skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to be a result of scaling vertical with the existing product line, not horizontally with new better product categories. Even the new ones are all connected to prior innovations (Apple Watch -> extending iPhone's mobile computing to a new screen ala iPad), (Apple Services -> extending iTunes selling mp3s and video).

Their latest 'new' venture which is the TV play is basically derivative of Netflix and Amazon. Going into finance with the credit card thing is semi-interesting but it was also the thing that killed GE (they became a finance company and lost sight of what made GE great, the best products [1]).

The Beats acquisition was an excellent investment and their Airpod's business is doing amazing. So that's something. They need more of that IMO... if they need anything at all.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-powered-the-american-century...
Too smart for your own good.
What about Daleks made with human brain organoids†?

There's a cheap, proven AGI technology right there. Plug in sensors and actuators and set up a reward system and the little balls of brain will figure out what to do, eh?

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_organoid
FogBugz went from being ASP to ASP/PHP (Wasabi) to some version of .NET where they hosted it all.

I can’t believe FogBugz didn’t share any code with CityDesk.
Speaking of marketing dollars, grammarly probably has more
Computers That Can See
Which Dropbox competitors are zero knowledge?
They should have kept the Kinect integral to the platform and doubled-down on it -- that thing was fun and worked great (still play those games w/my son), and it could have been a great conversational agent gateway with way more functionality than we have now, well before Alexa et al. w/o the Kinect, the x-box may as well be a PS/x or PC AFAICT.
Reaching Ramen Profitability by Doing One Tiny Thing Well
Probably, an app that applies some random distortion to your source image, just like your own recaptcha.

Also Adverisal Patch is a thing, so that could be applied to specifically distorted the system in a human invisible way to misguide the machine learning models.

Whether it will be retroactively deleted, it think there is a possibility. If WeChat periodically scan your image and find your image violating the censorship, it will probably delete it and report to the authority.

Again, some encryption needs to apply in this case. Just like in the old days.
Can you compare to Chapel?
> not surprising to anyone outside the machine learning bubble.

Or in it, either. ML researchers are painfully aware of how the sausage gets made. (About 12 hours before the NIPS deadline, typically.)
Emulator Basics: System Calls
How to get to AGI.
Does anyone know if an improved Linux driver is in the works?
What happens if someone starts working remotely in a high cost of living area and moves? Do you cut their salary when they move or do they get to keep their original salary?
What will cause it? The community changes into something else. It seems inevitable - most communities do. At that point the website will still exist, it will still get lots of posts and traffic, but what we love about HN will be gone.

What keeps that from happening now? The moderation, plus self-policing by the community. But I don't think self-policing would be enough without the moderation.
He loathed Kennedy tho. He might have cancelled it, or changed it. Who knows really.
The bandwidth bottleneck is not on the cloud side; it's on the plane side. Satellite Internet from moving planes is quite expensive and would require retrofitting new antennas in many planes.

Many safety-critical systems do not use encryption because it's one more component that can fail.
This worries me. Wouldn't this leave us with Qualcomm once again the only manafacturer of cellular modems for everyone else? I somehow doubt Apple would keep supplying the Intel parts to any other OEMs.
[citation from this century needed]
I have tried to pursue legal action against companies maintaining inaccurate information using defamation as grounds, to no avail. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
> Git is decentralized. If Github was an svn host I definitely wouldn't have been ok with it or hosted anything FOSS on it.

The most sticky part of Github is the social network that lives in issues, pull requests, and repository permissions. This is all entirely centralized, and it is scary how heavily the community relies on it.

So in practice, results in just as closed of a system as SVN. And it doesn't matter if you're "ok with it". GH is where all the people and projects are. If you want to participate, you have no choice.
Interestingly --- and in my impression unlike psychology research --- I don't think this paper ever attempted to replicate and got contradictory results. Instead, I think the complaint is that for the majority of papers they were unable to begin the replication for lack of working code or available data sets. When they had these, they appear to have obtained the same results.
http://archive.is/DzFOg
They're proud that they can operate in just 500MB of RAM for an app that shows scrolling lists of text.

The economics of RAM has changed somewhat but 1990s me is still appalled.
Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
I would refrain from doing this.

The problem is that you may have the proper include, but may be using the wrong compiler.

Additionally, you may need a specific version of the implementation of the header, not just the presence of the header.

Thoughts?
There's basically zero barrier to entry from both domestic and global competitors.
In the US, development has been very car-centric leading to places that are very very expensive to maintain if there isn't a solid local economy providing a good tax base. In Europe, this is far less of a problem.
Why is it called an investment? Is OpenAI a corporation that plans to pay out dividends? I thought it's more of a non-profit. This deal looks more like a donation of cloud compute resources. Still a great idea (moves ML research closer to their platform, eating more of Google's lunch), but it's not an investment in OpenAI.
Thanks, sorry I meant AMD of course, Radeon RX 590 to be precise. Yes there was a driver available on AMD's site but I couldn't get it to work. Certainly my fault somehow, but at the end of the day it was much easier to just install Windows 10.
How do patents work at an international level?

