skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think batmansmk doesn't mean "when X is good at chess, X is automatically good at lots of other things", but "the traits that make you a good chess player (given enough training) also make you good at lots of other things (given enough training)".
This is so true, I can't understand why people miss this. The games are just games. It's intelligence that is the goal.

And comparing Alpha Go Zero against those "other chess programs that existed for 30 years" is exactly missing the point also.
Those programs were not constructed with zero-knowledge. They were carefully crafted by human players to achieve the result. Are we also going to count in all the brain processing power and the time spent by those researchers to learn to play chess? Alpha Go Zero did not need any of that, besides the knowledge about the basic rules of the game. Who compare compute requirements for 2 programs that have fundamentally different goals and achievements? One is carefully crafted by human intervention. The other one learns a new game without prior knowledge...
I started in a similar way with my C64. At that time I didn't have access to cracked games or anything like that so I started typing up BASIC programs (not sure it was that book in particular, the cover does look familiar). That led to teaching myself programming. It was a wonderful time having found a machine that let you express your thoughts in such a new way, very exciting. Not sure young kids nowadays can have the same connection, things have become way more complex.
Just to bring the inevitable pedantry, you'd want to consider the cross-sectional surface area rather than the volume, and hitting the gravity well of a planet may turn out to be indirectly fatal too.

So while I agree it's still probably very small numbers I think you may be overcooking it.
Diamonds have little resale value because of high retail markups, on top of previous De Beers monopoly price controls. If someone paid $3000 retail for a ring, good luck getting $700 for it.
Fast Random Integer Generation in an Interval
Really goes to show how what they do with the reader's data that they collect is actually shady to the point of illegality in large swathes of the world.
So what you further saying, for $500 less, she wouldn't accept his proposition. Only $500 ?

Good God!!
Yep. If you want the "Linux experience" these days you have to move to BSD.
> Otherwise we'll have to start posting all press releases for the latest Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini.

Or... Tesla? Or any other car that is technologically novel, typically along some axis of self driving and/or electrical.
Would you elaborate? I have never had that problem with Ubuntu based distros.
That's not entirely correct. People repeatedly like to take hard yes/no stances on blockchain because they seem to confuse the issue with cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are quite obviously overhyped and self-destructing. But blockchain is actually being implemented in many effective ways around the world - just in areas that you wouldn't generally hear about. Blockchain has its place, just not at the current moment.
Ins and Outs of App Development for the Hospitality Industry
Migration of many distros to systemd forced many people to do exactly that ;)
It's interesting how different people can have completely opposite experience. I've modified my Microsoft keyboard that zoom slider works as Spotify control buttons play/stop/next. I doubt I would be able to achieve something like this in macOS or Windows. It works all the time, super reliably.

https://gist.github.com/mauron85/5f4b640aa4e5e968e0496ac5a08...
I don't think Gnome is bloated from a feature sense (they keep removing features in fact) its just horrifically bloated from an efficiency sense, it could be orders of magnitude faster than it currently is. It chugs and judders on a first gen i5!
I thought black holes typically have accretion disk.
In terms of hype you may be right, but it doesn't mean that if something doesn't live up to the hype of Andrew Ng or Elon Musk it won't still be pretty good.

For instance: even if Elon Musk doesn't colonize Mars but instead just builds the BFR, that would still be amazing; even if BFR is never build but falcon 9 becomes fully reusable that would be great; even if falcon 9 won't be fully reusable, the fact that it cut the launching cost to space is still pretty good.

Even if we don't achieve any great breakthroughs with AGI, the fact that we started to use transfer learning to diagnose human disseases is pretty amazing; the fact that a japanese guy used tensorflow on a raspbery pi to categorize real cucumbers by shape is amazing.

