skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely! Everyone I spoke with and suggested google move into the newly built and absolutely hated Stadtschloss in the center loved the idea.
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Happening to my company all of a sudden; we've got low bounce rate and historically very high deliverability. We send through mailgun. We've got DNS set up correctly, and they're just transactional e-mails (purchase receipts, password resets, new device sign in confirmations, etc.). Very frustrating.
> You don't get that in a C-like syntax.

No, instead you get something like );}]);) except that that's usually split up over several lines.

BTW, it's pretty easy to tweak Lisp's syntax so that your parens don't get so deeply nested. See

https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.l...

for an example.
I have a friend who played tons of Civ 3 back in the day. He had the most success playing Rome. This got him into Roman history and culture, which in turn got him into law. He's currently one of the most respected criminal investigators in the country. Oh, and he's writing a book about Rome!
Maybe higher kinded types? Monads, Monoids, Functors, etc etc
I dispute this. Vista focused heavily (on launch) on the sidebar and transparency (golly gee!). 7 and XP look very similar out-of-the-box.

Honestly, I like 10 mostly. If they finished converting the settings menus to the new style, it'll feel a bit more complete. But that will also likely hide many of the useful (for "enthusiasts") settings. And if you could control updates, so it doesn't use huge amounts of memory/storage when booting when the machine has been off a week or two. Avoiding tracking would be nice too ... But I don't know much about that.

Edit: my views of 10 are likely shaped by the fact that I use 1607 LTSB, which doesn't have a lot of the new windows 10 crap (app store, etc)
I think the pain-point being designated by the OP is that the cure is worse than the disease:

Problem = tight coupling
Solution = x, where x => {indirection, implicit_coupling}

I'm not sure I agree the final judgement call, but the analysis is spot-on. Message-passing interfaces are generally difficult to discover and to debug, and require a lot of careful documentation, logging & instrumentation.
I've switched to renting cars for large mile trips. Unlimited mileage rentals are so cheap it's worth it to avoid wear and tear even on my older car or my girlfriend's nicer vehicle--and removes the risk of my old car breaking down in an inconvenient place. Last rental was an SUV for $65/week that I put hundreds of miles on. Some of the rentals I have put 1k+ miles on for <$100.
I’m still carrying a Win2K Pro image around in VMware. It runs all the windows software I need (and this is the right way to choose an operating system IMO) and if it gets screwed up I can always blow it away and revert to the snapshot that’s got all the service packs installed.
Yes, you are.

Most of hard problems in computer science are that of highly-branched connectivity (both in terms of the number of connections that are mode from the compute node and in terms of the branching required in the algorithms).

E.G. 1 - branched) if it takes you 100ms to send 1Gb of data over network, but you don't have to wait for it's result, then latency does not matter at all.

E.G. 2 - number of connections to the node) if you have a matrix value that depends on a full row in a matrix, this matrix value somehow needs to be computationally connected to a full row in a matrix. Cluster or GPU, these physical connections need to be made either through Ethernet or by reading values from RAM. Again, the latency does not matter as long as you can pipeline these.

So frankly, no. It's not the micrometers on the silicon that matters, it's just that our hardware had been scaled so much that a 50 year old compute cluster can be literally scaled down to a single die. It's _not_ more efficient, though.
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related to this, a very interesting podcast ep on "How I built This" w/ Guy Raz - the interview with Wayfair founders: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

There was an interesting discussion of when and why they took investment for the new Wayfair brand vs not taking it for the other businesses they built. As I was listening it occurred to me they had stumbled upon a good recipe for bootstrapping and/vs VC:

<snip snip>

RAZ: Yeah. In 2011, I guess, was when you decided that you needed to scale this even bigger. And this was the first time you actually took in outside investment. Why did you allow venture capitalists to get involved in this company?

SHAH: We're definitely ones who would rather just fund it ourselves or self-fund the business and have it fund itself. The challenge became - in 2011, we believed the big opportunity - to continue the trajectory and to really capture the big opportunity, we needed to build a brand. And the amount of capital we thought to go through that migration and to build a brand that it would take was not an amount we could self-fund.

RAZ: Because you did not have a brand. CSN was not enough of a brand.

SHAH: Right. You know, consumers didn't know that brand. It wasn't - you want a brand that when, you know, you think, hey, I need to shop; I want to redo my living room - you want someone to think, oh, I go to Wayfair. You want it to be a top-of-mind brand for a category, right? And that is not - that's not easy to do. And even if you figure out how to do it, it's not inexpensive by any stretch, right? So there - we wanted to be able to do that.

</snip snip>
Can anyone explain how to do that (in theory).

I guess one needs to train a model from a dataset that contains a picture of oneself and many images of other people, some with beards (possibly CelebA-HQ). According to the README this would take about 2 weeks on a NVIDIA Tesla V100.

