skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a civilian I am certain my reactions, instincts, and decisions are vastly different from those of a soldier. I am not trained to follow orders and take lives regardless of my opinions. I am allowed to have doubts and act on those doubts as I see fit without fear of a court marshal.

At this time in real life any soldier should have reasonable doubt about whether their next target is an enemy combatant or a civilian based on an almost endless record of mistakes and mishaps. But questioning the order or entertaining that sense of doubt could be the difference between surviving and getting your whole squad killed.

Now take that soldier and put them in a simulation and you raised the bar 1000 fold on whether they should worry about real life consequences. They're trained not to worry when they know it's real, let alone when it might not be real at all.

The thing with soldiers is that the whole military culture instills a sense of following orders, the "reasonable doubt" bar is set a lot higher before you can expect them to oppose or even entertain that doubt and investigate.
What's ML?
thanks. testing it now.
Sure, but markets ensure that traders who don't effectively do this lose money and get flushed out. That's the case with most day-traders, who are losing money they would otherwise put into consumption and using it to get an emotional high off price movements. Gambling, basically.

Quant high-speed traders (and arbitragers) are using information in a different way. Typically, the way these strategies work is that they discover correlations between prices. For example, when China enacts tariffs on soybeans in response to Trump's tariffs on steel & aluminum, that's going to depress demand (and hence prices) on soybeans. However, it will also have a lot of knock-on effects on other industries: shipping companies transporting soybeans will lose money, railroads connecting soybean farms to the Great Lakes will lose money, railroads connecting soybean farms to domestic demand will gain money, ranchers and chicken farms and other domestic food producers who use soybeans as feed will gain money, commodity traders could go either way, house prices in wealthy Chicago neighborhoods might increase if commodity traders are making a killing, etc. Say that the inside information entering the market is "China is enacting tariffs on soybeans". A bunch of people with that information will short soybean futures, and then it's the job of an HFT to spread that information through all the other markets that it may affect, updating the relevant prices on their securities before the profits actually trickle down through the economy.

Index funds are the freeriders of the markets. The philosophy there is that all of the work that people do is going to produce some value, and the shareholders will capture some of that value as returns to equity. And if the rest of the financial system is functioning effectively, all of this will be reflected in prices. So rather than worry about what the price will be, just buy & hold securities in proportion to their value, let the price mechanism do its job, and profit in proportion to the initial amount of capital you put in.
Does anyone know how they are offering better raytracing performance? Are there new api’s or something?
Apache Cayenne 4.0 final is released
South Station in Boston had one of these until maybe 5 years ago; sadly it's been replaced with a digital one. Though they do have a loudspeaker play a recording of the flapping sound whenever the display changes to alert travelers.
can you reply to this comment? I want to test it. Thanks.
Imagine having to update the whiteboard in real time though? Must be a right PITA, unless there is minimal changes going on with the flights (lack of delays or gate changes).
With that framing, you're omitting the most important part of the article:

All of the most powerful, most predatory actors in that society are gearing up to make that drug more widely available, experiment with its potency, and capitalize on the notion that it is "the least harmful."

I'm grateful they quoted a Stanford professor speaking truth: "We’ve learned enough about capitalism to know that’s very dangerous."
Well, in some states it is illegal to ask a potential employee about their citizenship status.

There are definitely industries in which hiring (suspected, but very likely) illegal immigrants is standard practice.
I'd actually argue that strict "maps" are the wrong choice. Instead, human learning is much more akin to an alist of data that you periodically garbage collect. Sometimes, having multiple "entries" for a single key makes a ton of sense and you essentially key key->value mappings based on recency and overall capacity of your entire experience, not experience in just a single mapping.

For your first point, you seem to be making an assertion with no data. I get the fear. I have never actually seen it play out. Worse, I have never seen it play out that these other languages are easy to just jump into. You can soften the claim to "easier" but you have not established a baseline. Just blindly claiming it would have been harder in lisp.
The Mercury and other software acquisitions were so poorly handled. There was solid software there, plenty of good engineers and consultants, but R&D was underfunded. Sales turned into a revolving door, customer support had no training, and partners (who actually understood the products, customers, and had the expertise) were mistrusted. Sad all the way around.
Well, time to up my game on Torrent and Usenet then. I particularly like UseNet for movies and other content, apart from XXX.
Training prices would have to drop significantly. It's much cheaper to take a PR hit and apply a hotfix instead of spending $100k+ on building a self-play AI.
No, it does hurt to blame the victims.
Facebook and NYU School of Medicine launch research collaboration to improve MRI
Woo, Triangle food thread!

