skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't seen it yet, there's a fun thought experiment about these sorts of problems, named "the paperclip maximizer". The idea is that you have an AI meant to manage an office, and you instruct it to "ensure it doesn't run out of paperclips". One thing leads to another, and eventually the AI is consuming all matter in the universe to construct additional paperclips.

It's a silly idea taken to an extreme, but it's a fun idea: https://hackernoon.com/the-parable-of-the-paperclip-maximize...

There's also a clicker game built around the concept: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Google already does plenty of stuff like this, and has for years (including historical and live busyness).

I'm well aware. There's a cousin comment about using such data with contextual information and AI to use traffic data as a proxy for attributes like popularity and quality, instead of providing the raw data and letting users make their own inferences. This would enable a more Yelp-like UX, and might be easier for lots of users to consume.
Clearly one LSTM didn't work. Lets try FOUR!

- edit: miscounted number of LSTMs
C++ belongs to WinDev, hence the whole politics WinDev vs DevTools, the torpedoing of Longhorn and WinRT.
IMO a stronger and more flexible concept is a stream. A stream takes a buffer reader/writer of some kind (mem, socket, file, etc..) and does the usual I/O & encoding/decoding. It's similar to read()/write() vs fread()/fwrite() in stdio.
Ask HN: What are the things you've purchased that you're most glad about?
What are things you've purchased that have significantly contributed to your life - maybe they added to your happiness, or you're otherwise really glad you made the purchase?
Muie PSD.

Crooked, corrupted political party trying to escape from a massive corruption scandal using GDPR. Shameful.
I find this analysis unobjectionable, but it does not explain the motion blurs.
It's amusing how much what people (even economists) think is "right" and "true" is biased by what's going on while they're alive. Back when kings had divine rights, mercantilism reigned. After that, before many nations had gone through the demographic transition, and still while many material resources are still easily exploitable, everything has been "growth growth growth". In future, economists will confidently tell us how wrong their predecessors were about that...
Sure, of course you're right. Our website is in 26 languages, so they would have been accommodated. I was just meaning Canada would allow English speaking developers to use the site and debug issues.
BBC's 1984 Tutorial on Going Online with Prestel (6 min video)
>Sexual harassment training is a CYA move by companies.

And so it should be abolished? I don't get your logic here. Shouldn't we be on the side of better training and more penalties for both employees and companies?

Perhaps you are comparing standard policy instruction with remedial instruction. I assume your statement "I've been through several" is only referring to the former.
Turkey is not in the EU, but it has a similar enough data protection law (KVKK), and unlike GDPR, this also covers the government operators (they cannot make 'we have different interests' excuse here); and unlike former EU DPD, we have strict data protection officer requirements (actually even stricter than GDPR by having a central track record of DPOs).
I disagree. My parents emigrated to different lands (with me) to provide me additional opportunity to excel. I'm early into my career and have a higher salary [6fig] than my parents', primarily due to the sacrifices they made over the years.

My job, life and other attributes couldn't have been predicted by salary nor any other vanity metric.
Definitely. There are many friends and family members whose phone numbers I’ve lost track of I can easily contact via messenger. That’s amazingly useful.
> How do you even enforce that?

By suing your new employer for $20 million [1].

(On the other side of the coin, they offer like a month of paid vacation a year, plus longer sabbaticals every few years, plus tons of benefits...if Long Island and math are your thing, it's a very nice place to work.)

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/renaissance-millennium-set...
I don’t understand Why doesn’t google penalize them? They used to be pretty hard on links doing something other than what is expected. Maybe not anymore..
Now, sperm counts are indeed falling dramatically, but this isn't about that.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sperm/sperm-count-...
Absolutely, you can go too far; sometimes the "naive" approach is the best.
Why aren't they showing benchmarks that compare it to other BLAS implementations? How does it compare to the GEMM in atlas, cblas, intel's mks, GOTOBlas, or any other library that implements GEMM? Is writing 'jitted' asm like this better than writing fortran with -march=native?
ECC is starting to show up inside the RAM chips themselves. Don't know if it's reached consumer devices like this Mac Mini though.

Edit: I mean the ECC logic is self-contained inside the module, with no support requirements on the host CPU.
A lot of reasons. It's physically quite large (multiple thousands of sq. mm. of silicon). Customers want different amounts of RAM so you could end up with a cartesian product explosion of SKUs. Customers want to upgrade RAM. System vendors and integrators don't want to give up more margins to the CPU.
The cold incubator: the VC dream of workerless wealth
I leave these on to remind me how far reddit has fallen and to generally avoid the site.
It helps that American's national parks system is one of the best in the world. When it comes to diversity and accessibility it's hard to beat American national parks.

