skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow your notes about global menus and kernel update were not there when I first replied .. either a late edit or a network glitch of some sort.

Re: global menus, as I mentioned, I'm well aware of the original Apple studies. I admit I'm a power user, but many professional (not necessarily power) users these days have more than one app open on the screen, and I've observed the pattern of "click app to get the right menu, then locate menu item" with a few co-workers -- whereas on Windows (and linux), they only have to locate the menu inside the right window.

When Apple did their tests, they focused on use in a single app, IIRC -- which, back then, was justified. That's why I wonder if anyone repeated that with a modern workload.

Re kernel updates: No, it isn't great that it can be done in under an hour. I often install ubuntu or debian from a very old DVD, and then, within just a few minutes, it is all up-to-date, kernel and all. Never failed once.

I haven't used dnf or yum in a while, so can't comment; I know window breaks. But debian-stable is rock solid, and even ubuntu is (with the exception of the OOM kernel that did byte -- but still took just 5 minutes to update, and left you a copy of the older kernel to boot to if you wanted - which, once you got bitten by the oom bug, you obviously did).

I agree Apple updates are miraculous if you are coming from Windows. But compared to debian ... not so much.
Now I'm curious about what you do professionally.
MUDs. Roguelikes. Dwarf Fortress. Retro games in general.
The US has South Korea, Japan and Guam. Taiwan isn’t of military strategic importance to the US nor would it likely serve as a base for any assault on the mainland.
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I just used the Cygwin version, worked straight up.

I've added it as a scheduled task, set to start on user login, so I don't have to mess with installing it as a service. I'm not going to listen without logging in to my desktop anyway so for me not a huge restriction.
It was mentioned in a mail inviting beta testers around November last year I think. Not sure. This article has a reference to the 12 hours claim. https://towardsdatascience.com/fast-ai-lesson-1-on-google-co...
Go just one hour into the past and you will die in the vacuum of space, as the air won't be there at that time.
Also, does Kaggle have any IP rights to code written in a kernel?
It has many names.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidding_fee_auction
Professional organization vs hobbyist is a false dichotomy. We have entire operating systems that would be classified as made by hobbyists, yet are used by "serious organizations".

It also means, that we will not get some nice things, we would otherwise have. See also iSCSI initiator or FUSE for macOS. They have same problem - need to be signed by the right certificate, so nobody bothered.

Other systems, when they are running in Secure Boot mode, also accept kernel modules signed by the same keys, that are enrolled into UEFI. Why can't Windows and Mac do the same?
The timing of this submission appears to follow the Colaboratory submission with similar functionality just removed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692263

Notably, both are owned by Google. The free-GPU notebook market is catching on.
Like paper, but one could also print on canvas, so yeah, that too.
They were audience members, not pros.
It’s more or less pointless to worry about physical or neurological mechanisms in this context. Psychology isn’t really a science, but done rigorously it is a legitimate phenomenology. For practical purposes it doesn’t matter what causes g or d to have the value that it does, only that various correlated behavior patterns are observable.

For example the NFL and US military both successfully use tests of g to select more capable recruits.

Unfortunately I don’t believe any test of d will be useful, except maybe in very low g high d individuals. This is because there is usually no incentive to score low on a g test, but there is on a d test.
When the same ppl want to deploy in production and choose google cloud instead of AWS.
I'm a frequent at Slickdeals.net.

It's not a niche, as it is hugely popular, but it is the best place to find deals on stuffs (electronics, clothes, flights, food, beverages, etc.).
Not sure how you came to that conclusion. The article's actual title doesn't mention Word, and it seems to be a minor point in the article. It even goes on to say:

>> Richards notified a few colleagues and even helped Royen retype his paper in LaTeX to make it appear more professional.
I guess what it would look like in 3D :)
You don’t have to use Vue as a framework. You can opt just to use the view layer as a library.
And I'm a brit. I did the math in cents for greater universality. Maybe a mistake after referring to a penny.
Who says one has to use fractions with one unit and real numbers with another? Both units are just a different multiplier.

What stops one from using 3/16th of a meter? (I admit I rarely see SI units with fractions, but if one finds them so useful, why not? Personally I prefer non-fractions by the way, it's much easier to rank and compare numbers in your head if they're all given as real numbers. E.g. can you tell quickly if 5/17 is bigger or smaller than 8/30?)

And how will you square 2.829 inch? Not everything you measure will happen to be some perfect fraction
Large format photography: http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/
I don't know that you can really call this a bug? It just seems to be the design choice. Though I agree, it seems odd at first, and appears possibly accidental, it could have been on purpose.

My question to swifters: what if LazyGreeter had another method, say lazyGreet, and you typed it as Greeter? Then you called let greeter : Greeter = LazyGreeter(); greeter.lazyGreet();

Would you expect this to work or fail?

I'd expect it to fail.

