skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably yes. They're clearly not succeeding at it and in return this has probably caused feuds between countries and peoples that will last decades if not centuries.
> I think it's important to note that human pattern recognition is basically black-box as well.

Mammalian pattern recognition is fairly well understood. We have a good understanding of the information path from the eye to V1 in most model animals. So sure are we of this pathway that we've successfully implanted ships into blind patients and restored sight (results vary a LOT, though).

I know this may not fit pattern recognition in a super-philosophical sense, but damned if it's not a ways down that road. We're literally shocking a person's brain so that they 'see' again (!!!). How V1 feeds into the rest of the brain is VERY active research and has had a lot of successes, but we're a long ways from a 'black box' these days.

Honestly, the auditory pathways are a lot better understood, as they seem to be 'older' and specific tones are represented physically in the mammalian brain (tonotopy). As such we know a lot better (relative to sight, smell, taste, etc) how tones are encoded and how they elicit specific recognitions and responses (this work is NOT straightforward).

In Neuroscience/Biochem, we are getting a LOT closer, but yes, we are not there yet by any means. The 'black box' idea of the mammalian brain is not going to last another 500 years, likely. We're marching along with good time as a species.
I like tips. They're a reward for good service.

But maybe that was a bad example. Many people used to work for cash.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what this has to do with the point I made. I was talking about Kernighan, not about the most efficient possible modern implementation.
The Unicomp keyboards are nowhere near as nice as the model ms.
They should have a condition that makes recognition of the local authority dependent on that authority adhering to generally accepted medical best practices as laid down by some reference organization such as WHO or the CDC. Otherwise this is vulnerable to abuse in locales where the local authority is bonkers. I do understand it’s only a software license though.
“The rarest recordings – ie the ones not previously available on bootlegs – have a dial-tone-like sound as loud as the music,”

An interesting ruling might be only the dial-tone version had it’s copyright extended as the original had not been released.
You should consider adding a premium paid version, in addition to your enterprise version. This could add a lot of revenue to your bottom line.
FWIW, historically most researchers have not adequately dealt with genetic confounding. That is, people who grow up in single parent households experience the environment that their parents create for them (which is what everyone focuses on), but they also share their parents genes. And, if there is a significant genetic component that leads parents to create dysfunctional environments for their children, their children are likely to possess the same genes.
Yeah he was. Sorry I wasn’t paying attention when I responded, should have put into a separate thread
You can rarely be sure the failure wasn't something also experienced by the other engine.

Wasn't long ago a 747 flying over the North pole had all four engines fail simultaneously. Fortunately, conditions at 20,000 ft were better, and they got them restarted.

GE actually managed to figure out what went wrong and made sure it couldn't happen again. Makes me think they sort of knew it could happen, but the conditions seemed too unlikely.
This tells me Apple did a lot of research on usability edge cases before using the flat look. This Neuomorphism thing needs some of that
If your ridesharing app requires getting/managing your driver's location data in the cloud, HyperTrack does that. Google Maps does not.
What's there to imagine? We already live in such a world.
I used zstd for on-the-fly compression of game data for p2p multiplayer synchronization, and got 2-5x as much data (depends on the payload type) in each TCP packet. Sad that it still doesn't get much adoption in the industry.
Well, maybe I missed your point then. Is your critique that the author used "printf"?

I was responding to this statement:

> This appears to have been written by someone who thinks the point of "Hello World" is to print the string "Hello World" as efficiently as possible.

To me... that would straightforwardly seem to be the point of writing a hello world program.
> Those same people will likely at some point call for a strict regulation of AI using their underwhelming models to keep their advantage

While this is probably true (and IMO, possibly the right choice), this:

> faking results of their interpretable models

is taking a huge leap.

Why are they more likely to fake their results than companies selling a black box model?
Absolutely yes on the Einstein question. Check out Bohr, Lorentz and Poincare to start.
So the pay goes down, the work becomes forced, and non-military technology innovation continues to pay the same high rate as before and you think this would be an efficiency gain? The government can't just will cheaper work into existence by saying it, everything has its cost eventually.

If your goal is to cut costs then just lower budgets. If your goal is to get people because nobody wants to then maybe you shouldn't be at war since nobody wants to support it.

And yes, you're civilian skills are considered for your role in most any military. Most places just don't have mandatory service.
I have one there. Works well!
Bernie Sanders – bill blocking funding for war without congressional permission
> You can't tell a neglected boy that statistically he is well nurtured and has good role models.

Nobody will. Literally nobody said that.

When talking about assistance programs to the needy, we consider statistical data in order to target the most needy. So eg the result is providing funding for these programs in minority heavy schools.
Wouldn't that depend on the case? There is a nonzero amount of things in the universe for which volatile with no locking will do.

