jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
[disclaimer: Personal opinion, not that of my employer.]

I had a coworker play me before/after of an early version of the codec "babbling" and it was definitely uncanny valley. It looks like some work has been done on the problem since then.

The second paper linked in the README.md of the repo talks about talks about a few strategies to reduce 'babbling' or 'babble'. For your reference, here's the citation and the link to the PDF.

Denton, T., Luebs, A., Lim, F. S., Storus, A., Yeh, H., Kleijn, W. B., & Skoglund, J. (2021). Handling Background Noise in Neural Speech Generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11906.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11906.pdf
I'm not sure any reputable airline will fly you anywhere even outside of the US.
Their own white paper (no longer hosted on their site it seems) says they created 250 million tokens and pre-sold 37.5 million.

https://mixin.one/assets/MobileCoin-Whitepaper-EN_FINAL.pdf
Are you arguing for the existence of an intangible soul?
Somewhat of an end of an era. Worked at a shop that had one of the largest Mesos fleets in the world. Thousands of physical nodes, petabytes of data. True Mesos in production was something to witness.
The point being made is that it’s local density that matters not overall density.
This isn't a bad idea. Maybe there's a way ST could hedge their risk ("if we hit a certain threshold, we'll publish the source").

I also would back it and spend more than the ~$200 or so I paid for ST2, ST3 and Sublime Merge 2. They are 2 of my absolute favorite tools.

I wonder how much SQLite makes. Could be a model to emulate.

That being said, definitely not something to rush into. If this is only a little risky for them now, I expect it won't be risky at all in a year or two, given trends in new business models for creators.
In my experience, the most important aspect missing in most CPU GPU discussions, is that CPUs have a massive cache compared to GPUs, and that cache has pretty good bandwidth (~30 GB/core?), even if main memory doesn't. So even if your task's hot data doesn't fit in L2 but in L3/core, AVX-whatever per core processing is a good bet regardless of what a GPU can do.

Another aspect that seems like a hidden assumption in CPU-GPU discussions is that you have the time-energy-expertise budget to (re)build your application to fit GPUs.
Is 180 IQ the baseline of admission into schools like Harvard or MIT? No, its not. Apples and oranges.

Most biased comments about college admission always get hung up on one of two irrelevant qualities:

* illusory perceptions that childhood genius far outside even their selective populations somehow equate to real world adult performance

* a selection bias that schools must supremely optimize some precise quality during admissions that they don't nurture or measure

Instead of you just look at the data, remove all the emotional nonsense, and assign everybody a number with a set of performance metrics most of what people care about are things the schools care nothing about and ultimately don't matter.
Because they drive memory usage up a ridiculous amount making people think they need big data solutions when they don't.

They are great for some things but I think the idea they should always be used is unfortunately prevalent making them anti patterns.
> People really love to dig on her, and I can't help but think it's largely because she is a woman...

I agree. This article is very positive, but in the past, when I've read a lot of her criticism, I have often wondered: is this being said because she's a woman? Would they be saying similar things if she was a man? And the answers, often, are "yes" and "no".
This isn't accurate.

If you dumped the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan holdings, Yahoo would be doing $1.x billion per year in profit.

That $1.x billion would still be valued at a likely 15 to 25 times. Yahoo's core business is worth a lot closer to $20 billion, and under no scenario would it ever be valued at $5 billion.

The calculation you're using is backwards: it's the Alibaba & Yahoo Japan assets that are being discounted. Typically assets and cash are always discounted. It's earnings that matter the most, by far, when it comes to the valuation.

And that's trivially easy to prove: your argument rests on the claim that $1.x billion in earnings would be valued at 4x times. That would never happen.
Well if your friend is the one responsible from the accident, then yes, he should be paying the car damages.

Sometimes it is pedestrian fault. I was nearly run over by a truck crossing the street trying not to miss a bus that took so long waiting.