In that sense, I assume its simply that extension methods override child overrides. And its just something you need to know. That can even have interesting utility in some scenarios.
Pro game against OpenAI starting in 2 minutes.
I've re-read the article and you're right. I misunderstood the "Word is getting around" part. Sorry
per se, nothing is wrong, but, you are more inclined to disregard the other side. you're not presenting all the possible arguments for the other side. I find it less trustworthy if someone is taking sides..
1. You're conflating owners and managers. Private ownership of the means of production doesn't add anything of value, but of course organizing people and resources is valuable. My point is that you don't need to have a monoply (or oligopoly) of power concentrated in private shareholders.

2. I'm not interested in myths. Look up statistics on immigrant poverty under capitalism and let me know whether you'd like to continue this line of reasoning.

3. Some, yes. All? Of course not.
hi,does anyone know if openAI release an up to date state of learning for their open AI dota code?

Basically can I run the same sim on my laptop and watch them play? I can see some code on Github but dont know if the actually neural net data is available too.

If anyone knows the answer that will be great thanks
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I used wxMaxima. Worked fine for what I needed it for (integration, solving systems of equations, etc.) In some cases it even solved problems that Mathematica couldn't.
I follow 561 RSS feeds on feedly.com. Pretty much every site I care about provides an RSS feed, and adding one is not that hard (one site even added one today, on my request).

So, I don’t agree that RSS is dead.
I said strategic importance to China. Not the USA. South Korea, Japan, and Guam are a drop in the bucket compared to China in terms of military might and economy, unfortunately.
The decentralization aspect is not the problem. XMPP for example is also decentralized but has quite good mobile support. The problem with tox seems to be that it is peer-to-peer. So the servers are missing which could buffer all those events for the clients.
Great tool, just starting exploring it.

This brings into focus a math issue I've been wrestling with for some time, but haven't yet been able to adequately express.

Unexpectedly, some of the "equations" posted here aren't really equal! For instance, "pressure altitude - in feet"[1] (formulas that require a particular set of unit are a big red flag) is given as:

h_alt = ( 1 - ( P_sta / 1013.25 )^0.190284 ) · 145366.45

But this can't be correct -- the left side has a dimensions of length^1, while the right side has dimensions of (mass^0.190284 · length^-0.190284 · time^-0.380568). At the risk of stating the obvious, these are not equal!

Another red flag is that the page specifies that altitude and pressure inputs for this formula (I can't call it an "equation") must be given as dimensionless numbers. But length and pressure quantities have dimensions of length^1 and (mass^1 · length^-1 · time^-2), respectively.

To transform this expression into an equation (and as a side-effect, make it work with any arbitrary pressure and length units), just replace each "naked" (improperly dimensionless) variable X by the quantity X/<unit>, then rearrange so the units become part of the constants. For example, the above expression can be refactored into an equation as follows:

Substitute (X/unit) for X:

(h_alt / foot) = ( 1 - ( (P_sta / millibar) / 1013.25 )^0.190284 ) · 145366.45

Rearrange:

h_alt = ( 1 - ( P_sta / (1013.25 millibar))^0.190284 ) 145366.45 foot

Convert to SI:

h_alt = (1 - (P_sta / (101.325 kPa))^0.190284 · 44307.69396 meter

Note that we can do the same thing with the "equivalent" expression in meters[2] (a further red flag: if they're equivalent, why should any system of equations need more than one copy?) it should yield the same result:

h_alt = ( 1 - ( P_sta / 1013.25 )^0.190284 ) · 44307.69396
(h_alt / meter) = ( 1 - ( (P_sta / millibar) / 1013.25 )^0.190284 ) · 44307.69396
h_alt = ( 1 - ( P_sta / (1013.25 millibar))^0.190284 ) · 44307.69396 meter

Well I'll be damned. :)

Euler was the first person to realize this, afaik. Is there a term to describe these kind of "de-unit-ified" equations? More than once I've found myself needing to reconstruct a proper equation (with correct dimensions and constants) from one of these bastardized non-equations.

[1] https://www.fxsolver.com/browse/formulas/Pressure+Altitude+-...

[2] https://www.fxsolver.com/browse/formulas/Pressure+Altitude+-...

edit: I'd fix it myself (by submitting an equation), but I can't figure out how to embed units in the equation itself. It interprets "kPa," "kg," "m," and "s" as variable names. :(

TL;DR fxsolver.com doesn't seem to support embedding units in expressions, leading to to confusing non-equal "equations"
Turns out the people the CIA finds the most sympathetic and "tuned towards our side" are usually able to send the whole population flying towards the opposition.

I guess somewhere in Langley, there is a uttermost secret file analyzing the recruiting and support patterns, summing it up with: Nobody is as good at subverting the USA longterm goals in any region then the CIA.
Are you arguing that .com companies came to comprise a substantial share of the stock market? I'm not disagreeing. Just surprised.
This approach has a rather severe disadvantage: packet loss. Especially in crowded WiFi networks the performance is going to be dismal.

