skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I was remembering this from wikipedia:

>In a similar matchup, AlphaGo running on multiple computers won all 500 games played against other Go programs, and 77% of games played against AlphaGo running on a single computer.

But you are right, the full version running on thousands of computers is much stronger than that.

Still, the fact that the non-distributed version is so strong even without tree search is pretty amazing. With algorithmic advances and more training it may eventually catch up to best human players. It's only the first generation of deep learning based Go bots.

And I believe the policy network only takes a few milliseconds to compute a move. So even if the TPU consumes hundreds of watts at full use, it doesn't need to run at full use for long.
Your choice of "big data" vs. python scripts sounds just like the classic trade-off of scope creep vs. good enough.

IMO the answer is almost always "good enough". This has been expressed in countless tropes/principles from many wise people, like KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It), "pre-optimization is the root of all evil", etc.

If you go the YAGNI route, and when your lack of scale comes back to bite you (a happy problem to have), you'll have hard data about what exactly needs to be scaled, and you'll build a much better system. Otherwise, you'll dig deeper into the pre-optimization rabbit-hole of hypotheticals, and in that case, it's turtles all the way down (to use another trope).
This is very python specific. While I got a 15/15 and can easily answer these, the reason for that lies with the fact that I am very fluent in Python, had I not been I would have not gotten at least 6-8 of these wrong.

This isn't a generalist quiz, nor is it a good baseline for interviewing candidates for the hiring process, this wouldn't tell me anything about the application of their skillset.
I don't get why they don't use the regular surface pro keyboard connector and offer extra ports and battery life, especially based on how much space is being used. It literally doubles the thickness while only offering a keyboard. If they did that it would justify the cost and thickness, as it is this just not worth it.
* What they can do is deny you entry. For citizens, not even that.*

Job lost. Father died without you seeing him. Thousands of dollars gone in lost ticket, reservations. That's more than enough for 99% of people. The other 1% don't even try to enter USA
Just a note that Blue in Green, while in NY, deals mostly in Japanese denim. Great shop though.
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It's a matter of practicality.
those people will be able to drive themselves. There will be plenty of desire to not drive regardless of those people.
Show HN: An extension that add links to import/require statements on GitHub
Ugh, why do people peddle this stuff?
> Also here in the UK we have workers on income support (welfare) because their employers underpay them

To qualify for income support a person has to be working less than 16 hours per week.

You also have to be one of these:

> pregnant or a carer or a lone parent with a child under 5 or, in some cases, unable to work because you’re sick or disabled

(There are 3 other requirements too)

The UK benefits system is comprehensive and complex, and there are some people in full time work who get benefits. This is a good thing - we want people to work. We want people to have at least a minimum wage. We don't want to set the minimum wage too high because it reduces jobs.

Some benefits are specifically "in work" benefits - working tax credit and child tax credit.
Do you disagree that there is no inherent utility in the ability to create a digitally-signed global timestamp?

What is your argument against the inherent utility of owning Bitcoins?
You literally don't have the data on you so you're not concealing anything. Just because you can download it later seems like flimsy reasoning.

Otherwise, they could get your for "traveling with more than $X" because you have more than $X in a bank account somewhere that you could get via ATM.
Also, why would you evolve eyes tuned to wavelengths that don't penetrate water well? That seems maladaptive in an aquatic environment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption_b...
this is one the only articles i've ever read where "honking" is used in a serious capacity as an adjective.
I think you are thinking of "Perjury" - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perjury

Other forms of lying can also be illegal, however.
Amen. "Everybody can code" is toxic thinking. If you can't chisel down a problem without importing half of NPM and a sprawling tour of GitHub/StackOverflow, then you are part of the problem.
Don't give me this happy horseshit masquerading as philosophy, this isn't about what "laws" or "ethics" are — Uber is constantly treating their drivers, who are people, like garbage.
Then you're stuck at your desk anyway, so you might as well use a desktop machine and take advantage of the additional performance and cost savings.
Haha wow, meanwhile at Oracle, having our commissions miscalculated by a team of experts is a feature, not a bug.