It was entirely my fault had he killed me. Luckily I had good reflexes and jumped away, the truck hit my leg at over 100kms/hour while in the air and only made me a small bruise as it rotated in the air with little resistance.
A lot of credit cards (Apple...) no longer have raised numbers, or a number on the front at all.
You should see the 'contactless' symbol (looks like a sideways wifi logo) if your card supports it.

I generally pay with the apple watch if the store supports it (most seem to, nowadays). It is more convenient than reaching for the wallet since the thing is in my wrist anyway.
Expected that they need to make money with it. But then, how is it different from cloud9 ? (http://c9.io) I thought they would try to have it open source (as it's non-core to their business) and use it as a trojan horse to sell more private repos.

But they could do that with free to use I guess. And it makes sense, then no one is allowed to removed the github-as-a-backend part, and people have to get the paid plans to develop closed-source software.
It's certainly a cultural difference but it's gone beyond politeness when they actually lie to you because they don't want to admit they don't already know something, when we're already in a training session!

You're most likely spot on about the cultural reasons for the behaviour, I just wanted to point out that it doesn't come across to me as nice. It comes across as passive and obstructive.

And I'm English, we're pretty good at passive...
This would be a very interesting area for future research. Those drugs that you mentioned are not commonly linked with anti-inflammatory activity - feels more likely that it would be linked to more directly psychoactive properties. Anecdotally, I believe that anti-inflammatories such as NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, i.e. Ibuprofen and Naproxen Sodium) and Minocycline have been cited as having anti-depressant impacts. Minocycline is a very potent anti-inflammatory and has been used off-label in a variety of autoimmune conditions.

Some further reading -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18267354
http://www2.kenes.com/wcap/scientific/Documents/Symposia/Tsu...
I didn't; I mined them. It doesn't bother me immensely, as the total amount of coins I have mined amounts to 1,987.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274204

basically build your own Tango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E35xbo3r8rA
https://github.com/nymanjens/ardrone-exploration
This is definitely one of the main advantages of being the only developer.
one of my favorite art exercises in school when I was first learning to paint with physical paints, we took a canvas, covered it in roughly 1 inch grid lines and then had to left to right top to bottom paint a scene by first mixing the correct color and simply painting that 1 inch square, it REALLY teaches you how light bounces around a scene, reflects through objects and so on... the other thing that really got me into learning how light works funny enough was moving on to 3d art! being able to isolate a single sphere in a room, with accurate light simulation and light let me really hone in that sense. (and yeah colors are VERY psychological as well, you percieve them very differently based on what they are near for exmple)
I think, NYT and other publishers think Ipad as a possible revenue source for them. Quite different from PC ecosystem.

In future they may have their own custom app, and would like people to buy news straight from them, or they can group together the publishers to create a aggregator app, where the newspapers are making the money, instead of Tech-App Middle man.

It will take some time for them to figure out how to make this model work. Till then be prepared to get a legal assault from them on any news apps.
It isn't really about slinging text faster, it is about editing code faster, freeing up more cycles for thinking. A great editor experience, whatever that means for you, can certainly help you write better software, and can give you more time to think about those harder problems. It reminds me of that tired old adage that you spend a third of your life asleep so you should have a comfy bed - you spend a lot of time in your editor, so it should be comfy. This isn't an argument for emacs or any other specific editor, but against the idea that your editor is a commodity not worth consideration.
I've found slimv.vim not bad for CL after all http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889473 for previous discussion of Ballmer's deficiencies.

I've personally long maintained that a major source of Microsoft's problems are a classic case of being on the wrong side of disruptive innovation. See The Innovator's Dilemma and the (IMO better) follow-up The Innovator's Solution for more.

Another has been the legal problems that have caused them to shy away from their past ultra-aggressive tactics.

If I'm right that outside problems are a major cause of their downfall, then part of Bill Gates' genius was recognizing the writing on the wall and leaving at the right time to maintain the myth.
At Google I/O, Google said MySQL (or MySQL compatible version of their own storage, whatever) was coming soon to App Engine.

