skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original name of 36Kr is something like Chinese version of TechCrunch.
Huh? This has nothing to do with statistical significance.

Also, it sounds like the authors didn’t sample scientists at all. They solicited signatures with some minimal qualifications. The 800 number wasn’t claimed to prove anything.
The Curse of Xanadu: the longest-running vaporware in computing (1995)
> “Or, if you were able to stay in a home instead of a hotel, you could save enough money to make the trip affordable now, instead of waiting until later in life to enjoy it.”

I’m saying if I need to book a house rental because saving on the margins with home cooking might make or break my ability to afford the vacation, then I clearly don’t have enough money for the trip to be a responsible purchase until saving more.

So almost by definition, considerations that happen at exactly that margin decision boundary aren’t very applicable for reasoning between the two options.

> “That person is me. I love to cook, and I assure you it's quite possible to enjoy a vacation while making crepes for your friends. :)”

I love cooking too, but it ruins a vacation if I have to cook, as opposed to getting to cook, particularly meaning I would spend much more on high-end ingredients to make special meals that are much more expensive than eating at even medium-quality restaurants.. plus you still end up wasting vacation time on clean up and prep like chopping, or if things need to bake a while then someone’s stuck in the kitchen potentially long before the meal.

Any way you look at it, unless you’re doing something like a cabin vacation where all the recreation is right in and around your lodging all day, then needing to devote money and time to grocery shopping, prep, cooking and clean up is a pretty expensive chore in terms of time & money to commit to during a vacation. Clearly even if some people like it, you can imagine a lot of other people don’t see that as an effective trade-off.
Ask HN: Suggestions to Make Alphago Zero Clone
Hello everybody!

I want to make an Alphago Zero clone from scratch in Python, as an excuse to learn about deep learning.

Which toolkit should I use? Tensorflow? Keras? Other?

Would it be better to do a 9x9 version to make training faster?

Any recommended resources to read before getting into the task?

Any other suggestions?
I also don't see the link to the topic at hand: It's not the (debatable) "oversized bureaucracy" that has drafted and works on passing Article 13: It is national governments (see the French / German "deal" on this topic) and the European Parliament (and particularly the EPP) that are the source of Article 13 and the frustration that lead to this blackout.
Large parts of 4chan are still pretty separate from that. Each board may as well be its own site after all
I pay for WSJ, but am somehow constantly required to login again and again. It’s almost infuriating enough to make me cancel my subscription.
I have always been saying that if an experimental medication application resulted in a useful effect observed in 1 subject out of 1000 this doesn't mean it's garbage and should be dismissed at this point, it can perfectly mean that one person was different in the same way 1 out of every other 1000 people is and 0.1% of the earth population is 7.55 million people still worth curing.
That stat of 1.16 includes motor vehicles, motorcycles, pedestrians, buses, bicyclists and trucks. How is this a comparison to luxury electric cars again?
Neural Networks Improve Radiologists' Performance in Breast Cancer Screening
The point non owners miss is that early adopters are aware of what they are buying and what to expect, while the very vocal know-it-alls of the interwebs are judging the technology as if it was supposed to be perfect.
I am glad Tesla’s future doesn’t depend on these people’s opinions.
I'm a vegetarian for ethical reasons, but have always considered wool to be fair game. The sheep is shorn, and frolics off unharmed. What's the guilt aspect? Would like to reassess my position given whatever info you can share.
I'm amazed and more than a little disappointed at how many of us dont understand the difference between "I dont believe there is a god" and "I dont believe your claim of a god".

Atheism is pure science. Its viewed a hypothesis, looked at the evidence, found it wanting and dismissed the Hypothesis. For every single claim.

The moment an Atheist finds some evidence to be even slightly compelling they become agnostic until enough evidence compels them to believe (Theist) or they discover better evidence to dismiss the previously compelling evidence (back to Atheist).

That's it.

Its incorrect to claim an atheist claims that a god doesn't exist. they just analyse and accept or reject a claim that one does exist.
I bought an 4K display Oryx Pro last fall and love it. The 1070 GPU let's me do ML locally.

But, it is large and heavy. I find myself grabbing my MacBook when I am on the move. I would like to replace the MacBook with a very light weight Linux laptop, sometime.
Nice.

