skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only do people install it, I see it required in corporate IT all the time. As in, they even set a VPN policy that checks your anti-virus definitions for currency and will refuse to connect if the definitions aren't current or if anti-virus is not installed. These same corporate IT who force 90 day password changes, and nonsense like 5pEAzhawh$ instead of fivepizzassoundsgoodbutdontforgetthebeer because no matter what longer is better.
> We should judge approaches to AI based on their results

That's why the article discusses examples where currently popular approaches fail.

> not on their conformance to a (vague, incorrect, untested) model of human cognition.

What model of human cognition is "incorrect"? And is it the one presented by Marcus, or a strawman?

> But if you want to genuinely influence the direction of the field, you have to lead by example and produce novel/interesting research results

Are you claiming Marcus has produced no interesting research results?

> not by kvetching in The New Yorker that your favorite approach is not getting enough attention

Why use the term "kvetching"? I'm curious.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. In the case of deep learning - we’ve figured out as an industry how to apply a particular model of linear algebra to solve really interesting problems. It does way better than you’d guess in particular spaces. Hotdog or not hotdog is a perfect example of this. I actually (for fun) pulled several thousand pictures of hotdogs from the MS COCO dataset and trained a model to do that. It did well - but what I’d actually created wasn’t a hotdog detector - is created a bun detector. I could prove this by giving it an image of a sandwich and the model would confidently score it as a hotdog.

We aren’t mimicking how our brains work in any broad sense. At best it’s a very narrow definition.

In this case - the larger the matrices - the more you can do. There’ll probably be a Moore’s law of AI at some point.
>Is there even a software to go with this

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/52420

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But in general, I don't think there's a requirement to share code alongside a paper submission. There are arguments for [1] doing so, but it's definitely not a universal practice.

[1] - https://faculty.washington.edu/rjl/pubs/topten/topten.pdf
I stopped reading your comment when I got to "At Apple".
The difference in resolution from 1080p is very noticeable and a definite improvement if you prefer more detail in your movies.
From 4k to 8k it’s 4 times the pixels.
HDR alone will make your plasma look old. I went from a plasma to 4k then to hdr. Huge improvement.
Just move on. Someone made a lazy and uninformed opinion and then, instead of admiting fault or walking away, they struggled to justify their own ignorance.

Ironically in the same vein as the OP article!
This author misses a key algorithm design option: the API does NOT offer a CREATE on such a resource, the API offers a CREATE on a JOB which generates the long-time-to-create resource. So the API client simply creates the Job, receives an ID immediately, which can be queried for status, forever. Long after the job completed it serves as a timestamped record of that specific resource's creation. It is only after the Job status reaches predefined status levels are the assets (files/data) associated with it available.

I've used this pattern with success for over a decade. First with on-demand digital products, which required compiling/generating time after customer request. This pattern also supports partial generation of long-time-to-generate resources. I used it with a custom game avatar service, where various modification and customization options are visualized without creating them. The visualization of the modified product is a 'milestone' asset generated by the resource creation pipeline. If the end-user chooses not to purchase said modification, that specific asset's sub-job is killed or never started.

With complex, multi-layered digital products this pattern works quite well. Even after a period of time, the end-user could return to a multi-leveled job and request an asset they previously denied. That sub-job gets timestamped just the same as if it ran originally. It just works.
> is an immediately obvious improvement.

Technically, yes.

I'm one of those weirdos who thinks movies aesthetically look better at 24 frames for the "dreamlike" quality. Racing/Action Sports, yes, please more frames.
Iran–Contra affair
Idk, I think Central Florida takes the cake for bugs and pestilence, at least has more than the islands in the carribean I've lived on.
It's somewhat heart-warming to read the comments here about machine learning. I did my PhD in machine learning from 2007 to 2012, and the main reason I left research was because of the widespread fraud.

Most papers reported an improved performance over some other methods in very specific data sets, but source code was almost always not provided. Once, I dug so deeply into a very highly cited paper that I understood not only that the results were faked, but precisely the tricks that were used to fake them.

I believe scientific fraud arises primarily from two causes:

- Publish or perish. Everyone's desperate to publish. Some Principal Investigators have a new paper roughly every other week!

- Careerism. For some highly ambitious people, publishing papers comes before everything else, even if that means committing fraud. This happens even with highly successful researchers, who have the occasional brilliant, highly cited paper, but who also publish a lot of incremental, dubious work.

