skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You start pulling the block off, and to your surprise, there is zero resistance to your force but while you are shifting the block away you hear an almost velcro-like ripping sound. That is the sound of 3647 pins shifting around as the CPU is pulled off the socket while attached to your water block by the thermal paste in a sort of robotic peanut butter and thermal grease sandwich.

author gets a Michelin star for this recipe alone
It would be interesting to take that C version and hammer on it a bit for speed.

...and then add SIMD.
Do you think that a virus should count as a "living thing" in this context?

Patents on genetics are term limited, not perpetual.
First Laser Radio Transmitter
Yeah, we reported it to Edmunds and they let us know they've dealt with a bunch of these, although they normally only deal with the ones that use their name. (Maybe why these guys switched to using ours.) They've also cribbed from others. Their tagline for instance comes from Vroom.com.
In a lot of companies you will NOT get hired without degree. It's pretty much the barrier to entry before you can show your skills or experience . Not sure if Udacity degrees count for this.
I would disagree; most tech CEOs are sales & marketing people at their core. Especially once you grow beyond the startup phase.

Margins are fat enough in most tech verticals that operational efficiency often takes a back seat to driving the top-line. And once your growth starts to plateau, in comes a bean-counter CEO with a finance background.
It was? Do you have a source for this? That's horrible if true.
Why would I not be? I see it as a feature that I would like to exist. And yes, they to have many features, but atm. I don't use them to the extend that I must switch at this second.

For future school project, I do see myself using GitLab. As you yourself said, they have many good features. (After been forced to used Bitbucket for a school project, I'm happy to use anything else.)
I completely agree. I use Flutter a lot, and even after getting used to Dart, I really hate it. It's not a fun language, and I just can't understand why they chose to use it.
My advice would be to leave it off your resume but put the projects on your resume (or include a link to them on your github)
I would love to update my Nexus 5X to Pie but Google is not giving me this opportunity. How is this my fault?
Microsoft aims for simplicity with Bosque programming language
Tesla’s earnings were a ‘debacle,’ says longtime bull in scorching commentary
There's a reason Udacity does not release hiring stats
You definitely need outbound port 25/587 if you want to send email to others.
In my experience, when a workplace has a perpetual crunch time culture, little if any additional work gets done that wouldn't have gotten done if everyone stuck to 40 hour weeks. I'm very curious how true this is in 996 places. When someone knows that they're going to spend 12 hours in the office regardless of how much work is actually required, that time gets padded out a LOT with non-work stuff, both to preserve their own sanity and out of resentment for the expectation of 12 hour days.
That was a strange choice. Did they have cheap access to high school students?

It's a recognized problem in psychology that much research is the study of college undergrads, because they're available for free. More recently, there's the use of Mechanical Turk for studies, which means the population studied is people really desperate to work for peanuts.

Now a study of job applicants... that would be more interesting.
>The $920 million in convertible senior notes expired March 1, at a conversion price of $359.87 per share.

So the holder had the option of cash or shares at $359.87 each and took the cash naturally.
Walmart Starts Using Artificial Intelligence to Guard Its Retail Stores
The problem is current conv neural nets are extracting textures, which may not necessarily translate to brush strokes that translate to the same physical rendition. A new net would have to be trained on the mechanical processes of paintings.

I built a robo painter that captures brush stroke movements: https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/08/23/ai-pa...

With enough input data here a neural net could be trained to produce physical results.
lol... go gab!
People are already running home servers. It's just that we call them 'modems' and 'routers'. Most come with few if any system updates. Enough that the FBI have issued national alerts to reboot routers[0].

Turris Omnia[1], based on OpenWRT and maintained by the Czech national domain registrar, is a notable exception, and it is itself a highly capable server. It updates automatically and regularly over the network. With the (optional, supported, and documented[2]) addition of an SSD storage, or an external drive (USB or network), it can provide read/write-heavy services as well (otherwise the onboard flash storage wears too quickly).

Though standing in as a personal social/media server is not its core goal.

Disclaimer: happy owner.

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Notes:

0. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/fbi-kindly-reboot-your-r...

1. https://www.turris.cz/turris-omnia/

2. mSATA drive installation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=71_M2N3ga7s
Medical science sometimes escapes the wrong approach by actually providing odds ratios (conditional probability estimate between events or phones) or effect sizes including confidence bounds on these. That is already useful information about the hypothesis being tested, as opposed to significance which is information about validity of data.

However, an explicit estimate of predictive power (sensitivity) would be very useful too - confidence intervals do not provide information on the model used to derive them which may or may not fit. Instead one has to use proxies like experimental design descriptions and N.
The Changelog 343: Running Functions Anywhere with OpenFaaS
I live in a small town/village that has just had it's grocery store reopen after it being closed for five years. Based on my experience I don't see any need to radically rethink grocery store, people just need to experience shopping at a small store again.

