skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in primary school we were taught that our backpacks shouldn't weigh more than 10% of our body weight. That's not much when you're in third grade, but I think most adults can comfortably carry laptops that are two millimeters thicker and weigh a pound more than the Macbook.
For professional life: Pen + dot grid notepad - developed independently, but similar to the bullet journal technique. Dot grid plus pens make the whole thing ultra customizable. I can sketch engineering designs, make a calendar, track action items, take detailed notes, all in the same format. The key is to be strict with page numbers, dates, and index as much as possible.

Things I occasionally miss - keyword search (I can still look things up by date or subject in the index), multimedia inserts (think dragging video/photos/sound clips into one note), never ending space (notebooks run out of pages), easy backups (thinking about digitizing with photos or scans), team collaboration (if this is necessary I use Trello).

Things I like - no OS/tech stack compatibility issues, "it just works", lighter then a laptop) tablet, don't need to charge, easy to read, can bring into a secure area (where outside electronics are not permitted), travels well, hard to damage.

http://bulletjournal.com/get-started/

For personal life: add Google keep for simple lists, and then a mix of Trello and dot grid for larger projects (less strict formatting than professional life project management).
The curse of Common Lisp is that every good programmer who tries it wants to improve it. Which always results in a weird product with less, rather than more, appeal.
I am not trained in any type of field that is remotely related to AI research or engineering. Outside of some basic ML projects at work, I am not well versed in the practical application of AI technologies. But I do wonder a few things about AI:

- Have we made real, technological progress over the last 50 years or are we just leveraging far greater computing power and the ability to collect much larger data sets to run statistical analysis on?

- Will general purpose AI consist of essentially layers and layers of AI's that can handle progressively more abstract inputs, models, and patterns? For instance, the lowest level AI is what we see today - a very powerful tool but bound to a specific use case. One layer up may be able to combine inputs from a dozen 1st tier AI's to generalize a tiny bit more on the individual use cases and can deal with a tiny bit more ambiguity. One level up will evaluate inputs from a dozen level 2 AI's and so on. With the final top layer (perhaps millions of levels up) resembling general purpose processing similar to a human brain. What if this model ended up producing true general purpose AI, but the amount of input synthesizing and modeling required so much processing power that the speed at which general purpose AI could operate is no faster than a human brain?

- Can we achieve general purpose AI through purely algorithmic means, or will we need to implement a hybrid biological model to achieve real breakthroughs? If we could accomplish this, would we understand the detailed mechanisms of the biological component of the hybrid or would it forever remain a black box that we just tap into?

Anyway, not sure this adds a whole lot to the specific discussion on how best to measure AI progress, but they're questions I've been pondering lately.
I'm not sure that trying to prevent publication of something that was filed under seal is a "wrong action" by a judge...
What does any of this have to do with learning sales?
Well, the counter point is the article is that the standards is ridiculous. And that you are just effectively setting those standard so that you'll never have to learn anything from that field, because no paper in that field will pass the ridiculous standard.
I don't think "差不多" means "Fail Fast, Fail Often".

差不多 literally means "not much difference". It's usually used by Chinese workers to dismiss shortfalls in quality/quantity that are, in their view, inconsequential. I'm also not sure it's prevalent enough to be a "culture", though I remember reading several-year-old blog posts about it.
I think, that you didn’t see it in person was the reason you didn’t expect it to be a success.

The 3G had 3G, but otherwise same hardware specs as the original.

What sold me was that Apple got the UI right (“smooth as butter”), the webbrowser and email actually worked, and jailbroken it was almost Unix in your pocket! It really felt like a phone with so much potential and a far ahead of anything I had seen. The things you mention were just a matter of software updates. Btw. 3G and App Store both came out in 2008.
Chinese People Don’t Like Smart Speakers (statistics)
Tesla boss Musk gave almost $40,000 to U.S. Republican-allied group: FEC
Film grain is so expensive to encode that in bit-rate-constrained situations you would be forced to choose between obvious ugly compression artefacts, a reasonably good image without grain, or a reasonably good image overlaid with inauthentic grain.

Besides, "authentic" is such an overhyped pile of poo anyway. Everything is a reproduction; what matters should be that the artistic intent remains unaltered.
I confess I was tempted to take a pass on this one. In large, because I've fatigued a lot on reading about AI and Machine Learning. Didn't help that this is a large article.

That said, I encourage everyone to give this more than a single pass. There is irony that we are, to this day, still quoting and agreeing with Feynman's Cargo Cult Science piece. It is almost disheartening to see that we still have a hard time listening to advice from the early 1970s. By and large, though, this piece does a great job really laying out what makes it so hard to level most criticisms at AI related studies. The cross disciplinary look is one I wouldn't have thought to do, but really does explain a lot.

