skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually intended my message to be inspiring. ;)

My point was that you can't go it alone and there are friends that will help you. I left a more theoretical justification in another sub-thread.
Maybe Intel? I couldn’t easily check their full profit history but it seemed that since early 80s they had only one year without profit - 1986.

Intel is in many ways Buffett-style bet currently

- long history of profits

- Low valuation by the market compared to rest of the tech sector (p/e was 12-14 last year before the hike)

- There is pressure from AMD and NVIDIA on the otherhand and Apple (own CPUs) and Google (TPUs) on the otherhand. But Intel still have pretty incredible moats in brand and manufacturing capacity

I don’t know enough about the management to say if it matches Buffett’s standards for great management
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Can anyone explain why this is getting down voted? As far as I can tell from examining it quite a bit at the bookstore, and from several reviews, it looks like it satisfied the request.

Is there something about it that I have missed?
Yeah, they need Slack
That sounds awesome! Could anyone point me to some examples or docs on this new feature? I tried searching for `sideEffect` on https://webpack.js.org/ but came up empty.
The only accurate thing is the crux of the article - that the hype around AI talent is overblown. Everything else is inaccurate. Initial success in RNNs were in handwriting recognition and OCR, and that code is public. It isn't 11 lines.

Worst of all is the last paragraph that takes a giant crap on AI hipsters and postulates the author's current work as far superior. I liked the joke. A toast of the rarest of rare microbrews, that's way cooler than wherever you've ever drunk.

Cheers
No kidding -- I was on a boat with 15 random tourists recently and was the only person not wearing an Apple Watch. Made an impact.
Does anybody know the airspeed or have an estimate? Since it was originally visible to radar, I was wondering why the speed wasn't listed in the article.

Also by what mechanism could anything become radar-invisible mid-flight? Some kind of adaptive geometry? Could things like roll angle have influenced the RCS?
not to mention, some awesome references at the end of each chapter. I had made it a point after each chapter to randomly pick an interesting reference and read that as well.
Right, I agree. Hence, the volatility.
Technology choices at startups should center around ability to rapid prototype. People screw around with new technology too much at startups. Your job number one is to prove your business concept, don’t let the latest tech fad get in the way of that.

If your dev team knows java and can move fast then use it.
Nice throwback WordPress theme. Every website is so flat now, and sometimes much uglier than before (cbc.ca comes to mind)
That's not modern reality according to whom?

My spouse is an MD and she spends a minimum of 45 minutes before her shift reviewing her patients' charts. After work, at home she tidies up patient notes to ensure the next person gets an efficient summary of the patient. Then after dinner she's answering a bunch of instant messages from patients on the hospital's patient portal and doing any prep necessary for the next day.

Programmers would be collectively rending our garments if we had to do anywhere near the amount of unpaid / off-the-clock work as doctors do.
So is it safe to just enable then... if not, what would one have to look for to ensure nothing gets messed up? And furthermore, if it 'always works', why didn't they just add it before?
Was charged $70k for a procedure that should have cost 5k max even with nurses and doctors and materials. I also was under the impression it was covered by my insurance because the front desk said she would call me if it wasn't. I was also given wrong information about what type of treatment I was going to get and when I requested to check with the doctor, I was given the option of "do you want the procedure or am ai going to just cancel it" and if it was cancelled, the next available appointment with the doctor was in 5 months.

I payed just $3k, but that was ridiculous to be surprised by and I'm still confused what the treatment plan is because front desk didn't schedule me until July. The doctor is great but support staff has become so beuracratic...
Oh, they're using IRC, all right. They're using IRC to keep the cover story straight as they're conversing over the air. wink wink
> a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery

Wow. How little things change.
Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
In particular CS at MIT ~was~is in the EECS department. MIT also begins with calculus (18.01), not algebra or pre-calculus or anything else. Newton's method, at least in my undergrad (Georgia Tech, not MIT), did introduce Newton's method at some point (I cannot remember the context, but I do remember it in my first or second calculus course). Since SICP students would have taken or be taking Calculus at the same time, it wouldn't be a stretch for them to have seen those sorts of problems already.
There is a third circle of hell: kdb. Unpopular and what is there is unsearchable as the syntax consists of items like ,:/.

I like kdb and the docs are okay, but my word...
I’m psyched for sideEffects: false and better dead code elimination. So much more treeshaking!
> You have to choose (mode or --mode) between two modes now: production or development.

I think what we have here is the start of a new era for heisenbugs to thrive.

The reason I suspect so is because a lot of JavaScript packages are written in awkward ways that makes lots of assumptions about the packages loaded, the order of the load, monkey patching require, and a whole lot of other oddities.

With current setup, you can disable various plugins and optimizations to pin point the conditions under which a bug manifests.

