skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you were trying to make a joke or not, but you are absolutely right! With space travel, both are needed to tell time. Things get even more complicated quickly. Albeit, things like 15 minute timezone offsets from UTC will become a terrestrial problem.
> When you select crops over generations to improve a seed stock you are not making radical changes quickly

You are with modern non-GMO, mutagen-accelerated breeding methods.
What are you talking about? Google assistant is entirely ML driven text to speech and sounds great, wavenet by deepmind is almost indistinguishable from human speech.
I'd actually be interested to find out how Cargo's performance compares in a situation as TheDong describes where all of the dependencies are being fetched directly from git.

Part of me wants to say "well of course Rust's tool is faster" but it would be interesting to see just how much crates.io acts as a performance optimization for running builds, installing deps, etc.
Unless natural disaster and/or war resets humanity, it seems inevitable. One only needs to concede that there is (probably) nothing special about the biological nature of the brain.
"Elon Musk, has said it repeatedly warns drivers to stay alert"

Its AutoPilot, why the hell are all those people expecting it to Pilot the car Auto matically? ....
You absolutely do not need to know what a monad is to use do notation.
And UI/UX designers work happily and feel welcome on Windows and Mac OS systems, which are what everyone non-technical buys anyway.
I'll share the article later! :D
But they are more expensive in many cases because of artificially reduced supply, not because of actual rarity. Now, for a whole bunch of people that makes absolutely no difference (if anyone needs evidence, look at the Birkin Bag, which NPR's Planet Money covered well), but for others it does.

In this case the market needs the average consumer to buy into that status symbol, and enough of them are price conscious that a cheaper alternative that almost nobody can tell is cheaper is quite a draw.
People tend to forget how big a cubic light year is.

The earth itself is only 0.02 light seconds in diameter, yielding a cube of 8000 cubic lightmilliseconds. Compared to the 2.910^31 cubic light milliseconds in a cubic lightyear... It's a rounding error inside a rounding error.

For light seconds, you're looking at 2.910^22 (if my math isn't wrong). That's the amount of cubes fitting between earth and moon to fill a cubic light years.

Even superplanets with 15 times the size of the earth are simply dwarfed by the sheer volume of a cubic light year.

The largest stars we found measure 73 light minutes, a cubic size of 389017 cubic light minutes. How much of them fit in a cubic light year? 346 billion.
I imagine the emerging pattern would be to pass to the weaker opponent in order to knock out the stronger adversary, as games played out on the tv gameshow Weakest Link. Whenever a player receives a pass, the perhaps the best strategy is to score on the stronger team, which might necessitate duplicity.
I think not steering towards the black disc is a good advice for space travel in general...
Something is different though - vanilla flavouring doesn't taste nearly as good as real vanilla. I guess the vanilla contains a spectrum of substance, whereas the flavouring only contains the main one?
"Author here: I'm using deep learning daily so I have a bit of an idea on what I'm talking about."

Very weak to appeal to authority. The only true argument I can find against DL/ML/AI atm is the continuing appeal to authority by PhDs who have zero engineering knowledge, zero business sense and zero understanding of risk assessment.
It could also be inspired by many others.

I suggest some reading about Xerox PARC and ETHZ OSes.

JNode and CosmOS are also interesting ones.
That is the dream - be a risk management and insurance company, rather than just the latter. We do reward people for safe flying and provide them with data in order make the best choices. This is why we are fairly transparent about where the price comes from (even if we do not necessarily tell people exactly how we calculated a price from the data).

If a customer knows that their price is high because, for instance, there are 2 schools within a 300 yard radius, chances are they can move their flight, thus endangering less people and saving themselves insurance premiums.
Looking at the thumbs up and the comments, the community seems very favorable at vgo.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301

edit: and everybody was not agree at the time of Dep launch as it was not simple as Go use to be.
Chicken has free call/cc due to the Cheney on the MTA memory management. This is very rare. Most often it doesn't matter much, since call/cc is rare enougn. I would still prefer delimited continuations since they are easier to reason about.

Most often you pick one implementation and stick with it. Scheme is not like CL where you can run the same program on many different implementations without much fuss.

Chicken is a very nice implementation with the most friendly IRC channel on freenode.
Clojure people use the untyped equivalent of row types, i.e. being able to arbitrarily add and remove fields to and from a record. That would be nice to have in Haskell (though personally it's nowhere near a dealbreaker for me).
"Deepmind hasn't shown anything breathtaking since their Alpha Go zero"

... what about when the Google assistant near perfectly mimicked a human making a restaurant reservation .... the voice work was done at DeepMind.

All the problems in AI haven't been solved yet? Well no, of course not. Limitations exist and our solutions need to be evolved.

