skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of my acquaintainces reported anything like that either. Vampires crawling across the ceiling... i mean, with closed eyes and on an conceptual level, sure, one can hallucinate things like that, but full-blown visuals with no relation to reality sounds like Salvinorin A, not LSD.
A modern "inverter" fridge has a three-phase AC motors with, well, an inverter in front of it. It would be easy for the manufacturer to makes such fridges accept DC without a major redesign.
The pain misunderstanding one templating line caused to our k8s clusters
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My experience with Google Maps is that the accuracy is proportional to how close you are to Mountain View.
Woah there. Maybe I'm way off base here, but I wouldn't even come in to work overtime on a weekend without written confirmation from my boss, never mind touch anything money-related.
The lack of context does make it impossible to definitely rule out a number of candidates. If most native English speakers were forced to bet $1 million dollars and guess at the missing word written by an unknown author without further clues, I think most would seriously consider only 0.01% of words they know as a possibility.

BERT and similar models do consider a wider context window (up to 1000 lemmas if I recall correctly), which is a reason they do quite well when trying to fill in blanks for a complete passage and usually less accurately for shorter texts.
The USA rail network is optimized for freight. One of the cheapest most efficient in the world. If they let people rent box cars for travel it would be dirt cheap if really slow. Passenger trains are a second class unwanted nuisance.
Pandas eat bamboo.

Koalas eat eucalyptus.
What do you mean by "very accessible"? Are you referring to the design and implementation of this interaction technique? Or the accessibility of the UI?
... from another comment: "he valuable high-rep SO users do not like wading through bad and duplicate questions. It's a waste of their time."

So there are people who believe there are programming gods who live on SO, that are the only ones with the knowledge to answer certain questions ...
Don't write software like you write books: the value of continuous delivery
That is actually what taxation-based solutions do. They make travel cost more, so fewer people do it.

People aren't happy about it though, so promising to remove the taxes is a way to win votes at the next election. The incentive becomes a voter bargaining chip rather than an practical long term solution.

We need a solution that actually stops a majority of people wanting to fly so much, then removing the taxation isn't a way to win votes, and consequently it remains in place as disincentive to those who do want to fly.
How is this AI/Machine learning?

It's basically get an icon, place it on a canvas. Take the brand name, and either put it on the right of the icon or beneath it.
Also you can use structural sharing if there are no parent pointers.
> lambasted when they try to prevent a competitor from copying it wholesale?

I feel like if just cannot be repeated enough: You control which license your software is supplied under! If you want to create open source software, you have to live by that decision and follow the license. You can’t slap an open license on the software and complain when people “abuse” the fact that it’s open.
That's because this is not a usual request. It could be for the CEO - only they know how likely that was to happen.
> You can get rid of any stacks whatsoever by keeping a parent pointer in the tree node data structure.

You can actually in-order traverse a binary tree without any memory overhead at all (no parent pointer nor an implicit or explicit stack) using Joe Morris' traversal.

I found that this can be done to be surprising but effectively it uses the NULL slots as temporary storage.

Here's one explanation: https://yuyuan.org/MorrisAlgorithm/ - although there seem to be a few youtube videos on it also.
> batteries are one of the big, expensive, and limited life time components of a solar system

On the other hand, so is a big chest freezer!
Isn't this outdated retro technology compared to layer normalization?