Looks like you need to do a history push instead of a replace, though.
What happens to your scenario if the fine is for murder, not theft? What happens if the excess speeding results in measurable excess deaths? Let's keep it real.
What the EPA defines as 'agriculture' in that chart isn't really the same as what we'd consider the entire 'food system'. For instance, they include the emissions from ammonia used in farming – but the agriculture sector of that chart doesn't include the emissions that come from producing the ammonia in the first place. That figure is incorporated into the industrial processes and product use category. Ammonia is near the top of that section’s list, which accounts for 5% of emissions, and farming is one of the biggest commercial uses of ammonia. [1]

Same with transportation. 28% of the total pie. 23% of that is from medium to heavy duty trucks. How many of those trucks are hauling food? Airplanes bringing cherries from across the world in December?

The section on land use and conservation shows our biggest carbon sink. Land that's healthy, not eroded, growing perennial plants, trees, etc. Alternative farming is all about restoring damaged land to be a carbon sink rather than emitter. While that graph shows how much agriculture practices contribute to climate change, it doesn't show how much we would swing things the other direction if instead of growing endless acres of mono-crops – largely to feed animals in industrial feedlots – we transitioned to sustainable farming practices that build and repair soil, and sequester gigatons of carbon in the process.

1: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-02/documents...
I think a careful interpretation shows how far that is. A self-driving system ought not be considered reliable until it can drive O(100 million miles) without disconnecting once, in order to match human reliability (that's about the distance between fatal accidents currently). A guaranteed disconnect within 25 miles is many zeros of missing reliability.

A Disney park engineer once relayed to me the philosophy for designing safe attractions in the parks: "If there's a one in a million chance of it happening, it'll happen multiple times per year," given attendance numbers which are in the millions.

A self-driving car needs to handle ordinary commute circumstances with 100.0% reliability, and one-in-a-million circumstances (which statistically you will have never personally encountered) with reliability literally above 99%.
I think the problem is that some sites are charging for low quality click bait journalism. I am not going to pay for NYT or WP or the many magazines I used to subscribe to and dont anymore. I will pay for WsJ, The Economist and Bloomberg.

Its when they want both seo/viral traffic AND my subscription dollars that annoys me.
The Rise of 'Accent Softening'
What are you talking about? I don't necessarily support the view of the commenter, but it basically has 3 parts: States what the organization was, what it has become, and why criticism is a point of contention. For someone who knows little about the EU, it's exactly a starting point for discussion. An article like this invites opinions - does one agree with the action of Wikipedia or not? It's a comment - it does not express 'EU Bad' and does what a comment does - it comments. Now, the further discussion can be about whether one agrees with the position put forth. Every comment on here doesn't need to be some essay explaining an opinion - a succinct opinion that invites discussion is actually healthy.
Hope your car doesn't drive you into a wall then.
It's this one. https://github.com/stamblerre/gocode
You can't do it from a browser, but the "tls client hello" could certainly hold a custom message of sorts. Either in the "random bytes" it's supposed to send, or stuffed in as a fake cipher preference in the supplied list.

Good breakdown of the handshake here: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h... (skip down to the client hello)
To say nothing of the selection bias at work here.
"TCP has 11 different state machines."
The time is free. The prisoner is not.
Retrospective Self-Reports: Accurate or Existential Recollections?
> He said he was also exploring the possibility of having a lifelike 3-D hologram made of himself that could be carried around battleground states like Iowa on the back of a flatbed truck, allowing Mr. Yang to give a recorded version of his stump speech without being physically present.

With his campaign's emphasis on automation, this is a pretty clever stunt.
> how likely this result would be if the null hypothesis were true

It's how likely the result is to occur by chance if the null hypothesis is true. A positive result can occur for lots of other reasons even if the null hypothesis is true, and the p-value doesn't tell you anything about how likely you are to get a certain result if the null hypothesis is true (or false).
Oh, I'm already using vim-go, but didn't know it does code completion too. Thanks for writing such a great plugin!
I tentatively agree. but obviously blur out or maybe completely re-render every individual in it.

I tried to watch it. I had to stop the video as he entered the mosque before he fired a shot.

My heart started racing and i felt sick. it was such a pedestrian build up.
Pithy, but that’s not really what entropy is about (logarithm of microstates corresponding to a macrostate).
One solution might be to put inside out camera trackers into the controllers as well, so they can judge where they are in the space, and even look back and scan your body position. possibly bandwidth and power limitations in wireless handheld controllers would make that a bad idea?
Agreed.

Interesting point about Bayesian methods, whenever there are potential flaws or additional uncertainty, it's better if they are more explicit to prompt thoughtful interpretation.
That makes no sense. If I can’t pay attention to the boring predictable part of driving how am I going to pay attention when I’m not even the one driving?

As for the rare unpredictable stuff, I might not be able to predict, say, a ladder falling off a work truck, but I can recognize it could fall off, prepare for that type of event, probably even recognize it before the car does, and if I don’t die, I can learn from it.

