skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a challenge among my friends to order a sub at Subway without saying "um, "uhh" etc. It's fun and it always results in sounding like a robot or Shakespeare ordering a sandwich.
The+Difference+Between+AI,+Machine+Learning,+and+Deep+Learning?+|+Nvidia+Blog
I've been using Linux for roughly 20 years, and I prefer the command line. But that's only because it's Linux. There's no inherent need to do a lot of things with a command line except in a context where it's the simplest, most stable, predictable, and documented way purely because of historical and cultural reasons.

Because of the long running Linux/Windows rivalry, hardly anybody can imagine something better than a Unix-clone any more. But the very name Unix was chosen because the original OS was not intended to be the be-all/end-all of OSes.
-we have our servers in house so we ship a hard disk with all the data and source code every month to other side of country.
I don't recall GHC development ever being on GitHub? Most I can find is a mirror at https://github.com/ghc/ghc.

edit: Title has been changed.
I have always wanted something like this.
Further reading: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-01/trump-ope...
Is there actually an alternative to sites like Reddit blocking EU users if the new law is passed?

Best I can think of based on what I know about the law is that perhaps links can't be active for EU users until the domain they go to has an agreement with the site and goes onto the whitelist. This would need to apply to both comments and stories, based on my what I know.

Would that work?
This is about in line with the intelligence with which I see people pursuing their interactions with the natural world around us.

“A bare patch of dirt?? Let’s pay someone to spray it with Round-Up! On all of our 480 locations”
The context seems to be substantially changed by the size of fines that the EU has historically given out to foreign companies.

But yes, I think you are right and the intended goal will be a wide miss.
thx, fixed the title
>the physical realities of the brain, which of course no one really understands.

No-one in machine learning, yeah, because machine learners mostly don't take neuroscience classes ;-).
Is it truly about diesel or is it like how the American revolution was about tea?
Probably just a typo, but 800MB is .0008 of a Terabyte.
Former President George HW Bush Dies at Age 94
It's probably a good thing that Microsoft did not follow the advice:

> They can't hire smart people anymore, but they could buy as many as they wanted.

> Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. They could get substantially all of them for less than they'd have to pay for Facebook.

> Put them all in a building in Silicon Valley, surrounded by lead shielding to protect them from any contact with Redmond.

Instead, Microsoft did the exact opposite. They picked Satya Nadella who had worked there since 1992. He has driven the innovation right out of Redmond, WA with no lead shielding required.
"I didn't even have to "quit" as the "addiction" is purely psychological (so it totally depends on a person if they are going to be affected by it or not, I wasn't)"

I don't think "purely psychological" is implied by different people having different susceptibility to addiction. If it were purely psychological, wouldn't that imply a person could become addicted independently of ever taking the drug?
Just wait until Dsuvia hits the black market. Reportedly 10x stronger than Fentanyl. https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u...
Wouldn't the same law also apply to forums?
You have inspired me, thank you. Thanks to your inspiration, I'll be planting as many milkweed plants as I think will grow here, in addition to my usual off-grid food planting. Little by little, I am nursing this overgrazed plot into a complex microcosm.

The plot is in a major migration route and this is the first year I'll be actively be supporting Monarchs, other than planting my usual garden herbs. They seem to like carrots and parsley. You have inspired me, thank you, trgn.
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You would think so but perpetual inventory is very rare, even for the large chains.

Grocery stores get less than half their assortment from their own warehouses, with the majority delivered direct to store from hundreds of vendors.

The large chains have some integration with their largest vendors like Coca Cola and Frito Lay, but usually this is just for item authorization and invoicing, not for perpetual inventory.

Spoiled and damaged product is often thrown away without recording it. Cashiers scan 12 units of one UPC instead of scanning each flavor of baby food or Gatorade separately. Scanning accuracy is even worse with self-checkout.

Reordering is typically done by looking for empty spaces on the shelf, since they don't have the perpetual inventory to do automated replenishment.

It's a real shitshow from a data quality standpoint, which is why the no-fill rate is so high with online orders.

> it's a forced win for someone with an integrated warehouse

Webvan thought so too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
> There is a very hard difference between stealing something from someone, which deprives them from having access to it, and copying it, which doesn't.

That's why I'm 100% in favor of counterfeiting money, since that has the same properties: no one is deprived of the money they already have.
A small live-show on SlayRadio. It's primarily a test-bed for an experimental performance instrument I'm working on. Schedule and info is available here - www.planmixplay.com

It would probably behoove me to add - the show content is primarily playing c-64 remixes and me talking about various c64 related (and non-c64 related stuff). Recently I've finally gotten the visual output up and running so I broadcast a c-64 like output via YouTube.
>Why? It's a mystery to me. Gary Marcus is doing good to try and shake up the field a bit. We need to move on from our successes just as we move on from our failures. And he's damn right about the how, too: symbolic AI is due for a comeback.