>Training state-of-the-art, deep neural networks is computationally expensive. One way to reduce the training time is to normalize the activities of the neurons. A recently introduced technique called batch normalization uses the distribution of the summed input to a neuron over a mini-batch of training cases to compute a mean and variance which are then used to normalize the summed input to that neuron on each training case. This significantly reduces the training time in feed-forward neural networks. However, the effect of batch normalization is dependent on the mini-batch size and it is not obvious how to apply it to recurrent neural networks. In this paper, we transpose batch normalization into layer normalization by computing the mean and variance used for normalization from all of the summed inputs to the neurons in a layer on a single training case. Like batch normalization, we also give each neuron its own adaptive bias and gain which are applied after the normalization but before the non-linearity. Unlike batch normalization, layer normalization performs exactly the same computation at training and test times. It is also straightforward to apply to recurrent neural networks by computing the normalization statistics separately at each time step. Layer normalization is very effective at stabilizing the hidden state dynamics in recurrent networks. Empirically, we show that layer normalization can substantially reduce the training time compared with previously published techniques.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06450

just forget batched normalization

instead of computing mean and variance over a batch, compute mean and variance over all the incoming dendrites of a neuron, for each neuron; result: now you are using the same function during train and test time, putting it on a more rigorous mathematical footing, and it's adaptable to RNN
What law would you say is broken?
Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession
British rarely refer to ketchup as ketchup, we almost exclusively refer to it as "tomato sauce".
No relation to Clojure's own manifold library, I guess? I was a bit confused when I visited that github repo you posted and saw a bunch of Java code :P

This is the one I thought of: https://github.com/ztellman/manifold
ESA performed a collision avoidance manoeuvre to avoid Starlink satellite
Yes, I have! You may regard it as similar, but not quite the same. The thing with "curry" (Dutch one ie. the sauce, not the -real- Asian one) is that different brands are not quite the same. If you focus on it, you'll notice.

I also find that the older I become, the less desire I have for sugar. I dislike if things are too sweet for my taste. Hence I no longer prefer (Dutch) curry as sauce, and also a reason why I love yogurt with mayonnaise as a simple basis for sauces. In that sense, German cream and German mayonnaise is also lovely as it contains far less sugar but has the same mouth feeling. In apfelstrudel mit Sahne, the cream compliments the sweet pastry.
> I don't think the part that provides the grid is like the verifiers or provers we have implemented.

Certainly not. But it is similar in that confidence increases once one decides to believe in something.

> I think that the "snap to" part is going to be very difficult to develop because we are not conscious of it. Where to even begin?

Begin by becoming conscious of it. Learn to recognize when you have made a decision, or a judgment, learn to feel what that feels like when it is just about to happen, and then pay attention to what leads up to it. Is it some kind of subconscious ratiocination? Then slow it down and figure it out consciously. Is it a subconscious review of some sense data? Then review it with higher awareness. Intuition and introspection will teach more than trying to watch it break.
> some problems were just very hard (or I was just inexperienced).

Modern SO doesn’t help with hard problems either, such questions often closed as “too broad”.

> even QT looks like cutting a tree with a kitchen knife sometimes

C++ is just too low level for GUI. Look at WPF or UWP, both are miles ahead of HTML even with modern webdev stuff like react, but they work fast.

I think the main reason why HTML won is Apple, and modern mobiles. Building multiple rich GUI applications for Windows, iOS, Android is too expensive for many people, the platforms are too different. Even before HTML5 arrived, it was possible to build a single web app: JS workarounds for cross-browser compatibility, and different styles/layouts to support both mobile and desktop browsers.
This was my experience until I started using a fitbit to get an accurate daily burn count. It showed that I was setting my calorie count way too low, hence the hunger issue. If I eat the fitbit daily burn minus 500 calories I lose 1 lb a week with no hunger issues.
Only if you are willing to invest lots of time to get it somewhat usable, and if you don't use too many peripherals.

I can't even get Ubuntu to run properly on my X1E, the 4K display completely breaks grub and the dual GPU situation causes loads of problems when connecting an external display though thunderbolt. Battery life is worse compared to Windows (3h vs 5h).
I’m confused. I believed the story of Open Source software begins in the 50s and 60s when early OS was essentially free, and the beasts software ran on was the profit center.

The culture for free open source software (and its benefits) was prevalent. But by the 70s companies we’re changing their attitude about this IP. I’m a reaction to increased restrictions Richard Stallman founded the GNU project in 1983.