And somehow those miscalculations are NEVER in our favor, and always result in delayed payment.

It's like working for Crytek, but even worse.
I'll first admit I'm a worshiper of the Church of Emacs.

I told the trying to exit vi joke for years until someone pointed out to me that C-x C-c was equally if not more obscure. It was a part of me because that was the first thing I ever learned about Emacs. Just like :wq was the first thing I ever learned about vi.

Now, I think the fact that people seem to have more difficulty exiting vi is because vi is very likely the fallback for $VISUAL/$EDITOR, and hence much more likely to be trapped in by accident when unprepared.
How do we know the observed behaviour isn't mostly due to the hash set node allocator? If you want speed, you don't use global malloc.
Ah thanks, haven't used Ask HN before. I'll copy your comment down, delete this one and repost. Thank you!
That idea makes sense, but the Google brand / ecosystem is probably too important not to leverage.
I think this is to deal with products/parts which aren't available in different regions. As some people have mentioned, getting a keyboard replaced in a different region that has different keyboards isn't possible(unless you accept the keyboard used in that country).

Similarly if your power brick dies, you can't expect an apple store to carry power bricks for all possible outlets(especially with the iPhone style bricks that don't have removable prongs).

Still sounds like you'll get supported to that countries ability to support you.
I'm no fan of big data but this is completely unbelievable. And by that i mean i don't believe you.

The industry standard is ~100-200 debugged lines of code a day. (If your team tracks hours, look this up on a big project; taking into account all the hours one spends, not just coding.)

So your claim, being generous, is this team spent 6 months to not produce the equivalent of 100 lines of code? Even if completely true, this comes off as a humblebrag.
Surface Pro: Kaby Lake gives longer battery life, but still no modern ports
It does print a message, but doesn't prompt you for a response. I think that's the distinction that was being made.
Since Android 7.0 the OS can boot without the encryption key just like Android. Absolutely nothing was removed.
Here's information on the law you seek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Ask HN: What to do to dramatically improve your programming skills in 3 months?
If you had 3 months and basic-intermediate programming skills, what would you do level up and how would you measure your progress? I'm looking to build a learning routine into my day to day and interested to hear what great programmers would advise. Thanks!
I've done basically the same thing. Definitely passes the sniff test - somehow there's not much of a difference. Not sure if oil from the skin ends up becoming a antimicrobial agent over time?
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Similar. It is a mistake to say, "We made our MVP but nobody wanted it." That's a contradiction in terms. The minimum VIABLE product is the minimum thing that people do want, and are willing to pay for. That's what viable means. What do you think viable means? (Genuinely curious.)
Thanks, I was just coming in here to post this!

Sometimes it takes me a day or two to get the transcripts up. I don't have them for every episode yet, as I just introduced the feature 3 or 4 episodes ago, but I'll have one up for this episode soon.
I'm sort of confused about the annual management / support fee. Sounds like this would be a cool accessory that would require G Apps and therefore bring startups into the ecosystem. Why charge support for something so expensive that also requires G Suite for every user in the first place? Why isn't the functionality just linked directly into some G Suite OneNote equivalent?

I feel like that fee would really kill the appeal, if I were hunting for something like this. Also, I'm assuming there would be a support fee for each device?
Start-up managers don't want a "master carpenter."

They want a replaceable journeyman who smacks a few nails and strings together a few prefabricated solutions.

There are pros and cons. And, as for stools, well, these journeymen "coders" have polluted GitHub with quite a lot of stool.
Moved to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405109
human(alain).
mortal(X) :- human(X).
I scored top 3% at 14/15. I had experience with Python so that helped. Honestly I don't think I am in top 3%, since I don't work as sw engineer in real life.
> ... and it is increasingly trivial to convert [Bitcoin] to the currency of your choice.