I'm torn, because I'm sympathetic to most of the defenses. It is hard to really believe we are making meaningful progress, though. Even if I am enjoying many of the small practical improvements we have managed to get out of things.
In politics, there is an adage I like, never give yourself more power than you want your opponent to have.

Free speech is one of those things that fits into this category, regulating speech that makes people uncomfortable does have a very provable slippery slope effect.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-la...

We've experimented with aggressively limiting free speech before, and it went very very bad, very fast, I'd rather not try the experiment again.

Another point I'd like to make, is that I'd rather know what peoples 'real' views are, so I can either avoid them or help change their mind, pushing objectionable opinion underground, does not stop people from holding those opinions, it just hides them where it cannot been seen, and actioned upon.
I think the benefits of open source in the hardware space aren't perfectly analogous to software. As you point out, due to the fixed and somewhat opaque nature of hardware, changing hardware yourself is far from trivial, what the Shenzhen ecosystem does allow for however is faster iteration within the market itself.

More steps of trial and error within shorter time, more things are being recycled, more people get their hands on designs and so forth. This doesn't always directly make things more customizable, but it does increase the pace at which the ecosystem moves.
Eugene Volokh discussed this case earlier today on his blog [0]. His rough conclusion, with appropriate caselaw citations, was that the 9th circuit will almost certainly overturn the injunction on the article.

http://reason.com/volokh/2018/07/15/judge-orders-la-times-to...
If the crypto winter has placed your altcoin trading on ice, you were never a trader to begin with. Any fool can make money in a bull market, but bear markets are where knowledge is gained and future profits are carved.

Depressed cryptocurrency prices are having a greater than expected impact on mining businesses. This is most apparent in hardware manufacturers, along with the stock price of publicly traded miners. View more on https://cryptonewstrends.com/

Hardware, specifically GPUs and ASICs, were selling for a large premium at the end of last year and into 2018. There was simply more demand than supply. Manufacturers saw the increasing demand and ramped up production.

The market has now inverted and there is a surplus of hardware, which is being sold at discounted prices. A great example is Bitmain’s S9 Antminers, widely considered the most popular Bitcoin mining hardware. Earlier this year, Bitmain was selling one machine for ~$2,500 and secondary sales were fetching as much as $4,500.
>Additionally, you should highly doubt this kind of outside estimate of cost per New Shepard launch. It sounds like they used the same costs as you would expect for a fully expendable rocket like Falcon 1e class (same first stage thrust, for instance), even though New Shepard is fully reusable.

The article discusses intended price, not cost. And $1.2 million/flight is significantly less than Falcon 1.

>So there's actually a lot of upsell, and I believe they've been explicit about using New Shepard to upsell for eventual orbital flights.

Definitely. It's also important to note that New Shepard and New Glenn have significant technology overlap - NS development costs won't have to be amortized by passenger flights alone.
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3M is too much money to retire. I plan to retire early and it will be long before I reach 3M. USA is very friendly to retiring on capital gains. The first long-term cap-gain federal tax bracket is 0% on income up to $77.4k (married, filing jointly). That is not counting the standard deduction of 24k (married, filing jointly). If you move to a state with no income tax you pay literally zero taxes for 100k/year. If you get zero growth you can live for 30 years. If you get 3.3% or more average annual growth you will die with 3M in the bank. Move to a no-income-tax state, get a mortgage asap to cement your biggest expense, and live happy.

There are other tricks you can do

(1) You can use your standard deduction to slowly convert your pre-tax retirement accounts into after-tax accounts without paying any tax (i.e. 24k/year). Then after five years you can withdraw the principle from the after-tax accounts. This can be done at any age.

(2) In years where you do not use your 0% tax bracket you can use the remainder for capital gain harvesting. You can sell some of your investments and buy them back again. If the gain does not push you over 77.4/k you pay zero tax but raise your cost basis to lower your gain when you ultimately sell the investment. And wash sale rules do not apply to selling with a gain.
> It contains the idea that what your brain does is somehow separate from what “you” are thinking and doing