Isn’t there a lot of shade thrown at the government of China for the behavior of its citizens and party members often flouting intellectual property agreements to begin with?

Obviously, the real world operates according to behavioral rules, where a reward will be obtained if left freely available, unchecked. People do whatever they want, unless consequences or available resources impose limitation.

So, what’s a patent worth, besides the simple merit of institutionalized memory of discovery and invention? I’m not sure why there’s this idea of fighting battles with an arm tied behind your back.
Whose patents did US flout?
At what scale has this been tested? As in, are you aware of any data file size limits? I have a csv with ~6M rows and when paging through the docs the "Exploring your data source" gave me pause thinking this app might try and open all 6M rows at once. Will I be OK importing such a large source or will my computer turn into a space heater before refusing to respond?
Because Microsoft has calculated a reasonable ROI to make it worth it.
The State Growth Problem for Blockchains
SATA DOM can get pretty tiny, https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SI...

Raspberry Pi has supported direct USB boot on most boards for a while now (Pi 4 awaiting a boot firmware update), no need to also use a uSD.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who had a nightmare experience trying to use the ClearFog Pro as a router :).
It’s true that audiophiles can be some of the worst pseudoscientists around. But still, without the input of some good journalists (like NwAvGuy) I honestly wouldn‘t have found the bliss that is a good-quality and nicely set-up stereo system. I find that this topic is gettig far too little attention compared to visual media (4k, 8k, etc)
I stopped buying a lot of stuff from amazon because I don't want to get banned. They just put books loose in boxes now. If I'm buying an $80 art book I want it delivered in mint condition. It might take amazon three tries to do that now.
This idea that users need to see all text on your website in a particular font face (which is usually just a poorly packaged riff off of a famous font with minor changes that will largely go unnoticed by the unwashed masses) in order to market your product is absolute BS. Aside from a very few iconic font associations (e.g. IBM), there's no actual evidence that it actually works.

I fully support using a custom font for your visual assets - that's what SVG with text exported as curves/outlines was created for. But why should I use your horribly hinted, terribly rendered, absolutely illegible webfont (and have to download it to boot) just to read the copy on your website? Why should anyone?

Look at Apple. Despite what I'm sure their design team tells them, even they don't have an iconic font. They've bounced around between Helvetica, Myriad, Lucida, and a half-dozen other sans serif fonts that share certain design traits (which people do identify and associate in general), yet each time they introduce a new font they update their website to trigger your browser to download the webfont to render the page. It's a pointless exercise in the name of job security.

Companies have had websites going back 30 years. Web fonts have existed for a long time. This trend of each company having to pay tens of thousands to commission an unrecognizable, undistinguishable typeface that all text on their website must appear in is a brand new phenomenon, and there's zero proof it does anything besides (poorly) accomplish what someone thought was a good idea.
> [...]rockets like the Saturn V, which was amazing but too big and expensive to be used for much besides Apollo[...]

The cost per launch for the Saturn V was around a $1 billion in today's money. That's lower than some estimates for the per-launch cost for the Shuttle. It wasn't unsuitable, the US could have continued with it just like the Russians continued with the Soyuz.

> But at the end of the day you’re much better off with a rocket that’s ok for a bunch of stuff than one that’s really good at one thing.

Perfecting the rocket is opportunity cost eating up missions you could be flying today if you just mass produced your existing but flawed rocket. The US could have had something like a hundred moon missions many the ISS's mass many times over in orbit by the start of the 90s if they just continued improving on the Apollo architecture.
This was a surprisingly good read. However it's pretty long, so a table of contents would be useful for navigation and future reference.
Developers Security Report
I don't follow this, what's happening?
About this perturbation function: almost the entire world uses the WGS84 datum. The Chinese use a datum that's similar but subtly different. If you didn't account for this datum you got shifted roads and features. The technical information about this datum has never officially been made public, but only licensed to certain companies. I'm fairly certain Google doesn't have such a license. You can find reverse engineered info online but there's no guarantee that those are correct.
> There are multiple launch systems that will have the payload capacity to go straight to the moon within the next few years. Why not just use those?

Maybe SLS and BFR - but those are not nearly ready, and SLS may not be able to launch directly to the Moon what we may require to launch this time.

Remember that one of the problems of today is significantly lower risk tolerances. We'll want system to be much safer, and that will translate into more mass of the system for all kinds of backups. So Saturn-V or similar payload throwers won't cut it this time. BFR may - but this is much less visible on the horizon.

