skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am afraid it might be a bit more nefarious than that. Let Earth be for the rich, let the poor struggle in the wastes of space, as they mine resources for the elite on Earth. They think they're killing two birds with one stone: 1) "overpopulation" and 2) new resource pools to exploit.
> Though I haven't mentioned it, if you look back through the various benchmark results, you'll see that the 18-core iMac Pro shows no disadvantage for single-core performance, despite running at a lower clock speed (2.3GHz/4.3GHz) than the 10-core iMac Pro (3.0GHz/4.5GHz). Often times, the price of scaling a CPU architecture to more cores is a loss of single-core performance, but no such penalty seems to exist here. The 18-core iMac Pro brings 8 more cores to the table on the high end with no loss of performance on the low end.

I remember this being an issue on the older Mac Pros; it's interesting that this isn't an issue anymore. What's the reason behind it? Better thermals? Turbo Boost?
Yes, it will become a reality. The walled gardens will lose. Programmable economic incentives (ETH, etc) are an incredibly powerful concept we're just beginning to explore the implications of. Decentralized currency and web infrastructure is a must for freedom of speech and liberty, in my opinion. I think it's too powerful a concept to keep contained. I think even China's great firewall will crack under the coming progress.
Git fixup
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. It makes crappy subthreads, as below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can We Stop Global Warming?
Invisible walls? Yes, if it were controllable. The only problem I see would be the prohibitive costs.
You can under the right circumstances. For example, on my name's .co.uk, it says: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.

For companies and organizations though, yeah, they have to be public, but I think that's fair enough.
Hygge in Video Games (10 min) [video]
No, GDPR quite explicitly plans for that.

First, there's no such thing as "click consent buttons in order to use the websites they want to use" - if clicking that button is needed to use the website, then it doesn't count as freely given consent. I.e. either the choices are "Agree and proceed" and "Disagree, but still proceed" or you might not have bothered with asking, since that click is not consent. If the data is not inherently needed to provide the service (i.e. a delivery address if you want something delivered), then users must have the option to refuse.

Second, there can be no single "consent to do everything". You have to explain every single usecase separately with details and specifics, and get consent for each use case separately. This is a big issue. If a small company has something particular in mind, it's not a big deal. But if a megacorp has (had) a habit to use your data everywhere for everything, that's not going to work. As GDPR states, “A purpose that is vague or general, such as for instance ‘Improving users’ experience’, ‘marketing purposes’, or ‘future research’ will – without further detail – usually not meet the criteria of being ‘specific’”. If the list of use cases and their details doesn't fit on a single screen, users simply won't accept them. For an organization like Facebook, it'll be a major challenge to simply list the places and ways where they are already using my data - and they'll either have to give that full list to me and somehow convince me that I should agree (as the default option is to refuse with no consequence to me) or stop doing it.

In essence, you have to bring them to the privacy dashboard first. And everything has to be opt-in (default off). If you have a random consent button like the classic "Agree" under terms and conditions - well, that doesn't count as informed consent, so if that was your system then you don't have consent from any of your users, and your use of their data was prohibited. Even if most users won't care, a few activists can force you to change the behavior for everyone or risk major fines - i.e. if I see that you're using my data without my consent, then it doesn't stop at you removing my data; the regulator can ask you to prove that you got informed, specific, freely given consent from all your other users.

Third, previous consent doesn't imply future consent - if you want to use the data for something new, previously this was done by quietly amending the terms and conditions, and adding a new option to the privacy dashboard (often pre-selected). Under GDPR, every new use requires new consent.

Fourth, a lot of the tracking has historically been done by third parties. I can see myself giving consent to use my data on some forum or blog that I frequent; however, the consent that I give them doesn't count as consent for all the ad networks running the ads on their site. The ad networks would have to ask permission separately (which they won't realistically get, ever) and they also can't count on getting the site owner to give them my data, since site owner needs my (separate! opt-in! specific instead of "may share with third parties"!) consent for that.
I read a thesis using CLISP on an average Atari, it already had a MOP IIRC.
Are those software packages written to take advantage of that many cores? Since they all date back 10 years or more, I would guess not.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Your substantive comments have been fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can sort of understand the "this is not a chat room" attitude only leave constructive comments or whatever. But sometimes you want to just leave something more than a button click because there was more resonance than is expressed in a binary "yes", yet you don't necessarily have anything insightful to add.

Anyway... that is my opinion, but I expect it's unpopular and will not be surprised if more downvotes come hurtling my way.
Thanks for the feedback. Great questions!

1. Narro is really, really, great.

2. The app itself is on Rails with AWS Polly transcribing most of the requests. x% of the transcriptions are routed to a Flask API that runs a neural TTS engine + with token-based SSML rolling out slowly for some heavy-users.