I think perhaps the biggest constraint is requiring huge amounts of training data so solve problem X. Humans simply don't need that, which must be some indication that what we're doing isn't quite right.
While there is a lot of bloat in gnome, it personally doesn't really bother me as it doesn't get in my way.

Although I agree it should probably be easier, it's great that it is possible to cut a lot of unwanted bloat from Gnome. Try that with Windows or MacOS.
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GDPR and Apps
I got a ton of emails these days from websites I use. They seem to be panicking to violate the GDPR. Seemingly they tried to comply by sending out emails which is probably complete nonsense.

Anyhow, what I find strange is that I got zero of these emails/messages regarding the apps I use. I'm sure apps are covered by the GDPR just like websites.

Why didn't the authors of apps take similar steps? They probably cannot email me because they do not have my email. But couldn't they pop up a dialog or remove their app from the app store or block european users just like some websites did? Why do app authors behave so different?

Or is it because apps are not phoning home so much / don't have as many embedded 3rd party code that phones home to 3rd parties?
I work for a consultancy and I was brought in to talk about ‘our blockchain strategy’, because I was one of the few people at the company who actually read the white papers and had been invested in it. This was towards the end of the last bull run. I think they expected me to tell them to go all in on it, but I essentially said it was a bunch of bullshit hype and a solution in search of a problem and then I didn’t get invited to any more meetings. A few weeks later they announce we’re going to start selling block chain solutions right as the crypto market crashes.

Meanwhile in the real world they can’t even figure out the basics like containers and Cicd which we’re actually dealing with in our actual contract.
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Oh boy. I suspect “This website isn’t GDPR compliant!” will join the ranks of classic Hacker News rant comments like “Piping curl to bash is insecure!“, “Why does this website hijack my scrolling / autoplay videos / use 150% of my CPU?”, etc.
I’m not sure how the hype wagon started but I for one am glad it’s about to pop.

I am working (founded) a startup and while we have AI on the roadmap for about a years time, it isn’t something that’s central to our product. (We already use some ML techniques but I’d not confidently boast its the same thing as AI).

Cue an informal lunch with a VC guy who takes a look, says we’re cool and tells us just to plaster the word AI in more places - he was sure we could raise a stupendous sum of cash doing that.

As an AI enthusiast I was bothered by this. We have everyone and their mother hyping AI into areas it’s not even relevant in, let alone effective at.

A toning down would be healthy. We could then focus on developing the right technology slowly and without all the lofty expectations to live up to.
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You can also pipe tshark capture to the Wireshark GUI on your machine through ssh in realtime, e.g. `ssh host.example.com 'tshark -i eth0 -w - -F pcapng -f "not tcp port 22"' | wireshark -k -i -`
This is a list of your phrases in this comment that I find, in my opinion, condescending.

> And time will tell who was right.

> You see, when you make any argument

> You might also note that this is not a scientific paper, but an opinion. Yes, nothing more than an opinion.

> And yet this opinion appears to shared by quite a few people, and makes a bunch of other people feel insecure. Perhaps there is something to it? We will see.

> So far you have not provided such an argument

I immediately identified this same tone in your paper. In your argumentation, you quite agressively hinted hat people which don't share your views are not very intelligent. You also have a tendency to present your sayings as prophetic, which appeared multiple times both in the paper and in this comment.

These observations put me in alarm towards your arguments, which I found mostly weak, sometimes used in bad faith. I flagged as such the Twitter argument, analysing the frequency of A. Ng's tweets, and denouncing its "outrageous claims", with an example where the AI score is overall only 0.025 less accurate than a practician.

I also thought that you used a different (your own) definition of scaling than most, and used it to make an argument, which was therefore unconvincing (but parent said that already).

Overall, to me, this was not a very pleasant read, and I dislike the fact that you attack the hype on machine learning by enjoying the polarization that comes with anti-hype articles such as yours. I also don't think that making people feel insecure is such a great indicator that what you're saying is relevant or prophetic.

I hope this helps you prophecies https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kagan/AS1138/Lectures/Go... ;)
These cars are driving on public roads, so the question is not whether the user is informed but whether they are compliant. It doesn't take many ignored beeps to learn that a particular customer is not using the feature as intended, and deactivate it for the safety of others. Offer to turn it back on after watching a trainig video at the dealer and signing some papers once, escalate to a mandatory counselling session after that, third strike and the feature is permanently off. Put it in the TOS so that asshole drivers can't sue and win in court. The customer should not be king when the safety of others is on the line.
> The brand, called Lightbox, will offer synthetic diamonds at a fraction of the price it charges for stones pulled out of the earth.
I think you are spot on with your later point about availability of choice making people less happy/productive.

