skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the more annoying thing about modern laptops is the lack of standardization from year to year from the same manufacturer (other than the SSD, usually).

When HP, Dell, Lenovo, or ASUS refresh their laptop, usually the overall design of ports, body, and keyboard stay more or less the same for about 4 years or so, but the motherboard dimensions, ribbon connectors, cooling system, and batteries change for no real reason. A lot of components will have dimensions that differ by only a few millimeters but that's enough to make searching for replacement parts an ordeal.

For example, if I could get a Thinkpad X1 Carbon what was guaranteed to have an upgradeable/interchangeable motherboard for the next 4-5 years I would gladly buy one. I don't even get why that's not currently the case, the current Thinkpad X1 Carbon more or less looks identical to the one from 6 years ago.

Instead I buy whatever's cheapest every 2-3 years.

It's so bad that the EU had to legislate USB-C because this problem manifested itself as hundreds of marginally incompatible barrel pin chargers.

It's wasteful and annoying.
In this case, the main question is how the server was discovered, not how the operator was then deanonymized. As the article describes, after the server was discovered to be in France and run by OVH, authorities used legal treaties ("MLATs") to obtain the subscriber information, leading them to the person that recently plead guilty in court.
There are many co-existing species concepts used in practice that are statistically rigorously defined, selected according to the biology of the lineage in question (e.g. it makes little sense to apply the same concept to both recombining and asexual lineages). It's an intensively researched area that becomes more refined and more explanatory with time, like any other area of science.

Delving into the recent literature might enable you to make a less clumsy critique. Independently evolving units of biological diversity exist. Any accurate knowledge about them, and about all the edge cases and fuzzinesses and genetic phenomena that make systematization complicated, comes from biology itself.
The 1751 Machine that Made Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djB9oK6pkbA
SoftBank lost 250m$, basically subsidizing purchases of thousands of clients. Matt Levine really hit the nail on the head when he said that the Vision fund is effectively redistributing billions of dollars to the public.

But even for a Vision fund backed start up, the burn rate seems crazy for a retail operation that should have been able to adjust it's prices/inventory much faster than the average retailer? 250m$ is basically the sales revenue from 100m units at 3$ minus shipping. For them to just abruptly shut down is weird, maybe Softbank decided to pull the plug to recover some of the money left.
Yes. That's what they said.
It's a rough time for any government agency doing research, if they're not being slashed entirely the whole funding process is being redirected away from any sort of renewable energy and to fossil fuels. At a DOE conference a year or two ago the speaker from the government pretty explicitly said most funding will be going to research into things related to fossil fuels (coal, fracking, etc).
But it’s not nearly as important in industry or manufacturing as say, precision machining or injection moulding.
I love the skeuomorphic BVVVVVVV sounds it makes when you tap the screen with the pen to send a fax.
This was how I was "taught" recursion, with (Lucas) Towers of Hanoi. Ugh! I still remember the mostly-filled in function with 2(?) recursive calls placed, for us to fill in the arguments. How the heck would that ever work? was all I could think. I don't think a single person in the class had any idea of progress until the teacher, kinda exasperated, just told us. And we still didn't get it, of course. I get it now, but only from a more task-oriented mindset, not Java Mad Libs.

The only recursion that still bothers me is Clownsort / Stooge sort [0]. That such an algorithm would work is still not my gut feeling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stooge_sort
>> No one said anything about "go to war", the Use of armed force is not "going to war".
???

Consider the US Seal Team military operating in Pakistan where Bin Laden was killed. That was use of armed force, we infringed on Pakistani territorial sovereignty, conducted a military operation and even killed a couple people...I hope you understand that this example of using armed force is not the equivalent of "going to war."
On the theory that every heavily-commented, front page item critcial of Microsoft produces the same defensive comments along the lines of "but everyone else is doing it", I decided I would search this thread for the phrase "singled out". I arrived here.

What is funny in this case is that Microsoft is going after Firefox users, specifically, so, similar to how an HN commenter would ask "Why is Microsoft being singled out?", we could actually ask, "Why is Mozilla being singled out?" Why not target the users of some other browser.

It should be obvious that this type of question is not aimed at producing a useful answer. I predict we will see this suggestion of "unfairness" again in the next heavily-commented, front page item that is critical of Microsoft. It has been remarkably consistent.
A movie called Vynález zkázy ("the destructive contraption") based on severa of Verne's works was made in Czechoslovakia in 1958, combining animations based on line art from some of Verne's books with live acting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_World_of_Jules_Ve...

It won the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival that was held as part of Expo 58 in Brussels.

