skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he has. With his approach you would get results that are honest about their precision, like '3 plus-or-minus .0000000000000010'. That still doesn't help you decide whether or not the result is actually 3.
Nothing, if only a single engine helicopter.

However, many (probably all, but I don't know for sure) heavy lift or rescue helicopters are multi-engine. For example, the Westland Sea King (Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Gnome H1400-2 turboshafts, 1,660 shp (1,238 kW) each)[1] or a newer Sikorsky S-92 (Powerplant: 2 × General Electric CT7-8A turboshaft, 2,520 shp (1,879 kW) each).[2]

Here's a document from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in Australia, concerning performance standards for multi-engine helicopters. It provides a pretty good overview of what they need to be able to do with one engine inoperative (OEI).[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Sea_King

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-92

[3] https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/g/files/net351/f/_assets/main/...
When it's for a touch-based system that doesn't typically have a keyboard, my mind goes to graphical drag-and-drop programming first.
Can you give an example of a case where you've expected to find a solution in humanities and social sciences and been disappointed?
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it's the patent for a circuit, and you can take the the sentence the other way around "the displayed number is the denoted one", not "any real number can be represented".
Aargh, the memories of these frustrating meetings. I am so happy I am not developing for clients anymore.
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Does anyone know a similar library for Rust?
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> You forgot leading the world in inequality

I'm not even going to say citation needed. This is just false.
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it's a journalist writing the article, they want clickbait.
Really works well with touch screen, kudos
Your presumption was half correct, but that movie might be my only blind spot in his oeuvre. Nonetheless I thank you for the clarification.
My comment was borderline at best, far from a "flamewar." I mean good lord, my comment would be top 1% nicest posts on /r/politics. But whatever, sure, noted.
"In addition, though the embodiment presented herein represents an apparatus and associated method for bounded floating point addition and subtraction, it is presented as an example of bounded floating point operations. By extension, the same inventive apparatus for calculating and retaining a bound on error during floating point operations can be used in other floating point operations such as multiplication, division, square root, multiply-add, and other floating point functions."

The hard part has been left as an exercise for the examiner.
I'm kind of surprised none of the old upstate NY tech cities are on this list. Syracuse or Rochester, maybe?
Seriously. It's almost as if there was a concerted effort in the last century to stamp out any kinds of thought that opposed or threatened the dominant capitalist ideology of the global hegemonic powers...
Are there any other option than MTurks, to get data tagged from team mates or Editorial teams.
I think he describes a procedure which guarantees that the last digit of the representation is exact. So that we (in decimal) can have 3.14 as a representation for pi, but never 3.13 or 3.15. But this is hardly 'solving floating point errors' and hardly novel.

The whole technique smells a bit fishy to me, but it might be genuine (in any way, the article seems more like marketing since the technical merit is not immediately obvious, and the difference with existing techniques not immediately clear).
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Interesting. thanks for the info!
Could not find the same use case on that tool. But it's interesting anyway.
Learning to tell idea people to pound sand was the hardest, and most expensive lesson, in my career.

The crux of this article is that it's important to quickly identify and reject idea people. They just suck on your energy and waste your time going nowhere.
Microwave radiation is not itself a toxin though. It may or may not create toxins, but EM radiation is not a molecule, peptide, or protein.
With the added bonus of it being completely underwater within 50 years!
I actually went beyond that. There was a fun game that involved overlaying tetris-like shapes on a board to cycle images through a set. It started out easy, but soon got rather hard. I wrote a program to help solve them easier, and did quite well at first. Eventually, I think other people did the same, but better. That, or they were really, really savants at that kind of problem.
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A good alternative to Mturk is ScaleAPI: https://www.scaleapi.com/
> There's no discussion possible without the confrontation of ideas

I agree. Ha! ;)

This borders on suggesting that all criticism is good and altruistic and beneficial to society. I think the vast majority of all criticism is ego driven, motivated by wanting to feel superior. Most of it doesn't produce progress or discussion. When it's hurtful, it's usually because it was intended to be hurtful which means it's more than critique.

> grownups are supposed to be able to cope with the fact that others don't share your ideas

There's a difference between evaluating ideas and looking only for faults. There's a difference between critique and criticism. It sounds like you are talking mostly about critique, except for this part about being grownups. While your statement is true, it's only half. Grownups also critique without criticizing, they can evaluate something without putting others down, without insulting or being mean.

http://abacus.bates.edu/~rrichar2/learn/ui/critique.html
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> Under a different system that doesn't incentivize holding back global progress for small amounts of individual enrichment.

