skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The history of wolf->dog domestication is fascinating because it's so closely tied with human-progression. Understanding ancient peoples through their interactions with domesticated animals is really humanizing. (I remember learning as a kid that ancient Egyptians raised and revered cats and being awe-struck that "ancient" Egyptians were actually modern humans not some un-relatable beings.)

I read the article really hoping it would describe more of the characteristics of native/ancient American dogs. What kinds of "uses" did these ancient dogs have to their humans (hunting, tracking, pest-control, ...). How close to wolf versus corgi were they? (Asking somewhat rhetorically.)
GSoC’18: AlphaGo.jl
Tracking projects with Gmail tags: Collaborating through email
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a "DestroyBaghdad" procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a "DestroyCity" procedure, to which "Baghdad" could be given as a parameter."

--Nathaniel Borenstein

It's kind of hard to disagree...
The naming convention is fully documented and based on decades of research : https://github.com/fastai/fastai/blob/master/docs/style.md

It's fine if you don't like it (although it may be you're just not quite used to it yet), but I'm not sure it's fair to call it "bad".

Everything is fully customisable in pytorch and this is explained with many examples in part 2 of the course. Written documentation is being worked on as we move towards a first release later this year (currently the library is still pre-release - it works fine and is used at many big and small companies, but there's still much to do to get it to a v1.0).
> it was pretty uncommon for most of the time in human history that some people with a vague idea were given some million dollars to build something

I feel like that might not be true. Seems like anecdotally there's been a long history of people being funded for speculative adventures, going back centuries. The one that "discovered" the Americas being an archetypal example, but surely there were many more examples of patronage and underwriting of ideas, it's a core part of society.
If you open hundreds of tabs, your brain has performance problems. Clearly garbage collection is faulty.
tried listing on https://cryptojobslist.com?
Sounds like the approach used here :
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04468
> which refers to everyone, citizen or not, within the jurisdiction of the US.

Only a tiny percentage of non-Americans are within the jurisdiction of the US. This means that the vast majority of them are not protected by the constitution - which was the parent's point.
The correct approach to ideas and legislation is to argue the substance, not to resort to ad hominems.

"Because Koch" is as invalid as "Because Soros".
A lot of churn in the dotcom era (iOS is trying to correct dotcom to ‘sitcom’, how appropriate) involved people quoting that stupid Kevin Costner movie where the guy hearing voices plows under his corn to build a baseball field, and then he goes and harasses Darth Vader to find out why.

“If you build it, they will come” is not exactly the most auspicious start.

This was turned into the Underpants Gnomes by South Park, which seemingly slowed down but did not eliminate the practice. I wonder if Mike Judge is having more luck, but it’s probably too soon still to say.
Twitterrific Braces for API Shutdown
I hope these services can one day remove the one downside to pure breeds — inbred health issues. It would be amazing to have a near guarantee on dog temperament without, say, hip displasia.
>Well, I didn't mean to be an elitist

No no no, I didn't take it that way. I was just remarking that I may find myself out of a job if regulation similar to civil engineering existed in our field due to the fact that I don't hold a degree. Nothing beyond that and it wasn't a response to anything you said.

I've argued to (and with) my coworkers on more than one occasion that we _should_ be personally liable in certain situations (we already have the FDA watching over us at a high level.) For example, if I were complicit in fudging the results of an inter-system repeatability test in my current position.
From what I remember reading about relativity, I believe the difference is that speed of sound is just an arbitrary speed of mechanical waves in the air, while speed of light (in a vacuum) is literally what defines what it means for two events to occur before/after each other or simultaneously.

Unfortunately, I am confused about implications of that.
FTL doesn't imply time travel if it's restricted to a special frame.
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> https://www.alexirpan.com/public/rl-hard/upsidedown_half_che...

You can argue, but it works. Goal accomplished. Nature did things that are stranger than that.

Now you just have to add efficiency aspects into your reward functions and observe how it slowly finds a local minimum. Also something nature did a lot of times. Now hope that the remaining inefficiency is ok for you.

Done.

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You can start with a random neural net. It's not exactly empty, but it's ok. The randomness defines which local minimum you'll find this time around while you burn through your VC money desperately hoping that the AWS bills for all the GPU time will arrive after you've found the holy grail that makes your startup worth <insert bullshit valuation>.

> "picking the right reward function" in RL is shockingly hard.

Agree. x1000. And computational power and data quality.

