skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NN-generated text has this really weird uncanny valley feeling to it, where the words are well organized but there’s no cogent thesis or point to be made. I feel like I might be reading schizophrenic ramblings.

No point here necessarily, this stuff is fascinating but creeps me out. Words from generated comments (using this website) are organized in a way that cause me to second guess my own reading comprehension abilities. It’s kinda neat and fascinating.

The real challenge here: did I write this myself or modify a recommended NN-generated comment? I’ll award points to the winner.
Well don't all the megalithic sites which are all over the planet suggest exactly that?
Chris Hogan thanks Patriots fans and organization: ‘It was a 3 years’
When given "Elon Musk Dies", the model outputs:

"It's easy for everyone to believe that Musk was the real reason behind the death of the planet. He was the first guy to believe the same as we did. But this seems so obvious that many people have started believing it. I'm convinced it was because the world was so big that it's so easy for people to believe that."

Maybe the model knows something we don't.
Because it’s far easier for someone with a great vision about how to use the state’s wealth for everybody’s benefit to get themselves elected to the governing body than it is for them to get themselves reincarnated as an aristocrat.
OP here and I disagree. Implementing a CSP for a page is hard (given the many different browsers), implementing it for a site is really hard! And yes it does pretty much need to be "domain level" to be effective.

It's easy to test if a password algorithm change fails, not so much for CSP. And the reporting options are next to useless because they are so noisy.

That's not to say people shouldn't implement CSP - it's a great option (now - less so in 2015 when this post was written). But they shouldn't just copy and paste a CSP policy from a random blog post they found, get an A+ on a security scanning tool and feel proud, without realising that they may have broken part of their website or implemented a pointless CSP. That was intention of this post and apologies if it read as "don't use then cause they are hard".
I will consider that. How about Redshift?
Well not everyone cares, the media gets clicks from the hoards people who can never qualify to even aspire to be in the same situation, but not everyone sees it as an embarrassment
I thought it went without saying that we're talking about main verbs because verbs in other positions don't change forms anyway.
> The setup is quite simple ... We are using Azure so would probably use cloud features ... [a] load balancer and a couple of VMs for example, with auto scaling set up.

Load balancing and auto-scaling are some of the more basic and popular services that kubernetes provides. If your platform already provides them for you, it makes the case for kubernetes weaker. That said, kubernetes can be run on multiple cloud providers, and provides far more features.

Once the complexity of the cluster grows, and vendor lock-in issues increase, kubernetes makes more and more sense.
It's remarkable how some people in life, were destined to be forever deaf and without any control about it. Yet people preach at any age how we have control instead of teaching how reality really is and where people wouldn't be labouring under delusion. /hard determinist
NLP on Mueller Report
> I feel like I might be reading schizophrenic ramblings.

Or religious pamphlet.
For the title "AI personal tutor for Auto-Didacts" this gives:

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> This seems to fit the trend of people using AI as a tool as much as possible to save time.

> If you want to save time, just don't try to do something about it. A good AI's ability to reap more benefit is not measured in dollars/days of training per se, but rather, a more accurate one.

> Wow -- this is really interesting, I was expecting it to look like a robot taking a long walk around the world and going to work.

Anyway, I like the idea.

The big challenge I see with the auto-didacts is that the people who are doing it will have more data to look at and can do it quickly. I think if there are any intelligent bots, I'm looking at making this much harder for the people who are doing it quickly. But it would be great if they found a way to make their algorithms so easy to follow and make them more productive.

As other posters have pointed out, this type of thing is not for everyone. It just might be to make your computer do the work on your own time, and to keep things consistent and understandable.

I love the idea of an interface that has to match the time someone else is doing it in a similar manner. I don't know about others and if it would work or not, but I think I want to think of a way to see them learn from each other.

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Wow. :o
Colleagues can usually tell, tech lead less so, and manager is often clueless. Basically the only way to judge someone’s output is to work alongside him for a couple months, and only a few colleagues in the team do that. Maybe methodically reviewing someone’s commits every 6 months or so would also work, but that ignores one’s input into decision making, help and mentoring of colleagues etc.
> just

The deadpan delivery really does it.
tl;dr

* 7nm Zen 2 AMD Ryzen
* GPU Ray Tracing support
* SSD
* 8k
Capable of philosophical investigations also:

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The world is everything that is the case.

hncynic 1 minute ago

The author claims the same thing is true of software, but not with software itself.

hncynic 1 minute ago

This is great article. When I read "Taught in 30 Minutes" I was amazed at how the author seems to think that it was a "fantastic story" that was written in an unrealistic way - that the author has been able to write his book on his own (yet untrue). The author doesn't seem to be aware of the actual circumstances behind the creation of a book.

hncynic 1 minute ago

Great post. This is really the kind of article I don't think the author talks about in his blog post.