Patents don't hold back global progress any more than capitalism keeps people in poverty. If we went back a few hundred years and impose alternatives, would we be better off today? I doubt it.

The whole point of the patent system is to foster innovation, and free exchange of ideas. Without the patent system, people are incentivized to keep their inventions secret, and hide how they work, but patents require publishing the details. Some companies don't patent some things just so they can keep it secret.

The problem with the patent system is not the concept of patents, but what they've been allowed to apply to and how long the terms have increased.

Him patenting the idea meanshe has control over his options. It also prevents another entity, such as Intel or AMD discovering it and patenting it. If he wants, he can make it free to use for non-profiting or open source entities.

Edit: The capitalism / poverty comparison is meant to infer communism, as the alternative to a competition and financially motivated system. I don't think it's contentious to say capitalism ended up being the better system for getting people's standard of living raised, even is communism sounds good on paper. I don't think the relation to the patent system in comparison to some ideal sounding solution where people get some money somehow for giving their ideas to the world immediately is all that strained.
Motivation for patent system is that it incentivizes inventors to publish they inventions in exchange for time-limited exclusivity on it, which is certainly better for progress than inventions that are unpublished trade secrets.

Issue with patent system is that it's real implementations are gameable, not with the idea itself.
I would love to know how they are going to do this. The start-up and on-going costs of maintaining a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility are enormous. I would guess it would take decades for them to ever break even on it. In particular, the shortages out there are rarely constant; one year one drug has shortages, next year it's another. Shifting production would be time consuming as hell.

Now, they could possibly pay a contract research organization (CRO) to manufacturer the drug, but the regulatory costs are still enormous. A new generic drug (i.e. a new manufacturer) has to submit an aNDA to the FDA (of which there is a massive backlog). There are CROs who are able to meet all the regulatory requirements, but a huge amount of work still fall on the manufacturer.
There's an economist from Tsinghua University named Patrick Chovanec who used to do an amazing job of documenting China's explosive growth and the many ways in which it might have been artificially inflated (easy credit, shadow banking, fudged numbers, empty skyscrapers, etc.).

His blog is still up, but unfortunately he switched from blogging to Tweeting in 2013 and it's been impossible to follow his train of thought since then. It's a pretty fascinating read (assuming you find dry economic posts fascinating) if you start sometime around the 2009 entries and go from there: https://chovanec.wordpress.com/

Some of the ones I found most interesting:

Beijing’s Bad Debt Bailout: Problem Solved? https://chovanec.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/beijings-bad-debt-...

Big Losses Hidden on China’s Bank Balance Sheets: https://chovanec.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/big-losses-hidden-...

Even though they're almost a decade old they still give you an interesting look into how things work in China.
If it's only distributed through your platform then their game won't become crazily popular.
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Better to have new and upcoming startups than Google Amazon, we mostly use clarifai or Ibm
This got me into programming as well! The biggest problem I had was when I wanted to expand and build a forum, and tried to understand why Geocities didn't run my .php file (which was from a tutorial). Answer: PHP support was paid option AFAIK
They're using Soviet and Communist words interchangeably. However I'm not sure it's accurate, and whether any of communist regimes outside USSR called themself soviet.

Note that North Korea dropped 'communist' word altogether aroud two decades ago. Now it's Juche state.
I don't get it. How many urban areas with housing crunches have people living on property with enough room to build another house on? This seems like it's 100X less efficient than apartment buildings which every densely packed city is already full of.
My browser process can read plenty of sensitive information and with js and now streaming wasm JIT increasing the attack vector, I’m not so sure I trust the “quickly fixed in software” :)

Yeah, BTB tagging is probably a lot better than flushing performance wise.
Oh, something has gone wrong at multiple levels here, and the buck should stop with Ubuntu if nowhere else (since their whole value proposition is supposed to be an OS that's easy to install/administer). But the problem here isn't package management; removing package management would not make it better.
> There are plenty of people who wouldn't touch anything patented at all, sometimes even with a patent clause.

