skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument that a company that has managed to manuver 42 years of changing successfully enough to become a 700 Billion dollar company might have some people with businesses acumen and more insight than a random HN commenter is clearly torpedoed because of your 20/20 hindsight review of 2 products based on no actual hard data because ... a random HN commentor wouldn’t have that...

Sure.

I’d love to see the crew you run with that would have managed to keep MS relevant for this long.

I should add, if you really think MS is building products no one wants, you really should put your money where your mouth is and short them. (but please, no cliched response about how the market is just irrational about them)
Mazda in owned by Ford.. sooo....
Any videos of it?
Alexa devices wait for a wake words and that happens on the device itself. It doesn't analyze anything else.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Thanks for the advice. I'll update that in the future.
The rule of thumb is to not do an ASIC unless you're selling at least 100,000 units if you want it cheap per unit. The ARM SoC's that get used in a lot of products probably are selling in really high volume. To illustrate the effect, a product that cost $100,000 to design would break-even at $1 a unit in that volume but $1,000 a unit if only 100 were sold. That's idealized: you generally have to pay for the masks, a wafer per set of chips that fit on one (number varies), absorb/charge the cost of broken chips, IC packaging for the chips, shipping, storage, etc. That's not counting boards, assembly or whatever.

So, selling something in high volume like big-name ARM's gets the prices way down per unit. Getting to high volume is a marketing and product development problem more than a technical one. Good luck on the startup. :) The ecosystem benefits will give ARM-based solutions an advantage there for a while into the future. The RISC-V chips will cost more due to lower volume unless all the heavy costs are absorbed at a loss by whoever builds them. I've recommended Universities or foundations attempt that to get good, FOSS chips started on good nodes with them sold at material, assembly, and distribution cost from there.

OpenPITON is another one with potential since they have prototypes for 32-core, OpenSPARC CPU's at 32nm. Leon3 GPL was an older one in SPARC. J2 (SuperH-style) is a compact one that's about 3 cents a core in 180nm with who knows what performance, energy usage and pricing could be achieved at 28nm-32nm. CHERI, a capability-secure extension of MIPS, could be ported to one to give it a security advantage to secure sales from defense sector. Draper is aiming for that with SAFE architecture (crash-safe.org) added to RISC-V. If wanting max reliability (eg safety-critical), VAMP was a 32-bit DLX CPU formally-verified for correctness that could be done on older node with mods for lock-step, triplicated redundancy, or board-level fault-tolerance.

So, there's possibilities to justify higher prices long enough to recover upfront costs or get them down on simpler designs. The HiFive is a serious core on a relatively-recent node, though. It's not going to be cheap unless selling boatloads. They probably didn't expect this product to sell boatloads, either.
I often get abstractions wrong the first time through. Usually the second or third attempt (often days later) I'll come across something concrete that can be put into production. So while I agree abstraction in and of itself is not a silver bullet, the ability to iterate on abstraction(s) is immensely valuable.

Also the plain desire to seek a better abstraction despite a "working solution" is a powerful trait when kept in check. The desire to continually do better that is.
It's short, I'll give you that, but that's all there is to it. There is no shortage of interesting domain names.
Results crammed into the right corner, with tiny snippets of useless information aren't useful for me. :/
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It bothers me so much that 2-4 years of taking classes about how nature works classifies you as this generic category of people as “Engineers” and they’re considered as not capable of running for the office.

The emphasis we give to our education background is so very unfair.

I am trained as a mechanical engineer but I write low level C++ programs for embedded electronics. In fact I’ve done that for more than 6 years which is longer than what it took to get a ME degree.

It is complete and utter bullshit that mere 4 years of your life defines your entire character for 40 years that follow.

Let me put it another way:
If two people are age 50 have been in public office for 36 years, one with a political science degree and the other with an engineer’s degree - does it really matter?
> Most people mean “safe Rust” when they say “Rust.”

I disagree. I think they mean Rust code they see in use that has no explicit "unsafe" blocks. For example, most people are going to say "let mut v = Vec::<i32>::new(); v.push(0)" is "safe Rust." It is, in the sense that all the rules of Rust safety apply to the specific code quoted as-is. It also isn't, because 'Vec' is littered with unsafe.
Wasn't Carter a submariner followed by peanut farming?
I'd rather flip it around. Put the scientist at the top and having him use advisors to navigate the political landscape.
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Hello! I have been developing software the past 5 years and have also created programming tutorial videos and writings. Listed tech is what I worked with most but I’m always happy to learn more.
You can see the unregulated AI in the cryptocurrency markets.