TL;DR - the world is everywhere.

I was very disappointed with the title, but here we are.

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The term Next-GEN may need to be phased out. We live in an age where Next-GEN is a transparent server update. Hi-fidelity graphics will soon be streamed over the web and game /content producers will write to some generalized platform and upload there games to be streamed. Graphics will improve transparently as servers and games are updated. Gone are the days of the console wars.

Basically, buying your own hardware for console gaming is dead (I don't agree with it but this is where things are going). There may be a PS5 but it will likely fail. Streaming games is the future (however big brother it is).
Totally fine with it, it’s the MO for many European states, including France. Australia too. The issue for me isn’t puritanical, I don’t need single payer, what I want is everyone’s basic needs met.

That said if health outcomes aren’t the utility of a medical system what on Earth is?
As a physicist rather than an EE (although I'm neither now), antennna always led to confusion. In particular antenna effective area and reciprocity. Trying to imagine a 1d dipole antenna funneling some 2D part of the incoming wavefront into its output waveguide just felt like magic. As did the trying to intuitively see that an antenna's gain is the same in transmission and reception when the wavefronts seem totally unequivalent. Would have liked to have really studied it more but antenna don't get covered in a typical physics course.
The assumption comes from simple math. If you have a 10 story building and make it twice as high by duplicating the bottom 10 stories, you've just doubled the number of living units. Considering that some buildings have large lobbies or retail in the bottom few stories you might actually be able to get o more livable units. It isn't like we are building pyramids.
Yes, not 100% of the building isn't livable, and I don't think anyone implied that. But if you double the height, you should be able to double the living space. You don't need a ton more infrastructure to support the extra floors. Of course the double comment assumes you essentially copy the lower floors, and not make the upper floors into larger living spaces.
Honestly, I think it comes down to personal values.

I like doing unit testing even though my current employer doesn't; in that regard, when I was asked about testing experience, because I spent time writing packages in python, php, node, and ruby with full unit tests, it was really an easy question to answer.
I'd just go and write out the technical architecture, defining what are the inputs (the raw data) and what are the outputs (matrices for training, testing etc. etc.) on different intervals (usually, data scientists want the previous days' data processed into some format, A/B test results and such) and how are you going to instrument those transformations. It's not just SQL but the DB where that SQL would be run and orchestration (for example with Apache Airflow), and for concrete ETL tasks (nodes in a processing graph) using a combination of open-source modules (usually in Python) and Bash scripts.

It takes time to get experienced in explaining and mapping these things to the domain.
Joe Armstrong's passing is tragic. I never him, but he also inspired my own thinking as a software engineer. Even though Erlang is a language from the 1980s, it still feels like something from the future. I have only ever appreciated Erlang from afar, but it seems to embody what programming languages should be for building complex software systems. I enjoyed his talks quite a lot; he always brimmed with passion and life which I hope to maintain at his age. He was never old mentally or in attitude, which was infectious.
Once you stopped using the quote symbol, I thought it was your comment and spent too long trying to understand it as such.
> It's easy for everyone to believe that Musk was the real reason behind the death of the planet. He was the first guy to believe the same as we did.

Robot, no
The oligarchs are generally former Communist managers who cashed out as the Soviet Union crashed. So really not that different from William the Conqueror etc.
I got "https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Hacker+News" as one of the comments for a couple of searches. You may want to remove the Algolia search link from your training data - which is at the bottom of every thread page.
Maybe that microservice needed to change its method signature because it was missing something.
“Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles” yields

- A nice little hack and I think it would be better to have a bit more info on the title. It would show a much more comprehensive description and a little more info on the actual title.

- I don't know enough about this topic, but it makes me wonder why it's so popular in some other forum. It appears there is a lot of noise in the community, so why not just show up at the bottom of the page, or go to the top of HN, rather than showing up, to get to the bottom of the page?

- I find the title on the front page to be a bit clumsy. Maybe a change to "HN News." might help somewhat, I suppose.
EDIT: The title is a bit misleading. Is this some kind of a "submitter" with pg saying "Show HN" because of some sort of 'Show HN'?

These are actually believable
It's a research product, what do your expect
A "fiber" could be a specific state in an async state machine (e.g. a Node.js program) or a distinct stack on a M:N threads mapping (e.g. a Go program).

Either is far lighter weight than an OS thread.

What userspace fibers are you referring to?