I myself do jump from one DE to another every other year. But that's more out of curiosity.
Sounds like Tesla has the right idea?
Never really understood how galaxies can collide if space has been expanding since the big bang and everything is moving apart
It is a bit of controversal article. There is need for 2 applications a terminal and a browser. Why do you need gnome for that?
This tutorial starts by explaining how things work, and only later shows you magic. That's exactly what I like about it, actually. Almost every coq tutorial I found (I tried software foundations, cpdt, and several shorter online tutorials) fails to explain what you're doing before you do it.
I believe we can make thinking machines. And "deep pattern matching" will be part of it. But it will need to fit in another architecture, most likely a lot like (deep) reinforcement learning. Probably with strong focus on modeling and predicting the environment. But also with some kind of goal modeling.

See also for this not-magic: https://psyarxiv.com/387h9
I am honestly not sure how to discuss this topic when in the same thread Tesla gets ridiculed for blurring the lines between Autopilot and full self driving while people who are critical of the system say things like Autopilot is "fully automatic", "fully-assisted driving", or "removes the need for interaction completely".

From a practical perspective, Autopilot still needs to be monitored. But more relevant to this discussion, the user still needs to interact with the car to keep Autopilot engaged. It is possible to do that while paying very little attention. It is also possible to drive a car with cruise control while paying very little attention. Both systems can be abused. I have already said Tesla should do a better job of trying to crack down on the abuse of Autopilot. But I don't know why it is controversial to say that if used properly both systems can lead to greater safety by allowing the driver to focus on other aspects of driving.
A real Winter is a lack of warmth. An AI winter is a lack of ______
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I tried to switch to Linux for philosophical and customization reasons. Found it nearly impossible to configure stuff reliably and such it wont crash in new interesting ways. For example: Create a new keyboard layout and have it appear in KDE keyboard settings. Good luck. Input Manager for macOS: done.
Let's say the rogue planet is a massive, super-cold planet. How big and how cold would it have to be to lower the Sun's energy output just enough to trigger a "Snowball Earth" scenario? Assume a direct hit.
Hire better people than your colleagues and explain them how you achieve that.

On the IRC channel I'm on (see my profile) some people will be available soon. Take the time to talk with them.
I'm using i3. I still keep Gnome around, because from time to time I need to hold presentations, and randomly appearing and disappearing monitors (=beamers) is not something i3 deals with gracefully.
I think the "may not be forever" suggests that fashion (jewelry) goes in and out of style, so you need to buy new jewelry to stay on trend.
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Show HN: Analysis of 9 months of food order data
I live in Singapore and place online food orders regularly. I analyzed the data I have accumulated over time and compared food delivery services, cuisine and restaurants.

Here is the source code for scraping the data from foodpanda and deliveroo - https://github.com/ichait/oloviz

Here is the Tableau Workbook -https://public.tableau.com/profile/ichait#!/vizhome/oloviz/D...

Feedback appreciated :)
Have you spent real money on something because it used Deep Learning?

Me not.

Maybe indirectly, ads have become more targeted, but we cant be sure how much. It might be just a dtandard small optimization
it's simplified to a fault. it is also too complex to a fault. basically when you want to do something it does get in the way.
Useful when you need to store the offset of a specific event in the past where the timezone data doesn't matter. Especially logs since you want to know when it occured, so you store unqualified offset so the DoS attack doesn't suddenly happen an hour earlier than it says in the logs if DST happens between attack and the admin reading the log.
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Thanks a lot! I don't plan to subscribe right now, maybe I will in the next 6 months or so.
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the article states the opposite: 9% of those who don't have K&R insurance come to some form of grief vs. 2% of those with K&R insurance (worldwide stats, assumably?)
The same thing Coca Cola did with Crystal Pepsi...
How do we make the eventual evolution from faux self-driving to full self-driving if not through incremental improvements?

I'm far from an expert on the subject, but I assume real data must be acquired for that to happen.
If I was actively using Linux on the desktop still -as I was for well over a decade- this would have been extremely useful. I always shied away from Gnome as far too heavy for my tastes, and used a custom built FVWM config. Since my workflow also consisted of mainly a web browsers, a mail client (now subsumed by the web browser), and many, many terminals, I really just wanted a single click to start a terminal, and Ctrl-Alt-{direction} to move virtual desktops which I devoted to a single task at a time.

For the last few years I've been using Windows 8/10. It started as a work software requirement, but as of Windows 10, Microsoft has figured out how to make Windows feel fairly minimal most of the time. As long as I have a browser and PuTTY, I'm pretty content. I'm doing my best to ignore what I assume are some privacy concerns I'll have to deal with at some point in the near future, but for the time being I'm able to deal with the cognitive dissonance.
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A recent study by Steven Goldfeder at Princeton University found that 54 out of 130 bitcoin accepting websites like Microsoft and Overstock experience intentional or unintentional data leaks to third parties. In 60% of the cases, these data leaks can reveal the buyer’s public key. Once that is known, all the past and future transactions of that buyer can be conveniently tracked.
These kinds of small rants play their small part in ensuring that the world stays in equilibrium.