P.S. Mildly off-topic, but I love the Ethereum research community at https://ethresear.ch/ , precisely because it is so open and transparent! I wish an equivalent community existed for machine learning.
Author needs to read, or re-read NIST 800-63B.
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html

Do not change passwords frequently. Do not use short passwords and try to compensate by using special characters and nonsensical word obfuscation, instead use long passphrases, the longer the better.
Ah, if only it were that simple.
11 hours after posting, there are only two top-level comments. Interesting.
I’m an atheist and don’t necessarily care much for Biblical principles. However, right wing Christians I know quote par6s of the Old Testament as evidence for some of their moral beliefs. They do tend to ignore those portions that contradict their preconceived ideas.
A more reasonable explanation than "languages influences personality" is just the change of context.
You speak different languages in different contexts.
Ask HN: Parallelizing GPU (graphics) workloads?
Working on an application that needs to render lots of short animations on-demand.

I'm wondering things like, how are parallel GPU workloads scheduled? Is it better to use 1 process and batch GPU calls? Looking for material that will help me better understand this topic.

I can provide more implementation details if necessary, thanks!

(currently using OpenGL, exporting each frame with `glReadPixels `)
I've had some bills like car insurance and some apartments insist on bank drafts for automatic payments, cards not accepted.
That's been my understanding too, and I've seen security professionals say the same. But possibly, their advice was intended for likely targets, such as journalists, and not the general public.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd trust a typical end user to protect themself otherwise. Are they going to secure their OS profile? Avoid malware?
My gas[1] and electric[2] companies are both subsidiaries of Avangrid, their websites and payment portals are practically identical, but one of them lets me use a credit card and the other doesn't.

I always wondered if there was a regulatory reason for it, or maybe if it dates back to arbitrarily different company policies when they were independent of each other.

[1] https://www.soconngas.com

[2] https://www.uinet.com
Show HN: A tiny printable SFF case for AMD Raven Ridge systems
Palm: The Rise and Fall of a Legend (2011)
real effects might be weak enough that they only make it through the first time (non replicative) publication process when chance makes the effect seem stronger than it actually is.
> important results are simply bugs

Probably none. If the paper is important and collects citations, the algorithm is in use. Computer science != working code.

Code is required when you produce something where the scientific importance is less clear. There is need to provide more evidence. Many papers are just "Hey I made some some tweaks and it works in this particular case." Those papers should have working code.
AudioMasher – Generative Audio Playground
His technique is the same one that Netflix uses to recommend shows and movies afaik.

Products have a market fit, and those markets are typically segmented by stereotypes. Nothing nefarious here.

Edit: though his technique seems less impressive now. It was definitely effective and stretched ad dollars further. Which is targeting companies value add to begin with. So not sure what the complaint is. Perhaps it didn't alone swing the election it's still a variable. Similar to aviation accidents, it's typically never one big thing it's several small contributing factors. Here too this was one small thing, another is disenfranchised middle/lower class, list goes on.
Khashoggi was employed by the Washington Post, which is probably the second most influential newspaper in the US behind the NYT.

Were the Chinese journalists you mention also employed by a prominent American newspaper and residents of Virginia with influential friends? If not it seems very easy to see why this case has gotten more publicity.
risky.biz is brilliant for podcast advertising - but last time I asked them (around 6 months ago) the regular sponsorship slots were fully booked until 2020! Their model is quite a bit different compared to the podcasts covered by OP: typically you buy a single 12 minute interview where the host interviews you directly. Pricing was around $7K USD for that (but perhaps that's changed in last 6 months).
>Note that I enjoy my busted 15" CRT quality fine.

I... think you are not in the majority if you think NTSC is "fine"

(Unless you mean a 15" computer monitor, a 15" computer monitors could go rather high resolution, and they are absolutely tiny compared to modern non-portable displays, so the pixel density was kinda okay.)
The problem is that corporations are fundamentally organs of the state. This inevitable authoritarian spiral was entirely predictable at the start of "Web 2.0", as it is a bad technology designed around centralizing third party intermediaries. Unfortunately, the lure of scalable riches caused most to look the other way.
Seems to me that there's room for improvement in this article. For example, the author does not try to compress any written language samples. If you wanted to find a "most efficient" language, you'd compress samples, maybe normalize them with the uncompressed length because it's hard to get the same thing written in different languages. My guess would be that natural languages would compress quite a bit, with English close to the least compressible. Artificial languages like Ithkuil and FORTRAN would be much more compressible, putting lie to Dembski's assertion that "natural" information is more likely to be incompressible.

EDIT: I think English would be least compressible. But I suspect that all written languages would compress quite a bit.
Even more interesting is that he previously came out with a Ruby edition: https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoringRubyEd.html
The more PC word is “heuristic”. Not much different than having to bin 240 students into 240 different placements.

A perfect optimization of their preferences would require going through 240! Combinations for each placement round. But that’s a massive number, so you take some shortcuts and get a “good enough” solution for a lot less computing power.
I wonder if this fun submission might not get more attention if it were Show HN...
I remember somebody made a site which automatically categorized HN posts based on machine learning. Was there on the homepage of both HN and Product Hunt.

