.
One article of the series revolves around MOSFET-based analog circuitry for the building blocks: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/we-could-build-...
And one of the linked articles was explicitly engaging with that.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/can-we-quantify...
Show HN: Concentric – Generative art tool written in JavaScript
No, Intrinsity acquisition was in 2000, years ahead of Apple's first 64-bit release.

> The main attraction for 64-bit ARM is, apart from the obvious future proofing ...

ok

> unfortunately the power saving benefits of BIGLittle turned out to be much more modest and full of caveats than hoped ... As a result Apple's fewer faster cores approach turned out to actually offer better power efficiency as well.

Sure, I'm guessing you are comparing some very early implementation of bigLITTLE by Samsung in 2012 versus Apple's single core. Or are you denying the power efficiency benefit of multi-core architecture in mobile processors (or non-mobile processor for that matter)? It's one thing to criticize Samsung's very early, first and second iterations of big.LITTLE chips in 2012, which was highly workload dependent, but it's completely another to claim Apple's single-core superiority over multi-core power-efficiency, including those non-octo core Samsung AP's. Perhaps you can substantiate this with some references?
You can't _easily_ exchange bitcoins for fiat currency, that's why USDT exists. Many banks are not accepting deposits coming from some shady offshore bank into a "normal people" account.

The average Joe who's paper rich because he has 100 bitcoins on an exchange and sells them, there's a good chance their local bank branch won't be happy if he's receiving a wire transfer of $1M from the Virgin Islands or Cyprus. So instead, they keep that $1M as USDT and they can keep trading with it and still be paper rich.

The same applies to exchanges, a lot of them are totally unbanked in the US. USDT allows them to play with Monopoly USD instead of the real thing.
Latency and multi-process editing environment has been on my radar recently. Programming languages providing analysis servers, external syntax highlighters and of course REPLs all benefit from editor that’s fast and async. Since Jetbrains editors brought zero latency writing to my attention I’ve begun to notice which apps seem to hinder my writing. It’s getting easier to build your own editing system instead of having to accept full product from one vendor (Jetbrains tools are great, but very hard on my poor machine…). For this I’ll be watching Xi closely.

I’m in the process of learning Kakoune (1) which happens to have JSON-RPC API as well (2). Kak is fully terminal app which doesn’t give it any edge on latency (doing low latency terminals and shells seems to be a hard task). Hopefully Kak’s take on Vi’s commands as selection oriented language can be leveraged from within Xi editing framework in some capacity.

(1)[http://kakoune.org]
(2)[https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC]
I can say for certain that a lot of the speeding and red light cameras are definitely in working order.
I use car2go frequently in Brooklyn, it's true that cleanliness is problematic. Perhaps some form of computer vision in the car could recognize if a user left anything in disarray and penalize appropriately. It wouldn't catch everything, but most of these problems are just people leaving garbage behind.
I think the best way to beat amazon is just start a shipping company.

Creating an online shop is dead simple. Search is solved.

If only Prime existed as a SaaS service. Shyp seems to be attempting to do it.
I'll have to try this out. My experiments indicated that DirectWrite could not keep up with drawing on a 4k monitor at 60 Hz, though was ok at a smaller window. I think it might depend a lot on driver too. I'll see if I can instrument the xi-win prototype to give performance numbers. I do note that your lines aren't very wide, but still, in my tests I wasn't seeing anything like 500fps. DirectWrite does at least seem to use the GPU, while Core Text appears to rely entirely on software rendering.

Skia is definitely capable of good performance, as it resolves down to OpenGL draw calls, pretty much the same as Alacritty, WebRender, and now xi-mac. One thing though is that it doesn't do fully gamma-corrected alpha compositing, so it's not anywhere near pixel-accurate to CoreText rendering.

Doing proper measurement is not easy, but seems worth doing.
Yeah, with all the people making ridiculously overstated claims about what deep learning can do I'm pretty sure we've got another AI winter coming.

And it's a shame. I really want to see more genuine progress in AI research; I really want to understand _what consciousness is_. But this boom/bust cycle that happens every time there's a tiny bit of real progress is a painfully inefficient way of getting there.
> I recently spent a week in Hawaii and listened exclusively to a local radio station the whole time. It occurred to me that my view of what people did for fun, or where they grocery shopped, or what issues were important to them, and generally "what the locals do" were largely determined by who happened to be paying that radio station to play their ads. And it was just an "ah-ha" reminder that in every group, culture, hobby, or community there are a few advertisers that have an outsize influence on what people think their own grass-roots culture is.