I wonder what the profits have been so far. People have invested in faster internet trunks for trading ages ago, just for a few ms quicker trades.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/outfront-netscape-ji...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
yes, i see a lot of content that basically suggests that blockchain == decentralization, while it is just a technology that works well in decentralized setups

i am most interested in decentralized technologies _without_ blockchain.. (might use that after the hype blows over), like datproject.org, scuttlebot.io, ipfs.org, etc.
Similar here - I think Battle Isle 3 was annoying being built on that api
12 years ago, one of my biggest customers for RFID tags was 3D Systems. They put them on their consumables exactly for this purpose. I don't follow that industry, so I have no idea what goes on at this point. And, for anyone interested they were ISO 15693 tags operating at 13.56MHz made by Texas Instruments.
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Yeah, that's my problem. The tiny sidebar is not a great UX. The core problem, I think, is the lack of real threading options. Conversations never really start or end in a chat room, so even if you find the keyword you are looking for, find the start and end of that conversation is very difficult. Mainly because it's usually interspersed with tons of other chats in the channel. I guess you could make tons of channels, but that that bogs you down in having to check them all for stuff you actually care about. :/
Informed consent is required and hiding the crucial information in a sea of legalese would violate that. EULAs get slapped down for such things on a regular basis.
There weren't many, but there was a strong contingent of neural network researchers going strong since the time I was in high school in the early 80s. Jerome Feldman (University of Rochester) was a neighbor. James McClelland (Department of Psychology) was a mentor of mine in the mid-80s. This field was far from ignored. We used different names (connectionism, backpropagation) and most importantly we had computers that were tens of thousands of times less capable than what is available today.
I've heard/seen good things.
In other ecosystems you'd just use a language with features that you prefer, since you can't do that in a browser environment transpilers came along to fill the gap. It doesn't seem bizarre at all, it seems like a giant hack taken to the extreme, which is pretty common thing in the programming world.
I honestly think Mitch McConnell employs a lot of “reason, logic and strategic thinking”. Those things are not enough by themselves — you need to have something to build towards besides short-term partisan points.

Gerrymandering is another example of the abundance of misguided cleverness in the American system.
This is a very pessimistic view of the world. Not all ads are attempts to hijack your brain. For example, if you were already thinking about buying a specific keyboard and then saw an ad for that same keyboard with a 10% discount, that ad would have actually provided positive value to you. You save money for the thing that you already want. Not all ads are like that, but the example goes to show that there is a spectrum and that its not black and white.
Someone should please add some paragraph breaks in there if this is something intended to be shared or read by others.

Apologies for the meta-comment, but this is a particularly nasty wall-of-text obscuring an important point.
A new Tesla Autopilot update is ‘in final testing phase’, says Elon Musk
Ford owns a stake in Mazda...

...so what?

Mazda is still very small on the scale of international car brands. The other comment mentions Toyota as well, there are several companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and employees in the field with Mazda.
Yeah, I know - it uses ipify.org and my guess is some sites might use it for tracking, which is a shame. Note that no ads or tracking are used for the site, and I added a page showing uBlock users how to only allow calls to ipify from this domain.

While Google and https://api.ipify.org/ are cool and fast and memorable, this started as a side project to make it easy to copy and display in the tab title as well (plus I found a cheap domain). Thanks for clicking!
Only in the sense that PhDs are often extremely specialized. They are experts in one field, not general-purpose "science" experts. It may not be immediately clear why someone with the most advanced knowledge in the world on an esoteric organism in Indonesia would be a good advisor to the President.

A PhD functioning as an advisor does have valuable experience that would help them understand how some desired research needs to get done, or discern whether a particular study is quality or junk, or be able to communicate effectively in an environment full of technical jargon. Indeed, those are the characteristics that are really needed - but those are merely qualities that are hopefully picked up on the way to a PhD, not the research project which the PhD certifies.
Though I have never read Ayn Rand (and from now on I will be more cautious if I decide to read her books) I can't second more the point of your message about the existence of some books/theories that should be avoided at best. To add to your example, when I was about 16-17 I came in touch with the various strains and ideas of European nationalisms, I have read on topic extensively, rapidly abandoned the topic after two years of reading about it, but right now I clearly see how toxic and distortive the ideas of nationalism have been on my word view. I have abandoned them long ago consciously, but up until now a strain of thought most typical for the practitioners of nationalism may come to my reasoning from time to time, randomly and in most surprising places. It has so easily penetrated the whole corpus of knowledge I have got about this world, so that even now I need to carefully inspect my own thought on whether they are infiltrated by stereotypical nationalistic waste of any kind.

