skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually the exits will have cardinal directions (e.g. NE corner of x st and y ave). I don’t see why you need a smartphone for this.
>> RNN's can be taught to do math using BP

The paper you cite and every single paper on artificial neural nets learning to "do maths" or "do arithmetic" etc that has every been published. are only showing neural nets learning [1] the results of specific operations between numbers up to a certain value. There is no work that shows neural nets learning to do arbitrary arithmetic operations on arbitrary numbers.

To put it very clearly: neural nets can't learn to "do maths" in any general sense.

Neural nets are infamously incapable of generalising beyond their training dataset and the OP is very reasonably skeptical of comparisons between artificial and natural neural networks, given that only the latter are known to be able to generalise from few examples seen very few times.

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[1] As in overfitting to.
I'm not a big fan of 'homoiconic' either. I'm more in the 'source code as data' camp.

> The first objection concerns the external representation. In the above we simply stated that the external representation is an s-expression. In most practical programming environments, however, the actual representation of program sources is as text files which contain strings of characters. It is only after parsing this text that the representation is really an s-expression. In other words: in practical environments the external representation is not an s-expression, but text.

The point is that Lisp s-expressions are an external representation of data and that Lisp programs are represented as s-expressions. Various programmatic interfaces see this source code as data: for example the function EVAL or the macro expander.

> The second objection concerns the internal representation. Practical implementations of Lisp interpreters do generally not operate actually directly on s-expressions internally for performance reasons.

Actually they do. The definition of 'Lisp interpreter' is that it operates on source code as data (lists, symbols, ...). Lisp has other ways to execute: as compiled byte code, as compiled native code, etc. -> but that's not a Lisp interpreter.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but your post is unintentionally hilariously oblivious.

> we don’t employ immigrants to save money... the competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.

No, no, we're not doing it to save money...we just can't pay the local market rate so we import cheaper workers. But it's not to save money.
Not just organized labor.

> This didn’t stop President Truman from considering and promoting a national health care system in 1945. This idea had a fair amount of public support, but business, in the form of the Chamber of Commerce, opposed it. So did the American Hospital Association and American Medical Association. Even many unions did, having spent so much political capital fighting for insurance benefits for their members. Confronted by such opposition from all sides, national health insurance failed — for not the first or last time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
Each company treats their employees differently but we don’t. Our compensation is equal and based on position (so two people that do the same job are paid the same). We do differentiate options but only based on the current state of 409a (so person joining earlier gets more).

We pay the best we can. It’s completely open and transparent to all our employees. But there is no way to compete with $400k salaries paid to selected workers by few companies.

So what should we do? Close?
How many of those were the latest model year, purchased less than 6 months prior?
"Sir, please drive through, this is a Burger King."
It's a shared electron context, it addresses one of the many critiques of electron (that each electron app is an entirely separate instance of Chrome), so each "sketch" while having the capabilities of electron only have the performance impact of a browser tab.

This is especially useful for "utility applications".
You are right, but I think it goes beyond that.

Any control interface is by definition acting on something dynamic, so even pushing a physical button, we expect the some status to reflect the result instantly.

I think touchscreen could be best used as a step above joysticks, when an action cannot just be summed by a on/off (or +/-) state, or a vector in one direction.

Imagine in a military setting if you need to open a communication channel with 4 teams moving close to each other to warn them of a nearby enemy. Would you prefer to switch the “open communication” lever, check the team numbers, push the buttons 1, 5, 6, 12 and the “open channel” button. Or circle them directly on the map and click “open communication” on the right side panel?

I also think that a lot of touchscreen interface are immature and ill thought, but it would be the same issue with stupid buttons like we can find in so many cars for instance (why would the parking brake switch be next to the A/C on/off ?)
I wonder if we're focusing on two different things here. I'm not thinking so much about the merits of the 24fps video experience vs. the 60fps video experience. I'm just focused on clean playback of the source content. If something was recorded in 24fps, I want to see it in 24fps. If something was recorded in 60fps, want to see it in 60fps.

I'm more complaining about the automatic 24->60 (or 120 or 240) conversion that's enabled by default on a lot of new TVs. I'm not at all opposed to higher frame rate video, I like it. I've just never watched something on a TV where the 24->60 conversion didn't look significantly worse to me than playback at the native frame rate.

Maybe my unconscious assumption is that people's preferences about the ideal frame rate can change over the years, but that reinterpolating the video to a different frame rate will always look worse than native, regardless of the source and destination frame rates. Maybe this isn't true, but that is my assumption.
Great, so the company instead of bringing workers over to America where they can funnel their earnings back into the American economy are instead hired remotely in their country of origin, don't pay US taxes and can be hired at a fraction of the price.

