skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about his possibility of success or even learning anything, but just it being a remote possibility to me doesn't rule out the possibility that he was looking to see if he could impact memory.

I suspect any human enhancement type work will be highly experimental the first few (or more) rounds.
Like I said: the problem is that they lied to me, and as a result they made me waste a day of my life [1]. If I'd known that this was going to happen, I could have either brushed up on my Ruby, or (more likely) cancelled the interview because I would have known ahead of time that I would not be a good fit for their company. There is a reason I've never used Ruby, and it's not that I've never had the chance. I told them that, and they said it would not be a problem. But it was.

[1] Actually, it was only half a day because they cancelled the interview after two hours. Like I said, I have not told you the whole story, and I'm not going to. But the whole thing was a train wreck from beginning to end.
Uh oh, let's look at the crypto wars and see how that turned out. AI restriction is garbage, I think this is a way for the govt to steal AI tech from private corps. If you refuse to share, how can they access the strength? With crypto, we could easily say restricted to Nbits of keys. With AI, they will make up some rubbish and claim your AI is too strong because you refused to share. If you share and they find it good and think it gives the govt advantage, they will restrict you too. Either way you lose. Long run tho the govt will lose.
Honestly if I ever had someone yell at me in an interview I'd just pick my stuff up and walk out.

Cheap way of figuring out you don't want to work there. Give feedback to the recruiter of what is unacceptable behaviour.

As to the actual point I'm with you: be explicit. I write std::cout too. Not that I'd get upset if someone used "using namesace std" as long as such using statements are used judiciously, it's fine. Like if someone creates something claled "cout" in namespace "foo" and then writes this:

using namespace foo;
...
cout << 3;

Then yeah I'd ping them on a code review.
The hammering may come sooner than you realize. Typical objects to many of the AI predictions are based on a mindset that sees computers are Turing Machines and focus on single threaded computational power.

As I'm sure you know, AlphaGo/Alpha0 replaced much of the "graphs" for Go/Chess already, and as we talk, an open source clone (Lc0) is doing quite well in TCEC:

https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2018-tcec-s14pd

I would not be surprised if this is the last year a classical engine wins that tournament.

And as tensor-based computing (an other non-Turing Machiene substrates) continue to mature, I expect more and more problems to be solved by carefully designed special purpose substrate/software combination, enabling solutions to problems that are practically unsolvable with traditional algorithms running on Turing Machines.
US's coal consumption in 2018 expected to be lowest since 1979
I feel the same unease. In China, blind people are often given jobs as piano tuners and masseuses. In a country with few resources and opportunities for disabled people, I first viewed these types of jobs positively. However, people can be pressured or even forced into taking on these careers in order to be less of a burden on their families.
As mentioned in the article you might want the token to be read by the users. Such as issuing a token with a expiry date that you want the user to regenerate. Although If anything the JWT libraries should have encryption enabled by default.
I came here to say exactly the same thing. I'd be happy to stick money down on Trump still being in power by the end of 2019. And probably by the end of 2024 as well.

I think it's an example of a Silicon Valley filter bubble.
Only Americans are allowed to do nonlinear function approximation! Fuck off China!
I'm afraid I can't say since I suspect it would break an NDA.

EDIT: Best Start Grant is public info though [0]

[0] https://www.gov.scot/policies/social-security/best-start-gra...
It's not unthinkable that a decent number of Republicans would flip, but a precondition of that would probably need to be a plummeting approval rating for Trump, which hasn't borne out so far - despite all the controversy, he still seems to have a 35-40% floor.

One interesting thing about Trump is that he has some of the most stable (albeit somewhat low) approval ratings of any president that there's reliable data for. But he's gone from "historically unpopular" to "about as popular as Reagan, Ford or Clinton" at this point in his presidency.
They released the iPod touch before the iPhone, and it was arguably a touch screen tablet. That's how I used it.
> Cuomo was uninterested in maintaining it, aside from scant, hollow PR moments.

Cuomo even deigned to make hollow PR statements about the subway to the press? I must have missed those.

