jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh 140 is just the normal "I'm bored and want to get home already" speed during semi-flat stretches. I've done up to 180, but only when alert and confident of the road and the surroundings.
Then compare the US to Europe. There education is viewed as public good, though it's slowly changing.
While it's fun, and a great way to streamline orders using technology, once the newness factor of the iPad wears off won't this just simply be an impersonal dining experience? Even if the guy that delivers the iPads to the table doubles as a waiter, won't it still be difficult to feel pampered and waited on?

After all, when we dine in expensive restaurants, we expect a certain experience, quality and selection of food, but above all a knowlegeable guide who tell us about everything about the food and wine (highly subjective). When we then need to interface with iPads to learn about the menu and place orders, we lose that human interaction that makes visiting places so much fun (for me anyway).

On the flip side, you can place a drink order without needing to wait and flag down your order, and perhaps get your food faster... assuming of course that 15 tables didn't all submit their orders at once.
KDE had that for at least 5 years (ksnapshot).
Google seems to have an internal myth that all customers are "that guy" and that therefore the only solution to customer support is /dev/null.
I give more credit to Nate Silver's lawyer than that.
Metaphors, not analogies.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6547&q...
They sell them by the kg on eBay. Any jewel maker has the tools to cut a nice piece into the right shape for a ring.
Right, of course! And it even makes sense for a vegan food company to make its products taste as close to meat as possible to appeal to meat-eaters expectations about food, and decrease the amount of meat eaten in the world.

It's slightly strange, though, that the first part of the pitch here is basically "the cultural desire for diamonds, including your own desire for diamonds, can be traced back to this single ad campaign" - it seems like the logical next step in that argument is "therefore, do not desire diamonds", not "here's something that looks as much like diamonds as possible, to satisfy your desire".

I think it's harder to make the "unnaturalness of desire" argument with meat, though many vegans/vegetarians do try. And it's certainly not part of the messaging of the Impossible Burger.
It's not even vaguely similar to a person, so how would that work? ln this example, if you had a hypothetical AI that understood the UK class system + the political system + the press system + the way these interlocking relationships work from a particular elite PoV then sure, but that's magical thinking. The actual written style is a small part of that; the other things are the inputs.
> Via training on new inputs?

There are no new inputs in this case because we got replaced editors with NN.
I'm not imagining it, but she seems to be.
$324,000/ 14 denied rides = $23k in damages per denied ride. She must be a much bigger deal than I am.
and also: good job! :) (just to round up the critique :D)
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Yes, as long as Panama wants to continue doing business with the US. Guess what, most companies that are incorporated in a tax heaven do nothing there except tax and accounting, so they will pressure Panama to agree to the US' demands so they can keep enjoying their privileges.
What Amazon deal? Did Amazon pay Oracle to license the Java API?
best video+bestaudio are the default format, so that argument can be omitted in the future if you want.
Weird argument. I guess you can have your freedom and live in some tent city in Palo Alto under the freeway, or live in a reasonable house anywhere else.
> The preview functionality has been removed to avoid copyright infringement.

:(
> What is stopping people from getting together and forming their own "universal health care" group? There must be millions who are in favor of it? Get 100 million people together, and offer health care to each other. What's stopping you?

Some of them would have to put a lot of money at risk. When they do that, they usually want something in return. Well this is how corporations were invented. And those are regulated.
This is very different than software. We have plants producing this, we only need to replicate them, all the machines in those plants have drawings, the plants have drawings, the process is documented. It's not like some Ph.D. dude is mixing up liquids in a test tube.

Now granted any money in the world won't have the plant replicated by tomorrow, but enough money will have it replicated much faster. And the process could have been started months ago. Pretty much any vendor will do things faster if you pay them more money and I'm sure this is true for Pfizer's various vendors here. You can order some machine part produced in 3 months or in 3 days (with the latter being like x20 the price, but who cares now).
> it makes sense of course to kill the alpha test code if it's not used.

It’s used, but only for some meshes like vegetation, u_alphaRef was like [ 0.50196, 1000.00 ] for them.

> I'm actually surprised it's on at all by default

I don’t think I have adjusted anything, just built and run your code on Win10 with GL. This doesn’t mean it gonna use the same defaults on Pi, but it might.
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If there was a merit lottery, you'd still see a disproportionate number of south and east asian admits at TJ. That definitely doesn't fall under Kendi's formulation of racism (nor is he the God of activism).
Thanks. The piano roll helped me to look at things from first principles - to see how, say, progressing chords towards a change of key you can pivot into the 'allowed' semitones of the new key. Learning about music, the jargon is quite dense, epsecially with the naming of chords and intervals. Thinking of a fifth as seven semitones (and a 2/3 frequency ratio) and so on made it more digestible for me. But perhaps it is a dead end, I might have to take your word for that. Maybe its something like how in chemistry, learning the Bohr modelof electron shells helps you grasp the structure of the periodic table, but then to really get further you have to forget all that and start again with the valence electron model.
Clickbait also includes scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or yellow journalism as a whole. The Register fits that category very well and I didn't even have to open those 2 links to know that they are rubbish.