Is there any reason why we shouldn't encourage companies to bring valuable employees to America, instead of encouraging them to outsource development to other countries? Obviously we have to solve the problem of H-1B farms depressing wages and harming employees by hanging the Sword of Damocles that is deportation over their head but proper H-1B usage is a benefit to local economies.
A not insubstantial amount, I'd predict.

(Anecdata) I had to prove that the work I did on a car (replacing the bumper) didn't cause a fire which burned down the garage and house it was in a week later.

That said, I do agree with your point that a brand new vehicle should not have these sorts of issues. Be interesting to see where the cause lay.
Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation
"When even companies like Apple protest it, there's something more than preventing abuse by body shops going on."

Err.. Wasn't Apple involved in wage-fixing along with Google (and Intel and Adobe)?[0] Apple isn't particularly credible in this regard, not when the result of a badly run H1B program would happen to be exactly what Apple was illegally trying to do.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/03/apple_wagefixing_cl...
A 19th-Century Catfishing Scheme
I'm willing to cede this argument to you, except 5% seems like a far far too great of a number for people "on the forefront of experimental / particle physics" by several orders of magnitude.
Ignoring the context is also common on any other planet? Bars don't cause alcoholism, bars don't do date rapes and spoons don't make people fat, but you intentionally ignore facts and play it with your political agenda. Should we close down everything that has any potential for bad things? Where is the button to shut down the planet?
A Model of Paternalism
> Same for the whole 401k setup.

I don't understand that one at all. A huge point of 401ks is you can leave your employer and you keep all the money, as opposed to things like a pension.
Reminds me of this one-time a girl at school had copied a shortcut to a DOC file onto the floppy-disk and submitted it at school.

The teacher had a hard time explaining shortcuts to her. The girl kept insisting that the PC at school was broken as the shortcut worked in her machine at home.
I think it's a complaint that has been resolved, and the solution is to work less hard at meditating. To me, it looks like you believe meditation is about achieving and then holding a particular mental state/feeling, and this is incorrect.

I suggest you reframe the act of "meditating" as being the moment when you become conscious of yourself being distracted, and bring your mind back to the object of meditation (the current moment/breath/mantra, etc). Think of it not like work, but more like a game you're playing. You can even tell yourself, "aha - noticed I'm thinking rather than following the breath," etc.

In other words, successful meditation is all about your mind wandering, you noticing it wandering, and you bringing it back. The more you notice the attention wandering and the faster you get at returning it to centre the more "meditating" you're doing.

Holding your mind rigid is just going to make you frustrated.

Incidentally, over time, learning to notice your attention wandering ever more quickly and bringing it back more reliably will produce new mental states. And over time your mind will wander much less often. But this is all something that's achieved indirectly. If you aim directly for the mental state you'll find it much harder if not impossible to achieve.
Save money implies that we make the money in the first place and then take it for ourselves instead of paying it to our employees.

Almost nobody can compete with the comp provided by FAANG. Do you want 5 companies running everything in your life? Isn’t far enough already?
The restrictions on H1Bs is only a temporarily restraint and will only hasten the transition to 100% remote teams.

Soon people will no longer be complaining about Infosys and Tata Consulting but instead about Toptal, GitLab and Zapier - and there will be no regulatory way to stop them.

Politicians can only protect your jobs for so long.
"as a path to AGI" anyone else disagree with this? Creating a highly efficient compressor seems very much not AGI
O() is a notion of speed of growth, not measuring how large are constants.
The article is talking about slapping every H1-B application from well-known abusers only.

Its mentioning nothing about FAANG or similar companies who are actually using the visa for what its meant for.
> Morris' old ideas do indeed work. Why don't we use them?

Because we are lazy or overworked?

The last time I wrote C, I had asan and ubsan and valgrind running in CI.
Speculations on the Nenoksa Explosion
I do believe the media tends to make too big a deal of EV fires and issues (given how they compare to gas cars' frequent issues). That being said, I don't think the stats you shared are at all relevant here: those stats are probably almost all from accidents and maintenance issues on the road involving moving/operational vehicles. The explosion in this story was from a stationary vehicle parked in a garage, allegedly not even charging.

