skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of that I don’t see how imperial is more human than metric. Yeah you have the foot bit a meter is a slighly longish step. Both units make you walk weirdly.
>"to learn themselves through self-feedback"

But now you're describing machine learning, which many people would describe as "applied statistics, not AI".

>And we do know the process, but the outcome is still unpredictable.

Unpredictable because you don't understand the statistics or unpredictable because of the size of the computation being done? Neither of those indicate "AI". Or maybe unpredictable because a relatively simple algorithm unexpectedly gives rise to good results? Then we're back to the roomba that just randomly moves until it bumps into something being AI.

There's no good definition for AI. It's like superfood. You can argue that it means high in antioxidants or high in fiber or probiotic, but at the end of the day, it's the marketing departments that determine the definition.
Also Gnome is keyboard driven to a large degree. I used dwm/dmenu for quite a time then went back to the default DE which was Gnome and it felt similar (small screen by the way so not too many tiled windows in dwm)
My wife and I noticed this very clearly when trying to use Dutch in the text chat in Elder Scrolls Online. A lot of words were censored because they were close to blacklisted words in English. The most frequent one was "kunt", second person present tense of "can".
This is very neat. I’d love to see Hebrew and Mandarin added, though (each is likely to be challenging in its own way given the way sentences are matched).
These differences get important if you do any type calculation in engineering or physics.

Then it suddenly starts to matter if the result is Nm, Nmn or a Newton times a inch

Example: a Volt – which also the US uses with its metric prefixes – is defined as a Joule or a Wattsecond or a Newtonmeter.
As I see it, "having" to be the best would be synonymous with being extremely competitive and placing a large amount personal pride in that. It's why I was asking why you felt that way. You separated it from cheating to overpower people, as if strong desire to be the best is a bad thing.
1.3-1.4x slowdown is a lot more than I expected (I know it's for synthetic benchmarks but still...)

Can someone explain (or link to an article) how a tweak to HT branch prediction heuristic can have such a huge impact on performance?
Really cool concept, love the split view. The voiceover feature is nice, but I think an inline dictionary would be even more useful - maybe something along the lines of macOS' built-in lookup (https://i.imgur.com/qGTQ80a.png)
Ten Thousand is possibly my favorite strip from xkcd. I always share it with people when they're learning something they feel dumb for not knowing.
Turing _On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem_ (1936)

Sipser's _Intro to the theory of computation_ (1996; 3e in print)

Aho, Sethi, & Ullman's _Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools_ - 'the dragon book' - (1986; 2e in print)

Various authors' _Handbook of theoretical CS_ (2 volumes, 1990-1)
As a student doctor not quite yet exposed to the true harshness of reality I feel that this article does give some perspective into the issues that I have grappled with so far in my training. The frustrations, the conundrums, the uncertainty, the humanity.
Agree on Chinese, it makes sense also add Japanese and Korean as well.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from AI."

I'm sure people thought computers were "AI" when they first did a complicated multiplication problem.
Slavery was already on the way out. It was all about protectionist laws. Slavery doesn't create wealth, it actually holds back industrialization. There are countries in Africa where slavery is still rampant and it does not create wealth for them. The Civil War was about nothing but crony capitalism.

It is incredibly important that the idea of slavery is pushed as the cause for the civil war. Without that it becomes obvious the path we took was not for the better of the country. Without the civil war slavery would still have been abolished yet states would still have strong rights. Our country was lost.
A state’s right to what?

The articles of succession of the individual confederate states can answer that question for you. I’ll save you some reading: it’s what you think it is.
You'll want to check out the "Lost Cause" narrative, which used to be (still is?) deeply entrenched in the South:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
I stopped wasting time on trying to keep track of _everything_.

For news: Given the relatively low depth of most news these days, I mentally keep track of relevant headlines and wait until one or two sites write more in-depth commentary. I also don’t watch TV news anymore.

For books: I use Goodreads as a collaborative filter and wait until people I follow rate specific books, then shortlist ten a month, and eventually pick out two or three (technical or non-technical). I do read a _lot_, though.

For social media: I very aggressively trim down on Twitter follows, ignore Facebook, and even though I skim HN daily, I only sit down and _read_ through it on quiet (rainy) mornings. :)
The claim that getting rid of net neutrality rules is unlawful is an interesting one. I can find the repeal being called illegal in multiple places, but what law specifically are they breaking in particular?
I’m on an XPS 13 9370. I like the idea of a Thinkpad but I wanted a laptop that came sold with Linux hence the Dell.

