skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this will happen to all of humanness in time. Everything we think is unique about us, and our endeavours, will be reduced to optimization and learning algorithms eventually.

The main issue in determining man or machine in each situation eventually will be which has the lower TOC.
> AlphaGo doesn't appreciate the game at all.

It's 'appreciating' the value of various states and moves, in light of a vast trove of experience.
The Nvidia drivers are closed source, the AMD drivers are open source. The open source alternative to Nvidia drivers is not up to date or feature complete as it is not built by the company building the cards.

If you want open software you need FOSS. Nvidia is not even close to FOSS. AMD is closer to FOSS.
If the point of requiring an ID is to prevent abuse, why do I care about what casual users are doing? What I care about is preventing signups from people who want to abuse the service, but presumably making things harder on casual users doesn't work toward that goal.
> sadly, nobody did anything significant to stop it.

Why "sadly"? By all reliable accounts, the Crimean people would rather be a part of Russia. Obviously we'd prefer that land and people be transferred between countries via diplomacy rather than military action, but I don't feel like expecting that to happen in this case is realistic.

(Obviously Russia didn't annex Crimea out of the goodness of its heart, of course. I imagine it was primarily for some form of strategic advantage, and Crimea being largely populated by ethnic Russians just made it both easier to accomplish and justify.)
Ask HN: Has Google bricked your chromium app because they did hours
As of Nov 21st our Chromium app called Pure Browser has not worked anymore. When you load a site it just stays a white screen. We have not made any changes to our app but it seems Google has done something outside our control on our Chromium app. Anyone else have this issue? Any ideas?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.purebrowser&hl=en_US
It's as if his only incentive for doing what he did was to be the best and not truly a love for the thing he was doing.

Or maybe he's frustrated because he can't even begin to understand the strategies employed by the AI players. Obviously no one else on this planet is going to be able to teach him.

The scary thing is that if all of the best humans at what they do start deciding to stop doing it because computers are better than them, let's hope we manage to get AI far enough that it can simply prop our civilization up for future generations. Or at that point do we throw up our hands and say maybe our species isn't worth keeping around.
While the concept of "compression" connects them, these are quite different types of thing.

In an autoencoder, you learn a representation for your data. So you'll get a function mapping from, say an image, to a representation vector. Then you can optimize for desirable qualities for this representation vector, such as sparsity. This will hopefully result in meaningful axes in the representation space, which kind of indicate the presence or absence of different aspects in the input (e.g. whether the input contains a face with glasses or without, etc.). This is an unsupervised approach and results in a (typically lossy) compressed version of the input.

In network pruning you take a previously trained (typically, but not always, in a supervised manner) network and remove individual parameters (weights) from it (i.e. set them to zero) while trying to preserve as much accuracy as possible. Here the trained network itself is compressed.
GDP has little to no indication as to whether people have a life worth living.
Depends on what the gains are used for.

Ultimately all investors from the hedge funds down to the long sucker, it is all skimming for returns. HFT just skims from other skimmers returns. Yes those investments may have created value, but ultimately people invest because they want returns.

The money made will be used for more skimming but also some for investment in other possibly beneficial projects.

Extracting financial value via investment (skimming) may allow someone to start a company, support a community or family and have valuable time to make those things better. Just as an investment in a company/idea creates value in that company, the value gained from trading where the first step really is skimming, can be used to create value in the real world or even just time which may lead to more real actual value created.
Restraint isn’t never committing an action, it’s doing so when it is appropriate. It’s rarely appropriate to sing dirty songs infront of your parents, but it’s fine to enjoy them.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and rants like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21650999? You've done it repeatedly, and it's not what this site is for.

I took a look at the data, and the OP was upvoted from /newest in the normal way.
You'll be extremely confused if you only think about very specific developmental disorders. That's not how highly polygenic traits like height and IQ work in general population. Some people are taller than others, and some people have higher IQ than others, and, to our best knowledge, this within population (or really, within cohort) variation overwhelmingly is not due to developmental disorders or environmental setbacks like e.g. malnutrition (though at the extreme levels, severe malnutrition or very debilitating disorders can and do have significant effects), but rather due to lucky draw of beneficial gene variants from the parents. As it turns out, some of the beneficial variants for height are also beneficial for IQ, this is called pleiotropy.

More directly to your question, yes, as I said in my previous comment, the effect is very real, and is not driven by some outliers. There have been dozens studies on this, with Ns in tens of thousands. Wikipedia has a sample of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence
Well, "us" except Unix and Unix-like developers, where "rm -rf /*" still works like it always did, unless your rm added --no-preserve-root or some similar ugly hack.
I wonder if ketosis cures your psychosis, or if you started ketosis at a time when your body fixed itself.
We will always be more expensive than B2, Wasabi, et. al.

