skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They just don't understand that some people like me, who can get into the (mostly private) elite schools choose to go to a "long tail" school for a variety of reasons (financial, family obligations, etc).

And how about people who couldn't get into an elite school at 17, but end up learning a lot at the state school? It seems odd to be so preoccupied by what someone's capability was when they were in high school, rather than what it is now.
We did, see IEEE 754.
I really don’t understand the negative market sentiment on expectations of future cashflow. AMD has been building compelling GPU and CPU chips and this is a rising tide market driven by new solutions to longstanding problems (AI/robotics/driverless cars/drug prediction/VR/AR/big data). These technologies will applied to every industry on the planet including huge industries like agriculture that are today the least digitized of all major industries. Exponential growth in IoT devices and AI2AI interactions will generate tremendous amounts of data as well as the meta data that sits on top of that. Then there is bitcoin. I think people are massively underestimating the TAM. This era will require massive new computing power and especially for big data centers it makes sense to diversify your supplier. It’s a rising tide that will be much higher than AMDs last high watermark. AMD is a measly $10b company, compared to NVIDIA ($110b) and Intel ($160b). A 10% move by NVIDIA exceeds AMDs entire market cap. Would love to hear some counter opinions on this.

Disclaimer: I own both NVIDIA and AMD.
Meh, I got into CMU SCS, and chose Tufts, because I was equally interested in comp sci and music, and Tufts had a much superior music program.

Early on in my career I'd get questioned about my CS degree from Tufts, and I'd jokingly mention "I'd gotten into CMU SCS, but I preferred to be a well rounded individual. I can send you the acceptance letter if you'd like."

I think people choose schools for all manner of reasons.
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D&D Beyond.
No I see your point. I also think this is a harmful stereotype. It’s not about your point.
56 Funny Quotes from People of Each Zodiac Sign – Astroligion.com
Yes; but it's for the duration of work on that completion, it's not like sockets are owned by the thread, so it doesn't have the same misbalancing effect, where if the original thread is not available completions get starved. The LIFO nature is a side effect of the user mode selection of next completion to run; something round robin would be slower with kernel transitions.
> So, although I jokingly named the project plate-snitch when I set it up on my computer, I’m now faced with the conundrum of whether to report what I saw.

> Ultimately, the driver was detected using a prototype of a police-only device. But driving on a 2016 registration (canceled, not expired) is a very deliberate move. Hmm.

For me, the bigger issue is the integrity part of sending each plate to their server. This would in extension allow tracking the location of each car.

I think it would be very interesting with a government founded project with several cheap cameras, each updated daily with a local database of stolen cars. That way the camera only need to notify someone when it actually sees a stolen vehicle. There is of course the risk of this being abused as well, but not as big.
Thanks! Just removed those FB + LinkedIn links... Dunno why they were broken.

Will keep you in mind if we visit one of those cities. :)
In other words: your share price is a function of the emotions of fickle investors and their expectations (regardless of plausibility) rather than how well your company actually did.
Counter-anecdote, I just had the pleasure of meeting a 90-year-old man who was still very mobile, very compus mentis (we had a nice chat that I could have had with someone of any age), and who was surrounded by a loving, social family. Who would complain about that?
Never having to look up the rules that govern attacks of opportunity made by a giant creature with long reach.
> I'm really not sure what your argument is here.

My argument is what I originally wrote, "Treaties on Earth have very little meaning. They have zero meaning on the Moon." That argument is supported by the contents of your link.

You posted a link to show a treaty that has been in force. However, your link shows the exact opposite of that. The treaty has never been in force, was started because an earlier treaty wasn't followed, and has been superseded multiple times by other treaties.
I'm in a similar demographic and recently got back into it (D&D 5e). The impetus for me was that (a) it had been "long enough" since I'd stopped playing (probably 15 years, Jesus) that I was craving it and (b) I wanted an excuse to drag a group of friends over to my house on a regular basis.

Any resurgence is probably rooted in a number of factors, like the good design of 5e, but I wonder how much of it stems from the same cohort who played it in the 90's simply reaching some point in their life (spending less time at bars, looking for more of a break from work, wanting to spend time with friends "IRL", etc etc) that they fall back into it.
There was also a very interesting podcast [1] the other day with Mike Mearls, Adam Koebel, Matt Mercer, and Matt Colville discussing the design decisions in 5th edition. Specifically, one of the most interesting points Mearls made is that the 5e design team specifically set out to craft a game which "felt like" Dungeons and Dragons, and which explicitly recognized and created a place for the "culture" of D&D which has been around for years (certainly since I was futzing around with 3.5 statblocks in high school!)

