skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if some of the examples exhibit fixed-point precision calculation, and if they do, it would be great to highlight it.
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it actually is, as long as your polling interval is deterministic and meets the requirements of your target application (polling interval < state change interval).

If you look at real hardware (or FPGAs) they will basically do polling: The input gets sampled at each clock cycle and will then get processed. And hardware is definitely realtime :)

The downside of polling is that you burn CPU resources when actually nothing happens. Interrupt driven designs help there.
>>I think the price-to-value ratio of their service is quite good.

One almost wishes a similar service for scientific papers exists along the lines of a "paid dry-run peer review". Unfortunately this probably wouldn't take away from the need/burden of unpaid paper refeering for journals, but at least it's an idea to make another revenue stream available to staff doing the actual work that doesn't get co-opted by Elsevier or their non-open access ilk.
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Soviet Union was an international country inhabited by soviet people. The policy was to not segregate by ethnicity as much as possible. Of course there was some residual antisemitism but Babi Yar was presented as a tragedy for soviet people in general not for any specific ethnicity. The spin on the story to specify that it were the jews who were shot segregates jews from the rest of soviet people. This would be an approach of a racist.
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This was downvoted quite a bit when I came across it, but can someone explain why it's so bad?

Sometimes you do want to add GPIO to an existing Windows machine, but if you just want to mess around with .Net and some simple electronics, the parent's suggestion is cheap and simple (and e.g. https://github.com/raspberry-sharp/raspberry-sharp-io claims to support this use case.)
Good thing it is available for free then!
FreeBSD also has netmap https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4
In developing countries you are generally dealing with a user pays medical system. So they don't care if you require extensive medical care as you pay for it.
California's drought is over. Now what?
That's a wonderful story. I'm going to think about that one for sure.
Wow that's nothing. We have state government workers in California getting 90% of their highest salary as long as they live. And some even double dip.
When I used to work in corporate, the company travel agent sorted out serious crap every time it mattered. Once showed up at the airport, Friday evening, everyone on the way home. Surprise snowfall closed the airport and all flights cancelled. Called the booking people and they sorted out a taxi, hotel and other flight in 5 minutes while everyone else was struggling to find a cab. When I got to the hotel, there was a massive queue at reception which I just sailed past. I love a good travel desk.
I think the commonly approved shorthand for this phenomenon is:

Strong opinions, loosely held.
For all those interested in Floating Point Arithmetic, I'd strongly recommend reading this paper:

http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~robert/teaching/master/material/p5-g...
Or UNIX for that matter, both don't play on the same league as high integrity OS, if that is what you mean.

http://www.ghs.com/products/rtos/integrity.html
Version 9 runs on TME

https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2017/04/01/rese...
Sandy Bridge and newer CPUs don't have a trace cache, only a uop cache; they are different things. As you said P4 was the only Intel CPU with a trace cache.

/Pedantic
Yes there is, it's called TME, and it runs fine!

https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2017/04/01/rese...
Adtech enables a cottage industry of web sites that can get $100 or $5000 in ad revenue. It also allows small companies to advertise for e.g $100 or $5000. So if adblockers or something else kills online advertising and makes it the same as bus stop and magazine campaigns then without a novel form of micropayments a large fraction of the web will disappear, and a ton of business won't be able to advertise online at all. Getting rid of the whole adtech industry as it looks today would still be a very welcome change.
I'm not old or ignorant but I am a Comcast customer. Have to be because they're the only game in town.
Intellectual Humility doesn't go far enough. The goal should be to reap knowledge from all sources and to disassociate the emotional and intellectual self from that knowledge set.

I believe that the primary issue is the formation of heuristics about knowledge sources. e.g. Person B provides person A with knowledge of class "low-value in domain D" N times and knowledge of class "higher-value in domain D" K times in some time period T. At some time T_n A internalizes a heuristic about Person B's overall knowledge set. Depending on internal characteristics of A, all subsequent knowledge expressed by B may be ignored.

This is problematic. Not only does A ignore that the difference set of A and B's knowledge (even in D) is likely nonzero, it effectively assumes that A's knowledge is a superset of B, and that A's rate of knowledge aquisition is greater than that of B for all T. It ignores that A and B are dynamical systems.

In my opinion, formation of these kinds of heuristics and being dismissive of knowledge is a sign of intellectual weakness. It's akin to internalizing knowledge to the point of belief and belief is bounding.
I think it's really useful to see the MD's view of such changes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/61sgfw/ai_versus_.... Obviously not necessarily representative of how all MDs think but it's interesting to see some fears/concerns they have.
http://www.surpriseattackgames.com/portfolio-items/orwell/
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> IMO chatbots are the online equivalent of getting an automated response from a phone line

I agree, but that doesn't mean they're as bad as them.

