skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is all the good math institutionalized now (e.g., you can't do good math without all the benefit of learning background within the institution conventions)?

The short answer is yes. We haven't had a Ramanujan in decades, and they were more or less always extraordinary. Insofar as you can generalize all of its subfields together, it's reasonable to say mathematics is an extremely mature discipline now.

What I mean by that is there isn't much low hanging fruit around. Even when Ramanujan was dazzling Hardy with his results, many of them were already known. That was over a century ago. There just isn't much fertile ground left where a single brilliant mind can make significant headway based on raw talent or intuition, without first working through significant education in prerequisites. It's more and more commonplace for authors to collaborate on their work, because compelling problems at the forefront of mathematics research are increasingly requiring cross-disciplinary knowledge to resolve.

To focus on Ramanujan a bit in particular - one of the reasons Ramanujan was so talented was because he not only came up with novel results in complete isolation; rather, he also came up with original perspectives and theorems. That means he was capable of posing interesting questions, which is usually much more interesting and inspiring for further research. That's very inspiring, but the reason I point it out is because Ramanujan wasn't solving open problems in the West left and right so much as he was exercising ingenuity to pose - and resolve - open problems in fertile ground he could reach. But a century later, the amount of existing mathematics has increased so much in both breadth and depth that a burst of creativity is almost certainly not going to get an undergrad to find something that e.g. Rudin hasn't written down somewhere already. But more importantly, it's vanishingly unlikely they will resolve a famous open problem which is the subject of intense research interest. All the stories of untrained amateurs doing that are from the mid 20th century or earlier.

To turn your question on its head a bit: consider how astonishingly brilliant an untrained individual would have to be find a nontrivial result that the rest of the mathematical community hasn't found. Either they're inventing their own definitions and discovering entirely new mathematics in isolation (wow!), or they've somehow found a way to use the tools accessible to them (university analysis and algebra, at best) in a way every other trained mathematician has not. It's rare even for senior math undergrads to publish nontrivial research on their own. It's significantly rarer for that research to improve progress towards an open problem. The only example I can think of off the top of my head where undergrads actually resolved a well known open problem is AKS, and even then it wasn't a solo author.
True, but I know highly religious families that are having up to 13 children. If even 50% of those kids stay religious they are out birthing probably 3-4 secular families (who tend to have 0-2 children). And, of course, it also goes the other way, sometimes children of secular families become religious.
CIA Shows Proof of Chinese Intelligence Involvement with Huawei
I think the part that Elon, and the engineer, are trying to express that you are looking past is "A dot product with some memory attached" is what they need to do low latency image inference on the camera data.

They don't need a multipurpose CPU/GPU, they have a single well defined task that dominates their compute needs. They built a chip to do this that is cost and power effective, and redundant for safety.
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Ask HN: Is WebAssembly the next big thing? Is it worth investing in learning?
I know very little about WebAssembly and I trust the opinions of most on HN.

Do you think WebAssembly is the next major internet development disruptor? Why or why not?

Do you personally see asymmetric gains for investing in learning it while its young?
I can hardly remember someone using an Apple(or any brand really) product name for the whole product category, it's rare in my experience.
Sometimes there's a (grand)parent calling every game console "nintendo", but that's about it.
Being hated by hipsters who resent simple pleasures available to all is part of the appeal.
Applebees and Chilis sort of skirts the line - they want the after-work crowd but also families at the same time. They don't really have an identity, but I think thats sort of the point - be as generic an option as possible to have as wide a market as possible, offend no-one.
First of all, a lot of these things are orthogonal. With that I mean, that they are independant from each other. The self-driving effort interacted only minimally with getting the Model 3 production up and running. As long as the money does not run out, it makes sense to do things in parallel, which are parallizeable. On the other side, Musk has a big picture in mind, which stretches quite a bit into the future. So these "side shows" actually fit together. You use solar cells to produce electricity, which you store in your power wall which can power your electric car.

If Musks ideas about self-driving actually become true, he holds the holy grail of the car industry. On one side, self-driving abilities become crucial in future car sales. On the other side, if he can make the Tesla car sharing network happen, the revenue of that could be a magnitude or more larger than the one of car selling. This would justify some of the crazier valuations of Tesla stock.
> HN doesn't correlate mouse movement

The "fingerprint" of the writing style, the interests and "likes" and "dislikes" patterns is often enough, the more one writes the more "uniqueness" can be determined.
It's also an acknowledgement that the anglo-saxon way of law is not the only way.
If I dump "waste" in the river I will argue on behalf of the river in court that the fish are invaders and my "waste" is an antibiotic killing those invaders. It is just as valid as anything else.