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on another post I've added some links (AI playing Mario): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17489459
I know I could have four browser windows open with 20 tabs each, to a random selection of web pages. If I try to do that today on a laptop with 2GB RAM on a moden browser, it dies from running out of memory. I tried using an older browser, but it won't render modern pages and uses legacy crypto. So I know for a fact that modern browsers simply can't work on older hardware, whereas the older browsers used to work, but are no longer compatible with modern websites.
They used to call these company towns and they turned out pretty awful in the long run. We’ll see if it’s different this time.
Scaling with Your Team
Probably the same people who used to wear Google Glass to social events.
They suggest a new formula because the "the conventional efficiency formula (Eq. 1) often misleads and gives rise to an impractically high efficiency prediction".

> The [thermoelectric] conversion efficiency by Eq. 1 is the product of the Carnot efficiency (ΔT/Th) and a reduction factor as a function of the material’s figure of merit Z = S^2 ρ^−1^κ−1, where S, ρ, and κ are the Seebeck coefficient, electrical resistivity, and thermal conductivity, respectively.
Please don't post ideological swipes or personally nasty remarks ("you can dry your tears") to HN. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Water is also neurotoxic in the right amount.
I think this is a complete riot. But I also feel tremendous empathy. I get maybe one nice night a year with my wife. I know nothing about fine dining. But maybe I find this place and I take her. I'm almost in tears right now feeling the hypothetical gut wrenching realization that I completely ruined the evening.

I'm so afraid, to a fault, that I'll mess up the perfect days she deserves, so maybe I'm alone in how awful I feel that they actually fooled with real people by the end. A bit too far.
It's easy to believe that letting go of employees before finding product market fit was the right move, and maybe they never would have never been able to build and grow Twitch under the existing structure. But given that at least one of the products sold for a billion dollars, this seems like a textbook example of a company that did deserve more money based on having built a good platform but not yet having the required traction.

If investors knew the company was going to sell for over a billion dollars, would they really not have invested? Maybe this is the case, but it doesn't seem like it. Instead it seems like the investors didn't believe the company would actually sell for a billion dollars based on the growth rate to date.
HR can be your friend, when the interest of the company, and your interest happen to align, which in my experience is more often than not.

But its important to recognize, that HR is only to your benefit, when interests align, the OP is right, that HR is not there to protect you, but to protect the company, sometimes protecting you however, is protecting the company as well.
If the rest of a web app is running on containers, what's the downside to having the test/build process for the frontend in a container as well?
Okay, I think your analysis is reasonable.

I still wish the article was more clear about the timeline.
...those ostracod species where males invested heavily in sexual selection chose poorly, it seems.

This is a kind of reversal of causality that is unfortunately is too common in popular discussions of evolutionary biology.

Sexual selection of males is the result of female choice.
Super useful.

Have you worked out how to run for a long time from a smallish battery?
I had wondered the other day whether animal intelligence was either associated with or predicated on memory abilities. This paper[0] seemed at first blush to support that notion. Am I interpreting that correctly? Is there other supporting evidence? What are the problems with this idea?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784289/
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"Still, all investors should probably sell their coins within the first six months, the study found."

If all investors should sell their coins, who is the counterparty that should buy them?
Yeah. I see it as part of the decline of journalism in general. This article is appropriate for some random person's blog, basically. There a few people might read it but they probably wouldn't reshare it, and the giant link filtering machine of the internet would ensure it dropped to the bottom of the barrel pretty quickly.

Because, as you say, she spends a lot of words to argue nothing at all (some nouveau riche had ordinary backgrounds and others didn't, tech nerds are boring men except they're interesting enough to write a whole article about them, this is sorta bad but actually sorta good, the non-boring histories I'm referring to are mostly imagined anyway, etc).

The only reason we're discussing such a nothing-burger of an article is that Bloomberg published it (the only article on Bloomberg by this person). This leads to the question of why? Apparently it's triggered by Zuckerberg overtaking Buffet's wealth - an news event worthy of maybe a paragraph of text. Should Bloomberg really be investing their resources here? Surely there are topics that deserve this level of effort more?
China Begins Domestic Production of AMD Server CPUs
No one going to point out that Diane Bryant mysteriously left Google recently? Long experience at Intel, expert in cloud, female face fits into the progressive culture they're trying to chase? Left Google at the perfect time?

Seems like a super obvious move to me.
> The biggest differentiator of skilled software practitioners is the ability to construct simple systems.

I would say it's to construct simple enough systems, and the hallmark of skill is a developer's ability to define enough.
They're called shitcoins for a reason.
Well spotted - this is where I first created the algorithm that became ULMFiT! I wanted to show an example of transfer learning outside of computer vision for the course but couldn't find anything compelling. I was pretty sure a language model would work really well in NLP so tried it out, and was totally shocked when the very first model best the previous state of the art!