It's _much_ faster to read a text and reply with a word/number/tap than it is to wait for the option you want to be read out to you: "for x press 1, for y press 2... for z press 9". Or worse, have to speak what you want, wait for it to parse what you said, and then ask you to confirm.
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The USSR was profoundly multinational, and many of the Republics - most notably Russia itself - were, in turn, fractally multiethnic, consisting of many semi-autonomous ethno-national regions (this is why it was called the Russian Soviet _Federative_ Socialist Republic, and the Russian Federation today).

On top of the already complex ideological balancing act involved in managing so many distinctive national and ethnic identities, particularly along the periphery, there was the strong official Marxist internationalism, the idea of friendship among the proletariat of all nations, and of the Soviet Union as a superlative embodiment of this, etc.

With such ideological/rhetorical objectives in mind, whatever you may think of them, it is easy to see why it would be a problem to give any particular people a sense of preeminent victimhood or confer unto them some special recognition. It can lead to enhanced claims for special status or compensation from those people, as well as animate the grievances of other ethnicities who were the victims of Stalinist policies such as forced mass resettlement, or who lost disproportionate numbers in the war, or succumbed to famines and collectivisation of agriculture, etc. Besides that, the USSR lost an estimated 27 million soldiers and civilians fighting the Germans--people of all sorts of ethnicities, but of course to no small extent Russian-Slavic. A self-interested government would not wish to antagonise veterans or grieving families by creating the perception that the mantle of victimhood was being somehow disproportionately alloted to a particular group.

So, there was generally a political reluctance to cast any particular spotlight on the distinctive plight of Jews in WWII. Doubtless, some amount of inertial anti-Semitism and a suspicious view of Jews played a role too.
entirely depends on the definition of "understand".

superficial understanding you'll forget in a couple weeks? sure. but nothing more, unless you're some sort of savant.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006059
With pool at least, I've had them charge me a fee when I cancel immediately.

I was in a rush to the train station and accidentally booked a pool. I cancelled within a few seconds and booked an Uber X, but they still charged a cancellation fee.

And I was in a rush because the first pool I booked that morning didnt show up (he called and asked me to cancel).
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With pool at least, I've had them charge me a fee when I cancel immediately.

I was in a rush to the train station and accidentally booked a pool. I cancelled within a few seconds and booked an Uber X, but they still charged a fee.
Answering as a fellow Norwegian:
I gladly pay my taxes - the beneficiaries of these taxes are the community as a whole, including myself. I don't have to worry about going bankrupt if I ever get any serious health issues, for instance.
There's also the issue of social security, which not everyone is a fan of. But giving people a decent economic baseline / safety net should mean they e.g. won't have to resort to crime to stay afloat. It may also reduce tensions, although I can't say that for sure (some of my old friends get social security, and they're feeling disenfranchised due to a lack of real opportunities).
I get the impression that some people think that taxation is basically money being stolen from them and being given to someone else - isn't that a somewhat gross misunderstanding?
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Which are....?
The reason this explanation is so widespread is that it is actually not false. However, the actual uncertainty in the Uncertainty Principle takes place at a much deeper existential level, in a more-important way, so this is a woefully incomplete explanation.

The actual uncertainty comes from the fact that the two quantities are Fourier transforms of each other... and just by that relationship, inherently, if one gets very localized (== very high frequency bump in its space), its Fourier dual gets spread out very far through space. (You can sort-of analogize this if you know about audio ... a sharp spike in temporal space, when transformed into frequency space, becomes a very big spread of values, because all those frequencies are relatively blunt and they have to somehow fit together to make this sharp thing, which requires an enormous number of them. Or if you go the other way, a sharp spike in frequency space means one frequency, which transforms into an infinitely-long sine wave in temporal space. So think about that kind of thing, except instead these are waveforms where the y value is kind-of the probability of getting that particular x-value as a result if you perform a measurement.)
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Why not both? A possible timeline...

Machines replace lots of humans meaning the permanent disappearance of a large number of jobs.

Wages fall as competition for the available jobs increases.

Social services are slashed to reduce government expenditure.

Those still able to find work cling to their job despite falling salaries virtually until death for fear of having to join the vast sea of unemployed people struggling to survive.