* C&T Wok in Morrisville (amazing authentic Chinese)
* Backyard Barbecue, Durham (Eastern NC BBQ)
* Kokyu Na'Mean, Durham (Korean sandwiches)
* Sushioki, Durham (Sushi burritos--yes, really)
* New Hope Market, Chapel Hill (local farm-to-table food)
Do they need to develop the technology themselves? So long as their cars don’t have drivers, they’re fine, no? Or is the issue that nobody would share with them?
While I don't necessarily agree with the author there, I don't think there is contradiction between their and your statements. Tools are not necessarily commonly used for what they are best suited for.

Also the context is bit different; research vs businesses
You mean denoising? In RT raytracing you're generally short on samples and need to interpolate between them / smooth over the shot noise.
"Several candidates made the argument at the debate that the government forced mortgage lenders to make bad loans. But in reality, most subprime loans were made by companies that were not subject to any kind of federal regulation."

"No executive of a major mortgage company said at the time that the government was forcing them to make subprime loans. They said they did it because they thought they would make money. And even now, after the crash of the housing market, with all the temptation to point fingers, it is awfully hard to find a mortgage executive who echoes the argument"

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/us/politics/the-role-of-r...
Post-it notes for notes that have a lifetime of a few hours or less.
One of my notebooks for notes that have a longer lifetime, for math, for figuring things out, for diagrams.
Org-mode for planning, documenting research, and structured note taking.
Stylus on my phone or laptop for drawing diagrams by hand that I need to share with others. (Also this is the best way I've found to practice my penmanship without wasting paper for no reason.)
In general, no, but generalizing can miss important local markets. I live in London and trains and busses do me fine. I honestly can't remember the last time I got into a car here; certainly years rather than months.

Big-city issues like parking and congestion charging can tip the scales quite a bit, with much better public transport than the rest of the country to compensate.
The Daily Scrum Is Not a Status Meeting
re: the portfolio line — wow.
I just built a home. There's a lot of out of control factors that make it harder to build. "Historic districts" are basically ways to add extra red tape for the NIMBYs. HOAs are now more common and also add red tape for NIMBYs. Environmental changes for energy efficiency aren't always funded by banks.

One of the things we need is to abolish things like HOAs and historic districts; and then reform lending so it will fund environmentally-friendly building codes.
Soma is a key component in keeping people happy when they shouldn’t be.
Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase?

1080s are ~$450, will now be $799.
1070s are ~$400, will now be $599.

(I'm going off the top hits on Newegg)
Augur may not have many users at the moment... but i can imagine a near future where workers displaced by automation could make money on this platform. Who else is going to have time to place a bet and contantly monitor these markets? Or, more realistically the markets will be taken over entirely by bots and AI who also operate using smart contracts. The bots would be able to analyze billions of datapoints scraped from the web and pay for api access via crypto. How could a human ever compete? Welcome to the future.
The last thing I want in a project I am working on is for the main programming language itself to be "an adventure'. Software development is hard enough, I don't need anymore "adventures" from the underlying language or tools.
Excel has many other sins. If you have a long numeric ID in a csv file, it will import it as a floating point and truncate (round) the ID.
US currency backs to the fact that the US law enforcement and potentially military (if you're big enough) will come after you if you fail to pay taxes,

The US currency is backed by the US economy, due to it being legal tender (i.e., form of payment) for all debts governed by US laws.

For point of comparison: the Fijian dollar is roughly half the value of the US Dollar, but Fiji has one of the smallest militaries in the world. It's value holds up because you have to spend FJD in Fiji for commercial transactions. And the EU's Euro is worth more than the dollar, despite a smaller military and more permissive legal system, because the EU has a very large economy (and the potential to be larger than the US' economy, if the Mediterranean states got their shit in order).
Any daily pot-smoker will tell you that their short-term memory declines after a few weeks of daily/hourly use. It's extremely well known, though perhaps not well documented.
The North East Corridor is profitable.

“the most traveled highway in America, spanning 1,900 miles from Miami to Maine.”

Who pays for all the roads? The gas tax doesn’t cover it.

I’d think that between Boston and at least DC, there’s a need to travel by train at 225 mph. With a little vision, it could go to Miami.
I'll never stop being fascinated by how radically different the experiences of cannabis users are. The idea of weed reducing anxiety and making you feel "fine doing nothing" are the polar opposites of how it makes me feel.

Overall it sounds like your experiences were much more positive than mine, though.
I have been smoking pot since I was 14 years old, I am 51 now. I would stop smoking from time to time, sometimes to prepare for football, sometimes because society wanted me too. I am not a lazy person, I smoke a sativa strain to get me motivated, it acts like a stimulant that can help me focus.. laser like focus to drown out daily distractions. I'll smoke an indica strain to sleep well at night. I have been a highly successful software developer, approaching my later days of my career. I can unequivocally tell you that pot has made a huge difference in my life. I am better on it, than when I am not. I can function perfectly, pot does not make me veg- out and I am quite active with many hobbies. Yes, I tend to be happier, more relaxed, and less stressed out when on pot... but the same is true for Prozac recipients. Am I evil and a loser because of this? F. No!