Sebastian (author of this article) saw the lesson, and was kind enough to complete lots of experiments to test out the approach more carefully, and did a great job of writing up the results in a paper, which was then accepted by the ACL.
You can hail hand-pulled rickshaws in a couple cities in India, which seems pretty close to this. There might even be an app for it.
Can you share your company with us? If you'd prefer it to remain private, would appreciate an email at info_AT_write.pub

We're in early stages of our plan/journey. Our aim is to become profitable while bootstrapped. Mentorship is what we really crave.

Cheers
I'm having trouble understanding why this is so difficult. I get they can't swim but... strap on a mask and get dragged out by divers, one by one.

Easier (and definitely less claustrophobic) than Musk's tin cigar idea, doesn't require any additional equipment...
If your whole argument is that HFT is bad because it's "front running" or "insider trading", and you can't define the terms in ways that don't also invalidate the commonplace ways everyone accesses the market today, then what we haven't isn't a mere semantic argument; it's that you don't have a coherent argument at all.

Is HFT not front-running or insider trading? (I'd agree!) Then what's wrong with it? Otherwise: what's the useful definition of either of those terms that you're working from?
The Gluu Server bundles a fork of OpenDJ 3.0 for persistence, the last open source build. It also supports OpenLDAP, and will soon support Couchbase.
and then in the same breath state this is "adopting a more precise definition of the term". These comments are like arguing with my six year old.
> We should store the actual time of an event and update it when the scheduled time changes.

I would love to see some (simple) code which will send a single alert to me at 1:30 am and another at 2:30am. My client registered me as MST (-7) when I set these two alarms in Feburary.

Of particular note for corner cases: Nov 4th and Mar 10, 2019.

The "scheduled time" will change, for many locations, twice yearly.

EDIT: For added fun, instead consider the registration date as May 10th with the same timezone.
Of course. Because it would require us to change our thinking first, and become something not currently human. As it stands, there is no way a no-weapons world could exist because someone would gain weapons and then take it over.
the kind of event that is becoming more likely and severe

... except that CA temperatures have been below normal for the vast majority of spring and summer up until a week ago.
I believe thats right, yeah.

And sure, you could make that argument, but in terms of how it happened, it was largely “oh, that looks good. We should do that.” So maybe we modified it a bit, but still. :)
Generation wealth: how the modern world fell in love with money
Air is a sufficiently different medium from space-time that comparing them this way is not useful.
As someone who lives near CityPlace I've got to say that area is the most culturally sterile in the whole downtown core. That block is called the "vertical suburbs" for a reason. Everything's convenient...if your tastes are bland. Everything's within reach...if you go outside your neighbourhood for some actual culture or variety. It's a great place to live if you want to keep to yourself, and occasionally become involved in the local scene. It's not immersive like many vibrant neighbourhoods are, where you're an intrinsic part of the community.

Planned cities always fail. Those that are allowed to grow organically, evolving to fit the community's needs if and when demand builds, work out much better in the long run.

The difference between an area like, for example, Trinity Bellwoods and CityPlace is a lot more than the few hundred meters of distance. It's culturally night and day.
Former Marvell CTO’s Startup Innogrit Develops “In-Storage Computing”
How we used neural networks to understand Congress
True, no ethical engineer would write "DestroyBaghdad", but how about perfectly reasonable "set custom threshold for test" function that lets the client pick? And then the client chooses an unethical value.
Why not a cloud provider like Google Identity, Okta, OneLogin, etc?
Is it? Depends how you define smart but Zuck has consistently made unconventional moves, very young, that turned out to be wildly correct.

He started by limiting Facebook to colleges so it could scale.

He was able to attract top class engineering talent to help him.

He entered a crowded market and obliterated all his competitors entirely through having a superior social networking product.

He retained control over his own company - avoiding the kind of agist outing that Larry Page and Sergey Brin experienced (i.e. investors who demanded "adult supervision" in the form of Eric Schmidt).

He convinced Instagram to sell, and made it profitable, apparently.

He convinced WhatsApp to sell and probably will make it profitable.

How many people in the tech industry can point to such a track record at all, let alone at Zuck's age? The guy doesn't only seriously understand tech. He also understands people.
> People don't want to buy cars because they're low-emission, they want to buy cars because they're fast, big, and safe

You forgot the two biggest factors - cost and efficiency. Most people doesn't want big or necessarily fast cars. Most people want cheap cars that go a long way on a little fuel. However, it's difficult to make cars that are cheap AND fuel efficient AND environmentally friendly.
The way I like to think of it, and I'm not sure how valid my thoughts are... I think about what you would experience as an observer in a ship traveling faster and faster. If the ship had a window to look out, you wouldn't really be noticing anything happen to time, you'd be seeing the universe get squished, with everything getting closer and closer to you.