Czechs and Slovaks can't get enough Verne. Check out all the translations of The Mysterious Island between 1878 and 2018. Some of the translators did it several times again, one of them six times.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajupln%C3%BD_ostrov#%C4%8Cesk...
MJD 58,889
I have a Linux machine with a 1st gen Ryzen 1700. It locked sometimes in the first couple of months after release, but has been stable for a good while. Not sure about newer gen.
I tend to agree with most of what you're saying, but one thing that leaves me conflicted is that with a document model, don't you lose the personalization of the content?

One of the reasons Netflix or YouTube is so slow is because every time you load up the page, you're supposedly getting a page that's full of content targeted specifically for you.

Would you say that you just don't want the personalization?
JSON is so lacking, wish they went for JSON5. I know it's not wide spread but so is what they're doing.
The author is confusing bond with bound. The introduction contains this sentence: "Second, all pages are bond from the top and cannot be torn off."
Mine too. Tom Swift and the Bookmobile that brought them changed my life. It also had a few of the "new" Tom Swift adventures and I later learned there was an "old" series that start with Tom Swift and his Wireless Message and Tom Swift and his Electronic Rifle.
SQUAD and GLUE are tasks for language representation models -- aka BERT-like. This is a language generation model -- GPT-like. Hence, SQUAD/GLUE test sets are not really applicable. We are reporting on the wikitext and lambada sets that openAI also uses for similar models (numbers are in the blogpost).
That really is what science fiction is supposed to be, IMHO. You take a scientific or technological concept (or set of concepts... or perhaps a near-at-hand extrapolation of a concept... like air-independent propulsion for the Nautilus) and explore it and its consequences thoroughly.

Seveneves explores social media and swarm robots (and non-fantastical alternatives-to-chemical-rocket-propulsion), for instance (and later, epigenetics).

Arrival explores a hypothesis from the science of linguistics, for instance (I like this one a lot because it strays from the usual "hard" sciences or anthropological rehashing of European conquest, etc, of space operas).

Space operas are really just fantasy in space. Fun, grand epics, but not science fiction (exception would be in The Last Jedi, the use of the hyperdrive as an extremely powerful weapon... exploring the consequences of any kind of propulsion system capable of traveling at extreme speeds... of course, everyone--except me--hated that one because, we all agree, Star Wars is fantasy, not science fiction).
Maybe. I take a really optimistic view of attention based mechanisms, like I explained and added to my original post. If you read the recent reformer paper, they produce a new way of computation to start building a model that can in some way, encode the relationships between different parts of war and piece. The bottle neck right now is computation, we don’t know how well these models can learn when that bottle neck is removed!

I’m optimistic because I believe that the contextual information that you are describing, is already there in the vast expanse of the internet.

But I will also add, I think none of this will spawn AI, just that it will spawn new technologies that are categorically different.
the genie animation has a very clear UX purpose - where did my app just go?
FWIW while you can't get the Nickel-based batteries anymore, you can get Lithium based battery packs that fit the older tools (14.4V or 18V). You'll need a new charger, but can keep the tool.
Private sector: throw money into projects with low chance of success

Yeah.. that's not how this works, generally.
Just saying the word system does not mean anything. Maybe my system encompasses more than a single machine, maybe it encompasses more than just silicon. Same with units. It is a word that means as little as possible. You did not answer my question, you just regurgitated vague and useless documentation.
He can veto it, but he won't have to.

The Senate is controlled by his party, and Mconnell has shown time and again he won't stand up to the president (he won't agree with him either, but will use it politically for his own agenda). So I don't expect a budget Trump objects to will even make it to his desk.

What is likely to happen is that the Senate will use this as a negotiation tool with the house. It -will- lead to a compromise eventually (but with a decent chance of government shutdown first), which will end up funding most of the things Trump wants, AND most of the stuff Dems want, leading to a further increase in the deficit.
I thought I am the only one. There is no trigger to deep learning.

But the article is fascinating nevertheless. Not sure is alphago breakthrough.
It is nice to see budget cuts but they don't look aggressive enough.
The Toyota Way. Totally transformed manufacturing.
How AWS Auto Scaling Enables Braze to Efficiently Send 2B Messages Each Day
Spotlight on macOS most definitely searches files, much of the system is in fact built on file system metadata attributes. (It was original designed by Dominic Giampaolo, who also architected BeOS's file system.)
> The money, largely transferred from existing Air Force programs, would include $2.5 billion for operations and maintenance, $10.3 billion for research and development, and $2.4 billion for procurement.