But, put it the other way round, I once thought that the toxic books containing easy-to-understand, sometimes appealing, but deeply-flawed or useless theories are a very good (but somewhat dangerous) way to exercise mind to check whether the mind is mature enough to stand the lure of a toxic book: if your world view withheld the pressure of the book to adopt its theory, then you passed the test, otherwise you are probably f*cked in a long term.
Maybe natural scientists are more accustomed to using the strict, cold, definitions of biological concepts without being emotionally influenced by any cultural value judgement attached to them.
Totally agree. One of the main advancements in the last several years IMO has been bringing the cost of this type of thing (ie; dev boards for microcontrollers, RPi, Arduino, etc) way, way down. I remember back in the day to get the equipment needed to program your own MCN or FPGA required a substantial investment, nowhere near approachable for a typical hobbyist or generally interested person. Now days you can order 3.3 and 5v arduino pro mini's by the caseload for $1.50 apiece.
Extreme partisan politics, and it’s associated funding, seems to be a very American thing.

Many EU countries (like Germany) have proportional representation systems that eradicate two-party control.

Even in the UK where we do have two-party politics, the minor parties still pull in substantial voter share. And you don’t see extreme spending during campaigns. UK politics looks pretty shabby compared to spectacular that is US policial campaigning.

Anyway The point I’m trying to make is that publications relying on partisan funding isn’t really a danger in the EU. European media and politics is nothing like the US.
This is nasty business, the turning of "science" into a partisan wedge issue. After all, no need to debate if you can just call someone "anti-science". There's no significant difference in the number of STEM candidates this cycle, this is fake news stuff generated by a left-of-center advocacy group and HuffPo.
How does it work? You cannot start a newspaper unless you convince two golf buddies to join you?
Would love it!

OP please open-source it!
The car industry is focused on selling the 2019 model, not the 2040 model.

Exploring future technologies is cool, and almost certainly a wise move for the long term.

That doesn't alter the fact that they're still going to need to have a new gasoline-powered model for next fall.
he was well known name in the 80s and back again with RBMs in the 00s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M . He and Sejnowski are some of the few names i remember when i took an NN class a long time ago. He was insistent on working on it when many others saw it as a peripheral curiosity to their career.

what's with everyone here?
"Settled science" has become a curse word to me. "Science" used to be a method, now it's a belief system in the first world. It's disgusting.
Nuclear submariner.
A lot of atrocities of the 20th century were purposefully committed in the name of science and progress, claiming over a hundred million lives.

I much prefer candidates who care more about ethics the rights of individuals over those who's primary concern is the scientific method.

[EDIT] As a modern example, John Holdren wrote in a 1977 book, Ecoscience, that forced abortions and mass sterilizations were required to save the planet. Being a good enough scientist to become appointed president Obama's scientific advisor, doesn't mean you can't easily rationalize atrocities on a wide scale.
Alexa won't hear Amazon's own crafted ad, Burger King can still trick it same
Background: https://security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-c...
> I don't follow that industry, so I have no idea what goes on at this point

I do. If what you describe was ever more than an aberration, it is at least no longer the norm.

I don't even know of any printers that have the capability of checking an RFID tag, let alone any company that sells filament with RFID tags in it.
Mainly supporting the Right of erasure. I’m the PM working on it, so lots of talking to our lawyer, consultants, going through all the db fields, etc.

If you are a SaaS provider then GDPR is table stakes now.
Yeah, in most cases we don't need new abstractions but the willingness to stick to existing ones.

- Ability to abstract.

- Ability to communicate their abstraction.

- Ability to reuse abstractions.

- Ability to accept and work with colleagues abstractions.
Reason and logic are the domain of the wonks and civil servants. We have politicians to litigate questions of values and identity. Subjects with generally respected expert consensus are handled at department-staff level.
Funny how the "final feature set for 2018" is nailed near enough Feb 2018.