Although, any particular thing happening to be one of those is a pretty rare event, so odds are good that this wasn't one.
My critique is that the author missed the point of "Hello World".
It'll stop them from buying it from the US. They can just buy it from China instead.
Interesting how most of the predictions seem either pessimistic or minor compared to last decade.

Here's mine:

1. Apple enters at least one new product category. This will likely be a wearable such as AR glasses.

2. Apple introduces hearing enhancement and protection features into the AirPods, attempting to expand its use case outside of music.

3. The next generation of console gaming will be VR. This includes a Nintendo VR console.

4. Webpages will become increasingly rare by 2030. Apps will emerge as the dominant web platform and traditional webpages will start to disappear.

5. Information will continue to become untrustable. Deep fake videos, AI generated articles, paid reviews, nation state propaganda, etc will explode. It will become increasingly apparent that anonymity is damaging the web. Verified identity will become much more commonplace. New businesses will begin to form around authenticating information. Talk about tech regulation will become much more serious.

6. The trend will continue towards more privacy. This will result in more processing being performed locally on personal devices, and more peer-to-peer technologies that don't require sending information to a third party.

7. Companies will start to pay users for the right to see and use their personal information.

8. Grocery store delivery will become commonplace.

9. Electric cars will become more common than gasoline cars in terms of new purchases.

10. There won't be self driving cars, but individual autonomous features like adaptive cruise, lane keeping, parallel parking, and some new ones will continue to be experienced by more and more people, increasing people's trust in autonomous features.

11. AR calling will be created in some basic format. You'll be able to see the person you're calling as if they were standing in your living room. This will be AR's "killer app."

12. iPhone will not have any buttons or ports by the end of the decade.

13. iPhone camera will be able to take 3D pictures. It'll also be able to take AR pictures.
Another source:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/prescribed-burning-key-to-co...

''Fire captain Brian Williams, 73, vice-president of the Volunteer Fire Fighters Association, supports the prescribed burn argument. He spoke after a 12-hour night shift fighting the Three Mile fire burning north-east of Wiseman's Ferry.

Mr Williams said: "The hazard-approval process is what is stuffing the whole process.

"It is bogged down by green [environmental] and red tape which makes getting approval for a prescribed burn a very slow and complex process.

"They have introduced a system that makes it virtually impossible to manage the bush in a sustainable way. I am just one of thousands of volunteers out there who are frustrated."''
>Publishers of philosophy, literature, history and science books are also trying to make a buck, eh?

The parent however, we can presume, is neither of those things. And even if they were, they don't suggest you buy any particular work they sell in their comment, so the point still stands.

>I don't understand this sentence.

You asked the parent "How do you know?". This to be implies "where is your hard proof" - so I read it that way.

So, my point is, in this, and other cases, one does not "know" because they have some hard irrefutable hard proofs or statistics.

What would those be? Some official study cited as saying "94.2% of self-help books are inaccurate and bogus"? There can't be such a thing.

So, there's no point in asking how the parent knows, if by that you mean what's their objective, measurable basis of knowing that.

It's one of the many cases where people can only think and decide for themselves whether what the other says is valid, matches their own observations, makes sense, has some hidden intention/profit motive behind it or not, and so on.

>Right, and it seems to me that the way forward is to share our experiences in good faith to try to find the mutually true union of our worldviews, eh?

Yes.

>FFS, If you can't solve your problems by reading books we should just burn the libraries?

I don't think anybody said that we can't solve problems by reading books. E.g. we can certainly solve math problems, or a medical student learn how to fix diseases through books.

What's said is that self-helf books (and we could qualify it by saying most self-helf books), are mostly profit-driven, platitudes, silver-bullet formulas, that don't work, and don't solve problems for the majority of people who cling to them (which tend to accumulate such books, and run from guru to guru, and method to method over the years).

Of course there's also solid advice in some of those books. Usually of the kind that everybody knows already -- but have trouble following. Much akin the Christian "be kind" etc.
> put rainy day money away into fungible assets. Savings accounts probably aren't great

Could you elaborate? Do you feel that the returns on savings accounts are too low?

What do you recommend instead? (I'm not looking for a very specific answer here.)

I would think that you would want emergency money to go into something that isn't very volatile, and savings accounts or money market account are the first things that come to mind.

(I've been very disappointed by what I've seen of CDs. If you hunt around, you can find savings accounts with interest rates that beat any CD I've seen, and they don't have an early withdrawal penalty.)
When they built it the cost of the battery was the most expensive, followed by the labor, followed by the panels (unless they got ripped off, which happens).

Even with the higher import taxes, the panels themselves are much cheaper than they were 4 years ago. With Lithium battery systems pricing dropping as fast as it is, we can probably expect Li batteries to hit $160 per KWh soon.