TL;DR: who cares.
On the number of hours saved by Washing machines and Dishwashers. Liberating women from having to do these tasks and instead contributing to the general economy instead.
Boomers got houses and good jobs. Doomers get AGI
Once the Space Force seizes the Moon's oil reserves, this will be money well spent!
In the early 90's, I remember seeing a dude typing away furiously on an Apple //c at a coffeeshop on Haight Street in San Francisco. I did a double take when I realized he didn't have a screen or a plug. It turns out he was a stenographer, just practicing his typing.
There's interesting research out of Deepmind on two parts of this, which are using the Transformer model in Reinforcement Learning contexts[0] and creating textual GANs[1].
As you are probably aware, GANs are one of the important tools that have driven forward image synthesis and until recently it was impossible to apply them to text, so I expect this to push us quite a bit forward. There's also ongoing work in the selection of the metric to use to evaluate the generated text, and discriminate between human and machine-generated text.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06764

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09922
Oh interesting, Go is a good choice too I think, I've been fairly impressed with what it has available out of the box.
It is... very complicated.

Strictly speaking, if congress doesn't pass a budget the previous year's budget is in effect for some things, and others can be handled at the level of a 'continuing resolution' that doesn't require the president's signature.

Realistically all parties (house/senate/exec) generally come up with a deal, which is sometimes a proper set of spending bills, and sometimes a hack-up of short term fixes.
Until they really get punished.
Quite a boondogle. What's it for? The earth camo uniforms? New letterheads? The space ops are already part of the military.
The budget is technically like any other bill, so the president is allowed to veto it. This tends to have severe political fallout, so it doesn't usually happen, but it can.

He also generally has a lot of unofficial influence with legislators in his party, so he can use that influence to push things one way or another. That's usually the main effect, and Trump would likely just use his influence on the senate here.
I'd say you brought your takeaway along already, i.e. your conviction on how the world operates - and you "took it away" again since all that we can "discover" is usually a subset of what we believe already.
Slack EDiscovery Guide (Exporting Your Slack Data)
No, i mostly use VS Code, or Xcode.
On the other hand, if you test the same hypothesis again and again and again, and don't finish up a trial and use interim data readouts to inform decisions, then after enough time, by pure chance, you'll apparently be able to pull an effect size out of the air and convince wall street and apparently even maybe regulators that your drug now works!

I really hope the FDA tells biogen to take a hike. The last thing people need is false hope, and the last thing we need as a society is to be spending billions of dollars on an alzheimers drug that doesn't work. For something that important (and that profitable), the least biogen could have done is run that trial through the end.
If this were headed in the direction of deficit reduction, that would be one thing. But on top of these cuts, the budget also expands the deficit to $1T, or somewhere north of 5% of GDP:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/09/trump-admin-to-unveil-fiscal...

https://www.thebalance.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306
First time I hear XMLHttpRequest was a mistake.

No one is going to sit through a full-page reload on every form validation.

Even intermediate solutions that merged (hacked) client-server state failed too. APIs are just better.
Congrats to the team - it's been a huge undertaking and a long time and many fundamental improvements to the language are included, including a lot of harmonisations to make Groovy syntax compatible with more recent features of Java.
I'm already moving stuff out of home root wherever I can. At least vim and zsh allows you to move stuff out.
When we're 23 trillion in debt, maybe the government should be reducing funding for low chance of return research too..
Just want to add that Connections and some of his other videos are available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22james+burk...
Appropriation bills are like any other bill [0] and go through the same process, they can be vetoed by the President and that veto can only be overruled by a 2/3rds majority of the Senate.

[0] With minor exceptions, ie they have to originate in the House because that is the body with the power of the purse.
Looks interesting!

A couple notes:
- the verification email went to my spam folder on Gmail
- acknowledged is misspelled on this image https://kintaba.com/images/collab_splash.png
Where does the 5 GB/s napkin estimate for RAM come from? Its lower than the pointer chasing fihure of 7 GB/s.
> Even when it comes to static typing java is high investment low rewards.

My sense is that it's because Java isn't really all that static a language. In terms of the syntax, sure. But it also relies very heavily on run-time reflection, run-time type casting, and run-time type checking. Since the introduction of generics, there are even some situations where the types are known and declared statically in the source code, but the compiler is unable to do static type verification, and so the type checking only happens dynamically at run time.

Meaning that you kind of get the worst of both worlds: High-ceremony programming, but not a whole lot of help from the compiler in return for it.

Anyway, yeah, that does mean that the debate does get more hair-splitty if we're talking Haskell vs. Racket. But, realistically, that's not usually the languages people have in mind when they're talking static vs dynamic - it's much more likely to be Java or Python. Both of which, like most languages, fall short of being the ideal examples of their respective type checking approaches.
I saw a presentation about Go and PenPoint in the early 90s, probably at a Usenix conference, and I was very impressed. I was sorry it never went anywhere.