I think the author lives in a bubble. For 99% of all humans this is not true.
> ...if someone takes an IR high resolution, close photo of your iris they can defeat your security...

There are commercial security products that regularly perform "IR high resolution" iris scans from several meters away and require no cooperation from the target. Stanley CSS sold one that sat on top of a doorway over five years ago, their product literature says that you need to look at it - but having demoed it myself, I can say that is not true.
It's not the software set to travel mode, it's the account.
Essentially the old one with some minor changes under the hood, and an updated pen. Worth an upgrade from Pro 4? Don't think so.
Ford will just wait for Mazda to offer an electric package and use that.
It rhymes with SchmindSchbody.

It's not a bad system, I actually like it quite a bit, BUT...it has some definite pain-points associated with using it!
Very much not true. Counter to the way we think America should work perhaps, but many people have gone to prison for lying to federal officials while not under oath. Martha Stewart being one of the most famous. Your best strategy when confronted with uncomfortable questions by federal officials in the US is to say "I wish to consult with my attorney before answering any questions." The result might be a lot of unpleasantness and delay, but they cannot throw you in prison for saying those words.
iOS requires a password after a reboot, after 24-48 hours of inactivity or after several failed attempts with the fingerprint.

I'm glad it's not every few hours because my iPhone password is quite long.
This shows me how little I knew. I thought the majority of land was owned by the royalty.
> a very boring, conventional tech stack that gets a lot of hate on HN--PHP and WordPress--but it's a free and ethical stack

That's not exactly a unique feature of this stack. Most web stacks are free and open source.
Thanks! I should probably share that more prominently on the website.
Driver quality correlates with price/earnings per mile on an S-Curve. Per mile earnings and per mile prices have both dropped.
Great link. I'm pretty sure the CI stands for counterintelligence, but I may be wrong. Regardless, I have no opinion, just though it was interesting to see where former DS agents find themselves after service.
Simple Ain't Easy, but Hard Ain't Simple: Leaving Clojure for Ruby
Note that it's a matte black car problem. Shiny black cars are visible. It's also not a problem at short distances, or if there are significant parts of the car that are visible.

It's a similar thing to not being able to see men carrying a glass windowpane. It's a somewhat niche problem.
I thought the trick was to back up the phone on one side of the border, factory reset / wipe, restore the phone on the other side of the border.

Obviously that doesn't work for laptops - but for a phone it is in the realm of possible.
> Most of America by geographical land area is farm land.

No, total agricultural land is less than 1 billion of a total of 2.3 billion acres.
> Its got the same pixel density of a macbook pro

Just to clarify, the Surface Pro and Surface Book have a 267 DPI 2:3 aspect ratio display. They are fantastic.

The MacBook Pro's display is ~227 DPI and is not 2:3.
The issue is when you add a very small number to a larger number. This occurs in neural networks when accumulating gradients during learning. Many of the gradients are very small, and when adding them repeatedly they get rounded down. There was a paper studying the effect, and I think it was after about 14 bits of precision the accuracy is very diminished. But with stochastic rounding they could get down to very few bits.
> As engineers, we fail to appreciate that we are there to serve business first and foremost

The company has zero loyalty to you and will screw you over if it makes business sense to do so. There is absolutely no reason to put the company above your career interests.
Sounds believable to me. If you don't know what you're doing you can easily waste six months setting up a hadoop cluster with ingestion.
Try reading the OP again and you will find no claim that all punishment is problematic.
The right solution to this problem is saner laws

Considering the history of the civil rights movement in the US, we're not going to get saner laws without a little civil disobedience. It sucks to bear the brunt of this harassment, but saying "yes" only enables the system to harass everyone more efficiently.
SyneRyder answered for me, so I'll just say "thanks for asking"! Sometimes I wonder if anyone is actually reading those things, and now I know.
Brick means the power adapter?