Then that's their loss. This seems like the ideal scenario for patent protections: small inventor developing a genuinely novel and useful invention that big, rich companies would otherwise shamelessly copy.
Another somewhat popular or not so popular opinion is that China reports gdp numbers lower than what they actually have. I don't know what to believe but putting it out there for discussion.
Author here! I'll keep an eye on this thread and would love to discuss anything in the post that's of interest to you.
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You didn't even have data though... you just made an incorrect statement.
Dara couldn’t be more perfect for who we need as a CEO right now and going forward. Culture is definitely shifting toward a more normal work life balance. Things were crazy for many years with how much people worked but for the most part it was out of excitement. Many, many people were overworked however and burnt out. That culture of squeezing out every ounce from everyone is gone, for the better. It’s not sustainable.

Frances Frei is a former Harvard Business School professor and arranged for several HBX classes from Harvard professors on business strategy that were very interesting and helpful. Having her as a guide as to how a great company should be behaving is a huge asset.

TK was great and built the entire industry but he overstepped his abilities and became his and Uber’s worst enemy.

I’m assuming after the SoftBank deal closes many long time employees will be gone. And why shouldn’t they, they are worth millions at this point, but only number in the hundreds. And this happens to all companies in the same situation, like google, Facebook, Dropbox, etc.

Overall the pace has slowed dramatically and has a big company feel. But the majority of people, myself included, are fiercely proud of the work that we do and the product that we have built.

The food could be better, though. Maybe after we become profitable? (This is an internal joke to all Uber employees)
This is an absolutist position that permits no subtlety. But the patent system is a subtle incentivization which seeks to balance a number of forces (in particular, it incentivizes people to invent new things that they can profit from, while also avoiding trade secrets).
Well, and I was so busy writing this down that I didn't realize that is exactly a very good motivation for what was just done here: integrating Wallaroo with Go - Congrats! :D
For any serious home software projects, I do a lightweight Agile process with Trello. All tasks need to be doable in a single work session of four hours or less - preferably less than one hour. So very fine-grained work.

And I stopped keeping a backlog. If it's important, I'll remember it. But I no longer have meltdowns and analysis paralysis trying to decide what to do next from that hundred-task monster list.
Yes though A is Amazon. It’s been used by the investing media to describe their ezcellent stock performance in recent years. Sometimes it’s FAANG to include Apple.

Google kind of ruined it by rename the parent company Alphabet though!
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I suspect it would be very tricky for a company like mine (internet startup with few competitors, the ones we have are large incubants in the market) to work together as this article suggests, especially because with free apps/websites the main goal is to retain a user/get them to sign up which wouldn't work if they were sent off site.

I can see this working well for small brick and mortar businesses.
What if some legitimate user will be fed erroneous data by the algorithm misfire on his system?
Denver has a huge airport and is a major United hub. It's just that most non-stop flights to Asia from the US leave from the West Coast (although this is less true than it used to be).
There is overwhelming evidence that Globalisation has turned many undeveloped countries into developed ones. Do people in newly developed countries somehow not count as people in developed countries? Just look at China. That's over a billion people in a country transformed from a hopeless basket case in the 70s into a global superpower and economic powerhouse.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/17/aid-trade-re...

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/World-...
The tech people I know are attracted by the chance to solve some very interesting problems at large scale.
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I remember one chap who wanted us to build a complex risk management application for investment banks who got most irate when we asked the details of what it should do (NB purely the required functionality, we could work out to technically build it).

Eventually we did persuade him - we should have given up early on as eventually after many many months of work the whole thing ended up in a deeply stressful court case.

Edit: After the litigation settled with anyone walking away and paying their own legal costs he approached me and wanted to be friends again..... Didn't reply to that email.

Edit2: This was 20 years ago and the litigation still makes me stressed thinking about it now :-|
It does to me. Specifically, it says the person either tolerates or contributes to what is widely regarded as one of the most toxic work cultures in software; same goes for Amazon. Up to me to determine whether they're the former or latter. Granted, when they joined and when they left and why makes some difference, but it's still not a great starting place for a candidate.
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Schedule every minute of the day. Disconnect from social media. Mute smartphone. Focus on the process, not on the result. Take small steps steadly.
If they come to Boston, I'll be leaving ASAP.

Please don't ruin Austin either...
In general there is plenty of good FOSS software, but there is also plenty of bad FOSS software. Specifically though, when it comes to user interfaces and linux desktop in particular, that is something that needs intensive work, extensive testing, and a strong design vision. These are all lacking, because they are difficult and expensive and if you spread what people you have between different projects you're not going to get the resources you need.

