skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
social interaction gives immediate feedback. So, if your brain(s) are hunting to optimal strategies, being able to do net-present-value in a socialized competition is highly likely to get strong re-inforcement.

net-present-value to determine to plant the yummy seed for a fruit tree later has huge upsides, but demands less strong linkage ("seasons" == delay == plant now eat in 3 years) which I think is probably a product of stronger models of net-present-value than a chimp routinely builds.

the kinds of test they are administering have short cycles. they play to the social interactions chimps experience in the wild.

Try and ask the chimp to deposit into a food-based "pension fund" for its children and mates instead of eating the goodies, and see how many can learn to accrue compound interest
Some thoughts about retail wars
Langton's loops
The Surreal Madness of Ethereum's Pyramid Schemes
> Even if you had a gigabyte of text in an #if 0, that's only about 2 more seconds on the compile

Are you sure your implementation is correct? How does it handle this:

#if 0
"\
#endif \
"
#endif

I'm not saying gcc's and clang's preprocessors are not really fast, but preprocessing is trickier than most people expect. In particular (as you can see from my example), while skipping over an "#if 0" you still have to split the source into tokens and discard the tokens.
I don't believe that ML is a talent game at all. I think ML is a data and policy game. There's a lot of talk about AI braininess but from a theoretical standpoint there isn't much new to the currently commercially used ML products. The only thing that's changed over the last five years is data. Backpropagation is decades old.

And on the data and policy side China has hugely favourable conditions. I think we're making a great mistake if we're over-hyping the role of talent.
HR became feminised and bloated, like every feminised entity it is going to be bogged with formalities and regulations instead of trying to change or solve any problems. The main use of those bloating departments is to fulfil female hiring quotas. It is just a vehicle to transform money from productive males to females, exactly like in the traditional family model, only without the valuable contribution of the traditional housewife.
I wish they added freebsd support :(

Edit: wow, looks like they added[0] a few months ago! Awesome

0 - https://docs.appsignal.com/support/operating-systems.html#fr...
You can’t extrapolate trends continuously forward into the future. At the turn of the 20th century Russia was closer in GDP per capita to India and China than to the US. By the 1950s, they beat the US in every space race milestone, and would’ve beaten us to the moon if the head of their space program hadn’t died at an inopportune time. But ultimately it wasn’t sustainable.
Yes! Another thread a while back had a good discussion on this. Gmail, google search and YouTube search have all been terrible last few years. Ever since they started touting ML, I think they started to cut costs and it's been terrible using all 3 services whereas they used to be amazing a few years before.
The future of AR/VR exists in 3D worlds. If the web wants to be part of that future, developers will need access powerful 3D APIs. Otherwise, the web will miss another tech wave like it missed mobile (as native mobile was the clear winner over web mobile).
I don't really care for commentary like this. Either argue with the piece or don't; don't bore us with how you're sad that people will find it persuasive without bothering to refute any of its ideas.
Whether intentional or not, I think the "deliberate practice" rebuttal is a bit of a "no true scotsman" dodge. Anyone who says they practiced a lot can be interrogated about how methodical their practice was, to see if it counts. The only way, then, to falsify Ericsson's hypothesis is to spend lot of energy on highly methodical practice over a long period of time even though you are not improving very much. Who would spend the time to do that, just to rebut Ericsson?

Ericsson's original paper says: "In this article we propose a theoretical framework that explains expert performance in terms of acquired characteristics resulting from extended deliberate practice and that limits the role of innate (inherited) characteristics to general levels of activity and emotionality." They want to claim that the only innate talent that matters is that you are active and emotional, and not that you have any innate talent for music. This paper shows that the amount of time spent practicing appears to have no effect at all on some of these basic musical skills. It shows the presence of innate musical talent, something Ericsson wants to deny.

Some people really like to believe the 10,000 hour rule. I have no desire to talk someone out of believing it if they find it motivational. But as a musician, it's obvious to me that inborn talent is absolutely necessary for high-level performance. The idea that anybody can be Joshua Bell if they just put in the time is a wishful fantasy, not reality.

This kind of "blank slatism" is popular because it satisfies our desire for the world to be fair and just. We want to believe that we can create a perfectly fair playing field where success comes from effort alone. This is a noble idea, but the danger is when we discount evidence to the contrary -- evidence that sometimes people really are different, possibly having different talents or desires. Because then we look for who to blame when things don't end up the way we thought they should.
I'm betting yield per robot for lower error rate rises, but when bad programming hits, yield per robot hits the floor and we get swamped with product failure down the track.

Highly repeatable acts on a circuit board or assembly become deeply ingrained into the product. Having a loose bond on two phones because a worker sneezed, vs having 140,000 trash in a year because a 1G placement force was 0.1G out of whack...
I find the comments that rant against social media on hacker news amusing. Hacker news is a social media website.

"Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship."
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It's the same as a group on any other system, just different formatting. It even has karma which can suck you in...

I do not disagree with the sentiment though, managing the amount of time one gives to social media is tough. Picking good social circles and getting out of bad ones is tough.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
How to Recognize Each Myers-Briggs Type in Real Life – Astroligion.com
99% of swedes from <2004 aka 99% of white people
I sense a lot of mood affiliation in the title that I'm sure will earn the New York Times a lot of clicks. China is the biggest success story of free trade in the history of the world, and the contrarian take presented here is absurd to the point of silly.

Liberalization is a matter of degree. You can't cherry pick a particular protectionist policy South Korea had and then say, "Oh look see they used import substitution and still had a good outcome." You have to also explain why that import substitution policy didn't ruin the Korean economy the way it did Argentina, or in an extreme example, Maoist China. And what you'll find is that they became much more liberal in other ways.

