skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my reading, Hinton capsule networks seems far from being enough, it could at best be an incremental improvement.
And is unrelated to English semantic parsing, it seems specialized for computer vision.
That's been my experience: at every conference I've talked at this year (three so far: ESUG, Macoun and SPLASH, heise MacDev still coming up in December), I plug in my USB-C equipped MacBook Pro and It Just Works™.

Only one of those was an Apple-specific conference.

Sorry your experience is still different. Mine was, too, a year ago.
Your last point is key (sorry). The function row is too far away. Any time I find a shortcut involving anything on that row, I either change it or find a different way.
Those things were useful, this is not.
I think one major reason that modern adolescents can be so moody, impulsive, and irresponsible is widespread chronic sleep deprivation.

Adolescents naturally have very late-shifted chronotypes. I.e. compared to older adults they tend to wake late in the day and stay up late at night. Yet American high schools have ridiculously early start times. For example it's not unusual for schools to start at dawn. Which means students taking the bus may have to leave before dawn.

We have decades of research demonstrating the impact of sleep deprivation on cognitive functioning, decision making judgement and emotional stability. It's little wonder that a segment of society that we're forcing into chronic sleep deprivation acts "immature".

We just don't recognize the problem because it's too easy for us old folks to write off the symptoms as the "foibles of youth". Yet it's us old folks pushing these torturous schedules onto teens, despite mountains of scientific evidence saying otherwise.
> not sure the timing, maybe 4th save after launching

Every 3 hours, as far as I can tell.
John Carmack said exactly that in the FB post
Why do I have a feeling that Oculus is gonna be dead?
When I see such a device, I always wonder if it can work w/o battery using AC adapter.
Not only that, but the USB-C plug itself is the worst-designed plug I have seen in a decade. It's flimsy sheet metal on the plug side with a nice big cantilever, and flimsy sheet metal soldered to a PCB on the other. Perfect recipe for broken ports and cables.

I break about a cable a week and break a device every now and then. Mostly doing very normal things like charging a phone in my pocket while hiking.

USB-C seems like a perfect example of a product designed by people who sit in an office chair all day and never go hiking, skiing, ice skating, rock climbing, or otherwise seek to understand what their users normally do with plugged-in devices in the field.

I miss the old DC barrel connectors -- they never broke, and they were usually designed such that housing of the electronics took the brunt of everything, not the PCB.
Except in those cases it's even more important that the NPCs don't do anything unexpected. Those NPCs are like actors in a stage play, you don't want them to come up with their own lines and confusing the audience.

Don't forget there is a certain randomness with 'more natural' and with randomness you're going to invite Murphy to the party.
I would love - love - to see a room full of software engineers actually attempt this.
Just give me physical buttons...
Not even horses. That would be cruel to the car. At most, like Rat Things. (They have their built in entertainment when they are not in active use.)
Vowing to never go back to Amazon is a pretty low bar tho.
Last I checked no 4g/SMS/calls with debian. Same old driver story of why we only have android phones and not Linux phones. Fixing that was/is the big promise of the librem 5.
> Nothing about what you just described is general.

But once you start integrating over many environments, it seems to make more sense, and the "generality" would be with respect to the set of environments being considered.
It will not change as long as the laws of supply and demand continue to hold. Science funding has been continuously rising at an incredible pace for the last century, causing the field to grow by nearly two orders of magnitude. But we are always strapped for cash because we can always instantly grow to carrying capacity for the funding, and that’s because a single professor can have upwards of 25 students throughout their career, in some fields 100.

If we weren’t at carrying capacity, nobody would have to put up with bad advisors and low pay. But we will always be at carrying capacity. Funding could grow by 10x tomorrow and we would be right back in the same position in 20 years.
Ask HN: Thoughts about this conversation?
This thread is on a public forum(Twitter) between two scientists.

Person1 - [Director of #AI #research @nvidia, Bren #Professor @Caltech, Fmr Principal scientist @awscloud]
Person2 - Research Scientist at Deepmind

Both are entitled to their own opinions. Here's how the thread goes...

Person1(talking about her newly published work): DeepLearning is only good at interpolation. But applications need extrapolation that can reason about more complex scenarios than it is trained on. With current methods, accuracy degrades rapidly when complexity of test instances grows. Our new work aims to overcome this...

Person2: This tweet really downplays prior work. NTM, memory nets, Neural GPU, MANN, graph nets, and many, many other related methods also degrade gracefully. Your work looks like an important next step, but this rhetoric is unhelpful.

Person1: What you are doing is rhetoric and rude. We have mentioned all prior work in our paper. You don't want to engage in science. It is inevitable to get attacked online as a woman. #deepmind can engage in all kind of media hype that is unethical but I get attacked for stating facts. As a woman stating science, I get accused of engaging in rhetoric.