I'm being flippant, but not without reason: Cuomo has taken the subway exactly twice in the last decade, went out of his way not to take public transit when running for re-election (lest it be interpreted as him admitting responsibility for the system), and undermined Andy Byford at the one job he ostensibly hired him to do in the first place.

It's not that Cuomo is all talk and no action. When it comes to public transit, he isn't even "talk". He's just completely absentee, and downright proud of it.
Could you explain what the tunnel demos or tests? We know how to make small tunnels. We know how to route cars through tunnels.

As a demonstration project, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1 says:

> According to SpaceX, the Falcon 1 was designed to minimize price per launch for low-Earth-orbit satellites, increase reliability, and optimize flight environment and time to launch.[14] It also was used to verify components and structural design concepts that would be reused in the Falcon 9.

By the metric of "demo/test" rocket, it was successful.

What is there comparable which we can use to judge the effectiveness of this demo/test tunnel?
Probably worth mentioning prior discussion of controversy[1] mentioned on the Wiki page.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
Outside of VC's there's an entire group of software engineers in the financial markets, in particular decent quants that double as ML/NLP specialists, who also understand the value of globally accessible trading vehicles. Time to put the crypto pitchforks away.
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It will be posted any minute now. It was posted accidentally yesterday and then taken down again (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800645)
I suspect the old ways of preserving are still fine to buy. Even if they use sugar, they likely aren't using as much as is in a single can of soda. Dried/corned/pickled/cured/etc are all ways people used to make things last longer.

I think the trick is that it is more than just eating food prepared that way. It is having a lot less of it. Seasonal foods may help your gut in some ways, I can't say. The fact that food was seasonal also meant you just ate a whole lot less of it.

(Above is pure speculation on my part, for what its worth. If someone has studied this, please correct me.)
> although many of these hits require reinterpreting "most" as "many" and so on.

Words have meanings, if he says "most" and it is less than 50% of the total then I'd have to say it's a miss.

I mean, just look at his 2009 predictions, if we just assessed his 2009 predictions as if they were for today I'd guess he'd still struggle to get 50% hit rate without favorable "reinterpretations".

I've always had a hard time understanding the appeal of futurists and their wild claims, especially amongst a population (techies) who I continue to assume are more skeptical in general.
I think it's a safe bet that by some objective measure or other, you're below average. (As am I, and the rest of us.)

Don't worry, I expect there'll be some other equally objective measure by which you're above average.
Or wasm?
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I don't know about other families, but my child won't eat bacon and eggs or other non sugar laden breakfast. I eat bacon and eggs every morning. My child wants cereal, or poptarts, or frozen waffles/pancakes etc. When I removed these items in an effort to have him eat other healthier foods, he decided to not eat anything at home - he'd go to school and instead eat their sugar and carb breakfast. So while I can understand the thought process and well meaning of OP comment, it's one of a non parent attempting to give advice on parenting.
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> Without enough fat, many will see issues with their gal bladder over time

Wait what? I was under the impression that most gal bladder issues came from fat, not from not enough fat. Or is it one of those "both extremes are bad" thing?
> This might be an android thing only, but when I type, for instance "sea", the URL bar autocomplete will suggest "sears.com", even though I have search disabled and have never visited sears.com. There are a bunch of these which seem to have come out of nowhere.

I honestly never noticed this, because I look at the keyboard when I type a URL on Android.

Doing a bit of research in Bugzilla, it appears that there are two different systems in Firefox to "seed" the browser with autocomplete results. The first was implemented in Fennec (Firefox Android) [1] and acts as a fallback to the Alexa top 500 sites if no other autocomplete result was found [2]. The second was implemented separately in all of Firefox [3]. Ironically, someone was worried whether this might appear to users as a paid advertisement, but proposed using engagement as a metric to measure the impact [4]. That implementation uses browser.urlbar.usepreloadedtopurls.enabled and .expire_days to stop using the preloaded list after two weeks (when the user probably has generated enough history of their own). But the earlier Fennec version doesn't respect those settings. Someone already complained about that [5], but it doesn't appear like they filed the report in the right place for someone on the Fennec team to see it.