(I don't work for Google btw, I'm just a bit of a fan of App Engine)
Also, if you're renting in the UK, you're the one paying the property tax (Council Tax in the UK), right?
Clickable links:
http://www.helpbubble.com/
http://www.helpbubble.com/api
Gary Bernhardt recommended this years ago. I was lucky to have gotten the early edition at a reasonable price.
"Testing is waste of time" -- yes, we already know this.

Unit testing through skeptic's eye -- "It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests", as discussed here previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376417
Even just disabling Javascript in Adobe Reader goes a long way to avoiding many exploits. It's pretty rarely used in legitimate PDFs
liked your Haskell version. Makes me want to learn the language!
That's not how it works. The definition of linear used in this context requires f(a+b) = f(a) + f(b) which is not the case with the C to K translation which is f(x) = x + 273.15 Only functions in the form y=mx+0 meet the criteria.
If they are a regular computer purchaser (i.e. buy from a manufacturer like hp, dell, etc.) it most certainly is preinstalled along with and old version of java and an old version of flash for their convenience.
Mine too. Same reasoning. She accepted Ubuntu 100%, which makes sense given it's not much of a different interface than Windows XP for the average user. She even missed it when it was gone for a week (I took her system home to do a fresh install, upgrading 8.04 to 10.04). Forced to use my father's netbook, she said she 'missed the Mozilla fox operating system'. I suppose that does show how much people are tuned into the browser as the main feature of the OS!
Obviously, a new programmer's code will not be as good as an experienced programmer's. I think the important lesson here is to "write code". "like you just learned how to program" modifies "write", not the code.

I found myself in the same position as the author. As I was going through a CS program, I thought back to my early years of writing code. Sure, those early programs didn't have computationally optimal algorithms or the current {design pattern|algorithm|language} of the week, but they were fun, and I got stuff done.

Once I graduated, and now that I've been coding professionally for nearly 8 years, I find that the best way to keep that passion about code and not get encumbered by "how it's supposed to be done" is to read other peoples' code and work with really smart people who encourage you to be a better developer.
He is talking as a business owner and not as a programmer/coder. You should also consider his background in Lean Startup Circle. Fundamental rule of MVP (minimum viable product) is to get your product out there in the market as soon as you can. Writing tests goes in the opposite direction. The goal of an MVP is to validate your idea with real users. To see if it works or not in the first place. There is often very little time to write test cases or even look at edge cases. In that light writing tests doesn't make much sense.
Its cool, I especially like that presentation example. However, animated GIFs and stickers would drive me insane. I already can't stand animated stuff in slack as it is, so distracting.
81) My wife/husband thinks I spend too much time on my startup?

Divorce them or close your business.

I think it was just an oversight rather than blatant sexism.
Could someone please elaborate on why an LLC would not be good for selling your company?

I'm aware that it wouldn't be preferable for outside investment, but this is the first I'm hearing about issues with sale to another company.
Why is that ethical?
But when the government takes equity stakes, the right complains even more loudly about interference, especially if they are voting shares.

The purpose of the DoE isn't to invest to get monetary award, it's to invest to drive basic engineering forward. The government isn't as business and isn't supposed to derive a profit, that's the basic fallacy of the idea that the government's budget should reflect how CEOs run corporations.

Throwing money at research, science, and technology is pretty much how you get breakthroughs. As a said, there's no formula, breakthroughs are often serendipitous, unpredictable, and happen over long time scales.

I view technological advancements as exploring an infinitely large landscape of possibility. There are mountains of opportunity, but you don't know if a given mountain is worthwhile until you scale it, and you may fine nothing, or a local optima, in which you see a better mountain farther away. From the ground level, most of the mountains look the same, and the landscape is always shifting.

