skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally loved math. My family instilled strong academic values in me since my childhood to the point where I had an interest and genuine curiosity in math, science, etc.

Rigid schooling totally ruined that for me. Mindless repetition of the most boring parts of each subject hammered into you over and over until you lose interest or totally disassociate it with the creative/curious part of your brain.

Luckily, I recovered my love for math, engineering, science in college, but I do wonder how much more I could have learned if I encountered that style of teaching from grades 5-12.

Anyways, my view is they should require certain core subjects, but use periodic testing of knowledge and applied projects rather than having grades be dependent on the teacher's style (pop quizzes, hours of homework a night for one subject).
Is there released documentation on the instruction set of the Google Cloud TPU?
I only clicked because I read "spring" other than "sprig"
Sigh ntsa. Firefox on my Windows 10 machine right now is using 81 threads. Firefox has used many threads for over 10 years at least.
I think when you add "why try to reinvent the wheel?" to the end, it is less of a question and more of a statement. Similar to saying, "Why would you do that?" after someone does something silly. You aren't actually asking them why they'd do the thing. You're saying they ought not have.
Why do you believe it is "most likely"? And how do you define grit in this context?
PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Driver probably would. But would the passenger?
Some outrageous percentage of small businesses fail within two years.

Restaurants are a big contributor to that statistic. Sprig was, essentially, a restaurant. Calling it a tough environment to operate in is an understatement.
Because of the way slashes (a b64 char) gets parsed in URLs.
Computers are a tool. Because they are the new things it is hard to see that they are just tools, so I like to start with this related question: do hammers improve education? Lets look at that question first.

I have never seen a math teacher who I would trust with a hammer.
English (language) classes might have a paper mache hammer - one student made as a prop for a play and it has been hanging on the wall since.
Physics teachers need a cartoon oversized sized rubber hammer.
Shop class will have 60 different hammers, for some types there will be one for each student.
Art class will have a couple, and once in a while borrow a bunch from the shop class...

Now that our mindset is correct we can re-ask the question: are computers useful? The answer is what are you going to do with them.

Part of modern English (language) class is typing. Starting perhaps 3rd grade there should be regular streams of reports handed in electronically. As students get older much of the literature they need to read is available free on a computer and hard to find in paper form. Other than a caution about handwriting and spelling still being useful skills I expect to see a lot of computers in language classrooms. As the kids get older things like web pages will be added to English class. (web pages have more in common with journalism than computer science!)

When the kids get older I expect art to be done on a computer, but for elementary aged kids art with messy paints is better than the computer. (some professional artists find painting on a computer is better than real paint: it works the same way until you want to hit undo or need the paint to dry at a different speed - but that is for older kids)

Math is about reasoning through a problem. Computers running flashcards can be useful at times (single digit addition, subtraction, multiplication should be memorized), but ultimately computers are easily harmful to the goal of teaching reasoning. In fact real math problems the arithmetic is easy enough that not being able to do it is a sign you made a mistake.

Science is like math, except the real world is messy and so an equation solver is helpful. Most of the learning is actually before the point or writing up your report though, and not using a computer is an advantage as it forces you to think about how you will measure something.

Shop class (though this barely exists anymore - I think this is a great loss) should cover CNC and 3d printing.
I might be wrong, but I think agricultural societies had very long working days at harvest time but relatively short ones on average. During the transition of feudalism to industrialism working hours rose significantly (as did productivity, but kept churning due to new class relationships).
Teaching Recursion with Fractals at Lowell High School
MsMpEng: multiple crashes while scanning malformed files
Heh, the Web Query feature in Excel hasn't been significantly touched since it was introduced in Office 97 (or was it 2000?) - I know because when I was at MS a few years ago I reported a bad bug in the Web Query feature - it wasn't a regression, just something inherent in the fact they're stuck using the old Trident MSHTML engine and so the Web Query feature was broken for newer websites - they closed my bug as a WONTFIX because it wasn't a regression - even though the state of that tool in Excel gets worse each year Chrome's usage figures go up... I contacted one of the devs on the team seeking an explanation, he summarized it as stale code no-one wanted to touch without risking breaking anything.

It's telling that most of Excel's major new features in the past few releases (e.g. PowerQuery, integration with PowerBI, etc) are all implemented as pop-up "child applications" with their own UI instead of being baked into Excel itself - I wonder how long they'll keep this up before rewriting it entirely.
This is probably going to be a hyper parallel fixed point / integer engine like TPU gen1. Doing fast matrix multiply over really small fields is very subpar on CPUs and GPUs. That was the initial reasoning behind TPU gen1 - improving runtime performance.