The reality is quite simple, different stains of pot affect people differently. Everyone is affected differently with only a few common effects. Pot can help some people while hindering others. I detest anybody who calls a pot head a loser because they smoke pot. It's just a bad stereotype. Contrary to what Jeff Sessions might believe, I am a good person, well respected, extremely intelligent, and a contributor to society. Most everyone who meets me or knows me wouldn't believe I smoke pot, but I smoke more than most pot heads could even imagine. Pot has been a miracle drug to me, much like Prozac is to others, without the liver damage. F those who diss pot smokers, there are many more of us than you can imagine.
> Considering how much harder and more error-prone multi-core is, maybe first try a fast sequential solution.

Most of the Python programs referenced on that benchmarks game webpage are in-fact using multi-core ?
Doesn't need on for SSL; needs a reverse proxy if you want to do port sharing (many apps on port 80/443 switched by host header) or Windows Auth.

You can also build your reverse proxy using Kestrel.

Though IIS is more battle tested so they may be using that as front line server for such a high profile service as Bing
Actually, there are also people [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] who are very successful betting small sums (relative to their total investable capital), very frequently, on securities they believe are slightly over or under valued.

[0] - https://www.rentec.com/

[1] - https://www.twosigma.com/

[2] - https://www.citadel.com/

[3] - https://www.mlp.com/

[4] - https://www.deshaw.com/

[5] - https://www.worldquant.com/
They can be a good allocation method, but often you get 'premium' roads and weird routing because of splitting things up.

Now if there was a toll on all major roads of 2c a mile for cars and ten times that for trucks, then I'd be all for it.
"The rise of open source ML platforms such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, ...", so ML = Machine Learning.
I know nobody who uses Bing to be honest. Am I wrong in thinking this?
Somehow I actually fell in love with .NET Core 2.0. While their naming is still confusing and it's hard to know what will come next. I found myself amazingly productive with Razor Pages.
It's really cool if you don't need an SPA and you could do everything pretty damn fast. It's like WebForms, but without the Microsoft specifics and instead relies on the good old html5 part to make an app great.
Apple who employs over 100k individuals has employees create automated tests, and manually test apps for inclusion in the store which requires a 99 usd fee for a developer to access.

A potential malware author must pay 99 usd to submit apps and pass certification for its apps. If apps are detected in review as malware that 99 usd is burned and will have to be spent again potentially repeatedly.

This is probably why there are millions of infected androids and comparatively few infected iphones.

Redhat with 10% of the staff and 1% of the annual revenue doesn't require any fee to release applications. This probably doesn't scale to android or ios proportions unless your sandboxing is perfect.

Unfortunately there is no 100% safe way to fuck disease ridden whores and no 100% safe way to run malware ridden apps. This is a dangerous fiction and an unworthy goal.
Ok so I do appreciate the EFF's zeal in preemptively quashing a bug-hunter-hunt, but here's a scenario that throws their thesis into question:

Bank of 'MURICA (Bo'M) gets a phone call from some random guy (Jack) who identifies a bug in the interface between PoS systems at gas stations across the US, and whatever Bo'M internal software-mega-structure manages checking acct balances for Bo'M customers. Now, Jack is a good Samaritan; he would never use this information to steal from millions of Bo'M customers...but like...he totally could. Jack's sister Jill overhears her brother's conversation with Bo'M's security team, & decides everyone needs to know immediately about Bo'M's negligence.

Lets pretend it's going to take a ~month to fix the interface.

Is it cool for Jill to get on Reddit and post the code necessary to exploit the bug before Bo'M has a chance to protect their customers?

Is this a victimless act? Was she just being responsible? Should she have waited to be responsible?
Workflowy
These are also Founders Edition prices. Still the 2080ti is pretty expensive even at non-FE pricing:

RTX 2070 cards will start at $499, with RTX 2080 at $699, and the RTX 2080 Ti starting at $999.
In the US, true HSR (by which I mean 220mph/350km/h service) is not viable outside of the Northeast (where Acela already exists), California, and maybe Texas. Medium-speed rail, running around 125mph, could probably be viable in a Midwest network centered on Chicago, but the needs of Chicago's commuter rail and freight rail networks likely preclude mixing higher speed intercity trains with generally slower local and freight trains on a reliable schedule, and there's insufficient demand to warrant dedicating track for higher speed transit.

It's a shame that the NEC hasn't been brought up to higher speeds than 125mph, but that's largely a function of the remediation needed to do that costing serious money [1] and the politics of infrastructure disbursement not favoring doling out cash to favor largely the NYC area.