I'm not sure how getting rid of the fee would decrease crowds. The fee system is one of the best incentives to keep the parks in their natural state, rather than, say, building luxury condos and golf courses on top of them. If that's the alternative I'm happy paying the park entrance fee.
> For ~500 years, books look approximately the same

I think you can even go back as far as 1000 years to find those same standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule
It constantly nagged me to re-enable notifications and link redirection out of the app is spotty. Not to mention ads were more frequent. I use the old interface on all devices and I find it superior.
Introduction to the ELF Format: Dynamic Linking / Loading
I would love to check this out... locally in my own computer ...for evaluation
Do you use frontend frameworks like React or Vue with laravel/PHP?

I'm still debating what my 2nd backend language for webdevelopment should be (besides NodeJS). Rails is highly opinionated, activeORM is amazing, has rails API mode, but it lacks native async support, and has a weird way of doing things. A lot of magic behind the scenes.

I only learned enough to know how powerful it is, and it's paradigm. I think everyone should learn it. Abstracting away rails to sinatra I've been told is painful, and I've never heard of anyone building websites with pure ruby

PHP seems appealing to me b/c it couples well with Vue, PUG (html templating). I have heard doing things other than the rails way is a nightmare, but I don't know how it is with laravel.

PHP also b/c of wordpress. I still find it superior to any alternatives (Jekyll, hugo, gatsby, etc) because of the rich plugin ecosystem, proven ground, and ability to own your comments (and not have middleware like disqus)

Rails doesn't really work with windows OS either, and I primarily use a windows machine too.

The other downside of PHP is that it's frowned upon due to developers dislike for legacy PHP codebases.

How well does PHP work as a REST API? Is Laravel highly opinionated or are there many ways of doing things inside the framework? Does PHP have native async support? I could probably look these up but I'm curious to know what your opinions are.
Modifying a binary (we did not have the source) to work on a different CPU architecture. That was my most challenging problem.

What makes me frustrated? Inconsistent interfaces, uncessisary abstraction, premature optimisation and juniors and intermediates who don’t profile before attempting optimisation

Though these things don’t really “frustrate” me - as you get older your time horizons broaden and everything is in perspective, and often I just fix these problems myself, it’s quite enjoyable fixing these things, like a form of meditation
They are also foregoing the huge time-investment it takes.
There must be some point where that reverses. If China's population dropped to 1 million people I would assume it would no longer have one of the strongest economies. The question is, where is the reversal point between 1 billion and 1 million?
Tons of places have low Yelp reviews but decent Google reviews and in my experience, the Google reviews are more accurate. I think it's because you get more off the cuff honest opinions from Google users instead of someone that went out of their way to get on Yelp.
There are two myths:

* That we have any idea what that capacity is.

* That we're anywhere near close to it. The most conservative estimates say we can handle 2.5 billion more.
For higher power parts, heat dissipation is the primary reason. Most of the high end CPUs are purely heat limited in terms of performance.

A TDP of 90W is about the limit for CPUs using cheap cooling techniques, and adding ram would lower that by 10-30W.
The language in question already has a dataflow/pipeline style by default, so expressions are generally read from left to right like this, except for some standard syntactic sugar like infix operators and flow control blocks like “if” and “match”:

read eval print loop

stdin read
some_environment eval
pretty print
loop

[1, 2, 3] [4, 5, 6] \(+) zip_with
do (each_index) -> i, x {
if (x = 7) {
"Lucky seven!" say
} else {
["Value at index ", i show, " is ", x show]
concat say
}
}
I give up. We have two wrongdoings alleged:

1. Jim Acosta was an asshole.

2. The White House lied, accused him of assault, and used doctored evidence to prove that.

I think #1 is probably true but don't care. I think #2 is a disaster for the free press and civil society, and so would you if this was anything but politics. You can't accuse people of serious crimes without evidence. And the fact that you won't even nod to this in the slightest tells me you aren't being serious here. You seem genuinely fine with lying people if you think they're assholes.
Just a nitpick: you forgot to remove the final '?__twitter_impression=true' from the URL :)
Whoever is running the simulation cares about whether we're looking. They had a good reason for going with quantum mechanics rather than something that would be easier to simulate.

The power running the Universe doesn't have infinite CPU/GPU/RAM resources at their disposal, any more than a game developer at this level of reality does. Some optimizations (or hacks, to be less charitable) are necessary. Quantum behavior is one of those hacks, part of the code that manages the potentially-visible set. It would be wasteful to render or run physics on particles that nothing is interacting with.

The only questions are whether God is an Nvidia fanboy or an AMD die-hard, and if He signed an exclusive deal with Sony or Nintendo at some point in the future.
Awesome list. We need more of this kind of stuff to really understand how AI is working and why/when it doesn't.