An example they brought up is the alignment system: it's one of the most criticized aspects of the game, especially with regards to mechanics. Nevertheless, it's baked into the culture of D&D by now ("What would Batman's alignment be?") and while getting rid of it might improve the gameplay, it would be removing something core to the game experience.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjLO6YNKV0
if we have not been selected, then we get rejection mail?
In O.R. graduate School, Professor Gene Woolsey told us that he'd rise from the grave and stand on our desks screaming 'No!No!No!' if we ever actually used it to solve a practical problem.

IIRC, his complaints were about the speed of formulation, difficulty to understand and communicate the model to others, and the processing required to regenerate answers when the model changed.

I believe Optiant used Dynamic Programming for supply chain optimization.. So people do or did use it for practical problem solving. ..I think.
We'll be back someday. :)
Video game journalism peaked too soon with Old Man Murray. It's mostly been a vast wasteland of shilling since.
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So they want to build a tech hub which would be inaccessible to the only two technologically advanced countries in the region; Iran and Israel with the latter being the only actual tech hub in the region.
> suggesting that we deny political franchise to immigrant residents (e.g., retirees).

You could do that if you seceded. Otherwise it sounds kind of disenfranchising. We already have too much of that going on in the U.S. for other kinds of prejudice.
It's only a data issue if they're trying to reproduce google voice. Personally I got much better results from dragon naturally speaking 20 years ago than I get from google voice today, the cost was that you had to train it yourself first, but the benefit was it was trained for you, not "everyone". The later is the approach I'd prefer to see mozilla/OSS take.
> Career services at non-top tier schools are shit.

I'm guessing that "Career services are shit." is more accurate.
Please don’t. Our hiring pipeline is almost completely from these schools.

You get great talent that big tech companies won’t interview!
As someone who's written something like this before, it's impossible to tell. In my personal case, I apologized thousandfold for a "major fuckup" and a disgrace that the newest update of my software represented in my mind.

Now, a few weeks later, turns out my users had statistically doubled, a few "outspoken people" (in fact just a previously-satisfied customer with an obscure technical problem) had hurt my fragile fragile mind.

And oddly enough, sometimes there is someone who really does get hurt very badly because of a small change like an icon. The world is weird, people are weird, software is weird.

My answer to that remains

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What OS are you running on it, and how has your stability been?
Yeah I meant in addition to, not instead of.

And I was saying that these beacons should be just a part of the car and super cheap.
The beacon just says "hey I'm a Prius and this is my speed direction and location"

But you'd have to make them completely anon - we already have too much activity tracking.

So the devices should cycle through random IDs that just spray out the specs of the vehicle, but they change frequently the ID so you can just say that a smart car would know that it just sees various cars - not that it knows that "Jim is just ahead on the left"
What if we approach the question from a psychological perspective instead, and assume that human brains can't process the number 6?

You can have five apples, but nobody would ever suggest giving you another apple, because that would be absurd.

You can see snow, but if you look at a snowflake under a microscope, you wouldn't be able to see anything.

There's a street-gang of homeless children who are no longer 5 years old and not yet 7 years old, because their parents forgot they existed the day after their 5 and 364/365th birthday.

Isaac R., age 5 1/2, had better start preparing.
Somebody just made Face-mash IRL
EC2 offers scaling up and down the number of instances as you grow or shrink.

If you built a website 20 years ago and it exploded in traffic, shared hosting without easy scaling would not be a solution. You would have to plan your growth and pre-order shared instances. Thus making your business cash dependent again without proven growth.
Line breaking. The Knuth-Plass algorithm I implemented is my all-time favorite piece of code.
Britains' Gulag is a tough read about the British colonisation of Kenya in the 50s (?60s?).
I think, per Zero to One, Thiel (for one) would argue otherwise. Take away search (read: ads on SERPs) and Google is close to an average, if not subpar, "success story."
Congress vs. bots
If this were true i’d expect to see some effort to open and standardize the hardware. Otherwise what’s the point?
I'm going to stick with Excel for the row/column grouping feature. This seemingly minor feature enables multiple level of abstractions so different audiences can understand the spreadsheet in different views. As much as I want to move my team to Google Sheet or any other major competitors for easy collaboration, I simply can't.
Basically, I am against SNIs today's implementation, and want to allow people who disable it to visit my sites.

SNI transmits the host unencrypted, that is a real security issue.
Well, I don't think I am stereotyping. I am absolutely not saying "all IT people have terrible social skills" or anything like that. Just because the stereotype exists does not mean I am promoting it.

Sorry if that is a sore point for you. But, making a point in the particular case is not the same as tarring all IT people. I do plenty to give push back against such stereotypes. * I generally prefer the company of IT people. I long have. It is part of why I spend so much time on HN. But I don't feel I need to follow some sort of extremist zero tolerance policy here.

* For example: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/08/communicatin...
No. They're cheaper for people with nearly no means.

The people with some means (aka the "middle class") can stretch their budget to afford state school.

