skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In AI you quickly see in the first chapters that there is a clear tradeoff on creativity. When doing search algorithms (which is what all AI algorithms fundamentally are), creativity is essentially breadth-first exploring of a search space, and the opposite is depth first.

Neural networks, for instance, are extremely un-creative. They just go straight for their goal, no deviating (the assumption being that any search space is entirely flat if it just has enough dimensions, and clearly to some extent that's true). They will leave very large swaths of the solution space entirely unexplored. But when they work, you can find the method fast and it will yield decent results. Being uncreative, ironically, makes them adapt very quickly.

Genetic algorithms, on the other hand, are the most creative algorithms we have, and of course they are famous for finding ridiculously optimized results, but taking a very long time to do so. Genetic algorithm results are always fun. Genetic algorithms always write a program. And while only simple solutions can be understood by humans, but they're ridiculously optimized. Every instruction does 5-10 different things that affect the end result and somehow those results come together at exactly the right time to work.

People, and especially the HR/coaching industry, seem to deny this tradeoff, but it's inevitable. If a person is creative, they'll be slow and unreliable to produce results, but those results will be a lot better (assuming, of course, there are any). A very uncreative person can produce results quickly and reliably, but they're "bad", in a sense: one might say they're just trivial re-hashes of solutions seen before.

But I wish I had a dollar for every time a high-level manager has come to me with a variation of the following statement : "Ok, let's plan out how we can creatively solve this problem". If a plan is made, of course, in the best case it cuts down on the creativity, in the worst case prevents it entirely.

In my experience most people are entirely capable of being very creative or almost robot-like predictable. It's the environment that forces one over the other (although it may just be their perception of their environment rather than the actual demands placed on them).
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Bitcoin-like currency
I was wondering... how difficult would it be to develop a successful, secure, but very basic crypto currency like bitcoin and have a Venmo/PayPal app to transfer? I’m not good at coding or programming, I just have a vision that can change the world in a particular industry that needs efficiency.
In Singapore they are experimenting with putting all traffic beneath the ground in new residential neighbourhoods.
The Yi 4K+ action cam ... https://store.yitechnology.com/
They measured their response time using average. Collecting metrics to look good.

Since we can only speak in broad terms, those requests/updates aren't going to be evenly distributed throughout the day and they might not be consistent from day to day so some over-provisioning is reasonable.

Since they're on EC2 a) they shouldn't be that over-provisioned though and b) are getting comparatively (to bare metal) awful performance (say 2x-8x depending on exactly what they're doing) and paying for the privilege.

I'd like to better understand why "Fanout-on-write" wasn't their go-to solution. All they said was that it was "expensive".
Can you explain why there is anything untoward about Parallel Construction?

How else are you meant to prosecute cases in court? You need admissable evidence, and sigint is usually not admissable.
It worries me greatly when communities, businesses, another private entities start recording the license plates.
Today I had to search for Slack messages that were sent long before I was hired to solve a problem at work. In an end-to-end model, you're only going to have logs as far back as you were there to receive.
Nothing is ever so binary.

Our product can run completely locally and do a good job. Allow connectivity to other devices in the building and performance improves. Extend connectivity to our cloud servers and it gets a little better still. You can always revert to lower levels (and an Internet outage would simulate that, for example).

We regard your data as yours unless you want to share it for a specific reason.
They have a Yi 4k+ kit with a waterproof action case, much like the GoPro Hero line does.
This becomes difficult when you want to do something that C doesn't really handle (well), for example the processor flags or for example passing control to another function, leaving the stack intact (objc_msgSend).

If you can then insert some asm, that's good, otherwise you hit a brick wall.

See: https://cr.yp.to/qhasm/20050129-portable.txt
There are a number of competing coins in this space right now.

These include https://request.network/#/ and http://stellar.org

The first one, REQ, is specifically about to release a "Request" button, similar to the PayPal pay button, that web developers can put on their sites.

(This is not investment advice. I am not an advisor.)
Ah, now I think I do understand your position. Best of luck :)

