skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a linguist, I see what you mean. However, I disagree on a couple of things. First, I wouldn’t say “n-grams and understanding syntax trees and all the interconnections possible inside them” will make your NLP skills or results any better. Understanding n-grams and syntax trees should be quite easy for linguists, but that won’t do the trick. It turns out that tagging, lemmatizing, wsd, parsing, and many other fundamental tasks in NLP are not that “simple” after all. Of course, you can use libraries to do all of those tasks -and this is pretty simple, indeed,- but most libraries will end up making flagrant mistakes if texts -either spoken or written- get too complex. Second, real world texts are complex by default, so, for someone to “NLP the shit out of real world text/speech”, they will have to find creative solutions to make tools improve -and that can get pretty difficult. Once again, understanding n-grams and syntax trees is not enough. There’s one thing I totally agree with you on: tokenization, tagging, and the like might not be that impressive. Nonetheless, creative solutions to the problems underlying those tasks are, in fact, rare and impressive.
As you say LINPACK is mostly useless as a benchmark.

But it's a wider problem than that. Interconnects expand the possible workloads, but that's always job specific. A single overclocked CPU would crush this for a huge range of tasks, but that in no way means it's not a super computer.

So, sure this thing is going to be useful, but Google still has vastly more compute and Google uses it for more economically valuable jobs.
I don’t think we ever talk about them here. The rankings are fairly irrelevant to what most of us do, and the benchmarks used to derive them are too narrow anyways.
Interesting. As a bald bearded guy they seem to be everywhere, so I've never thought of myself as standing out.
I'm not really getting how it was trained. It seems like they just fed it image names with randomized image contents. In that case, wouldn't this just be generating random strings to match an image as it has no meaningful image training data?
No

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
There's the Perfect [0] library that I recently used to develop a real-time multiplayer TicTacToe proof of concept for iOS. I used the Perfect web socket functionality on the server. Worked out well enough.

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[0]: https://perfect.org
USAA really impressed me recently with a really slick feature: I was in their mobile application, and realized that what I wanted to do was a little too complex for what the app could handle. So I called support, and they (1) automatically identified me based on my number and (2) knew I was just using the app, and asked if I'd like to transfer directly to a person!

It is probably not the most complex integration technically, but it made the experience so smooth.
I don't know if the author will read this, but the latest generation Lenovo X1 does NOT work well with linux due to their horrible sleep state bios bug.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/X1-Carbon-Gen-...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb...
The original title is different and added another adjective.
I'm glad you feel that way!
This is exactly my point. The comment here reflects a more emotional experience that is too personal as to alienate the mainstream thus causing a negative perception. If it were worded as "Apple may have unintentionally created a motivator to upgrade based on their current keyboard design." this would be received positively yet the underlying meaning remains.
A whole lot of guys end up losing all of their hair trying to get muscles like Dwayne Johnson.
This "race" is starting to look like speed records for airplanes. There was a time when this was interesting technologically but now it seems more about the willingness to spend the money to get the record.
> that comes with a couple of big, big caveats...

Which have been dusted off again now that a Republican is in office.

> Those numbers by definition don't include job-seekers who have left the market and quit being job-seekers. IOW, people who became so despondent that they gave up.

There's a large pool of people who gave up searching for jobs, and that happened under Obama. It was years of feeling helpless that swung so many Democrats in the rust belt to vote for Trump. Obama's policies greatly benefited coastal areas, DC was a boom town the entire time for instance, while simply ignoring large swaths of the country.
That's really cool! I used PokerStrategy's equity calculator for a long time and must have thought "hey, I should build one of those to learn how Monte Carlo works" around 100 times.
I did think they were pair programming oriented, how unfortunate.

Are you tied at the hip to your pair? Can you come into work, take lunch, leave work, vacation, and go to the bathroom on an entirely different schedule to your pair? Essentially, does pairing erode autonomy and freedom to a degree?

The rest doesn't sound that bad, but also nothing spectacular
There is also https://github.com/oftn-oswg/zerodrop which supports expiry and blacklists with geofencing.

Info: https://eligrey.com/blog/zerodrop/
It depends what you mean by a supercomputer. Having a lot of computers in data centers doesn't mean it's a supercomputer. Of course you can change the definition and call it # of cpus or compute "capacity" and such.
I find rebasing can get so insane that most of the times, when I'm ready to submit a pull/merge request to master, I create a whole new branch from master, cherry-pick all my commits in order, rebase -i and squash them if I need to, and then push the branch/create a PR/MR.

