jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't feel like the author is familiar with modern approaches to AI. For instance, he mentions "creativity" as a stumbling block for AGI, but there is a whole class of existing algorithms that exhibit prototypical creativity, namely generative models.

Essentially, the idea is that "creativity" is the act of sampling from a distribution over the kind of thing you are trying to create. Learning algorithms like Boltzmann Machines will learn a distribution over the inputs they see. One thing you can do with such a distribution is checking the probability of a given input under it, which may be good to classify them. Another thing you might want to do is generate representative samples, i.e. generate an example E with probability X iff P(E) = X under the model. The latter is what I would call "creativity".

Under this definition, creativity depends on both the learned distribution (which should only assign high probability to meaningful data) and of course on the sampling algorithm. As it turns out, it is very hard to write good sampling algorithms for non-trivial distributions (naive MCMC will often get stuck). So creativity is hard, but so are a lot of other tasks, so I don't think it's fair to single it out.
I've been interested for a while in taking adblock in the opposite direction in terms of technology: a service that unsubscribes you from those annoying catalogs that always come in the mail. I feel like I'm just the middleman between the postal service and the dump.
From the article: At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway,” he said.
How? Pron seems to be ok with the direction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827063
It's always been bums on seats for them. Without that they will be measured by productivity alone which will be a disaster.
This is highly related to location based compensation. Sure companies are still able to pay there most senior devs less than their out of coding bootcamp just because they are not sitting in their SF office and I am ok with this, but as a remote dev from eastern Europe I am seeing new types of companies that learned how to work with remote talent effectively (not just in term of pay, but also team dynamic) and they make a killing.
They've probably underpriced vaccine really. I guess we're spending $5-$40 per head and the value to the economy of getting back to normal a couple of months earlier is likely over $1000.
But you said if only a subset of items increases in price it is not inflation by definition?
Wow, where do you live?! Across the US and UK, I’ve consistently found home-ISP-supplied DNS to be slow, spammy and unreliable.
I work at Microsoft and in Azure Cosmos DB, the same org as Steve.

Leadership believing in remote makes all the difference. We'd been doing more and more remote hiring in the years before COVID, especially when remote made a specific skillset's talent pool larger. This led to some remote-friendly, bordering on remote-first culture. When COVID hit, we adapted really fast.

I had taken a short break from Cosmos DB before COVID hit, and then accepted a new management role back on the team right as COVID was hitting. I've never seen my team all in the same room; but it's been fine/normal-ish. Now that full-remote just takes manager approval, we've had folks move away from Seattle/SF. I've got reports in the UK and NYC. It's pushed our culture to be a lot more communicative, intentional, and organized, which is good for everyone, Seattle based or remote.

What's great about all this is now there isn't even a question of "is remote ok"? We don't need to be looking for a specific skillset or a certain level of seniority. It really opens up the talent pool; recent hires have given us a lot more selection. (P.S. - I'm hiring Product Managers; permanent remote. Check out my pinned tweet on the twitter profile in my bio)
It is substantially different.

The “problem” we have today is that too many different commentators, and the people who consume their commentary, are free to make their own decisions about credibility, motive, interpretations of events... Which of course leads to people disagreeing about those things.

Some people would say this is a fundamental feature of a liberal democracy. Others will look at those they disagree with, and say they are spreading misinformation, that every avenue they have for expression must be restricted, and controlled by a central authority responsible for determining what is true and what is not true.

I would say that having a free democracy, and having an arbiter of truth are mutually exclusive states. The people who see the need for a truth arbiter, and try to implement solutions for the problem of lacking one, can only ever do so at the expense of democratic freedoms.
Energy loss is strongly supralinear in the temperature gradient, so it's probably a lot more than that.
Fossil fuels would be more expensive if someone had to pay what it would take to capture and store the pollution.
In academia and industry, I've only seen one case of sexism, and it was from a visiting professor (from Turkey) and he was quickly removed.

I have seen women that shouldn't be in CS, not because they are women but because they were only there because they had heard that CS was a high paying field. Then they washed out because they didn't have the interest nor mindset to learn the subject. But so what? I've seen men fail out the same way.

The opposite is also true, I've seen women and men alike excel. In today's technology world, if you've got the skills, then you get the respect.

I will not hire a woman coder just because she is a woman, and the same is true for a man. I want to see a demonstrated mastery of the requisite skills.

If I have a daughter in the future, should I push her to be a coder just because there are fewer women coders overall? No. That, to me, is just sexist because it does not take my (hypothetical) daughter's interests or talents into account. If she likes it, then by all means do it and be the best! But I would not discourage my daughter from a woman-domineered field just because there are a lot of women in that field already, especially if it something that she is good at and that she enjoys!