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I am not necessarily suggesting that this is probable however mass unemployment due to automation and people working well into old age are in no way mutually exclusive.
Exactly. Quote from the article:

>> Ron Deibert has led a team of counterespionage hackers—he prefers “researchers”—...

It's explicitly stated that his preferred term is "researchers", and yet the Globe and Mail appears to go out of their way to sensationalize by first introducing the word "hackers". Upon reading the full article, the use of the term "hacker(s)" is minimal, and used appropriately for what we self-identifying hackers would use it for.

I've become so accustomed to the word being used negatively that it takes a lot of mental effort to notice when it is used in a neutral or positive tone. I still find it fairly annoying that they included the word in the headline, as though to attract more views with a "controversial buzzword". It's true: the word "hacker" has long since been poisoned by the media. They cannot get away with using the term anymore, even with no ill intent. They spent over a decade using the term to rip people and communities apart. The damage is done, and no amount of effort on their part is going to allow them to sound sincere.
What's the alternative? A civil servant deciding what is allowed to be taught to children? Can you teach skepticism by saying "you're not allowed to learn this stuff over here"?

Seems to me that allowing science to win out in the 'market of ideas' is the healthiest solution.
That's weird: no Italian barista would ever think of making cappuccino with UHT milk.
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To put this into context, BMW, Audi and Mercedes moved around 200k each. Porsche managed about 60k. Jaguar Land Rover did around 130k.

Zero to 25k is solid growth, but they're still a long way from bring equal, let alone dominant and profitable, which feels like where people think they'll be in the future.
I agree to an extent, but when explaining things to beginners, there genuinely are elements that are 100% impossible to understand until earlier, building-block concepts are firmly under one's belt.

And knowing that there are hard limits on understanding is important. It is almost reassuring: yes, you don't (and can't) understand x right now, but you will be able to when you enhance your mental models! Learning is powerful! Contrast that to "you can understand anything just as you are" which is a dangerous attitude, IMO, because it teaches that students don't need to change. But what is learning, if not that?
Unfortunately true for Singapore as well even though it's not remote. Alcohol tax means a 12oz can goes for around 5 bucks as well.
"Another article in the long, illustrious tradition of mis-explaining HUP as being due to measurement "disturbing" some property or the other."

Disagree, it's a perfectly reasonable explanation of what's happening.

'Measuring' the system is really 'operating' on it. A quantum operation puts the system into one of the operators eigenstates, and also yields the eigenvalue as the measurement itself.

Two non-commuting operators, A and B, will have different eigenstates. Applying operator A on the system puts the system into some eigenstate a, which will be some linear combination of the eigenstates b, of operator B.

So yes, operating on the system with operator A will put the system into a superposition of b states. If the system was in a well-defined b eigenstate previously, it's not anymore. It was 'disturbed' by the 'measurement' done by operator A.

Position and momentum operators are examples of non-commuting operators. So are the 'spin' operators that measure angular momentum along different axes.
There are good door and window locks, but they're more common in areas with worse problems than the US. Israel has some good door locking systems, from Mul-T-Lock and Superlock. The doors look like ordinary residential doors, but they're steel doors in welded steel frames with bolts that extend into the frame at top, bottom, and both sides.
Weird that they don't talk about micro-filtered milk. It removes bacteria through filtration, tastes like regular milk, has a long shelf life and stays good for a good week in your fridge...
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In college I've had a discipline¹ in critical thinking (I studied Software Engineering in Portugal). We analyzed arguments in texts presented by the teacher and written by each other. It was mostly learning by doing, and seeing others doing.

¹Is this the right word? I'm struggling to find the right translation.
Apples and oranges. We do have driving assistance, fully autonomous vehicles are entirely different. Low hanging fruits are being picked, not wanting a software to call the shots every time is a valid stand imo.
That's the most horrible thing we learned during the 20th century.
That kind of atrocities haven't been perpetrated by 'monsters', 'psychopath' or however we could depict the authors to remove their humanity. They have been done by 'us', normal human, people who thought of themselves as good persons and thought they were fighting for a good cause and doing the right thing.

They way you do it is little by little. You first makes the person feel entitled, you give him reasons to hate the 'enemy', you remove accountability of the executant by using a strict hierarchy and by engineering the killing process. At one point it becomes 'normal' and 'logic' to do what you do.
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> To most people, knowing "how it works" is no more than being familiar enough with the magic spells that you can use them with confidence.

It's necessary to see beyond chosen words. I might ask how a computer program works and it could mean "how do you use it," or "how does it function." The other party has to infer my meaning.