All this and a hot market for microgrids could also affect the labor market - or indeed companies that want to offer this to neighborhoods for sub $1MM with 100K residents may soon take off.

We can imagine a future without large companies that operate high voltage transmission lines.
It would be interesting to see the proportion of legal to illegal economic activity over time.
There was a 'copyright extension' release in 2013 for many early Beatles bootleg/outtakes, but none since. (I now see the article mentions it). They've done larger "deluxe" remastering of later albums with bonus tracks that probably would have gone in to 'copyright extension' releases otherwise. Still would be nice to get some more outtakes/alternate versions and remasters of pre-pepper albums.

The Beach Boys' organization has done at least one of these every December for the last several years (this December there were only 3 tracks on it, which was a bit disappointing). These are mostly 'streaming only' (apple, google, Spotify, etc), and many hard core fans grumble for vinyl or at least CD physical releases, but I think that's generally going to be a lost cause.

Didn't know about the Dylan "copyright extension" release...

ABCKO doing this - maybe too cheap to mount a real marketing/sales effort around these? or just don't know what to do with them? or have something larger planned coming up soon?
What japhyr said above is a small change but very profound. Asking “what question do you have” instead of “do you have any questions” is a big deal.

“Stupidest” or “first question” gamification haven’t given me much success, I suspect is because it comes off a little insincere.
This is an original M from before Unicomp days, no drainage holes, so capacitive.
Are books worth it? Absolutely. I avoid anything superficial (e.g. tweets, facebook posts, brief journalistic articles). I enjoy long (2+ hr) podcasts and books because a good book can give a complex subject its due nuance and depth. I mostly read non-fiction and I'm looking for things that will change my worldview or will teach me something important, and for this I need to invest in a book-length treatment of the subject.
>You haven't read "99% of the self help shelves" have you?

No, but I've fully read over 30 over the years, and skimmed over 100s.

Technically speaking, you don't need to "read 99%" you just need to read a decent number, and assume a normal distribution of quality. In fact if you find out that the most celebrated/succesful are already crap, this makes it even easier.

And unlike literature, science, or deep non-fiction, actually skimming self-help books to distill the 5 solid paragraphs that they've turned into a 200+ page book is the best way of reading it. And for most books, even those 5 paragraphs are mostly platitudes.
FWIW, I believe the term ‘Coloured’ in the South African context refers to a specific ethnic group that came about by mixing between white and native Africans. Which is different than the (now dated) term ‘Colored’ in the American context, which referred simply to people with African ancestry. So, if my understanding is correct, a South African Coloured is different from a Black South African. But in the US, both ‘black’ and ‘colored’ refer to the same people.
If you need the work to survive I guess take it but a good lesson to learn fast is that if someone says something belittling/disrespectful to you like that then just politely move on.

Plenty of fish in the sea, plenty of clients who are a pleasure to work with and want to build a long term partnership with their freelancers.

Likewise, if you aren't desperate for cash today try making a plugin for a marketplace somewhere, or some library or product you can be an expert in. Also consider whether companies might want a part time intern during the year or other opportunities. I think freelancing works better after you've been on a successful team and can replicate that success on your own. It's a lot of moving parts if you're just beginning to learn your trade.
The P in pthread is the P from Posix which stands for portable.

Now, the "zero syscalls for uncontended pthread mutices via futex" optimization is Linux specific and may not be replicated elsewhere. Or it may. It's not Posix, but I know for instance win32 critical sections look a lot like spinlocks when not contended but do syscalls to block, which sounds a lot like a futex. So that would put that technique as dating to the 1990s at the latest. Futex landed in 2002.
We know what racism begets. We've seen the way that it has been used to warp inquiry, ethical guidelines, and clinical outcomes, often unintentionally and through processes that diffuse blame to below the level of individual bigotry. It would be nice if we lived in a world without a track record of pursuing the ramifications of assumed "unpalatable differences," such that what you're suggesting would be sound, but we don't. We, at this moment, are trying to climb out of a hole of ignorance - in medicine, in social science, in economics, in much of the quantifiable and model-able world - dug by presumptions of "unpalatable differences."

So, I say again, the the priorities, as you've described them, are out of wack. We are much more at risk of jumping to damaging conclusions than we are of missing helpful breakthroughs. Our vigilance should be tuned in regard to this.
Yeah...yes. Immigrants have zero time to develop a strong local culture; they have to assimilate on the fly. Yet many of them go on to build successful families and wealth.

People can keep making excuses but they will only sound thinner and thinner as the decades go on. (The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified one hundred fifty five years ago; the Civil Rights Act, fifty-six.) Don't think that immigrants and other minorities aren't noticing these excuses and that the push for minority equality somehow applies less to them.
There are only seven continents and none of them are culturally homogeneous.