Given that we already have a model from CelebA-HQ would it be possible to use that as a pre-trained model and just train it a bit more with an additional image? If possible would that speed things up enough to do it on cheaper hardware in less than a day?
Czechia is in general one of the safest european countries [1]. I am quiet european laptop carrying male (-foreign) and have ocassionally walked through deserted industrial areas/streets of Prague well after midnight and never felt significantly threatened.

Rowdy and drunk groups of tourists are the most unsettling thing that I occasionally encounter, so maybe it's better to avoid tourists areas instead?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index#Global_Peac...
Unity has been investing heavily in neural nets for AI. I could envision this also being used for art asset generation. The core TensorFlow API is written in C++, not Python.
modern c compilers will turn the first example iterative too.

but in 1983 this would have seemed magic.;
> Google places the page where you eventually end up finding what you want high on the search results page.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you here. The smarter Google tries to make their algorithm the more infuriatingly terrible it is for me to use.

All I want is a feature to completely forget my YouTube and search history when I am not logged in. I never want to see personal recommendations, because for me personally they continue to get worse and worse.
Actual title - not HN friendly:

"7 Job Skills Of The Future (That AIs And Robots Can't Do Better Than Humans)"
> As a result, modern slots pay out on approximately 45 percent of all spins, instead of the 3 percent of traditional slots.

I do not get this. slots pay out (RTP Return To Player) is around 90%. The article mixes volatility with RTP.

> Lower-volatility games often have greater appeal in 'locals markets' than in destination resort markets like Las Vegas or Atlantic City

This looks correct.

> During "flow," time speeds up (hours feel like minutes) or slows down (reactions can be made instantly) and the mind reaches a state of almost euphoric equilibrium.

Most sensible regulations force you to send reminders to the players that interrupt this flow. On-line betting usually has harder regulations, as to play in a casino you need to physically get there but on-line is always available.

Usually in high regulated markets each spin should last at least 3 seconds. This is so you cannot get a fast continuous flow, but the pace is forcefully slowed down.

Physical casino slots and on-line slots are slightly different as products and regulation wise.

> "People only have so much leisure time and there’s a lot of activity on iPhones"

Slot machines are competing against Candy Crush (and Royal Charm Slots from the same company), Netflix, YouTube, etc.

> Eyal criticized slot machines for what he said was a business model dependent on addicted players — "that industry, I have a problem with," he said.

And the solution is to regulated it in a way that the most addictive aspects are not possible to implement. Or to prohibit it completely, not just to move it underground. If anyone expects that the industry is going to regulate itself they are for a hard ride. No industry does that for real.
Of course it's possible. Windows UI is just set of userland programs. Back in Windows XP time, there were plenty of Windows shells which completely changed the way OS looks. I'm not sure if those programs are still in development, but I don't see any particular reason why it would be impossible to replicate Windows 7 L&F for determined developer.
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LISP is more akin to a class of languages rather than a single language in isolation, so it is kind of trick to ask what's "beyond" LISP.
Windows 2000 was not a home OS. Windows ME was. 2000 being NT and ME being DOS.
5.25" or 3.5"... :)
One year effect? What exactly are they speaking about?

The only reason deep learning exists is because by now we've finally learned how to build GPUs fast enough to run the algorithm invented in 1983.

And let's be honest - most of the current, state-of-the-art algorithms only work today because they've got access to scaled up massive databases of data. You don't really need to be as smart here any more.
A relevant podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/burnout-diaries/id124788...
yeah you can return a new function, but it is less easy than in lisp, or F#

but in general a lot of that stuff in the article seems mundane today, you have to imagine seeing it in 1983
GitLab was hosted on Azure just fine for a long period, before moving off recently for optics reasons.
Bibliographic citation algorithms in general are pretty interesting. Jon Kleinberg's work from this era and earlier is especially wonderful to read if you're interested.
Cool! Music generated by neural networks is such an interesting field.

Me and some friends also had a go at it. We used two different datasets, one from Bach and one from Final Fantasy. In contrast to many other approaches, we allowed chords as well as playing multiple notes at the same time (not necessarily the same as playing a chord).
You can find some results here: https://github.com/HalfVoxel/deep-piano (they are definitely cherry-picked, but it worked out quite well overall imo).
Moving towards a better ping endpoint
The way Nissan did < Dealers.

Also, car companies can get together and let their cars charge at each other’s dealers. Then lock out Teslas until TSLA agrees to join.

Also, gas stations don’t make money selling gas (!!) but by selling candy [1]They couldn’t care less if they’re charging $60 to fill your car or 0.60. In fact, the longer it takes to charge your car unattended the more Andy you’ll buy

[1] source: talk by Exxon-Mobile VP at my univ. back in ‘08 (?)
My wife who is a therapist says this issue relates to the executive function part of our brain.