So far hardware support seems pretty good. Not sure my Ubuntu 18.10 install is getting the most out of the GPU but everything works including Bluetooth audio and suspend.

The only issues I have are with the trackpad and the silly keyboard layout.

Trackpad: it’s small, a bit twitchy and not sensitive at the edges when moving inwards but is moving outwards. Driver issue I think.

Keyboard: who thought it was a good idea to split the left and right keys with PgUp and PgDown? Someone who doesn’t touch type would be my bet. The old layout was better.

I think of it as a replacement for an 11” MacBook Air as it’s about the same size but with a 13” screen and a quad-core i7.

Oh also, I got a 4K display and that was a mistake. Raw terminal text is tiny and Gnome currently doesn’t mix monitor resolutions very well. So dual screening with a 1440 monitor is not easy. Ordering again I’d get FHD instead.
Why would Netflix fund Amazon's prime video service?
Why would Walmart fund amazon.com and Whole Foods?
Why would Dropbox fund Amazon Drive?

AWS is their most profitable business in terms of margin. It makes sense to avoid funding your competition if possible, which is a problem for Amazon given how many business divisions they have and continue to add.
The problem isn't with parsing the data.

The problem is with triggering pathological cases in the complicated beast that is font rendering. And rendering text is something that's so extremely common in apps, and so crucial, that it needs to be done in-process in order to avoid unacceptable overhead.
Californias mountain fires raging local governments are preparing to release 631
Because the primary sources are often (as in the case of deliberate leaks that we're talking about here) subjective and definitely/intentionally biased. The journalist's job is to provide context and interpretation that are as objective as possible, even though absolute objectivity is impossible.
Seems like the paragraph matching is still pretty buggy.

For example I chose French as the language to get better at and selected "Tour du monde en 80 jours" as the text. The very first paragraph of the French text is

> En l'année 1872, la maison portant le numéro 7 de Saville-row, Burlington Gardens -- maison dans laquelle Sheridan mourut en 1814 --, était habitée par Phileas Fogg, esq., l'un des membres les plus singuliers et les plus remarqués du Reform-Club de Londres, bien qu'il semblât prendre à tâche de ne rien faire qui pût attirer l'attention.

and the English translation is

> Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world.

Notice how there's an extra sentence at the end about him having an enigmatic personage not present in the French version. Indeed that's in the next paragraph. And the matching goes basically out of whack. The second paragraph of the English is

> People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.

But the third paragraph of the French is

> On disait qu'il ressemblait à Byron -- par la tête, car il était irréprochable quant aux pieds --, mais un Byron à moustaches et à favoris, un Byron impassible, qui aurait vécu mille ans sans vieillir. Anglais, à coup sûr, Phileas Fogg n'était peut-être pas Londonner.
On its way out? Slave states were fighting tooth and nail to keep it.

An institution doesn't have to create wealth for an entire country, in order to persist. It only has to create wealth for the rich and powerful.

The Civil War was absolutely about slavery. The South sure thought it was. The amount of ink it spilled on the subject of protecting that one particular right of a state was staggering. It was the one thing that apparently, they could compromise on. It's almost as if preserving the right to keep human beings like cattle was the whole bloody point of their secession.
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> It doesn't take much to convince the heaviest drivers to buy more efficient vehicles

Require them to buy 1000km of fuel when buying the vehicle.

Plus second hand owners won’t feel the extra taxes on new cars, not directly anyway.
It's in the second sentence of the declaration of secession for Mississippi.

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." [0]

[0]: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp
Why kind of effed up country votes on history?
Living in a country where pretty much _everything_ has been built out of brick/stone/concrete for a long while now (with clay shingles), I find US building codes to be baffling.

Not criticizing, mind you, since clay shingles are still supported by wooden beams in older detached homes and those go out too in forest fires (which we also have, on a yearly basis and with tragic results) - I just don’t get the rationale for small homes to be built out of wood these days - is it cost?

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Yes I was being sloppy. epsilon_0 as the limit of iterating ordinal exponentiation by omega. Also the correct volumen is number 3.
If you want the government to enforce the law fine; but that’s a different argument. If I assume that is true, should we see evidence of reduced wages for the positions that H1B candidates are hired for? Happy to change my mind in the face of such evidence but everything I have seen indicates that wages of skilled employees is increasing.

Companies don’t push the cost of H1B processing to other candidates because those candidates aren’t suitable for the job. My point is that it’s hard to argue that employers are hiring H1B immigrants to depress wages when they cost more than the equivalent domestic employee would; assuming there were such a candidate.