That the river is valued for the fish and plants is a human construct.
so "rub some dirt on it" isn't totally stupid. ;)
Ubuntu 18 is getting 10 year LTS support.
Not going to downvote you as everyone has an opinion, but this argument is ridiculous. If you're saying everything dies so it doesn't matter, why is it wrong to kill another human? And dying isn't cruel (or the problem - once I'm dead I probably won't care exactly how I died), it's humans killing them that's the problem for people like me.

The fact is it's completely unnecessary. We don't need meat and we waste far too many resources rearing cattle and other animals just to kill and eat them.
Ask HN: Where do I get started developing iOS compatible Bluetooth devices?
I want to build a a device that is able to interact with native iOS interfaces(volume control, etc.) I’m at a loss of where to get started. Does anyone have any experience doing something like this? Any tips on where to dig in?
I think it also fundamentally depends on the business model being pursued:

- If you are trying to sell the Model 3 directly to the end consumer with autonomous mode, the extra $10K for Lidar and bulk (which will greatly effect the exterior design) are definitely non-starters.

- If you are going to robo-taxi route (such as Waymo and Uber), the extra one time $10K cost to add lidar for the 5 year life of the car is probably a blip on the income statement of the operator as compared to a full time human driver which probably costs $10K PER MONTH for the lifetime of the service. For the robo-taxi business model - its a bit of a no brainer - they could stick every sensor known to man on the car and still make out like a warlord by getting rid of the human driver but maintained a 100% safety record. Plus making the car stand-out with a unique Lidar inclusive shape is a great marketing differentiator. Also reduces your liability if a taxi rider ever sues since you can claim you have redundancy in the system.
I don't think the Chinese government had any role in destroying Amazon's business. In fact we can find counter-examples to your theory as there are foreign companies very successful in China: https://www.1421.consulting/2018/06/successful-foreign-compa...
Hyde Park
But the design choices wrt the public interface is not nothing either!
Is there a link to a replay of the live stream? The link on the Tesla IR site just takes me to their main page.
But a lot of people starving will probably help the coral reefs recover since there will be fewer people using energy and polluting.
Little fish get eaten by bigger fish
All sensors and the systems they operate with have flaws. There is no way around this - it's just the real world. Even cameras will have flaws, or they can develop them over time (lens degradation, image sensor dropping pixels or gaining stuck pixels, etc).

That is point behind what is known as "probabilistic robotics" - the real world has noise, and you need to be able to deal with it. Don't expect perfect sensors, don't expect a perfect environment.

Self-driving vehicles are the application of probabilistic robotic principles to a real-world task - quite possibly one of the most difficult tasks for the field. To be quite honest, it's amazing how well it's worked in such a short period of time.

I think cameras and machine vision approaches will be needed for self-driving vehicles to be fully successful, but I wouldn't say that LIDAR should be counted out. It will probably be necessary - even required - to have all of the sensors currently being used, not just a subset.

One kind of sensor that hasn't been explored much that I think will be needed is some kind of audio input; some kind of wide-range microphone (probably binaural or stereo) to take in environmental audio and use that for driving cues. Some simple examples might be for vehicle horns, or the squeal of tires, or the revving up of an engine indicating someone is speeding up aggressively, or an emergency siren, etc.

There may even be other sensors needed or that could provide other data to fill in certain gaps of environment knowledge to help a self-driving vehicle navigate. I don't think any one or another should be discounted.
Legally, you may be right. However, this same term is used politically to give corporations the right to free speech, and hence to make campaign donations, which is ridiculous.
This is awesome! My co-founder actually did something similar last year: http://www.businessinsider.com/i-live-and-work-in-my-car-her... (he did it in a Landy though!)

Would love to help in any way we can on your next book (I'm the founder of Reedsy, https://reedsy.com)
First, you originally claimed meat as a factor (apparently still after an edit). Second, a vegetarian can eat dairy products. Finally, the only working link above is pretty much worthless (122 participants who were asked questions, measured, and checked again in 3 years) as it does not capture final adult height.

>Also, "properly nourished" is a weasel phrase here.

For sure, just like debating about meat consumption and pivoting to just dairy consumption as proof...
The TLDR here is that Chinese Intelligence agencies have backdoors into Huawei products. This creates a security threat to all Huawei product users since the backdoor could be exploited by third parties and also renders people in other countries vulnerable to illegal surveillance by China.
Funny, I get the opposite impression; the more I hear Musk talk about technical specifications, the less I think he actually understands.
You may be right, but a company the size of Google may view the legal costs + bad press that they have to hire PR people to expunge from the minds of the community as a fairly trivial overall cost relative to sending a damning authoritarian style message that they will hit back hard. With nearly infinite money & power, it is hard to speculate what their ethical calculus is in a situation like this.
Encryption apps shaped the outcome of the Mueller report
I try to have "debug calls" that I can call from the browser or Postman or Swagger, etc. and return all sorts of debug information, etc.