I don’t really see how also having to worry about the car itself creating a rare event helps. Now I’ve got to spend additional time deciding whether to take over and if I do, the time I have to react is reduced.
How is that possible? I insert three pathological keys. The third one collides with both, so it rebuilds the table. The third one still collides with both, so it rebuilds the table again. Repeat. Eventually either we fail or we end up in something that’s worse than constant time.
Pro tip, whatever laptop you do get, look into TLP[1]. It'll make a significant difference with battery life.

[1]: https://www.tecmint.com/tlp-increase-and-optimize-linux-batt...
My comment wasn't complaining about HN focusing on the tech guy. It was specifically a response to the sentiment

> It's insane how many really, really, good people we lose to tragedies like this

A story about the tech guy is a reason to be on HN. But statements like the above just serve to trivialize the deaths of those not deemed "really good people".
Typos or not, in a Chess thread, there should be enough context to recognize who is widely regarded as the greatest chess player to have ever lived.
This really makes me happy I went for a Vive. I stuck the lighthouses up near the ceiling, calibrated once, and it still works perfectly eight months later. And no USB cables.

Hopefully they perfect inside-out tracking eventually but in the meantime the lighthouse system just works for me.
Here is a link to the UN press release already linked in the comment so there was no need to search.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

Here is the interview of the UN rapporteur, this is not 'some single person'. This is the official UN rapporteur for Venezuela who is on the ground and provides a lot of facts and details in the interview.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5MlQgGXyk

No one can take the position that they trust a Wikipedia page over the official UN representative in the region so it seems like you are not interested in the truth.
There are a dozen tubed wasabi products in Japan that are categorized by its quality. 100% native wasabi produced in Japan, imported wasabi, 50% wasabi and horseradish mixture, and so on.

But I found the degree of snobbery people show on HN (especially for Japanese products) amusing.
Completely possible and likely, but it's also possible to build a workplace culture where VR just replaces video calls and screenshare presentations with people huddling around a virtual conference desk and being able to pair program or show each other their screens, for an hour or two at a time instead of 8 hour office workdays.
+1 and mini-jack headsets doesn't need an additional power plants. Think about it when in the next keynote they'll say how "green" and "clean" they are ...
Because it's generally a silly idea with IPv6. There are few things NAT is useful for, and a whole lot of disadvantages.

What specifically are you trying to achieve?
The Digital Maginot line of Russia.
Clean Architecture Manifest
Vision insurers have rigged the market to get you to buy their glasses
Cutter: Open-source GUI disassembler, with Python plugins
I hope you're right. I suspect HTC is far worse off than Oculus and will follow them down the rabbit hole in search of mass market appeal. If Facebook spent FAR less than 2 billion on Oculus I doubt they would even still be around.

I'm of the opinion that VR only appeals to the high end PC gamer with disposable income. Perhaps I'm wrong and a market at the bottom exists, developers can earn a living, and the high-end can eventually reap the rewards.
Is it, though? If every car that drove that route was a Tesla on autopilot, you'd probably have more traffic fatalities than the national total, and that doesn't even factor in every other similar traffic barrier this can occur at.
It was meant to be tongue firmly in cheek. Poe's law strikes again...
I went to university with him. Really nice guy. Every time we talk, I say something like "any day now dude, I'm going to really get into Rust" and then I never do because I'm awful.
There is a huge real downside, and it is a massive one, is compulsory military service begets reasons to use the military.

Most of the free western world has recognized the invalidity of a large standing army or extravagant military spending. Money going into war is money totally wasted, literally burned up in bullets and bombs and lives.

In the US at least Eisenhower was already talking about where we are today becoming a problem back during his presidency 60 years ago - that the private enterprise built on military contracts would lobby congress to see the military used and expanded to give them more money. The US has refined to an artform the practice of making conflicts to send its young to die in to line the pockets of investors. One of them was both the former CEO of a major defense contractor and the damn vice president under the guy who started permanent endless war against a concept in a desert on the other side of the planet for going on twenty years.

The west and world at large should be happy to not need to train and send their young to suffer and die in war. Nuclear deterrents have functionally eliminated threats to homelands protected by them. Russia and China might be antagonists on the world stage against the capitalist establishment but they are also nuclear powers and thus no war can ever be waged against or involving them directly. It all has to be theater, destroying arbitrary swathes of third world nations in proxy wars meant to justify profits on both sides for private men who sell bombs and need to insure there is somewhere for the government to drop them.