--

Anecdote:

I did an experiment in applying machine learning to resumes. The exercise was to create a classifier for resumes of people who were fired or quit within 6 month of starting their job[1]. After several days of getting and cleaning the data I run a bunch of different off-the-shelf algorithms on the data set. To my surprise one of them got 85% accuracy. I was incredulous, because it's a very high number to get on the first try, without optimizations, on pretty fluffy data.

So, I started looking into which keywords were the most significant. Turns out, the algorithm learned to detect resumes of interns, who usually went back to school after summer ended.

Unfortunately, I never had time to finish that project or do further analysis on my data.

--

[1] Yes, I fully understand the ethical implications of doing such classifications. This wasn't going to go in production, I just needed some real-life goals to see whether resumes are predictive of anything at all.

--

PS: Mandatory reference: Soma. Great game with some related themes.
New reading glasses with a new prescription.
This is not an abuse of power. This is looking out for their users' privacy.

I would have thought most people at this time would know that Apple does not take lightly a situation where an app is sending lots of privacy related user behavior to some kind of server somewhere. At a minimum, store this analytics on the phone only. But then again, you may use APIs for reasons other than their intended purpose.
It should be if there are 3 grocery stores in the country, and your bread can't be sold by other 2. This is a great case to be a precedent.
> advanced technology that for some reason has been lost?

Generally we need evidence for these kind of things, not throwing guesses into an evidence-free void. And given how heavily Egypt has been studied, it seems surprising that we've not found any evidence of such tools?
Do workers allow you to run init code on cold-boot only, or do you have to do all of your init with each request? If the latter, presumably that would also mean that a language like Go (compiled to wasm, obviously) would have its runtime start up with each request?
Or you know instead of getting the government involved, you could just get an Android phone like 80% of other smart phone users....
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I have literally never had any issues and I have all notifications turned off. I have never had any issue using their link redirection. I'm using an iphone 7 and never update my OS or any of my apps.
How is Apple a “monopoly” with less than 20% of the smart phone market?
Cycling is my only mode of transportation. I don't own a car and no longer take the bus. (Before I got my bike, the bus was my sole mode of transportation.) I bike to and from work every day (~6mi round trip) in addition to thousands of miles of recreational biking every year.

I'm in Austin where we have Lime, Bird, and Jump, and while I personally have yet to try the scooters, I strongly support more people riding electric scooters and believe the bike lane is the right place for them, at least out of the current options.

I don't hate the idea of having bike lanes and separate scooter lanes, but since we can't even manage to get bike lanes everywhere, I'm happy to go with putting them on the bike lanes.

I have to ride in the road for most of my commute, and a lot of human drivers are scary dangerous bad. Scooter riders are never more than annoying, and usually I can just pass them without difficulty if they're going slowly (which most are from a bike perspective). Most importantly, if they hit me, I'll likely be fine. (I've been hit by cars twice over the past ten years and I was fine in those instances too, but it's not my favorite experience. I've also had drivers try to force me off the road. People on their scooters don't do that.)
If you interleaved the memory with the processing, wouldn’t it decrease the heat density, though, which afaik is the limiting factor? You can get rid of quite a lot more heat than that if it’s not in too small an area to conduct away quickly.
> Reply with something better.

Nah, I'd rather engage with someone less rude and toxic. Good luck to you.
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. That article even enumerates the trivial ways in which you can detect these scams.

Is email "powered by bots" because spam/phishing/scams happen there, too? Seems like a worthless distinction to me. What about in real life when someone scams you by asking for bus money but they didn't actually need it for the bus? Hell, maybe you even have to mess up a few times before you learn. So what?

It's pretty easy to evaluate the utility of a dating service: are you actually meeting people? That's not something bots can fake, yet.

Have you actually used Tinder and found yourself talking to a bot enough times for it to challenge your entire objective? Because I have a very hard time believing that just like I doubt you've fallen for an adultfriendfinder "girls in your area" advertisement more than once.

Some live, human women on dating apps even ask you to Venmo them some money. Well, you unmatch with them and move on. No dating app can give you an unending consecutive succession of mates that will blossom into an in-person meet-up and then a relationship. Real life can't give you that, either. You already have to deal with the interactions that fizzle out, whether it's someone who never even responded to you, a chat bot that drops you an adultfriendfinder link, or someone you ended up not clicking with after all. That's life.
> This is the problem with GDPR. Each member state decides what's clear and what's not.

That's no so much a problem with GDPR as nation states.
Looks interesting!!
The article has a lot of boasting about their exclusive scoop. That and their annoyingly watermarked images.
Sorry, who's "You" in this example? I don't remember doing any of these things.

Since you haven't presented any actual evidence, this sounds like storytelling. I'm sure it's a story that appeals to some demographic, given the upvotes, but that doesn't make it true. And insisting that it's obviously right to "anyone with two brain cells" definitely raises the skeptic flag for me.
Wow, that's one of the best guests I've heard on that podcast (and in general!). I'm a few months behind, so I hadn't heard this one yet, so thanks.