Also, there seems to be increased cases of ADHD in kids. She has told me that many times ADHD medication can increase executive functioning.

It might be worth investigating in cases like this.
It only took 4 weeks plus 30 years of programming experience and a genius mind.
Yes true, misread your comment.
QFGIV was buggy and infuriating but by far the most artistic and evocative entry in the series. If Coles had had a little more time or access to a properly finished engine QFGIV would be one of the most famous games of the era. As it is, it's worth metagaming your way through, which is highly unusual for that period in gaming history.

QFGV is a steaming pile of cow shit.
This has always felt like a core unwritten rule for github projects from my experience, and much to my frustration.
> What standard are you using for "efficient"?

PUE
> in fact, that's a part of what happens when you get atropine drops during an eye exam.

Atropine works by temporarily blocking the contraction of the muscle sphincter pupillae (which along with dilator pupillae is responsible for the contraction of the pupil). The cilliary muscle isn't involved. The rest of your comment stands, though.
The similarities are exclusively because of the do..end

Beyond that there's barely any resemblance.
I'm going to be in San Francisco soon and I actually really considered making a pilgrimage to the original Sierra Oakhurst building [0] which says something about how much of an impact their games had on me. I can't say that I stayed with QFG all the way through III and IV but QFG I (aka Hero's Quest) is one of my all time favorites.

[0] https://forum.guysfromandromeda.com/topic/171-sierra-oakhurs...
The ones that release on consoles too for less than $50? Yeah, none of those are AAA.
Thanks for the feedback.

I think 'lie' is the appropriate word, and the reason is because it really is a lie - a non-truth - which must be continually told in order to persist through time. There is no such thing as culture, until we say "this behaviour/activity/ideal is culture" - it's not a part of the natural world, but rather an invention of a human mind, creating something in order to entertain/amuse/protect itself.

Perhaps 'fallacy' could be used just as well, but I feel that people don't understand the word well enough.

"Here is an empty space. I shall call it 'Golliginamipopo'".

It is un-true that the space is 'Golligaginamipopo' - unless I can get at least a few others to agree to call it that. At that point, it becomes a "collective truth", but nevertheless: this isn't really what the space is. Perhaps someone else has a name for it. Perhaps there is no name at all (the default state of every point in the universe).

The downvotes actually help prove the point and are useful in this case. People don't agree with my lie. :)
Thanks! Looks nice, I will definitely try it out.
I pretty explicitly said if cash is your goal (which has an impact outside of just take-home [401k]). And the 350k is at the low end (probably 3-4 years experience). $400k is typical. Google is pretty close at the Senior level to Netflix, but the all-cash comp is valuable to some people.
I think "generated" may be too strong a word for what this system seems to be doing. It feels more like it has found a bunch of averages among a large enough set of similar pictures of some fairly homogenous celebrities. When enough of those averages are put on a gradient along a particular axis you get transformations that seem magically smooth. In the example you gave I think it didn't have enough source photos along that axis. I'll further guess that this works best for celebrities that are generally considered attractive because attractive faces are already averages.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15376799
"Images of faces manipulated to make their shapes closer to the average are perceived as more attractive."
I do my own maintenance in general. You pay extra for not getting stranded on the side of the road and with a 60+ mile commute I'm happy to pay it.
Yes and it wasn't really Windows. If you put a Windows 3.1 user in front of an NT machine they'd have been very confused.
https://www.deviantart.com/kizo2703/art/Windows-classic-them...
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Behind lisp is its creator, behind which is pure truth/mathematics, behind which is the divine creator, who is the ultimate base case: "I am that I am".
https://b2bpk.com/company/ma-kamil-pharma-57113.html

Weird that the domain points to another Pharma company operating from Karachi, Pakistan. Maybe contacting them to find out who "Shahrukh" is might be a good first step.

EDIT: Looks like 0898 found more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310807
Direct link to paper:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-berger.pdf

Repo:
https://github.com/dasebe/robinhoodcache
You might like Russel's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy https://people.umass.edu/klement/imp/imp-ebk.pdf

From the Introduction:

"And as we need two sorts of instruments, the telescope and the microscope, for the enlargement of our visual powers, so we need two sorts of instruments for the enlargement of our logical powers, one to take us forward to the higher mathematics, the other to take us backward to the logical foundations of the things that we are inclined to take for granted in mathematics."
There are companies that have been doing this for a while.

Can you provide links? I'd like to see what they're up to.