Is there an Other World theory where this was not the case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...
Thanks for this suggestion but I am looking for a free one :)
> The mere possibility of tampering with memory is indeed the most dangerous thing that could happen to humanity. Imagine not being able to believe your own memory.

We've been doing it for a while with drugs. Some of them can cause a temporary loss of your short term memory.

It's a really bizarre sensation. You suddenly lose the ability to comprehend the chronology of recent events and can make no connection between real events and your own memory. There is no "now", you only have memories, and because you lost the causal link, you can't tell the difference between an authentic memory and your own imagination. I can only imagine how terrifying it would be to live like that constantly.
I'd be pretty surprised if they had quantum computers to where they could decrypt https, but it's at least possible.

The more prosaic means you're describing, plus zero days and phishing (unless that's included in "targeted attacks"?), can still get them a long way.
People seem to be afraid they get one of those broken UEFI implementations from 8-10 years ago. So they choose the BIOS Legacy mode which nowadays is more likely to be broken because of lack of testing.
> Ketchup is a sauce with tomatoes in

Historically, ketchup was a class of condiments that all had a lot of umami like fish sauces and oyster sauces. Over time, different ketchups were invented, one of which was tomato ketchup. Its popularity grew, and the other ketchups were forgotten, so these days ketchup is synonymous with tomato ketchup.
Ironically, recently I've seen some people rediscover OOP after being told OOP is absolute evil.
> Another facet is that we currently have "1 training regime" for digital neural networks, with which I mean: we use gradient descent

Speak for yourself! There are plenty of other ways. Gradient descent is just currently in fashion.
Thanks for sharing all the details.

Its quite cheap as compared to others, agreed, but I would like to still see if there are good free Adblockers.
> But if you drink for example a brandy like Cognac (which is distilled wine) you’ll have a hard time recreating it with artificial flavors.

There is already "cognac flavoring" that can be added to the cheap spirits that I mentioned in my post above. (It is also used for candies.) Few will notice the difference between low-end cognac and the imitation cognac.
Yes, multiply that by about three to get the cost per ton of carbon then add the cost of sequestration - your paper only includes the initial capture.
> A world of mostly-vegetarian people living in modern, timber (for carbon sequestration) flats in mixed-use environments, using renewable electricity to power their heat pumps and AC, traveling primarily via bike, walking, and public transport, and owning less disposable crap would go a long, long way

Can you quantify that into something more precise than a fuzzy feeling?
China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
I like how we supposedly have the serval mesh project but no APKs available any more or ever in iOS. I just wish we'd all pick one like Briar or Bridgefy to be the good enough default.

Heck, F Droid has Meshenger but it barely worked. Firechat and bridgefy are closed source so therefore compromised, so this is not an easy solve.
Perks of Selling on Shopify in 2019
May I ask whats meant by "pinhole" here?

Thanks
Talking about facebook creating the "social media" genre and taking over (at 18:58):

> It makes you wonder what else is coming [...] The impulse is "there won't be something like that ever again". But of course there will be in about 3 years probably. Whatever it is, it's probably being built now. You just can't tell what it is. And you know what I can't tell either.

This has been recorded in 2009, the year bitcoin has been released as open source software. So PG was pretty spot on that great stuff was being built as they speak.
I've started to avoid using GPS navigation whenever possible for these reasons. Navigation is a valuable skill and using GPS means you don't develop it or forget it. I've noticed a strange phenomenon where people will listen to the GPS even if they know it's not right. It's better to learn to navigate.
If it can't come up with new ideas and also get bored, it will suck at finding proofs!
First, they don't have to "trade their lives" for subsistence farming. Nobody described subsistence farming above.

That said, for many "subsistence farming" would be an improvement over their current living conditions / culture / psychological issues...
The difference between e-commerce and m-commerce
I get 90 feet per gallon, or 7.4 meters/liter.