The title isn't wrong, either, this one is terrifying (so far).
You could make the argument that the ivy league is 'for profit' but their qualifications will typically get you a career to pay off your massive student loans...it's the quality of what's being sold that is the interesting element here, I'd suggest.
I don't have any specific advice here but I can share that I one worked with a physics professor who is quadrupelegic and he is one of the fastest most productive programmers I have ever seen. He worked in C and C±+ mostly, and typed with a stick which he held in his mouth. Don't underestimate peoples' adaptability.
Researchers Defeat Perceptual Ad Blockers, Declare 'New Arms Race'
There's a funny thing about society. Do you know how you create wildly misinformed idiots? By assuming people who disagree with you on topics are wildly misinformed idiots. The National Academies put up a release in 2011 surveying all available information on the correlations between vaccines and a wide array of nasty stuff. It's available here [1]. It gives an extremely in depth overview of the evidence of the time, which has not radically changed since then. It's a 900 page report, but it's well organized. And you'll find that indeed there are quite a huge number of very real and very nasty correlations between vaccines and all sorts of things. By making the false statement (presumably based on the view that everybody who abides anti-vaccine views must be a wildly misinformed idiot) that 'almost all studies show correlations between nasty things and vaccines are exaggerated or outright lies', you do something really bad. You implicitly suggest that if the correlations were not 'exagerrated or outright lies', they would be meaningful. They are not.

Correlation does not equal causation.

There's an extremely strong correlation between US spending on science, space, and technology and suicides by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation. The correlation is a 99.8% fit. But this means absolutely nothing whatsoever. There are some 30,000 various correlations available here [2]. You'll find many, such as the one I mentioned, are incredibly strong fits. But that's really the danger of data. Just because something fits, doesn't mean anything. The entire process of science is about discovering causation. Correlations mean nothing without clear causation. Even correlations that make sense mean nothing without causation. For instance, I'm sure you'd agree that US spending on science has pretty much nothing to do with suicides by hanging. So it's easy to see it's spurious. What if instead that correlation was e.g. an increase in enrollment in STEM degrees being pursued? Again, you should assume this correlation is spurious until you have a very compelling reason, certainly beyond bias confirmation, to do otherwise.

[1] - http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2011/Adverse-Ef...

[2] - http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
The guy I posted uses Keras which is what this guys code looks like.

I am sure plenty of people have done lstm on the stock market but the form of the code looked similar between the two.
Longevity makes all of these problems worse.

It has other benefits, of course, but it isn't a solution in this case.
100% of that market. The apple app market is not the same as the android app market. They're not in competition with each other. Owners are captive.
Lord help them when they realize that all designed things tend to look the same.

Within a particular generation, all things tend toward a familiar design. There is a herd mentality to fit in with the crowd, allowing for only minor differences.
Every single application built since the dawn of OOP has public documented methods and private methods....
I never really liked mobile websites. I prefer a desktop version and I can zoom in where needed. Navigation and minimization of features on mobile “optimized” experiences is not great. I’ve mostly conceded and got used to it but early years when sites were transitioning was tough for me.
I'm with you. I used to be able to crank out a Flash game, with art, in a or two in my spare time, no big deal, not have to look anything up, I knew exactly how the whole system worked (I literally made games completely disconnected from the internet the entire time, my productivity was crazy high), never had to waste a bunch of time fighting frameworks or seeing how things interacted, and could get it to sing (although it had definite limitations. Everything existed in a movieclip object, for example, so when I was asked to port a C++ game that had 900+ objects on the screen at a time it really slowed down).

With Flash, I once ported a game to Flash, from scratch, with art (but no sound...although I could have added sound), in the span of 12 hours, and while it wasn't my most popular game or anything I still get people telling me how much they enjoyed it 15 years later.

In fact, the most popular game I ever designed and released, Proximity, I designed and released in a single week of work (in my spare time).

I have never been able to match the speed and flow of development that I got with Flash since with any game engine since then, and I've tried a whole bunch trying to find something.

The closest thing to it now seems to be Unity but that's a much bigger beast that I don't have a full grasp on and have to look things up or download various things from the asset store. It's possible to make games quickly, but they'll probably play and look like garbage if you don't take your time with them and hire a proper artist, judging by the flood of garbage Unity games released on Steam.

Pico-8 is also fun to program with (it includes a built in sprite editor, level editor, and music editor), but it's a little too limited for my tastes, since I can't really make a commercial product with it, and I'm not that great at doing 2d pixel art. But I still spent some time doing most of a port of Proximity while playing around with it and for people who can do pixel art it's a lot of fun to use.

* 12 hour game, Squarez: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/91933
* Proximity: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/183428