The same would be said to my son. I would not discourage him from CS just because there are a lot of men in that field already. Neither would I encourage him into a woman-dominated field, just to fill an arbitrary quota. Let him do what he is good at and enjoys!
Sure, I wasn't disagreeing with you per se, as I am well aware of your nick.

Just mentioning the issue for other readers, as many think malloc/NEW/Allocate or whatever is called, is fast.
Honestly, I'm not sure that I get the value here. Is it just the ability to do some of the prep in advance? Why is (2hrs + 4min) better than (10min)? When I'm cooking a meal, getting the pasta done is rarely the limiting factor on any axis: it's dead simple, predictably timed, and requires very little attention beyond an occasional stir.

If you're looking for a different taste or texture and this is a way to achieve that, cool. But what makes the usual way "not optimal"? (I'm very leery of bold claims of revolutionary new cooking techniques based on traditional equipment and ingredients. People have been working to optimize cooking and discover new techniques for the entire history of civilization, and most of the low-hanging fruit has presumably been plucked long since.)
If it matters, then you're keeping too much in your hot wallet. The definition of "hot wallet" is "we keep a small enough assets here to cover day-to-day operations, but not so much that we're in trouble if they disappear." There's no other reason to have a hot wallet.

Insuring their hot wallet might let Coinbase increase its size, but it offers no extra protection for consumers. None whatsoever.
I thought it was the other way around. (A "drone" is--or was, I guess, since it can be anything now, even a barge--an unmanned aircraft used for target practice, so all drones are UAVs.)

Guess that goes to show how confused the terminology is. Guess we'll just have to deal with the word meaning nothing, like "cloud". It did have a particular meaning, but then the term got extended to other military UAVs when they started using them for other missions, due, I guess, to lack of a better term. ("UAV" is a mouthful.) And then to autonomous quadcopters as a civilian version of a UAV. And now, apparently, to any small helicopter thing or any autonomous robot vehicle. Soon, it'll probably mean any robot.

However, I guess the SpaceX "autonomous spaceport drone ship" is a bit more accurate to the original meaning than usual. It's mission in life does seem to be target practice.
Combined cycle natural gas turbines are extremely easy to throttle compared to baseload like coal or nuclear. Even most diesel/bunker fuel facilities that were used for peaking have been shuttered or switched to natural gas, because of cost as well.

Natural gas turbines are just fine as a peaking stop gap until we have the renewables dispatchability problem solved.
I've been (very slowly) working my way through "Art of Electronics" for the last few years, and I highly recommend it for the next level of depth below Arduino et. al.
The studios would be fine with any lower ranked movie being in the top 14, though. People went to see what they went to see. They got what they wanted.
It's multiplexing support uses static sized windows, which even on modern LANs means you usually only see 3-5 mb/s transfer rates where you should be able to - even with encryption overhead - achieve almost gigabit NIC speed.

Fortunately the HPN-SSH patches exist to solve this problem - but I really want to know why their's so much resistance to adding them upstream.
Additionally, it's impossible to have DRM on an open source operating system, like Linux, where an attacker can fiddle with the OS internals to their heart's content.
Excellent explanation. I think most people's issue with python's lambda is that it isn't what they expect. There are generally some gotchas and the syntax diverges from that of a regular function.

I side step the lack of closures by using named locals with the keyword arguments when defining inner functions. However, for numeric types, this doesn't really work:

def makeCounter():
value = 0
def count(value=value):
tmp, value = value, value + 1
return tmp
return count

inc = makeCounter()
print inc()
print inc()

The above prints '0\n0', but if we use an object that is used "by reference" in a such a function, one can get this behavior:

def set_adder():
s = set()
def add(item, s=s):
s.add(item)
return s
return add

s = set_adder()
print s(1)
print s(2)

t = set_adder()
print t(3)
print t(4)

This will print:

$ python mk.py
set([1])
set([1, 2])
set([3])
set([3, 4])
> Notice that printf("%c", c) has pretty damned clear behavior, and it requires someone to say the equally-clear printf("%d", (int)c) to get a number when they want a number;

It does have a clear behaviour, but it's possibly different from what you think. From your examples I'm assuming "c" is a char variable - since you're casting it to int in the second example - which is then (incorrectly) passed to printf with "%c". Both %c and %d require an integer parameter, so "c" should be an integer to begin with (thus no need for a cast).

Nitpicking, I know, but such code can lead to many subtle bugs.
"Give me six words written by any man and I will find reason in them to hang him." --Cardinal Richelieu

> He is just like most other journalist and historian - seemingly wise because of post-hoc analysis but incapable of actual prediction.