The US and almost all western democracies should be moving towards demilitarizing entirely. There are still useful functions of militaries in defense of borders in most nations - fighting pirates, smugglers, etc - but nation-state level actors will not move against anyone pointing weapons that could glass their whole country in an hour, so wasting the valuable time of millions of young adults preparing for a war that cannot ever happen is all around a disastrous waste of time and money.

There is also the fundamental freedom angle of it. If you want to have kids spend the last two years of public education enroll in something akin to a communal public works labor program instead of teaching them Shakespeare and ancient Sumerian history they will never use that would be more defensible, but it is grossly inappropriate of anyone to say that full adults should be forcibly conscripted en masse against their will for no reason that could remotely justify the breach of their liberty.
Could you explain your reasoning? I would think that bounds and overflowing checking should have fantastic performance on modern processors. The almost-always-false test gets correctly predicted as false, speculative execution chooses the correct branch without delay, and a few cycles later (but without visible delay) some simple math confirms that the correct branch was chosen. In my mind, the hardware support is already there and almost perfect; it's the languages and compilers that are lagging. But maybe I'm missing something obvious. Where do you think the issue is?
Robocalls even get to telecom execs
I liked the "explode all clocks" lever, which puts 73 PSI of pressure into the lines designed for just 10 PSI.

> Note that there is a provision for connecting the high pressure air directly to the low-pressure reservoir, by means of valve f. Why you would want to do this I do not know, because as mentioned above I would have thought it would have caused all the clocks to explode.
New Unreal demos show off high-end ray tracing and photorealism [video]
Did you miss the part where I said it has a negative economic impact on individuals, even though it may net more good to the collective as a whole? It’s a sort of free-rider problem, and I don’t fault any individual for playing the game.
And then we're going to use these awesome visuals to run around burning the forest, murdering the creatures, tea-bagging the photo-real corpses of our fallen foes, all while unable to have a good in-character conversation with an NPC, and being forced to listen to teenage voices hurling racial and sexist slurs.

Plus ca change.
Hopefully Paraguay will follow. When I visited Argentina, I decided the red tape of neighbouring countries visiting Iguazu Falls wasn't worth the 13 hour bus ride.
What about Ocsigen and Eliom?

http://ocsigen.org/home/intro.html
GDPR is just fine, if you've got your shit together and has some actual benefits for users, like being able to request all my saved data and its deletion. And of course disallowing websites handing my data to every possible ad network without my consent.
I'm confused why WSJ, of all publications, is jumping on board here. A look at their subscription page shows me that the cheapest option is $15 a month. This Apple News subscription product is going to be $10 a month and Apple is taking 50% of that.

I get the argument that Apple News will expose you to a much larger audience, but that level of revenue cut is... significant. Why wouldn't I cancel my WSJ subscription and sign up with Apple?

(an aside, but the 50% cut just seems absurd. Just reads like Apple saying "because we can", there's no way the cost of distributing an article is anywhere near the same as the cost of making it)
Why is the age limit 18?
One thing would be helpful is listing or explaining the criteria you used to call these "remote companies". One company that has onsite locations with teams that are remote or allows remote work frequently is going to be different than a company like Gitlab which is basically entirely remote.
You know, just today I had to install Xterm on my Lubuntu box because the DosBOX debugger is completely mangled by LXTerminal.

LXTerminal doesn't get all the blame though, DOSBox devs should know better than to use a terminal emulator (with all its in-band signaling fail) and instead create a new non-terminal console window. It's not like they don't already have the code for one just lying around.
What Does It Mean That Elizabeth Holmes Doesn’t Blink?
Paying for placement is a clear boundary between one and the other, isn't it?
Von Neumann, seems to me, brilliant and his contributions vastly underappreciated.

But isn't any architecture, by definition, also the creation of a complex system from simple systems?
> The flipside of the libertarian "you have no right to dictate what I do" stance is that you may be generating external costs that your community has to absorb, so the legal structure should make sure you bear your share of that cost in accordance with how much you contribute to creating that cost.

This is a really well-crafted statement that applies widely to all kinds of issues in governance.
It was definitely the case with the Semantic Web: a much greater up-front investment with only hypothesized pay-offs down the road. Making simple things hard is rarely going to be a popular choice.
Or decent AI?

EDIT> No point having high-resolution if all it does is show you the puppet strings. NTSC was pretty real, back in the day.
>the most recent terms that Apple is offering to publishers ask for a cut of roughly half of the subscription revenue involved in the service

50% cut? And likely no access to customer data, with content embedded in a proprietary app outside of a news paper’s control... why would publishers agree to shutting off so many avenues for future innovation and strategic independence?