3. I have no plans to monetize Polly Podcast.

4. Unlimited readings.

5. I'm working now with large publishers to figure out what the costs look like to generate new synthetic voices at scale. Hope to release this publicly as soon as I get the go-ahead.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out in email =]
Can you explain why you would call an article like this exploitation?
I haven’t seen very much of this in my experience. Most Mac using scientists and engineers I know use a MacBook for email/webrowsig etc. but when they need some serious computation they use an external cluster (which they talk to with their Mac).

That being said I do know one such scientist with the same workflow but who remoted into a Mac Pro, not sure what they are doing now.
https://www.foxnews.com/
If Firefox makes $500M per year from search referrals, Chrome could make over $1B. Chrome would be very profitable as an independent company.
Or in 8-14 years they have a critical mass of people who grew up being tracked 24/7 that they just shrug and say "1984? You mean like that weird Apple commercial from, what, the Super Bowl or something? And yes, please pass the Soma."
I doubt the bureaucracies of academia and government are all that different at their cores.
Navigated some links and found this which may shed more light: https://www.peachpie.io/usecases
I love reading the threads on -hackers with all of this development, it's really amazing stuff. I hope I get to see it make it into core soon!
Interesting. I have a DID that routes to nowhere on all my domain's whois, maybe I should route it somewhere and see what happens.
The other ones are just microcontrolers. This is the first one that is capable of running a full operating system.
Sure. Using deep learning!
Detecting Consciousness (2017) [pdf]
https://static.ctctcdn.com/

Console throws up this warning about M70 though.

> The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://static.ctctcdn.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See https://g.co/chrome/symantecpkicerts for more information.
“I cannot imagine how a woman with children can have an academic career. ...." This is the real truth and reality for anyone actively parenting and trying to deeply understand and research anything ...Grateful that this article chose to include the quote
In the context of this thread, I thought: if I don't want the machine to presume male or female, than what do I want it to do? he/she was what I came up with, but this does not address non-binary gender or fluid gender, weaknesses which were on my mind.

Curious, I looked for guidelines and the best I could come up with was this, which seems helpful if you know the person in question, but not so much if you're referring to someone completely unknown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Transgend...

I welcome advice.
So you’re saying that Maxwell’s equations are not enough?
The generated C# code is so weird and completely incomprehensible. I've never seen anything like that.

The practical use case also seems non-existent. How can you possibly translate all sorts of functions that .NET doesn't even have?
Persona’s technical implementation required permitting use of third-party cookies across domains (yoursite.com vs persona.com), which turns out to be wholly incompatible with tracking protection efforts. From a technical standpoint maybe it’s possible it could have been fixed, but it turned out that no one particularly needed a third-party “middleman” authentication service that required webmaster effort per-site—especially with OAuth2 already providing a viable, if imperfect, alternative approach.
There’s more to the book than my one-sentence summary. Believe Minsky and Papert have something extensive to say on a subject it’s probably not shallow. There’s an ok, if brief discussion about the book’s influence on NN research in its Wikipedia entry.

It’s not a super long book and an excellent, eye opening read even 50 years later.
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Prevented-mor...

Headline is that nuclear power has saved about 1.8 million lives relative to probable alternatives, even ignoring the GHG effects.
As someone who has done real work in a LOT of languages over the past 20 years, and has settled on Rails as my tool of choice for the past 10 years or so (when some requirement doesn't preclude it), what's the alternative? I really like ActiveRecord, how migrations are handled, the frightenly-expansive gem ecosystem, and how it allows for any front-end goodies you care to code. It's not like Rails has sat still either. I struggle to keep up with the new developments, and I'm making new apps with it every year. As a complete framework, what is Rails' competition?
And size, and noise, and power consumption
> The "debate" only exists in domains where people stand to lose lots of money.

But includes everybody who'd be seriously affected by that.

1) Like the people employed by those people who'd lose lots of money.

2) Like the customers of those people who'd lose lots of money.

Part 1 is a LOT of people, and 2 is just about everybody everywhere.
No, of course not, because people likely think, “wow I gotta get this on YouTube and see what happens when I touch it.”
That’s the conclusion that I’ve reached. There are many rich and powerful men on record saying that they are working towards such a thing. I’m assuming this is the implementation.
Ford sold their stake in Mazda years ago, and lost a controlling stake in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Mo...
Unless they block YouTube ads, I think a lot of people are still going to use an ad blocker.
On the one hand, this is theoretically true, but, on the other hand, as a person's electrical potential increases (or voltage, for lack of a better term), so does the range of space that the voltage will jump and ultimately dissipate to. The jumping is not the problem -- it's what it's jumping to. Metal or Grounded metal (especially if there's a lot of it) would be the worst thing, but what if instead of grounded metal you had a material with enough resistance to safely dissipate the energy, like some kind of carbon/plastic thingy? Also, you might ask why regular static electricity doesn't kill anyone. You'll get a static shock if you're charged high enough and touch metal, but other items -- you won't get any shock. But what's really happening there? Aren't they acting as resistors but with some dissipation value?
Anyway, we need a greater understanding of this phenomena...
slack is based on IRC
I use this for my Freeze Frame Bot (and many others). MoviePy is super powerful and love playing with it.

http://twitter.com/freezeframebot
I get the difference between FPGA and ASIC. But...

