jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It appears to me at first glance that NFNet has not achieved SOTA at inference.

It has, for larger models (F1 vs B7). See Fig 4 in the Appendix.
Your hypothesis does not square with the unfolding tragedy.

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-storie...
I've been making a lot of money shorting and betting on volatility. Rode VIX futures up to their peak and now shorting futures as the VIX is trailing down. I also did well on my gold futures today. Have tripled my brokerage account's value since Feb.
I have a maths degree, and I don't think this is at all true for programming.

Lot's of people read books on Object Oriented programming, and write absolutely awful Java Enterprise code. Or they read books on algorithms, and write fantastically efficient code that's completely unreadable.

And what's better than a book of best-practices? A compiler that enforces them.
> Weird to single out HFT's. Isn't everyone working from home right now?

“That” in parent comment is being sequestered at work, so the opposite of working from home.
Yeah, I think that's a much more promising approach. Have a good model, use it to build an observer, now you can control based on the state of your simulated system.
Unfortunately as executive orders, rather than laws, they can easily be undone by the next executive.

I think it's overly diplomatic to call this action a police fundraiser. These were highwaymen. Note they aren't doing this to their locals, they know better and that's why they're on the interstate, they're doing it on behalf of the locals. The rot is with the town itself.
Yeah I'm not moving to a country that is that misaligned with my foreign policy views, let alone the corruption and general social division.
The demo link (http://personify.mybluemix.net, buried at the bottom of the page) isn't working for me:

404 Not Found: Requested route ('personify.mybluemix.net') does not exist.
I think Drive and Confidence are mutually exclusive. Being confident without drive is being smug and complacent. Being driven without confidence teeders on the line of reckless arrogance Think and Grow Rich is for people who have lost all hope. It was written in the Depression era. The secret ingredient, that he doesn't refer to that all the 13 principles add up to, in my opinion, is Confidence. Confidence to save money, Confidence in creating desire in yourself. Even people who have lost their limbs and continue to be self-sufficient, it's confidence. Check out a book called StartUp Leadership by Derek Lidow, Drive doesn't always have to be Forward and Determined.. It's more of Letting your actions of taking a project or helping a project being the best it can be. Team Drive is extremely powerful. Hence importance of Culture in organizations... Where in Canada are you from? I'm From Calgary,AB
Isn't the earth's core the world's largest magnet?

[Edit: to the downvoters: it's the weekend, have a sense of humor.]
Everything you just said was true, but it's interesting that from the article, you thought anyone disagreed, or was implying otherwise.
In general relativity gravity propagates at c. The rate of orbital decay of binary pulsars is, among other factors, dependent on the speed of gravity. The in-spiral rate of one binary pulsar system has been measured and found to agree with the rate predicted by general relativity to within a 0.2% margin of error.

Gravitational waves haven't been directly measured yet though, so there's no direct confirmation. With multiple detectors currently in operation if a signal is detected and able to be tied to a specific location in space the timing delays between when its received between the two primary LIGO detectors (Livingston, LA, USA and Hanford, WA, USA) and the VIRGO detector (PISA Italy) should allow for estimating a propagation speed.

Advanced LIGO, expected to begin collecting data in 2014 is expected to be able to detect a number of signals so hopefully the question will be settled in a few years. However, there might not be any published results for a while after it goes active. The search for pulsar spindown signals with LIGO data is done via the Einstien@Home distributed computing project; and in prior runs several years passed between when the first part of the data set was collected and when papers on it were finally published.
http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/26743/9521
And which alternatives are you thinking of?
Nowhere in his list of complaints is it that companies charge for content that they produce or publish.
I've wondered that as well. I know so many friends who are now parents that grew up with Doom or Duke Nukem and choose to shelter their children from absolutely everything. Since I don't have children I'm not allowed to talk about parenting though.
Fabrice Bellard: http://bellard.org

Notable: no social media, nothing like that. Just shows up occasionally with something that would take another dev probably a couple years to do.
Same. This game was incredibly difficult for me but I mostly played for the animations.
Wasn't "The Price Is Right" changed several years back specifically to make the game less predictable-- using less common products, for example, or changing the options on cars? https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-p...
> 1) If we are talking about central banks such as FED - non-QE QE happening right now in the USA could be good example of why one would not be want to be part of the game.

Crypto doesn't get you away from this. Not to sound like a mediocre Ashton Kutcher film, but it's all connected. In short, too much fiat, cryto prices in terms of fiat will go up and the converse is true as well.