All of this stuff won't go away; people will not say "hey, let's just forget about this deep learning thing and put it in some dusty shelf, it's useless for now". Maybe it will take 20 or 50 more years, maybe it's a slow thaw, but how could this be a winter?
In a very confined area. He mentions similar issues with Tesla's coast-to-coast autopilot ride: The software is not general enough yet to handle it. That seems to be the case for Waymo as well.
OK. See you around.
I think parent's point is that if we look forward 50 years even the most progressive of us might not agree that progress has been made (or think that we've regressed in some way), whereas new people will see vast progress.
Whoa. That is a great resource.
They're not endangered, but they will be if they keep unsustainable whaling.

If they want to hunt them; good for them. But they need to set quotas, monitor the local population, train the crews to recognize different species, and enforce the legislation, not to give out fake research permits to their favourite whaling crews. There are many reasons to oppose their practices.
It's pretty different from the Redhat in the bookstore days. I tried MINT 5 years ago, and never looked back. While the top-rated distros might not be simple enough for grandma to -install-, after that it's cakewalk.

(unless she's picked up bad habits using previous OS's). Forced upgrades ... man that's WAY far into the Dominator zone.
I think the problem is that being installed by default on a popular distro is a double-edged sword: on one hand there are more users, which means more bug reports, potentially more contributions and maintainers, etc. but on the other hand there will be more complaints from people who don't actually want to use it.

As long as something is an "alternative" rather than common/default, its users will mostly be self-selected because they specifically went out of their way to use it.
This is mentioned in the article.
Link all back to sidereal clock time...
Community is not against it as far as I can see. A minority of vocal people are.

There are a lot of people who liked the idea (including me) and those do not write 30 page blog posts because there is no need.
Yes, how do you parse that - ie. what does it even mean?
I initially thought that you were making a comment in jest, but then I realised that pornhub actually already have one of the world's largest and most reliable video streaming platforms.

You're right.
Open-source desktops are never perfect for anyone, but everyone expects them to be

Isn't the same true for closed-source desktops? I mean, how on earth could any software be perfect for everyone?
The historical purpose of an engagement ring/gift was to demonstrate your serious interest and your intentions. Via spending money for her that cannot be taken back. Unfortunatelly, diamonds fit this quite nicely.

Actually, the best way to demonstrate it is via these rules:

(1) you have to get something that is very hard to get (more money than you normally have),

(2) something that has no use for you (you want to convince her, it wouldn't be convincing if you benefitted from spending)

(3) and preferrably it is not monetizable for recipient (in general, woman is much less motivated to tricking you only because of gift)

So, if she's already convinced to merry you, spending fortune for diamond ring is futile. And if you are in hurry, you can really just burn some money to ash in front of her, it would do the same :) Nonetheless, not as fancy as diamond ring for her :D
Google IO is a developer's conference with an emphasis on marketing its own products and tools. We have to take the news from it with a grain of salt.
2018 is, after all, the year of the Linux desktop.

I was surprised to find that Ubuntu 16.04 worked better on my Thinkpad T450s than the stock Windows 10 install (which came with a lot of crapware). I had sound stutters and mult-monitor issues on Windows, and everything worked out of the box on Ubuntu.
That's the problem with three-player chess, too. Once two players turn against one, it's a beatdown.
Impraise is hiring senior front end/back end engineers in Lisbon and Amsterdam
I do similar - cheap burner phone number attached to a voicemail. I'll check the voicemail occasionally so it's a legit whois record but it's only ever people trying to sell web design services
Free open source does not mean "not for profit".

This is actually an important thing.

Huge parts of the largest open source projects comes from "paid engineers from Facebook and Google contributing to it as their day job" or even from IBM, Microsoft or Oracle employees.

What matters is that it is released as open source so we can maintain it or pay someone else to do it.

The special thing about npm is they also run the package repo but even there I'd say they played nicely by allowing free use and not discouraging alternative clients.
Uber releases Kepler.gl for opensource
First I thought 'Fedora?!? seriously???'. Last time I used Fedora (several years ago) I was pissed off when I had to learn that they didn't support system upgrades. So with every major release you had to reinstall the whole system, which is not that much fun.