How would we define "symbolic", though? I'm about to give a presentation on some related matters next week, and I've been trying to think about how to avoid just saying, as Marcus is perceived to do, "lol psychology critiques AI so AI needs to use symbols."

For example, there are loads and loads of symbolic AI techniques which don't demonstrate basic features of "symbolic" human cognition such as causal inference and productivity/compositionality, on top of symbolic techniques having essentially no way to address the Frame Problem.
While I agree, or at least am willing to hear more about various points, none argue for a direct democracy.

For a direct democracy you need a small population that is homogeneous in at least outlook if not in race. The countries that come closest to it are largely a single race.

I also think that republican forms of government collapse when you get 100+ million. The US has been straining for sometime to hold itself together. More and more people feel divided. If it wasn't for the inherent weakness to outside attack, I'd prefer to see the US divide into regional countries that are better able to manage themselves.

For example, a $15 hourly wage would bankrupt rural Florida. We hear more and more about that at a Congressional level. The same is true for most of the rural areas of the country. A better answer is for the States to move to minimum wages that fit their territories.
Unik is here to help bring AWS Firecracker to serverless apps
How will Google plug into China’s all-encompassing internet censorship regime?
Regarding the first point, if you are the type of person who just wants it to get to the equations with a minimum of talk, you're probably not the intended audience of this book.

The culture of mathematics (including its lingo) has always been a big barrier for me. Thus far, I've only skimmed it, but that part looks promising to me.

It seems reasonable to guess that if someone has learned a good bit about programming but managed to avoid learning about math, reasons like culture, terminology, accessibility, and motivation might be a big part of why. So including that sort of material in this book makes sense to me.
What happens when you throw the motion of somebody's head and/or eyes into the mix? When you are not viewing from an absolutely fixed position?

This isn't a troll. I don't know, so I'm asking whether it can be a factor.
You're supposed to disclose whether you are sponsored. Not sure how well the FTC enforces it.
My only point was that there are many different motivations to game and ways to derive value from a gaming experience, my bad if I come off as holier than thou.
Pure Python is slow as a snail compared to both the underlying GPU code that has to run in deep learning applications, and the tuned, compiled code you would use for symbolic reasoning.
Encoding/decoding and social capital in the digital age
Note: this is about moving from Phabricator to GitLab, not GitHub to GitLab.

GHC Discussion from November about moving to GitLab/moving away from Phabricator: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-November/01...
"The amount of garbage with four stars or more is scandalous"

Where are you finding ratings that are more accurate than Amazon's?

Whenever I've looked at competing sites, of those few that actually have ratings at all, the products are rated by maybe 5 people total, whereas on Amazon it's sometimes hundreds or thousands. So are those 5 people really going to provide a more representative rating than the hundreds or thousands that rate Amazon products?

That's not to say that ratings are everything. They're just a start. You have to dig deeper and take a close look at both the positive and negative reviews to know what you're getting yourself in to.

Reviews at most competitors' sites lag behind Amazon -- with the sole exception, to my knowledge, of NewEgg, which actually has a lot of both ratings and reviews, and both are useful.
I’ve heard the same question asked about humans.
Facts and Truth are not entirely the same thing. To property discuss the dangers of Fentanyl we must first agree on what "safe" means.

Even though Fentanyl is unlikely to kill you, in terms of living a meaningful and fulfilling life an addition to fentanyl is effectively a death sentence and it is highly addictive, affordable, and readily available. Fentanyl is destroying families and crippling our social services.
I see this as a control group in the great Internet advertising experiment. It answers the question: "How often will someone click an ad, given that the advertised product is certain to be unwanted?" That is, how often will someone mistake an ad for a real result?
But he learned about refactoring in Smalltalk 80, and later wrote the book in java
Instacart shoppers are pissed - this drop in fees coincides with an adjusted payout for shoppers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/11/20/workers_a...
I'm pretty sure convnets were inspired by the lowest levels of the cat visual cortex.
Yes, actual knowledge can come in many forms. But are you actually saying that, on average across populations, people who go to school/college aren't more knowledgable than people who do not? If that is in fact the case, we should completely abolish the entire education system, because it's clearly not effective.
The Missing Middle
Just as expected, the tariffs game is just a prelude for haggling.
I don't understand what the peak of intelligence means if that is termites, bees, humans? What about dolphins, dogs, not to mention chimpanzees, other great apes are likely smarter then them, but it will take some clever tests and clever categorization of intelligence to understand their sense.
Right, it's doing stochastic search through a Bayesian posterior distribution. The trouble is that established inference techniques can't really handle very general, "human-level" model classes in real time, computationally.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I'll stick with it and try again.
Maybe death is good for a company.