It's not for everyone, the selection is going to be more limited, but it's so much faster and cheaper. We save around 20 - 25% buy shopping locally, there's simply less random items that go into the cart. While the large supermarkets have 5 minute lines and getting around results in shopping taking at least 30 minutes, the small grocery store reduces our once a week shopping trip to 10 minutes. Generally shopping at the large supermarkets have become extremely stressful, perhaps it always was, but now I know there's a better solution... And it's not online.

Online shopping for groceries currently doesn't work, shipping is to expensive, unless you only shop once a week... I do, but then they don't give me items that will last more than a few days. What am I suppose to do with 5L of milk that only last until Wednesday?

After having tried a small local grocery store I'm not sure I want to go back to the supermarkets.
Cloudflare gave us the name of the host, but won't act beyond that.
Well, this was unexpectedly excellent.

I don't think "stick with supervised learning" is very good advice, though. Unsupervised techniques sometimes work well for NLP and has worked well for other domains, such as medical records[1]. In particular, anytime you have access to much more unlabeled data than labeled data, it should be something you should at least consider.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26094
Been testing Netlify as well. A good service for sure. :)
Interesting, thanks for the insight. :)
In the US you can do "plumbing service" without a license. So that is any repair basically. You just can't do installation, so no new construction. However, there is plenty of business in service and I like the work better than installations.
> QE has been a failure

It did what it was intended to do, which was to shore up housing prices and prevent mass defaults.

The problem now is that we have a huge prickly slow motion debt crisis.

We need interest rates to get back to something normal, but if you raise interest rates when people are in huge debt, they go bankrupt because they can't pay the interest. That was the original problem -- we kicked the can down the road but we never solved it.

What you need is for people to have more money to pay their debts at the same time as you raise interest rates. One way to do that is for real wages to rise, but there are a lot of reasons that's difficult right now, not least due to competition from other countries for jobs.

Another way is to have another round of QE but instead of using it to buy treasuries like before, we use it to fund a UBI while we raise interest rates. Then people have the incentive to pay down debts (higher interest rates) at the same time as they have the money to pay them with (UBI), and you don't compromise competitiveness because the money comes from QE rather than increased domestic labor costs.

It also allows for a certain amount of asset price inflation, which is necessary to rebalance general prices against the prices of things like housing and education (and stocks) without causing nominal housing or stock prices to decline and thereby cause a bunch of defaults and malaise.
While this may not be perfect composition, this is a surreal (and almost sad) moment in my life to hear music that is passable created by a computer under it's own volition. I work at a company that works with a lot of machine learning so I generally understand its limitations and haven't ever been an alarmist. That being said, I generally always thought of it being applied to automate work. For some reason I had always considered that which we normally attribute to human creativity to be off-limits. Sure now it's not great, but in 10 years will it be able to compose better music than Chopin? In 10 years, will music created by a computer surprise and delight me more than music composed by humans?
I think there are real material differences between being overly optimistic about range estimates (something Tesla has also done iirc) and overly optimistic about the car driving itself. One leads to extra charging or missed meetings, the other to bodily injury and death.

I certainly don't mind Elon talking up how Tesla is fighting giants and doing Good Things. I like "little" companies taking on big ones. I don't like selling things people that may kill them or others.
My understanding is that Ed25519 is birational to Curve25519, not actually isomorphic, but also that the difference between the two ("almost" vs "perfectly" isomorphic) is not really all that interesting. I thought Ed25519 was better for multiple-base operations used in signing, but slower for variable-base operations in ECDH.
What does "super human" mean for a cultural artifact like music? With a game, "super human" can mean "beats humans". For supervised learning, where there's some label other than human opinion, "super human" can mean "more accurate than a human labeler". But for music composition, you need a difference source of information (listener ratings? sales/streaming plays?) to determine what "better" means, which would be a meaningful structural change rather than just an extension of this technique.

So long as the training set only tells it what human-composed compositions look like (MIDI files of existing music), a system has no signal to find "super human" territory.
>This isn't chess or go, where you either win or you don't. Chopin composed for a reason, and it wasn't just an excuse to throw a lot of notes at the page.

I disagree based on your following quote:

> Aside from that, this still sounds like aimless noodling. It's far more polished noodling with some awareness of genre cliches, but it's still essentially aimless - and so meaningless.

This sort of problem can easily be reframed as a win or lose problem, we simply consider whether the music sounds good or not. More concretely: would this music be able to convince you that a gifted human composer created it?