I find this looks a lot cleaner in tools like Gitlab/Bitbucket as well.
Current Inflation Has Different Effects on Different Age Groups
If it really saves 50% of the aircraft weight, it's crazy that long haul airplanes today are even allowed to have windows.
It's even more than content sharing, basically any platform would swarm in copyright lawsuits making maintaining a service in the EU very difficult.
That doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought it would. I never had a problem with Picard being bald though. Even as a kid he was my favorite character on the show.
This is so disappointing. DeepMind deserves to make money off their research--they really are doing amazing stuff--but I feel like these patents will completely stifle any AI research outside of Google if they go through.

"Processing {text, video, audio, images} using neural networks" and fundamental concepts like reinforcement learning or RNNs shouldn't be patentable :/
Uhhhhhh. Good lord, I barely have words.

I hope they only use these defensively. The world needs these systems without huge royalties.
Norman’s birthday was an auspicious date...
Yes, its an experience :)

But really, that is only accessible for passengers in window seats and on day time flights. With Emirates, that is a small %age of the time! 2 out of 10 passengers per row, and windows have to be down overnight.

For this airline, a passengers' opportunity to gaze out a window is simply less.

Every emirates flight I've taken has included tail, nose and belly camera shots to screen right in front of me. Blurry, not the highest possible resolution, but a FAR more interesting perspective!

Not every experience that a window gives you can be replicated. As the plane banks over the bay, spotting your house or favorite park is probably never going to happen with cameras, nor being able to watch the ground crew work.

But for the bulk of the flight, the takeoff, the landing, man the external camera feeds are great. As a passenger, I'd gladly ditch the windows for better cameras, on pretty much any flight.
> If you insist on shaving with a blade, a Mach 3 should do the job in under a minute.

I'm confident I would cause myself injury if I tried to shave my head and face that fast. (Source: infrequently but predictably injuring myself while not paying attention.)
It may have interesting impacts on the psychological study to help understand what caused the offset of understanding of mentally ill people. But the whole psychopath AI title is undoubtedly a buzzword.
I encourage everybody to check out sqlite's ext/misc directory. There are lots of interesting extensions there, and most people don't know about it.
I feel like its just taking off. Crostini is a game changer.

Super stable and secure base OS with a modern linux kernel but with real vendor hardware support that is auto-updating and mostly immutable.

Then you have, out of the box with a single click, a debian container running inside a VM with full graphics integration and file integration. You can see your container's FS from the file manager and I can run wayland and X apps easily. Its also easy to run more containers via LXC.

more info: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/8c8ac04a...
Catalant.
On the plus side, the tank like nature of the 2013s means I'm still good for a bit with mine.

Replaced the battery a few months back. Need a new adapter too. The machine itself is great though.
The Four Types of Remote Work
Every neighbourhood passing their own legislation or rules would be an absolute nightmare for Airbnb because there would be no regulatory clarity at all.

One very good thing about Japanese housing legislation is that it happens at the national level. It prevents a lot of issues you have in the United States.
The FAQ link in the top right is yellow on gray. That's hard to read. IMHO the FAQ contains the most information.

One course (or kOrs) is 'interactive'. I first thought that meant online-only.

The contact form is pre-filled (placeholder) with an USA-style phone number. I think it makes sense to use the Dutch number format.

I didn't learn anything about the instructor. What qualifies the instructors?
A year ago I sold my beloved MacBook Pro for $950 and purchased a ThinkPad X220 (circa 2012) via eBay for $300.

Installed Arch and xmonad. Learned how to use xmonad.

I love it now, and I might just continue buying used X220s for the rest of my life or until I'm unable to source decent batteries for them.
I appreciate that you raised the question sincerely, but it's generic enough and baity enough that I detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264518 and marked it semi-off-topic.
I mean I don’t really want to argue about it because it seems like a silly thing to argue about, but just because you aren’t interested doesn’t mean nobody else is. Here’s a thread from the November list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15707800
It will be another useless law - once user clicks through accepting cookies, then accepting gdpr stuff, then will have to log in and the page will be acting as a partner in conversation end to end encrypted. What you upload will be then distributed by that virtual person to other users in form of messages. That way unless they also want to filter private messages it will be unenforcable.
Including a link to an image would really help shed some light on your comment.
We classified the characteristics of 475 fonts and open sourced the results
I completely agree there is no best desktop. I think the statement is better suited as Ubuntu is the "best desktop experience for the average person". I think that's what most people really mean when having this discussion. The average person part is sort of implied.
That's like saying death is a good thing because you still get to live a few decades.
In the United States, "A yellow line (solid or dashed) indicates that crossing the line will place a driver in a lane where opposing traffic is coming at the driver."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_line_(road_marking)#Uni...
FINALLY, someone actually defined -- in practice -- what "(E)nterprise ready" means.