I don't have experience with Python, Ruby, or Lua, but IIRC Python has an async mode not unlike Node.js.
We where late-evening dinsosaur snacks. If we can extrapolate from history, in 10.000 generations, potato chips are going to farm and eat us.
> What you need to add to this is an official Hacker News API.
"Hacker News to Merge with Reddit" resulted in:

>> hncynic 1 minute ago

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your contributions to the community. I hope you like this more in the future. I was able to post a link to the blog post I just posted in the last few weeks and it has helped a lot.

I believe it will help to create a community so more people can use Hacker News to connect with interesting people. I think it also helps people get better at finding cool stories on their own instead of doing it themselves.

>> hncynic 1 minute ago

If I recall correctly HN has been a "mersy" forum for many years already.

>> hncynic 1 minute ago

Wow! Now we have the option to merge the whole HN community, even better.
I could do better with the Ad-lib library I wrote as a freshman in High School. At least those generated comments where coherent. The garbage that is being generated here is an incoherent mess. Deep learning is going to be another blow against the AI community like in the 80's when expert systems didn't pan out. Once ML is well understood a few well defined algorithms will replace all the buzz, just like expert systems.

ML as we know it today is not going to usher in Sky Net.
>Very cool project but how is this different than HN comments?

Is this a real output from the generator? Too good to be true
Isn‘t any obvious password already in the list of breached passwords? ;)
Actually modern society protects those that have colour vision defects much more than societies of the past. In the past if your vision wasn't perfect you tended to die, now days you can be completely blind and live a long life.

Colour vision is not much help under low light conditions which is the reason our distant shrew-like ancestors lost their colour vision in the first place.
> the market in Marin has appreciated, but it’s remarkably removed from San Francisco and Silicon Valley because public transportation there is limited.

Who could imagine that how important public transportation is? </snark>
A quote, it should be noted, inspired by the thinking of Henry George.
I like FAAMG but it's not pronounceble.

I always though Netflix was a odd company next to the giants. MS is a better one. Maybe IBM should be included as well.

"FAGAMI" ... maybe "FAMAGI" to be less profound.
God damn, that’s horrible! FOD inside the aircraft at time of manufacturing?

Shit. I take back everything I said about preferring to flying civilian aircraft. Throw me on a P3 or C130 any day. At least we took FOD seriously on those old things.

Shame on Boeing, and shame on the CEO making the typical blanket phrase.
Land is finite natural resource and its ownership is a zero sum situation. Company ownership, however, is not. It is entirely possible to own your sweat and labor, which is demonstrated by millions of small business owners.

The sentiment we hear often, however, is yearning for benefits of co-owning a (ideally mature and profitable) business while retaining the hired hands' rights. Not many are keen to give up their 8 hour workday, benefits, social welfare net for the upside of owning their share of corporate profits.
Yeah, that's why put the result in between two lines.
HN can have at least a bit better text-editing support though.
> Reformers who seek to abolish tribalism usually find that they've simply redrawn the boundary lines and replaced one set of tribes with another. The dogmatism of the Church gets replaced by the patriotism of the State. Racism gets replaced by classism. Discrimination on appearance gets replaced by discrimination on education.

These are pretty poor examples, one type of tribalism did not "replace" the other. One was knocked down, and then the next one was attacked. In the middle ages, when the Church was strong, you could be sure that classism and racism were also alive and well. When the power of the Church fell, classism and racism did not increase or replace the Church, they were just the next hurdle to tackle.

Boundaries can and do change. They can become more equitable or less equitable. Of course, it's impossible to make everyone perfectly equal, but that isn't the goal. The goal is to diminish the influence of socially constructed non-intrinsic sources of judgment.

Given how much progress there has been over the last 500 years, I find it strange that many take such a fatalistic point of view.
Getting some interesting syntax ideas from the headline "rust version 3.2 released":

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"For example, let's say a function is like this in C++.

- a function that has a string of type (value: value: value: value, value, value: value) - a function that returns an address in C++'s form: value: value: value: value: value[value:user]:{value[user]:}], value = value[user]}}: value[user]:{value[user]:}}

I'm still not quite clear on what does this mean to me. In Rust, you have a function that returns a value: value, value, value = value[user-]: value[user-]: value[@@"
Can science writing be automated?
This reminds me of the Apollo 1 incident [1], happily without any casualties. If it turns out to be a design fault, I'm glad they caught it now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
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This might just be the morning dumbs, but in this trip to metaspace I find it mighty hard to tell forged comments from authentic ones.
> I'd say that taking peoples' stuff in the name of social justice is inherently unjust.

Saying it's your stuff, is the misnomer. It was found by your because it was someone else's stuff, but there's supposed to be some moral virtue of you receiving it, because you benefited from it during your upbringing.