I've gotten 4 or 5 replacements, for free. I always have spares (instead of carrying them with me). So always claim "Dude, weird, I just bought this a few months ago."

Given the past drama, I think Apple just swaps them, to avoid any further bad PR.

And, frankly, these adapters should last forever. For comparison, I don't think I've ever replaced an HP or Dell adapter.
The most neglected programming constructs
And to be clear, the Surface Laptop can be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro as well. Eventually that will be a $50 upgrade, but for the first year after launch, it will be a free upgrade.
Doesn't support Safari apparently
I can sorta kinda understand that you would use something like that for a rich web application, but this is literally a blog post. It doesn't get any more static than that.
What is your favorite?

We use a mix out of all products, but arent G Suite Customers for a variety of reasons. Is the Surface Hub relatively "open" to be used with with Third Party Software?
> Colour is one of the few things we've got to express ourselves

Oh people find all other sorts of mildly yawnworthy ways "to express themselves", from oddly-placed piercings to full-face tattoos to half-baldshaved-half-manbun hairdos to oh-so-snowflake band t-shirts to rainbow-colored socks... among all the noise and clutter, "more colorful pants" wouldn't particularly stand out to me as expressive, whereas by now an unadulterated unmutilated well-nourished clear-eyed non-screen-zombified come-as-you-are face, nowadays, would. In fact, the blander and minimal the clothes and peripherals, the more one's face and head will stand out on its own! That's today's ultimate self-expression, allowing your natural self to shine through in full glory absent all the countless "customization options" people go through to carve out their "unique" avatars =)
10 rem Using GW-Basic

15 end_of_list=10000000

20 For x=1 to x=end_of_list

30 a(x) = a(x) + 1

40 next x

50 rem Done counting, print the result

60 for x=1 to x=end_of_list

70 print "Value " x " has " a(x) " repetitions"

80 next x
That would show up as a kind of "hole" in the road. Clever software would be required to see it as a danger.
With the level of outsourcing and specialization that has gone on, most car manufacturers are evidently not really car manufacturers anymore, but actually internal combustion engine manufacturers and assembly line operators. They just pay other companies to make most of the parts for them and keep the engine in house as their "secret sauce", as a technology that can't easily be copied.

Likewise, Tesla isn't really an electric car company or even an electric motor company. Electric motors are something everyone's known how to make for a hundred years and they actually get a lot of their generic car bits like their interiors from the same companies who supply traditional car companies. Tesla's actually a battery pack company (this is why the PowerPack and the SolarCity merger makes sense). It's the knowledge and the experience that went into those packs that keeps other companies from easily copying Tesla.

The problem Ford and any traditional automaker faces is somehow pivoting from their current secret sauce, which took them decades and billions of dollars to develop, to a new one in a field that's completely unrelated, where almost nothing they already know applies.
I'd vote against that. I use ^C as the best "esc-replacement-without-straying-far-from-the-home-row" that works in every install, every emulator and every international keyboard.
The data is still on the device. Only the password "vaults" have been wiped, obscuring the presence of the data and removing its access.

Look, you can twist the words however you want. At the end of the day, if a CBP agent or Federal prosecutor clues to the fact that you're using this functionality, their interpretation is almost certainly going to be "'late2part is hiding something!", and they will bring their (considerable) powers to bear in response to that, in order to figure out what that is.

Your indignation about or lack of understanding of that reality aren't going to change it.
I disagree, I mean, food has inherent utility. Food is valuable for everyone and even though you might not like certain foods, you _need_ food in general. Some things are more usefull for us as a society than others.

I do agree with OP that certain things might not be usefull even tough they currently hold commercial value, I just think Bitcoin is usefull. And I also believe that BTC is usefull in an infectious way.
Bitcoins are different than tulips or homes with subprime mortgages or dot com companies in 1999 in that they are completely useless. They have no value whatsoever. Usually bubbles are built on something real. Even Ponzi's international reply coupons had some underlying value. Bitcoins are completely worthless.