I'm fine with the answer being no, but I don't understand why the original comment I replied to wrote off the entire exercise. No we may not be there yet, but this seems like a good step forward to me.
The only valid case for this (IMO) is really expensive professional apps. Where someone is going to spend years getting really, really good at using a piece of software, and you want them to be able to just use it the same way regardless of platform. And you especially don't want people to have to re-learn how to use your really complicated software if the host OS changes how scroll bars appear or the position of window chrome.

But I suspect lots of software companies would think that describes them, when in reality there's probably fewer than 10 products that meet that bar.
I would imagine current versions would only give the newer, actively developed languages a boost like Rust, Nim, Crystal, and Go. Java and C I don't see improving moving much.
I can walk into either of the two major grocery chains here in St. Louis and buy lard off the shelf. So I find this interesting when comparing my other experience of going to Chicago's big grocery chain, one day a few summers ago, looking to buy a whole turkey and told they only carry those at Thanksgiving. That was shocking to me as that, too, can be bought locally at any time.

And, yes, I have a tub of lard in my pantry.
For the first release we are sticking with Mobile, but Desktop is "next on the list". ( And there is rudimentary macOS support right now )
Putting aside the many resource problems with Electron apps, can you achieve the level of user experience that the Electron folks do?

I see Electron devs being asked to match the slickness of an existing website with similar delivery time and productivity. You don't seem to be able to get close to that with native APIs, API frameworks, or higher-level tools without a lot of work. When you remove these UI and delivery requirements then almost all other frameworks seem to have a fighting chance.
It's not a remotely bold statement. Think about what imagination is, and then think about whether computers can imagine. Computers can't imagine. Computers can't come up with new things because they are programmed. Programming prescribes the outputs to the same limitations as the inputs: it's a closed deterministic system.

You'll see in my comment above this one that I agree that the brain is a physical thing. But abilities and powers are not physical. That's not voodoo magic. That's what abilities are. Think about horsepower. The horsepower of a car does not reside in any one physical thing, not the carburetor, or the intake manifold, or the piston, or the wheels; it's an ability of the car: it is able to go at such and such horsepower. That is what horsepower is.

The same applies to computation. Computing something is an ability, but we have many more intellectual and cognitive abilities beside computing things.

As a result

> a sufficiently powerful computer with a physically accurate simulation of a brain would produce virtually identical results to a real brain.

is just you are assuming that it will work, but nothing about computers supports that in the slightest. That's just a guess.

> A team of scientists able to sufficiently model the physics of the brain (and presumably the entire central nervous system, I imagine a disembodied brain simulation would experience a horrific form of locked-in syndrome) would not need to be concerned about emergent properties of the simulation such as a sense of consciousness, or thought, or imagination. Those things will just happen once the simulation is perfected.

All of this is still an assumption.

Again, that doesn't mean you are right or wrong: it means its an assumption. You have to accept the limitations of your assumption and the limitations of modelling the brain on a computer are large and glaring.

> Indeed the cognitive neuroscience folk, etc, would be invaluable to actually understanding, training, interpreting and caring for the brain simulation, and figuring out if its behaviours and interactions constitute consciousness etc, so I do not think this has to even be framed as programmers pretending to know about brain stuff vs brain people who dismiss any notion of computationally recreating consciousness. It would be a team effort that works both ways, but is already doomed to fail if half the team thinks it's impossible from the get-go.

You are assuming here that only the programmers are heading down the right path. But you don't know that. It's entirely reasonable (and I would say much more supportable) to say that the programmers are heading down the wrong path: their path will lead to nothing at all. That's because the programmers have fallen to a category error.

You think they need to model the brain on a computer for it to make sense. But there is actually very little if anything to support that.

Brains are brains. Computers are computers. That computer science can be fuzzily applied to the study of brains around the ability to compute does not mean the study of brains is computer science or that brains are computers.
That is nice. Glad to hear.

Will be watching out for the new release via the blogs RSS. ;)
They pay 250k for someone with 2yoe. And have benefits better than 99 percent of companies (likely more than 99 percent honestly).

Edit:

And, a properly defined career ladder. Competitive stock refreshers and bonuses. Varied projects.
Exactly. I like the idea of "traditional American supermarket" for the irony content.

When I was a youngin', our town didn't have any chain stores, just a dozen or so family markets.

I miss the culture and environment, not so much the lack of selection. Since then, it's hard to take sides in a Safeway vs Walmart vs Amazon brawl.

The first chain fast food (aside from the ubiquitous Dairy Queen) came somewhat later. That's a thing I think we could do without.
The article itself talks about X25519, which is Curve25519, not Ed25519.

Ed25519 is not in fact the de facto standard for signing on curves; that's clearly P-256 ECDSA. You're saying that Ed25519 is better, and I agree, but P-256 is much more prevalent.