If you managed to actually achieve the speed of light, the universe would be completely flat. Everything would be contained in a single plane perpendicular to your direction of travel.

So now, what would it mean if you went even faster? The universe would no longer be flat, but would be achieving a negative size. What that really means is not clear to me, but I suppose it's here where the traveling back in time starts to make sense mathematically.
The only mobile to mobile communications that make sense are widespread - WiFi direct and Bluetooth; both AirDrop and Airplay utilize WiFi direct. Peer to peer protocols on mobile is a great way to achieve horrible bandwidth, even worse latency and excellent battery drain. There are no benefits vs just using direct connections over ipv6 (where available). If you need local real-time data on a smartphone, just use a BLE beacon for low bandwidth or WiFi multicast for high.

Also V2V is vaporware that isn’t actually needed for safe self-driving cars, because the cars have to safely interact with human-driven vehicles (the majority of cars on the road for the next 10 years).
After 60 Years, Brio Has Reinvented Its Toy Trains for the Future
That it happened is without doubt, that it happened as often or as easily as in Silicon Valley? Never even close in the history of the human race.
So photovoltaics from the sun + waste heat is used by this on the backside. If cheap enough.
The article is mentioning they missed the mobile revolution. How many mobile chip manufacturers are making that much money on mobile chips. If you look at QCOM's earnings a majority of it is licensing its patents. QCOM chip business net income is 15%. INTC net is almost 30%. In its data center business its 50%.
As the author notes, most of these tips can be applied to Firefox (or Edge) as well.
Customizable Android RecyclerView FastScroller Library Written 100% in Kotlin
the industry standard term for them is "the suckers"
Device for testing malaria without need for blood wins top engineering prize
The research in the article was not quite clear. Was their only “sign of life” measured by tweets? What about capitalization, transaction volume...anything?
> Most people had to argue a lot to get this kind of money.

That guy who found America? He lobbied for nearly a decade to get the money. See [1] and [2].

People weren't that rich back then because wealth wasn't that exorbitant in the past. We only got this wealth due to the industrial revolution and the digital revolution. Today even a slightly above-average guy in Europe is richer than most kings in the past.

[1]: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-abou...
[2]: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1010/Christopher-Columbus...
He also made the right call by going all in on mobile at exactly the right time. And he has one of the best research teams in the industry.

For whatever missteps they've made, on the balance it's been absurdly well run.

I think he easily makes the list of the top ten smartest people in tech, along with Bezos, Scott Cook, Jonah Peretti, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMGc8hEkpc
Performance with HAXM has been fantastic for a while. So no, it doesn't need a simulator. It doesn't need that at all.

Android emulator has improved massively over the past few years, you might want to go take an actual look at it. Even has quite a few features missing from iOS's simulator, too, like camera scene emulation.
I think you should only do it if you have hit the ceiling of your potential. You didn't say anything that indicates that so I would say no. Anecdotally the best performers and best compensated had BS, BA or no degree so it's a no from personal experience as well.

If you want to complete your education in case fundamentals or practical applications there are plenty of courses available online.
That's an absurd theory.

Firstly, you can buy computers for $30 if you need to.

But even if you want to get a laptop instead, the difference between $300 and $100 is not significant if you care about saving for it. The idea that poor people can't afford a computer is delusional - I've been to regions of Mexico and China that are dirt poor and they have flat screen TVs. In fact I've encountered lots of TVs in places much poorer than the USA. If they can buy that they can buy a different kind of screen without a doubt. Poverty is not an excuse for a lack of computer knowledge these days. Back in the 1980's, sure.
Why is this in the comments section of every AI article?
Continue to lift. Eat protein. Your TDEE might go up if you lift the same amount and add BJJ on top. If recovery becomes an issue hit the usual sleep, hydrate, eat, stretch points.

Most of what I've read about muscle loss is that it happens when you eat at a deficit or don't hit your protein targets.

This video talks about the creators experience balancing BJJ w/ lifting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/comments/6o8ubw/balancin...

Edit: personally I switched to a 5/3/1 variant for athletes, but plan on going back to a higher volume program soon, after some weight loss.
Ask HN: Why are high-res maps vital to self-driving cars?
Could someone with expertise around self-driving cars kindly explain why high-res maps are vital to self-driving cars?

Cars must react in real-time to unmapped items like fallen trees, debris, and people (not to mention other cars), so what additional value do high-res maps provide?

Do they reduce processing time because now cars simply scan for deltas instead of the entire environment?