Edit: Just to clarify, the connection with the control scheme and the supply issues as laid out in the article is that it forces employees and store manager to blindly follow the system. Employee protection laws in other countries would prevent "three strikes out" schemes, if the strikes are for "infractions" as small as having one of 400 boxes facing the wrong side, which is one example in the article. That just wouldn't fly in a german court of law, for example, where something like this definitely would end up.
Davíð Oddason, Iceland's longest serving prime minister, is one of his descendants: https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/120768/
Artificial agent designs quantum experiments
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185414
What? We don't even pay twice as much as most countries, although our cost curve is rising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
How did the author become founding senior editor at Vice magazine?
I agree about spreading purchases to different venders. I try to buy digital books from Kinfle, Google Play Books, and Apple. Losing my entire library due to an account problem seemed like a bad risk.
Having a baby should be expensive. There are nearly 8Bn people in the world; "making more people" is not a problem that the human race has. The problems we do have with pollution, climate change, resource depletion, extinction of other species, food and water supplies are entirely caused by there being too many of us competing for too little of everything else. This is especially the case in the US where individuals are extremely high-impact on the environment in terms of natural resources consumed and pollution generated. Those externalities have a real cost attached, that isn't reflected in the current price, which would be much much higher if parents had to pay their child's say CO2 impact up front.
Thanks for the feedback! It means that a single unit of the currency you are looking at must reach 2,054.37$ to obtain the same market cap as your selected base currency.
Knowing the facts while the news reports the wrong ones - is a perfect moment to write a blog/article yourself about it.
Laws 'o fux?
You realize millions of babies are born in countries with better healthcare than the US and $5k is literally about 1000 times what they pay.
Leftist politics resemble https://www.democrats.org/party-platform quite a bit.
Neat. Reminds me of illegal primes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
You'll need this link https://doc.bootrino.com/alpinelinux.html
So what are those countermeasures? Do you wipe down everything you touch when you go shopping?
I doubt it, but you could try. Nearly all of them are available on

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22transputer...

and

http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/inmos/transputer/
"For the thief, every job is an opportunity to prove your guts, your ingenuity, your resolve. By challenging me, the Critique forced me to develop intellectual tools I never knew I had."

That's about all I got.

I will state this, even though Strunk, and probally White would have a stroke reading this; the author can write.

And writing compelling stories is so much better than correct grammar, or long winded crap by people with nothing interesting to say. Then again--bank robbery always gets my attention. Stick it to the man? No--just retribution? It's just not worth the consequences. Plus--these days there's no physical money steal anywhere.

(My father's girlfriend's husband robbed a armored truck in San Francisco, in the 80's. He ended up in jail. He got Aids in jail. He infected his wife--during a conjugal visit. The sweet lady never knew she was sick. She ended up my father's girlfriend years later. She died. My dad was never quite the same.)
I'd say just order from jet. Can often find the same things for same price or cheaper - especially with coupons. I'm letting my prime expire this month because I got tired of all the low quality junk spamming the search results and not being able to easily tell whats the real product. The other day was trying to find a ge zwave switch and the same one is listed multiple times with prime shipping at different prices all sold by amazon. So like, which one is the real, most current one? Just spent the extra couple bucks and bought it at home depot instead.

All those other extras they throw in are just junk to me. Apart from The Grand Tour there's nothing on prime video I care about, have never used their music much because the interface is an absolute joke (same with video).

Prime Now is nice but for some reason my area doesn't get restaurants despite being in the Portland Metro.

So just looking at shipping costs, I think I've at best broken even. Rarely get things in two days anyways. Usually takes them 3 days.
Bug Bounty Researchers Getting 2.7 Times Salary of an Average Software Engineer
Doctors are in short supply. This is because becoming a doctor is impossibly hard

That's an entirely artificial problem created by the AMA (or BMA in the UK) to keep wages high. What if everyone who had the academic ability could train, rather than having to compete for a restricted number of slots? It's how every other discipline does it (they defer competing for places until the job market).
Found the link in the comments to the "Walk made with the first million digits in prime numbers" very interesting!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/79hads/wal...
Of course, I forgot about the italians. They're literally across the adriatic sea from croatia and they love garlic.

I need to get to the bottom of this.
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I would say that emiting LLVM IR is easier than C. I have done a few toy compiler projects with LLVM and it is very nice. I've never done a compiler that emits C, but I can't imagine it being any easier. At least you'd have to write more boilerplate code.

You also can't create JIT compiled REPL using C as easily.
> huge opinion boost

You think people would warm to the NSA if only they demonstrated an inability to keep secret the findings of their domestic spying, and revealed they'd been spying on the president?

You don't think that would make them look like they were illegally meddling in partisan politics?
In this case, Renter. Just moved. License would still have old address. You couldn't have "accidentally" found someone like that.
Yes it’s called Kolaportið.
Yeah same here - except with fedex who wont even try to deliver. They'll just sneak up and leave tags saying they attempted.