Best definition yet, that I've seen.
I'm not so sure. It's normally about the interconnect with supercomputers, but modern datacenters have really pushed that boundary quite a bit. They still have higher latency in some regards, but they have a lot of reconfigurable hardware on the ethernet adapters that pushes down the latency in interesting ways.
I don't get why people who like Apple downvote comments like yours. If you flip your opinions around, it's absurd:

- I like the new keyboards. I hope Apple continues to reduce key travel. Maybe they should move to a glass touch keyboard in future.

- It doesn't concern me that the keyboards have a higher failure rate - mine has never broken down. If it does, I feel that an $800 keyboard repair is reasonable. I don't want Apple to worry about making this repair less expensive.

- I think the Touch Bar is useful.

- I'm glad Apple removed the Escape key. I hope they remove other physical keys.

- I don't want Apple to bring back MagSafe. I can just avoid walking past the USB-C port.

- I've never had any issues with USB-C reliability. People who have problems should simply research USB-C cables more before they choose one.

- I like Dongles. I think Apple should use more non-standard ports. The more dongles, the better.

- I don't want to encourage Apple to build Pro machines that support 32GB RAM. "Good enough" is good enough for me.
I think it's important to note, and keep in mind, that DeepMind is explicitly trying to create Artificial General Intelligence. In their words:

"solving intelligence, and then using that to solve everything else"

Even just five years ago, those of us who attended AGI conferences or discussed AGI would get kicked out of the room for publicly contemplating the topic.

OpenAI has the same charter.

So why is it still taboo to discuss?

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601139/how-google-plans-t...
Ah, good point. I remember working with some chatbot tech a few years ago, and came to the conclusion that realistic speaking is not just unnecessary, it's directly undesirable.

The uncanny valley effect, in my opinion, is due to the fact that 99% of our speech and writing is not dictated by content or necessity, but instead driven by social tendencies.

If I ask my friend to lunch, I'll text him "lunch?". But if I ask my boss out to lunch, it's going to be something like a paragraph, explaining what I'd like to cover during the lunch.

Most of what we say is a kind of dance to ensure other people that we aren't stupid. We don't need this formality when dealing with non-human entities, so speaking in grammatical language when chatting with a bot feels incredibly stupid.
But this is the (web-)software equivalent of a positioning of a button using CSS. 1 pixel off? Good 'enuff. Have you never flown on a plane where the audio or USB port is broken? These parts are not mission critical, and "20% of the virtual windows are broken? Good 'enuff."
Nothing inherently wrong with it, but it's not available on all platforms that support Swift. The new Random APIs use arc4random() under the hood on Darwin IIRC.

There's also no direct equivalent to arc4random() in the new API - you always have to pass a range, which discourages people from using % to reduce the range and introduce modulo bias.
Mostly yes, pairing is encouraged. But individual preference is respected. Pairing does tend to be highly collaborative, though I won't put it the way you have. Pairing obviates code reviews. It's not applicable everywhere, but wherever it is, the benefits are very obvious and apparent.

What would spectacular look like?
Don't sweat it, it comes and goes.

At this point I don't feel guilty anymore when I'm not feeling motivated, because I know it'll be back some time soon. At the beginning I'd get worried I'd never be motivated again, now I just treat it as a "part-time vacation". Read history books, play tennis, cycle and enjoy my family. :)
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Think they could have skipped the neural net and just tied the strings from the Reddit dataset to a random number generator
(I mean, the whole point of Rorsach test is that stuff can't be identified correctly, and the psychopath schtick means the interpretation doesn't even have to be vaguely commensurate with the shapes to fit the pattern)

Or maybe despite the apparently serious looking team that's what they actually did and that's half the joke...

Certainly utterly trivial software whose responses people find objectionable and offensive has form for doing a more convincing interpretation of a human than state of the art software that tries to be taken seriously:
http://computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/eliza.html
AGI is achievable, but we are along way away from it. There's still plenty of time to get involved! If you can't get involved now, at least try to influence lawmakers to remove the privilege of firms to patent algorithms, which will stifle research progress.
It is not only that - basically even a message you post on a forum could contain copyrighted text so that would have to be filtered too. It is a dead of internet as we know it.
In 2012 I switched from a 2010 MBP 13" to a Thinkpad T410 running linux for personal use and haven't looked back. I distro hopped for a while (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CrunchBang, Debian and Arch) before settling on Fedora. I'm seeing quite a few complaints about usability issues in Linux. I think that's fair for the most part, but as a counterpoint, I've had very few issues and these days it seems like most things just work.

Fedora is not perfect out of the box, but it's pretty easy to fix.

1. Install Fedy (folkswithhats.org), provides one click installs for pretty much every application I use that isn't in the fedora repos. It also has a script that improves the font rendering.
2. Install Gnome Tweak Tool, I wish this was included by default. It makes it easy to change themes, keybinds, etc.
3. Install a decent looking theme (I use Arc). IMHO at this point the UI looks far better than my wife's Macbook Air and is significantly more usable (of course that's coming from a long time gnome user).

