jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are deliberately misinterpreting the analogy to the point of absurdity. The aliens are only observing a black box system that spits out "white wins" or "black wins," they are trying to determine if there's any reason to develop the means of probing the contents of the black box. Regardless of whether you start by modelling the players or the board, you are still assuming the winner is determined by some complicated model with numerous hidden variables which you would have no reason to believe unless you start with the assumption that this is not a random number generator - an assumption for which you have no evidence. The author's thesis is that assuming a complex explanation for a black box's behavior is reasonable because that's the only way that leads to experiments to probe the contents of the box.
If f is linear, then f(a)=f(a+0)=f(a)+f(0). So f(0)=0.
Even if it's made legal, they can always sell you a 100 year lease on the car with terms and conditions.

If it's that bad, let market pressure will push the model out of existence.
K so JS is the new de-facto interpreted machine-Latin. The lingua franca.

Is there something else I'm missing here? We've known that there is a decent mapping from X86 assembly to a subset of javascript for a number of years now. You can even run the entire OCaml stack in the browser, or Doom, or Quake... etc. What's next? Wordperfect in the browser? Visicalc? This is clever and kudos to the guys, but how is this advancing what we already know?

Javascript is fast and flexible. The browser is a credible platform technologically. We can treat it like a VM. Yep...Got it. More than three years ago. https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/graphs/contributors
That would be pretty cool. Since I have the general feeling that the developer market and the "R programmer" market are pretty different groups, I'm not sure how much uptake there would be (plus, R Studio is pretty good). But I think it would be great to have a better IDE for R.
> It allows me to do things like write entire apps in minutes.

Like you have your own framework? Or templates? I'm always curious to see other people's workflows if you have a link
> marketed towards (technically) unsophisticated people

it's being marketed towards gullible people, period.

as a conservative programmer, I saw the ad and laughed.

it was called out by people in conservative online communities as well.
If you were early enough into Beany Babies, you did make quite a bit of profit
For years I've thought that dating sites could benefit from such post limits. If one could write 3 posts per day I think one would be more careful about what is posted and success might be shifted a bit from quantity of posts to their quality instead.

I like the idea. I think it would be nice to read in SlowSocial how will posts be treated. Will the company's algorithms read them? parse them? Put users into categories? I assume not, but it might be nice to display this in the front page.

And maybe there are useful ideas in https://www.humanetech.com/technologists ?
Beanie Babies seemed indeed like a terrible investment.

Crypto on the other hand, outperformed everything else. Too bad a lot of you on HN missed out on this.
US President has the nuclear launch codes.

It is unlikely that the US can defend from an ICBM, although if warned in time, the President can survive and then command a retaliatory strike.

US President is probably the weakest world leader by far. He's extremely constrained by Congress, and can't even negotiate a treaty without Congress breathing down his back.

But in a war situation... which a nuclear strike would definitely be... the first priority is to keep the Commander-in-Chief alive so that he can organize the counter-assault. That is his job after all.
I left a Paperwhite for a Kobo Forma. Give it a look -- it's a really great device.
From 2017 to promote this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Informatio...

Anyone have any other recommendations for books about Shannon?

I believe he’s covered by James Gleick here:

https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/
An ungrounded Faraday cage is a re-radiator.

If it's grounded you need very little material. The most important factor is the largest gap in the cage, which dictates the longest wavelength that is passed. Look at microwave oven meshes to see a size of gap that blocks slightly above 2.45 GHz.
Correct. If he's limited to transistors and basic LRC components, then the typical hello world would be an oscillator into an output. An LED will blink but I think a piezo speaker is funner if you have a turnpot. When you get to opAmps, add a simple microphone (a microphone element can be had for about 5 cents) and feedback to make one of the classic "shushing" devices.
And now I need to go check my blood pressure again.

Worked in enough safety-necessary environments (military weapon handling, warehouses, shipyard) that the very idea of deliberately whitewashing a possible failure just makes me angry.

Lessons learned briefings were some of the best OJT I ever had.

I'd have filed CVE's on whatever they told you to leave uncovered and damn the consequences.

(I've also never been in a place where I could afford to be let go, so YMMV/MMMV).
you used to have them: Borland had a good IDE with a good debugger for Pascal, C, ... (even Prolog) in the early 1990s.
IBM's visual age (Smalltalk, Java) was great too: stop in the neigbourhood of the bug, edit the code, and continue without restarting...

Now we're exporting logs from a docker in docker on travis.
O tempora O mores
OP could use something like a LAN9354 Ethernet switch and build their own switch. Probably needs a third PHY chip to interface with the Raspberry Pi as the Pi doesn't expose raw MII to attach to the LAN9354.
>Halting climate

Halting or mitigating? I don't see climate change halting when 3/4 of the world are still clawing out of developing status. Whatever projections we have now we should triple it. Though I agree it's worth investing in engineering solutions now if only because we need proven solutions later as conditions gets worse.
What are BD's sales?
That's also a problem with C though. Because the complex answer is such a pain to write, people go for the simple answer that doesn't handle all the cases that it actually should. Like ignoring Unicode case conversions means that it will only work as expected on English input.