One question is if it will architecturally be closer to a GPU or an FPGA. The field moves so fast that it might make sense to "future-proof" a bit with a live-reconfigurable FPGA.
Why do you believe that acknowledging the role of luck in success is 'toxic' and 'hostile'? If there were sound scientific studies to back up the assertion, would they also be considered toxic and hostile?
This is a little frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, the site should definitely exist and serves a useful purpose. My criticism comes when I read that they have ~300 employees. They are ranked 1,269 globally on Alexa. Craigslist is ranked 99 globally with only 30 employees. Even more so, on Glassdoor their benefits include “Fully stocked kitchen with everything you can imagine, catered dinners, massages, game room, nap room, open and comfortable work space.” [1]

“The world is kind of in the shitter and Change.org could be the world’s greatest plunger.” Not if it continues being a bloated company focused on recouping their massive expenses.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Change-org-US-Benefits-EI...
Great question, great comments. Consensus seems to be that computers are tools and can be helpful if the learning model is right. Specifically, computers can allow for mastery (see Sal Khan on TED) and personalization (see Silicon Valley schools). I think the follow up question is: will the current system evolve to a 21st-century model, where computers can be effectively utilized?

(My answer is no, here's my proposal for a better model: https://medium.com/@prendalearn/nanoschool-a-new-take-on-edu...)
Have you seen Trump? Every day is another fuck up...this is as good as it gets with him... Assuming he isn't impeached by Christmas.
I also recommend listening to Ezra Klein's interview with Cal Newport, author of "Deep Work", a great book about the importance of focused attention on hard problems mentioned in another HN comment - http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/ca....

I've always been a huge proponent of technology, but not unlike hard drugs or alcohol, I've noticed my addiction to news (and previously, social media) has absolutely affected my productivity and attention span to the point where I've had to make some rather drastic changes to regain my ability to focus.
The article's tone and the general attitude in society echoed seems partially caused by a false dichotomy:

Lots of people think first that success and wealth are zero sum games. And second, that we have to decide between extensive social safety nets and a dynamic economy.

Just the opposite, of course.

About the second: the trick to get over the apparent trade-off between welfare state and dynamic economy is to realize that we don't have to tax labour nor capital to provide. Taxing land values works just fine.

More discussion on Georgism here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442929

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158398
Same. My mind went from "how da hell will people do java" to "oh I didn't even know this startup"
This is pretty amazing. It shows there is a level of intelligence that exists above what these 5 can achieve collectively. Scientists have effectively created life when something can make decisions for itself and outsmart humans.

Human intelligence has reached a ceiling and machines will get smarter and smarter. In hundreds or thousands of years, AI will be smart enough to control us. This Go game will manifest itself into reality - it will be a strategic game of humans vs machines.
Classic tragedy of the commons.
Ask HN: How many of you have traveled abroad to meet women and how did it go?
yeah, I'd vote for Elon in a heartbeat though...
It seems to me that the Hungarian notation is just a noisy code smell indicating that the type system is too primitive. With proper types the compiler can disallow illegal operations automatically. Why would you need Hungarian notation then?
I think it explains a lot of things nicely, as a good theoretical framework should. But I'm also a little cautiously skeptical about it, because you're working backwards, without benefit of any real-time experimental data, so it's almost impossible to keep "present-day bias" out of it.
Because I don't want to pay for any kind of media that is owned by News Corp.
My point was very clear. I suggest reading my original comment again.
Terrifying in some ways, but I think it's also inspiring. It's pretty amazing to have some evidence that there's still that much "room" left at the top of the game for players to continue improving.
Language Mechanics on Escape Analysis
Do you know where to get DRM-free ebooks for elementary school children? Project Gutenberg is great for olde authors, not so much for fun simple stuff for kids.
> If your system will handle 15-30m of Prime95 SmallFFT then you're pretty much good to go.

Wait, SmallFFT? Isn't that the test that focuses heavily on CPU and very little on the memory?

Since this news is about memory timings/overclocking, I'd rather put much more focus on tools like Memtest86+, running that for a few hours to be sure that it touches all the addressable regions and uses various access patterns.

Whatever test you do, you want to exercise all the memory, or else you'll end up with a computer that always seems fine after boot, but accumulates errors and crashes based on uptime and how much concurrent work you throw at it.
Interesting idea. However your model - like all interest based learning models - fails because learning is hard. How will you force kids to memorize their multiplication tables, their spelling lists... These are things that are hard to do and interesting. (note once you get good things like spelling bees are fun, but until you are good it is not fun so few kids will cross that gap)
Anyone have the whole list? (I hate enforced drill-down selection for such things.) How many locations?
^F, ^B, ^E, ^Y, zj, zk. I rarely stay in INSERT mode.

> I'll admit it, I use arrow keys so I don't have to leave insert mode.