What's the difference between a CPU core on an ASIC and a normal CPU core?
Any information on what current western car manufacturers are planning for battery production capacity? The story of Nissan and Tesla is known by now. But I don't read a lot about most other producers.
Ask HN: .io vs .ai for a startup?
.com is taken, both .io and .ai are available.

Would you pick .io or .ai for a business app where ML/AI is major value proposition?
> Your service should instead store a cryptographically strong hash of the password that cannot be reversed — created with, for example, PBKDF2, SHA3, Scrypt, or Bcrypt.

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong

Don't use SHA3 or any other fast hash for passwords. Use a password hash designed to stymie brute-forcing, like PBKDF2, scrypt, or bcrypt.
This is akin to arresting a movie theater patron for bringing in outside food.
Or maybe we could save more lives by using technology to augment human drivers?

We don't actually know that self-driving cars are possible in unrestricted environments. The industry is asking for highly invasive surveillance but has no liability for failure to deliver. What happens if "more data" turns out to be insufficient? Will the next request be "restrict the environmental context" or "pass new laws to change human behavior"? Where does it end? Other industries have to deliver results before changing the market. Uber et al promised the moon to their investors, then ignored local laws, then promise to save lives, then ignore privacy concerns, then ..?
For those curious, here's (one of?) the threads 'Tostino is referring to:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BTgmoYqvQAYLt...
Western governments leak military technology to China all the time. Clinton was accused of giving them nuclear secrets. Israel has definitely given them technology.

Regarding Maos time at Yale, you can read more about that here - http://www.mygen.com/users/ufo/Mao_was_a_Yale_Man.html
The hard part is surviving the 20 year drought of research funding in the meantime. Most researchers want to hang onto an idea and develop it until it changes the world but they need to keep their job, so they follow the funding and that means following the fads.
And you would guess wrong. LINPACK is a lot older than 10years too :-)...more like 35
Nor .io domains.
Yep. And you can see this in a lot of what Google does.

Most people think Google's push for HTTPS, both in Chrome and SEO rankings, is somehow related to privacy.

It's not. It's about net neutrality and it's about third parties being able to switch out Google's ads for their own, on-the-fly, using a middleman.

I interviewed with a stealth-level startup a few years back. They were developing a product, similar to a WiFi router, that would be installed on premise and sit there, filtering out Google/Facebook/etc. ads and replacing them with ads that the owner of the box wanted. You can imagine this box being installed in Starbucks, airports, libraries, and everywhere else. Cutting into a massive chunk of Google's ad revenue.

The Time Warners, AT&Ts, and Verizons of the world would also be doing this, for HTTP traffic.

We are getting the benefits of privacy. But it's not because Google has good intentions.
.io is becoming increasingly popular amongst startups.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christophersteiner/2017/05/03/m...

I would go for the .io TLD myself.
I'll echo Duncan's tHoR podcast. It is really good.
Wow, this article is insufferable.
yeah absolutely but the author doesn't discuss why there was such a decline.

I'd think that part of the reason is people realised that Ruby is slow, and sometimes it matters.
There are definitely some for whom the pursuit of profit justifies the means, regardless of how immoral (or morally grey) it is, and any relevant laws are there to be dodged (bonus points for writing said actions off as "being disruptive").
Original author here.

You're right - conceptually the CRISPR search problem and DNA sequence alignment are related. In both, you're looking for place where two (or more) sequences are very similar. I would say there are two major differences.

The first is in the goal of the search. Typically, alignment tools try to find the best positional alignment for two (or more) sequences. The CRISPR search problem is to find every possible match above some similarity threshold.

There are also a few constraints on the CRISPR search problem that allow us to make this much faster than a general DNA sequence alignment tool:

1) We know that that guide sizes tend to be very small (~20bp)
2) Part of the guide must match exactly (the PAM site), allowing us to restrict our search even further.
3) We don't need to worry about insertions or deletions in our search.

Using those three constraints, we can do this search a lot faster than a more general DNA alignment tool!
I'm the CTO at Kapwing (https://www.kapwing.com), where we use MoviePy for all of our products (all of which help users edit video online). Sometimes the documentation has been enigmatic but overall the library has made it really easy to create a video processing backend without having to dive deeply into combining ImageMagick and FFMPEG at a low level.