There are probably some rare cases of this happening on gas vehicles over the years, but I expect any such case would also be concerning and deserving of a deep investigation.
And it takes a special kind of asshole to be a professional grave digger when his entire family will die and be buried. Same kind of illogical argument.
Typically the filesystem "page" or "inode" size. Usually 4KB.
Huawei's matebooks are nice
I think the issue is the pubs you are going to. A real pub is quiet, with low ceilings, carpeted floors, comfy chairs/sofas organised in separate clusters, and a fireplace or two. It’s your living room away from home. Some “pubs” now are just bars with an Irish theme
fully agreed. the piece exists in some weird space where it suffers from the exact sort of superiority / inferiority role playing anxiety that it's supposed to be about which makes it difficult to draw anything from it.
So the fact that white british people stared moving to india in the 1800's means that the Indian government can't have any restriction on white people immigrating to India in 2019?
The price, and the noise. Many bars are so loud that I would pay to avoid being exposed to them. Friends who have gone to Spain and Italy say bars there are designed for conversation.
Yukako hihara creates 'anti-gravity' shoes using repelling magnets
I haven't found the term particularly useful either. What I do like to say is that in Lisp, the AST is a public interface. That is, the AST is defined by a specification and is not going to change, so that you can write code that manipulates it and know that the next compiler version won't break your code — indeed, it's portable across implementations. Also, the AST's structure is relatively simple to explain (though there are some "gotchas" you have to watch out for when manipulating it, like inadvertent variable capture), and macros provide a convenient interface for receiving an AST from the compiler or interpreter and supplying back a transformed AST.

Other languages could provide similar facilities, and indeed a few have done so. But the more complex the syntax of the language, the more difficult it is to do that in a usable way.
And how many of those explode with enough force to send a garage door flying?
Since it's about compressing one specific sequence of bytes, and compression time/cost doesn't matter - only decompression - wouldn't finding a set of [neural network inputs + weights + processing code + error correction] (I think in the direction of GANs or auto-encoders) be a way to have a high chance of finding improvements? Not 100% sure it would be in spirit of the contest, and if the cost of training would offset the reward...
Well a spacecraft is not fixed, you can push it around, which is the whole point of a reaction drive. An unmovable spacecraft would have to have infinite mass. So the assumption does not apply.
Bastiat warned centuries ago about the dangers of nominal money.

If the companies borrow money and do nothing with it, they are not provoking scarcity of any kind, they are storing bits of a bank account still, doing nothing at all.
I believe the case design came from Commodore's PC range, which was largely a German initiative. The A2000 was designed in Germany and never launched in the US - Commodore US designed their own system around a slightly reworked chipset which ended up as the B2000 (which used the same case)
Dang, just visited a mall with Muji shop in it yesterday.

I will come back later to buy some pens

Thanks for the recommendation.
Randomness can make math easier
I’m not sure why you think the high prices are inexplicable. The rent in those cities is higher than elsewhere. Thus they charge more money.
I just realised that there might be an actual, political need for something as brittle and theatrical as DNS blocking, and probably of other things similar, because there are large masses of untechnical nature for which it really works.

Of course, we know DNS blocking doesn't fix anything. It's like putting the bad thing in storage and switching off the light. We know that nearly anyone can route around a blacklist-employing name server in seconds, but it's all the people but those "anyone" who can't.

And they probably think it's a really good idea. The general masses don't have to worry about accidentally bumping into dubious content, and it also raises, to a conscious level, the bar for those who want to bump into it. I mean, if you have to specifically install or configure things to workaround the DNS block, you've just validated your questionable intents.

For most people, that probably makes sense similarly to a signpost at a closed gate that says "Private yard / No pass through". Yeah, undoubtedly some people will open the gate and try to make the shortcut through the yard but at that point it will be clearly intentional. It's just that the externalities of DNS blocking are infinitely higher than blocking pedestrian traffic through a private yard, and no common people see that.

The rational counter-attack must thus focus on what would be a better alternative rather than how DNS blocking is flawed by design. How to prevent families from accidentally finding themselves looking at child porn, or to make it difficult for uncle Ed to watch naked kids on internet late in the evening while still preventing the ISPs from MITMing the DNS queries for everyone else?
> one specific chunk of data

Not just any chunk though. It (presumably) contains a lot of structure that encodes information about [English representations of] the real world.

It's not random, nor is it simple, nor is it an image of a fractal (maybe?) etc.

A system that is able to compress it well makes good predictions about what the data contain which indicates "intelligence" about the structure of the (encoded) world.
Experimental PlayStation 4 Emulator
You simply cannot spend all of your income. If you have a full time job, no savings, and are spending all of your income, or even close (say above 70%, 80%), you are in a full-blown crisis mode situation.

It will manifest itself in all sorts of ways.