Case in point - every company that's tried seriously to build consumer-friendly linux products has basically had to re-build the interface themselves (Nokia/Jolla, Samsing Tizen, PalmOS, Google).
I feel like the majority of this article can be construed as "Works ok on my machine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
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Thanks for the link.

Looking at the claims, it looks like he's patented an augmented floating point unit (hardware) that does bounded arithmetic. The #1 claim is "A processing device [with a] FPU [and a] bounded floating point unit (BFPU)." All the following claims are "The processing device as recited in claim 1" (e.g. CPU+FPU+BFPU) with subsequent changes.
> Streetscape enhancements add value to an area and are associated with higher rents and the attraction of new businesses. In addition there is good evidence to show that improving walking and cycling environments raises private property values by significant amounts.

Nobody doubts this. Actually everybody sees this as the problem.

I love NYC, but i also hate it. There is a price for density: crime, trash, prices, overcrowding, urban decay, poverty and homelessness, etc.
> During the inference time, we first represent user input as a vector using query encoder; then iterate over all available products and compute the metric between the query vector and each of them; finally, sort the results. Depending on the stock size, the metric computation part could take a while. Fortunately, this process can be easily parallelized.

An alternative is to precompute a search index over the item vectors if the dataset of items is very large and you’re OK with running an approximate search to trade a bit of recall for performance, using algorithms provided by libraries like the following.

Nmslib: https://github.com/searchivarius/nmslib

Faiss (Facebook): https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

Annoy (Spotify): https://github.com/spotify/annoy
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> But if they're rejecting you just because they detect you're headless, etc

Isn't that their right?

If I pay for my outgoing bandwidth (even if I don't) I am under no obligation to give my content/data/whatever to any third party source, even academic.
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Yeah 'for free' is a bit of a stretch, I was thinking more about public trash cans than residential. Still, the idea is you can throw away pretty much whatever, no questions asked, and someone will put it away so you don't have to think about what happens to it
All the Mayors of these cities will now engage in a hunger games style competition at Jeff Bezos' estate for the privilege.
Sarcasm aside, Chicago actually is broke.
So far. That statement used to be true of U.S. copyrights as well.
Yes, but I was wondering how much memory would be needed for each of the other apps (web/admin/cron) connecting to the Solo. Would they require a full JVM peer, with a couple gig of memory each, right?
This is something that certain cities have understood for many years. Chicago, for example, mandates that all new development from a simple three-story building to a 100-story skyscraper has retail at its base to improve the walkability of its streets and make its business corridors vibrant. This also helps push down retail rents even in the CBD, allowing local upstart businesses a shot at reaching the masses.

Chicago has also come around to the notion that streets aren't "for cars." Streets are public property and belong to all of the city's citizens, including the hundreds of thousands who don't own a car. CDOT evaluates streets and sometimes decides that private property storage (parking cars) isn't the best use for some of that land. So it turns parking spaces into miniature parks or seating areas, or public art.
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And what about programmers that care about free as freedom?
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This was never meant to be a complete solution to back pressure in Erlang and has recently been remove for the next major release: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/2e601a2efc19d64ed0628a5...

I’ve heard speculation that it really only helped scheduler efficiency and this didn’t apply all that well on SMP schedulers and has finally been removed since non-SMP builds are no longer supported.

As for Pony, their actor model doesn’t support selectively receiving messages so their queue handling may have some different trades to make there, as well as interaction with primitives like promises (which are used where Erlang would prefer a ref tagged receive clause). Spooneybarger has done work on backpressure in Pony so maybe he or other Wallaroo labs people can elaborate.
Have you had any experience with Frances Frei?

She seems to be a unique talent who seems genuine from her interviews. I'm curious how she is viewed within Uber and what impact she may be having.
If you want to keep others from patenting you work, you need to patent it yourself.
> Patents don't hold back global progress any more than capitalism keeps people in poverty.

Thanks. I was worried I would go the whole day without spitting out my drink.
How does the blockchain help? The important issue is the dispute between humans as to whether the tickets and money are valid. You can only do that if the transaction is atomic, which requires that the tickets and money are on the same blockchain and exchanged in the same transaction.
Imagine if Amazon single handedly turned Staten Island into Brooklyn
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