With new release, now you have to figure out what is the current state of the configurations to begin-with and how changing modes impacts that.
I might have missed it but didn't find that in the release note. Could there be language changes that are not part of this release note?
Then? There are loads of sympathizers now. Nazism is having a resurgence.
> You should perhaps learn a bit more about the history of the country which you want to immigrate to.

Because no one could possibly be opposed to per country caps unless he were a disgruntled Indian.

I was born in New York. My parents were born in New York. Three of four of my grandparents were born in New York. The fourth grandparent was born in Germany. His parents died in a concentration camp because they couldn't come to the US with their teen children. You see they had be been born in Eastern Europe and the racist national origin system was designed to prevent too many people born in Eastern Europe from coming to the US. Kind of like how you don't want too many people born in India or China to come to the US.

> The green card diversity lottery is based on exactly the premise I mention.

With your encyclopedic knowledge of American history I'm sure you are aware of the political origins of that program.
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I don't get it, whats the point? Is it like basically super-incognito mode, not really helpful for privacy or anonymity
Where would you screen for the bonds you mentioned in this thread?
Far ago in a space far removed from today in space and time i used svn for versioning everything. Yes it meant storing whole blobs in the folder but it worked for everything - source, documents, pictures. If one doesnt need to have versions of internals of the non-textual items then it is usually good enough. For office docs most of them support edit tracking. The only thing that was an issue was database contents but for those one can store differential logs (most mainline db supported them).

Yes its not beautiful but it is useful and it did work reliably. And best of all because of using svn and integrating TortoiseSVN into explorer (was using windows) it meant basically no new tools to learn.
It's worth noting that only a letter from Hitler himself saved him. It's easy to imagine how many Jews had similar views but didn't have Hitler's personal protection and ended up dead.
I'm fascinated by how someone with this domain level knowledge finds a problem like this and solves it.

Is there some correlation between WoW players and wine/graphics programmers?

Is this a game dev who happens to play WoW?

Externally, the phenomenon of a gamer (i.e. user) having domain level knowledge of complex technical understanding is intriguing.

(I'm partially motivated by the fact that as a generalist programmer I don't think id get anywhere the level of understanding needed to produce something like this)
Known issues:

- I (sort of) got lost in the RFCs, chances are that I missed some.

- My coding style is horrible.

Feel free to add more.
> What are you going to do when Google gets bored of supporting Chrome and disbands the team, leaving your web pages tied to a stagnating browser?

The whole point is that AMP works on all major browsers as they exist today. Waiting for a new standard and then waiting for Apple to implement it is a non-starter.
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Unless I am very much mistaken no one thought about immigration from Africa at the time because there was a trivial amount. Same reason as there were almost no restrictions on migration within the Western Hemisphere, it didn’t happen much.
It's not a global setting, but rather something individual module authors can enable in their `package.json` – or, if you're working with a module that hasn't specified it, you can tell webpack to treat that module differently via `rules`.

So if you're a library author and you know none of your modules contain side-effects, you can set `sideEffects: false` and anyone using webpack with your library will benefit. :)
Cache is part of AMP spec. What author seems to refer to is only a 2/3 of AMP spec - Subset of HTML and JS library.

Since the beginning AMP team was clear that AMP is not very useful without cache.

I do agree with all of the concerns raised, but wanted to point this out as to not get sidestepped from the main discussion.

https://www.alexkras.com/i-had-lunch-with-google-amp-team/
https://www.ampproject.org/learn/overview/
Given the eyestrain I get when reading without reading glasses (when wearing contacts) and without contacts, no.

I get enough headaches without adding to them by intentionally not using purpose-made tools.
This is like criticizing cracking down on bank robbing by saying that now the criminals are going to rob restaurants instead.
"No amount of metaprogramming can fix the intractability of proving programs correct in the base language"

It's actually rare people need to do proofs. If they do, they can also prove the programs correct with a tool suited for it like Isabelle/HOL or Coq then extract them to the desired language. It's worked for extractions to ML, Haskell, Scheme, and recently C (see below).

https://staff.aist.go.jp/tanaka-akira/succinct/slide-pro114....

There's also been verified LISP's (Scheme48, LISP 1.5) and metaprogramming constructs. So, it could be done in or for a LISP-like language with metaprogramming. I even found two metaprogramming schemes for Coq recently.

https://popl18.sigplan.org/event/coqpl-2018-typed-template-c...