You're not ever going to get immediate, personal technical support from a UNIX engineer at those services like you do at rsync.net.
https://js.cytoscape.org/
It would be fun if you could generate a link with a hash of a message so you can send it to your friends and coworkers with a silly message that autoplays.
> I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If they can't be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, give them another reason because it doesn't matter why they drive EVs, just that they do

This actually opened my eyes, I haven't thought about it that way
> Wheels are far more efficient

Wheels are far more efficient if you have a very specific type of terrain to deal with. It's not immediately obvious to me that a wheel is more efficient overall on naturally occurring terrain. For example, wheels don't work well on steep and rough terrain, or in water (as opposed to under water). The trade-off might be better stated as wheels are very efficient for very select terrain types, and that efficiency tapers off fairly sharply for some terrains, reaching 0% in some cases, while legs are less efficient overall, but achieve some level of usefulness on almost all terrains (making them a better choice for organisms that have disparate terrain types to deal with).

Similarly, a computer may be much faster in some types of operations, but we can't even get it to do some stuff that's fairly trivial for many animal brains, so that may also be a trade-off in efficiency somewhere (possibly in an area we don't sufficiently understand yet).
> The biggest edge probably comes from the effort put into building the infrastructure.

I feel like this should be in bold, but either way, I love reading that in these posts. In every way, from research to confirm your models are correct, to be able to trust real time trades, you need a solid architecture. This thought isn't only for trading remember, where it's the same in tons of solutions to problems. If comment readers have other examples, I'd love to hear them in responses.
> it's even a declaration of war.

Yeah, it is a declaration of war against pedestrians. Thankfully this thing will never catch on here in Europe and I'll continue being safe while crossing the street.
Though it's cool that someone's trying to help with the JavaScript problem on the internet, since this can't run without JavaScript it only seems to add to the problem.

Still great to see people trying different approaches in avoiding that mess.
While I think attention/engagement would be a useful data point during instruction - no, I don’t think it’s adequate.
No, it is JavaScript and will break with JS disabled
If exchanges added a random delay, that would mean traders have to plan for a longer time horizon, which means they need to offer more conservative prices. That means when you're selling, you get less money, and when you're buying, you get less stuff.

Some people have this notion that if their trade got matched against a HFT that they have somehow lost out. The exact opposite is true. If the party on the other side of your trade was a HFT, then that implies that all other parties were offering worse prices than the HFT was. If the HFT had not been there, you would have got a worse price (whether on the buy side or the sell side). The presence of high-frequency traders (or any traders, for that matter) reduces spreads and increases liquidity.

The only people who get worse deals as a result of high-frequency trading are people who would sell you the same stuff for more money.
No, this is also found in children. See e.g. this[1] study, which also by design (it's a twin study) rules out the hypothesis that the effect is mostly environmental.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17081263
Management research is clear as mud
On average, it would be true, meaning most teachers do not have significantly different effect on most students. However, there are always particularly good and bad teachers.
For it to be quite so left/right is uniquely American. In the UK a majority of supporters of both main parties want more dramatic action on climate. The right have yet to respond with a credible policy - going with "ignore it whilst talking loudly about their having committed to carbon neutral 2050", i.e. all mouth and no trousers.

Why the heck would climate get a uniquely honest political conversation? Politicians of all colours lie, obfuscate and distort the facts on all issues all the time, whilst continuing to hurtle in a direction most of the country's voters would prefer not. Unless the US experience has been very different, most votes will be for least worst, not in favour of either as tribal loyalties mostly died last century, only really remaining tribal with the elderly. It's one of the reasons for such a deep mistrust and disillusionment of politics and may have contributed to some of the world's "surprise" results lately, along with so many polls being proved wrong.

Honesty and politics are oil and water. The honest discussion is usually elsewhere.
Further, good teachers stimulate children into mental engagement, while bad teachers bore & depress. Children typically take at least one meal in school, and take home assignments often completed around dinner- or bed-time

So is it really that far-fetched to think teachers could have an influence on eating & sleeping habits that could definitely affect height?

The study supposedly checks for one aspect of this – seeing if there's a cross-correlation between achievement-boost and height-boost, and thus some single general "positive influence" – and finds no correlation. But I haven't looked closely, and it's quite possible they're over-controlling to find that no correlation – which seems quite common in educational studies on ideologically-fraught topics.