I personally feel this response by Person1 to be extremely out of the blue. Putting aside the fact that Person1 is a Director @ NVIDIA + some title at Caltech and Person2 is a scientist as well @Google, let's look at the simple conversation here. The thread started with a tweet about an interesting work. That was followed by a review directed only at the tweet being rhetoric. And it was then replied with something unimaginable. Am I the only one looking at this all confused?

Source post: https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1194338388221972480
The genius of Cog was that it provided an accepted common framework towards building a grounded embodied AI. Rod was the first I saw to have a literal roadmap on the wall of PhD thesis's laid out around a common research platform, Cog, in this branch of AI.

In a sense, the journey was the reward rather than the very unlikely short term outcome back then.
I believe emulating a full set of POSIX tools is much faster and nicer when done natively ;)
Very reminiscent of the Psion.

Edit: no wonder, Martin Riddiford, who worked on Psion 5 Series worked on Gemini as well.
The paper is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.12097.pdf for anyone interested.

The results aren't actually that interesting. The posterior on H0 (the rate that the universe is expanding) is not at all competitive with the current best methods. They get 67 +/- 6 whereas things like Planck have error bars on the order of 1. Checkout their figure 5 to see the different error bars.

That is not to say the paper is bad at all! The method they use is pretty cool and not common (at least I haven't seen it used before, though they do mention there have been people looking at this for a while). Also, as the main source of concern for cosmologists is systematic errors, having multiple ways to measure things is very important. They call this out in their intro, "As discussed by Suyu et al.(2012), multiple paths to independent determinations of the Hubble constant are needed in order to assess and control systematic uncertainties"

I'm not sure this is a great general interest article as AFAICT there are no big picture take aways from the paper. Again, this is not to say that it is not a good paper - I found it pretty interesting! - but the cool parts are that this is a good measurement of H0 using a less common technique.

One weird thing about the article is

> In a paper published Friday, Nov. 8, in The Astrophysical Journal, Clemson scientists Marco Ajello, Abhishek Desai, Lea Marcotulli and Dieter Hartmann have collaborated with six other scientists around the world

I see the article was written by someone at Clemson, but it is a bit odd in a non-Clemson publication to explicitly call out a bunch of secondary authors, and not mention the primary author until much further down. In general in astrophysics, the vast majority of the work (except in very large collaboration papers) is done by the first author.
half. the other half was spent building rockets (armadillo aerospace) and VR tech, which arguably is more interesting in its AR industrial or transportation applications.
Or turn your diabetic urine into Single-Malt Whisky because there's sugar and you can filter such things. For artistic reasons.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pissky
Show HN: Remote work statistics
I enjoyed your moderation ideas. You've plainly thought this through a lot, and have some interesting experiences and perspectives to offer. It's funny that one of your focuses was on preventing commenters from ganging up on others, and yet it could be construed that this is what the commenters have been doing to you so far.
"What we know is that gamma-ray photons from extragalactic sources travel in the universe toward Earth, where they can be absorbed by interacting with the photons from starlight," Ajello said. "The rate of interaction depends on the length that they travel in the universe. And the length that they travel depends on expansion. If the expansion is low, they travel a small distance. If the expansion is large, they travel a very large distance. So the amount of absorption that we measured depended very strongly on the value of the Hubble Constant. What we did was turn this around and use it to constrain the expansion rate of the universe."
>BK was that the philosophy was "Focus on our key goals to the exclusion of everything else".

The Key Goals for the past 4 years if not longer were to ship 10nm with respectable yield. Which as closing of 2019 still didn't happen.

So I am not even sure what they were focused on.
The homepage text gets cut off on the left side on iPhone SE.
I'd say that this is useful in the same way that flip phones were useful 15 years ago. They provide more space than a candybar phone when in use, and take up less space when pocketed. And the screen is protected from your keys or other items in your pocket.

If I had a magic wand, I'd use it to fold my 6S and get something half as tall and twice as thick.
I just wanted faster horses.
Intel disables Hardware Lock Elision on all current CPUs
I was listening to an Ed Thorp interview and he hinted at TGS (though he didn't name-drop).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPSaHIPwb8&feature=youtu.be... (44:30 - 44:55)
Amateur job is the right description. No, alas, it is not satire, far from it. :-(
> [1]: To those saying that insects or rodents can't play Go or chess -- they can't sort numbers, either, and even early computers did it better than humans.

They probably can, internally; they just can't operate on tokens we recognize as numbers explicitly. For a computer analogy, take Windows Notepad - there's probably plenty of sorting, computing square roots and linear interpolation being done under the hood in the GUI rendering code - but none of that is exposed in the interface you use to observe and communicate with the application.
Mailbrew Diary #4: React UI kit
I can identify when a woman is ovulating by the smell of something being exhaled on the breathe and excreted through the skin.