No, but he tells an interesting story very well. Point, counterpoint, point. I wouldn't take Gladwell's words (or anyone's) as gospel, but I found this genuinely fascinating. I'll be damned that if isn't a tantalizing portrait of Enron, even more so because you know what happened to them at the end. It sounds like someplace I would want to work.

And I learned a few things from this, so what's the harm?
This is where the lack of controlled experimentation makes the data harder to read. To match the Dutch imprisonment rate, the US would have to release some 84% of its prison population, or in other words, to not have imprisoned those people to begin with. But if we did that, the crime rate would be different because, presumably, at least some of those people would have gone on to commit crimes!

I'll readily concede that at least half, maybe 60% of the US prison population is only locked up for drug offenses, and that legalizing drugs by the end of this week won't affect the rates of other crimes[1]. 84% seems high.

[1] I couldn't easily find any good breakdown of what all these people are imprisoned for, and would appreciate it. That said, as much I'm in favor of drug legalization, drug possession and sale is still a crime, and it's also a crime in nearly every other country you're comparing crime rates to.
RIP was quite widespread in NZ for some reason.
You seem to be accusing me of racism rather than offering a counterargument. Did I misread you?

Cultural homogeneity and its effects on crime transcend race. European immigration to the US during the 19th and 20th centuries were linked to crime as well. Usually, the dominant cultures in a heterogenous society will exclude and oppress minority populations, which leads to poverty and desperation. The problem really is cultural heterogeneity, not anybody's race. Acceptance of minority populations into the greater culture solves the problem much more effectively than any kind of antagonistic separatism, that's for sure.

Plus, assuming cultural heterogeneity leads to higher crime doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad idea. I happen to think the benefits of a diverse, heterogenous society outweigh the costs. That doesn't mean the costs don't exist.

EDIT: In particular, check this link out: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-t...

There are countries with majority Muslim populations with lower-than-average crime rates--check out Turkey and Tunisia, as do countries with majority black populations--check out Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Jamaica. Obviously Islam, or blackness, isn't the problem here.
What about memory consumption?
Push software is even better about testing: you can forcibly upgrade 1% of installs, monitor them intensely, and let the (non-upgraded) system executive roll back the version if something bad happens. The system executive can even automatically roll back if it loses contact with the vendor, in case the upgrade goes so horribly wrong that it brings down networking.
Why has this been downvoted? is the type checking in Google Closure not a good option?
Thank you for posting. I think there are huge issues with the argument that these six people are ruining the world and the solution is to replace them with six other people to tell you how to think.
I've always heard this in the phrase: time in the market beats timing the market.
Personally I think Khosla is doing everyone a favor here. All the free publicity over CA’s right to public beachfront, and it’s great motivation for the legislature to strengthen the laws around guaranteeing that access.

Without entitled billionaires fighting the system, it would be much harder to drum up support for stronger protections enshrined in law. They could call it the Khosla Act.

In all seriousness, CA should enforce the law they wrote, not the law they wish they had. But also, good luck if Khosla wants to so much as upgrade a circuit breaker, if I understand the law correctly, any permitted work on the property is an opportunity for the local building inspector to require a new public access road to be put in.
I caught a whiff of this venting to the local atmosphere in downtown SF a few years ago, and it was shocking. The smell is so strong and noxious you can’t believe that there isn’t some serious problem happening in your midst. No warning either. It’s about as frightened of a smell as I’ve ever been.
> We do this in school by separating kids into different classes according to our guess of their ability. Not very reliable, but it can be better overall than treating everyone equally.

Measured outcomes are generally worse overall. This system is popular with wealthy/high-status parents though.

The way to get better outcomes (in school and society) is to make sure that everyone has enough individual attention and support, not to sort and label everyone.

People who are impulsive or who integrate knowledge in a less regular way or ... are not “biologically inferior”; those differences are a complex trade-off, and our society needs a wide variety of personalities and thinking styles to function.
No problem just a statement of fact.

Goals in greater efficiently have never been as exciting as goals for greater speed (with disregard for efficiency).
> Racism was the absolute norm in the US until ~not that long ago.

The racists during the time of slavery and Jim Crow made no attempt to deny their racism. The large majority of Republicans, including Trump, denounce racism.

The news will find every schmuck with a confederate flag and put them on the TV, but that doesn't explain why a Republican majority Senate passed criminal justice reform and Trump signed it.

> Statistically you’d expect half of people to be dumber than average.

The implication being that one major political party constitutes the entire lower half of the distribution?
Google's investment wasn't through Ventures.
I really hope they get the accurate tracking and depth and getting objects to "stick" where they belong in 3d space correctly, without moving out of place or floating in a wrong way, with quick head movement. If they can do that, most of the battle is won and it will be amazing.