My other PenPoint story comes from a business trip I took to Japan in 1994. One weekend, I went to a gay bar in Tokyo (GB, in Shinjuku) and met an American who was working for Go and was in Japan to work on Asian language input (which was an interesting problem). I mentioned that I had a friend who was working on Hobbit software and it turned out my friend and this guy had exchanged email the week before! Two American gay nerds meet in a bar in Tokyo and find they know another gay nerd in common. Crazy.
Additionally, dolphins enjoy playing in the bow waves of a sailboat; they stay far away from powerboats if ever they can.
I suppose it implies a leadership role where that department was somewhat autonomous and operated a bit 'like' a founder of a startup. That's what I would assume.
I'm going to try and be optimistic about this;

10b in research and development? I can't imagine that it's going to be for 'weapons' only right? Some of this has to go into the future of humankind. I would imagine they have to be interested in colonization, as it's generally in the interest of humankind to expand to the reaches of outerspace, and to do so and be confronted with opposition would require such an agency.

I'd like to know too what the overlap in responsibility between NASA and Spaceforce will be. Are they both scientific ventures? Is Spaceforce actually interested in intergalactic safety.

I'm cautiously optimistic.
So just a few F35s worth of funding.
As someone who has been decrying the continual decline of software quality for about 10 years now, I can say that at least one person is upset.
Preparing, organizing, for potential war with China and their allies.
Wait, what most here are not discussing is the true nature of this organization. Historically, this cooperative was designe as a system to pay out the Basque cause, a separative movement with is Spain. This cooperative has/will be discriminatory based on your political views. Also, it’s imperative to say that most of it’s financing has at times come into question as they have received strong and at time ilegal funding from the Basque government, creating an unfair compete climate where other business could not thrive and where forced to concede to go into the group or just fail. Their business practices come from a captive market (with a strong political pressure to be in the status quo or else) which keeps competition on the sidelines. If you are a serious contender with in the Basque region of Spain, you wake up to pickets, and your factory on fire, so it might sound good at first, but there is nothing but smoke and mirrors in this organization. So, sure with a favorable financing, wage control, and captive market, you can really build a corporation that can then expand and compete outside of their core “captive” markets. Anybody know of a good dictatorial nations to start another model company like this?
The assertion that "we just didn't think of it" is not even remotely correct. The late transition to the consumer market and the broad expansion in industry in the last 20 years has far more to do with the expiration of patents in the early 2000's than anything else. 3D printing for rapid prototyping has been around for decades.
> they don't have any common sense

What do you mean by this? Of course they do, learned from their training data. For example, here is quote from conversation 38 of https://github.com/google-research/google-research/blob/mast...

Human: Do you like Korean food in general? Meena: It's okay. I like beef bulgogi, but I'm not a huge fan of kimchi.

It seems to me Meena "knows" bulgogi and kimchi are Korean foods. Isn't that common sense? If it isn't, what do you mean by "common sense"?
What definition of static website are you using here? If I turn of JavaScript all i get is "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
I did get wxWidgets running a while ago, maybe worth trying.
From a previous post by the blogger on a separate drug washing out:

And I think I’ll add this every time we have a big drug trial wipe out: keep in mind, that under a safety-only regulatory regime, that people would have been taking this drug (and paying for it, one way or another) for the last few years now, and it would have done them no good at all. When they could have been actually taking something that might help them. We do not know enough about investigational drugs to approve them without efficacy data.
>>"Space Force technically only has one member right now, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond, though thousands of airmen are working for the service on assignment."

I know this may seem like an esoteric budgeting question, but does this mean that other departments are essentially funding the Space Force and don't expect to recover their labour costs, or will they be accrued and cross-charged back to the respective departments when (if?) Space Force's $15.4B funding is approved?
This reminds me of some web article I read a while ago complaining about how women suffer more "emotional labor" in relationships. It was of course written by a women, but to me, it really seemed like a lot of whining, which amounted to "I think all this stuff is necessary, so if my husband doesn't pitch in and do half of it, it's unfair." So, for instance, if the wife insists on having an immaculately clean house, and the husband doesn't do his share on keeping the house up to her level of perfection, then he's a slacker. But from his perspective, he doesn't care about the house being that spic-and-span, so why should he be responsible for that much work? There was more to it than that; I think another big example was keeping up with social engagements. Again, something where the woman somehow thought these things were absolutely necessary, volunteered to do them, and then complained that she was having to do all this unpaid labor, while the man really didn't care about doing these things at all.
No, you most certainly are not. I cannot express how happy I was when I saw that the software my bank uses is built on top of ncurses. Animations don't make your work any more productive, I'd argue it reduces your productivity in the form of a distraction. All the flashiness and the UI/UX bullcrap is what made the unholy mess that is the web today. As a Gnome user, I've disabled every single animation and effect I've seen and I could't be happier.
> Most of them were awful.

In that case let me rephrase:
Limit yourself to three chords and try to write a really good song ;)
I do not see how, given that this is about the equifax events. Is it really different if you copy a "top secret" text file or if you take photographs of your screen displaying it?
How would they FBI know to purchase "Freedom hosting"?