skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see many people cross shopping Tesla and Kia, unless Tesla makes an extremely barebones Model 3 that is more economy car-like than the vehicles they've previously made. The Model S may not have the interior of an S Class, but Tesla is seen as a tech company, innovator and market leader, and that's a huge part of their allure. Tesla has cachet that Kia will never have, no matter what they do to ditch their bargain bin past. The Stinger and K900 are great cars, but they haven't attracted people who would have otherwise bought a 540i or A7, they're getting people from downstream to stretch their budgets upwards. I'm all for more electric cars, but I don't see Kia taking on Tesla. I think when "premium" brands like Volvo, Infiniti and Acura start offering them it'll really hit Tesla where it hurts. Both Volvo and Infiniti have teased an electric CUV, but that's still years away. Volvo claimed it'll be ready in 2019 in press releases, but nothing on their website indicates that it's ready for purchase.
Thanks. I did not know that one and it sounds nifty.
That is also an interesting question. If they’re measuring speed as if the airplane were at the surface rather than at 30,000 feet, is it speed along the WSG84 earth model?
Using Swedish statistics from a few years ago, 12.5% of the population has a professional job which has at minimum 40% men and 40% women. 88.5% do not. Split per gender this was 88.4% for men and 88.6% for women.

If we state that bias is a risk then we must conclude that around 90% of the population work in echo chambers (more if we find that 60/40 is still quite bad segregation) and could use the benefit of reduced risk of mistakes. It would be interesting to hear what suggestions people have to address this generally so that the 88.4% of men and 88.6% women can reduce the risk.
We try to keep it to 32 but the problem with good people who are high performers is they love to work! We try to emphasise that sure, at times you may need to burst a bit, and we do, but overtime is generally a failure of management. Either the managing team or managing ones workload. A lot of times when our managers notice overtime or more than 32 they look into the whys behind it.

Our CEO (me) does take phone calls and work a bit on the 5th day. I’m not the best example, but I don’t go into the office, and I try to limit it to important stuff that literally can’t wait. My travel schedule means I burn weekend days quite a bit but I do enjoy being on long haul flights where my phone doesn’t work. I’m a recovering workaholic and I do feel like it’s helped me personally put the brakes on a bit.

The funny thing is, when I’m off on my 5th day and enjoying a hobby or something I often get very creative ideas about the business popping into my thoughts. And I think that shouldn’t be surprising bc that’s how our minds work - we can’t be slaves to a hustle porn mentality and do our best work.

Anyway. We and myself aren’t perfect, but we do try to adhere to the spirit of the idea as best we can.
Don’t forget garbage collection and janitorial.
> ...some foe personified.

> ...make sure he doesn't think he lost anything

While I have vast respect for those that can have a different viewpoint, I'm not sure I'd be able to look on it as anything but an intensely personal attack from the universe that definitely takes things - notably, a future - away from me.

With time I might find the wisdom to feel otherwise. But time is what would be taken away.
I just look at the clock when I arrive, round to the nearest quarter hour, and unless there's something pressing I leave 8 hour later
relative to their own location Δt ago?
Interesting comparison. With a film, you normally don't start production without a script. You also appoint a director that (hopefully) is fully responsible for the vision of the project.

In comparison, with software, we often don't know what we want to build except in vague terms. It's a bit like one of those failed movie projects where they know they want to make a Superman film, but they don't actually have a script and are constantly rewriting as they go. Also, unless you have a very enlightened group, usually there is nobody that is responsible for the vision of the project except in very vague terms. If you have a question, "Should we collect the user's login data before we allow them to see the welcome splash screen?" usually nobody knows. When someone makes a decision, it's not necessarily due to having an overall vision of how the product works, but more a random choice. Often the people making the decisions about how the product will work are marketing, sales or management figures, instead of people on the creation side of the equation.

I think the latter issue can be fixed and I think it would go a long way towards making better products. The former issue, though, I think is not fixable. We tried the "analysis upfront" approach for decades and it never worked well for software. Usually you can't tell what you need until after you built it at least once.
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My guess is that eventually, if we manage to ever reach that point of total knowledge, there are certain properties of the universe that exist for no reason; they just are. Whether that's at the level of today's fundamental particles/qft or much deeper is anyone's guess.