Only ever happens with close female friends, but I’ve identified the smell from regular standing conversation distance away with friends I haven’t seen for weeks and don’t otherwise know their cycle.
How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)
Also applies to code.
I'd love to hear of any solutions on this. The solution should, however, be insusceptible to remote attacks, that could put a user's account at risk.

2FA with SMS has the problem that companies offer support by human and don't have a tight system for changing numbers to another phone, as proven again and again, resulting in accounts being compromised.

While the current solution of MFA aren't perfect, it's hard to come up with other solution that would be as safe or safer and prevent most to all mechanisms used to compromise accounts, like phishing, social engineering and other possible remote attacks. Giving you the possibility to save the codes somewhere physical has its downsides, but an important upside is that it allows _you_ to keep in charge your own security in most cases.
Yes. It would be a net gain if we got rid of advertising in the process.
> Otherwise everyone would be doing it just for the money.

This is pure survivor bias talking while ignoring impediments that make switching careers, retraining, &c., not a viable path for most people. The fact that there are structural impediments does not make it difficult.
A combination of:

1. Extremely easy and friendly immigration policies for world’s top talent - better than in the US

2. Legal ability to easily hire and fire people

3. Legal ability to run a business out of your garage

4. Lower taxes - income, corporate, capital gains - than in the US

5. Free trade, even if unilateral, as the US is involved in tariffs and trade wars

All of this combined, given that the UK is English speaking, could lead to the UK overtaking Silicon Valley in terms of startups. Most of the world’s top talent would, all else being equal, prefer to live around Cambridge than in Palo Alto.
So apparently Mark Suckerburg reacted to it and 3000 other people.

Anyway he should probably go to Google for this. They look way more advanced than all others.

And not sure how much money he has but there should be ml involved and that costs a pretty penny
My ipad Pro plugs directly into my macbook Pro without a dongle.
This sound advice. I cannot emphasize enough how important is the supervisor in the PhD experience, IMO, the most relevant factor. So if this is the treatment you get even before starting... I would also say, yes, look for another place.
Large-Scale Assessment of a Smartwatch to Identify Atrial Fibrillation
Nobody talking about the price? $1,500 is more than any base iPhone- that's a really heavy price tag for a brand that has been dormant for so long.
You don't optimize for competitive performance (it is trivial to design a game AI that beats every player every time given that you have control over tilting the playing field). You use the AI for bounded response variations (all NPC's act 'natural' and different from the others) and engaging procedural generation (Here is a chapter of a story, now draft an entire zone with landscape, NPC's, cities, quest story lines, etc.).

Games like PvE MMO's need to find a way to produce engaging content faster than it can be consumed at a pricepoint that is economically viable. The way they do it now is by having the players repeat the same content over and over again with a diminishing returns variable reward behavioral reinforcement system.
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
I like it except it has full-height arrow keys :(
That's cool, but it's also several hundred dollars more expensive. I feel like the $200US price point really brings thing like this down to another level. Not exactly 'disposable', but more like a small appliance rather than something you've got to really look after.
> How much additional margin? If you have backups, you're covered against both failure modes; the only marginal benefit would be to recover the x hours of data since your last backup.

I would wager that for 90% of people, that would be all of the data since initial power on.
That's just bullshit. You can check for how many uses a usbc plug was designed and tested for.
Indeed. Especially when you realize this is only the first of many sites Will Brasswell wants other people to make:

perlpackages.com perlcontainers.com perlvm.com perlclouds.com perlaccessibility.com perlinstall.com perlgames.com perloffice.com perlapps.com perlservers.com perlgrandchallenges.com perlhackathons.com spacescouting.org perlscouts.com certifiedyouthprogrammer.com programmingmeritbadge.com mlperl.com scienceperl.com perldemos.com perljobs.work perllegacy.com perlpodcasts.com perlvideos.com perlbrochures.com perlflyers.com perlmerchandise.com perlpapers.com perlnewsroom.com perlblogs.com perlinfographics.com perlbeer.com perlparties.com perlconferences.com perlmulticore.com perlsupercomputers.com perlspeed.com perlfamily.org
This is… _sad_. I mean, if there is no other choice because restoration of the building is no longer technically feasible, fine. But just to throw up something bigger and newer? For shame.
I’ve seen a lot of people enamored with graphical notations like this one, but nobody ever using them for anything nontrivial. In general, people just use them to laboriously reproduce a few results from undergrad courses, nothing more.

If ordinary notation is like C, these graphical notations are like code golf languages, a neat gimmick that performs excellently at the few things you hardcoded it to do, and not much else.
I will never buy a Motorola phone.