It's like those studies that can detect decision making a split second before the person is consciously aware that they've made the decision. It's usually presented as "'you' don't really make the decision", as if that person exists apart from their brain.
XPS is a consumer line, ThinkPad T/X are business laptops and it shows.
Which is no doubt the source for the name Nagini in the Harry Potter books (the familiar of the big bad, Lord Voldemort; a magically-enhanced snake.)
It will come—once encoding silicon is available. Until then, phones will necessarily use whatever codec they have hardware encoding support for.
Can you provide citations to some of the hate crime and bullying laws you mention? I want to know what I should be writing my elected officials about because free speech is so very very close to an absolute, and I like it that way. The few restrictions I'm aware of in currently valid (not overturned) Supreme Court precedent are exceedingly tiny.
It is if you make a derived work.
In a sense, those two are not conflicting, but reinforcing - practicality in software "engineering" usually means lowest-common-denominator, cheapest-workforce technology. It's good to have exposure to more powerful tools and ways of thinking, and the industry isn't likely to give you one unless you actively come looking.
That's interesting. All the Sun keyboards that I have seen have the control key in the place of the caps lock key. I do know that some had the Esc key closer to the home row (back-tick position, I believe).
How would it go down if you told people to shove submarines up their asses?
Do companies have too much power?
You should inform the developers of i3, KDE Plasma, etc. that they can retire now that GNOME has "won out".
True, I guess. And I'm one of them. Sometimes I use numerous Linux, Windows or macOS VMs for testing stuff. At 5-10GB per VM, that's way too much for my system array. So I use LUKS-encrypted HDDs and SSDs via USB. With my pitiful uplink, cloud storage for hundreds of GB would be unworkable.

And yes, I could use USB-C.
The more I read of this article, the less I believe.
> Python supersets that do use type annotations for optimization

Such as Cython.
Sadly it appears that none of the Z80 C compilers (at least the ones I've used, Hi-Tech C and sdcc) are smart enough to use it.
Why does so much right wing analysis seem like it was written by a precocious sixth grader?
I had stopped using floppy disks completely by high school. The reliability of floppies of that era was so poor that despite only having 56K at home, I'd start an FTP upload of my documents to my free 20 MB dialup ISP space when I left for school and by the time I arrived they were all safely there.
I don’t know anything about cryptography. Would this have been useful for spies? Please tell me spies somewhere in the past were sending and receiving messages on a Barbie typewriter.
> hey take carry a LOT of patches that are not upstreamed (for whatever reason)

I have spent some time looking at bug tracking for Ubuntu with regards to PDF files.

IMHO, FLOSS support of PDF's on Linux has never been that good, although it has gotten better over time (although it is still problematic). For example this file - https://web.archive.org/web/20100215043153/http://www.ratp.i... - loads fine on most platforms, but in Linux FLOSS (evince with poppler) it might take over 30 seconds to render. Because it had an O(n^2) algorithm running over part of the PDF, something other software on other platforms seems to avoid (even the closed source Adobe reader for Linux).

So I spent a lot of time looking at it. But it takes a little bit of domain knowledge to deal with it. Most people load up evince and have a problem reading a PDF and report it to Ubuntu evince bug channel. But the problem with PDF rendering is often up the library dependency chain - with poppler the PDF renderer. So sometimes I curate tickets and move the ticket from the evince queue to the poppler queue when I see there is a problem.

But poppler often depends on cairo, and sometimes (not often) the rendering problem is in cairo, not poppler. So it goes even higher up the library dependency chain, kicked from evince up to poppler up to cairo.

But sometimes it can't be dealt with locally at Ubuntu, so you log into freedesktop.org and report the problem to them there (or chime in to an existing ticket about another manifestation of a problem). Then you link the Ubuntu cairo queue ticket to the upstream fd.o cairo one.

So some domain knowledge is needed - I informally curate the Ubuntu evince queue, and kick a ticket up to poppler, then with a closer look kick it further up to cairo, then I kick that ticket up to the official cairo queue at fd.o and link the ticket (actually sometimes the chain is evince -> poppler -> cairo -> pixman, as some seeming cairo issues are actually pixman issues).

One reason I've done some curation of this is, as I demonstrated with the pdf above, Linux FLOSS pdf support is not so hot, despite the heroic efforts of Albert Astals Cid of poppler and his cohorts. So I jumped in and did some curation of Ubuntu tickets, and fd.o tickets, and even tickets of other Linux distros. I even attempted to write patches for this complex C++ program, but I lacked the time to get a handle on the code base.

In summary, it takes some domain knowledge to upstream things properly for any distro.
They got the people with the $35k, free credit, now drop the $35k model. Tesla dropped the cheapest marketing models before, so this was to be expected and predicted my some analysts on seeking alpha.
Why not make the whole business model "pay what you want"?
>can detect decision making a split second before the person is consciously aware that they've made the decision.

I think the revelation is that the decision people make is the negative one, that the affirmative one is the default and the negative one is the one which requires conscious effort.
When the shunting person persuaded everyone to imagine the two-car units as if they were symmetrical, the passengers still complained. Toilets can break, and when they did the doubly unlucky passenger would be forced to walk four car lengths to get to the nearest toilet.

Also, those helpful arrows would be guiding the passenger the wrong direction for two of those car lengths.

So we have comments that go out of sync with the running program, a spec that lies about reality, and an implementation that doesn't match the spec. Yep, that sounds like programmers to me.

Legit parable.