I have the impression that local program-specific debugging tools quickly evolve into something like functional tests that uncover issues that functional tests proper might not cover. For example, if I'm serving a ML model but I have a debug call that runs sanity checks on the data that are too expensive to run each time.
The point is they aren't all based on societal good. The ones we use as individuals and like might be, but how many corporate tax incentives exist that are bad for everyday people?

It shouldn't be the IRS's business to reward people. If there is a reward for doing X then there should be a fund specifically for giving money to people in those scenarios completely independent of taxes.

Its much more transparent to say "we have a fund for X, mail us the required proof and we will send you a check", then it is to add layers and layers to the tax code. That also means everyday people are aware of what our representatives are arguing about and the dollar amounts being held responsible for the programs.

Then we get simple taxes without all of the itemizing nonsense.
You don't own the Italian-American experience anymore than anyone else does. Feel free to enjoy your basil.
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Amazon will never get greater market share because China's govt won't let them.

Microsoft did not leave Japan, they are in fact expanding Xbox Asia and have added an Asian team to the Global Gaming Partnership and Development (GDDP) division: https://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+asia+expanding
> "If google is such a bad company, then quit working for them."

Why not try to change what is Bad?

I could see this working for a small local coffee shop, but for something as big as Google where many employees could be replaced, and how it effects the lives of billions of people on the planet (and elsewhere), you not working there wouldn't bring any real net positive change.

If I hate Comcast and ATT and chose to ignore them for being Bad, I really wouldn't have broadband options.
My municipality would be a good contender to start their own ISP, but are banned from doing so thanks to Comcast passing laws in my state (most states in US now), and the "system" for allowing them to pass said laws.

I am not going to just quit internet because I hate them, but I have and continue to try to hold them accountable and have them do better.

So as long as monolithic monopolies exist with the support of the many institutions set in place today, ignoring bad does no good.
I don't know, I guess it will be born out in the data, but I hope they aren't seriously planning to drive people through busy intersections where T-bones are likely to happen under the auspices that what they've got is a level 3/4 system.

Waymo's safetly critical disengagements are at 1 every 11,000 miles. Fender benders happen about once every 100,000 miles, so just on that Waymo is off by an order of magnitude, and Waymo spares no expense on compute or sensors.
I find this philosophical debate very fascinating.
What actually is a person? e.g. one definition claims

PERSON = "any entity that has the moral right of self-determination."

http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/what_is_a_person/what_i...

so can a confinable area of nature like a river, a mountain, a planet etc. be such an entity with those rights? Who grants those rights? How is self-determination recognized?

For humans the latter is leading to the free will debate, see e.g. here for a start
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Philosophy/Wha...

so in essence, if a significant amount of humans agree, that the criteria for self-determination are not only the strict ones expressed by humans, why should a natural entity not be treated like a person?

edit:
the initial reaction so far has been: it can not stand up in court so it cannot be a LEGAL person. So one could challenge: a company can as well not speak in court. The only ones speaking in court are representatives that got somehow chosen. Why could the same not be applied to the person in discussion here?
New link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbgtGQIygZQ

(replay after the livestream ended)
You're not responsible for dodging the person going 140 MPH behind you to the same extent as you are for dodging the tire doing 0mph in front of you. Humans generally don't because they aren't capable of paying enough attention to what is behind and in front of them simultaneously. The car - with 360 degree vision - is more capable in fact.
I get so peeved by the treatment of chain restaurants like this as "poor" or "terrible". Because you know what, Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Outback Steakhouse? These are some of the nicest restaurants the average citizen can hope to afford to go to more than once in their lifetime.

It isn't going to impress folks who have a personal chef at home, but the food is pretty darn good, and you don't have to saw off your right arm to pay for it.
I'd be more willing to work for Google if they had a history of not caving in to lynch mobs and punishing the leaders, instead of the other way around.
(I keep reading about it but I never used it)

Does mTurk have some sort of quality-related metrics respectively higher rewards linked to it?

For example when I submit some work can I specify "I want only at least 4-stars-people (out of 5, where "5" is for people that rarely make mistakes) to work on this and yes I will pay 4$ extra fees for 4-stars and 8$ extra fees for 5-stars rated workers"?

Thx
I don't think hypersexualized characters in and of themselves are necessarily problematic. I'd also point out that Long Sun and Short Sun feature other deeply complex female characters that are critical to the story and are not hypersexualized such as Mucor, Mint, Marble, Rose, Saba, Syuif (and Trivigaunte's matriarchal society which has a gigantic impact on the entire story from Dr. Crane to the Airship). None of those characters could be accurately described as "mere devices to be ridden or otherwise used"

> hyper-sexualized and objectified characters as Chenille, nicknamed "Jugs" by her lover Awk

Awk is a poor, uneducated, petty criminal and thug; he is a somewhat sympathetic character, but clearly meant to be deeply flawed and his ultimate fate (the one revealed in Short Sun) is quite horrifying. Even still, Chenille and Auk are in a consensual sexual relationship, the fact that he has a sexualized nickname for her doesn't seem like a problem to me from a literary perspective.