Again, people don't use Ed25519 because they distrust NIST (although many people do distrust NIST). They use it because:

1. It's easier to implement in constant time.

2. It's derived (if that's the word) from a curve that was selected to avoid invalid curve attacks.

3. They want a more modern, Schnorr-based signature construction, and Ed25519 gives you that and a better curve at the same time.

For signatures, as opposed to key exchange, I think the tradeoffs are pretty much the same: by using a goofy JS library, you're giving up the implementation and side-channel advantage. You're left with the superior signing construction, but you can just use Pornin's deterministic DSA and neutralize most of that problem as well.
QML is a declarative language; it has curly braces like JS, but that's about it. It also allows you to extend it with (some old, possibly noncompliant version of) JS, but the declarative markup is a distinct language.
Interesting problems (not too many places you can do stuff at that kind of scale/impact), very pleasant environment within the company, and yes, money too. And there are a few who come precisely because of those troubles, to make things better instead of standing in a glass house throwing stones.
Calculus of Finite Differences/Finite Calculus [pdf]
https://youtu.be/GrEttzMCneo?t=172
I think that's a huge overstatement. "Funding secured", preselling full self driving that doesn't exist, taking reservations for a 35k car that doesn't exist, etc. etc. is a big step above what other manufacturers do.

I agree with the GP comment, I really want Tesla to succeed but they (or, rather, Musk) take hype and overselling to a new level.
Nice, i got hooked up the same second i started and needed to force me stopping.

Good Link.
This is great! Do you ever think about what it would be like starting solo? Or is the other person part of the de-risking?
https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064152/http://dewoody.ne...
Yes. If you spend fifty years creating a new dog breed then slip up and sell an un-spayed pair of them, you have no claim to the resulting puppies.
"The only thing I know of that was traditionally cooked in lard is donuts"

Makes a huge difference with cake donuts. They are crispy on the outside, and moist, and hold cinnamon/sugar on the outside. Haven't had one in quite a while though...all the US donut stores use vegetable oil.
Interesting. I’m not where I can test this out and my first thought was wondering how well MuseNet could do bluegrass. One of my favorite things to look for on YouTube are bluegrass covers of popular songs.

Another interesting musical form to see how well MuseNet does would be boogie woogie.
I live in a dense urban area.

I'd consider my neighborhood grocery stores to be the 5,000-10,000sqfoot places scattered around the area so no home within a three mile radius is more than a 10 minute walk to one. They survive just fine by being cheaper than Amazon Fresh and significantly more convenient than the Walmart/Costco that exist on the outskirts of the city.
As a UNIX professional programmer, no. Other than Perl, which I don't use, why would you think that?
Perhaps surprisingly, natural lard is mostly unsaturated fat. It's only about 40% saturated, which means it has poor shelf life without hydrogenation to increase the saturated fat percent.
Wait so is your argument that people are already vulnerable so being vulnerable twice is okay?
I have to agree with Andrew Torba here. It's an open source browser, no one needs to justify forking it.
I did a nanodegree, it was a complete waste of time for me.

It was impossible for me to get a job with those (basic) skills. A lot more is needed.

I have been on the other side also as a hiring manager. I would never screen (let alone hire) anyone just on the basis of the nanodegree
It sounds as if lard was never a very big thing in Norway whereas it was at one point in the United States. It seems as if it could just be a coincidence what happened in the States and in Europe.
However, how do you measure the quality of the painting accurately? I think in their first paper on e-David Oliver Deussen mentioned something like that for future research :-)
I assume you give the box a public IP and use protocols like ActivityPub to federate.
>What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.

Margarine was extremely popular in the US for a time (and there's still plenty of it in grocery stores). Among health conscious people, butter was looked on with suspicion as recently as 20 years or so ago. (I ran/run weekend hiking trips sometimes and 20 years ago, I would definitely have gotten dirty looks if I only bought butter. Today no one cares.)

Crisco was pretty popular at one point in the US but AFAIK it's receded quite a bit. I don't do a lot of baking but I don't really see it in recipes these days. And lard is still not in mainstream use at all.
The problem is not the bullshitters.

They are usually a sign of deeper problems that no one more competent wants to deal with. Does Bill Gates want to be President? Nope. What a hassle, too busy, other interests etc etc etc.

The higher up you climb no issue is black and white. And the more ambiguous things get in terms of cost to self and everyone else, the less the number of people willing to stick their neck out.

Thats when you locate a master bullshitter and invite him into the room with all the best and the brightest present and hand him all power. It shakes everyone up.
And sooner or later someone will step up. The older you get the more you play these kind of games to 'nudge' people into taking on thankless responsibilities.
Nim 0.14 is also from more than 3 years ago.