Based on 1660 gallons fuel/hr at 25 knots.

That's 136 liters/km, or 57 gallons/mile.

And it's moving 157,000 tons (DWT).
You’re assuming there’s a common ground between the two sides of the inverter. If it’s allowed to float, whichever terminal is supposed to be lower at the moment can be connected to the DC ground while the other is connected to the stepped-up voltage.

This is dual to using a full-wave bridge rectifier to get DC from AC, where a half-wave rectifier is simpler but needs energy storage to ride through the negative half of the cycle.
Structural Engineering Mistake Killed 114 People in 1981
is this named individual really
stating that he and his compatriots
regularly break the law?

Are you shocked it's happening, or shocked he's admitting it?

I'm pretty sure saying you've committed a crime doesn't send you to jail automatically - otherwise every gangster rapper would be in jail :)
> Capitalism requires endless growth.

This is incorrect. Just the particular way some countries have their capitalist systems and priorities set up requires endless growth.

But even then, if you'd just allow for bankruptcy to weed out the worst performers, forfeiting outstanding debt, you can do without it. Another way is compensating for it with inflation. But instead debt tends to be funneled upwards until governments are left holding the bag with no other option but to grow their way out of it for fear of causing inflation.
People already self-medicate themselves with alcohol and other drugs. Altering memories will just be one more thing on this list.

Since we are on a metaphorical treadmill where the vast majority of our wages are used on rivalrous goods like real estate or education the end result will be that people will work harder then alter their memories to continue beyond their breaking point. A 20 hour workday is no big deal because the company provides you with free memory alteration at the end of the work day. It doesn't matter that you slept at the office because you remember being at your nice single family home in the suburbs and sleeping for 8 hours.
Fraud mostly. Depending on specifics also impersonating an official/officer of the law and unauthorised access to information.
Why? It's legal to suspend the license of someone using a cell phone at all, is it not? Saying "You can use cell phones, but only if ___" seems at least as legal.
Rather than chasing a goal of changing what luxury everyone wants, I’d favor chasing technical solutions like carbon neutral fuel.

Take renewable energy and synthesize (non-fossil) jet fuel from atmospheric CO2, then burn that in conventional jets. We have all the key tech elements now except for scale. Tomorrow’s emissions (of CO2 anyway) are offset by today’s sequestering.

If you tax CO2 emission (and credit sequestering), this might be financially competitive. (Obviously, if you tax it enough, it would be.)

I see scaling up existing tech as far more possible/plausible than changing everyone’s desires.
That image is a shows an NSA diagram of Google's network, with the links on the "public internet" side labeled "SSL" and on the "Google cloud" side labeled "clear text". You don't have to steal keys to exploit that, you just need physical attacks against the fiber links between Google's datacenters. Google had been working on encrypting that traffic, which was then massively accelerated when they learned it was being actively exploited: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googl...

(Disclosure: I work at Google)
What would the right incentives be? I agree, btw
A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
Ultrathin 3-D-printed films convert energy of one form into another
:( thanks for the info. Guess I’ll stick to windows.
Same here, glad to know I'm not the only one.
Singularity 3.4.0: Build and Run Encrypted Containers
(I'll be labelled a bigot but go look at the increased crimes...)

I want to move to Europe someplace without the immigrant problem- is Austria good?
Researchers are free to do that, to the extent that it's feasible. Until they have, it seems pointless to speculate.
>I'm in Poland right now, the latest "big" news was that the son of some rich guy died jet skiing and that a thunderstorm killed some people in the mountains, not the crisis in Venezuela or protests going on in Hong Kong. I recommend Anchorman 2, if you haven't watched it already, great comedy and commentary about the state of the current news.

I was with you when you offered a critique of the news-cycle and the banality of infotainment, until you segued into recommending a comedy film, as a way to gain further insight and draw parallels with serious matters.
Not everyone went to university.
The proper DOI's don't work yet, I believe it comes out today.