> who flings off her clothes once taken possession of. This is never explained and appears to be a fan service that wouldn't be out of place in a teen anime

I don't remember an explicit explanation for why she takes off her clothes when possessed (though, that is how Scylla is typically depicted in mythology, do a google image search for Scylla) but her nudity is entirely non-sexual and the men on the boat regard her with absolute respect, fear, and deference without a hint of sexuality; her nudity wasn't "fan service" it was simply nudity.

> the vamp-babe Jahi

What's wrong with her? She is one of the scariest characters in Wolfe's lore and her sexuality is almost an afterthought compared to everything else that goes on with her. She most certainly doesn't qualify as "mere devices to be ridden or otherwise used".

> the house of prostitution in Cerberus

So what? Prostitution is a theme that exists in many stories by many authors. I don't think just listing off sexuality in writing makes a compelling case.

> Hyacinth, herself a sex worker, becomes the star of one of Wolfe's most clever dick jokes

Personally, I don't think it's that clever, nor is it a dick joke. That poster goes to great length to make a big deal out of what can be summarized by the final line: "As part of her advances, she tells him she could teach him where to put the round jewel of the azoth's pommel". Anyone can understand the innuendo there without knowing anything about the source text.

I don't think anyone is wrong for being uncomfortable with repeated use of sexuality in writing, but I am yet to be convinced by claims that reoccurring sexual themes means the author is sexist.
You cannot access the stream from Tesla anymore, I found it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbgtGQIygZQ
Karpathy did a great job explaining this, I took Neural Networks a long time back and his back to basics approach refreshed a lot of concepts I'd forgotten!
One of Africa's greatest technical achievements was going "out of sequence" to go all-in on cellular Internet and mobile apps, skipping landline rollout to the home.

wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
It was on Tesla's youtube channel up to about 2:30pm, then it just went 'unavailable' as I was watching it, and is now unavailable.
Frankenstein knife switches
ornate polished brass actuators

webcams with closable eyelids (and eyelashes, eyelash mites)

then in hacker movies the eyelid can spring open
This is an extremely common pattern in Erlang and is super useful so it's nice to see Rust embrace it.
Almost any application with an event loop doesn’t halt.
College attendance is not about learning specific topics in order to pass an exam, IMO. It's about learning to think critically, work in project teams, evaluate superfluous and incomplete data, learning how to learn, learning time and priority management, interpersonal relationships, etc.

I went to MIT. Most of what I value (personally and economically) that I learned at MIT could not be readily "tested" in a straightforward certification exam.
And I think they are far ahead of the game compared to anyone else w.r.t autonomous driving, they have a fleet sending them data back real time.
Same thing has happened to us more than once. I blame the founders for not seeing the scalable parts and running with them.

I'm tired of building things, getting knocked off and then having to say "welp didn't see that coming" because I totally did from miles away.

It takes good engineers and good founders. If one group are bozos who don't listen it doesn't work.
yeah just grow them organically
This doesn't sound like organized retaliation, but like a loyal and angry manager taking initiative and seeking retaliation. At least, as summarized. The company itself probably could have prevented it by having meetings about it ahead of time but may not have had a hand in it
> What are some other examples of American restaurants that followed this playbook?

It's pretty common (perhaps dominant) with ethnic (or American regional, and some other strong themes) chains or single-location restaurants, because it promotes accessibility by making alien elements less off-putting. It's a way to make it so the restaurant doesn't seem to be looking down on the customers.
Call me a critic, but I don't see any "realistic transitions"? I mean, the positions of the limbs are continuous, barely. Stopping is very jerky. Sometimes the dog does a sort of "downward dog" pose for a long time when you stop, sometimes entering and exiting this pose slowly. The hind legs look weirdly limp at times. Is this better than some sort of naive interpolation between animations?

It took me a while to realize about the A-W-D movement controls (I tried arrow keys and mouse first), and, as others have said, everything is really dark.
This is the most exciting technology (software & hardware) and business event in a long time.
I thought it was really interesting and enlightening that anyone could think about a restaurant this way - shows how little I know about the hospitality industry. I always pegged it to be going for different social classes sort of thing, but then I could never figure out why a burger and fries at a red robin is about the same as most steakhouses, and people were okay with that.

It definitely does make you feel like you don't need to impress anyone to be there - the real value that comes from making a place people feel socially relaxed is something I haven't thought much about.
speak for yourself?