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01637063/document

That brings me back to an old idea I was just discussing with someone about SPARK. I've pushed for using all high-value/low-cost methods on highly-assured programs before using proof to avoid wasting time on stuff easy to prove wrong. Heavy hitters from Verisoft to Data61 have been coming around to that idea using Alloy and property-based testing of specs respectively. Many of these formal languages also have crappy tooling on FOSS side versus mainstream stuff. So, I suggested embedding them in something like Racket to: get the IDE and REPL benefits for productivity; use combo of Cleanroom-style development, Design-by-Contract, contract-based testing, combinatorial testing up to 6-way (3-way minimum), and fuzz testing with contracts running; extracting to Rust, C and/or SPARK w/ their static analyzers or model checkers run on that code; fix any problems in logic in original with repeats of that process as much as necessary; final result extracted to something with certifying compiler to knock out that risk. I called the concept Brute-Force Assurance given one just throws CPU power and low-cost labor at the problem without much specialist skill required past what DbC or SPARK needs.

That combined with basic methods for high-availability or fault-tolerance plus recovery should make for one hell of a high assurance system at a fraction of the cost of formal verification. And if you wanted proof, then that system would already be nearly flawless to begin with in a structure (i.e. Cleanroom) amenable to easy proof with ability to extract to semantics of your choosing. If not Racket, I had K Framework used for KCC Executable Semantics for C in mind for formal alternative. Regardless, every tech I just cited (except SPARK) has low cost, lowers defects, and was easy to pick up. The combo should really bottom out defects without slowing time-to-market down too much to be useful. That's what formal proof did almost every time it was tried in normal development, esp if using 3rd party libraries.
How far-fetched is this?
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The Brave web browser is trying to do something like this with its Basic Attention Token. It’s pretty sharp.
Same question. Should immigration policy, or government policy in general be purposed towards maximizing tax revenue? Surely that topic can't be ignored completely, but should it be the driving force of policy?
I haven't tried the glasses-off product yet, past their demonstration pages, but I did practice this technique for a while based on the recommendations of a friend who similarly discovered it.

The "trick" as I see it is to become comfortable enough with the appearance of blurry text, and be relaxed enough so your eyes aren't constantly trying to focus, and straining the muscles. Once your eyes relax, it's amazing how well a person who's already a proficient reader can get enough information out of blurry text to read at normal speeds. In fact after a while, my brain kicks in and I'd swear that the text is sharp, even though if I pay too much attention it will appear blurry again as I realize my mind is playing tricks on me.
Stories like this are not uncommon in so-called developed countries. Makes you realise why medical tourism industry does so well. From my own experience i would prefer to return to Guangzhou or Shanghai for procedures rather than anywhere else. Not really that much cheaper but at least i can determine up front the size of the bill. Added to that is that in spite of factory-scale medical care in China(remember there are basically no private medical practices - all doctors are linked with hospitals), they are actual (in my personal experience) quite caring and dont charge unnecessarily.

But as with all things YMMV.
My old rule for long drives was to drive for 3 CDs (i.e. albums), fuel up for 10 minutes, and repeat until done. On a highway, that's 200+ miles per 10-minute stop. EVs are already great for commuting and errands, but they have a long way to go before being even close to competitive for long-distance driving.
First, a big bulk of Berkshire value is not in public companies. They are valued at 500B, their cash + public stocks are half of that.

Even if you look only their public stocks, Berkshire has certain advantages compared to individual investor.

They can buy a huge amounts of stock from pension funds with a discount to the market price. These kind of deals usually happen outside of public market so that the price din’t fluctuate due to the deal.

Also, individual investor can’t buy a public railroad company in its entirety. Berkshire did exactly that and continues to reap value from that deal, while individual investors of the said railroad company were forced to cap their long-term upside to the deal price.
What do you mean randoms without regard to skills or means?

You need either a family based justification (spouse or parent, mainly) or labor certification to apply for a green card. It's not a government defined point system, but an employer has to deem you worth the trouble to sponsor. Indirectly, at least, that measures the need for the applicants skills.

Means are also examined. E.g. to get a student visa you have to prove you can pay for tuition and living expenses without relying on working in the US.
If I understand correctly, using `mode` is optional. You can still continue using full configuration if required.

But I get your point. There might be problems if people start using it without understanding the internals.
Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI
Yes, as long as your developers know the correct libraries for your situation. For example they should be using Lombok, Guava, and Hibernate Validator. These are staple libraries that make developing in Java an order of magnitude faster providing that they know the libraries well.

There are more special case libraries that speed up development like Spark REST server for doing, well obviously, a Rest API. DWR for providing communicate between the web page and the backend. There are the common libraries for database connectivity like Hibernate and MyBatis, but do not discount valuable resources like Firebase or another cloud data store. Use Angular or React with Redux for your web front end if your application requires a complicated front end.

Also ensure your developers are educated on Domain Driven Design which will make it easier for you and them to communicate about expectations (via the ubiquitous language) and the resulting code can be built and tested in JUnit. All without an interface of any kind which helps you refine your MVP faster.

