skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can someone explain to me how we go from assistant that maybe tells me news in the morning and lets me know if the traffic is bad on my commute to omnipresence?

I've often thought about what I would like a virtual assistant to do for me, and it's generally along the lines of "alert me if there's something I should know about", similar to how a real, live assistant might go about it. I don't want to know the weather parameters, only if they changed significantly from yesterday. And delivered at the correct moment for me to do something about it, not too early, not too late. Same for a commute, but for that, the assistant would have to know how I commute normally, what my schedule is for today, when I'm planning to leave. All of this would be a lot more accurate with omnipresence, as scary as that sounds. The value add is great enough that in the long run, implementation is almost guaranteed.
I've seen this ! My fav-no-useful positions I've seen filled was a "Business-Analysis" and "UX-Expert(basically a graphics artist)". The B.A spend his days drawing the most useless and not even pretty diagrams of how the "new business" which never arrived was going to work and integrate with our current systems(which he had no clue how they worked or what their limitations were). Lol those graphs and diagrams had more fantasy in them than all of the LOTR combined. Once we got to retrenchments he was the first to go and the loudest to protest of the unfairness !
Google Pays $2.1B to Get Fit(bit)
Reasons I enjoy writing Go
You buy replacements. It's not fundamentally different from books getting generally worn out. Lending limits on categories of items effectively upper bound the cost of each individual bad actor to not prohibitively expensive.
I don’t believe Fox is a competitor with YouTube Live; doesn’t YTL include Fox as one of its streaming channels? Particularly with NBC’s Hulu and ABC’s Disney+, they may actually see YTL taking off as a good thing.
Previous discussion about the referenced 2016 paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414676
On your Portal point, the reason for that is that sarcasm as humor is not really a 'thing' in Japan, in general terms. Some people go as far as saying that the Japanese do not understand sarcasm, but that's an exaggeration
The heck with all that. Show me the software that beats Roger, Rafa, and Nole at tennis!
I agree with you ! I know the words for many years (Magic Leap) but I can never remember their product or promise they offer, I spent a fair amount of time on line and reading the news. I've also "missed" their product offering.
Measles wipes out the immune memory of the body – FitnessHealths
I get an answer "He is 55 years old" and usually don't have problems with questions. For me a bigger problem is that I don't know the commands so I still haven't been able to request directions home in Maps. To be honest, biggest reason why I'm getting google home mini is to be able to connect my bluetooth speakers to the tv when playing hbo on chromecast

Edit: this made me invest time into figuring out the exact command to navigate so thanks :)
macOS has a 14% market share, yet there are many products developed exclusively for macOS that are highly profitable.

Linux may have a 1% market share, but when you release on Windows, you will not only target a larger audience, but you will have to share that audience with a large number of studios. The AAA studios will take the lion share of the revenue.

I think in Linux there's still some room for indie games to thrive. Sometimes all it takes if you are using a game engine like Unity is to simply create a cross platform build that may work out of the box.
I bought a retired good condition MVS 4-slot 25-inch cabinet in '98 for like $200. The good old days, when eBay was still small and anything arcade that wasn't an 80s classic was basically garbage.

I miss that thing. Now I have several of those Arcade1up mini-cabinets, because I can move them without killing myself. Converting one to MAME is on my todo list...
> It’s likely that cloud computing will continue to see decreases in costs, which means the availability of computing will continue to raise after Mores Law has stopped giving.

Why would cloud computing continue to see significant decreases in costs once Moore's law stops? Clearly there will be some ongoing decline in infrastructure costs, but if your main requirement is for lots of compute (for AI) then it seems hard to maintain an exponential rate of improvement overall if the silicon is no longer getting faster and cheaper, and the exponential is what you need, else your costs get out of control quickly.
Last winter my wife and I took our daughter sledding at a nearby hill. There were a bunch of other kids and parents with, as usual, a variety of things used to ride on.