Example: space-time exists in n(>=4) dimensions, there are several quantum fields that exist in that space-time and evolve/interact according to the equations of qft, gravity has some mathematical description (better than the ones we have now). And that's it, there's nothing else for us to know. Of course, we can never know for certain whether we've bottomed-out our description of reality, so physicists will always have some hope.

Now, if the universe is described entirely by mathematics, bootstrapped by a few base cases (the existence of fields/particles/space-time/strings/etc), I'd be comfortable with that. I'm not sure what a truly satisfying understanding of reality would look like beyond that.
No, because this isn't a binary result. If group a and b both have bias 1, that bias won't be cancelled. But if they differ on bias 2, the combined group has less bias than a or b while not having 'cancelled all biases perfectly'. Perfection is a false goal while 'lower risk' is attainable and worthwhile.
Besides H1Bs, and fresh graduates (who don't have any choice), I don't understand how Amazon can still higher Software engineers. I understand that Amazon teams are diverse, but as a candidate with any other possible option, how could anyone even consider amazon considering everything that's been written about the company already.
There's a certain irony in people on a technology site dismissing the deployment of an entirely new tactical option that offers several advantages. I'm particularly perplexed by your suggestion that a BMG rifle 'never runs out of juice' as if they came with infinite ammo or something.

Consider this: if you get shot at by a BMG you'll know about it, and possibly be able to figure out where the attack came from. If you just have things silently bursting into flame it may not even be obvious that an attack is underway. And rechargeable batteries strike me as having distinct advantages over expendable ammo. Every building and vehicle is an ammo locker.
The hawthorne effect should be factored in here. I am a proponent of 4 day weeks but depends on the situation industry etc.
You have to weigh it against the very finite budget of space programs. NASA does this as their decadal surveys. There is no shortage of ideas and serious concepts.

The difficulty of putting Hubble or JWST sized telescopes in orbit of other plants is immense. They need constant maintenance as well and will take years to reach their intended targets.

B612/Sentinel has been "in the works" for at least 8 years, but still doesn't have consistent funding. This would be in a Venutian orbit to looks for near Earth objects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Space_Telescope

IMHO, a more useful location for a space telescope rather than in orbit around another planet would be phased 6 months off of Earth at 1 AU. This would let us continuously observe the "sun side" of space.
Hope a miracle happens to you, Alex
This product introduces compute, making them a bit more than a pure CDN.

They’re also doing a lot with Rust, which I know you love, incidentally.
This always rubbed me the wrong way. Remember back in the day Red Cross doing this and this was before Haiti scandal.

Could be a decent business to pay x amount for people to donate blood and sell it to hospital. People would be incentivised to donate blood, hospital would get more off it and given they are already paying for it.
Full report here:

http://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The-Future-...

Bottom line is, as Forbes rather clickbaitily puts it [1], the main reason nuclear reactors can cost twice as much in the United States and Europe than in Asia is not regulation (or rather, not only regulation), but rather dumb stupid preventable factors like project/construction management failures, inexperienced subcontractors, starting construction before the design is complete, and so on --or so the study claims.

If so, then making nuclear cost-effective may be a stone's throw away, after all...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/10/01/3-reason...
I don’t doubt that, but at least marginally some parents will be swayed by convenient childcare, rather than going part time or abandoning the fields.
Empirically, we'd want data on how corresponding electromagnetic pulses would affect brain activity -- there should be resonance effects, once the amplitude is high enough.
Pretty lacking on specifics. What was the actual radiation level measured? I would assume these were not buckets of pure uranium, but of uranium ore that is naturally all over the place in the West, and not terribly radioactive in its natural state.
Amazon Leadership principles are for all employees at the company not managers.

"Leaders are right a lot" isn't indoctrination to trust your manager implicitly because they are right. It's "Be a leader. Have good judgement. Work to improve it. As a result be right a lot"

Backbone one is also misunderstood: "Don't succumb to do the easy thing. Push back when you know when it's the right thing to do even if it's harder. BUT if you are overruled, and the group decision goes against it, don't try to fight it and undermine the decision, commit to the path."
Yes, that's how I perceive it as well. The fact that you're in circumstance X might suck, but shelter for that is always good. It's interesting to me that people find the word "shelter" itself negative because they associate it with the unwanted circumstance. I wonder if the same happens with "haven", "succor", etc.
Is OpenAI anywhere near AGI such that it would warrant such concerns?
Nope, yeah Apple should try to resolve mDNS queries, however it shouldn't ignore local DNS requests or make them a lower priority.
Thank - you - so - much.