I think you are slightly overestimating the capabilities of the technology,

No. I know how janky smartphone GPS is from personal experience, especially inside a structure. Big companies with deep pockets are working on Vernor Vinge's "localizers," however.

but largely overestimating the demand for this stuff over the way things are traditionally designed/built/inspected. It's not a killer use case that is forcing architecture/design/manufacturing firms to adopt the tech or die...it's currently still in gimmick stage, but is getting better slowly but surely

As you are implying, the demand is closely related to the jankyness event horizon. It's just like smartphones and tablets. They existed many years before the iPhone and iPad. However, prior to the iPhone and iPad, only propeller-heads wanted those things. There's a point at which the technology has matured to the point where it doesn't get in the way and it's actually nice to use. At that point, it will explode.
Absolutely it could. However, with a secured portal - the client would know to go there, rather than email for many interactions already. Once DKIM,SPF,DMARC are on - the spoofed email is harder to do. In this particular case, I'd suggest giving them a file of contact information, and not ever publishing it (email, etc). Also, in my view, it is much easier to spoof emails, than to attack a proper web app.
People once said that about Subversion.

I believe Mercurial has a chance if they get support for large binary files right before git does.
> With Go that's much more work to get up and running.

Can you expand on that? Go is very fast to get up and running, you DL go runtime, git clone a repo, go build . and have your single executable ready to go.
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What I find fascinating is that Xi Jinping was sent to a concentration camp from 1969 to 1975, and now he is the president of China.
The Turing completeness just doesn't matter at all when it comes to the actual typographical output or the experience of authoring LaTeX documents. If you removed completeness artificially you'd have substantially the same thing.
Apologies. My Misanthropy is running astrop. I would delete that response above if I knew how. Honestly, I don’t see how it’s achievable considering the world state at the moment. I welcome more constructive comments.
This is a fine idea if you use the money to subsidize free public transportation in the form of buses, trains and bike-shares and education on how to use them. Heck, go ahead and tax gasoline at 100% while you're at it.

The problem is disincentives like this only work if the market has a better option than simply finding a way to correct the cost.

There are plenty of people who can't afford to drive already but still do because they "have to". You have to take the stupid arguments off the table or make the better options stupidly obvious before you can expect people to start to respond rationally.
First, I'm not a Netflix apologist, second, I explicitly said that if cash is important and third, I never compared it with the base salary of any other company. So what exactly was the point of this post?

You can't compare base salaries, you can compare the benefits of all cash vs stock awards (401k, higher monthly income, no market emphasis on income). That was my entire point, so this diatribe about Netflix apologists has no business in this thread.
I understand it currently only works with Waze. Despite Google owning Waze, I'm not sure if it has been integrated into Google Maps. Here's a story about the challenges of installing beacons in Chicago [1] vs tunnels near Logan Airport in Boston.

My Google Maps still goes a little crazy on Lower Wacker.

Also we need beacons in the loop. All those tall buildings really mess up navigation downtown.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/chicago-waze-beacons-spothero-gp...
Every desktop environment is a hodgepodge of inconsistent UI design at this point. Windows has never been completely consistent; IIRC even Windows 95 had some settings dialogs that came along from Windows 3.1. Linux has GTK, Qt, and several toolkits aping aping them with various levels of success. MacOS comes closest to uniformity, until you start paying attention to title bars or run popular 3rd party applications on it.
Decentralizing payment software? What do ya think bitcoin is supposed to be?

The 20-teens equivalent of tulip bulbs.
Sure, it's not new.

Another way to put it is that housing costs used to calculate inflation will lag market prices, because the cost is often locked in for a while. When prices go up, people often don't immediately start paying the new price.
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Highly unlikely - but also, a side fact to keep it from happening again. The attack similar to this I had to help address, someone had sent an email to a client, over an Indian shared office space network. That network was found compromised, and man-in-the-middled. Suggest doing business communications like email over VPN (F-secure VPN or simlar) only.
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A class has all the related code in one place in one file (some languages excepted, base classes excepted, but true enough for React purposes where inheritance hierarchies are quite limited and rare in my experience.)

I like immutability. It can make code easier to read and understand if done well. But within reason.

It's not that I'm creating some strawman where the alternative to a class is 10-20 functions across as many files - but that's actually mild compared to some things I've really seen.

To give an example, about a month ago I had to read a co-workers implementation of a feature and it was literally a maze of some 30 functions many of which returning closures, some of which return other closures. With state scattered all over in withStateHandlers, etc. I spent two hours on a Saturday trying to understand it and make the changes I needed to make before I gave up and assigned the ticket to my coworker who wrote it all. Basically he's the only one now who can modify that code easily (and incidentally he's away now on leave, if we have to modify that code again, we're screwed.)

So immutability of data is awesome. Immutability of code is not. If it was a couple boring classes I could have read the code and made all the changes I needed to make in less than an hour.

Simple an predictable and boring is fantastic where code is concerned. I love Go not because of the features it has, but specifically because it's limited enough that the code written in it is almost always easy to understand.