Personally, I don't care on how many millions the directors of Wikimedia sit on, because Wikipedia is possibly the most useful online service we have. And not only that, but all the content in it is licensed under open licenses that allow for reuse [1], which is very relevant in a climate in which copyright extensions keep being granted. I also prefer to see them asking for donations instead of serving ads, because ad companies are selling my data to the highest bidder and I don't necessarily want other parties to find out the topics I'm interested in.

Do you care about the internal expenses or about the revenue of each company you're interacting with? If Wikimedia would introduce a subscription model, they'd earn much more than they are doing right now. They don't have a subscription model, they don't serve ads, they aren't locking-in content, they don't sell my traffic - all they are doing is asking nicely for donations about once a year, which is totally optional, it's not like you have to pay up. I really don't get what's wrong with that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_con...
This is good news?
Definitely true, but for someone to be this mournful about the state of the industry is usually indicative of at least a LITTLE problem.

I'm acutely aware that it's his personal opinion, I am aware of the pitfalls of bashing-culture (I've fallen into it many times when looking at legacy code), and I didn't uninstall linux and switch to illumos. In this case, I think he has a point (though he states it pretty extremely).

At the very least, it's refreshing to read an article every once in a while that isn't simply praising the established platforms of today, or pointing out a small shortcoming (usually that the author fixed and decided to make a blogpost about).

I'm currently reading his golang post to see why he thinks this way and if he makes any solid points there that sit well with me, but I value the dissent to popular zeitgeist (not so much how disrespectful he was about it).
Really? That's a stunning claim. You're comfortable making this judgement call that whisteblowers are more positive than child rape is negative?
Thanks for this! I didn't know they did one with Lattner, should be awesome.
No. It's many, many months of work.

The physical design in an fpga solution is pretty much done for you. You've also got a nice package (power, warpage, SI all done). In an ASIC you start this enormous task from scratch. You've also got to implement (and interface with) a huge amount of test, which again, is mostly done for you when you purchase your working FPGA.

Not to mention the fact that there's little margin for error with an ASIC, there's no second chance to try again without spending a load of money. So the test and verification of your circuits is much higher. (I know your said "working" design but there is no such design that is guaranteed to work when changed).
I'd guess it's a convention of that society, and means no more than our (peculiar, in my view) manner of the writing of some letters starting "Dear Sir" and ending "I remain faithfully yours ...", or similar words.

I think this may be a register (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%2...)
Try disabling Javascript.
US can't just invade any country. US would find it very difficult to invade a country with second strike nuclear capability. Even if nuclear war is out of the question, US would find it very difficult to invade, say China: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/china-u...
It's been submitted at least eight times today from various sources, including three times by this submitter in 21 minutes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Because no one in the team has a great understanding of the system

Isn't that the main issue? I understand to not want to do invasive changes when you're not familiar enough with a system, but the solution seems to be:

1. get familiar with the system (doing small non-intrusive
changes is a good way to start to become familiar with it)

2. do more invasive refactoring

For sure don't start directly with the invasive changes, but at some point you need to get a good understanding of the system you are working on, or are responsible to maintain.
Ah, we are getting ahead of ourselves. This isn't a preventative measure. It is a diagnostic device. The distinction is important because what will become increasingly apparent is we don't have good tools to deal with cancer when it is detected very early. One of the major problems is working out which of these 'detection events' is going to progress into clinically meaningful disease. We can't just take out (or even biopsy) the prostate of everyone with a hit.
1) You are not chasing a pipe dream. Being the smartest person in the room is a terribly taxing position to be in, especially if you are not compensated by title or pay. I've been in that position enough times that my current primary qualifier for employment is to work for people who are smarter than me, as well as a few people to work with who are smarter.

You need to turn your interviews in the reverse: demand interviews with your future co-workers/peers, and evaluate their competency (and "culture").

In other industries, it is a smart move to wait for change: wait for a new/better manager (managers, especially CEO's have much higher turnover than anyone else), or wait for a better culture or environment/teammates.

This is not so in computing. You don't need to wait. There are greener pastures.

2) If you are not compensated by title, if you do not have the ability to hire and fire, you will not be able to change culture.

The company you work for is likely to promise everything but follow through with nothing -- they are getting a good deal having an expert perform tech support, saving two or three new hires if you leave. I've been replaced by entirely new business units of 6 or more people after my departure. In retrospect its quite clear why paltry raises and weak promises to provide new hires or changes in the group to string me along as they did.

cut your losses.

A side note: many programmers "retire" into mediocracy, performing undemanding work in undemanding timelines. Pretend you know a great deal less than you really do, and pretend like the simple work that you do is harder than it really is. Spend very little of your day doing any actual work.

I've had many people try to sell me on the idea that such environments can provide you with plenty of time to "work on your own stuff", but I've never seen anybody create something on their free time that I admire while working in such an environment. I don't believe it.
I am not the OP, but I'm using Z3 in my research to help with the formal verification of hardware and firmware.

My problem is as follows. I have a microcontroller which runs firmware. I want to verify various things about the hardware+firmware combination. For instance, I may be interested in proving that user mode firmware cannot change the MMU configuration.