I was precisely looking for a better service than pastebin - specifically when it comes to APIs

Does it have a public repo though?
If they had just let them sit there for 4 and a half billion years they would be half gone :-).

If you hike around the Grand Canyon you are going to be exposed to Uranium. There are a lot of mines in and around the place (see here: https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/grand-canyon-uranium). It really isn't something to worry about unless you want to live their and/or eat food that has been contaminated.
What sort of authentication? Are you trying to ensure that only your webapp hits your backend (which in this case is implemented in Workers)? That's generally impossible on the web, as all the code in the browser used to hit it is accessible to visitors.
If you want to get pedantic then you and the article are both wrong! Navigation, marine and aeronautical, is done in Nautical Miles, called Knots when used to measure speed. 1NM used to be exactly 1 minute of latitude but is now defined as very closely approximate to this as earth is now understood to be not a perfect geoid. There are 60 Nautical Miles to a degree of latitude. This allows distances and courses to be measured and plotted easily on charts which are Mercator projections.
That's no different to conventional history and culture. It just has computers in it.

Dyson seems to have only just worked out that evolution, culture, and politics are emergent.

Which is why the argument makes no sense. Either digital systems add something new and unique to the mix, or they don't.

If they don't, then what's the point of the piece?

If they do, blather about analog metazoans is irrelevant. The problem becomes one of understanding emergence without obfuscation and hand-waving.

In fact so-called emergent behaviour is not the problem. Not even slightly.

The biggest digital systems we have now have been consciously and deliberately designed to monitor and manipulate human behaviour.

There's nothing emergent, surprising, obscure, or quasi-mystical about either the outline goals or the specific techniques used to achieve them.

Instead of resorting to obscurantism, it would be far more useful to invent a new kind of "digital democracy" where the goals of large software corporations were open to democratic oversight.

Of course that's not going to happen while free market excuses and rhetoric are used to keep democratic oversight well away from these corporations.
My impression of blacklists is that they're much more systematic and pervasive than that. If you're an individual contributor, I think it'd be really hard to become so infamous that your manager's manager is complaining about you to his peers during a golf game and they remember you.

Also, if you're writing your Representative about some kind of abuse or malfeasance, you could always use and assumed name (and say you're doing so to avoid retaliation).
> every alien civilization has unicorns

I knew it, Unicorns are real!!11!

I am not sure I can conceive of aliens that don't have pi (how can they have cylindrical rockets?).

Anyway, maybe we should let the professionals deal with this.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
It's an obvious lie that there's an issue to release it.

Can anyone explain what it might do bad, WITHOUT hand waving?

What? Blog spam to attack Googles algorithm? We can already attack it using markov chains, they simply use IP's and incoming links and other tricks to fight back.

You can read the examples, they are meaningless to humans obviously, the intelligence to create a article that's intelligent would be sentient AI.

Unlike the human photo creating AI which actually is an issue.

A non handwaving example why it's bad, people can quickly Tinyeye a photo to see if it's fake or not. With this AI they cannot.

Fresh photos take real world people and money, people have learned they add authenticity because of this, while people relearn AI means this is no longer true they are open to attack.

A jumble of words.... we've all seen before. (And the researchers are using humans to pick the best jumble of words so it still takes a skilled human = $)
Equality of outcome is a fool's errand and a quick path to authoritarianism.

What we need is equality of opportunity.

We don't need to even strive for a 50/50 M/F split in STEM, parenting, dance, healthcare, martial arts, etc. for everything we do in society. The majority of men and women might have very different interests and we want people doing what they're interested in and what gives them joy, not pushing them to do something the majority of their gender isn't usually interested in.

But, when it's not close to a 50/50 split it's fair to ask why. Are men and women being given the same opportunity to join and be successful?

If it's because men and women on average are different then nothing is wrong. But if it's because men aren't hiring women because of a bias then something is wrong.

And historically we've been willing to give special treatment to those who are underrepresented to help correct past biases.

So, yes the pendulum might swing from a bias to a quota before it goes back to equality. We see this in college admissions and people are starting to want to swing it back to equality which is fine once the initial biases in the system become rare enough that striving for diversity becomes the biggest bias in the system.