The only way crypto wins or is THE place to put your money is if the entire world stops using fiat money.
If you really want to bootstrap it, start with toy/hobby rockets and drones and slowly work up. Alter the services you offer as you go eg: aerial photography, weather monitoring, engines etc etc till eventually you're launching small sattelites and stuff

It's the kind of thing that'd probably take decades before you were realistically even beginning to look at space though
Holy cow! This sounds amazing for me b/c I'm a TWC subscriber and (b/c of my aptarments location) cannot get a DTV receiver installed.
Indeed i worry that these measures on the south don't work because of this: https://i.imgur.com/AuTw89a.png

Physical distance is a major determinant, as people naturally in times of crisis tend to stick together or even visit their parents more often.
Yes, and I think we wouldn't need to wait until the coronavirus is completely dead to end complete social distancing, just until it becomes manageable to track and isolate just those still infected.
Tampermonkey, I believe, can also intercept HTTP requests. Maybe that's sufficient/necessary for redirecting to another client.
I spent about $60 for the parts overall.

The idea was to use parts that are still available easily, although I worry about the scuba masks for it.

Our other builds are at https://robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/pub/web/Cookbook.SaltM...
If China wants be a powerful nation leading the world towards a brighter future, it needs to grow a spine and be able to handle/accept criticism. Without it, no one can tolerate intolerance to truth, facts and evidence.
I took a nap in it. It's all good. You can't overpressure it if you want to (that's what the lower valve is for).
You can just use the helmet and not the suit -- that was the original design if anything.
The best way to increase your cardiovascular capacity, and boost your immune system at the same time, is aerobic exercise "cardio".

I'm an anesthesiologist/intensivist and this is how I'm preparing.
i'm sorry, this is really awful :( can you contact your current apartment landlord and see what they can do, given the circumstances?

hang in there.
I got carryout at a Chinese restaurant today. The staff (Thai) said her friends are afraid to wear masks because of fear of assault. So that would most certainly be a factor outside of Asia for Asians.

Personally I'm not wearing a mask yet as I am strict about only going outside for exercise and essential shopping, I am staying very mindful about keeping distance (which I think many people are being lax about), and I don't own reusable masks yet. I have ordered cotton reusable masks though and plan to buy additional ones (from a friend who is starting the process of sewing them - taking nothing from medical personnel) so I can change to keep them effective as needed. And then when (probably not if, I speculate) I need to go out more before this pandemic is over, I plan to wear them in public. Both to avoid spreading to others if I am an asymptomatic carrier and to do my very tiny part in normalizing mask wearing in this case. My thinking has gone from buying into to the current conventional wisdom in the west not to wear them to believing that they are a relatively low cost way to slow both this and possible future epidemics.
That's a good point. We might have to start saying megadollars.

M$10 looks kind of clumsy, though.
Google really doesn't need to attract any more antitrust attention right now.
Ideas for the range below 10EUR/$10:

a TI LaunchPad for the future microcontroller enthusiast ($4.30)

a bag of Sugru (http://www.sugru.com )

Ideas for the near-zero range:

a hand-made pen-and-USB-stick etui (http://zeughaus.pechfunk.de/post/2415508111/my-first-sewing-... ) made from a Tyvek envelope
I don't understand why I'm getting pounded by downvoters. First someone tells me that a small-typeface 'status' is 'exceptionally clear' and UI doesn't really matter for developers. Next I'm told that in order to detect something from across the room, I have to click through a link.

I realise my comment was snarky, but both of these responses were in a patronising tone themselves. Does bugzilla have some sort of rabid fanbase akin to the vim/emacs wars?
The use of the web has continued to expand at a much greater rate than the use of ad blockers, even if it were true that everyone in tech installs one (they don't). And now mobile web grows at a great clip each year as well. I imagine use of ad blockers is much lower on smart phones; in particular given the large share of market non-jailbroken iPhones have. I gather it's possible for Android, but I haven't seen enough folks talking about it for me to believe it's that common.
"Something is worth what someone will pay"

I've never been to keen on that statement. It approximates something about fairness. It's expresses something about subjective worth. But, we're talking about something with a fairly objective, if ambiguous value.

The price of something may be what someone will pay. For the value of something... I don't think this holds true. The value of a stock is objective, it's the future incomes discounted or somesuch. If you pay more than that you over payed.
Tie it in to law enforcement, get paid for detecting someone driving a vehicle with a warrant against their number plates.
Compared to say "hypervisor + Linux + kubernetes + weave + etcd + lxc-docker" ...? Not to mention all the pieces that work together for lxc-docker.
What are you talking about? The whole of northern Europe is pretty much built with wood (perhaps with the exception of Iceland?). It is a great construction material. The downsides are that it's comparably expensive and the international know-how is low, since few countries have the amount of wood required.