There are many codecs that address this such as G.711 codec. PCM is not the right approach.
What else, am I right?
I'm not knowledgeable enough about the biology to really add much to what you said there either, even though I deal with the end results.

Systems biology is one of those areas where I think AI will make a huge difference in the future. If you are interested in some thoughts on this listen to the first hour and a half talk by Craig Mundie (you can skip first 20 minutes of intro by Collins) of this recent NIH videocast on AI in medicine:

https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=28053&bhcp=1
THIS WAS A REALLY GOOD ARTICLE, THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT.
Worked at Ticketmaster.
This is from 2017, previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554
To be clear, I'm talking about scraping. I think the sibling commenter is talking about developing competing products via reverse engineering ("clean room implementation"). I am also not a lawyer, so I can only tell you the guidance I received from one for the projects I worked on.

Technically speaking you can scrape data in a legally defensible way if you do not need to accept any terms of service explicitly prohibiting scraping in the course of grabbing the data. The distinction is that browsewrap T&C have plausible deniability, but clickwrap T&C do not. And if you receive a cease and desist order, you abide by it with a mea culpa. This also means you don't scrape so loudly as to be noticed, which has the happy side effect of probably not disrupting the target's service.

But again: The grey areas of ethics are a separate question from legality. Please engage a lawyer for your specific work.
I disagree. The best niche communities are good because they are niche, not because they're hard to find. It's the focus and passion of the members that makes them what they are, and the ultra-niche nature of those communities is what ensures that people who aren't actually interested will stay away.

If it's impossible to find outside of word of mouth with acquantainces, then the purpose of the internet has been defeated. Why have the ability to connect all of these people with a common interest if you're going to refuse to let serendipity happen?
It's very common for YC-funded hardware companies not to have a working prototype. But I hope you and your team are working on something! Working out the details of the design, and showing sketches to customers doesn't require money.
11 Rules for Critical Thinking
Yeah, but at that point you incur many of the costs with little of the benefit, so it works like a de facto push to IPO. Is anyone aware of any companies that have stayed in that "over shareholder threshold but still remained private" boat for any considerable length of time (i.e. greater than a year or 2)?
Sure!

https://epxx.co/artigos/ "Railroads" section. Most material is in pt_BR but I have translated some of them to en.
I'm unaware of any, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone is. I haven't investigated it much however.

He was pretty widely hated and derided, so it's not a comfortable path to take - thus, I expect few are taking it.
Penny bidding, yes. Shill bidding, no.
So, as I understand it, they're saying that someone who is (for example) a psychopath, is a lot more likely (than most people) to be narcissistic, someone who is sadistic is a lot more likely to be self-interested, and so on. This is perhaps a good thing to go out and check, but mostly this does not seem surprising to me; it would have been news if it turned out not to work like that.
The more "mass" the transit the harder it is for the vehicle to go exactly where all the people on it want to go. Subway, maybe walk a 1/2 mile, bus somewhat less but lots of stops, individual road transport, very close.

An auto-car just sitting costs almost nothing per hour (capital cost, but very little other cost), so you can have lots of them everywhere. Pickup time can be very short. I almost never used taxis in my town because of long and unreliable pickup times. Use uber all the time now. I still own a car, but if I did not have off street parking like many in my neighborhood, getting rid of it would be a no-brainer.
> What does Microsoft Word have to do with this?

It's an indication that the person who solved it is an amateur, that's all.
Pig lungs are extemely close to human lungs --- that's why a lot of such research is done on them.

Looks like the age of chimeras is upon us.
Local news crisis is destroying what America desperately needs: Common ground
There are something like three dozen startups working on different chips that can speed up this whole process. The big question for all of these companies and their architectures is how flexible they will be for anything beyond a very specific implementation of an algorithm. This is particularly important in the AI/ML world because the algorithms are changing so rapidly. The challenge here goes well beyond the chip architecture. So if you think about the benchmarks for CPUs today, those can be blazing fast, but when you try them out on real applications they run a lot slower. Those differences may be magnified with parallel approaches. Different applications utilize different levels of parallelism with uneven performance improvements. It's not just how the processing is parsed, but also how effectively the results can be recombined after processing.
Many fond memories of watching these shows as a kid during the 80s on Channel 60.
I've found companies that hold mortgages tend to do that sort of thing -- they really don't get the concept that Steve Jobs & others promoted that 'someone is going to eat your business, so we'd better cannibalize it first'.

Trying to get two different refis, different houses, different lenders, the original lender kept stringing me along so long that I'd literally found several better deals, selected one, signed & closed before their refi dept responded with a meaningful contact who could actually move forward with a deal. They had my business by default, all they would have had to do is respond promptly, but I had to say "sorry, you lost".