Back in the early 2000's, my then girlfriend received a Motorola cellphone for her birthday. Her sister bought the same model a week later. The thing worked fine, but some time after the guarantee period expired, the screen flipped upside down. Very strange problem to have. Exactly a week later, the same thing happend to her sisters phone.

Since then, that brand leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
Speaking of Portias and smarts, I'm just going to recommend "Children of Time" here (and its recently released sequel, "Children of Ruin"). It's a story of a future where humans accidentally uplifted jumping spiders instead of monkeys, and goes deeply into how the minds, societies and technology of such spiders would be fundamentally different from our own.
Could you name a few companies in Berlin that pay "close to faang" level in Berlin?
> Projects like Augur and MakerDAO must have their own token or they wouldn't work at all

Why?
Q: Why did John Carmack not worry when his AGI decided to leave a note and go out?
> The alignment problem?

The problem of ensuring that the AI's values are aligned with ours. One big fear is that an AI will very effectively pursue the goals we give it, but unless we define those goals (and/or the method by which it modifies and creates its own goals) perfectly -- including all sorts of constraints that a human would take for granted, and others that are just really hard to define precisely -- we might get something very different from what we actually wanted.
Taking into consideration issues which iPhones and nostalgia this is perfect time for an iconic brand to enter the market
My favourite phone to date. Always been an Android user though
There's no absolute law that icann will always be the one true registry. It's mostly convention, inertia, and an expectation that they won't try to pull any shenanigans. But I'm seeing an awful lot of shenanigans lately...

Remember when the browser vendors decided to make an example out of Symmantec by revoking their root CA after repeated bad behavior?

At the end of the day, it's a bunch of private equity weenies who paid a lot of money for a piece of paper, vs. the engineers who actually control which piece of paper everyone's computer looks at.

We'd have to be willing to stare down a lot of angry people, but we could absolutely win this fight if we really wanted to.
Why algorithms can't be blamed for political/corporate decisions
Here is how you approach this: in which scenarios would Canada become a more attractive place for business if it left the USMCA (ex NAFTA) RELATIVE to the USA or Mexico.
More info on the solar impulse plane:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse
> Why not? I'd say that a world that is managed by AGI with limited input from human beings is a good goal to have.

We already live in that world, with large institutional bureaucracies playing the role of paperclip-maximizing AGIs.

It's pretty wretched when you are in their path.
Theoretical tubulanes inspire ultrahard polymers
What issues with iPhones?
it's on par with the Samsung Galaxy Fold
that reminded me of a startup I read about in one of these ask:hn posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16429467

they're really not cheap
I wonder what would happen if Carmack teamed up with Yudkowsky and his cult; Carmack's practicality with the imagination of people who non-facetiously talk about acausal deals with mulitiversal AIs could be a match made in heaven.
They could maybe add a mandatory arbitration agreement for future domain renewals? And then do this.
Ah! That links to the thesis folks were talking about in the comments. Thank you!!!

Also, geez. That's a lot of (very impressive) work.
The one I've had to use (and find reasonable) is to have "trusted devices". That's how it works, at least with 1Password:

- You log with your 2FA into a device.
- You set this device as trusted.
- In case you lose your phone or 2FA device, log onto the trusted device and disable 2FA.
- Then set up 2FA again with new phone or device.

It's not perfect, but it's workable. For instance, while I won't enable trusted device on my laptop, having my desktop stolen is a way rarer occasion, so I enable the "trust this device" options. It's just a matter of thinking on the threat model and where you can place spots for recovery while loosing as little security as possible.
The GPD win2 looks quite fun, if you're into that sort of thing. Looks like the same sort of keyboard as the Nokia n900.
And yet, despite all of its security problems and issues with Intel, server vendors are buying more Intel than ever. On one hand they complain about Intel's pricing, threatening about making their CPU with POWER or ARM, on the other hand they happily use AMD as a tool to get better pricing.

The sales number dont lie, AMD doesn't even account for 10% of Server CPU shipment, and may not even happen in 2020 given Intel's new price cut.
Yea, the numbers are pretty wild.
do they shoot people at the initiative of the social worker? the problem is that people get murdered not that they get visited
Termux with tmux and mosh to connect to a VPS can turn my phone into a valid substitute for most of my work
I was really interested in that and so very nearly backed it but was wary of the software support. Can you elaborate on the Debian issues? Would you still recommend one? (I don't care about telephone features)
Reasons to Build Monolithic Systems
just to make sure i understand what you’re saying : running containers created with the docker tool is ok, and running it with kubernetes is also ok, but actually deploying docker tool on a server to run the container is not. Am i correct ?

Care to explain what makes that docker tool/runtime unsuitable for production ?
More likely that he didn't use the keys in a year and GitHub removed them for security reasons.