I don't think you can take a phrase that is common in your life and apply it to everyone else. Words / phrase have different meanings in different contexts for different people.
As far as investor understanding goes the hype is probably under selling the importance of CRISPR. Because it makes lots of functionality reliable, cheap and much simpler. Even if it did nothing novel at all that would be important enough.
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"I'm curious what API you would use for implementing a table with varying row heights (that you only know upon rendering but can guess beforehand), sortable columns and millions of rows."

In general my policy is that when things get really complicated or specialized, the application knows a lot more about its use case than some trying-to-be-general API does, so it makes sense for the application to do most of the work of dealing with the row heights or whatever. (It's hard for me to answer more concretely since it depends on exactly what is being implemented, which I don't know.)
> Apples lack of support for standards is hurting their users. Metal instead of Vulkan

No. As a user, Metal gave me games with better graphics than OpenGL would have — I don't know about Vulcan being viable at the time, or now, but I don't think it would be as efficient for Apple-specific hardware than Apple's own API.

> No Miracast support.

Irrelevant; I have AppleTV and AirPlay. Does Miracast allow, say games, to present their UI on the iPhone/iPad while showing the action on the TV, as two distinct displays?
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His criticism is that The Blacklist is built on the idea that their are shit loads (hundreds of thousands, millions?) of really crappy scripts written every year by people with a dream. These dreamers are a lucrative business for many service providers in Hollywood. It's not that no service is provided in exchange for the money paid, but when you offer a service which explicitly sells the dream (when the reality is that a miniscule percentage actually "make it") then that is what is smarmy.

That said, I don't personally have a problem with it myself, mostly because you are getting something for your money. You'd almost certainly be better off going about things differently (sitting around waiting for Hollywood to call just because you put your script on The Blacklist--or anywhere--is a distinctly ineffective strategy).
The encryption is for security. The upload is so we can front the S3 bucket with a CDN for fast download of the binaries from any region.
I had a really bad date about a month ago. In a part of Brooklyn I'm not familiar with. Things started well, and the woman asked me if I would help her move some stuff because she was having some remodeling done. I was all, "Okay. Sure."

I wasn't set up all that well to begin with. Long day at work, tired. My phone was close to dead. So euphemism for hooking up or not, I went home with her. And she's legit trying to move stuff. So I start helping out. She has a lot of art, and she's telling me really specifically about where to put stuff. I take one painting and put it where I thought she wanted it.

That was not where she wanted it. Because the way I placed it in the closet it was touching some of her clothes. This was not okay. And she flips the fuck out on me and starts screaming at me about how I don't care about her things.

Okay, okay. I'm sorry. We're cool now, right honey bunny? We're cool. She's cool. So then we're trying to move her biggest piece out of the living room. It's an 8'x15'-ish mural. Large. Heavy. We get it off the wall hooks holding it up, and she straight up drops her end of it, causing the corner of the thing I was holding over my head to crash down on my face. The corner landed straight on my left eye and cut me on the eyebrow before sinking into the eye itself.

And then she starts screaming again about how this is what I deserve for disrespecting her art.

At this point, I'm out. I just left. I left my man purse and everything. Did not care. Just wanted out. Because this woman is crazy.

I had about 5% on my phone at that point, and I tried to get an uber to take me home. Got a connection to a driver, and my phone died. About this time, I started feeling really sketchy. Like something was wrong. Not wrong in a "I've had too much to drink." but more like, "There are probably drugs involved here." And I don't do drugs.

Uber driver never showed up. I woke up in my apartment about 8 hours later. Have no idea how I got there. Judging from the way my legs felt, I suspect I walked the whole way home from Williamsburg to Ditmas Park. My entire face was caked in blood, and I had to get 6 stitches put in my left eyebrow and a badly blackened eye. Also ruined my favorite sweater and jeans. I mean, it was a date. I was dressed up nice.

Bonus points to Uber for charging me the cancellation fee. I get it, they are not an ambulance service or a medical team. But come on, you have to have a better solution to a user whose phone dies than, "fuck you. give me five bucks."
If it tastes like regular milk (assuming you mean the pasteurized milk we drink in the US/Australia/NZ) what are the advantages over it? I regularly keep milk in my fridge much longer than a week.
So in said rant, how do you address the fact that, at least here in Melbourne, Uber is a much better experience than taxis?

I know a lot about how Uber works, and I still use them, because the experience is so much better.
Both your doctors were correct: high fat diet is unhealthy and vitamins don't help cancer (unless you mean help it grow).
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

Timeless

If you have to use 'clever' hacks, the least you can do is justify it in the comment