But it seems they support system upgrades since a few releases now [1]. So maybe I should try it one day again, but as I fell in love with (stable) rolling releases, that might still be an issue :-/

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
> The lock file stops future upgrades; once it is written, your build stays on serde 1.0.27 even when 1.0.28 is released. In contrast, minimal version selection prefers the minimum allowed version, which is the exact version requested by some go.mod in the project. That answer does not change as new versions are added.

So with Cargo, you get the exact version you want, ie 1.0.27, and it won't automatically update when a new version is added. And with MVS you get the exact version you want, and it won't automatically update when a new version is added?
...either I'm an idiot, or Cox is using the word "contrast" here to mean "identically".

> Those choices are stable, without a lock file. This is what I mean when I say that vgo's builds are reproducible by default.

Yes, but Cargo uses a lock file by default, meaning that Cargo's builds are reproducible by default too?

I'm open to the idea that vgo/MVS is delivering something amazing here, but every writeup I've seen so far seems to have a miraculous ability to make it sound like a re-branding of the same features every decent package manager has had forever.
That's clearly for customers who are carrying captives in their jets.
Even though most jewelry and gems are seldom capital-efficient investments, moissanites likely retain more value as a percentage of retail purchase price than do diamonds. The main reason diamonds are expensive is demand, manufactured by shrewd marketing by De Beer’s since 1938. It could’ve been opals or rubies chosen to represent “what every bride should have.”
What's Happening at Kīlauea? 16 Questions with a Front-Line USGS Scientist
Simpler does not mean better. ed(1) is definitely simpler than any text editor out there. DOS is simpler than any modern OS out there. Yet we use none of these because complexity is needed for sophistication.
Who would ever not pay their own ransom?
The Logic of US Foreign Policy Visualized
i can no longer login with the new page, because they've introduced a client-side password check that fails for my legacy account.

right now, i'm still able to authenticate at old.reddit.com... but once they've deprecated that as well, i'll no longer be able to authenticate unless i change my password in this grace period. not doing that though
AFAIK, you can't even withdraw the tokens currently. The idea being, you use the BAT tokens to send micropayments to your favorite sites, and then they can do plenty of things--- re-use that BAT to advertise, cash it out via fiat gateway, etc.
> Connecting and disconnecting projectors and external displays on the fly?

It's been doing this fine since back when it was Gnome 2.

> HiDPI displays?

AFAIK, basically, just as well as Gnome 3. They use the same UI toolkit.
I don't understand what's the need to go on with this (probably unstable) path.
I would rather try XFCE or LXQt before trying this.
Show HN: A Modern Architecture for Testing BLE Devices
QUOTZY rich text editor for android
But this is normal with any new technology -- there used to be car movie places and people thought of putting miniature nuclear reactors in everyday appliances, it doesn't mean there's a car winter coming or a nuclear winter coming(pun intended).

It's absolutely human nature to think of crazy ways of using things in new ways, probably most of those ways don't work out in the end.
I think the fun here is that 2 teams can join forces and hammer the other side by having twice as many player, at some point there will be a betrayal and one of those teams will break the alliance.
I guess the idea is to use URL's for importing packages. And have an extra security layer in the runtime.

I've done some concept/prototype for this but in the browser, and the main complaint is that it takes a few extra ms the first time you run the program. But as this is meant for servers and not impatient users, the extra startup time should not be a big issue.
Everybody is, at some point. There is no eternal religion.
Full screen images as a lead are the most annoying thing that can happen, right?

Wrong:

> zachholman.com/video/utc-title.mp4
> Look at NPM and Yarn; they're still struggling to get all the details right.

I think that's a bit unfair. NPM has been a horrible package manager in a multitude of ways since day 1. My default assumption if it gets something wrong it isn't because it's hard, but because npm gets a lot of things wrong.