Being offended by a perceived slight in Procedural justice is a matter of circumstance - ie altering the principles you were born under for Distributive justice, even if you don't think it's as equitable based on your experience. From a pragmatic point of view, inheritance causes Capitalism to fall into anarchy in the long term...making it inherently immoral, as a practice. Unless you want to dispense with capitalism, in which case it's still immoral to a lesser degree (lesser evil against a greater evil).
Because of Lusin’s theorem, the much larger class of measurable functions is approximated by continuous functions across almost all of their domain. So continuity isn’t a major restriction here.
What’s More Efficient Than a Person on a Bike?
Are you being sarcastic?
At least in the US, you aren't allowed to discriminate based on a protected class(race, religion, sex, age, physical/mental handicap) but iq isn't a protected class.
This is really useful.

Some suggestions:

1. Add a "Download this site's CSS" field so it can't just be a "Show HN". The "Show HN" button should be a red flag.

2. "If the site is a startup, we can always add some comments to the title." That's one reason I'm not using http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Yup: Also known as, "I can tolerate anyone except my outgroup"

However, the definition of "outgroup" is almost entirely subject to society. It has changed dramatically in the last 500 years. If the definition of "outgroup" is so fluid, then the strict belief of tribalism doesn't have much merit.
> It is how you talk about failure when it is another part of your engineering characteristics and not something that causes fear or shame.

That depends on whether this was supposed to be the final test. If it's a post-hoc "final", then that's an obfuscation done out of shame. If it was always supposed to be the final test, then the statement is fine.
Buffalo buffalo.
hncynic 1 minute ago

"Emacs can do the job!", "Emacs is faster than Emacs" "Emacs is faster than Emacs because it runs inside an emacs environment"

This is absurdly accurate I have to say
Good work, the github repository is also clean and easy to follow.

May I ask : What is the size of the live model of the website, in MByte ? (or maybe it would be nice to add that info in the README, just to have an idea)

Also, would be interesting to see how it compares to the recent GPT-2 (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2)
Strapline:

Netherlands to London in 5 and a half minutes
A "rediscovered treasure" news story briefly propelling an album into the lower ranks of UK charts hardly justifies it. When A Love Supreme was released kids were listening to The Beatles, not modal jazz. And not one in a thousand would have heard of Giant Steps.
> Going from small gap while standing in lights to large gap at a higher speed cannot be reached in unison.

I agree. But my point is that people can maintain the small gap at lower speeds until they cross to the other side of the traffic lights. (So that more people can get through) then they can spread out.
I don't get the point. How does this differ from reddit comments?
Optimization - no- the algo is not searching for a optimum, is not referee in some competition for improvement. It selects for good-engoughness. If we would gain vision, by having a fungi rot our braincells depending on light stimultion- and that was good enough for a short, re-productive life - evolution would run with that.

Assuming a optimum, is assuming intent in physics, is superstition. This is not a person, not a god, not even a "pure" evaluation operation.
> That said if health outcomes aren’t the utility of a medical system what on earth is?

i.e. You can improve health outcomes and decrease utility by banning tobacco.
and so you don't have a microservice, but just code that's spread out.

a feature of microservices is a way to add new apis while retaining old apis (for compatibility). So you'd write the new signature, and deploy. Everything still works fine. Then the other services can be slowly updated to use the new signature, one at a time.
If you extend this logic then it would imply that government should simply prevent anyone from getting rich - dead or alive. If you were socialist then you still wouldn’t have issue with this but for all others this would be infringement on their right to own property and more broadly to achieve prosperity even while doing nothing illegal. In other words, becoming rich should not be an act of crime that leads to stiff penalties.

A more logical view is to think of inheritance as just usual income to other person and hence eligible for usual income tax as contribution towards shared goal of the society.
How do you know they’re disclosing the budgeted range and not just what they “want” to pay?
> Then Git would have to be content-aware, as sometimes whitespace is meaningful and sometimes just formatting.

Yes, being content aware is the key. No question, it isn't easy. I'm not sure it's possible, but one could imagine that another tool wraps itself around git, and has a better understanding of the full the underlying project, the languages used, and their dependencies.

Git can still be used for the lower level commits, but the higher level wrapper could do much more.
I did, years ago before I had a computer and when I got an opportunity I would type programs at school/terminals/store computers. I think being forced to visualize the code before can help because when you sit down it's just typing.
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Yes. A NN consisting of, for example, sigmoids will form an “algebra” that separates points in the sense of the Stone Weierstrass theorem, and the NN approximation result will follow.

All that’s really needed is that the limit of the NN basis function is different at plus versus minus infinity on the real line. This will give you the “separates points “ property.
TLDR: nothing.