Can't find it now as it was hosted on some less used TLD that I can't remember. But that is definitely one way to do it.
I think almost every programmer would benefit from reading "Refactoring". It sharpened my skills quite a bit, and I was already experienced before encountering the book.

The book was an easy read and was an efficient use of my time. I expect that rewrite in Javascript will further improve the information density.
"Sometimes". Yes, as opposed to "Never".

I won't deny that it have happened, but it's certainly nowhere even close to the norm.
Did not read the article, but a wild guess would be they are just looking for a hook to get users to opt-in to Plaid (presumably before the inevitable media backlash once alarmists figure out what it is.)
It's no surprise that these companies are doing this.
They have had the capability for a while.
It's not a very long stretch to understand " Alexa search for pregnancy tests" or divorce attorneys .
Whatever it is if a buck can be made off this info someone will be there to make it
> I believe most of JS community has migrated to typescript

You think the majority of JS developers have switched over to TypeScript?
Not sure why downvoted, I agree. A 'western' and 'outdoorsy' company tends to have conservative customers, I think any 12 year old could tell you that.

I'd rather see unexpected/unexplained trends, things the average person wouldn't already assume.
Show HN: Learn new skills faster with personal mentoring
If they're not for profit, the regulation won't cover them as I read it. Not will it cover them if they make money but have under 250 employees and turnover under €50M.
It's not a stereotype. It's a feature in a statistical model. The only reason it receives a lot of weight is that the empirical evidence aligns with it.
Isn't DPI closer to what most people intuitively think of resolution on monitors?
On the flip side, the newspapers I subscribe to have high paywalls and publish content I can't find elsewhere for free. If I could reliably find FT content for free on Reddit, I'm not sure I'd be a subscriber.
That's true, but live digital broadcasting/decoding has its own separate challenges than streaming a pre-recorded video.

Great video you linked, that was some stunning footage.
For most people, I think his online catalog of refactorings and blog articles are sufficient. Though I think the first edition is a good book, I wouldn’t need it if I didn’t do research on refactoring tools.
> The idea that say a startup has time to audit every line of every dependency is absurd. Even a big business can’t do that.

Big business absolutely do that. Code quality review, security review, legal review. Every line of every 3rd party dependency.

Of course, for the most part big business doesn't take 3rd party dependencies. If you have a big enough software org, you write everything above the std library in-house. Why do you think so many of the big open-source frameworks are vended by big 10 tech firms?
HDTV was when content stopped being an eyesore to me. Those DVDs were just blurry on a good screen. But I still don't think I really need 4k.
I used a video's frames of myself playing RDR2 to train a neural network. I then showed it a photo my son took of some cows at the in-law's place. Here's what happened: https://photos.app.goo.gl/sDTofashQdDSUJMdA

The network was trained with https://nanonets.com, if anyone is interested. Interesting stuff, given the knowledge came from synthesized horses.

I did not train or segment any other entities other than Arthur and his horse. Labels were 'horse' and 'human'.
Read the comments, pretty much most people agree that they can tell the difference between normal HD and 4k displays (and content) at and normal viewing distances.
This is even less complicated than an adaptive cruise control system. If you point it to in the general direction of a mountain, it very much depends on luck if the descent is possible or not.
MyChevy App Reveals Juicy Technical Details on the Chevy Bolt Battery
Ask HN: Updating a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro OS X 10.8.5?
I'm interested in taking a Udacity course, but the technology course requirements state that the operating system for Macs should be OS X 10.11 and higher.

I was always content with leaving my MacBook Pro at OS X 10.8.5. I'm a little bit hesitant about what will happen with my machine after updating. Will it run a lot slower, or should I be fine? Also, should I update to OS X 10.11 or higher?

Thanks.
> "In-home listening devices will soon be able to judge how functional relationships are as well as interrupt an argument with an idea for how to resolve it, the study said. ... The technology would reach a verdict through acoustic analysis of communication between couples – examining everything from everyday encounters to arguments."

Currently, these devices only start listening when users ask them to, but understanding relationships would require the owners of these devices to consent to being constantly monitored.
His popularity is a combination of things, it started with his obscene reactions to horror games, then he became the most subscribed channel and that made him the defacto king of YouTube which made him even more popular, than he kept getting into controversies which made him even more popular and now he has a massive influence on the meme market which is keeping him popular.
"my daughter discovering she can’t use music from a streaming music service in a home video"

Can you say more about where the DRM applied in this case? I would expect it to kick in, say, if you upload a home video to YouTube that incorporates copyrighted media, but I would be surprised if something prevented you from making a video (say on your phone) that included whatever music playing over speakers.
So? Storage is cheap. Even supposing you were going to store every single one as a 16 byte UUID, you can store 2^32 such ids in 2^32*2^4=2^36 bytes=~64GB. Is that a large database in your mind?
Honestly my completionist instincts make me like 4K/8K.