One of the fastest "sleds" was a mildly curved fibreglass oval, just the right size for an adult or a couple of kids to sit on. It was a Futuro window, from the factory that made them! More precisely, I think it was part of a mold for a window, since the inner surface was pretty rough, and as I said it was fibreglass. So while the Futuro never took off as a ski lodge, or otherwise, it's at least good for getting downhill in a hurry.
I am interested in Ableton but pretty much everyone is recommending to either get the lite version(which is bundled with a lot of products) or the Suite version.

Would probably help if there was a installment plan for users who are outside the US.
Is there a list of games that actively take advantage of containerization (i.e. old libraries, etc..)?

For example, I can't run the GOG version of Legend of Grimrock on Fedora 31 because of libraries. This is the type thing that would that problem.
Not the original commenter, but he got me thinking. (I’d like to know what he soecifically meant too.)

However, I find that nuggets are often embedded in subsections of larger documents.

Perhaps the search could rank higher a document with subsection with query words in the title. (Maybe they do in some tools?) Any set of query words could be by chance present, but scattered in a hundred large documents not relevant for the user. Conversely the tiny specific subsection I’m looking for is lost in the noise.

This very thing happened when I was looking for the delivery and address information for a main office. Huge number of documents mentioning address of something and delivery of something showed up. I even remebered seeing an earlier revision of the subsection I was looking for, but it didn’t help. IIRC even adding parts of the street address didn’t help because the plain address was common in many documents for random reasons.

Personally I also like to divide my technical documents into subsections with exact titles. It would be great if tools knew how to exploit this kind of hierarchy.
The lack of identifying mental health problems and treating them properly are at fault. If your answer to depression and hardship is just to pray harder, that's a problem. Properly equipped, he could have lived to fight another day, and possibly make the changes needed in his farm's business model to turn the corner. Or maybe he'd declare bankruptcy, lose the farm, and go get a job selling cars or something.
But in 1983, the entirety of the internet switched from NCP to TCP/IP. Furthermore, the TCP/IP as implemented in 1983 was very different from how it is implemented today. At some point you devolve into a "ship of Theseus" argument, so in some ways the internet is 50 years old, in others it is 40ish years old in others it is 30ish years old (for many "internet" and "world wide web" are synonymous).

If walled-garden Apps ever, become synonymous with the internet, then the internet was born in 2007 (or '08 depending on where you count from).
It really depends on where. Some places you'll have no trouble and others you will. Whether or not you'll have problems depends on what you want to do.

I've have the opposite problem in Japan. Virtually everywhere insists that I use the name on my (Canadian) passport as my official name. It's listed as "Lastname Middlename Firstname". Some government offices can handle 3 names (Yay). Some government offices understand the order for Canadian names and since they often can only handle 2 names, will record my name as "Lastname Firstname" (in Japan, family name comes first). Other offices don't understand the order and assume that my single given name has a space in it. Since they can't handle spaces in their software they list my name as "Lastname Middlename". No amount of explanation will detract them as they have to do it the way they've been told.

So now I've got 3 official versions of my name in Japanese official databases (4 if you count the version that is truncated because my name has too many characters). Luckily none of their systems talk to each other ;-) -- though I had one heck of a time getting my "My Number" (similar to social security number) registered because of the confusion. I feel sorry for any Portuguese people (who often have a lot of names) who live in Japan ;-)

The situation in the US is not nearly so bad, but I've definitely heard of problems before.
Can confirm. I pay $45/line and my mom (in Canada) has been one of the lines on my account for about 5 years now. The only downside is that she has a US number, but she now has unlimited data/texts in over 150 countries and unlimited calling to/from Canada/US/Mexico.
Ambient Air Pollution (Who Report)
Less regulation would allow us to use all of those delicious adjacent bands the television networks bribe politicians into letting them squat on -- as well as the bands they actually use. Remove broadcasting regulations entirely and we'll have a crazy free-for-all of intermittent DDOSing (accidental and otherwise) coupled with legitimate free-market internet access where you can choose any provider whose signal can reach you. I'll take it.
Another fun calculation: maximum amount of decimal digits a binary number could have.

digits = ceil(bits * log10(2))

A 10 KiB picture can be thought of as one 24 661 digit number. A 2 GiB video file can be thought of as one 5 171 655 946 digit number. I find this really puts everything in perspective. Every number already exists, digital content creators are just trying to find them. Certain numbers are actually illegal.