I'm going to file a new report to hopefully get that fixed. In the meantime you can toggle browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled to completely disable autocomplete, but I guess you might not want that if the suggestions are otherwise useful.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858829

[2] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/andro...

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211726

[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211726#c10

[5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211726#c70
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I thought these exploits already required code execution on your machine. (Maybe I'm wrong about that.) If untrusted code is already running on your machine, your system is already compromised. So I don't see the big deal about these exploits, except in the context of hosted VMs.
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Long time no see!
Larger and larger circles to some degree (a large percentage of the earths population now have access to advanced technology.)
There's a screenshot linked to in the comments [1] showing how you can query whether the mitigations are enabled, and showing the results for a 9900k.

1: https://www.anandtech.com/comments/13659/analyzing-core-i9-9... - screenshot comes from anandtech.com
SDRs are total spur-fests, yes, but at 0% the cost of a real SA (rounded) the economics sometimes work out :-)

That said, at the high end of the SDR range, the new AD937x chips ($325 in qty 1k!) make impressive claims wrt automagic spur suppression. They still don't beat high-IF or YIG preselected SAs, but now they claim to be in the ballpark under non-overload conditions. Has anyone here dug deep enough to comment?
Yeah, sounds like it's possible but an unreasonably high burden (imo).
Agreed.

Fresher foods also often have a shorter shelf life and are harder to store, which is a particular issue if getting to the store often is a struggle (e.g. public buses).

You then combine that with lack of cooking instruction in many low income public schools, and you have a recipe for ready meals and similar convenience foods.
Scary how? If you send a photo to Google's computers, expect someone to look at it and classify it. If the expectation is that one can drown that possibility away using volume, then one would need to reassess their understanding of the purpose of computers.

What are your expectations, and why would the elicit such an extreme reaction to the status quo?
>Marble Marcher is entirely ray-traced in real time and is played on the surface of evolving fractals.

That’s the very first line of the source page. So why do you say it uses raymarching? Are these terms used interchangeably as in marching is a method to do tracing?
desirable land, land that can
support populations is very much
a constrained resource.

I'm afraid I don't agree.

We only loose land to development were we don't push density. Desertification is not a major problem, since -- due to global warming -- we win more new land in previously uninhabitable areas (e.g. Siberia).
From a sustainability POV, it is desirable to increase density of human dwelling: the more density, the less transport is needed, the more public transport makes sense, the more heating / cooling, electricity production etc can be centralised, which means more efficient usage of resources.
In the science fiction novel Snow Crash an image containing random white and black pixels contained a virus that could infect any developer that would see the image:
https://www.amazon.fr/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/14915150...
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Pro-Bejing parties are now the majority of the legislative in Hong Kong. It's only a matter of time before the same happens in Taiwan and they fall under the S.A.R system.

The fact that the KMT are considered China-friendly is hilarious considering the history of the Republic of China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-politics/taiwan-re...
For some global context, this article from 2015 shows sugar consumption across the globe. The data comes from market research company Euromonitor:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/05/where...

Countries with high sugar consumption levels include the US, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, Belgium and the UK.

A more recently published report (some of which uses 2008 data) looks at the consumption of "ultra-processed" foods in 19 countries in Europe. "Ultra-processed" refers to food made in a factory with industrial ingredients and additives invented by food technologists: salty snacks, sugary cereals, industrially-made bread, desserts, ready-meals, reconstituted meats, and sweetened soft drinks

The top European countries for consuming "ultra-processed" foods are: UK, Germany, Ireland and Belgium:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...
A thought: Drawing is a great way to explore the worlds of your imagination, but you’re limited to your own imagination.

To expand the scope of the world you can create, you really do need to visit the worlds imagined up by others. Be it in books, video games, TV, movies, or radio (try listening to “War of the Worlds” sometime with an era-appropriate mentality, it’s kinda crazy).