It's the point where I think we can pretty much say, okay, we are now finished with resolution increases. There's nowhere else to go. We've 100%'d that part of the tech tree. Weirdly satisfying.
just give everyone amphetamines, problem solved

(there are of course ethical concerns)
Sci-Hub: Breaking Down the Paywalls
Hahahha de_rats. That’s a classic. So many good memories
The Iran-Contra Affair 30 Years Later: A Milestone in Post-Truth Politics (2016)
I have my 2012 macbook pro at 10.14 and it seems totally fine.
I doubt it, they've been around since 2006 and they're a very big label in India. It makes sense.
If you know typescript, you're familiar enough with javascript to use the book, but if you don't know typescript then its a bit tricky for those readers. It just means fewer people have to dust off their language skills to benefit from the book.
This is a surprisingly good article when it comes to describing the needs of a startup, but it makes me wonder why it’s taken for granted that these interview questions have to be asked in subtextual code...
That seems overly harsh. Are you saying the same about vi or emacs? As soon as someone has put in the time to familiarize with the UI the speed with which you can achieve things is impressive. I've been using blender since the 2.4 branch and the amount of work the devs have been putting into improving it (not only the UI) is simply astonishing. And whats the point of making an UI beginner friendly if it hinders you after you have reached a certain level of proficiency (a period which realyl isn't that long).
I know it is trite, bit stay strong, things can get better. I have schizoaffective disorder and I did find a mix of medication that helps a lot, but it literally took 13 years to find the mix with a couple suicide attempts during that period. Check out some of the mental health subreddits, I am the founder of /r/schizoaffective.
> Are you saying supporting SA is in our national interest?

I’m not who you’re replying to, but yes it absolutely is. We don’t support SA because we secretly like mean people. We have a vested interest in keeping oil flowing.

Was interfering in the most recent political turmoils in Egypt in our national interest? When you look at how much oil moves through the Suez Canal, absolutely.

Stabilizing access to oil is in our own selfish national interest (we need oil) and in our global interest of stabilizing the world. When countries don’t have access to the natural resources they need, they tend to invade other countries to get them. We want to avoid that.

Considering the above, I really wish politicians in the US would frame clean energy as a national security issue. We are far less likely to be bumbling around in the Middle East if we don’t need their natural resources. Would we still sell hundreds of billions of dollars in arms to theocratic authoritarian nut jobs? Maybe. At the very least we should chip away at the reasons we have for doing so.
You're absolutely right about that. I always thought getting a bigger screen would dramatically increase my viewing pleasure but I don't think it hardly even counts for 5%. Content still is king.
Difference between sitting height and leg space isn't much.
So he actually lost nothing, apart from a bunch of free time, making a shitty game that no one wants, then blames others for him not making money at the rate he thinks he deserves. I've seen better looking atmospheric games made in game jams...
You are entirely correct. And there's also a huge economy in informal payments to people too young to work, or who work so intermittently that it's not worth reporting.

Babysitters, lemonade stands, cat sitters, guys selling their own rap CDs in supermarket parking lots, garage sales, flea markets, etc...
My feeling is that this is building an increasingly specialized list of roles for people who don't exist as such. So when you add "HR", which for some reason they don't have at their scale, your HR person will be rejecting useful people who are not fitting those roles before they apply for the job.

For a small startup, it is probably good to realize that you need your core people to become competent in a lot of these areas. For example, if your core developers are not able to optimize a database or automated an acceptance test, they are creating trouble for themselves and making the whole operation much more unwieldy as the need becomes apparent later on. If you startup trying to hire these 50 people, you will go bankrupt before your Series A. If you ignore these roles, you might be that startup who nearly makes it before they couldn't keep up with demand or before they got hacked and everyone lost faith in them.

The trouble is, there are not a lot of schools that produce people with such and such roles. I'm sure there are boot camps that do, but in reality the best way is probably to find good people and send them to training.

Oh, and is Joao missing a ~?
I'm running Mojave (10.14) on an Early 2013 MacBook Pro, and it's seems to run just like when it was new. That said I do have the quad-core i7 model, so YMMV if you have a dual-core or i5 model.
> There is no reason to suspect that this would be useful for human nutrition

Do spiders have some kind of different macronutrients?
I wonder if it was the original or alternate title? The subtitle on the article now is “None of them accept Bitcoin, either“ although why anyone would expect a business to accept bitcoin is beyond me.
CO2 production is not the only environmental harm. You're being pretty uncharitable by presenting that crowd as hysterical but not addressing their actual arguments against cattle farming.
He doesn't actually hate India, it's quite obviously a joke.
That's pretty much a definition of stereotype. Humans too form statistical models in their head, even if they don't usually call them that.