Your argument that more people coming to an area puts downward pressure on wages isn’t consistent with domestic migration. Americans move internally all the time. If you look at the fastest growing cities or states, their wages aren’t dropping as more people move in. In fact the increasing population drives inflation as more people bid for housing and food etc, and that inflation flows through to wages as employees demand higher salaries to cover the cost of living.

I don’t see anyone arguing that people from Ohio or Alabama shouldn’t be allowed to move to NYC because they will lower wages for New Yorkers.

We live in an economy that is based on growth; a growing population (even if through immigration) can in fact drive economic growth.

To be clear I am not saying immigration always promotes growth or is always good. There are challenges. But I thing the gut reaction that it costs locals jobs and lowers wages is nonsense when you look at the evidence, and accurately model the economy.
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Chandrasekhar's "Newton's Principia for the common reader" is a reading of Newton's book in modern mathematical notation and with commentary on the methods Newton was using.
That reminds me of the clothing brand "Lonsdale", which contains "NSDA". So if you wear a jacket, you can hide the other letters. It was worn a lot in the German neo-nazi scene because Hitler's party was called "NSDAP".

While it is an accident with "Lonsdale", and they actively did a campaign against it in the early 2000s, someone created a brand named "Consdaple", which contains the full "NSDAP".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consdaple
You would debug an unikernel just like you can debug the OS kernel. Either it brings its own internal "remote debugging API", or the hypervisor helps you with that and provides interactive tracing/debugging features and dumps with CPU and memory state that you load into a local debugger.

The kernel debugging technology exists for a long time now, and I don't think its far fetched to see public clouds exposing those abilities in a secure manner, and unikernels including their own tools for remote debugging. Any kernel can be debugged, and unikernels are no exception.
Welcome news.

Of course the U.S. will continue to be be the leader of the 3rd world by measuring in Royal Hangnails, Princely Bladders and Regal Farts.
I'm a trained musician but I'm not going to complain when my plumber doesn't quite sing in tune. It just doesn't matter. I have a pretty well-trained eye for typography too, but when the choice is between systems that are free, fast, privacy-respecting, and functional and systems that are pretty but completely out of my control I'm never going to choose the latter.

I'm not sure what posts like yours are trying to achieve. Are you just complaining about how nobody has managed to make something that is free and perfectly well "designed"? If so, why not try to do something about it rather than complain? You'd probably make a lot of people happy if you did. To me it seems more like you are saying that your priorities are with superficial design rather than anything actually relating to work, hence my original comment.
that's not a big deal for me, I know how Microsoft going to play ads.

I have put all the ips of ads and microsoft in hosts file. I don't see ads in skype more.

If this day would come I will dump all microsoft store app. I am using dws lite for disable all uwp grabage in my windows 10
I do not determine what works best for the poor. I was reproducingy wife's opinion (that has a very different background from mine) that is backed by some studies.

I also made very clear that there is lack of evidence that technology (as in computers in the classroom) help so far. I never said I am against trying to revolutionize the education with tech, I just said it isn't revolutionizing right now, as the article implies.

You are fighting an idealized enemy here, not debating with me. You are arguing to inexistent arguments that would make you feel good about your own strong ideas. Not actually bothering to understand my point.

And acusing my wife of corruption or unethical behavior was just shitty.
Go read all of Lincoln's racist quotes. He is on record saying he would keep the slaves slaves if that meant the country stayed together. He wanted them all exported back to Africa. Slave owners in the south were a very small percentage of the population. The south did not rise up to defend slave owners. They rose up to defend themselves.
Nicolai Josuttis “The Nightmare of Initialization in C++” (2018)
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A long while back, the first time someone decided to add content filtering to the corporate proxy every local news site would be inaccessible on Fridays, because in Portuguese “Sexta-feira” is abbreviated as “Sex.”

You’d be surprised how many variations of this I’ve come across over the years.
For Enterprise that can be considered a good thing.
You can get a used CPAP from Second Wind:

https://www.secondwindcpap.com/

Or you can sell it if it doesn't help you.

If it's an auto-adjusting machine, then you don't need the sleep technician either. You can just start at a lower pressure and look at your data and then see if you need more.
> makes them feel like using toys rather than proper desktops.