Nothing wrong with this approach. If it works for you and is convenient, stay
how you are. (Unless, of course, you want to change.)
Yeah, the game seems fitting.
"maybe makes math practice more palatable which would definitely improve math scores" - I have this thought experiment where you drop off ipads in inner city Detroit. They are loaded with games, but the only way to unlock the games is to solve a certain number of math problems each day. My theory is that test scores far surpass the public schools.
One wonders: is there ANY point at which the Congress or even the Courts will step in and say that the abuse has been excessive? Is there really any threshold, and they're just waiting to see if we reach it? I'm really starting to believe that there's no limit at all. It's the proverbial frog in hot water.
What is the NPT issue?
>allows you to pay with bitcoin, making it more difficult to trace you

...but they require a valid credit card/paypal deposit beforehand, which kills the whole point.
PC DOS 1.0, but Not Quite
What mattered was seeing the value of the capability, not predicting any particular applications

How can you separate the value of a capability from its potential applications? Surely he doesn't mean scientific/intellectual value so.. how else can a capability have value?
Turkey Protester Attack Video (DC)
Agile can be a good process but with scrum and the daily standups things become horrible for a variety of reasons. It changes how you think about work and you start doing work that can be easily explained and chucked and finished before the next meeting. It encourages not communicating outside of that morning meeting window. I don't really care either what everyone did each day I care when they are excited with a breakthrough or stuck on an issue.
How easy is it to publish a site that is backwards compatible with existing browsers? I can't foresee a project like this gaining critical mass if it doesn't have seamless backwards compatibility with the traditional web.
The rest of the reply seems to be an answer (as far as you can get with Apple)

I don't think it's wild speculation to say Apple is looking for efficiencies they may not have been able to get with GPUs especially performance-per-watt since so many of their devices are mobile focused
recursiveDescription is still the most convenient way.
There are plenty of Sandy Bridge and FX processors that have been heavily OC'd since day 1 that are still ticking along five years later. If you have decent cooling and don't go too nuts on the voltage it's perfectly safe. And if your CPU dies after 5 years of hard labor do you really care all that much?

FWIW I do agree with you though. I overclocked my 5820K to 4.13 GHz all-core, which is as far as it would go on stock voltages. According to the on-chip sensors I pull 90W during a normal (non-AVX) load. I could probably get another 400-500 MHz if I really pushed it, but getting the last 10% isn't worth turning that 90W processor into 200W+ for me.

For scaredy-cats: I think that's a pretty reasonable approach to overclocking. Just go as far as you can at stock voltages. I bet pretty much any processor can overclock all its cores to max turbo speed with either no extra voltage or a very minor voltage increase.
Pure Immunity.
I would prefer to say that they're 'symmetrical.'

It should be easy for a person to add and remove habits from their life. The Dopamine API makes app more effective at creating habits so that users can add them. Space makes it easy for users to out down habits that they wish they didn't have.
I use Lyft over Uber mainly because Lyft's business doesn't seem to be as corrupt and gross as Uber's.
"DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run".

- Microsoft

The reason you are all using MS Excel today.
We did this with Opera Mini. I think it could have worked, sorta, if we had staffed this properly (meaning 50/50 on tech support/development. we weren't in a position to do that). But only early on. The early users were kinda techie (beta users were great! smart people who could speak english!), so it worked decently well until we reached like 1M MAUs. At 250M MAUs it was just random noise to a human. And the volume was insane.

It didn't help that were all Swedes and the vast majority of the users were Russian/Indonesian/Nigerian/Indian. Language-specific ML could definitely have helped nowadays, but this was 2005.

Another aspect:

The content was so "inappropriate" that we felt that we coulnd't really recruit young/cheap people with the proper language skills to watch these feedback channels. It just felt.. well, wrong.

Here's a lesson: if you build a browser and target it to people who have not been exposed to the Internet before, most users will use it to access porn. Not wikipedia.org, un.org etc. Very, very hard-core porn.

(We did notice that they actually started looking for things besides porn after a couple of years, though! I guess it's something people have to go through...)
Or it's universal in that everyone gets $12k every year but it's taxed back as you earn more. Say, once you start making 75k we tax back $1000 of UBI. Then at $95k you tax back $2k. At $115k wetax back $3k.

Obviously a sliding scale along the way.

That means a person won't start getting the UBI "taken away" until they make 140% of the median household income.

Should mostly reduce the affect UBI has on working.
Still doesn't answer the question. What does it do that some other solution does not already do? I'm certainly not your target market, myself, since I know my way around the place I live and I am old enough to know how to find stuff on a map. If I happen to find myself someplace less familiar--I do sometimes go for long rides not knowing where I am going until I get there--Google/Apple maps are available at the touch of a button.