There's a lot of ferment for them, but then there were Casey Serin's making big money in 2007 on subprime loans, or Pets.com superbowl commercials, or Dutch tulip bulbs. It always feels heady during the times people are publishing books with titles like "Dow 36000". It's almost always right before the crash.

As Bitcoins are worthless, people go casting about for something else which they consider worthless. They come up with the dollar bill, and say the Bitcoin is just like the dollar bill, but electronic and untied to government.

This is pretty silly for a whole host of reasons. It would take too long to go into fully, and pointless to those who've already drunk the kool-aid. The USA has the world's largest GNI by some measures, it holds thousands of tons gold in Fort Knox and other places. In 1971 the dollar was an abstraction of its gold reserves, since then its been an abstraction of that abstraction, something akin to class B non-voting shares of a large stock. If it were possible for states to run the printing presses and create value, you'd wonder why that innovation was discovered in the past century. Any how, the Bitcoin scam claimed a magic wand could create value, so unsurprisingly other scams arose - Ethereum, Ripple, NEM etc. all currently have billion dollar market caps.

It's illustrative of how these cons work. I mean I don't know how much more blatantly it can be spelled out to you its a scam - Bitcoin was not created by a Ponzi, but by some criminal who has kept their identity completely secret. If this doesn't wake you up to the con, I don't know what will. Except its inevitable crash to becoming worthless, just like "Flooz" and "Beanz" did 17 years ago. And those were electronic currencies created by VC backed firms.
That border agent is a real person, who is "only doing their job". So are you. It works both ways. If enough people say no, then after a hellish but hopefully short adjustment period, the policy will change.
Suggest title revision to something like "what's a good alternative to Bootstrap 4?" since that is the question in effect. (current title is a wry extrapolation of the background)
Why should we encourage exiting?

Perhaps the mission is not complete and you should keep the file open until there are zero defects, everything is properly commented and you 100% understand everything and then some.

At that point _maybe_ Vim shall let you exit!

:)
Well, I have found performance to be a little choppy over the last few months, but a fresh Windows install would probably help there at least some, though it wouldn't surprise me if the Creators Update isn't quite as smooth on older hardware.

Somewhat more concerning is the half dozen times in recent months where it has crashed and then had some kind of trouble starting up. Two such times I was convinced that it was the end for it, but leaving it for a while always allowed it to recover.

But mostly, battery life. SP3 wasn't a champ to start with, but I could get 4+ hours of work done easily without charging. At this point it's less than 2 hours before I'm hunting for a charger, which does change how I use the device.
probably tens of milliwatts, normal lidars are fractions of a milliwatt average output. The HDL-64 has a max laser power of 1mW.
They do actually mention there being a Jamboard app being rolled out this week for iOS and Android, but there are no details that I could find.
Amazon is a perfect example actually... I was trying to find a reference but gave up. I remember reading about the logic behind isolating the checkout experience. For a while I don't think they even had a link to go back to your cart. Even now they make it non-obvious and have a dialog that will ask you before you leave. They also remove links of any products to their product pages. All trivial UI elements you'd think would be good design, but it turns out entrapment is better. Heck, Amazon would know.

They do have an accordion, but they minimize data entry to an absolute minimum. It's all multiple choice and submit.
> [proving intent is] essentially impossible if you have a device that never contained sensitive data in any form.

I'd like to see a short story based on this premise: man is arrested and tried for crossing the border with a brand new phone, having left his usual phone at home. The prosecution argues that since he presumably usually keeps sensitive information on his phone, not copying that data to the phone he was carrying proves his intent to hide information from border police.
I have seen similar guys as "senior architect". They speak well, are nice, sit in a lot of meetings, make nice Visio charts, use words like "integration pattern" but you never get anything real out of them.