Of course this is very difficult to measure and is largely influenced by culture and wether you've historically received preferential or biased treatment.
True, it was a little vague. They mentioned the measured levels after the bucket was removed, but not before.
Here is the reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.2727
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I think they're just trying to say "1" is not a tangible object in the physical universe, not that it does not exist as a concept. The natural numbers are just data, information, they don't exist beyond the first dimension except as descriptors to things in further dimensions, just like lines can be built up into higher dimensions but cannot be physically created for us to observe.

Maybe you're reading too much into this.
I get that for scientific/numeric applications Julia is probably at a sweet spot and equally well suited if not better suited than many of its competitors (in many ways it feels like Matlab on steroids). Clearly the stuff you're doing with XLA.jl and the ease of implementation of Neural Differential Equations demonstrate the power of Julia's approach to deep learning.

As you probably know it is hard (and in a precise sense actually theoretically impossible) to design type systems that are both convenient to use (have automatic type inference) and incorporate dependent types (such as shapes of tensors). Julia's solution of using multiple dispatch is not a substitute for such a static type system.

Running into an exception, if there is no method for the particular combination of parameter types you have accidentally produced in a 1000 LOC project might be fine, it will make it pretty hard to refactor anything in a larger project. It results in exactly the same challenges that large python / javascript projects have. Those challenges are well documented and are the reason why large companies move away from those languages to statically typed languages.

This is why I believe a statically typed language with good support for numerical computing will eventually win as the language of choice for large production machine learning applications. Leaving (for now) exotic examples such as Neural Differential Equations aside, current machine learning models would probably actually profit more from some of the type safety features let's say Swift has (using structs for example instead of Tensors of certain shapes) than from more comprehensive support of numerical features. For the most part we are talking about very basic linear algebra after all.

The Swift for Tensorflow design documents argue this pretty convincingly as well.

Regarding the package and module system you might be right, but looking at https://github.com/JuliaTPU/XLA.jl/blob/master/src/XLA.jl and comparing this to how you would assemble a user facing module in lets say OCaml https://github.com/janestreet/core/blob/master/src/core_unix... I personally feel like the later gives me a lot more information how I would use the module and a clear separation from the implementation at the same time, similar things can be said about how this would look like in Swift or even a well written C/C++ header. As far as I can tell package management is still roughly at the level of pip in sophistication, not comparable to solutions like cargo or opam.
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Lambda@Edge is very limited, you, for example, cannot make requests to arbitrary hosts from an @Edge.
How does it take off?
Yet another 'might' article....
DME equipment explicitly does not take altitude into account.

It's colloquially called "slant range" for this reason, and if you care about actual ground distance you have to use trigonometry.
Yeah, those few guys and all their FUD.

As opposed to all of the institutional investors, VCs, employees, shareholders, car owners and Elon Musk himself (with the biggest pay package in history) who have a stake in saying, "Business is great, nothing to see here!"
"Does this single observation tell you anything about reality? I would argue that it does - it should strongly suggest to you that you're in the "every car is ARW 357" reality."

I think this scenario is incoherent after thinking about it for a minute. You say "there is equal probability that either explanation is true" but you imply that you, the storyteller, know something about license plates. Probability is a description of incomplete knowledge, so whose knowledge are we talking about, yours or mine?

I see no reason (in my hypothetical ignorance) to exclude the possibility you know I will see "ARW 357" next even if all license plates are different.
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Cool, I remember when they first came out... it was pretty awesome tech. Now it feels a little spooky and while it can clearly be beneficial, Apple has been cracking down on it.

Do you make it clear to your users that you record their screens? I heard Apple was reaching out to every app that used it and making sure it was clearly described
I'd imagine it either employs the Macintosh startup sound, or the legally required audio clip of a camera shutter, and red blinking light as visual cue, to let the subject know that lasing is in progress.
Debt is the backbone of US GDP growth, money enters the economy as debt, is used to purchase something like a car or a house, subsequently it then reenters the banking system as the person who is being paid deposits their check, and then gets re-loaned out only to often immediately end back up in another domestic bank account that then loans out even more money.

This cycle can continue forever, and the faster this cycle occurs the higher our GDP.
It’s not that long since the Chinese government ran tanks over protesters, blinding people would likely be a feature.