If no one complained, sites would use 800% of the CPU by now, every install procedure would be completely insecure and autoplay would become mandatory. Probably.
> largely due to a lack of knowledge on the consumer side.

Every con in history is due to lack of knowledge on the side of the duped.
This is the 3rd article in the series of — How to Find Your Next Cryptocurrency Investment?

Read the full blog here: https://blog.coinswitch.co/overview-of-privacy-coins-e380916...
A16z on network effects
The trouble is you'd need to stop, mine the mass, then accelerate back up again. If you have the fuel to stop to refuel in the first place, you don't need to stop refuel, unless there's something else you need as well.
You're right, though the distinction with the parent poster is that AlphaGo Zero had no input knowledge to learn from, unlike humans (who read books, listen to other players' wisdom, etc). It's a fairly well known phenomenon that e.g. current era chess players are far stronger than previous eras' players, and this probably has to do with the accumulation of knowledge over decades, or even hundreds of years. It's incredibly impressive for software to replicate that knowledge base so quickly.
> ...just to plaster the word AI in more places...

I bet that's how the new "AI-assisted" Intellisense in Visual Studio got greenlit:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/int...

If an AI-infested text editor isn't a sure sign that the bubble is going to pop soon then I don't know ;)
But then try to get the shoulder buttons of a Logitech MX518 to work in the web browser on Mac OS X. That's a task that might take hours. Or try to let the Home and End keys of an external keyboard behave the same way in the terminal and in any other UI text box. There's a lot of configuration required.
But the animals in the photo aren't minke whales.
When you can solve chess, you can solve a whole class of decision-making problems

If this were true, there would be a vast demand for grandmasters in commerce, government, the military... and there just isn’t. Poker players suffer from similar delusions about how their game can be generalised to other domains.
The chapter on shell utilities in the POSIX standard is another goldmine!
...or you can just use Mate and save yourself a lot of these troubles.
I'll think of some clever joke to add here later
If you want something this simple just use sway...
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To make sure you covered those edge cases correctly!
I recently came back to running Linux on the desktop after using Mac OS for a decade or so, and while the article is interesting from a technical point of view, it seems like a lot of work with little reward considering that the needed apps are a command prompt, a text editor and a browser.

I'll just stick with my standard Debian Gnome desktop. It works well, doesn't get in my way, and i can spare the ~0.5GB RAM for running evolution, tracker, plugins etc.
It goes both ways depending on distance. Expansion is exponential (ish), gravity is inverse-square [1]. Only the few that happened to be close enough that gravity is more significant than expansion can collide.

[1] at least in Newtownian physics. The argument is geometry, so I suspect but am not qualified to say it isn’t exactly inverse square in GR.
FWIW, I read "To an outsider..." to mean "if you are reading this on HN and aren't involved in the community, this might seem like" as opposed to "I am pretending to be an outsider, let me tell you what about my perspective."
Wait ~6 months, and you will encounter a case where simple package update will cost you more than that 45 minutes ;)
The Founder's homeworld on Deep Space Nine was a rogue planet
That's why some of the more progressive platforms opt for a dual token model, separating the governance token from the utility token. The founders of one of these used the example that you wouldn't go into an Apple Store to buy an Apple product with Apple shares.
"it's likely 1000+ years away."

That seems like a pretty high number when you consider the exponential rate of technological advancement.

1000 years in the future is probably going to be completely unrecognizable to us given the current rate of change in society/tech.
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what about when the Google assistant near perfectly mimicked a human making a restaurant reservation

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
Way back, I had an 18yo Colombian gf whom I considered visiting under the assumption of buying reasonably-priced, short-term K&R insurance. At the time, Colombia was the top kidnapping spot, more-so than anywhere in the Middle East or Africa, because the FARC was funding their operations through drugs and ransoms. Even though she lived in the safest and most protected area, there was the risk of problems in transit in Bogota or Medellín, or merely visiting anyone or traveling inland or at night. I strongly considered it given how hot she was then, but then I met someone else whom I had more in common with and no language barrier. Long-distance physical relationships might just be an oxymoron. ;]
> what about when the Google assistant near perfectly mimicked a human making a restaurant reservation

That seemed pretty staged.
Low hanging fruits are scarce now. With 3 orders of magnitude difference in power (MW over few watts), clearly this is not the right way for reaching the tree top.
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I've found yelp to be completely untrustworthy, in every city, everywhere. What people think in the aggregate and what some individuals think are very different things.
I take it back, you are correct.
"Why employees are always a bad idea" - put into words something I always felt possible but was too afraid to demand. Gave me finally the motivation to start my own company. I was a wannabe for a long time, always searching for the right "idea" to start something when I realised that all I really wanted is a work environment where I have the freedom to choose how I want to work while still be part of something bigger.