[1] You need, at a minimum, new track with less curves in most of suburban of CT; new Hudson River tunnels; new Portal Bridge; at least a third track in the MD-DE stretch (including a new bridge on the Susquehanna); and replacement of the B&P tunnel, whose condition was "this needs to be replaced" when Amtrak was started and has degraded to "how hasn't this failed yet?"
If I had zero obligations or goals in life, I would smoke pot all day every day.

But since, like OP, it makes me want to sit at home and do nothing (not inherently a bad thing), it impedes my goals of producing creative work.

There is a fine line, I think, between people who can smoke pot responsibly (every few days or only once a week) and people who cannot go a single day (or even a few hours) without smoking.
> The other downsides were that I wasn't as sharp mentally when I was sober. I wasn't as ambitious. I was less social. In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing. On the balance that made pot a negative for me.

This is exactly why I quit. I found myself not comprehending technical conversations as well as I used to while sober. Hanging out at home doing nothing when you REALLY do want to go out do something eventually got me to quit. For me ambition is what has guided me for so long and not having that created an emptiness. I too felt less anxiety but in the long run I was actively watching the days go by and no progress in my life.

I don't believe these things are talked about enough. Its just the stereotypical "pothead".
I've put up a couple of PRs to fix some of the English and the line spacing. Preview here:
https://rjmunro.github.io/osm-for-the-dyslexic.github.io/

I hope they merge them as it looks a lot better to my (admittedly non-dyslexic) eyes.
Another downside you might not have considered is that you may have also adversely affected your neighbors if you live in shared housing. Not everyone enjoys the smell of pot, and I've had neighbors that made me miserable from the constant pot stench seeping through our shared wall.
I think it is that since the length is never mutated in the body the check can be simplified. From a generic dictionary lookup to comparison to a constant int.
My experience with Facebook "in the early days" is different in that I very much cared about how many likes I got on my posts and updates, whereas now I absolutely do not care.
For the 1080, by your numbers, $799/$450 represents a ~78% price increase.
I think it will still be popular for DL. The models themselves will fit and batches can be distributed over multiple cards during training.
> On the flip side, he wants to build cars without having to play stupid financial games to satisfy investors each quarter.

It baffles me why he publicly listed Tesla in the first place if he didn't want to "play stupid financial games".

Ok so he wants to take it private - is funding secured or not?
Any idea of how these GeForce RTX's perform in deep learning applications compared to Quadro RTX? (price/performance ratio)

I assume that they might have decent inference speed, but how about learning?

$800 card would be nice for initial testing and developing in personal desktop machine. Or are they somehow crippled??
If they just changed the law so you could exchange bolivars at whatever rate you wanted and dropped import restrictions so you could import/export what you wanted and dropped price controls and subsidies a fair chunk of their problems would go overnight. Instead more weird disfunction seems to be continuing.
But do you smoke very day? Do you look forward to pot more than anything else? If not, then good for you! Like alcohol, some people take weed to extremes, and others are able to drink one glass every now and again without going overboard.
Putting AI/ML aside, I have a question for graphics experts or/and gamers: what is the practical [1] ceiling of the current champion, the 1080ti? I was under impression that that card already was much more than most people needed. In other words, is the new generation only useful for 4K gaming?

[1] By "practical" I mean on 1440p@144Hz monitors.
Railroads were very far from reputable services when they were first being built. The history of these is fascinating; you think tech scams are bad today, you should've seen the machinations of Jay Gould [1] or Thomas Durant [2]. Many early railroads failed to get completed at all, or if they did, the trains would blow up on the tracks and kill a bunch of passengers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gould

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroa...
Yeah, makes sense. Getting a mortgage is one of the few ways a "normal" person can get a some leverage.

I do believe in the value of early stage options... The potential is just very overstated and requires a lot of things to line up right.
Wow, were the founders editions really that cheap on the last gen? Guess the inflated prices from all the crypto mining really threw me off.
Ask HN: How to rest to actually feel refreshed?
The work is getting more and more stressful. I am at the point right now where the weekend flies by, and I don't feel much better on Monday then I felt on Friday.

On weekdays I mostly watch movies or Youtube and read HN articles until I fall asleep. On weekends I either do the same, or go for a walk, or go shopping.

So my questions are:

1. What should/shouldn't I do in those few hours before sleep to feel better in the morning?

2. What should/shouldn't I do during weekends to actually feel refreshed and ready for the work week?
Can you please explain a bit about how you get this edge?
The Dutch actually have a continuing conflict with Germany about a maritime area: the Dollard/Dollart. Not that it's an actual problem: all practical affairs have been arranged in harmony, but still both countries' claims overlap, and in fact the last few metres of the pier of Delfzijl are in Germany according to their interpretation...
Not a .NET developer, so apologies for the dumb question, but why did MS release a second open source .NET implementation around the same time as they acquired Xamarin? Do .NET core and Mono compete with one another? Do they serve complementary roles? Why would I choose one over the other?