If you are offering bike location--how long before thieves/hackers figure out how to disable it? Will it work when the bike has no power? Will thieves be able to use the tracking signal to find expensive bikes to steal?
Henry Spencer, getopt, and the roots of open source
But they didn't say that?
You presumably don't want to read it either then?
With the advancements in Xcode, I really don't think Reveal is worth it. It also requires embedding a binary framework (I think it's closed source) in your application, which can be messy for debug vs production builds. Just not worth the hassle.
I agree, what if people decide not to learn. My two answers are 1) they wouldn't learn in a compulsory model anyway, not really (https://medium.com/@prendalearn/teaching-is-impossible-what-... and 2) gamification can go a long way.

Actually testing this next week with a summer camp where we bought a bunch of cool, fun toys and the kids can play all day once they get their work done (x% mastered on Khan Academy, y pages read, z words written). I'm making all this up - no academic background.
Iming --I use hangouts, mostly I only chat w/ wife.. Group chats--Slack, and only my dev team. Events: EventBright, or Meetup.com.. I only read the newsfeed on FB, don't use it for much else...I did just recently start using FB Messenger as my sms, and switch to that for some IM'ing but there's a million different IM apps so not like they couldn't be replaced easily enough.
There's really one need that warrants overclocking -- gaming. I realize I need my processor for other things and not fail at it. I can sip coffee awhile longer while it finishes the job.
The work perk no-one asked for
Mixed Models in R – Bigger, Faster, Stronger
When someone says make a video to me I think taking a bunch of clips with a camera and putting them together into a video. Since I have already assumed a camera all that is left is editing, and I'll take a computer over a tablet for that.

I agree that taking the clips the tablet is better than with any computer.
I'm much less concerned about the role of luck in getting rich (since luck, after all, is presumably uniformly distributed), than I am about the pervasive economic feedback loops that reward the rich simply for being rich. It seems to me that the latter are a much better justification for more sharply progressive taxation than the luck argument.
You agreed not to get that when you got the card. And they agreed to pay you any money damages without arguing much. It's a good deal, but you can choose to use cash if you pref
Npm module to make it easy to integration test chrome extensions (extelenium)
I posted about it below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14427098

There's also a thread on the vfio-users mailing list and on a few other mailing lists as well as some discussion on /r/vfio.
You still need to name concepts. Hungarian notation is actually as much about communication as it is about code.

You'll get a lot of the benefits simply by being really disciplined about being consistent and precise with how you refer to things. What Hungarian does is force you to out of necessity.
No, two-bit failures are supposed to hard fault (to minimize damage of data corruption). Which the Ryzen did not do (in that specific test, at least).
Not the card issuer. Chipotle.
Why do you need to cancel your cards?
I would guess any restaurant funded out of the gates with this amount of VC would fail. Call it a food-tech startup if you want, but Sprig and its competitors are restaurants. The reality of restaurants is that their growth is linear, even if they are successful. That's because it takes time to develop trust with the consumer, and even once that is established, people either want variety or their trust can be shattered completely on one off experience. Deploying this much capital on a restaurant concept straight out of the gates would be fine if and only if they managed to execute flawlessly and if VCs were ok not making money for a few years and then churning out 0-15% returns after that. But that's not the VC game.
While I really thought that Venus Project ideas was interesting but a little bit naive, there is something going on with cryptocurrencies. They can save us from eternal deflation of our money as the Zeitgeist documental expose. That means that our central banking system (in every country) would have troubles trying to produce more money over thin air (causing inflation). An inversion of control could happen here. Who knows.
Yeah, coffee shop wifi is for getting away with illegal things.
A quick look at the chrome dev tools will point to a us.json which has what you're looking for.
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If card data was stolen.
They did, but they've since edited the comment.
RBT Rebel review by PureOC
> In an ideal world I would think you could buy a laptop and then save money on books,

School books are normally overpriced, but they are expected to last 5 years. A laptop will not survive 5 years in the hands of a kid, and even if it does it is so obsolete that you wouldn't want to use it.
A friend commissioned a logo through a website where you get proposals from multiple artists. He had the chance to buy a fantastic logo for a very affordable price. I don't know the name of this website but my HN family here surely knows. Someone?
No one gets anything straight from the lecture though. I don't know a single person who managed to follow a physics lecture course all the way through without getting lost at some point. I think the most important part of learning is repetition, you have to learn the content multiple times before it fully sinks in. Once from the lectures, then going through the lecture notes, then (maybe) the book, then problems, then exam questions. Repetition is key
It's hard to know. Intentional asks people who they show the product to, to sign a restrictive NDA, so they can't share what they do. I hope, after MS acquired them, they will release it under less restrictive license.
Basically just look up Google's TPUs and the reasoning behind them.
> Also, I'd highly recommend using the builtin feedback menu, e.g. "send a frown"

You're referencing The Circle right? Please don't tell me Smiles and Frowns are a thing in 2017.

Edit: posted this before clicking the screenshot. I see. What's the ETA on closing The Circle?
Why hasn't anyone press charges? Where is FBI on this? Everyone of these pieces of shits need to be deported back to Turkey.