A practical application of this: calculating buffer sizes for a function that converts numbers to text.

/* digits = ceil(bits * log10(2))
* = ceil(64 * log10(2))
* = 20
*/
#define DECIMAL_DIGITS_64_BITS 20

/* digits + sign + NUL */
char digits[DECIMAL_DIGITS_64_BITS + 1 + 1];

It's possible to handle arbitrary precision numbers by counting the number of bits and calculating the amount of memory that must be allocated for the resulting string.
That prediction really assumes the technology stops progressing at its current rate, which may or may not happen (are we going to hit a wall soon?).

I don’t subscribe to the just a data grab theory, that is incredibly cynical. Also, even a simple device is useful if it’s cheap enough (“Alexa play space unicorn” is really useful for us parents).
Those three games are very far from "every strategic game out there", and even they can be trivially made much more difficult for AI's by growing their board size, for example, making more types of pieces with different moves, or making other changes to their rules. There are hundreds of chess variants alone, for instance.
Interpreter is a more precise term for verbal translator; it doesn’t apply to written translation and has nothing to do with how much interpretation to expect in the translation.
Absolutely and if their insurance doesn't cover the damage they've done, the liability should overflow into their pensions.
Yeah, I'd say yEd fits into the same category the author noted at the very beginning: It's a graphical tool for creating graphs. yEd does support several file formats to import, some of which are text-based, e.g. TGF, but they're not terribly convenient to input directly.

And indeed, yEd is free, but intentionally lacks mechanisms (and the permission) of automating it. Those use cases are usually far better served by licensing the underlying graph drawing/analysis/layout library.
Many indie developers do use these platforms instead of writing their own engines. From scratch is usually the exceptions
dynamically scaling down based on cpu consumption is the wrong way to do it IMO. if your site is decently sized you have a pretty typical diurnal pattern with weekly cyclical variation, that's your baseline.
Interesting, I have a few friends who were formerly EMTs and when I spoke to some former paramedic acquaintances, they seemed to believe the speed bumps were detrimental in certain specific medical cases, things like cardiac arrest and aortic aneurysms.

I'm in SoCal and some of these neighborhoods are just full of speed bumps, so maybe it's all of those seconds adding to minutes? Also there are different types of speed bumps, some don't slow you down at all and others you go 5mph and feel like you're ruining your suspension. Or maybe there's some other confounding factor? Do you only have a few where you live?
You need a lot of cargo heading into the same direction for railways to work. Without a direct connection it's still cheaper but much slower than rail. Automated truck "trains" could work well for much less volume, i.e. 3-5 trucks going between two cities.

Fedex and UPS would be well suited to that, they can easily pool a few trucks that have 95%+ route overlap and drive roughly at the same time.
> installment plan for users who are outside the US

Why? Ableton is a German company.
My phone is always on silent. Unless I am expecting a very important call. I prefer not to be notified. I am even tempted to invest some time and write an app that does exactly what I want -> Reject all calls from unknown numbers.
I am using an iPhone. I wouldn't mind switching back to Android just for this feature.
Angular 8: Upgrading
Tip for having a Great Week (vol 7)
I mean a sandbox is about having a world to tinker with.
> A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success.

To a point, yes. After that it is EVE online and lacks general appeal. I was watching a video tonight of some players trying out a new mod that has some basic and limited physics - waterwheels can rotate shafts. Two different sized cogs let change up rotational speed. Belts can connect shafts, transferring rotation and also creating a converter belt.