If you have a limited supply of basically anything and use all of it the same issue would arise. If you had 50L of water to use per day, and all of your activities used 49.5L of it, then you would be in a water crisis, because if you ever e.g. needed to wash an extra shirt you simply couldn't, it would be impossible.
All your tickets are belong to me
Do you agree a chip implant if it may save your life?
Maybe by medical analysis
Hopefully it will not repeat Samsung battery disaster. Few more cars and it would bring bad publicity for all electric cars. VW killed whole natural gas powered car industry in similar way: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2016/09/16/europe... I see even now sometimes signs prohibiting entering underground parking with natural gas vehicle...
> US labor history has been erased from public dialogue

Or inverted? When I hear people talk of unions in the US, it's about how shitty theyve made everything.
This is wrong on so many ways:

- DoH is impacts a lot more than one area: child protection
- what exactly would be lost?
- is the filtering effective? No, anyone so inclined can just use a VPN
- is there another way to achieve this even with DoH?
Yes: resolve the URL filter hostnames, filter the IPs
- faulty logic: we do X *with the intention* to stop bad Y, so don't do Z that hinders X

The issue here isn't really about DoH--it's whether the government can unilaterally decide that freedom of communicating privately is not a right.

Now let's see what's right(?) about this?

- good political move to back something emotional people can agree with
vs. something technical that most don't put in effort to understand privacy+tech
- government seen as governing: good
- sensational news, increases positive awareness/brand

I think the last point is key, technology has come up fast and most governments are not up to the task of understanding and making good decisions. The best they can do is try to look like they're doing good and try to maintain some some control in the hopes that it will result in the ability to stay in power. It would be like if a non-technical CEO of a corporation was in charge of all the security policies for their products.

Whenever these types of issues come up in the media, there's two concurrent discussions: one who understand the tech and implications and the rest of the population that reacts by proxy signals. Somehow these groups need to be connected without a distortion of the message.
Probably because group plans are/were strictly better and cheaper than individual plans (especially pre-ACA).
AGI would probably be sufficient, but not necessary.
> The best way to spur economic growth is to give money to people who will spend it quickly whether rich or poor. In general, it turns out most very wealthy people have little incentive to spend money quickly. Instead, they save to hedge against and profit from recessions.

This is plain incorrect. Spending on the value-less services and goods makes the economy as a whole poorer, and the more you spend the more you impoverish.
The size of your model is included.
Yes, but limitations are:

1) Needs to run in around 8hrs or less on a single CPU core

2) (I assume) it needs to be self-extracting (and size includes the compression logic).
Politicians don't care about American's jobs. If they did they would have reigned in the H1B abuse years ago.

Disney had their IT department literally training their H1B replacements before being laid off. That was blatantly illegal. Nothing happened to them. How may other companies got away with this without notice because they weren't as stupid as Disney?

We can rake Zuck across the coals but Disney is untouchable. That's what politicians care about.
But your entire model, plus your code, plus the compressed data must fit in 16MB: it gives very little room for maneuver.
Old Panamera and new Panamera. Disgusting and disorienting touch controls. I honestly can’t tell why would anyone prefer touch controls. I also can’t honestly tell how is Tesla’s screen street legal.
A lot of psychological studies measure effects invisible to the participants, often masking the real experiment as a technicality of a fake experiment that the participants know about.

It is well-known that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Jason Momoa of Aquaman 2, Can't Move Forward Protest Major Hawaii Construction
There is a yearly cap that is always reached. More applications denied just means more people are applying.
This is actually a great example of transference and is a fantastic tool for understanding yourself in a deeper way.

In many ways, the advice you are giving is a means of your own subconscious communicating with your conscious awareness. If you really pay attention to the advice you give/the way the person's own situation makes you feel, it also gives you a greater awareness of your own thoughts and feelings towards your own situation and unresolved issues.

Vice versa, the advice that others give to you offers a view into their inner conflicts, baggage, etc. It is a fascinating phenomenon.
The most noticeable impact that will have is shift many many jobs to immigrant friendly countries in the same time zone like Canada, or just straight to India. That'd be a lot of taxes and local consumption happening outside the US.

Take places like Japan, negligible work immigration but wages haven't really been growing along with productivity.
I think the grandparent is just trying to say that while it defeats one of the purposes behind 2fa, it doesn't defeat all of them. Security is all about trade-offs and defense in depth and 2fa is still valuable in this sense even with the 2fa secret stored on your laptop. That is, it trades off some security for convenience but is still more secure than not having 2fa.
When you simulate something with increasing complexity you don't generally run said simulation at a fixed time interval that you then scale hardware to meet. At the start the processing required would be minimum and thus the simulation would progress rapidly. With increased complexity the computation time per update increases and the general progression of the simulation slows down.

At worst we would just approach complexity rivaling the parent realities and our updates would take substantial lengths of time in their universe. Whereas the first billion years of simulation might have taken seconds, it might become the case that one of our seconds can take years of computation given enough complexity. But for us we wouldn't notice either way - our perception of reality is bound to our experience of time.