skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He doesn't present an honest understanding of his own field, or the field of neuroscience, or the ongoing developments in the technology surrounding his own business, or its implications.

Yes, but I don't think you are, either.

The fact is that chess and Go abilities aside, we are probably not even close to insect-level intelligence, and we don't have a clear path of getting there soon -- let-alone anything human-level. Current state-of-the-art so-called AI is basically powerful statistical regression algorithms, that are heuristic improvements over core algorithms invented in the 1960s, and there have been few theoretical breakthroughs since then (far fewer than in most other fields), so much so that many consider machine learning to be in the pre-science or pre-theory stage, being mostly about collecting data and trying out heuristics. It's silly to deny recent successes -- largely due to better hardware (although hardware progress is slowing down quickly) -- but we are behind, not ahead, of where we thought, even as recently as the 1990s, we'd be by now.

At this point we have no idea what role statistical regression plays in intelligence or whether we're even in the right direction. That statistics has become synonymous with intelligence (it used to be synonymous with lies) is certainly a cultural phenomenon that is not directly related to our actual knowledge of the field.

That computers perform some mental tasks (certainly more and more of them) better than humans has been a fact of computing since the 50s, and often a cause for wild claims. The invention of neural networks in the 40s and their implementation in digital computers in the 50s led some very respectable people (like Norbert Wiener) to declare that the problem of the brain will be solved in 5 years. The pragmatic Alan Turing thought that was ridiculous and predicted it would take 50. It's been almost 70 years and we haven't yet reached insect-level intelligence or anywhere near a complete understanding of the insect brain, so at this point, any claims that we are on the cusp of something, or starting to believe that our statistical regression algorithms reflect the beginning of intelligence is... misplaced.

On the other hand, it seems like we have not learned the lessons of misplaced confidence in AI, despite our relatively slow progress, and things are worse now as that we actually have some algorithms that are useful in certain restricted domains that we insist on calling AI, thus causing people to use them in domains where they are not only useless but downright harmful. In the meantime, some people draw attention to the dangers of real AI -- which may be anywhere between decades and centuries away (I believe we'll get there some day but we have no idea how or how soon) -- while distracting from the very real and already present dangers of "AI".
In other words, tiny sample, results likely don't generalize, may also be false positive.
I have recently watched an analyse of the film, which really made me appreciate it much more and made me want to watch it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-URy_Smyyk
Police work is not that dangerous....

https://fee.org/articles/by-the-numbers-how-dangerous-is-it-...
Knowing that AWS vs. Oracle means AWS wins comes from clicking around in the interface and using the API for a few minutes. Even if Oracle was free it would not be worth the pain.
The top 50 YC companies as measured by valuation
Yes them too (I wasn’t a founder)
Passing on a local machine is optimized quite well. The API is the same as passing to a remote machine, but serialization is omitted when passing locally. A fair amount of copying still happens, but (I assume--now we're into territory that I am less sure about) that keeps the implementation robust and simple (i.e. there's no "ownership" to wrangle down in the BEAM; at the highest level of abstraction inside the VM, it's just copies of immutable structures).

For communicating quickly locally, you could use large/refcounted binaries (http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.html) in to avoid copying-on-message-pass. Those generally tend to be frowned upon, and incur the usual headaches/perf issues of a ref-counted structure as well.

In short, I'd suggest defaulting to the assumption that Erlang is fast enough at passing messages locally for it not to matter that much in practice. Benchmark the throughput of your system locally, and if the overhead of message passing isn't a major pain point immediately, move on up the stack. If you're doing scientific computing and want to number-crunch huge data sets in parallel via some minimal-coordination memory-map-backed system, this is not the platform for you (or use a NIF).
Democrats and Republicans already control ballot access laws, a clear conflict of interest. Let us wave our magic wands and — poof! — campaign expenditures are now tax-funded. Nothing meaningful changes. The Republicrats still control who has access to the ballot and thus who will receive campaign largess.

“Public campaign finance” is no magic fix, rather it is welfare for already wealthy political parties.
Soneva Kiri (Thailand), best resort in the world: full tour
I also hate it.

It is almost impossible to find the foreign movies I care about.

Sometimes I find them by language, other times by the name, and worse just scrolling hoping that they get suggested again to me.
Is it bad to have a "thin" brain and good to have a "fat" brain now?

Can't this brain region become too large? What if the area is enlarged due to inflammation/swelling and these people with "thinning" are those without that problem?

If the brain is too large it is considered a problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalencephaly

This guy apparently has the second largest brain ever measured, and he was a serial killer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Rulloff
OpenCL C++ / OpenCL 2.2 Support Begins Its Journey to Mainline LLVM Clang
Who said anything about serializing? To coordinate multiple processes via a file-backed interface, you still might have to wait for the disk (unless you're using /dev/shm), but you don't necessarily have to serialize/deserialize data. Most people tend to confuse the two.