Really, no matter what the language is, people need to actually put some thought into what they're doing.
The datasheets in question are from parts like 555 and logic, parts that are functionally generic. No one has a doubt about how it works, but details like timmings specification and other small print parameters have had a lot of changes, because the design has been ported along each time the manufacturing process has changed.

It’s cases like the one you mention when you want to know that the new parts have different parameters and you might need to change other components to compensate.
Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1347850078644563969

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/pk-clc#26860e0e
I was not aware of this point of view. I agree, new regulations will just help existing big player and new player will continue to be squeezed out.
What I think more common is that head of the state is not a priori directly broadcasting through account on private page. What is quite common is public broadcaster.
It's good to start learning marketing, sales, copywriting, and everything related to business.

Tech skills are not enough these days.
Twitter waited until Friday after 4pm because they know this is horrible for their share price. Trump is their platform's biggest kahuna.
Here are my 2 cents. In reality, this is an anonymous cyberbullying tool that you can use anonymously to attack your competitors or other recruiters. I understand the intention of that tool, and it will be great if recruiters will stop ghosting candidates because this is not OK at all.

However, those recruiters who are ghosting candidates will not care, and if they get more of those emails, they will just block the email address of this app. That's my personal experience with many recruiters, even from big corps.

So these tools like this one are not trying to help; they are only a way how to anonymously bully people. The only way HOW to change things is to reach the managers of those recruiters and provide feedback. If their bonuses are affected by bad feedback, they will care a lot. But if they get anonymous emails, they will just remove them because they will not care at all. That's my personal experience with those recruiters. If their salary is affected, they will care more!
Looking at the site, I think there should be a strict open-source education model. Pretty much all of the books I've seen look no different than your average blog post, and not interesting or good ones at that. The only book I saw that I thought might actually be worth any time is "The Case of IBM 386 PC: A Detective Story for Techies."

"Indy books" should be about indie subjects. Topics that have little public information on them, but that can be interesting, valuable, or in some way beneficial. Yet all I see are books that hold the equivalent of 2010's Buzzfeed titles. Indie books could even be from indie authors, in the regard of creative writing (as my example above). But listing books on how to do something that's been discussed, and I don't think I'm exaggerating here, millions of times, doesn't seem like you're "helping developers find indie books."

I like the concept, but I'm not a fan of the execution. Of course, I'm a bit biased in the manner as I think anything beyond using the manual, Google, Discord/IRC, and forum, is generally a complete waste of time. Want to know anything? Manual > Google > Discord/IRC > forum post.
Let me help you out: http://bit.ly/N5TntW
Considering we spent months where Mail.app didn't perform it's most basic duty (receiving mail) and Messages continued it's almost simulated organic decay, I beg to differ.
And you can use R and Octave in a worksheet, too, but my understanding is that the point of SAGE is much closer to a superset of the types of functionalities that you find in SymPy. That is, that it is meant for symbolic manipulation.
Textmate 2.0 is open sourced (GPL3) https://github.com/textmate/textmate
You wouldn't have to transfer to a new account, you'd just have to create the account and link it, then remove the Facebook connection.[1]

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Answers/I-want-to-d...
Folks like to think of themselves as enlightened or even ahead of the curve, but they succumb to personality cult like in Pharaoh's times.
And the invisible man has the wrong hat.
If you're using Firefox tracking protection (which I'm guessing using DNT as well), then Matomo by default does not track you though. So no, your tracking protections aren't being bypassed.
Wow, to call psychology, sociology and all studies of human behaviour pseudoscience because free will is not true is really just projection - since free will is not even pseudoscience, it is contradiction, a play on words and an utter nonsense.

But humanity will not get rid of this last anthropogenic perspective on the world that soon or that easily.
Yes, or sharing a joke, a recipe, a holiday photo etc. with friends and family that might not know each other. I don't use it often, but it's very convenient.
I think the real issue here is this post reads like a "person who's only been working for a few years" or "has only worked at one company" guide to getting into FB. It represents a very NARROW view of who wants to work there and how they got there.
They still accept purchases for in-game content that hasn't yet come out, and so, still raise funds.
Yep, what's "innovative" for one person or team is "boring" for another, and vice versa. NodeJS / PHP is a good example.
If neither extreme nor minimal economic freedom would address the issue, how could some intermediate level do any better?