Yes, RubyGems got it right, but so did Composer. And Cargo. And every other language specific dependency manager I've used in over a decade. The lesson I'm drawing isn't that dependency management is uniquely hard, it's that npm is uniquely bad. :)
Yawn. Contrarianism is easy and this article offers little. The real world application you’re speaking of has a comically small amount of data (a few million miles?). You hear about a handful of accidents that still average to better than human performance and suddenly the sky is falling.

When machine learning stops successfully solving new problems daily, then maybe a thread like this will be warranted.
Budgie Desktop is GNOME as it should be
Star Citizen offers $27,000 ship pack
What is the „correct“ way? (real question, I am curious)
I have been selling Android/iOS apps with a $1 price tag on it, I get 1 star review almost everyday blaming why the app isn't free.

There's a lesson on don't price your app at $1.
Why would the radar even be pointed at areas several meters above the car?

Maybe radars can't be pointed at a narrow space, if that's the case why not use lidar instead?
It shows something about the game, but it's clear that humans don't learn in the way that alpha zero does, do i don't think that alpha zero illuminated any aspect of human intelligence.
Did it? I must have missed that.
I'm reading it straight away. In lieu of doing something else.
Some comments on here discuss the Mastodon community and I hope I can chime in a bit (as someone who runs an instance with fairly large reach although not many users).

Mastodon should not be seen as a singular community, outside Mastodon there is pleroma and GNUSocial, all projects do attract different kinds of people (though GNUsocial and pleroma developers are often called out as nazis because some alt-right instances use their software, not sure why that matters).

If you're looking for an instance, it's IMO important to discover the community and general feel of it. Some instances will be very strict with rules and generally boot federation with others fairly quickly, while other instances will basically federate with everyone until they break some serious rules or laws. (My instance is a mix, I have a lot of alt-right and deep-far-left instances silenced on account of excessive spam or being way to aggressive, though the instance I run is themed and politics in general are frowned upon)

I think the second most important thing is to divorce the developers and software from their community. Mastodon hosts a very diverse community and a lot of niche, fringe or otherwise rather peculiar characters. A lot of them are nice, a lot aren't, most probably don't care. The federated network is what you make of it, follow people you want to follow and your timeline will likely fill with stuff that isn't too outside of your filterbubble (though there will be anti-filterbubble stuff)

If you don't like mastodon itself, I severely recommend to try Pleroma instead, the developers for both projects are generally very enjoyable.
Importance Weighted Transfer of Samples in Reinforcement Learning
> What decision-making problems are there, in the same class, that I'd pay for?

an awful lot of graph and optimization problems. See for instance some examples in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm
> Very few people are doing useful true machine learning, and the applications are very specific with its own set of quirks.

I worked on nudity detector in 2017. Deep learning works, and is useful. Although you are right it's very specific and quirky.

I found "How HBO's Silicon Valley built Not Hotdog" article very interesting, because it's basically the same problem. They found MobileNet better than SqueezeNet and ELU better than ReLU. You know what? We found SqueezeNet better than MobileNet and ReLU better than ELU for our problem and data. Who know why.

https://medium.com/@timanglade/how-hbos-silicon-valley-built...
If you routinely drive through plastic bags on the street, prepare for some disappointment when it turns out that the bag had a rock inside it. The car should 100% also avoid bags or any obstacles.
> This kind of thing becomes a lot of fun when you're trying to schedule a regular international call

Heheh, exactly. We're currently debating how best to implement this since this one is more a UI issue than a UTC/Time issue.

For example if the user wants to schedule a call at 2pm New York time (UTC-4) we need to show them the consequences of dialling a participant in the UK (UTC+1) and even more so someone in Sydney (UTC+10).

If you use your ZonedDateTime classes carefully in your code (or equivalents if not using Java) then your app does take care of the DST changes. You can then show the user the scheduled time for not just the person making the creating the event but for every participant - ultimately the user has to decide what compromise to make when scheduling events across time zones and DST changes.
Only when active and sucking in matter.