I could also imagine teachers independently affecting academic achievement & height. Imagine a 2x2 model: teachers can be either 'fun/popular' or 'severe/unpopular', but also 'instructionally-effective' or 'instructionally-inept'. Fun/popular teachers might keep students in attendance, cheery, eating well at school lunches, not stressed/overworked with homework – and thus more likely to grow in height. But, only some of these 'fun' teachers (who promote mood/physical vitality) are also moving academic measures higher. Meanwhile, some of the academically-effective teachers do so via a harshness & heavy-workload that impairs height.
The point of the software is to allow longer exposure time while mitigating the issues that causes. It’s not “just” a longer exposure time.
Can someone summarize what's going on here in plain English? I can't understand this article or these charts.
Without using CNAMEs the third party tracker IP addresses would be less dynamic making them easier to block with a firewall.
Look at it this way, what I think you're talking about requires roughly the same level of talent as being a decent mechanic, electrician, or whatever, and clients get billed about the same per hour, like $100-150. So, if we pretend we don't have preconceptions, and with the knowledge that the programmers are competing with people who are paid $5/hr, whereas my other examples aren't, does it make sense that they would be paid much more than $50-100K on average?
Cost of ownership is almost inversely proportional to durability. This car priced at 40k a will last me 20 years? This is 2k per year for this car.

If they are offering leases, they can offer them for less if they can sell it at a high price when they get it back.
Microsoft Courier was designed to solve this ten years ago, by being essentially a digital version of a notebook[1]. You'd fill your notebook with digital clippings from any media and freely annotate them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
Particularly CSS. There's a lot of ways to apply styles now, e.g. styled components directly in the JS, or using SCSS, etc, and these help, but overall it's still a huge mess.
The only reason it’s not simple is that the product manager or designer or client wants something different. If I don’t have to deal with them, then it’s a piece of cake to implement a standard front end.
You're close to right. The "vegan honeymoon" - as an example - is an example of why many people will feel better cutting out bad foods, however carbohydrates and sugars are some of the largest inflammatory factors from my understanding, so cutting that out will help. Following vegan or omnivore doesn't mean eating a balanced (carbs, fat, protein) diet nor anti-inflammatory, doesn't mean eating a diet specifically that is healthy for your body either - doesn't remove foods you may individually be sensitive to.
Yes, "rubylith" was used for the 6502.
"worldview differences".. most people, frankly, have understood nothing. Totalitarianism isn't a world view, it's a movement. There is no "content" that might not be turned on its head in a year or a day.
And things are always better in the developed world, that doesn't inherently mean people fortunate enough to live here instead of say, rural Africa, have nothing to fucking complain about. First world problems are still problems afterall. Yeah the people living in isolated hunter-gatherer societies most assuredly have it worse, but just because you're in America with a car you can barely afford and are eating a steady diet of boiled rice in a studio apartment with no furniture in it, and are thusly compared with that hunter gatherer person doing okay, doesn't mean you have no right to complain that your boss, Jeff Bezos has over TWENTY homes all worth more than you'll ever make in a LIFETIME.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648271 and marked it off-topic.
What does this have to do with AMP?
Prometheus is a good option as well.
https://github.com/prometheus/mysqld_exporter
Did the Whites and Reds lay claim to specific land that they were declaring independent of the larger mass (note that this is distinctly different from controlling parts of the territory during wartime while laying claim to the entirety)? The Confederacy is much closer to parts of the Russian empire claiming independence than to the Whites and Reds: the only difference is the length that they were independent (though this is commonly how a nation's legitimacy is decided)
It is probably invisible
to Tesla Autopilot.
The etymology of English "cassette" appears to come from the French word for "little box", which makes sense for tape cassettes but not for bicycle gearing. Considering that bicycle cassettes were invented in the 70s whereas tape cassettes are from the 60s, I'd be curious to know the reason for the name.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cassette
I think what makes people actually worried about an AGI taking over is the possibility that we end up being treated like shit by a more intelligent being. Just how we use lab rats to perform experiments with and factory farm.

People are afraid of themselves I believe. It’s not really about “job loss”.

I’m not sure if most people realise AI means pretty specific models built to solve rather specific problems. They think SkyNet.
The fact that the windows and doors were compared against bullets and sledge hammers seems a marketing stunt. The specs for the materials are no doubt from the requirement "make trucks extremely rugged".
I have gone on and off keto many, many times with no pattern in timing or duration. Each time, t he psychotic symptoms emerge and recede with the same quality, in the same amount of time and so on. There is no other pattern in anything that might also cause this. People are not known to go in and out of severe psychotic symptoms so regularly and suddenly in the absence of drug use. It cannot be a coincidence that my symptoms nap to ketosis without exception. it absolutely warrants some kind of inquiry at the very least. I don’t take drugs. I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t have any encounters of any kind with psychoactive substances. I’m smart enough and well educated enough to recognize “confounding factors” and it’s extremely frustrating to be disregarded after all my careful thought and effort.
Still, it raises the bar.
Strange, it works for me on an ancient version of Safari (9.1.3) that's kitted out with ghostery and JS blocker. Most modern sites don't work on it, but this one did.
Many HFT systems provide liquidity. If there is no liquidity, retail investors like you or me cannot buy or sell.