It's also hard to fireproof without modern technology. But you can still build in modules and with modern technology the cost difference isn't that great for low rise areas. Not far from here there's an 8 story building completely built with wood, and higher buildings are not unheard of. For detached family sized houses it's the standard choice. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same throughout Canada, northern US and parts of Russia.
Coworker - intern? :P
Lets talk about government actions like if they were property.

Copyright is an deal for which my property (tax money) is used in a deal between authors. My property (tax money) in order to create and defend a monopoly, and in exchange I get to use the work after a limited time.

However, the deal was changed over and over again, and now I will never, ever, see the other side of the deal. The written word evolve faster than copyright expires. Physical medium of movies and music deteriorate to dust, and the technology in programs will be obsolete and dead beyond recreation.

Taking my money for this deal is stealing. The only way government can make me support copyright is by force, which is the current way it is supported. I consider this much more unethical than a person who ignores the copyright deal.

I like that artistic people can live on their work. However, ask me to choose between that and respecting the copyright deal, and I will pick the lesser evil.
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight bought and forgave $15M of medical debt for $60k (probably deemed uncollectible) as part of a segment about the debt collection industry. And because on paper it was a bigger giveaway than Oprah's "Everybody gets a car" giveaway.
Do many people grow up with a love of math due to this common practice, though? I would have thought the opposite.
There should be a quiz on the accept screen that you are only likely to pass if you read the tos. In order to keep users you would have to make the document as short as possible.

There could even be a short bullet point summary that gives the information in short english and then a longer version that covers all the edge cases and defining common sense.
Thank you for the information - it is interesting to learn of a case where discouragement and disincentivisation, in lieu of abolishment, has turned out to be a reasonable and pragmatic secondary option.
Do you mean https://www.openfaas.com/blog/puppeteer-scraping/ ?

There are more traditional tools and SaaS services based around the web-driver model, which might be useful for folks who don't want to get into infrastructure, and don't want the latency of using Lambda. In testing I saw 15s+ for visiting a simple website that took 1-2s locally in a container.

Feel free to give the content a try and let us know how it goes for you? OpenFaaS can also run these tasks async and queue them up / process from a queue.
You are right. Corrected. Thanks.
Small example: at videolan.org (7,3M VU) we have a php website that is generated (by a custom generator) into static html with a svn/git post-commit hook. It works perfectly fine and can manage huge loads...

I kind of disagree with the OP for a few reason:

> You can’t update your website unless you’re at your computer where the static site generator software is installed

We use svn/git post-commit hooks for this. The generation is done server-side.

> You can’t have local comments, pingbacks, non-google site wide search, contact us forms (without some dynamic code etc)

True, but for example, we have some dynamic pages for forms.

To me, this only make sense if you don't have many interactions (comments) and if the website isn't updated 300 times/day. But it is a nice solution.

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I highly recommend anyone who likes this to get a hold of "In the Plex", which talks about Google's history. It's a very interesting read, and there's amazing random nuggets of company history on there that some of you might love.
The other option would of course to be old school and go "non-cloud" and buy their own hardware that they manage, but this is an old man talking.
an, if only herokugarden lived on, that would be ace!
wow that is strange. i like the mako teplating though.
The other trick, since I've just been on the interview circuit and used this one a bit: use previous companies brain teasers/language puzzles (eg. worst feature or wart of language X) against the current one.

If they don't do any language puzzles or ask you hard questions, then either a) run screaming or b) use that as an excuse to ask a hard language question.
The answer to life the universe and everything.
I guess I worded it weirdly, but isn't that the same as just having an innate talent?
This sounds a lot like CV-driven development, rather than any actual use cases. That's not to say it's a bad idea for an individual dev, but might not say great things about our industry.
It'd be a lot more interesting to see a list of these jobs from much later in history, rather than most being circa 100 years ago or so.

As for jobs that surprisingly still exist, how about the people who manually, in San Francisco in 2015, set the Caltrain reader boards for each train at 4th and King.
Of course, that guy did a PG version, too:

http://flippinggodateformat.com/
This is interesting, but dangerous. Smokers make up 90% of lung cancer deaths [1]. At some point you have to acknowledge that smoking definitely does something to influence lung cancer.