Funny enough, MoviePy makes it so easy to edit videos that we also use it to edit images. But the way it works is when a user uploads an image, we convert the image into a video format, edit it with MoviePy, then convert it back into an image. A little inefficient, but it works better for us than writing a completely different branch of code to handle images.

Having worked with MoviePy for a while my main ideas for improvement would be: 1) Create a callback for video editing progress so that it could be outputted to the frontend, etc, 2) Make predefined transitions - currently transitions need to be manually calculated, would be nice to have smarter presets to make it easier to create something like a slideshow, 3) improve threading over multiple CPUs - not sure how possible it would be for the library itself to handle this but from our initial tests ffmpeg by itself seems to handle threading more effectively
Reuse Jupyter Notebooks
You can't run tensorflow on it because it has an AMD GPU.
>Because it's an easy indicator of someone who has no idea what they're doing in OS development. Choosing the wrong tool for the job is meaningful. Have you ever looked through Chromium's C++ codebase? The same people are working on this and it tells us that they haven't learned their lesson.

Have you looked into the backgrounds of the main developers working on Fuchsia OS? Because if you had you would have discovered that that they have a rather impressive resume who actually know what they're doing.

Travis Geiselbrecht - BeOS, iOS, Hiptop OS, Little Kernel

Brian Swetland - BeOS, Hiptop OS

Chris McKillop - a member of the original iPhone team, WebOS, QNX OS, Hiptop OS
The content or the style?
It's one reason we have the fed in the US.
Extensive discussion within the last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036658
I had that same thought initially. When the Minion appeared, though, I was struck by the power of cooperation in achieving great things. We can achieve far more when we band together.
> CFD tends to be a good real-world benchmark...If this was a car test drive, running CFD would be like showing up at the dealership with three tons of gravel on a trailer and hitching it up.

Ummm...perhaps the author has a different definition of "real-world" than I do?
I find whois data less useful every day. 90% of the time when I'm researching suspicious domains, it maps back to one of those shady companies, and the malware author hiding behind it doesn't care about handing over ownership of his disposable DGA domains to said shady company.

Even legit sites are starting to hide whois data behind privacy proxies. Hijacked sites only ever map back to a victim, not the perpetrator. As part of my investigative workflow it's largely a waste of time to whois anything.

It seems to only benefit domain squatters and spammers.
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Wait, only 1.5GB? What kind of optimizations did you have to make to get it down that low? Mine is typically at 3-4GB...
I think you're mistaking "communication" for "vulgarization". Most decent scientists are good at communicating their findings via publications. Making those findings understandable by laypeople, maybe not so much.
As far as most people were concerned, Dennis Rader was a normal member of community. I used to live in Wichita where he operated. One of my coworkers had had dinner with them because they went to the same church as him.

His wife kids didn't know, nobody knew.
It's hard to tell. The Hongerwinter was entirely due to Nazi retaliation(for a railway strike coordinated by Dutch govt in exile), and not due to environmental conditions, crop failure, etc which could happen again.
Well, since it's electrostatics, dE/dt is tiny, and strictly, Maxwell's equations are overkill...
I wouldn't wouldn't go so far as to say "dismissed," but they was definitely a period or two when they weren't as shiny.

When I did my M.S. reasearch in 2010 SVMs were far more popular than neural networks. Deep learning was just over the horizon and most people had given up on it being useful for learning real world problems. We had proven that NNs could learn anything given enough data and the right structure, but the hard part in real life was having enough data and finding the correct structure. So SVMs seemed more robust with available datasets, and most people used those. There were/are several other popular methods, like nearest neighbors and tree-based methods, and NNs just weren't as sexy as they seemed in the late 80's.
>I'm currently managing about 2 billion rows in Postgres.

Not sure the type of data he's storing, but 2 billion seems a bit much for 1 or a few tables. Hopefully he's thought of sharding those into multiple tables by date or key.
If that's a statement of your personal preferences, then there's no disagreement. You do you.

If you claim that Mazda could not sell well made electric car then:

* Tesla has 500 thousand pre-orders for Tesla 3

* Mazda sold 290 thousand cars in US + Mexico in 2017 (https://insidemazda.mazdausa.com/press-release/december-2017...)
I worked in a ad agency and people had the same gripes about their role in the society. Helping brand X to get market share from brand Y can feel like a huge waste of one’s life .

I’d expect it to be the same for a lot of media industries.

BTW a bus driver physicaly helps people by moving them from A to B. Isn’t it one of the most useful job of our society, until driveless cars come along ?
How long is a piece of string? I've had ROI from ten minutes after they started working (knew how/wanted to fix something that was affecting immediate revenue), or never, for years (worthless coders who just talk and move todo items around).. how could there just be one single answer?
Cloudera Impala also uses LLVM to JIT chunks of the query plan into machine code.