Maybe Apple, MS, Google, etc already die several times.

Is just that enough of it survive and learn from the past, even a little.

Maybe is easier to present the new king as the same old king, long live the king.
Based on the word of the agent? There are messages back and forth from Ross where he asks that someone is roughed up and it eventually come to “eliminating” them.

It’s far more than just the word of a corrupt agent.
> I'm kind of surprised that YouTube doesn't put more effort into subverting adblockers, it surely wouldn't be that difficult to inject the ads into the video streams and make them unblockable.

Not only would that force them to enter a game of cat-and-mouse with developers, it would also give an opportunity for ad-free/ad-light competition.

My intuition would be that they want to wait until "paying for not having ads" becomes sort of a norm, before prematurely forcing ads on desktop users and potentially encouraging an exodus.
They use VSCode, but they use it on Linux or OSX.
I don't see the ads, because I use an adblocker. Every once in a while I happen to visit YouTube without the adblocker enabled, and... how can anyone put up with that experience?!?! I quickly re-enable the adblocking and return to my blissful ignorance.

It's much the same experience on the rest of the web, actually. I simply can't figure out how normal people manage to cope with the deluge of advertising that's plastered everywhere. And even with an adblocker, the various sponsored content and thinly-veiled promotional blogposts is still constantly spewing forth...
They tried to make the public care with the gmail man campaign.

https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/2012/2/2/2766215/gmail-ma...

It was flagged dead on HN because the perception was "do no evil' Google good, M$ bad.

They tried harder later on with the somewhat cringy Scroogled campaign and found out the public didnt care while Google laughed all the way to the bank while increasing data tracking, collection and usage. And here we are.

Edit: Found a thread discussing it, with one top 10 by karma HN user explaining why they flagged it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544309
I recall seeing a book in the cutout bin of a bookstore that made the case that IBM was an unstoppable juggernaut that would inevitably take over the world. It was written in the mid 80's. The irony was it was in the cutout bin because it wasn't long after that IBM was well on its way in its slide to irrelevancy.

I wish I'd bought the book, or at least remembered its title.
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You tell them no. And it's your code, that's the end if the discussion.

But it's worth reading the enitre thread. This contributor misunderstood some things, and ended up widthdrawing the patchset.
Invading a country as part of a strategy to support an ally is a lot better than just going in to fuck shit up and make things worse.
wtf is wrong with hn.

>[sorry if I am being blunt, but it's how I feel]

you should learn to keep your feelings to yourself when the only function they serve is to denigrate others and derive cruel satisfaction for yourself.

>Here is a rule of thumb that in my experience applies well to almost everything in mathematics

this is aspirational pretension - everyone claims to appreciate formal purity /after/ they've learned something but when you're /learning/ none of that matters because you're just trying to develop intuition. to be one of those people that understands after their own stumblings/ruminations and then begrudge the next person the same is despicable. shame on you and i hope you're never in a position where someone depends on you to teach them absolutely anything.

>Imprecise definitions. This defeats the purpose of learning mathematics. Like Leslie Lamport says, rigour in mathematics is not a hurdle or a chore one must endure,

but that's just like your opinion man (or leslie lamport's). there are shelves and shelves of books for people like you - go read bourbaki or rudin or mochizuki or whomever you'd like. this book is not for /you/ - it's stated purpose is to excite and entice people that don't have formal mathematical training to learn mathematics and those sorts of people decidedly don't enjoy austere definitions and succinct theorems and terse proofs.

hence the only purpose your comment serves is to hurt the author's feelings, an author whom i might add has done infinitely more for the math community than you have with your pedantry and vitriol by maintaining a blog https://jeremykun.com/ with literally reams of interesting mathematical content that is simultaneously exciting /and/ rigorous. and furthermore iirc jeremy was originally a math ed phd student so i trust his opinion of the right way to teach math infinitely more than i do yours mr random internet physics guy.

next time think twice before posting this kind of lowbrow mean shit.
Why thirty or a hundred? Why not two, or ten thousand?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Accused of Raping a Former Student
I think it is somewhat related to the hate around Electron.
You can develop great Eletron apps like VSCode but people hate most of Eletectron apps taking much memory and CPU load. This is mainly because of the developers who don't care about rhe differences between the desktop environment and the broswer environment e.g. users can click the refresh button in the browser when it's slow while it's not the case in the desktop environment.