Edit: just realized the least lucky passenger would have to walk six car lengths. If the passenger is already at the wrong end of the "symmetrical" two-car unit with a broken toilet, the arrow will point them in the direction of the broken toilet. If the broken toilet is the last car, then they must walk back two car lengths to get where they started. Now if the next two-car unit is turned the wrong direction they must walk two more car lengths.

So add to this a spec that's difficult to reason about.

Again, legit programmer parable.
Lots of good stuff in this thread, but for fun and light-hearted (which lots of people are ignoring), Terry Pratchett takes the cake. I probably read over 50 books a year, and TP is one of the best authors I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
Love the link, thank you for sharing!

As a supplement, I've found the following system to be a useful way for organizing a notebook that has more consistency in categories of pages: http://www.highfivehq.com (for example, notes for different classes in school or a set of projects you're working on). The idea is to draw lines on the edge of your pages that are visible from some index page. You can combine it with a standard page indexing system for a super easy-to-navigate notebook!
Yep, that's a great point, very aware of it. Instagram is secretly one of the most successful marketing channels out there for sex work, but it is something most people aren't aware of or don't talk much about. Exposure to hundreds of thousands of males, constant fresh teasing content, the ability to instantly DM a "vendor" to strike a deal etc.

Always amusing to see IG models go from working at an ice cream shop one day to suddenly yachts and helicopter rides in the dreamiest exotic places the next, without any brand sponsorship or anything to sell. Most people don't bother to ask where the money is coming from. Who's paying for it? Insiders of that world have a lot of interesting stories.
Well no... the middle child only comes into existence upon the introduction of the younger child.
I do this too. Actually I have a web page about various caveats when doing it ( http://vartmp.com/tech/multibooting.html ).

And of course, you can always use KVM's to take a look at distros as well.
I idly went to Hacker News, scanned through this article, got to the part about doing things with intention rather than just floating along... which made me realize I was wasting time and so I closed the article. Except then I commented... ok to important things now.
Why is it flagged?
You're talking about the "2012 MacBook Pro with Retina Display", they also sold a model without a retina display that used a standard laptop drive and came with an optical drive (!).
Musk/Shotwell have said you will be able to take inter-city rocket trips for the same price as an economy plane ticket by 2028.
That's a good point too. I have a personal account now with maybe 40 friends where I immediately unfollow anybody who's constantly signaling a fake lifestyle through their stories. Out of sight, out of mind. Works really well.
This is the most incredible thing about China. The numbers are very clear: there are about 10_000 companies are being formed each day in China [1]. The government is actually investing heavily in these new firms and they receive all kind of economic, political and social support. Meanwhile in the US and much of the West new firm formation continues to plummet [2] and labor fluidity has collapsed leading to stuck wages [3].

You can see by the comments in this thread how much this state of affairs frightens people and of course all positive news out of China must be propaganda. It's unfortunate but all signs indicate this will likely continue until it's too late and Silicon Valley finds itself on the outside looking in.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13793288

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/economy/startup-...

[3] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2016/files/2...
And ofcourse for any anecdote there are many pointing to the opposite: I know many people who do this and who are over achievers and very successful. Like the author himself by the way.
Just mark it as spam. If they aren't spamming the internet at large, they won't get blocked at large, and your local bayesian filters will block them from you.
Removal from office is the last thing that should happen in this situation. The judge made a questionable decision, which will be appealed, but the judge should not be fired (that is an action reserved for actual misconduct). If we do the latter to judges with whom we do not agree, we jeopardize the independence of our judiciary.
+ another 1 for Martian Chronicles. It's Hienlin at his best (poingint short stories linking into a lather narrative), without the baggage of Laz Long that ties together his more famous works (which I love, but aren't exactly light hearted).
^ This

After my PhD I received a very nice industry position where I can do more research than my friends who are professors. I don't have to sit in committees or teach: I'm employed to conduct research. I'm also fairly compensated, versus the slave wages I was paid in graduate school.

I am flying back from ICML in Stockholm, so it's hard to argue my company doesn't support my academic interests.

I like Simon but he's off-base here. And I don't even work for FAANG/Deepmind, where I suspect I'd have considerably more substantial resources. Industry is by no means perfect but it's a great landing spot post-PhD.
I backed this project some number of years ago on Kickstarter. I had honestly forgotten all about it, and then out of the blue last week: an email announcing that it was released and how to obtain it!

It looks great and plays well (notwithstanding early access); congratulations to the author for shipping at last.
I am using the 5th gen and it's just about the perfect Linux laptop but a while ago I read that the 6th gen needs some tweaks under Linux, https://delta-xi.net/#056 or https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb... for example.

This may have changed since but the 5th gen is probably a safer choice for the less adventurous
Haskell. If programming languages were mountains, Haskell is Everest. Conquer it and other languages can be mastered in your sleep.

Go further.