You can cast bytes from a memory-mapped file just fine, if you trust the file/other writers, or are willing to sacrifice some safety. There are also a lot of serialization systems that are simple/fast enough as to basically be structs, e.g. flatbuffers: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/. Even those still don't avoid that pesky copy, though; for that you'll have to interact with raw memory and hope it's in the right layout for your purposes.
Psychedelics can cure depression.

When you release the root cause of this stuff it often resolves for life.
what about the dual? moving, either walking, driving or longer always stimulates my brain. To the point that not moving I find myself very silent and believed I had a problem.
>Electronic equipment came with nice diagrams of how everything worked, but it wasn't from the goodness of their hearts, environmental concerns, or trying to foster a "maker" culture, it was because it would actually be unreliable and break down quite often.

I'm not trying to be a political apologist here, but it doesn't have to be just one of them, right? I mean, the products could be inferior because of some factors, and there could be attempts to foster a "maker" culture because of other factors.
So you don't have any investment accounts, retirement accounts, hobby/self-employment income and deductions, charitable giving?

I've only met a couple of people who can fill out ONLY a 1040/1040-EZ, and that was because they were still in college or younger.
"The devilish tide current appeared to be totally random and followed none of the god-given rules and laws."

Bill O'Reilly: I'll tell you why it's not a scam. In my opinion, all right? Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can explain why the tide goes in…

David Silverman: Tide goes in, tide goes out…?

O'Reilly: Yeah, see, the water — the tide comes in and it goes out, Mr. Silverman. It always comes in…

Silverman: Maybe it's Thor up on Mount Olympus who's making the tides go in and out…

O’Reilly: No no, but you can’t explain that… you can’t explain it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3AFMe2OQY
iPad (2018) review: Drawn, written, edited, and produced with an iPad
> This is a bit of a non-story.

You just summed up Science-daily. Every single day there's a revolution in sciences or understanding if you believe their articles.
In reality the ratio of meme versus useful info is generally not in favor of spending time in this way unless you derive great utility from memes by themselves.
What else can you expect from techies that insist using their computers as a PDP-11 replica as if Xerox PARC never existed?
>How on Earth do you think to go on a multi week ocean kayaking trip and not take tide tables.

It's the unknown unknown.

He had an expert knowledge of sea kayaking and survival skills in the wilderness and he was not exactly clueless. But because he was from Finland, he missed one critical piece of practical knowledge he didn't know to seek for. We don't have any noticeable tides in our small seas. So even if he knew what the tides are and how big effect they can make, he didn't think he was missing something that is common knowledge and helps with the tides.

ps. Timo Noko is a character. He is ex-Nokia engineer who turned into professional hobo and has kayaked around Alaska and is accustomed to wilderness and survival.

https://timonoko.github.io/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/timonoko/albums/

EDIT: I think the only way to discover these unknown unknowns is to explain your plan and show everything you carry to some experienced local and ask "What I am missing". Usually it's some trivial thing that helps a lot.
In large Erlang applications, the "send to multiple peers" broadcast tendencies of its message passing can indeed cause the network to become a bottleneck; so can the default chattiness that a lot of Erlang application developers assume for their app behavior.

Fortunately, there are lots of simple-to-apply patterns and solutions when you get to that point, for example the excellent Partisan library: https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan
>> So when someone says to me "everyone has a mental health disorder" I just assume that they have a mental disorder and agree with them.

I totally agree with this. If there's no one around you might even say "yeah, wanna share, what's yours?"

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have faced their issues and are a work in progress, and those who have not." Yeah yeah, projection, black and white, all-or-nothing, splitting, etc... It's still a fun thing to say.
It's an ad for their company

I guess I'm not in their target market then because it reads like a hit piece - so much so that I was sure that all the names were changed!
Usually set my alarm for 8:20.
Head off for work.
Start around 9:15-10:00.
Work until 17:00.
Leave.
Workout till 19:30, maybe 20:00.
Head home, prepare something to eat.
Read, Game, Work, do nothing.
Go to bed anywhere from 10:30-1:00.
Repeat.

Sometimes I get stressed and need to meditate. I use headspace and calm.

I'm usually tanked by the weekend and sleep super long and don't do a whole lot because I am so tired.

Repeat. x 52.
I fear it's the willingness to make massive public investments that has dwindled.

Going to space was never cheap, and I doubt it has ever been cheaper than it is today
> Don't get fooled with 'democracy' thing. Election and democratic process are the way for the elites to decide matters between themselves without resorting to civil wars/violence, in an orderly, regulated manner. They were invented for that purpose in the middle ages England which got tired of civil wars and serve that purpose perfectly.

That’s a fascinating thesis, can you point me to sources on it?
There's literal pennies of sugar in the typical product. They aren't pushing sucralose to get the extra bit of margin, they are responding to the large number of people that want lower calorie sweets.
Dan Toomey's Learning Jupyter is free today on https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning btw.
Conclusion drawn from experiment on 35 samples? Must be kidding...
I am always curious about how much meditation can affect our brains. In pop science and pop culture, we see a lot of overestimation about meditation affects on our brains. But what is the scientific perspective on meditation?
I posted this earlier, but police work statistically isn't that dangerous.

There are about 421,000 police officers in the US.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf...

If you look past Fox News sensationalist headlines, they said 146 were killed in the line of duty last year.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/11/americas-police-of...
So compensate them by paying them more now instead of taking the easy way out through pensions and bad math.
To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to join Facebook
Use a mix of Asana, paper, and Google docs.
That’s only correct for avx3 instructions -1 I.e. 512 bit wide vector unit.
How do you know it's overestimation if you haven't seen the scientific perspective?
BMW were the ones pushing it.

I am no expert there, learned it from their presentation at FOSDEM last year.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/succes_failur...

Page 12 on the second slideset.
_m seems to be the prefix for MMX, whereas _mm is the prefix for SSE.

I think the instructions which didn’t need to change just got a new intrinsic alias so that each instruction set is self-contained, i.e. when working with SSE, you should only need to look at the SSE docs, not also know the MMX docs already.
What Will Happen When the Sex Robots Arrive?
With the median household income being $65000, when the average voter talks about "taxing the rich", they won't have any problem going after tech workers making in the low six figures. You may come to find that you may be one of the "rich".
Why women are not allowed in sumo rings–even to save a life
A Jack Handy deep thought applies here:

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money.
And I guess that's what I like about it.
It's easy.
Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.

[0] - http://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93ddeep1.phtml
Most likely because they dropped Objective-C driver framework from NeXTSTEP.

They are surely a vocal minority, otherwise Metal shaders wouldn't be C++14.
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
The study was regarding density, not size.
A human's stomach lining is designed to nestle bacteriophages (those viruses that looks like moon landers that reproduce in bacteria) in it and they make sure that the bacteria population in the stomach stays put.
for a LISP using meditation practicing hacker reading this is incredible, the same insights written down by someone else.

> You do not feel physical sensation, consciously or subconsciously, without an accompanying thought or emotion.
this is true. When really connected with your body, mind and emotion you see these are interlinked. The body follows thought and emotion, suppressed emotions are kept in the body. Your body feels emotion before you consciously recognize it.
Older people learned SMS from the Nokia sms tone :)
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I think they are talking about the Magna Carta.
That includes both the surgery and the crown. A Lot of places quote $4,000 as being the average.

I'm sure you could get it cheaper if you went to a University.

Keep in mind those prices don't include additional things like extracting your original tooth, bone grafting if you happen to need it, or getting sedated (because who would want to go through that with just novocain). It can get really expensive.
Haskell, Common Lisp, Ada, Scala, OCaml, F# come to mind.

Even Java and C# are slowly getting down that path.

Languages get those features because they make sense and solve real production problems.
the tone is pretty standard baffler style. its meant precisely as a provocation, thats their whole thing. Its also an openly leftwing publication fwiw. Personally I find it way more refreshing and honest, then, say, the NYT op ed pages, in terms of being honest about why they take the subjects they do and why they present them in the way they do.
If campaign financing will be restricted to public money, they won't be wealthy anymore and they will not be able to use to their political benefit any unrestricted hidden wealth in the form of super PACs. And this will also open way for the smaller parties and independent candidates to the fair competition.
As the other comment mentioned, "Android" is not one thing the same way iOS is. But a reasonable simplification here is:

- google phones (pixel line) is the baseline - you'll get there what you'd expect from the upstream docs

- copperhead (https://copperhead.co/android/) is going way ahead of that with actual work at kernel level, extended selinux profiles, and more - but you lose the default app market by default (that's ok if you do want to have your own managed device)

- every other OEM (whatever you can buy from the local provider) - they're going to be behind by design - they do custom addons on google releases, but no system-level development, so they can be at best as good as google devices (usually worse)

So when comparing, decide which level of Android support are you really after. Then there's the threat model: are you worried about random apps that you're going to try, or are you going to use a minimal selection from known companies and you mainly want to stop remote driveby exploitation via ads? Or are you looking for something that will be well protected from seizure and physical access?
AI is trained using a real life dog
Smashing Paradigms – Procrastination as a Good Thing
This is correct, of course, but partial progress here is massive progress indeed.

The further you push the potentially complicated code towards functional purity, the more the I/O and other side-effecting/hard-to-roll-back things float to the top... and it becomes almost natural to group all of them together...

... into what you might almost be tempted to call a "transaction".

(Indeed, like the IO monad leads one to do. I've explicitly been trying to avoid saying the "m" word, though, because it seems to be a cognitive stop-sign for a lot of folks, for whatever reason.)
iOS. E.g. https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm
I dislike Webpack and tried using Brunch with a Phoenix+Vue project but it failed short when importing npm modules in my Vue components (another Vue component, a lodash function etc).

It's sush a basic functionality that I was sure the problem was my code but no, it's a ongoing problem with Brunch [1][2].

I like the concepts in Brunch but the project seems to be short on manpower (look at the dates on the issues and PR), and vue-brunch is kinda unmaintained as well [3].

I think Phoenix should move to Webpack or at least support more bundlers.

[1] https://github.com/brunch/brunch/issues/1553
[2] https://github.com/brunch/brunch/pull/1664
[3] https://github.com/nblackburn/vue-brunch/issues/22
This comment is really interesting to me as I'm working on getting essentially this functionality added to Django[1].

The case statement is slightly different, more like this (usually with a couple of hundred ID's):

UPDATE TABLE place
SET rating = (
CASE WHEN id = 1 THEN 25
CASE WHEN id = 2 THEN 94
CASE WHEN id = 3 THEN 16
)
WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3)

Members of the Django community, myself included, have seem huge performance benefits using this technique. I had an update loop go from taking 90 seconds to 3.

As a seasoned DBA you see any huge downsides with this technique? I agree that if you're updating the whole table using a CASE statement is not a great idea but if you want to update 1000 rows with differing values and you have to issue 1000 individual queries then this can take some time (including whatever overhead Django has).

1. https://github.com/django/django/pull/9606
Maybe school shouldn't suck?
Track Your Time for 30 Days
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]
Curious why you want to move from embedded to non-embedded? Do you have a traditional CS background or more of a EE?
And one of the reasons why the VLAs introduced in C99 became optional in C11.
The Enemy Next Door
I work 35 hours a week. Going on vacation for two weeks, will not be working, because it's a vacation. Good for me, good for my employer: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/18/productive-programme...
You are mistaking citizen action and corporate lobbying, especially the way it's done in the US. It's always Big Companies, with vested interests in keeping the statue quo, because their CEOs lack the creativity to move forward and has the shareholder have no incentive to ask him to do otherwise, spend millions of dollars, target to specific senator or house representatives whose votes will help and only help the big co...

We are not talking about what your friend did, or what you are supporting. Those are actions that will move the society forward.
It is with the paths in your styling (images, fonts) which by default are checked and rewritten during compilation (which fails if he can't find the files).
I can only imagine how many billions of dollars in company value have been generated using the product of their uncompensated labor.

Same goes for the rest of the data stack: Python itself, Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, etc.
I've found learning to fly is really good too. There's an element of danger, physical skills, a lot of focus, a lot of learning (the experiential kind too), putting yourself in a completely different place than you've ever been, and an instructor to walk you through it. Highly recommended.
Another article is here https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/14/17234570/artificial-intel...

Recorded a real-life dog over 350hrs, apply representation learning, learn to distinguish walk-able surfaces, and inside/outside.
I think fundamental understanding of pointers is important to C++ and not we’ll understood by many people who come from a non-C/C++ background.
Avoid Google Maps with Gnome Maps on GNU/Linux
But who wants to be the loser that’s so unattractive and socially inept that he can’t get an actual woman to be interested in him?
As a vet myself, though without PTSD, I can attest to this. I have been a semi-serious alpine climber and the reason (for me) that this works is because you have to be focused on the exact moment and precisely what you are doing at every instant. Crossing the Grand Couloir on Mont Blanc a few years ago, there was a serious rockfall problem (think Volkswagen-sizes boulders flying down the mountain,) the process of preparing for such a dangerous (and foolhardy) maneuver, puts your mind in a good place ironically. You don’t give a shit about drama when you are purely focused on your next step. Crossing a cravasse-filled glacier roped to your partner has a similar effect. Combining that with the slight hypoxia at altitude and it’s an amazing curative. Not even to mention the physical suffering of moving for 10+ hours, loaded with gear.

I get a similar benefit from flying small airplanes — the intense focus on every detail is like a forced meditation: you CAN’T be depressed because there’s no room in your thought for it.

The feeling for me continues several hours after flying or climbing — you feel almost weightless and you are very deliberate in your actions (driving after flying finds me less impatient, much more spacially aware and just calmer.)

I am only speaking for me, but I feel there is something too this — not just for depression, but cyclothymia and mania as well.

High altitude meditation!