At that point I'm pretty much done. You no longer need to install TLP or powertop to get good battery life. I can't remember the last time I had a kernel panic (while my Windows 7 machine at work BSOD'd this morning). I vastly prefer the trackpoint on my thinkpad to any touchpad I've used (although my old MBP had the best touchpad I've ever used). As a bonus I spend lots of time at work logged into a redhat server, so having the same CLI on my personal machine is great.

Another point is that you can activate a Windows 10 VM using the OEM key. I keep a Windows VM installed just in case, but I seldom use it.

I will say that I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a T480 and am going to stick with the 1080p display because I've heard horror stories about scaling in linux.
Which CI tool you use? GitLab CI or Drone.io?
Feeling like an orphan refugee since Microsoft acquired Github.

Not sure where to go from here.

Which Git and CI product do you use?
But apartments in Athens are very affordable still, aren't they?
It’s fun to optimize the performance of software though :-) If that’s not valued, it sounds like a deeper issue.
3 things:
"would you like the upgrade package that shows the outside?"
and
"Ads on windows" Gee joy, more useless garbage to have to listen to.
On the other hand you would have some joker make a virus to have the displays put a buzzing insect on it.
Users would join the service if it had a game they wanted. Its games and Steam's games would not have much overlap, if any.

Having it seperate would also allow them to change the default UX. Among other things, the default behaviour of sending notifications to your friends like, "Bob has started playing Call of Duty," is probably not the right behaviour for porn games. If they don't firewall those sorts of games off into a seperate area, Steam at least needs to clearly communicate at every point where the user interacts with the game on Steam (store page, cart, profile, library, etc) whether that interaction is public or private, because historically just about every interaction has been visible to the user's friends.
> And a true up license model that doesn’t immediately bring all work to a screeching halt when you add one user too many to the app access group in your directory was just the cherry on top.

Unfeature to me. If you add a new user 1 day before your yearly renewal, the "true up feature" means you pay an entire year's worth of usage for that 1 day. Other apps like LastPass pro-rate, and you would just pay a few cents to add a user for 1 day.
> Also, what is "diagnosable" – that sounds suspiciously different than "diagnosed."

Well it's an apple-to-apples comparison with the CDC stat about people with undiagnosed mental illness. Basically instead of waiting for people to go in and see a psychiatrist, you just screen every single person in a certain sample for every possible mental illness. This is how mental health assessments at a population level are normally done, e.g.:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disor...
Not to mention many of these techniques weren't even invented by DeepMind or Google. If there's any sense in the world these filings will be rejected.
It's only rich if you only use apple devices... none of the software works on non-apple devices. For those of us who use non-apple devices, nearly all of that software is bloat.

Apple could easily fix this by releasing their software for other platforms, or web-enabling them... but they don't...

So... bloat.
Is this enforceable in the European Union?

My understanding was that we (the people) won the battle about software patents.
What a unfortunate name. Good luck finding information when you need help with it.
I don't think you were working for this company, but this infamous case study was also a pivot to chat bots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662128
same here! 14 hours flight felt like 4 hours
I for one would LOVE to try a spoken UI for an email client. My thinking has always been that compromising sacrificing plain english with a more strict/limited set of mnemonic keywords would introduce a learning curve but with a bigger payoff in reducing confusion.

Also emails delivered from this sort of interface need some means of indication that they were a spoken format, not typed such that the reader properly understands the context.

To me, a verbal UI seems attainable by lowering the bar of what we expect from the AI. Lower the need for AI to interpret your requests from general english to limited keywords. Allow for an adjustable vocabulary for spoken word recognition to accomodate a smaller dictionary with less mistypings. Make it clear the produced content is dictated and not hand-written quality
Like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sony, Nintendo, Google, ARM, Green Hills, PTC, Unisys, DDC-I, MicroEJ, Blackberry, SAFERTOS, ....
I hope they don't get the patents at all. You shouldn't be tied to DeepMind/Alphabet's goodwill over patents in fields they're clearly not the only ones innovating in.
Top 3:

1. Sell it.
2. Undisclosed Personnel issues I deeply regret.
3. Listen to customers too much without thinking critically about it.
I'm definitely going to check this book out. Thanks for the recommendation.
I went from a 17" Dell (1600x900) to a 14" Thinkpad (2560x1440) - It mattered a lot less than I expected and the hidpi is lovely.
>Yes, and after Gene Roddenberry died the showrunners turned away from his vision.

what is your take on Andromeda? I feel like in many respects it is really back to the original spirit.