I think the hate is not about JS language itself but about some offensive people who believe JS enough to develop everything and who are not willing to learn appropriate knowledges/languages in the field.
> The last sentence is ironically funny now that MS is back on top and Apple is slipping, and the article is about the "death" of MS.

Well, yes, I'm assuming the irony is part of the reason this was posted here.
I personally think this is exactly wrong. Most people struggle with Maths because they don’t have the implicit understanding that books like you’re talking about rely on. It’s like telling a novice programmer to read the documentation. I’m not sure how successful this book is but it seems a worthy attempt.
We need smaller pixels because the next gen tv will be a millimeter away from your eyeballs
The computer landscape is littered with the carcasses of once great companies, going back all the way back to RCA.
Sufentanil is already available on the black market. It’s been seized in Canada a few times.

It is ridiculously potent. We’re talking a normal dose of 10’s of micrograms.

However. I would argue diversion of Dsuvia will likely reduce overdoses as the quality control means you know exactly how much you’re taking.
If it's education in a technical sense you're probably right; it's more about having some kind of institution where people learn to think politically and historically.

Democracy by itself is not necessarily a stable institution. In the absence of a strong social commitment to rule of law and an effective and disciplined state, it doesn't work. The path that some societies took to get to this state did involve education, and in particular literacy, to a fair degree.

Africa is a mess due to western imperialism but failed democracy is a different topic than that: because most societies started off in some kind of mess, either in disarray, or in a state of tyranny. We don't have any examples of states going directly from tribal societies to functioning democracies with rule of law in one, peaceable step. Looking only at the west, it took centuries of violent conflict.
Not exactly math, but physics, since that was my background. Perhaps my favourite textbooks are Landau and Lifschitz[1]. They pretty much exemplify what I mean. They are concise, lucid, entirely self-contained. All the relevant information is there and not one bit more. The material is reduced to its key ideas, therefore making their exposition as clear as it can possibly be. Many people I've spoken to, however, don't like it precisely for being "too terse", so there you have it as well: ymmv.

Another book that fits this is Cohen-Tannoudji's Quantum Mechanics[2]. The first two chapters explain quantum mechanics from absolute scratch. It starts as all physics does: with an experiment. Then everything else follows from looking carefully at the consequences of that observation, and the concepts are truly explained for what they are, because they are presented in the simplest way possible. "Idea" is more understandable than "Idea+Cruft". This is remarkable to me: much fuss is made about how quantum mechanics is strange and confusing and difficult to grasp, and it is indeed so. In that first chapter, however, I've found the most illuminating explanation of quantum mechanics I've ever read.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cohen-Tannoudji#Selecte...

EDIT: I just opened Landau's Mechanics Vol I, and here's what his colleague had to say about his writing and teaching style: "[These are] all the features of his characteristic scientific style: clarity and lucidity of physical statement of problems, the shortest and most elegant path towards their solution, no superfluities.". Indeed.
I think the scary thing about nation states trying to covertly influence each other is that many of these states are supposed to be allies, or at least friendly. They certainly are not at war.

I naively believed the Cold War was over, obviously it has only changed its methods, to where influence over a countries people is the weapon and it's being used widely.
The prominence of the peak. Like how Denali is taller than the mountains around it, but Everest is still the tallest.

We're quite close to dolphins and killer whales, so the essence of their intelligence is easier for us to understand, because they are more like us.

Bees, termites, ants, etc. are really interesting because any individual is pretty stupid, but the entire swarm is complex and intelligent.
> Big business absolutely do that.

If would be true somebody would have noticed this hack before. Has been online for 2 months and they only found out because of a deprecation message.

> Of course, for the most part big business doesn't take 3rd party dependencies.

I worked for many big companies, definitively they use 3rd party deps.

> std library in-house

And that contains 3rd party deps.

Big companies have some 3rd party to check the libraries but it looks like they are not good enough because they didn't catch this one.
The Fentanyl epidemic is a deliberate attack on North America from the Chinese Government. You don't fear the Chinese Government when you ARE the Chinese Government.
This is explored by Francis Fukuyama in "The Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay". He presents compelling arguments for why we have failed states but more interestingly, he works through how we got successful ones. Non-failed states are far more rare in history, and they are the goal, after all.
Peak meaning relative to evolutionarily nearby organisms, by analogy to mountain peaks