When I asked amazon about it they really didn't want to do much but I was able to get them to block using their own drivers who were completely clueless on what an entrance to a building looks like (tip: it's not the emergency exit door...)
Who has that kind of attention to detail? :)
I have always asked this question why C as IL and not something like C-- which is more portable and less system call specific. I think that LLVM IR already serves a good purpose at doing this and is really easy to hand program in.
You're completely missing the point. The switch expression is exactly that, an expression. It can be used wherever you can use an expression. This is fundamental to programming languages and especially in functional programming languages where it is a requirement of everything in the language.

You can use logging/side effect in it. You can not assign it to a variable, all valid in Java.

Consider the if expression (ternary ?: operator in Java). In most modern languages (e.g. Scala, Kotlin, Rust) there is no ternary operator, and only an if-expression:

int value = if(something) 1 else 2

According to you, this is wrong, but it isn't, you can still use it as a statement:

if(something) {
doThis()
} else {
doThat()
}

Just like you can have a statement (line) with just "1+1" or "doThis()", you can have a statement of just an if-expression.

And you can also add side-effect (logging) withing expressions:

int value = if(something) {
log("Uh oh");
-1
} else {
1
}

Making a language construct an expression is the complete opposite of tying it to a particular use-case, it's giving it the ultimate flexibility because you can use expressions everywhere.
I don't agree. Language designers are optimizing common use cases and that is a good thing.
Phelps had been outspoken about his bouts with depression for several years now. (It's too late in the night for me to look for links, but I've personally read 4 or 5 articles regarding this subject)

I find hope in a "heroic" public persona bringing the condition the awareness and communal acknowledgement and support it desperately needs.
Excellent post. Sums up everything why I agree with this governmental model. Will save this comment.
Miller's law is outdated, there are newer studies that say working memory is around 4, very rarely 6. You can check your working memory with this little test mentioned in this tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/UXColumbo/status/5978387232633651...
>Softbank has significant stakes (paywall) in some of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies including Uber rivals like India’s Ola and China’s Didi so it is perhaps unsurprising that it might want the California-based company to focus on core markets where it doesn’t compete with its other investments.

>However, in an email to Quartz, an Uber spokesperson insisted that the company is “very much committed” to its African operations and is “excited” about its “future growth prospects.”

Unsurprising desire from SB. Will be interesting how this plays out in the board room
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I think it now means two days from when they hand it off to usps/ups/fedex. There has been considerable delay recently from when the package is "shipped" and when it's handed over. Probably due to them using their own trucks and simply using the other carriers as the last mile.
You're technically correct. My point was that a photo or video with the highest available quality on the new iPhones takes up more space than before.
> they've designed the spec to be whatever GCC on x86-64 Linux machine would do to layout C the structures in memory.

In a previous job, the software I worked on had a "file format" that just consisted of dumping a raw array of structs to disk. It was obviously pretty fast, but it made cringe a lot.

What's worse, the compiler had flags to control if and how much struct padding to use, so reading a data file with a binary compiled with different padding from the one that created that file caused it to crash. Fun times...
I want to become a bank robber now.
Agree, this is the biggest issue. I get slightly annoyed by this but what's worse is for old and non tech people. Has anyone at google studied for even 2 minutes how non tech people use a phone? My grandma panics every time there is a notification that is not a SMS or a phone call. I opened her phone and there was som many unread crap-notifications that you couldn't even find the ones that were from her real friends. I get questions like how can i see if i have any unread text messages, which is an instant proof that the UI is wrong.

Also the phrasing of these notifications make you think they were designed by someone from Ryanair. "Add your photo to google maps" the instant you take a photo could easily be confused with "Save this photo" for someone who doesn't understand tech.
Perhaps this renegade should have studied from Immanuel Kant's unknown brother Immanuel Shouldn't. Why are we writing an article praising a criminal anyway? It's not like Kant was so mystic, He was essentially one of the first anti-machiavellian icons. Which later gave way to MLK's teaching when he said the means are the seeds from which the ends grow. You cannot achieve growth when the planted seeds are not good.
> The easiest way to do that is by existing citizens having children.

Seems to me the easiest way to maintain the population in any given developed first-world country is immigration, not raising new people from birth.
Socialized medicine (e.g. one paid by state) also weights costs and risks. You just don't see it and don't have to make those decisions by yourself.

You don't know how much for them 1500 wad nor how high the risk nor whether coming back from home was that much dangerous in case that bacteria happened.
And why not check the lowes/homedepot sites before bothering to go into the store? They both have pretty good stock indicators and they'll tell you exactly where the item is.
Hmmm. But, how does a distributed blockchain help anyway?
Please share which countries you think are less racist.

Brazil, Thailand, UK, France, Poland, Mexico, Canada, and Egypt are right out from my own experience.
There's a separate JEP [1] for pattern matching, and the switch expressions are both preparation, companion and requirement for it.