There are many parts to this problem. First is verifying that the kernel doesn't expose routines that let you do these kinds of things. This is a kind of s/w verification problem, somewhat well studied. Second, you want to make sure there are no h/w bugs in the microcontroller itself which the user mode software can exploit to do bad stuff. This is traditional h/w verification, also well-studied. The third is that there aren't weird corners of the microcontroller ISA specification itself which can be exploited. This is also a kind of h/w bug albeit a specification bug.

The third part is where Z3 comes in because often, there isn't any specification, and if there is, it's a bunch of PDFs or word documents. What we want is to generate a formal specification, which you can examine using formal tools to prove that it satisfies certain properties. And then we want to prove that our implementation conforms to this specification. We're using some techniques from program synthesis with Z3 as the solver for this.
The world of business has a reputation for being full of assholes, yet perhaps the most successful businessman of all is Warren Buffett, who seems like a genuinely nice guy. It seems that acting with honesty and integrity pays excellent returns in the long run.
I'm afraid your mind reader is producing inaccurate readings.

The problem with your account is that you break the site guidelines (
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I've spent many hours on many emails for years now trying to explain this to you, and have even personally defended you when other users unfairly attacked you. You've not only not fixed the problem but are now posting smears. That's not helping. I know it's frustrating to be rate limited or get moderated, but carrying on like this is not ok. There are many other users who need our help, and many have had to wait while we were busy trying to help you. At some point one loses the will to continue and just has to move on.

The issue isn't politics in general, nor which politics you hold. Plenty of HN users with different politics manage to post within the site guidelines. But we do rate-limit and eventually ban accounts that fulminate and flame, because those things destroy what HN is supposed to be for. We want curious conversation here.

If anyone wants to understand how we think about political topics and HN moderation, follow the explanations that are linked to here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... If you familiarize yourself with that material and still have a question that isn't addressed there, I'd be happy to help if you email your question to hn@ycombinator.com.
Yep, as long as you're not already a paying customer.
That is what I was trying to highlight, how in US something like that is bound to end up on Wall-Street. Legislation will be rewritten, lobbyists and PR will be involved and it ends up trading just like real-estate, oil and other commodities.
Not buy, more like wants, If no one wants it then it is effectively worthless. Buying is just a means to satisfy a want.
Ideas are not 30% of success. The reason ideas are worthless is because literally any idea you have come up with many other people have come up with too. Almost nobody bothers to execute. My recommendation would be to pick something you are excited about.

Here is one, real time product insertion into uploaded videos (or even network TV/movies). Let people make their videos with blue screened objects or backgrounds and then have technology that lets advertisers insert real time advertising into the videos (meaning the advertising is not permanent but changes each time). One time the person is holding a can of coke, another time pepsi. One time the background says macys the next time it says bloomingdales

Another one that some people have started on is real time traffic mapping. Work with onstar (others are using the GPS in phones) to write software that maps the speed on every road 24/7 where there is an onstar vehicle.

something like craigslist but using a hackernews style rating system

facial recognition that can go through my whole library of pictures and tag every person. Read the techstars book to find out who has the technology to make it happen
My dad flies for American Airlines and is champing at the bit to use something like this. It will make life a great deal easier for commercial pilots.
Just because a tool can be used for A, B or C, and you are an expert at using that tool for A does not imply that your expertise at using the tool for A makes you an expert in B and C.

The whole point of this article is to point out that a lot of common Linux tools can be used for Data Science like work (a significant part of which includes pre processing structured and unstructured text).
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As for mine, Ruby slightly faster 4:05s - 4:09s which is close to PHP in timing.

ruby 2.7.0dev (2019-11-23T07:06:30Z master b563439274) [x86_64-darwin18]

gtime -v /usr/local/bin/ruby --jit -W0 nbody.rb 50000000
-0.169075164
-0.169059907

Command being timed: "/usr/local/bin/ruby --jit -W0 nbody.rb 50000000"

User time (seconds): 249.30
System time (seconds): 0.58
Percent of CPU this job got: 100%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 4:08.97

---

PHP 7.3.11 (cli) (built: Oct 24 2019 11:29:52) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.11, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.3.11, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

gtime -v php -n nbody.php 50000000

-0.169075164
-0.169059907

Command being timed: "php -n nbody.php 50000000"
User time (seconds): 248.02
System time (seconds): 0.49
Percent of CPU this job got: 99%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 4:09.82
My fault for not pointing out the irony more explicitly. VW is reportedly paying $15bn+ for cheating on emissions. If they had said they are axing all of their diesel vehicles and replacing them with electric I would be jumping for joy. They basically chose to take the smallest pain point for the largest reward by touting these credentials. Having actually built F1 cars you should think of them as aeroplanes that never take off. All of the top racing is aero dependant more than anything nowadays.
> General intelligence is primarily about developing useful conceptual categories (not mapping to existing ones) …

There are some algorithms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering that get a set of data and try to create the categories to better classify them. There are many algorithm and the results don't agree all the time. But this is an open ended task, like the classification of biological species in animals. (Plants are more difficult, and bacterias even more.)
Nope, just pointing out the cognitive dissonance.