Just imagine you want to exchange a currency because you go traveling and the exchange tells you "Sorry, nothing available right now, gotta come back in a few weeks". That's what would happen if there is no liquidity.
Hey mate, it looks polished. I hope it gets traction. As my way to help you, I'll feature it on SaaSHub (https://www.saashub.com). If you get it verified, I can promote it on the tribune as well.

Good luck!
3D Printed Tubulanes as Lightweight Hypervelocity Impact Resistant Structures
Fascinating, wholesome take on radical capital markets. Sometimes, as a liberal democrat, I am taken aback at just how much our economic system has given us. All this in spite of the dotcom crash or the '08 nuclear meltdown. As a woman proud of her mediating centrist tendency, I view much of what was said in this article as a legitimate pro-market Marxist position. Great!
> Yeah, it is a declaration of war against pedestrians. Thankfully this thing will never catch on here in Europe and I'll continue being safe while crossing the street.

Speed is what kills, not a slightly harder body.

Even the lightest car has enough mass that it's going to really hurt pedestrians if it hits one at speed.

And if any car - even this one - hits someone at 5 mph, it's not going to do that much damage.
I agree. The edges look awfully dangerous for anything that's not another Cybertruck.
I'm sure they are planning to build and sell them as often as possible but I wouldn't underestimate the butt-kicking idea that I mentioned. I think at least part of the goal is to make other companies produce electric pickups too.
Hearing a lot made of this pedestrian problem. Are trucks more likely to hit pedestrians? I was not aware of big vehicles being more dangerous. Personally, I don’t want to get hit by any motorized metal no matter the size.
Still not sure why "Powerful Person in Tech needs to take accountability and resign" qualifies as an ugly personal attack or a "denunciation".

In the tech world recently, there have been plenty of calls for, say, Sundar Pichai or Mark Zuckerberg to resign. And those have been featured on HN. What's the difference here? If you're a Powerful Person in Tech (or industry or politics), that's just part of the gig.

"It sucks to have haters, but every founder who now runs a huge company faced this for a long time."

https://blog.samaltman.com/dont-read-the-comments

In this case, the author cites facts about Berners-Lee and his performance at the W3C. Each one is supported by a link to evidence. I don't agree with the author's conclusion. But if this community is so "fragile" that it needs to bury fact-based arguments, wowsers.
Hmm, I don’t think an ai could use optimization and learning algorithms to “learn” to DM D&D. For that, the ai would have to simply be an i.
This is the first article to acknowledge something I noticed about the Cybertruck: that it seems to be drawing from a dystopian and cyberpunk aesthetic. I don't know if that means Elon is portending the end of western civilization, but it's a very interesting choice and I don't think the article writer is wrong to unpack what the design connotes.
> OS X convert who isn't used to anything being customizable,

> KDE is an utter delight for everyone else

The way you frame it as OS X convert vs everyone else is kind of rude. I would say the hardcore Linux customizer is the minority, and everyone else prefers the easy to use out of the box UIs of OS X and Windows.
> And most of those features can be turned off.

This is extremely misleading. The most dangerous (the build in spyware) or most annoying (ads!) "features" can't be turned off at all in consumer versions of windows.

You can get rid of some of the annoyances but this is nothing that can be done by the average Joe. It's even hard for dedicated computer experts to disable all the crapware in Windows 10 (and even one manages to do so, the cap will come back with the next forced update).

> Mostly I'd probably just try and find out why Windows 10 isn't a valid solution.

I have to admit this "advice" is almost as ingenious as it is diabolic… Parent is speculating here that someone who goes through all the hassle of upgrading Windows won't do the same work again to switch to some other OS afterwards.
I personally lost interest in playing games that computers can play better than me or could in near future (I used to play video games and chess quite a bit). These days, I enjoy playing games that involve human interaction and improvisation, more than logical thinking and strategy. Every time I find myself in presence of a game like Cluedo, I can't shake off the thought that I could write a program in one hour to beat everyone, and so why am I wasting my time!
There's a huge difference between hitting a pedestrian with a small hatchback at city speeds (which, in my congested city, means between 15 and 25 kph) and hitting it with a vehicle like this.