If a black hole has been travelling without eating for long enough the accretion disk can disappear. If a black hole is large enough it won't form an accretion disk either as it swallows stars whole.
US says North Korea behind malware attacks
Btw. modern AMD graphics cards are much easier to use and mostly 'just work' out of the box as AMD is actively supporting the development of the open source driver.

Intel graphics are fine too, but as we all know, their performance isn't that good.
Just marry his oldest daughter to your second son and you can keep both.
> UI/UX designers work happily and feel welcome on Windows and Mac OS systems

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "feel welcome"? AFAIK neither of those systems is open to contributors: if a UI/UX designer wanted to improve some aspect of the design, they're either limited to whatever config/theming the company decided to allow, or they must go and convince the company of their idea (especially sales, marketing, etc.), sign NDAs if they want to see/fix any of the implementation details, and so on.

With FOSS they could just post to a mailing list or something, which I would imagine is more welcoming. Maybe the difficulty is social: FOSS projects certainly suffer from toxicity, but their transparent processes also make it more visible. Companies are better able to hide toxicity using firewalls and private/internal communication channels.
Esther and I know this from hard experience
I've found that such servers are usually not worth federating with, though I usually silence these instances instead of full blocking them.

These instances are rare, the bigger problem as administrator is to find and media-block the instances that post NSFW or content illegal in your jurisdiction (switter, most japanese instances...)

Also bot spam if it occurs and the admin on the other end doesn't care...
I think one of the major points is that this configuration is easily reusable/replayable on another machine, as it also sets up the wanted/unwanted packages.
But crucially here is that on a 3 sided game that rule is not symmetrical anymore.

On 1v1 saying that the winner is the one who concedes the least or that scores the most is equivalent.

Whereas on a 3 sided game it is not equivalent.
See this example below (if you change the rule a different team will have won the game):

Team X: Scored/Conceded
Team A: 4/5
Team B: 5/3 (winner if highest scorer wins)
Team C: 1/2 (winner if lowest "conceder" wins)

[Edited to make the total scored and conceded add up to the same number.]
And unable to make it as a scientist, he turns to journalism, where he can spout any bullshit without having to back it up with facts.
I wonder if I was truly wrong in this post or if I'm only voted down for stating a truth that nobody wants to admit.
As someone who's had to implement one of those nagging popups(and argue with marketing 'growth hackers' about it) I can tell they are unfortunately effective, and it's more likely to see more of them in future.

Everyone is annoyed, but many of those who are annoyed will just follow the instructions and increase the metric of whoever wanted those .
Except that conference proceedings can be exactly like a journal, i.e. you often need to pay to access them.
> First, what are said 100 facts?

You cannot ask a generic question, then attack the answer based on absence of evidence for a specific example.
Yes, spartan and effective I3 for work, and shiny Gnome for the family machine.

There is never only going to be one best solution, as that depends critically on the problem you are trying to solve.
WikiTribune now lets you edit live news articles
If the response to AI existential threats was "it's too far in the future" then you'd have a point. But usually it's just "AI will obey it's programming" or "AI will never be as smart as us".
> I thought Windows reboots were supposed to get less over the years

It's funny, I can't remember last time I had a forced reboot, either at work or at home, both on Windows 10. On the other hand, I'm shutting down my PC regularly
> De Beers has produced synthetic diamonds for years through a subsidiary called Element Six, but it has limited their use to industrial applications.

Considering this, I don't think this is going to bring about the Diamond Age unfortunately.
I had to link to the top stories page in order to submit this to HN as the TLD had already been submitted once before. If you look at the front page [1] you should see a list of draft and published articles available to edit.

[1] https://www.wikitribune.com/
Thank you. I was just thinking of looking into how it was implemented.
Binary size 55 meg, compared to Node's 30. Is this an artifact of Go's "dynamic linking considered harmful" approach or does it have some additional functionality I'm missing?