What is the best strategy for finding the successful mountains? Hire as many teams of climbers as possible and distribute them around the landscape far and wide. That's what capitalism is, that's what the startup economy is, it's lots and lots of people doing local hill climbing.

There are some mountains that are too big to climb, the gear is too expensive, and the time horizon to summit, too long. That's the government's role in basic R&D, to fund research and development at an early stage that is not economic, has little chance for ROI in the short or near term, stuff that even VC's won't touch.

Could any private company have built the GPS system all our phones used, if the government hadn't funded rocketry, satellites (most for military reasons?) You've talking from the 1950s until the 2000s when practical consumer GPS became a viable business. What company could have stomached 50 years of spending for ROI?

Much of the technology we have today is the result of government spending in the military, national labs, the space program, and state funded academic research. Often, the private companies are successful in taking the basic advancements and figuring out how to manufacture them, but it is usually the government that proved the basic design first.
And what's the pictures illustrating this article? Why tattoos on women's backs? Especially when, as you point out, women appear in the article only as potential sex partners.
I think a lot of people confuse parallelism with concurrency. The easiest analogy I can think of is this:

1. Concurrent means having two cups of water, one in each hand, and drinking(think CPU computation) a little bit from one, then switch to the other. While you drink from a cup someone is filling up the other (think socket IO)

2. Parallel means having two cups, one in each hand,and lifting them up and drinking from them at the same exact time.
On FF 23 on OS X, my quad-proc Core i7 is barely whirring the CPUs at all. Granted, this laptop does have a real GPU which I seriously doubt is the case for your C2D system.
It is very common to describe pre-emptive multitasking on a single core as concurrent processing. Your definition is a general dictionary definition - it does not necessarily fit well with usage in technology.
Yes, poor Jingle support really puzzles me. It's not new, but I barely ever manage to connect two different clients without problems for video calls. That's besides the fact that most clients don't support it at all yet...

I don't have much respect for Hangouts really. If Google wanted to improve things they could propose Hangouts protocol as a replacement for XMPP. Make it an open IETF standard. They were such backers of XMPP in the past. And what did they do instead? Another walled garden and proprietary protocol. Total failure Google. That was the point when I said - you are lying about not being evil.
Mainly because there is only so much PR spin you can give to why "lag wont be a issue" and talks of so called secret algorithms.

If I am playing a FPS game, and someone shoots a bullet, that takes 30ms to get from his computer to the game server. Then its another 30ms to get from the game server to the onlive server. Then its ??? 5ms ??? to get processed and converted to video. Then its 30ms to get sent from onlive to your desktop.

So thats 95ms as a best case scenario. More than likely, it would be closer to 200-250ms most of the time.

And that is under absolute ideal conditions. I remember I frequently got a ping of 50-80 when I played TF2- It was quite rare to get near 30.

Also, just thought I would mention that the frame rate has nothing to do with the latency. You can have 200 FPS and still be playing 10 seconds delayed. Detail definition != Good latency.
I am not sure, but I read it somewhere. I think it would be common for large size acquisition as the company being approached my loose value if the deal dies.
Executive assistant, I believe.
We used alibaba to order foam surfboards from china. Even with proper design specs, it still took 3 shipments before they got it right. Things just get lost in translation sometimes. Finally got it in the end though. I guess tshirts will be simpler.
If soccer where reported like science won't be called soccer. You know, there's a ball that you kick with your foot.

It's football.
Frisco, however, did not follow the discussion...
Alinea surprisingly not that crazily-priced.
Ah yes, I remember hearing about this before. I wonder if a more developed version of this would be enough.
Isn't that what http://adaptivesemantics.com/ does? I remember reading about them on HN a couple of days ago.
Under "ZFS Bad" should be listed:

- desperately needs defrag, which it does not have

If you fill up a ZFS filesystem, even to just 90% full, it will have crippling performance degradation. Further, freeing space to bring it below XX% will sort of solve the problem, but you will get that degradation sooner and sooner (85%, then 80%, etc.) as you refill it.
>> It's my hope that we'll find a better, non-nitrate way to combat botulism. That's the only reason nitrates are added- cured meats can sometimes foster botulism.