Edit: although, of course they'll need some intelligence on the surroundings to identify surfaces and stuff. But imagine like re-decorating your work room, adding scifi textures or something, and maybe pipes or whatever ;p
Wasn't Whatsapp's success attributed to their policy of inclusion (all major mobile platform/devices). This seems like coming from a different company altogether.
you are addicted to infographics.
That one extra letter would have put the title over the 80 char limit. Though "...device repairability", "...phone/laptop repairability" would have fit just fine with "Apple".
Do you run other services (Vault, Consul, etc.) for service discovery, configuration management, etc.?

Genuinely curious about the load of managing this on the infrastructure team.
Hey neighbor, you live in the heights? You are describing my house and neighborhood :D

Still have power here
No they usually use Kaleido. They don't specify but it matches with the poor color saturation and 4096 colors.

Kaleido is a b/w eink panel with a colour LCD overlaid.

There's tech that looks much better like eInk's ACeP (much stronger color saturation) but it needs multiple flashing refreshes to update so it's not feasible for interactive devices. They're just being marketed for advertising and the like.
Probably you are right. I fail to find any more concrete reference where the claim in the papers is based on.
I don't understand how you can read my comment as anything other than pro-Tarkovsky. I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek by calling them "boring". I hope the cinephiles of the world can someday forgive me.

The real tragedy is that in our hyper-attention-seeking society that calling a movie "boring" is such a terrible insult. A movie that is strategically boring defeats our expectations. Movie makers know what we're expecting, and when we're expecting it, and delaying or flouting the fulfillment of those expectations can be part of the movie-making art. It's been a long time since I've seen Solaris, but I just recently rewatched 2001, and that's a movie that definitely uses boringness strategically. It has long sequences that communicate how long it takes to get around space, so that when you finally get to the Discovery One you can feel how far away and isolated Bowman and Poole are.
Yes "to create value in any way" is wrong, I should have written something more nuanced.

I think you are right on this mainly being about his super valuable teachings not being utilized and this specific post not being about the author thinking he's a genius although he does think so[0].

[0] http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/a-genius.html
Oh man, it warms my heart to see this here. I grew up reading Alan Ford and had a collection of over 200 comics.

These comics were so massively influential in old Yugoslavia that it's common to hear people quote them all the time. Something about the dark, cynical humor just made them perfect for the Balkans mentality.

I moved to the US around 10 years ago. Seeing this just made me feel so incredibly nostalgic.
Many of the most common Chinese characters used in Mandarin aren’t really used in Japanese, so especially for the most common words there isn’t that much overlap.
My absolute favorite jazz musician. After years of trying to learn "classical" piano, a new teacher introduced me to jazz. Crystal Silence was my favorite piece. Later I discovered more of his works. His concert with Bobby Mcferrin is one of my absolute favorite recordings.

So long, Chick, and thanks for the music.
Are you using a *@fastmail.com address, or your own domain? If not the latter, it would be easy to switch to that.
Just make UP work in addition to X. This way users with built in reflexes won't feel punished.

Also, make space work for jumping too. I hit space a few times causing me to skip down on the page.

You don't need to advertise these additional key bindings, but since they are very common in other games a significant portion of players will automatically use them.

Other than that, very well done!
It does, especially over money laundering.

In this case though it's likely fought pretty strongly since it's possible that what they did weren't offences in their home countries.
It sounds like you rate previous salary as a pretty important factor. It seems like an odd measure. How exactly does it factor in, and what reason do recruiters have to trust what candidates say?
Really really great game! You should make the rewards for freeing a prisoner appear instantly, waiting for those items to appear kills the pacing of the game somewhat.
Feature suggestion: a time delay on new accounts being able to post a comment. Would prevent trolling like this.
It is less than a Netflix subscription but essentially everyone on the planet subscribes and can't cancel.

(Also, many users would agree on the value but balk at redirecting funds from an existing allocation to continue service on something they've already gotten for free.)
>Clones the repo to a temp folder and opens editor

Isn't this a 2-line shell script?
It brings back a memory of an online shop that offered a discount if you didn't use Internet Explorer, they said maintaining the site for IE cost them extra money, so it makes sense.

I wonder if online shops would start offering a discount if the user says yes to targetted advertising.
You're right to distinguish between currencies with exogenous demand (like USD) and those like BTC. But the "bank run" comment makes no sense, even for beanie babies.

Bank runs exist in a fractional reserve context -- because banks lend out their deposits (which stimulates growth), your listed balance is actually an IOU. That is, an obligation to "cover" deposit balances, which can be met or not.

Now think of people trading beanie babies. One person sells a beanie baby, the other person parts with $10k. What is there to "cover"? Who is keeping what in reserve? The answer is nothing and nobody --- in a world where beanie babies were currency, this would be perfectly fine.

tl;dr you actually need (fractional-reserve) banks for a "run on the bank"