Call me stupid, when I'll get whiteboard tested on these shiny new concepts, but I really don't (and you shouldn't also) give a rats ass about all of this.
Thanks. On the face of it it seems a bit of a shame to me. My experience writing python daily (since before dict and set comprehensions were introduced) is that the comprehension syntax is used extremely commonly in a large codebase and that the way that you can specify both the transformation and the filtering in a single comprehension is much more readable than composing a map and a filter.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Do you think an otherwise good person/employee with a newfound ability to work remote would become an asshole and abuse the privilege? Seems like they'd probably be an asshole to begin with. Also, if someone is an asshole and taking advantage of the flexibility, why not fire them? I'm not sure how keeping them in an office solves this issue of people being bad employees.
It used to be fun sport on Facebook to kid those who followed "I fucking love science" for not having the first clue about science. But as science became more and more a partisan word, it just became sad - the birth of a new religion who's adherents didn't even care to learn their new dogma.
Overflow is a runtime behavior, not a compile time behavior. How a type overflows is dependent on the CPU, not software.
Recurring productive improvements–what agile teams discuss in retrospectives
I didn't mean it to be deceptive. They could just explain things at length in sweet language. Then inject consent request at a point in the workflow where people are most likely to click it away in hurry.

The point is that Google or Facebook would get away with this while smaller sites won't.
No doubt we need to get rid of the climate change/global warming/call-it-what-u-want deniers, and the outright false information being disseminated without batting an eyelash is pure insanity, but I still have to wonder if folks who have spent their lives in academia are compatible with government?

It is possible to swing the needle too far in the opposite direction and end up with just as many problems.
I agree. The Windows 95 UI (which also shipped in Windows NT 4) was an example of Microsoft at the top of their game in creating mainstream, affordable products with well-researched usability.
Mazda is for me quite an admirable example of traditional car company, esp. compared to the likes of Volkswagen, as the ratio of quality/economics is really good and their new designs are gorgeous given the price range.
Fortunately, the main letter that's intended to be shared is nicely formatted:

https://www.eff.org/document/eff-opposition-georgia-sb-315
Yes -- I'm not sure people quite appreciate just how serious a matter killing a negotiator is: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/dont-shoot-the...
The Secret Ingredient to Photorealism (Blender, )
Never mind that said RPi have multiple USB and video ports to go along with ethernet (and on later models, wifi).

Also availability, availability, availability. The RPi can be bought from a multitude of places across the globe.

All that said, if we could get a version with a bit more onboard IO options, and preferably something like SATA, i would be all over it.
This is a really interesting point, and I could see the parallel with currencies such as Confederate or Deseret money, or pre-Euro/pre-WWII currencies, but even those have insane values now that they are defunct. Look at the price of this old Utah territory money that existed as long as their own language (not very long) http://www.rustcoin.com/Deseret-Currency/
Mutational tests
https://github.com/sobotka/filmic-blender
How much time would be wasted by users trying again because they think that first time didn't work?
They should have capitalised on the name pun using "etc." instead of "and more" in the title...
Great job nonetheless!
Redox is not "Mozilla's operating system" in any way or form. It is an immature OS whose primary contributor works at System 76. The only thing Mozilla-related about it is that it's written in Rust.
All I am saying is that "Reason, Logic and Strategic thinking" is minimum that a scientist offers.

There are so many scientists and engineers that lead multi-billion dollar corporations. They have, in addition to reason , logic and strategic thinking - organizational, political and people skills.

My point is that just having a scientific background should in no way be a limiting factor. In fact, it should be a positive thing.
Wasn’t this an episode of The Simpsons?
Jeepers, his family re-invented logic, worked on the Manhattan Project, created the jungle gym. Plus he looks a bit like Davros, the (fictional) creator of the Daleks.
But you are supplying a binary !

This docker container calls a pre-compiled binary ./cpuminer. There is no way to tell if this binary faithfully uses the bitcoin address provided in the command line (yes there is some code there but you cannot confirm that this it was compiled from that code.)

But it gets worse. Even if someone does disassemble the binary, you could update the the docker container to add this capability, and nobody will be able to tell because the image gets pulled each time.
4 Rules of Thumb to Be Smarter Than a Chimp
get _Us_ to mars, or that astronaut? well, i'll stay at home and clean up the dust :)
The estimate is that by 2020 battery prices will come down to make the price of electric engine + battery be the same as price of diesel engine.

Even with relatively slow progress on batteries, they double in density / get half as cheap in about 5 to 10 years.

Add to this that Tesla is aggressively doubling their Supercharging network every year.

If cars today have 200-300 miles of range, in 10 years they'll have 400-600 miles for less money, eliminating the one issue that stands in the way of mass adoption of evs (range anxiety).

Most likely 7-12 years from now it'll make no economic sense to put 2 different engines in the same car i.e. a single electric engine will be cheaper than a hybrid.

And this is based on linearly extrapolating the past. If battery production follows the same curve as wind / solar energy production, we're systematically underestimating progress and things will happen faster.

We're really in Day 1 of mass producing batteries, with volumes (and therefore investments in improvements) scaling way faster than linearly.