If you're interested in learning about the cultural diversity of the African continent I recommend: "Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" by Richard Dowden

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4654716-africa
> but these five "AGPLv3 + LGPLv3 + Apache2 + MIT + BSD" would be more sufficient

Correct, I’m saying you need at least all five for something like sufficiency.

The three Bruce points out aren’t enough imho.
The chart of illegal drug expenditures as a percentage of average person consumption is wild. People did a lot of drugs in the 1970s and 1980. “In total, this paper calculates that illegal drugs accounted for 5 percent of total PCE in 1980. This high expenditure share is consistent with contemporaneous reports. For example, a Washington Post article estimated that Americans bought $35 billion of cocaine (O’Toole 1981).” That figure has fallen to under 1% today. Maybe the war on drugs worked.
For these techniques, the bottleneck in latency will always be DNA synthesis. AFAICT you're encoding your data in DNA as well, which means that actual, precise chemical reactions are required to do this computation, which is 1) always going to be slower than moving electrical charges and 2) going to have diminising yields exponential on the number of steps required to build it.

Here is the state of the art: Look at how wasteful it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleoside_phosphoramidite
>In my city, Boston, the average household wealth of a white family (excluding the value of the home) is $200,000. The average household wealth of a black family is $5. (and no, I didn't forget to put a thousand after the 5)

Do you have a source for that?

Seems like you may be referring to this study[1] which only had a sample size of 78 white households and 71 black households. In that sample, the median net worth disparity was $247,500 to $8. I was not able to find how they picked their sample set.

[1]https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/one-time-pubs/color-o...
I will clean my keyboard in the dishwasher every time after I've descaled/cleaned the dishwasher and run a rinse cycle to clear everything else out, so maybe every other month. But this keyboard came from my elementary school, where they'd clean them weekly, because we all know how nasty kids can be. The vast majority of these cleaning cycles came from that school.
How is a 40 year old compiler relevant?
Do I understand it correctly, that the idea of that license, is that software can not be used unless "users vaccinate their children, and themselves"?

Regardless of the author's opinion about vaccination, that seems strange and counter-productive: if you push something onto people, they just will see it as one more reason, that something is wrong with it.

Also, I don't think such license can be enforced: does developers really expect, that users will let them inspect medical records?

Sounds like something that "Social justice warrior" will do.
This is a terrible idea, entirely unenforceable, and will accomplish nothing.

Can we please stop trying to do clever things with software licenses that have nothing to do with the software itself?
Maybe, maybe not; cuz drugs have gotten cheaper, and there are how “legitimate sources” of drugs like opiates
Wait, what? Where has this been automated?
I find this line in the CAL problematic:

> You also agree that either the Licensor or a Recipient (as an intended third-party beneficiary) may enforce the terms and conditions of this License against You via specific performance. (emphasis added)

CAL, section 2.3.

This line about specific performance may make this “license” into a legally-binding contract, because specific performance is a contract remedy. Usually, if you fail to meet a license condition, you just lose your license, which might make you liable for infringement (e.g., of copyright). Here, this line may mean that a court could force a “licensee” to comply with the condition instead of just paying monetary damages.
Notes from KubeCon and EnvoyCon 2019
Ask HN: Working Prediction Model. How do I share the results?
Completed a Prediction Model.

It took me 10 years (side project).

The model is working better than expected with incredible results.

I want to start a service where I can share the results, any ideas ?
I certainly agree with better utility of people with esoteric skillsets for national Security.

Conscription works in some countries like Switzerland and Israel.

But it is like a “life tax”.

Several years of productive life involuntarily “taxed” by the state.

It does provide positive benefits such as buy-in, having made a tangible sacrifice for society.

As a volunteer soldier, I think we might be better served with having more ways to enter the military part-time.

Think more corporate uniform contractor than camouflage uniform locked into indentured servitude for esoteric skillsets.
Julia by default is loading a system image which is made for scientific computing, so linear algebra support, a package manager, distributed parallel computing, etc. are all part of that. You can build a system image without all of that of course, but given its audience it's a good default choice.
> Back in the 80s when everyone in the office was using one, no one apparently cared or noticed the noise.

Remember what the alternative was back then ... a bunch of people using typewriters.

Compared to typewriters these keyboards are a massive improvement in noise.
(2014)

This article is a bit dated. It's all about locks that aren't directly connected to the data they lock. With the advent of Rust, people are finally getting that "what locks what" is something the language should address. C/C++ locking is a legacy of the "that's an operating system problem" era of locking.

It's not just a safety issue. If you need to fence something, it helps if the compiler knows what to fence.