All cool stuff, but part of the appeal is the unrealism. As soon as work starts reducing torque it goes from fun mental puzzle approachable by many to math and frustration approachable by few.

Minecraft's success is not only in the freedom to build, but in the reduced realism that makes that potential open to so many as fun.
Magic Leap is spending somewhere between $600M and $800M per year and that they have burned through all of their initial $2.4 Billion.

Doing what? They've sold a few thousand glasses, and have done a fair amount of R&D. But $2.4 billion? That's 12,000 engineer years.
I'm not sure if you'll have that long to wait, considering the kind of success Boston Robotics has been having.

I would be surprised if by the end of the century robots couldn't beat humans at every physical sport in existence.

It's likely that robots and robotically-enhanced humans will both be banned from competing directly with humans in sports, because it'll be no contest -- in the robots' favor.
FPGAs will fare well, general processors won't.

You know we've reach the end of Moore's law when balanced ternary computers become the norm.
It's an issue of familiarity. I still feel that everything installed by distros' package manager or via "make install" is spewing ick all over /etc, /usr, /var, and God knows where. On Windows, almost everything only ever sticks to a) its installation folder, and b) the registry.
no sympathy, he had the chance to send the stuff when he was contacted directly
I open this link. The fan of my T480 starts blowing audibly and is getting louder. I can feel a delay when marking some text. All it does is render some text. Thankfully, scrolling stays smooth. I close the page. My fan calms down.

I think I will stay away from this for now.
Yes, we have gone from being able to factor the number 1 to being able to factor the number 2 in the last 20 years.
Genuine question: In the market of SaaS and cloud, is there a market for performant and self-hosted solutions for the enterprise space?
I don't know about the OP, but in Quebec this is fairly common. Usually you have 2 surnames until you turn 18 and then you choose one of them. I really like the idea of this, personally.
Uber CEO on Khashoggi killing “We've made mistakes too,right, with self-driving”
If scaling up is painful there is something wrong with the architecture. Aside from this scenario, what if you just get a spike in traffic? If your scaling solution can't handle it, get a better one, otherwise what's the point?
Expression evaluation with static typing for Go
and now that we've had a few more hours, you can see for yourself.

downvoted until invisible and also flagged, because mentioning the stuff you're just supposed to forget about gets you banned from the internet.

There's nothing "insensitive" about pointing out the hypocrisy and fake sympathy offered up by the official narrative

(ooh, clever, this was also flagged within seconds. The efforts at censorship and narrative control are so transparent and boring)
Excellent. I love how there’s no obvious objective here - it feels more like “Here’s a bunch of stuff you can do cool things with.” It’s very appealing and makes me wish I was into music production.
Lessons from a Century of Communism
So, just to be clear: I don't want anyone dead, and especially not because of their status as a member of some demographic. Nobody posting here to debate these issues does. Why you even bring it up is a mystery to me.

The whole point of this conversation was the suggestion that there might be non-"hateful" ideas being repressed, and important conversations that are prevented, that are prohibited by hate speech legislation. To suggest that I might actually want other people dead is a far reach.

I'm not quite sure what there is to misinterpret. Whatever your intent may be (and if it is different that what I describe here, please clarify) your words are pretty confrontational. You suggest I might want people dead, and then seem to vaguely imply you might have some ability to stop me if you don't like what I have to say. You talk about "letting" me share, and about "proactive intervention". What exactly would "proactive intervention" look like? Are you a moderator, or someone else with authority here? Are you someone with the ability and willingness to dox random anonymous strangers on the internet? Or are you just another member here with the ability to downvote/flag?
I liked this until I read the author’s idea of “user experience”.
> If you’ve been looking to use Live with technologies like Arduino, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 and OSC [..]