Most states also have transfer programs that let you go from a 2yr at a CC into the equivalent 4yr at state school which takes a huge chunk out of the cost.
If there were no number 6, there could be no infinite countable sets, because all infinite countable sets have a bijection to Z, and 6 is in Z. Furthermore there could be no finite sets with cardinality greater than 6 because those have a bijection to Z_n for some n in Z. That would be true in both a mathematical sense and a physical sense, since you could still physically represent the quantity 6 with 6 particles. So any "world" with no 6 could have at most 3 bits of information in it.

It's really a nonsensical question because 6 is both an abstract concept - hence the reasoning about infinite and finite sets - and a real quantity you can have of something. The normal arithmetic operators wouldn't even be well-defined. The only way to make this universe consistent is if you made an exception such as 5 + 1 = 7 and 7 - 1 = 5, but in that case you have simply replaced the symbol of the number k with the symbol of the number k-1 for all k > 6.

It's just an absurdity, and in my opinion a poor question to write about for a non-mathematical audience, because it will make people confused. It's like asking the question what if there were no sets, or what if there weren't addition.

Math is truth not limited by the constraints of our physical universe; it is an absolute. There has to be a concept of 6 for there to be mathematics - or anything - at all.
I don’t mean explicitly. Small team group work and revision sessions with the TA might be sufficient. Non tier 1 schools don’t have this luxury.
You'd better be a level 7 necromancer with an hour to spare if you want to redirect your teen-age table-top golden-years!
Bitcoin: The slayer of socialist slavery
"Don't be evil (except when screwing over loyal and established customers is great for the bottomline)."
With that line of argumentation, why not use sbrk() or poke the syscall directly? :)
I'd say prefer the safest, highest-level of abstraction that you can get away with. Which would generally mean std::vector over new/malloc.
Yup, unless GP for some reason can only buy 401k into their own company, rather than some broad-market fund, in which case if they're specifically skeptical about their own company then maybe not putting stuff into a 401k.

But yea generally pre-tax dollars are better than any other investment you can reliably make.
that's weird, because we all know 7 ate 9 and everything is still ok.
> 5e is actually really quick to learn, and as such, it gets out of the way of the creative storytelling experience a lot more than earlier editions.

To add to this, one minor thing I like about 5e is how much freedom the game explicitly gives the Dungeon Master. Obviously nothing is truly different, the DM is god in every edition. But I've played with many, many DMs (usually new DMs) who will refuse to do something fun because it goes against some way a rule is written in the book. Even if they and the whole party wants it to happen, it would be breaking "the rules".

The first DM I ever played with actually would never let us call anything a rulebook. It was a Player's Handbook or guidebook, or what have you. Because as she said, she was the rules, not the book.

I think that really helped form a mentality of "Fun First" when I run a game. The 5e books felt a little heavy-handed at first, every third spell says something along the lines of "If the DM chooses". But it's already helped me in some real games as a player, where the DM can do what they want and not what the book says, because by doing what they want they're still doing what the book says.
> Linus' point is that you don't need to validate the entire code base, if you have one signed commit then everything that is "below" is also (implicitly) signed.

And Linus is missing the point entirely.

Yes, signing a commit implicitly signs the repo all the way back to its beginning. But when I'm actually performing the action of signing this commit, I am not actually going back through every commit and verifying them.

The fact that you can use the properties of commit hashes to verify a chain all the way back to the origin of the repo is irrelevant, because that's not what someone actually signing a commit is intending or should be expected to do.

When I'm signing a commit, I'm vouching that I am responsible for applying this set of changes to a given state of a repo. It says nothing about my belief in the validity of changes to the repo made before it.
I guess someone have to mention finding an optimal line wrap for a paragraph of text.

https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fspe.4380111102
Share price is an estimation of future performance, not past or current performance. Specifically it's supposedly the net present value of all future cash flows, discounted appropriately.
Great, now someone has to explain to you that this is not an attack on your freedom to use whatever you product you prefer.

> Unless I'm swapping batteries, which is infrequent enough, I don't even notice I'm wearing them.

Presumably when you're swapping batteries, you're not actually wearing them, no?

Anyway, I think you have missed the points being made. For people who can't afford, or don't have access to the services around, hearing aids, consultancy, replacement batteries, and so on, there's an alternative.
Roll for pop-culture-perceptiveness

The tighter your grip on the threat of D&D, the more mid-40s nerds slip through your fingers!
In my experience, the solution to everything being out of reach on a too-big desk is to use an L-shaped desk instead. That allows a ton more surface area that you can reach just by extending an arm or at worst swiveling in your chair.

It also provides as many as three separate work zones that you can use comfortably by swiveling instead of moving the chair or moving your other work out of the way. For instance, reference material on one side, computer in the middle, and note paper on the other side.
The biggest gain: A much larger pool of potential players/DMs. If you limit yourself to other old farts who still have their battered old AD&D 1e books then that’s a pretty elite set of fortysomethings - my D&D Blue Book and my set of AD&D 1e is long gone, after three cross-country moves and one hurricane.