The important thing here is if you're part of the true billion poor, and eating rice every day, this is your life.

The child here had an unusual disorder that manifested badly, this is very rare in the west.

Article from the proper author -

https://theconversation.com/how-poor-diet-can-lead-to-blindn...
What kind of units are you after?

It is clear that the proposal would lead to a lot less energy usage and less pollution and thus to a cleaner environment, places where most energy generates little pollution would see the fewer benefits, which would help to ameliorate the effects of climate change.
No. It was over 10 years ago, sorry.
It's not a blessing. It bred an entire class of programmers who are unable to write anything without copypasting chunks of code from the Internet, and unable to understand any of that code. This is where all the interview candidates who can't solve FizzBuzz come from. They never had to solve a problem, Google basically did all the work for them.
"Have access to" and "drive down at 35" are different things. Parks are public but you may not be able to enter one if there's some event and its massively over capacity.
Maybe it was the computers idea?
>I think it is a dire logical error to equate capitalism, which arises naturally out of fair and mutually consensual dealing between humans, and the neverending consumer consumption drive epitomized by the global west.

I don't think "really existing capitalism" "arises naturally out of fair and mutually consensual dealing between humans".

We should not confuse trade (which always existed) with capitalism, which is a relatively recent development (circa 14-16 century and spread from then), tied to banking, stock market, industrialization, the "protestant work ethic" and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism#Origins_...

For millennia civilizations had trade but no capitalism.

Plus histories of early capitalism mention how rural populations had to be pushed, by government decrees, unfavorable ad-hoc laws, manufactured famines, and so on to go and become workers.

And of course, modern capitalism, with rampant commercialization of all fields of life, advertising, the stock market, etc is another thing entirely.
Brilliant, I need something like this for one of my projects (attempt to decrypt Beale cipher)!
ncatlab.org
>You could hire an EV for a weekend excursion or take a slow, internet-connected ship to travel for an overseas holiday.

I think part of the reason air travel is so popular is that people are trying to make the best of what little vacation time they have. Slow travel would be so much nicer if one could afford an extra week dedicated to the journey.
Your sources are in error. Particularly the first, which I believe is confusing particulate and/or sulfer emissions with CO2 emissions. It cites several further news articles, not a primary source.

The inews source compounds this error, and is cited by the Medium blog.

The newatlas source confirms this: "The low grade bunker fuel used by the worlds 90,000 cargo ships contains up to 2,000 times the amount of sulfur compared to diesel fuel used in automobiles." The measurement is sulfur emissions and NOT CO2.

FT likewise discusses sulfur and not CO2: "Sulphur dioxide emissions from cars was 3.2m kt versus 62m kt from cruise ships, with Carnival accounting for half that, the study found."

The AFR link discusses seafood and not shipping emissions.
So what would reduce demand for palm oil from rainforests?
We can think that this loss is inevitable, but still find it sad.

There was a Greek playwright called Aristophanes who wrote comedies in about 400 BC. Eleven survive to the present day, but we know he wrote at least forty. The eleven we have are really funny! I feel a mixture of annoyance and sadness that i will never get to read or see the other twenty-nine.
Your definition is a little off.

A computer capable of thinking like a human is "strong ai", or "general AI", or any of a few other poorly defined terms.

The turing test is a poor approximation of that goal. Computers can and will pass the turing test long before they're actually capable of real human thought.

Specifically, the turing test is merely having a human judge evaluate a free-form text-based conversation with a partner, and them being unable to distinguish a computer from a human in that scenario.

The main thing this instance lacks is the free-form nature of the conversation. It also lacked the humans knowing that it was a test, so they didn't properly "evaluate" it regardless.
No it isn't. The Turing test is a methodology to _try_ to "determine whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being". It actually quite famously falls down at exactly this hurdle: mimicking the natural language patterns of humans[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Weaknesses