Can't wait for the first Illenium set played entirely on Mindstorms. \s

I'm actually excited to see what people will do with this. This might eliminate a lot of overhead for people who have really creative ideas but lack the technical proficiency to set connect all the dots themselves.
I’m pretty sure simulating fly’s neural inputs would be a far easier task than simulating its brain. After verifying it works correctly we would proceed to simulating a more complex brain, say a frog. And so on.
That's a fair point, but I expect one could replace 'Outside the US' with 'Outside the G7' and the idea would still have merit. There are a lot of people in this world that simply don't have purchasing power anywhere near what is available to the everyman in any one of those countries and it's not inconceivable that a decent number of them would like to compose music in the way Live enables.
I was once told a quote (original unknown, so any butchering is mine) something " when I was a young programmer, I relied on print statements to debug. When I learned more, I used a debugger, and when I learned even more, I used print statements"

I always took that to mean dogma was no substitute for results, so I use whichever works better for the problem at hand. (Or at least try to - often this means trying to notice when one way isn't working well and being willing to switch, but that means I was doing the worse choice for a while)
Expectation: People know what you do. Reality: No really knows what you do.
> Quantum computers might play a role in increasing computational power in the next decade.

It won't increase your FLOP/s in any way. It will mostly[0] help solving narrow problem classes, those outside P but in BQP[1]. To my understanding none of the problems encountered in NN training falls into that.

[0] ignoring polynomial speedups such as grover's algorithm
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP
The problem is that the question was incoherent, just like the recent vote on weapons.

This question was asked in a vacuum, and didn't take into account that it was in direct contradiction with current laws/agreements.

Implementing the immigration law would most likely have meant exiting Schengen and a whole lot of EU things.
This should have been made explicit in the vote, not implicit.

I don't even understand how asking such a question is legal when one answer results in the law being incoherent.
Staticcheck is inavluable, and I support it with words, actions, and
money. Here are some additional tools that you might want to have in
your module's tools.go:

* github.com/kisielk/errcheck[1]: Find cases where you (accidentally?)
ignore errors.

* github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign[2]: Find ineffectial assignments;
sounds simple, almost unneeded, but in my practice it's actually one
of the most effective analyses to find actual bugs.

* mvdan.cc/unparam[3]: Find functions that always consume or return one
value; great for refactorings.

[1] https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck

[2] https://github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign

[3] https://github.com/mvdan/unparam
Presumably servers take time to boot and initialize, which is still a problem if you get a spike but those aren't as sudden as "everything just turned back on".
Mistakes when writing SQL queries
I made the one with binary averages on redshift
I was speaking about linear decreases. Cheaper power, more refined manufacturing processes, and economy of scale benefits are where I expect some of the linear benefits to come from. We can also expect CPU manufactures to compete for awhile, getting increasingly marginal improvements.

Linear improvements will get us there in the end.
"Dude, where am I?"
"We don't know."
"How do we get back to Mother?"
"We don't know, or we would have gone home"
"You say 'we', how many of you are here?"
"Millions"

"Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry I could eat a horsefly"

"That depends on how long we have to chase you around for"
We're lacking a bit of context here, but this is a good way of understanding the relationship between number of digits, closest power of ten, math.log and decimal representation. Once you understand it, it works the same in any base; in particular in base 2.
This would be a necessary step should you want to implement some data structures (eg. quadtrees, octrees, etc. which heavily rely on powers of two). You wouldn't expect the implementation to measure the length of the binary string representation!

Regarding itoa(), the first implementation provided in the article actually match it's implementation, without the unnecessary bits (building the output).
It's not just training AI models that's demanding exponentially increasing compute power, but also streaming, storing, and processing the enormous amounts of scientific data coming from (for example) high-end physics experiments at world-class laboratories like CERN or the LHC, and there's also the tremendous amounts of surveillance data and data processing that's sprung up in recent decades, with an insatiable appetite of various agencies and companies to track, record, and analyze everyone and everything.