There are a number of other useful techniques and tools available to experience developers. Java developers typically have a do it right mindset which is the worst enemy of rapid MVP construction. Developers should choose the correct technique or tool to get the MVP done rapidly so it can evolve fast.

Using these tips I've spun up applications in days validated them with the customer and then put an interface on them within weeks.

Other languages might seem better for rapid idea implementation and can be just a correct as Java but that doesn't mean Java is not a possible solution. Really the choice comes down to having developers that can get stuff done fast. If they use Java then Java is the correct answer for that situation. There is no right (perfect) language for MVP creation.

As an aside you might want to use a sophisticated mockup builder to validate your idea before investing in a full blown application. Knowing your idea has merit makes the large investment in a full application easier justy.

Take action and don't let your idea go stale. I with you the best of luck.
I wholeheartedly agree!
If you save that money instead it goes into a pool that is invested in things that then go and spend it elsewhere.
Aaron Swartz used to do this:

- http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001083

- http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000432
I want to point out the aircraft with the reddish-orange contrail moving at high speed in the first video -- 25 to 32 seconds into the video. The caption says, "It was moving south at a very high speed over Northern California."

This is not the UFO aircraft being discussed. After looking at the video several times, I finally noticed that it says GETTY in the top right corner, meaning that it's stock video from Getty Images. I know that lots of TV journalists do this kind of thing for dramatic effect, but I still find it dishonest and misleading.
Blocked for me too.. I'm coming from Australia on my home static IP. Weird.
The US didn't stop developing secret aircraft after the B-2 was declassified in 1988.

The SR71 was built in the 50s and still seems crazy advanced. I can't imagine what they are working on now.
I got stuck in the Mystery House forest back in 1981 or 1982, and wrote a short letter to them to get help. They wrote back a typewritten, personalized, and hand-signed response that thanked me for buying the game, told me how to get out (dropping things, moving forward/up, and paying attention to the exact text in the messages), and giving me a couple extra hints for the next challenges I'd hit.

Definitely a different time.
I lived with my parents in the US over 2 decades ago. It was definitely a nice place back then. It's a place of extremes, with a lot of extreme bad and good.
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/4/12369494/descartes-artific...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-mine-market-moving-dat...

https://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872
Well at least it is a persistent mystery. Has anyone said how fast it was moving? I'm presuming it was subsonic the whole time but it seemed an odd omission.
> The US didn't stop developing secret aircraft after the B-2 was declassified in 1988

But the rate at which information disperses changed since then. Big, covert, multi-decade military research projects might be possible if we entered a new Cold War. But in peacetime? While we’re navigating political junctures? Unlikely. (Though not impossible.)
> Why is this controversial? Why would Americans prefer immigrants chosen at random through a lottery vs. those who are skilled and vetted

FYI: the immigrants who are chosen at random by the lottery are thoroughly vetted. They go through criminal and medical screening. All they win is the opportunity to be interviewed at a US consulate/embassy after the screenings; the interviewing officer (a US diplomat) considers skills and resources and decides whether or not to grant a visa. It's not as if they win today and buy a ticket tomorrow.
Anybody up for a competition? Basic 'app'.

You: Yarn, Bower, Babel, typescript, grunt, webpack 1, npm 5.7, webpack 2 & 3, Browserify, React, and... Gulp.

And Grunt.

Me: java EE.
I’d be concerned if they were talking about using ada, idris, or apl, but any mainstream programming language is fine. Java is nothing if not mainstream.
Angle absolutely can affect RCS.

Retracting landing gear, retracting flaps, etc. can reduce RCS.

For military aircraft, closing of weapons bays that were previously open would reduce RCS.

In an extreme case, jettisoning of external fuel tanks and weapons can reduce RCS.
> Almost everyone does something that can be construed as being illegal. By allowing unfettered access to private information, this makes it much easier for laws to be selectively enforced in ways that benefit the government.

Exactly. It could be something as simple as guilt by association. Even though you might not have done anything illegal yourself, you may have the contact information of someone who is on a watchlist or has been convicted of a crime. For example, China is looking into developing a social credit rating system, any association an individual has to persons who the government consider less reputable could have real impacts on their credit rating.
Does this have any reputable research attached to it?
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My first question is why you want to solve only hard problems? I understand there are a couple of motivation 1. Training yourself to solve hard problem 2. It open doors

I would think it's more valuable to figure out valuable opportunities (this might involve some hard problems or other combination of market forces). So for me hard problem is figuring out valuable opportunities before other people notice.
Thanks. I was also wondering if radio wave propagation might have been a factor.

It'd be nice if someone put together a timeline that includes these sensor data so we could build a better model of the situation.
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