Also 5e is AMAZING for giving out a TON of story hooks as part of the character creation process. Sure, you and your GM may be old pros who know how to make a story, and that’s great. But if you’re having an off day, or bringing in some new players who don’t know how to prepare the seeds of a story, it’s pretty damn useful to have all these hooks lying around.

Everything is generally streamlined, you will mostly be rolling a d20. Other dice show up for your HP and damage, because it’s just not D&D without that handful of weird-shaped dice.
That would be nice, but it's my understanding that to really know what's going on in a scientific field, you need to read a bunch of papers in the field, not just one paper.

It would be great to see more summaries of papers from trustworthy sources. For computer science there is The Morning Paper [1] but I don't know what there is for other fields.

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_transmission_line
That sounds like it could have some things in common with the DNA-sequence alignment of the parent comment, both dealing with overlap. Is that so?
Personally, I prefer these more than the leet code problems: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/dp_practice/
Using this data: http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N47/women/tables.pdf

MIT's computer science program is 31.7% women. MIT's school of engineering is 39.87% women. I think even comparing tech school to tech school, non-tech majors have a significant impact. MIT especially has a surprising number of non tech majors.
Ask HN: What services/products are missing mobile apps?
What services, products, SaaS tools have an API but are lacking an Android app, iOS app, or both?
Inappropriate to whom? Pointing out that users are irrational is certainly relevant here. It’s difficult to see how exactly the implied condescension and arrogance here is inappropriate. Distracting? Sure. But this isn’t a self help forum, and you’re tossing the baby out with the bath water.
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My own attitude when I was young was probably kind of akin to feeding random input into a program to try to make it crash - how can I find a bug in reality (or the grownups).
In the caption for figure 2 there is this quote, "Notice the humans are worse at transcribing the non-American accents." But when I look at the bar graph, I see the word error rates of the model is much higher than the word error rates of humans for most of the non-American accents. Am I missing something?
Plenty of people decide against MIT or leave early.

It’s a pretty hostile environment for many people.
AMD isn't in nearly the same breadth of markets as nvidia. Some examples: automotive, super computing (which they dominate due to CUDA), and game streaming services. Also, AMD's driver support on Linux platforms has historically been pretty weak and often broken, further limiting any consideration of uses outside of gaming.
They're all an impression of a tangram puzzle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram
What were you supposed to use instead? My impression is that dynamic programming is sometimes sluggish but often better than the alternatives.
An excerpt:

Getting Hitler to throw the game.

To illustrate this let’s imagine that we live in Germany in 1932. Hitler is about to rise to power and it is clear to many that he intends to establish socialist slavery. But unlike the real 1932, let’s assume Bitcoin is available and commonly used for anonymous gambling. Wealthy factory owners can be sure that Hitler will steal their stuff as soon as he can. In repsonse they buy an insurance policy. Many of them place a bet that Hitler will become Chancellor before the end of the year.
At first this would seem like a foolish bet. Everyone can tell that he will become Chancellor. But this bet creates an unexpected incentive. Anyone in a position to prevent Hitler becoming Chancellor could bet against these men and then take action to ensure the outcome — namely to ensure Hitler doesn’t become Chancellor.
Show HN: DOI → PDF with a telegram bot
Or get people to eat less meat. It's something like 30:1 ratio for beef -- ie. one calorie of beef is equivalent to 30 calories from other vegetal sources, not to mention other knock on environmental impacts.
Modern Golang Programming: A video course
Yeah. I don't get the impression that the Kaldi core team has been trying very hard recently to get SOTA on eval2k/switchboard. This number uses one acoustic model with a trigram LM decode + fourgram rescoring -- there isn't even a neural net language model in there. If I remember correctly, Microsoft's first "human parity" result used something like three acoustic models and at least four types of language models. This Kaldi model is competitive with the best single acoustic model Microsoft used.
For me, nothing. I play 1e (and have played 5e et al). Pick the one that gets you excited. If you like the art, the names of the monsters, and the community, those factors outweigh any minor differences in rules or organization.

It's similar to programming languages - there's an ineffable quality to a language that makes you just want to use it (or not). I knew someone who picked up DarkBASIC several years ago; I could have suggested he get into Python or something more "mainstream", but I think the right choice is the one that makes you want to sit down and work on your project.
You placed your hopes in someone other than yourself and we're disappointed when it didn't go well?
Can confirm the 2-3 day transition and the clarity on the other side. But, you need to be well prepared for the transition and afterwards to ensure a worthwhile journey. Do lots of reading ahead of time to make sure you have everything you need to sustain after the transition.
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