> No one will care about a Lunar space station... People will quickly vote to cut funding...

I doubt. ISS may be seen as a giant step back from Apollo (even if it has a pile of its own benefits). Comparing to ISS Gateway is a significant step forward. Just imagine: deep space instead of "just" 400 km up, Moon vicinity, flights measured in days and not because one need to synchronize orbits; platform for telescopes which are much more stationary and aren't obscured with Earth every hour...

And launching expedition to the Moon from Gateway can be that much more convenient.
Or management wants to exfiltrate $1B of shareholder dollars.
Wildlife Monitoring via Tourist Photos
Looking forward to Rust.NET and Visual Rust! (If you can create GUIs in a sane way from third party FFI without having to throw around tons of C++ handles that would be absolutely wonderful.)
Without respecting US IP, hard to imagine there will be a lot of respect for Chinese IP from the US. Maybe it doesn't matter?
The article is comparing apples and oranges. The 25 Mbps “FCC” figure is reporting the fastest speeds offered in each census block. This is a really dumb measure for broadband speeds. In particular, every area served by DSL will have close-in customers who can get 25 Mbps, but many who can get only a fraction of that. But that’s the measure the FCC asks for, and has used since long before the current administration.

The 6.3 Mbps figure, by contrast, appears to be an average of 380,000 consumer-initiated Google speed test runs, geo-located to census blocks by IP address. It’s not reporting maximums, and it’s also not clear whether any attempt was made to narrow the results to exclude wireless internet connections from the average.

According to Akamai, as of 2017 25 Mbps average speed would put you as the #2 fastest internet in the world, just after South Korea: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-t.... I don’t think anyone is claiming Georgia has the fastest internet in the world.

The article’s sweeping claims about “America” as a whole don’t seem justified based on a study done in Georgia. Ookla has the US at #7 worldwide for fixed broadband speeds: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#fixed. Akamai has it in the top 10 (see above). The Ookla data probably is skewed upward, assuming people doing speed tests probably have faster than average Internet, but the Akamai data should be very reliable, being based on way more data points than this Google speeds test survey.
China taking Tibet is about the same as the U.S. taking the land of the Native American peoples and made them Indian reservations. The whites historically maltreated the Indians just as the Han people of China maltreated the Tibetans.
You weren’t around in the slashdot days were you?
Yeah but how's the return exactly going to come about (dividends? merger and talent takeover?), that's the question. I can see it returning itself via better ML sales on Azure.
Don't overanalyze this. Build something and have a plan to release it say max within 90 days. Not all MVPs can be built in a week in my opinion. Think of this way. You may still be thinking about this 90 days from now or you will have released something. So what it took 90 days. You have made a start. No go sell.
The RX 590 should be good to go with the kernel driver since last December: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RX-590-L...

What that practically means is that any linux distro with a kernel at least that new should support your card without needing to download anything from AMD's website. (Generally speaking, downloading drivers from the manufacturer's website is a windows-ism. There are some exceptions, like Nvidia, but a machine well configured for linux use should aim to use hardware supported by FOSS drivers (such as your AMD card.))
That's was probably the wrong way to word it because yes foreign patents aren't enforced by the US.

The Paris treaty I was referring to regulates why a patent can be denied. For instance its says that the US has to treat patent applications from citizens of member countries the same as US petitioners.

For example, the US can't show favoritism to domestic companies (with respect to other countries who've signed the treaty) when granting patents--they can't just deny patent protections to Chinese petitioners because they are Chinese. (I'm guessing there are nation security exceptions, but I'm not an expert, I've just researched this from a business perspective.)

And the US has to honor the priority date of foreign signatories patents (assuming certain conditions are met).
That's Balmer, not Nadella.

Jedberg's point is that strong operational CEOs are great at getting more users for existing products. Visionary CEOs are great at inventing new products that can capture new markets the company hasn't previously been in before. The only major new product Apple's introduced under Tim Cook's tenure has been the Apple Watch, which in actual usage is more like an accessory to the iPhone than a new product category. He did a great job growing Apple's existing iPhone, iPad, and Macbook businesses, but a less great job introducing new ones.

See also the a16z essay "Ones and Twos":

https://a16z.com/2010/12/16/ones-and-twos/

Cook is a Two, as are Eric Schmidt, Sundar Pichai, Steve Ballmer, Sheryl Sandberg, and Dara Khosrowshahi. Ones include Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Andy Rubin, Travis Kalanick, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerburg. Nadella is shaping up to be a One, though I'm not entirely sure on this (I haven't been following Microsoft closely).
Yes.[1] At least in Pennsylvania. This decision is based on state law. Amazon claims to be insulated from product liability claims because it is not the "seller". The Third Circuit says Amazon is the "seller". "Amazon not only accepts orders and arranges for product shipments, but it also exerts substantial market control over product sales by restricting product pricing, customer service, and communications with customers."