Well, there's some evidence that nitrate-cured meats aren't safer from botulism than the alternative; and the evidence comes from the (British) meat industry itself:

An [internal report] written for the British meat industry reveals nitrites do not protect against botulism – the chief reason ham and bacon manufacturers say they use the chemicals.

The study, conducted for the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) by the scientific consultancy Campden, and marked “confidential”, examines the growth of the toxin Clostridium botulinum in the processing of bacon and ham.

It is understood that the paper, seen by the Observer, was commissioned to provide evidence that nitrites, which have long been linked to cancer, are essential to protect consumers from food poisoning and, in particular, botulism, a potentially fatal disease. But, in what appears to be a major blow to the industry’s claims, the research found there was no significant growth of the bacteria in either the nitrite-free or the nitrite-cured samples that were tested.

The paper concludes: “The results show that there is no change in levels of inoculated C botulinum over the curing process, which implies that the action of nitrite during curing is not toxic to C botulinum spores at levels of 150ppm [parts per million] ingoing nitrite and below.”

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/23/nitrites-ham-ba...

(edited out some sensationalist language in the quoted passage).
Deplatforming has proved very effective, at least in the cases of ISIS[1], and I would argue deplatforming Trump has helped to deescalate tensions to some degree (or at least, given the media something else to talk about than his rants).

Whether it’s the right choice is obviously subject to debate.

[1]: https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/13481478677399756...
> For those who aren’t familiar - check who SF’s DA is, google SF’s school board, daytime population decline, etc.

What did happen to SF? You're assuming everyone reading knows, then point to random posts and ask us to check who is filling them like that's meant to clarify something? The SF School Board's president seems to be Gabriela López[0], I read her profile, and I am no closer to understanding your point.

I'm not playing dumb, I really don't understand what you're trying to say at all.

[0] https://www.sfusd.edu/about/board-of-education/board-preside...
What is money? Commodity, a measure of value, or a record of a debt. Sometimes all three.

In this article, Dalia has the commodity view towards money, gold, and by extension bitcoin. In this paradigm, cryptocurrencies are collectibles.

One great use case is as an escrow.

I'm dubious of the store of value use case. Bitcoin is just a currency. Whereas gold bullion is minted into coins, electricity is minted into bitcoins. The cost of production is only loosely correlated to the market (strike) price.

What gives money its value? A MMT-like theory is that fiat currencies have their well defined value because government accepts them to pay taxes.

I'm a bit more cynical. I think money, fiat currencies like the USA dollar, has it's value established at the point of a gun. That dollar represents the military might of the USA and that government's insistence that you agree.

What backs the value of bitcoin? Anything tangible? Nope. Just everyone's shared belief. Per Random Walk Down Wall Street, it's just castles in the sky. And like all bubbles, that belief system pops in a panic.

For rich people like Dalio, collectibles like gold, art, and real estate are probably a good idea. After the crash, someone somewhere will probably accept those collectibles, those assets, for payment or collateral.

In any scenario where gold or art will be used as collateral, who's gonna accept bitcoin?
I prefer the smaller footprint because it means I don't have to reach too far to the right when I use my trackpad.

I've been using a HHKB for the past 3 years and have gotten used to not having to stretch my right arm to reach the trackpad. You get used to the arrow keys being in a different place as well, especially with the HHKB which requires you to press a function key to use them.
It's important that you are not a complete C++ beginner. Unfortunately it is difficult to quantify an "intermediate" level, but if you have written programs beyond simple textbook examples you're good to go. We have a 30d refund policy in place so people can see if it's for them.

Depending on your level, you will extract different things from the project and will learn the things that are most relevant to you; that's the nice thing about working on practical problems!