Just myopic. Seems they think if they don't respond, we'll not bother.
The "definition of science" isnt up for debate.
Last time I looked, I did not find any published trained nets on it. As far as I know, the custom build of Dota they use isn't public either. It will most likely change in the near future though, would be the next logical step for the OpenAI team as per the goal of their organization.
This is not logical. WF now makes nothing from the financing of the place rather than simply less than originally. They should understand that there's a market and someone else will do the refi.
Just want to call myself out on this one. Thanks for the reminder to be better.
Pro game starting in a few minutes.
The marketing on this whole effort is strong and the training budget was insane. That said until it defeats the best of the best it's just really amazing machine learning as opposed to game changing machine learning IMO. Also keep in mind that there's a game state API here, this is not at all like learning 2600 games from learning the screens alone which would make me fear we were on the verge of the robot apocalypse personally.
That probably works if customer has no other choice. Not familiar with how the numbers work here but it seems like if the customer refinances with another company then there is money left on the table and they just lost out. Also presumably they just burned a bridge with that customer for future financial activity.
Could be that headlines in the first person (“I”) or with proper grammar (“a”) instead of omitting the article as is common in abbreviating headlines correlate with upvotes?
A good thing to read to know the basics of the game and what to pay attention to: http://smerity.com/articles/2018/n_things_to_look_out_for_in...
I don't know a lot about psychology. The only things I've read are pop-psych articles like this about "traits", "D-factors" and "personality types", which you got to admit do sound a bit much like pseudo-science, or at least not telling the full story. It's useful, for sure, but I'd like to know more about the formal methods employed in modern psychology today. I imagine statistics, surveys and telemetry perhaps being key, but like all methods based in data - You have to be very careful; testing methodology and interpretation biases can heavily influence the results.

I think psychology could bring valuable insight into the future of AI as well. It's a shame that most psychologists involved in tech are in HR/communications or at best tasked with keeping people addicted to whatever social platform they are building.
In this case investors saw his donation as a sign of lack of confidence in the company, which indicates that he chose to make the donation when he thought he could get the biggest tax break from it.

I think it'd be fair for donors to get a tax break according to how much the stock is worth when it's given to charity.
I am not sure I understand the distinction you make between a government and the higher bidder? How can you be reasonably sure that your findings will not be used wrongfully by X gov official?
Code made public on Kaggle Kernels is currently required to be under an Apache 2.0 license.

Beyond that, for private work the non-legalese TL;DR is no, at least not beyond what's required for us to operate the service. I'll refer you to https://www.kaggle.com/terms, and copy one relevant section below. If your work is in the context of making submissions to a specific machine learning competition, then that competition may have bespoke exceptions to this as well (which would be detailed in the rules of the competition).

"For all User Submissions, you grant Kaggle a license to translate, modify (for technical purposes, for example making sure your content is viewable on an iPhone as well as a computer) and reproduce and otherwise act with respect to such User Submissions, in each case to enable us to operate the Services, as described in more detail below. You acknowledge and agree that Kaggle, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users (including you), may need to make changes to your User Submissions to conform and adapt those User Submissions to the technical requirements of communication networks, devices, services, or media, and the licenses you grant under these Terms include the rights to do so. You also agree that all of the licenses you grant under these Terms are royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and worldwide. These are licenses only — your ownership in User Submissions is not affected."
Even if they did release the likely-very-big model, your personal computer is likely not fast enough to make 2-3 actions per second (x5) and update weights in real time without a beefy GPU.
Don't call them "ads." Call them "promotions."
The original tweet doesn't use the word "mooching"—and I think that's a good thing. The tweet says:

> It's frustrating that the major cloud platforms ($MSFT, $AMZN, $GOOG) are now all supporting Avro, ORC, Parquet for data storage, but haven't lifted a finger to help build or maintain OSS libraries for use in Python to read and write them

I agree—that does sound frustrating. When we build FOSS software, we naturally hope that it will resonate with many users, and that at least some of our users will contribute to that software and make it better. When that doesn't happen, it's deeply frustrating.

What it isn't is mooching. Free software is, well, free software. It's not "free on the condition that you contribute" or "free unless you have a $1+ trillion market cap. It's free software, which means anyone and everyone can use it without any obligation to pay, either with money or with time.

(I realize that the original tweet doesn't contradict this, but think this point is important enough to be worth emphasizing, especially when words like "mooching" enter the conversation.)
Why can't Windows and Mac do the same?

Because of corporate control.
When driving your own car at 70mph for an hour you are not getting that distant for free.
[2014] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131785
Would pig lungs offer an advantage somehow in terms of performance?
I would have no issues working on this. Doesn't seem very unethical. (For people who know the space, it's pretty obvious that you're talking about Plaid :))
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