Maybe if you'd spent longer than a week there you'd have a more informed view of how one or more groups of locals really spent their time?

Those advertisers weren't affecting your opinion of what your own culture was, they were affecting your opinion of a foreign culture.
Governance is lacking in those countries. And if you look at levels of corruption it it significantly higher.

So it's completely legitimate to be wary of businesses run from those countries.
Also a really good song about the guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDg7UftJw8
How to ensure a mistake is repeated: fire the one guy who will never make the same mistake twice.
>The Kelkoo Group is based out of the same office as Jamplant, along with dozens of other companies, what indicates a virtual office or company registration service.

That office is 300k sqft of 'flexible office space.'
I have a much simpler explanation:

the exchange is a fraud.
That’s what they said about dragnet internet surveillance, too.
In psychology narcissism is defined by a well-defined syndrome of behaviours.

Trashing the planet for future generation is certainly reprehensible and not particularly clever, but it isn't narcissism in the official psychological sense. (DSM edits aside.)

The three two most telling indicators of narcissism are baseless entitlement, grandiosity, and lack of empathy.

I know someone who was married to someone with strongly narcissistic traits, and when she developed breast cancer he told her that it was "just a lump" and she shouldn't worry about it - and in fact sane people didn't worry about things they way she did, and why couldn't she just sort herself out? [1]

That's narcissism. There's always an element of aggressive, emotionally violent condescension that tips it past simple thoughtlessness and self-absorption into emotional or even physical abuse.

Examples abound in politics and business. Mildly narcissist CEOs assume everyone in a company exists to benefit them financially, and has no claim on an individual life. Less mild narcissists reinforce the point with public put-downs (sometimes masquerading as code reviews) and tyrannical and abusive working practices.

The tragedy of our political and financial systems is that they reward and reinforce these behaviours. Having no empathy makes it much easier to be "financially successful", and entire industries - finance, politics, and to some extent law, marketing, and entertainment - seem to have a questionable fondness for promoting and idolising people with narcissistic traits.

(Not convinced? When was the last time you saw a news item about someone being exceptionally empathic or thoughtful? How often are people actively selected to practice empathy or kindness on a national level?)

This is a cross-generational problem. I'm (informally) convinced that narcissists should be disqualified from public office or from company management - but of course in practice it's probably impossible to make that work in a way that doesn't infringe on individual rights. So we need a better solution, and I have no idea what that might be.

[1] She left him and recovered from the cancer, but only after delaying treatment for more than six months.
And Bitcoin will always have value as long as people are willing and able to trade it. Your point, which is valid, is that the long-term future of the United States and the IRS as a wealthy nation is almost certainly more safe than the long-term future of Bitcoin, but there is no inherent difference between the two, merely a difference of scale.
"It’s amazing how quickly our Russian allies turned into our Cold War enemies at the end of WWII."

The 'our Russian allies' part sounds a bit strange. Are you aware that the Soviet Union started the war on the Hitler side? What's amazing is that in modern Russia most people don't believe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
This is why I keep quiet when pub trivia turns to popular culture.
Thank you for your work on iTerm2, George!
"was sold by Yahoo to Jamplant, a British private equity, in 2008"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelkoo
I always wondered if we could create some type of neutrino scanning device.

Neutrinos passes through most matter like nothing. You need a super large underground water tank to detect it.

One side of the pyramid would have the emitter. The other side, would have the receptor. And you bombard the pyramid with trillions and trillions of neutrinos, and collect the statistics. Then from this, it might help you formulate an image, and allow you to see what is inside the pyramid.

The next question is: How do you create a neutrino?

According to this video, it seems you can make a neutrino beam from a particle accelerator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_xWDWKq1CM

Again, IANAPS, I am not a particle scientist.
> Bitcoin, by contrast, has no intrinsic value at all.

This comes right after a paragraph describing how the US dollar has no intrinsic value other than the fact that it is the required currency for paying US taxes and that the Federal Reserve stabilizes it through the money supply (Modern Monetary Theory would argue these two points are effectively the same, but I digress).

Does this mean fiat currencies have intrinsic value? If so, how is this value more 'intrinsic' than the value a network gives a cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin's overextended and struggling network certainly makes it overvalued compared to the well-oiled machine that is the USD. But that's hardly a reason to write off cryptocurrencies in general.