Amazon can in turn sue the party who provided the product to recover what they have to pay out to the end customer, if they want.

Amazon allows their product providers to be somewhat anonymous. That weighed against them in the court decision. To the court, that looks like a retailer-wholesaler relationship. An actual seller has to disclose the actual name and address of the business in some states, including California. (B&P code section 17358).

[1] https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/181041p.pdf
A couple of tentative comments from skimming the paper; I haven't seen Partisan before so take this for what it's worth.

Partisan is an actor model runtime that appears to be (mostly?) compatible with Erlang. The main selling point of Partisan is optimizations which improve the performance of actors, which are impressive, but is orthogonal to many of the issues Legion attempts to address.

In particular Partisan seems to mostly take the actor model as is (in fact this seems to be a goal so that their runtime can handle existing Erlang applications). That means it's going to have all the usual pitfalls that can occur with actor based programming. There is a class of bugs that shared-nothing actors make impossible (i.e. concurrent access to shared state). But there is (in my view at least) a much larger class of concurrency bugs that conventional actor models do not attempt address at all. (I am sure you can find some actor model implementations that attempt to address this, but this effort does not appear to be one of them.)

In contrast, Legion's semantics are sequential. You cannot write a data race, deadlock, or any other sort of concurrency bug because the code behaves as if it were executing literally sequentially. Any parallelism that occurs in the execution is guaranteed by the runtime system to preserve the original sequential semantics of the program. Any access to distributed data is guaranteed to be local because the runtime will move it for you before the task starts executing.

To put it another way, in Legion you have to explicitly think about how to divide up your program (tasks) and data (regions/partitions), but once you do that the parallelism/distributed memory is implicit. In contrast, nearly all of the common explicitly parallel programming models make one or both of the first two implicit (though the user still has to think about it, because data structures have to be divided e.g. between actors), and require the user to explicitly do the last one (which is where concurrency bugs creep in).
Lets pretend a few things, because I don't think you understand what I am getting at. I have application called "Music Box", I am release version 2.0.0 and it is QA'd before release against Pear OS 7.0.

If Pear OS 8.0 is release a month later and breaks my application because of an API change their end. I would just release 2.0.1 of Music Box that fixes the defects. If I was proactive get hold of a beta or release candidate of Pear OS 8.0 and QA my application on there to see if there was any obvious defects.

The same with a newer compiler or a newer hardware driver. I would just get hold of the beta / release candidate and fix it then. The one thing I wouldn't do is try compiling it on a completely different OS that none of my users use.
In Emacs buzzwordology, "electric" means roughly "computer-assisted". When you hit TAB in Emacs, it will automatically indent your cursor to the proper column, depending on the current major mode (programming language, as determined by Emacs) and indent style. If you do this at the beginning of a line (anywhere before the first non-whitespace character), it will move the whole line to the appropriate position. It's exceedingly convenient, and beats the pants off any IDE that isn't Emacs or something attempting to closely emulate Emacs behavior.

As for learning resources, one of the most comprehensive and convenient ones out there is -- Emacs itself! There are reasons why they call it a "self-documenting editor". Boot up the editor, and type C-h t (that is type Control+h, then type t), and you will be taken to a tutorial which you can work through to give you a feel for Emacs basics. While using the editor itself you have a number of help resources available: C-h k followed by another keystroke will tell you what that keystroke does. Type C-h w and enter a function name, and Emacs will show you the keystroke for that function (if any). C-h f and C-h v followed by a function or variable name, respectively, will bring up detailed documentation about that function or variable. C-h i brings up info, which has online user manuals for Emacs and other GNU software (depending on your distribution and installed packages). And so forth.

Outside Emacs itself, there is the venerable Emacs Wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org -- which covers Emacs itself as well as various third-party extensions and packages for the editor, and contains additional links to other resources.

One more thing: If you're serious about learning Emacs, I recommend that you really commit to spending all of your coding time inside it. Don't wuss out and go back to your nice safe comfortable editor when the going gets tough. The best way to learn, when it comes to a program like this, is by doing. If you do wuss out, that's okay too -- not everybody is willing to put in the time it takes to reap the rewards Emacs has to offer, and if they're making good money with the tools they have there's no shame in that.
You might be able to tag enough samples yourself, particularly if you use transfer learning, data augmentation and focus effort on the hard cases.
It's true. One of the few blogs I've read from end to end. In fact I've even scraped it and keep it saved just to make sure that nothing ever happens to it. I own his DAC design, which is great as well.