Simple. Both extremes concentrate power eventually (in the state or in megacorps). Somewhere in the middle, you have an open and capitalist market, but the government keeps large cooperations in check, and the population keeps the government in check.

It can be argued that the EU strives to follow this model (although imperfectly). E.g. by enforcing net neutrality, being relatively active at breaking down cartels, regulating roaming costs (since the industry kept them artificially high), etc.

Of course, it's never perfect, because the circumstances are never perfect. So, you have to finetune and adapt.
Wonder the rational for

#define TRUE (-1)
#define FALSE 0

instead of

#define TRUE (1==1)
#define FALSE !TRUE

edit: re-formatting
"Not wanting to look like a loser to the people I most admired, I was pretty late in admitting the obvious about math."

Don't understand this part, what's the obvious thing about math he was late in admitting?
Were the Bell labs people right in his opinion or not?
>"It would allow executives and politicians to project a more competent image."

By now, everyone is far too aware it's all about PROJECTING and IMAGE (and not into the user's eye about their environment, but into the audience's mind about the user), and at this point it's widely agreed that the image it projects is that of a Narcissistic Douchebag Glasshole.
yeah. but now, they have two pointing devices. the trackpoint, and the trackpad. the buttons are in the middle. I'm a trackpad guy so...why even bother having a trackpad if the buttons are designed for the trackpoint? the two alternate interfaces in one package is kind of a fail to start with, they should pick one or the other and stick with it.
Better yet, "Books to Read to Understand American Progressive Worldview"
Have you been to Switzerland?

Take a look at the terrain you'll be fighting in. Then notice that the "army" is "everybody". Then look at how easy it is to go around the whole country instead.

There's a reason why everybody who's tried to take over Europe has decided to go around the spiky little neutral country in the middle. It's just good sense.
Lately, i often hear this prediction. What is the source of this optimism?
typo: "a symmetric" (an asymmetric?)

Would you consider using duplicity instead? Unfortunately the site seems to be down (which might be one answer...) http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
He gave an example, not a false dichotomy.
Is this like saying that hard working people come out of traumatic childhoods, so we should be sure to throw some trauma into all children's experience? I think they deserve as much of a chance as we had. Here we are almost 80 years after WWII and we're still seeing the effects of that calamity. This stuff doesn't just go away, it goes away with a lot of work, work that we may not be able to afford. That is pretty bleak.
It's pure selfishness, really. I use Tarsnap, and lots of my friends do too. If I sold Tarsnap and ran, I wouldn't have good backups any more, and I would have a lot of ex-friends upset with me for not taking better care of their backups. :-)
They are integrated with windows desktops. You can see them in the Win+Tab menu
If I've left more than a semi-trailer of space in front of me, I haven't seen people trying to zip into that space right off my front bumper dangerously.

If you're commonly seeing that, you're likely doing something to antagonize other drivers.

Tailgating in order to prevent that is rationalizing unsafe behavior.
Fantastic work, THANK you!

A suggestion: get rid of any spaces between the windows, but keep the snapping.

Sort of how Aero Snap works today, snap to the entire left half, or the entire right.

Keep the 2x2 grid you have now, but just make it easy to snap to the full size of each grid cell (or 1x2 or 2x1 spaces).
The craft breweries around here are closer to $1.65 a can. For a while the one in town was $1.25.

On tap it's $3 or $4 for 16 fl-oz.

(this is in the US)
Oops I meant Box Drive actually, I have to update my post.

I was never a fan of Box Sync as it doesn't have the on-demand feature and as such uses a LOT of disk space and bandwidth.
> Accessing the file system is a constant hassle. Why so hard?

Apple prioritise the user at the expense of the developer. I think this is the right balance.

> I cannot install emacs on my Mac.

What's stopping you?

> Software that is free (as in GNU) is charged for in the App store.

I don't think this is in conflict with the spirit of the GNU project? Paying for software distribution is fine in the eyes of the GNU project and their licence. What's your problem with it?

> I am amazed that they care so little for those who are not quite the most important.

Apple think normal users are the most important, not developers. I think they're probably right.
> no middle click on most trackpads

If your trackpad has multitouch, triple touch should correspond to the middle click. Works for me on Linux by default.
Wonder if rust (or llvm) could just have a C backend as a fallback for unsupported architectures. Perhaps some stuff would be slow but likely faster than flat out emulation
Because Asians perform better and that would contradict the narrative that without systemic racism the outcome would reflect the overall demographics of the population, so 50% men/women, 60% whites, 18% latinos, 13% blacks, 6% asians etc.
For Linode, you can consider rapid deployment using StackScripts, http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/
Try running Photoshop CS5, Starcraft 2, AutoCad on ARM. I am not saying it's not going to happen. ARM is focusing on the embedded market. They are not going to be able to compete with the likes of a Quad Core Nehalem or Sandy Bridge.
Point noted. I don't review cryptosystems for a living.

I guess my point was that most of the cryptosystems /I've/ used over the years have seen significant vulnerabilities exposed in key management and side channel attacks. Insufficient entropy for key generation is another one. That said, I probably benefit from people like you weeding out the REALLY bad implementations.

I do agree that you're likely to see a lot of extraordinarily poorly designed cryptosystems if you regularly look at work product from people who are unfamiliar with attack methodologies in general.
I would like to understand the following:

Why do you think Oracle does boring stuff?
For example, both Oracle and Google work hard to make very scalable and highly available systems - but somehow Oracle is boring while Google is exciting.

You mention "they're evil".
Why do you think Oracle is evil? Why do you think Oracle is more evil than Facebook, Apple, or Google?
I promised to post a graph, so here it is:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/if-the-usa-is-the-most-...

I offer this as a simple model to show how a country can be both extremely innovative, yet also face dramatic long-term economic decline.
The printing press had a big effect, but it didn't fix government, corruption, war, or debt.
I completely agree, and I would love to see some evidence like this, one way or another. However, I'm not going to avoid trying it out in the absence of scientific evidence. That's just not an effective way to live, and we have an array of tools to evaluate things where science hasn't yet poked its nose. For example, if someone posts a link to a library or framework that they really enjoyed and found useful in a project, we don't avoid it until we find a study comparing it to a control group. No, we try it out, we look at the advice of those we trust, we look at what others have done with it, etc.

There are more questions in the world than science can ever hope to address, and sometimes you have to make a decision with limited information.
Just realized that you need to enter CC details in order to activate the 12 month offer. Should probably mention it on the offer page (or it just skipped my eye)
Augmented reality.
Suing to block a law rather undermines the argument "we had no plans to break it".
I wish for a browser with Scheme as the underlying language in which all is expressed. A Racket browser. No html/script/css distinction. Just s-expressions. A page is just code and it is run in a sandbox.
You can solve that problem honestly or not so honestly. I've worked in places where everyone knew to pad their time without telling the non-dev in the room. I've been happier with also estimating the ratio of time you spend doing tasks. Someone more senior should intend to spend less than 100% of their time on those tasks.

Both of those work better than ignoring overhead or refusal to estimate, imho.
I don't quite understand why our ability to teach machines causal reasoning should hinge on the lowest common denominator of human ability. If I interpreted your point correctly, then calculators are an obvious counterexample, and a table of common human arithmetic mistakes doesn't have any bearing on our ability to program calculators.

In terms of causal reasoning for computers, it's more of a "common sense" problem than a reasoning one. In nice, closed systems we can do symbolic computation and automated theorem proving without mistakes. The only reason this doesn't work in the real world is the lack of axioms and consistency.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21530860

I think you'll find some insights there.
You still have to have a membership unless you have a Costco cash card or go with a friend, and $60 or whatever upfront can be too much for many people. Also, it's a bit more expensive per visit since you need to buy in bulk.

That being said, we have plenty of grocery stores in my area and they seem to compete quite well with Costco. I am not worried about these stores, and I don't plan on using them because I find them to be a privacy issue. I think there are plenty of people who either prefer cash or don't want to tie their food purchases to their Amazon account to keep traditional grocery stores in business.
You do know trucks with brush guards already have no problem mowing down tons of people, right?
Why would you want that? I generally prefer Rust or JavaScript over Go. But with a static site generator, you're not actually using the language at all, and Hugo has a much bigger ecosystem.
Location: Kalamazoo, MI

Remote: would be ideal, but would happily relocate to the right place (west coast or FL)

Technologies: Python, SQL, R

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-hammerberg-44a040105/details/education/

Email: khammerberg53@gmail.com

Finishing my masters degree in quantitative econ this month. Have developed a passion for programming through my research position and the courses I took with the CS department. I will come highly recommended from my CS professors / supervisors (4.0 CS GPA (ML, AI, Adv. AI) and will be graduating magna cum laude). Open to entry-level data science/analyst roles or roles in software development. I think fintech would be the best fit for me, but open to anything that is interesting, challenging, and exciting!
Groupon, Facebook, eBay all build products that solve big problems, felt by your average joe. No explanation of product necessary. People like gossip, people like stalking, people like a bargain. It is as simple as that.
It doesn't work this way. The corporation could get sued if an employee (representing the corporation) says the wrong thing. The converse won't happen.
Great, now I can't stop seeing that.
This blog post is from a year ago, but I think there are a few useful & relevant ideas within w.r.t. getting users, customers and investors to try, buy and invest in your product. Narrative is important.

Also probably some relevant tips for giving good gifts. It's holiday season after all.
Agreed. I wish normal SQL dbs would implement a mode where index misses result in errors unless they contain some sort of opt in text.