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305
[disclaimer, I work for google]

I’m sure if Google made such a list there would be another HN article about how Google is evil and trying to cut out competition.
Use of sand vests to calm children with ADHD
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5 Basic Laws of Human Dynamics
http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...

//Take away
This person is nothing more than an B2 Bandit that moved to the B1 side
What a beautiful and moving story, in my honest opinion. I think this will mean a lot of people that are struggling with these feelings and look up to Michael Phelps. I think this is awesome just like when Tim Cook "officially" came out as gay. For most people it doesn't mean anything, but for those internally struggling with this myriad of conflicting feelings it might be the difference between life and death.
Actually Dutch child mortality (birth mortality?) is high compared to surrounding countries, in part because of home birthing (the occurrence of which is trending downwards, btw)

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/typ...

Can't find english source easily - tl dr 13% of births are at home vs 23% 10 years ago.
Within SEPA direct debit, you can reverse a charge if it was unwarranted.

In my experience, it's a lot more common and accepted than credit card business payments in Europe.
Crowd images don't tell the whole story.

There is grass on the National Mall. During the Obama inauguration, people walked on it as you would expect. The damage cost several $million to fix. In photos of the Trump inauguration crowd, notice that the sparsely-occupied area is white. It was covered in translucent boxes to protect the grass. (the boxes were borrowed from stadiums that use them for events like concerts) The boxes can be walked on, but people would hesitate. They are not inviting like grass. This kept many people out of the photos.

Another issue is that the central area of the photo was blocked off into different security sectors. Due to violence, entry was often blocked. Many people showed up for the inauguration but were unable to get to where they could see it, which would be the empty areas of the photos.

In the usual pair of photos, the Trump photo is cropped relative to the Obama photo. The physical area seems to differ by roughly a factor of two.

There is also the question of time when the photos were taken.
I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that FISA has been around for 20 years or more. Wiki says it was established 1978 as part of an act passed that same year.
I find it hard to read your argument and not feel that the nations and individuals who follow your advice will be replaced by those who don't. I suppose this is "wrongthink" and I'm troubled by it because it's hard not to feel it's semantically close to nationalism and racism.

In the anglosphere though, fertility is universally below replacement already. This is also true in countries where the cost of birth is much less than the U.S. Everyone is making up the shortfall with immigration.

To follow your argument through to its conclusion we should also make immigration to wealthier countries more difficult and expensive because it comes with a corresponding increase in personal resource consumption.

Still troubling.
I know "if you don't like your job, find a new one!" is a tired cliche that often gets thrown at people complaining about legitimate grievances, but software engineering is one of the few fields where a good employee can fairly easily leave for greener pastures whenever they want, at least in the US.
Is there a Onebrick.org affiliate, or similar organization, in your area?
I have always thought commitment in this context as "we commit this much time for this task, then we stop and reevaluate" instead of a deadline.
I was mostly talking about business customers though. Do all businesses have company credit cards for operational expenses in Denmark?

Interesting that people in Denmark use a credit card, although Wikipedia seems to imply it implies as a debit card inside Denmark? [1] I know debit is definitly more common in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort
'I feel cheated, but I would read more if there was any.'

I agree, it was like a pay-walled article where you have to sign up to get to the interesting bits, but wasn't..

'There is no backing, explanation or argumentation of anything except that libraries are cleaner than pron movie theaters.'

Philosophers also, as far as I am aware, don't sporadically acquire large sacks full of illicit cash.
A common side-dish with the skate is hnoðmör (they are often mixed together). It is composed of sheep fat (mör) which has fermented/rotted until it is even a bit hairy (with green hairs). Then it is kneaded back together and sold. You can see an example of it here:

https://youtu.be/gZGxdSI09Lo?t=20m52s

In principle it is not so different from blue cheese, except the source of the fat is different... and typically people prefer cheese.
Well, it's an acquired taste and pretty expensive. Goes well with alcohol and will clear your sinuses. Definitely memorable.
The last line of the picture contains some 'noise':

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000101101001

So the idea is that you produce any 63x64 binary image then you find a number up to 2^64 so that added to the number represented by the first image gives a prime. It's not exactly amazing, but clever enough.
Did somebody stumble upon this by accident, or did they deliberately look for a prime number and play with the layout until they saw a picture?

Either way, this is really cool.
Are you being serious? Saying you have 100k users when you actually have 50k is not fine, no matter your background. Hell, is it fine if I take an appliance that works on 110V and plug it into a 220V outlet? I'm also an electrical engineer and measuring everything in log scales doesn't excuse lying.
It's called fruit of the poisonous tree in legal parlance https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree