skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>10 GPU Jobs Limit (1 concurrent)

I also found this part of Paperspace's pitch confusing, to be honest, to the point that I worried it was some tricky restriction, and bailed out midway through the sign up process.

You have jobs, runs, three types of storage, various machine types, with fixed monthly and per minute charges. The main pricing page doesn't say what these terms mean. This all makes sense to you guys (as it is your company). But an average prospective customer will give up and go elsewhere.

Edit: I just created a paperspace.com account, logged in, and again couldn't figure out how your pricing for Gradient works. The missing info is on a help centre page that explains the three types of storage (workspace, artifact and persistent), but it assumes I know what a job is. If I had more time, I'd help you rewrite these docs into a single integrated guide!
Maybe I misunderstand, if you are a free user the data has to be public right? And any user can use the public data?
It's tanned, so I'm betting it's quite dead.
It's got Facebook in the name to ride the hate wave? I'm so glad Mozilla hired a Marketing team... /s
Well your still seen as the owner of the domain in the register’s eyes and not a proxy company which may help if you need to transfer the domain away from your registar for any unexpected reason.
It's a convenient wrapper for that which automatically redirects Facebook pages into the container, redirects other sites to be outside the container, and deletes Facebook cookies:

> How does this compare to the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension?

> Facebook Container specifically isolates Facebook and works automatically. Firefox Multi-Account Containers is a more general extension that allows you to create containers and determine which sites open in each container.

> You can use Multi-Account Containers to create a container for Facebook and assign facebook.com to it. Multi-Account Containers will then make sure to only open facebook.com in the Facebook Container. However, unlike Facebook Container, Multi-Account Containers doesn’t prevent you from opening non-Facebook sites in your Facebook Container. So users of Multi-Account Containers need to take a bit extra care to make sure they leave the Facebook Container when navigating to other sites. In addition, Facebook Container assigns some Facebook-owned sites like Instagram and Messenger to the Facebook Container. With Multi-Account Containers, you will have to assign these in addition to facebook.com.

> Facebook Container also deletes Facebook cookies from your other containers on install and when you restart the browser, to clean up any potential Facebook trackers. Multi-Account Containers does not do that for you.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...)
That sounds like a really bad Obama impersonator. The video is OK but still obviously fake.

If you look at the progression of film CGI, with its persistent flaws despite massive budgets, there's no reason to suspect that indistinguishable fakes are coming any time soon.
The addon desc (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...) says:

> Facebook Container leverages the Containers feature that is already built in to Firefox. When you enable Facebook Container, you may also see Containers named Personal, Work, Shopping, and Banking while you browse. If you wish to use multiple Containers, you’ll have the best user experience if you install the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...

So: No, it is not.
Except apple made products for profit which others could have but didn't.

Tesla made cars at loss, which others really couldn't.

But at the core of it, Tesla has the hype of Elon musk, and no other car manufacturer can pull that off.
I've seen VS Code crash on Windows more than Mac... also, it often leaves anything you had running in the integrated terminal running in the background when it does crash. I haven't seen that specific behavior on mac though.
> increase the fee of a transaction after the fact

Someone should have volunteered to help the Pineapple Fund do this instead of switching to Bitcoin Cash (or maybe this is what "Child-Pays-For-Parent" is, and it cost too much). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995391

>> Since this created a series of unconfirmed transactions, we had to do something drastic: use Child-Pays-For-Parent with a very significant fee.
The fact that they're doing it all on one day at the same time implies it's mostly about the PR
Marx didn't write anything between 1950 and 2000, the time period under discussion.
Yep, Google has been quite public about page loading speed being a factor in rankings. It's not a "make or break" and it won't instantly put you on page 1 for everything, but it makes a difference.
Not if I shop at cash only places.

Is it feasible to do this all the time? No. But quite often it is.
The voice sounds wrong, is the voice AI? I'm sure I've seen better AI voice demos than this --- though the video is impressive.
I believe the self-service kiosks would be very much feasible. There are two key components: (1) automated non-mydriatic (not requiring dilation of the pupil) retinal imaging and (2) automated grading of images using AI.

The technology is there but there would be more work needed for a self-service kiosk to be FDA approved. Another thing that is not clear is whether it is commercially a good idea at this time, given that only a single disease (diabetic retinopathy) is approved. I can see a future where one can use such kiosks to look for multiple conditions and assess risks for various diseases including cardio-vascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, and hypertension.
Unfortunately the interface has been copied almost 1:1 from Expressions which is not fair.
When I was in college (mid 70s) we wrote a compiler for the 6800 - it fit in 2k, we were very proud .... we copyrighted everything under the name μSoft (everything was μ this and μ that back then, in retrospect it was a terribly obvious name).

A year later some upstart showed up on the scene using our name, and he just had a BASIC interpreter, sooo lame! We were college kids in NZ, pre-internet we had no real access to the rest of the world so our project, and our name died .... I so wish we'd incorporated, or at least registered the trademark
I've been obsessed with how to make podcasts better for a long time. I co-founded the first social podcast app on iOS, launched and ran the podcast vertical at Product Hunt, and most recently worked on 60dB, an early stage podcast startup acquired by Google.

I think the bottleneck preventing podcasts from enjoying wider, mainstream adoption and the all the downstream benefits it affords is lack of discovery. And I think Twitter is uniquely well positioned to solve discovery and create the podcast app of the future.

The rest of the thesis is in the Medium post. Would enjoy any feedback and discussion!
Because google is more inclined to break their own APIs without concern of the integrations of others.

Adobe AIR was an effort to create a common runtime for similar things... wouldn't mind seeing a few OS vendors coming together to support something similar, but on the flip side, I don't want to be stuck with Node 4.0's API in 2024.
1. They typed "ceo" instead of CEO or C.E.O.

2. Are all retail locations of all businesses now expected to let anyone use the restroom for free? I do not know the specifics of this story other than "black person tries to use the bathroom, isn't allowed, doesn't leave, gets peacefully removed from premises". If a store doesn't let people use the restroom for free, isn't that their prerogative?
You're right that it's for profit and sensationalism, but it's worse than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suFzznCHjko
IIRC, this was just one engineer's side project to take their existing container tech, which might be too 'advanced' for most users, and make a one-off addon that more users might be interested in.

Do you think that Mozilla's marketing of Firefox as more privacy focused is a bad thing?
That's the thing - there is no marshaling. The objects are passed between the languages as pointers under-the-hood. There is a standard way of invoking methods/functions on those pointers, that works across all languages.
How did you come to that conclusion? I am unsure about your line of logic here.
Interesting – thanks for the correction!
> Violent is relative.

Violent seems entirely accurate, the pressure was enough to pull someone halfway out the window, and the poor woman is in critical condition. It was literally violent.

> The plane was never "going down"

If I were on a plane that experienced an engine explosion, hull breach, and depressurization, I'm sure I'd assume it's going down. It was terrifying enough to give someone a heart attack.

It's also hard to claim definitively that the plane was never going down. Multiple safety systems failed, and the hull was breached. This could easily have brought down the plane. They were lucky it wasn't worse.

> Don't forget their tenuous relationship with logic and facts when reading this article.

I don't see any tenuous logic or facts here... everything quoted appears accurate. I doubt the expert commentary from the ground that the situation was modest is much comfort to anyone who was on the flight.
I have kneejerk reactions sometimes to actions like this, thinking "oh they're just doing this for the PR", but I've recently start to consider what would it take for me not to have this reaction -- and I realized that I would likely have that just-for-pr reaction to any action they took, and I'm likely entirely too cynical.

Closing 8,000+ stores for an afternoon feels like a sizable response, and I am going to suspend my cynicism for this and recognize that they do give a damn (even if it is influenced by PR).
I'm a little disappointed that it took this long for people to get over the 'OMG celebrity porno' thing about deepfakes to actually start dealing with the real potential consequences. Deepfakes open up an amazingly large list of questions, from the mundane to the truly challenging. That someone will see imagery that fulfills a sexual fantasy is, by far, one of the most trite and harmless possible uses of this technology.

Realtime video synthesis has been around for awhile. I recall reading in 1999 that if you watched the ball drop on New Years Eve, the advertisements on the buildings you see won't be the advertisements that are actually present in real life. They were being replaced on the fly with different ads. Now, it's basically possible to replace people. Everywhere that people appear. And this isn't something we can deal with simply by going off of gut reaction and intuition, it really raises significant questions.

Who will be the first politician to use a younger version of themselves to promote themselves? Which celebrity will be first to replace not the face, but their body, in film to make themselves more attractive? Which movie studio will be first to film a movie using cheap performers and then re-use the right they have to a major celebrities likeness by just faking them into it? Or maybe they'll only bring in the actual celebrity for close shots?

This can be done on commodity hardware, and will only get easier. It will be used for schoolyard bullying, for amazingly uplifting and important artistic works, for debasement and aggrandizement. It's one of these things that we've got to do some thinking about as a society.
Can someone explain to me what Starbucks did wrong here? As far as I've read, there were a pair of men loitering in the store for an extended period of time. They did not purchase anything so this is the very definition of loitering. The store was very busy and someone from Starbucks asked them to leave. They refused. At that point, the same person from Starbucks called the cops because they refused to leave.

The cops came, and eventually arrested them after they refused to comply with instructions. They were taken to the police station, but Starbucks did not intend to press charges so they were let go.

What am I missing here? What is the correct play for dealing with a non-customer that refuses to leave your store?
There is a difference between ML research and AI research. AI, traditionally, has more leeway in using intuitive, abstract, or anthropomorphized terms, over ML, which has established learning and optimization theory and a more solid foundation in applied mathematics.

Basically, the deep learning hype in popular science media, owes this status in large part, because it allows nice pictures to be shown. RL research fares well, because they can show video of the agent playing the game. I bet the choice of Doom was also made with this PR in mind, and of course publications like Wired are going to show this work to their readers, over, say, the RELU-paper (impactful in the field, but not much to write an article around).
I completely agree with you. Dreams, imagination, or hallucination are appropriate terms for an agent working through solutions within its own world-model without using new external input. Would we reserve the verb 'to fly' only for birds? As Dijkstra said, "the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than whether a submarine can swim".
Listen to "Philosophy: Who Needs It?" [1] (duration 40 minutes; and/or read it [2]) -- an address by Ayn Rand to the 1974 graduating class at West Point.

Whether you agree with her philosophical theory or not, she makes a brilliant case for the layman needing philosophy (for life on earth).

[1] http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-works/pwni.html

[2] http://fare.tunes.org/liberty/library/pwni.html
I don't think it's correct to say that compliance is "mandatory". The set of circumstances in which a pilot ordinarily must disobey direct instructions from ATC is small, but it's not empty. And ATC rarely gives direct instructions anyway, a lot of what is said by ATC is phrased in terms of permission for the pilot to do things they should probably choose to do. If they respond "Unable" the ATC isn't going to write them up for violating some rule, they're going to look at how to work around this.

A very obvious example where the Rules explicitly tell pilots to disobey ATC is instructions from local technology that isn't co-ordinated with the ground, such as Ground Proximity Warning System and Traffic Collision Avoidance System. If these systems decide that overall "Climb, Crossing Climb, Climb Now!" is the correct instruction, but your controller suggests descending, the Rules are clear that you should all obey the machine and it will probably be fine because the machine is doing its own real time conflict resolution and re-assessing the local situation.

The Rules say you should tell the controller why you didn't obey their instructions but again, not as a greater priority than flying the plane.
Wow, scary times for sure. What can we trust?
I've found the problem that there aren't enough of them (if you're trying to use them for a practical purpose).

If they're a problem it'll be if someone rides on the sidewalk, but I've personally yet to see that.

Frankly SF has dozens of other nuisance problems such as literal human feces on the street, tents, crack smokers in broad daylight, various types of property crime, before one tipped-over scooter in a 3 block radius would be considered a legitimate nuisance.

I think the main reason why the city is going after these startups is because the startups have money.
If you are seeking the Ph.D. Degree under the normal regulations, you are required to have "kept three terms at least by residence" (i.e. have lived within three miles of Great St. Mary's Church for a year) [1]. There is also a minimum time of 9 terms (ie. 3 years) that must be spent as a Graudate Student [2].

The alternative 'special regulations' apply only to graduates of the Cambridge University, or graduates of another university who have been admitted "to some office in the University or to a Headship or a Fellowship of a College" [3].

> d) ... that's it; there is no part d)

Well, the most likely outcome of the viva is a pass with minor corrections, so there typically is a part d - "make the corrections requested by the examiners and re-submit".

[1]: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2017/chapter02-section9....

[2]: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2017/chapter07-section13...

[3]: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2017/chapter07-section13...
How were they poorly armed? Their infantry weapons were first class, far better than deployed by the French or Americans. They had arguably better trained soldiers for jungle combat. They had a powerful patron in the USSR that was willing to provide top of the line SAMs that were manned by Russian technicians.

Yet they still lost almost every battle against the Americans (sorry France, Dien Bien Phu...). After Tet, the VietCong ceased to exist as a fighting force.

S. Vietnam would have held against the NVA if Congress hadn't cut off funding to their army.

When North Vietnam attempted to invade the South in 1972, they had 67% casualties. In 1975, when Congress refused to provide air support, the South fell.

You can call it sophistry, but the facts stand as true.
As an additional data point, SBUX FY 2017 revenue was 22.3 bil. Works out to almost 80 mil per day. The US has about half of their stores, but potentially a larger share of revenues. So this is costing them roughly 50 mil in lost revenue.

The question is are they making a real sacrifice at that amount or paying a small sum for the PR?
Indeed. As a startup ypu want to build as little as possible tgat's already been built -- so you want the language/framework that has the biggest most accessible ecosystem, so that you can focus on building things unique to your line of business.
If possible, find a local philosophy group. Philosophy is so much better as an interactive discussion.

There are many great first year lecture series by a variety of universities that are pretty good.

probably the one I enjoyed the most was "Justice" which you can find here http://justiceharvard.org/justicecourse/ ( the site seems to be super snazzy now, was a bit more basic years ago when I first saw it )

But there's a lot more indepth lecture series out there, I'd sugest starting with the greeks / socrates / plato / aristotle.
Answers to the most commonly Googled questions about Bitcoin
Hi, author of jaque here. I've been working on some other things for a little while, but I'll be getting back to jaque soon. It's quite out of date and needs to be brought up to 1.0 and cleaned up a bit before I start grousing about the stack issues I was running into on the mailing list, but when I last was working on it I was running into issues with Graal when trying to increase the java stack size. Deep but bounded head recursion is quite common in nock, and I seem to recall I needed about 8 megs of stack space (I just passed -Xss 8m or something on the command line) and Graal slowed waaaay down. That's where I left it.
I've found it akin to being able to ask someone to grab the wheel for a moment, while I do some quick task. I'm still able to feel if the car veers, or suddenly decelerates, so I'm able to take control quickly, but I don't have to worry I'm going to plow into the guy in front of me who suddenly slammed on his brakes, because I took my eye off the road for 5 seconds.

On a lighter note, my dad learned to steer using his knee so he could eat while driving. I can't help but imagine how much easier his life would be with autopilot (probably safer too).
GPUs can do things besides machine learning. It uses a maximum likelihood estimator, so no training data.
Will let you know what I find out, thanks!

Edit: It works (for Ruby and Python)

Here is how to set up GraalVM for the Linux Subsystem on Windows 10:

1. Enable and Install Ubuntu for Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

2. Download the EE edition of GraalVM to Windows: http://www.graalvm.org/downloads/

3. Mount the folder that has the tar file: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42586455/2548452

4. Unzip the files (tar xvfs graalvm-ee-1.0.0-rc1-linux-amd64.tar.gz)

5. Create a .bash_profile for setting the $PATH (my personal preference)

6. Follow the instructions from the following up until the "Running Programs": http://www.graalvm.org/docs/getting-started/

7. Follow instructions for installing LLVM and locales: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby#system-compatibility

8. Follow instructions for installing libssl-dev: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/blob/master/doc/user/i...

9. NOW continue on with everything _after_ "Running Programs":
http://www.graalvm.org/docs/getting-started/

Getting npm to work:

I could run node -v, but could not run npm and I was getting this error:

jvm library could not be loaded: /home/raj/graalvm/jre/lib/polyglot/libpolyglot.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Invalid argument

I fixed it by running the following:

1. sudo apt-get install prelink

2. sudo execstack -c ~/graalvm/jre/lib/polyglot/libpolyglot.so

Going to do some experimenting, but so far so good!
Actually Bird just implemented a feature after the cease and desist that requires you to take a picture of your parking job.
I'm confused by your 2nd point -- I think you have this confused with a different story? Two black men were arrested while waiting for a friend in a Starbucks, use of restrooms had nothing to do with this.
Carelessly placed scooters are a mild irritation, around the same level of annoyance as over-enthusiastic tree-planting requiring me to duck and weave almost constantly as I walk along the sidewalk.

But the real problem that needs to be addressed is the idiots riding the scooters on the sidewalk, expecting pedestrians to dive out of their way.
reddit has a monopoly on puns now?

Stupid me, I forgot that reddit invented superfluous internet discourse.

(don't bother explaining what you meant by it; I get it. I just think that it's a silly way to convey that message.)
“The Dialogues of Ascetic and King”, Borges 1953
Michael Crichton's “Amazon in Pictures”
The Legend of Ultimate Play the Game
Once you've built an app or business on Facebook's platform, what are you choices really? You're at their mercy.

You can say, well they chose to use Facebook's platform, they can leave if they don't like the rules. But I can also leave my country if I don't like the rules (incidentally, I did this!)

Maybe coercion isn't the right word, but the power is absolute. Greater inside their own platform than the power of the state, because you have no legal recourse with Facebook's exercise of power. At least with the governments in the West you can write your congressman, lobby, sue them, etc.
If there are wide spread fires all around your building, I don't think small extinguishers from few uncoordinated volontaries would help.

In such event, I would do only one thing: run.
A long enough interval could work within the solar system, but without FTL communication, an actual intergalactic version would require intervals longer than human lifespans.

It seems to me that different solar systems wouldn't be able to maintain a single blockchain, they'd each need their own.
For context on why: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/black-men-arrested-wa...
There is such a trope - I wouldn't call it accurate. We're learning a lot very fast. But DNA (like most biology) is multi-modal and has roles at many different scales - from the scale of milliseconds to cellular lifetimes, to organismal lifetimes to species' lifetimes, from coding proteins, to regulating what codes proteins, to physical space, to more.

There's a lot to learn, but we also know a lot. To me it seems more like a nice middle ground right now - enough to get a truly solid toehold, but also much more to go :)
MeF (“Modern” eFile) is only 5ish years old. The earlier version was EDI based I believe.
Not the first time they've done something like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/business/27sbux.html