Fascinating. I consider systems like Android, Windoze and MacOS to be like toys for the same reason: superficially beautiful, but not actually a good tool for work.
That's the way they run Singapore. Marrying a local gives you extra weight but money comes first. It's their fizz buzz. I'm not sure why you mention what the US does? Its irrelevant. Singapore is a full blown corporatist state. The rules and way they do things reflect that.
Please at least try to contribute to the discussion.
A couple of papers on my reading list:

From information theory:

A mathematical theory of communication (information theory, Claude E. Shannon) [1]
Three approaches to the quantitative definition of information (A. N. Kolmogorov) [2]

And from inductive inference and computational learning theory:

A formal theory of inductive inference (Ray Solomonoff, 1964) [3]
Language identification in the limit (Mark E. Gold, 1967) [4]
Inductive Inference of formal languages from positive data (Dana Angluin, 1980) [5]
A theory of the learnable (PAC learning, Leslie Valiant, 1984) [6]
Occam's Razor (Blumer et al, 1987) [7]

Bonus: a deep learning paper

Long Short-Term Memory (Hochreiter and Schmidhuber, 1997)

The first two papers - well, one launched information theory and the other is Kolmogorov's
paper where he introduced the idea of Kolmogorov complexity.

The second batch of papers start with Solomonoff's inductive inference papers, kinda
important if you want to learn things from other things. Mark Gold's paper proves that
it is impossible to learn a non-finite automaton from examples. Dana Angluin's follow
up extends this with learnability results about various classes of CFG. Any time someone
claims that their deep neural net has learned a CFG, point them to these two papers.

Valiant's paper is the theroy of machine learning as we know it today. It basically
relaxes the assumptions made in inductive inference and introduces the notion of error.
If you can't learn some concept perfectly, what degree of error is likely from some
set of training data? Blumer's paper discusses a further bound on that amount of
error that follows an Occamist bias (simplest truths are better) and is a basis
for understanding overfitting (error increases as the hypothesis space does).

These two sets of papers probably look disconnected - but, learning is compression.
Compression, with generalisation, I guess. Anyway, no, they're not unrelated.

The final paper is the one that introduced LSTMs and the, er, "constant error carousel"
(the solution to vanishing gradients, which this paper is worth reading for).

These are papers that one must read if they're interested in machine learning. Carefully
so. They're not even "old" papers- more like, essential ones.

I'm totally omitting a whole bunch of others, obviously.

___________

Online pdfs (not all free):

[1] http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/en...

[2] http://alexander.shen.free.fr/library/Kolmogorov65_Three-App...

[3.1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999586... (Part 1)

[3.2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999586...

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999586...

[6] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~yinw/papers/Angluin80.pdf

[7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020019087...
This seems like an interesting idea — a very complex constraint but easily said...
They replace everything they can with plastic.
But that's because your recipes are built on the easy divisibility, no? If your recipes are built on weight measurements, suddenly "easy divisibility" brings nothing to the table. If you cook with a kitchen scale, "one ml of water is one gram" is used all the time.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas Kuhn is a fantastic book that explores the history of science while also debunking the commonly held belief that discoveries (of gravity, oxygen gas etc) are instantaneous observations, instead of a gradual weaving together of several seemingly contradicting observations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
TIL US liquid gallon != US dry gallon != Imperial gallon...
> I also don’t watch TV news anymore.

Bravo, this is what most people should do. I think the daily news cycle is as toxic, if not more than, facebook. The pressure to produce daily news gives us a dose of daily useless fluff. I think the news channels are the main contributors to the political division in this country. They feed one side and make sure they position viewers against the other. Good entertainment but toxic to the well being of the country. It's really entertainment - newsteinment, to coin a phrase.
When was the last time you used a Linux distro? I haven't unzipped and tarred a file to compile a program in a long time. Everything you need to get on something like Ubuntu you can get from a GUI.

I honestly see very little about your argument that is constructive, and in fact "It's not even Linux under the hood. It is Linux." makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I've been using macOS at work for a few weeks now, and I'm surprised at how buggy it is.

Sometimes it just refuses to wake from sleep, and I don't understand why. I used Linux on an Apple laptop for years and didn't have this problem.
This sounded quite interesting and surprising as a result. I could not access the results so I did some quick googling.

The source is JD Power and they are claimed to have bad methodology. From what I read they don't weigh issues, so an infotainment issue is on the same level as a more severe mechanical issue.

There's a ranking from Consumer Reports but it requires a subscription as well, and it is probably somewhat biased since to my understanding one needs to be a subscriber to answer the questions in the first place.

A better method would be to pool data from several insurance companies, but I could not find such a thing.

I could imagine that publishing this data would be of great interest to insurance companies. That way, they could steer people into using cars which are cheaper to the insurance companies.

An objective study would certainly be of interest to someone who needs a car to move around. It's costly and not to mention frustrating when a car breaks down.