[1] http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effect...
This looks like it has some potential, but the 10 character limit on usernames is a bit short. That means I can't sign up with my Hacker News username ("markchristian") or my everywhere else username ("shinyplasticbag").
It seems likely that 37 Signal's primary purpose for doing these posts is to raise brand awareness.
I have wanted to try to compile a paper I was writing to see if my logic made sense.
Whenever a non-technical person asks a computer related question, like: "Is it possible to do X?", I have to force myself to give a short answer, without going into details, in a way that it will fit that person's needs and abilities.

I have to concentrate and run some scenarios (real time) while we are talking about what that person is capable of, so that I can give them useful information, without confusing them. Not really a bad habit (I think), nor is it frustrating, but it definitely comes from my technical background, and it takes some brain power.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1402382

Apparently it was himself who re-encoded the video, not youtube. Dont know where jemfinch got that info though.
I think it's interesting that the proof he gives that TDD is still useful in Clojure is that he had problems with Swing. Swing (and all the other Java GUI libraries) have a huge impedance mismatch with Clojure. If the interface were defined by an immutable s-expression schema, I wonder if he would have a similar experience.
I'm always amused when I catch myself preferring 16, 32, 64, etc. over any other numbers. The binary system really caught me there.
It's not overly verbose, and it's something you need anyway.
Why do people jump so easily from "lets build an efficient monitoring system" to terminators? Why do you think that first action that will be taken in such a condition will be something bad for the employee in question? Might be a simple notification for the human supervisor to check the situation out or it could even be a notification for the employee: "don't walk there, you might fall in the bloody tank".
That's not what i'm saying at all.

I'm not saying text files are universal, or that they should only be ASCII, i'm saying text is (practically) universal. No one owns "text" as a format, or a medium of communication. No one has to pay a license fee in order to use "text." There's no "text" working group which makes the one tool that anyone can use to display "text" or pass "text" around.

Complain all you want about unicode support, or the lack thereof, there are a million different uses for character sets, which means textual communication is likely to be around in ten or twenty years, which means support for text-based programming is more future-proof.

The encoding used is really entirely irrelevant to the point i am (apparently failing) to make. Source code isn't merely a way to pass instructions to a compiler, it's also a way of preserving knowledge, both technical and historical, and I believe that making that accessible to as many people as possible is important. It is a means of communication between humans as well - and I believe making it easy to facilitate this communication is important.
Except talented graduates of the American higher education systems have to leave the country if they don't get selected in the H-1B lottery. Last year, there were 45,000 applicants for the 20,000 advanced degree H-1B cap.
They also have 600 horsepower and pass a gas station every 45 seconds :) Why compare?
I've only worked at four different corporations and even I know that 'private corporations' and 'efficiency' don't necessarily go any better.
That's a good question. One of the points I'll make in the follow-up post that I promised is that it is indeed possible to capture the motivation of such an attacker in game theory, and in fact, this has been done. [1] However, it makes the model less elegant and introduces parameters. The more of these complexities you wish to model, the less tractable the model becomes.

[1] http://weis2013.econinfosec.org/papers/KrollDaveyFeltenWEIS2... (Section 5).
I have a quick question for those arguing against PG's position:

Do you genuinely believe that increasing the number of talented software engineers emigrating to the United States is bad for the United States? Or bad for you?

In the same way that I would argue for public policy that benefits us all (not just me), I think we should have immigration policies that benefit everyone, not just Software Engineers.
The sentiment is nice, but the only selection mechanism presented is that "An influx of inexpensive but mediocre programmers is the last thing they'd want; it would destroy them." One only need look at the current H1B situation to see just how eager most tech companies are to add another mediocre programmer at 30% off market rates.
Yeah, we do a fuzzy search, so it can be weird. To answer your specific question, std::vec is the module, and std::vec::Vec is the actual struct itself... so the module is overall unstable, but the struct itself is stable. If that makes sense.

Have you seen "The Guide"? It's about 100 pages long, and we used to produce a PDF, at least...
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true, but that's why we have evil mode[1], so we can have our elisp cake and eat our delicous sugary vim bindings too.

[1] https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home
I bet you could find a fair number of statistics errors in machine learning and other empirical branches of CS.
Right, and that's why you're not entitled to a jury trial for your speeding ticket. Speeding, running a light, etc., are not criminal offenses (except in extreme cases of reckless driving, where you may be on the hook for "reckless endangerment" or some such)
Good advice for those that know what their passions are. But in my experience, the hard part is in finding out exactly where their passions lie.
Its crazy how much business is similar to both dating and friendship. I find those people who I enjoy working with the most, treat them very similarly.