If you're going to claim that liberalism doesn't matter you need to show your work. You need to show that in aggregate, countries that liberalize their economies do less well than countries with less liberal economies. But when you look at the data, you will find just the opposite: Countries that move in a liberal direction, like China, South Korea, and Chile, tend to improve their outcomes, while those that do not, like Argentina or Zimbabwe, tend to stagnate. And almost every wealthy country in the world is either highly liberalized or sitting on an ocean of crude oil. The fact that even liberal countries have illiberal policies doesn't disprove the benefits of liberalization.

Most likely, Asia succeeded in spite of protectionism, not because of it.
I thought that the curation was fairly widely known, at least in the community of book lovers. But, in this case they weren't claiming it was excluded from the list because some editor removed it in the interest of "curating," they claimed it was excluded because of a hard rule about not including books that weren't published in the US.

It would be nice if someone could find a couple of examples of non-controversial books that made the top of other bestseller lists but that the NYT excluded because they weren't published in the US. That would make it a lot easier to defend the accusations that they are using "Canadian published" as an excuse to keep a book off the list they don't like. There have got to be several publishers in other English speaking countries with very popular books that don't have any US presence that still sold well here.
I'm pretty sure there's a handful of those that find meaningful work. Then a handful of those that find it in AI.
This is a myth. It's easy to hire good people, just offer more money. The end.

Now, if your question is how to hire the best engineers on some budget, that's a different question. Regardless, the less money you offer, the less likely you'll be able to hire "good people".

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A more interesting and profitable question to have the answer to is how to make a bad engineer a good one for the least amount of money possible.
We believe that the underlying implementation (biological neuron vs logistic function) doesn’t matter as long as it has the fundamental properties from which intelligence can emerge. Like how you can build computers from gears, relays, vacuum tubes or silicon - as long as you have a transistor-like nonlinearity to work with, you’re good.
Ok so, calling it a script was wrong. It's a nix function which takes arguments specifying various configurations about the project I'm working on, such as any dependency overrides. It then provides a nix derivation which can define shells and compile to whatever platforms I need. No bash scripting is necessary to use this machinery except a convenience script to install Nix if you don't have it.

All of the functionality is just leveraging nix's powerful declarative model which easily defines the build artifacts of a project along with the environments necessary to hack on or compile them.

This sits on top of cabal and stack, actually. Within a project shell provided by Nix, I'll use cabal to get a repl, for example. But since Nix is handling all the dependency management, cabal doesn't have to do any work in that regard.
The world is running out of slaves and poverty workers. We'll know pretty soon what happens when there's nowhere to go for the next cheap labor pool.
The same Nate Silver and 538 who were hilariously wrong about Trump the whole time? His team didn't seem to have any clue what drove people to support Trump. Giving Clinton 95% win percent even at point where anyone actually following the race could see it was going to be neck and neck at best.

Or as Nate declared there is no path to 270 for Trump. Not quite sure how he declared that as predicting Trump when Nate and 538 predictions were the butt of jokes among Trump supporters.

I'd be cautious about their predictions and would point out anyone that they might be vulnerable to fake news.
Yeah, any heat that comes in through the windows in the form of sunlight stays in a passive house. You need effective awnings, otherwise you are doing something silly.
I wonder how does Partisan compare to Scalable Distributed Erlan proposed by Natalia Chechina team?

http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1394469405...

The problem is joining multiple clusters - you really don't want to do all P2P gossip in such cases, does Partisan address this somehow ?
I haven't seen anyone saying that the current trend of deep learning using neural networks will result in strong AI soon.
I'm not a historian. It's certainly true that monads or monad-like
things where discovered independently in many context. This isn't even
surprising, given how natural, and trivial in a sense monads are. But
the systematics realisation of the concept and its wide applicability
comes from algebra and the efforts to recover algebra
categorically. Let me quote from Wadler's [1]:

The notion of monad comes from category theory [...] It first arose in
the area of homological algebra, but later was recognised (due to the
work of Kleisli and of Eilenberg and Moore) to have much wider
applications. Its importance emerged slowly: in early days, it was not
even given a proper name, but called simply a "standard construction"
or a "triple" [...] Eugenio Moggi proposed that monads provide a
useful structuring tool for denotational semantics [...] He showed how
lambda calculus could be given call-by-value and call-by-name
semantics in an arbitrary monad, and how monads could encapsulate a
wide variety of programming language features such as state, exception
handling, and continuations. Independent of Moggi, but at about the
same time, Michael Spivey proposed that monads provide a useful
structuring tool for exception handling in pure functional languages,
and demonstrated this thesis with an elegant program for term
rewriting [...]. He showed how monads could treat exceptions [...]
and non-deterministic choice [...] in a common framework.

[1] P. Wadler, The essence of functional programming.
Fantastic. I'm sharing this far and wide. I knew my economy was nuts, this proves what a unique blend of nutty economies I'm part of. AU outranked by NZ for outrageous house price inflation! who knew? Ireland is looking good right now. All that GFC lunacy paid off in a huge housing stock I guess.
Regulation is good but only when it is done with an intention of making it available to the public in a risk-free manner and not trying to abandon it. Cryptocurrencies for the first time are making people realize the importance of financial freedom like never before. Governments are not scared because cryptos can be used for illegal purpose but because it is challenging the whole foundation of current global economics.
I agree with your "labelled racist by who, how do you count, etc" questions. But that just throws the meaninglessness of the original statement into starker relief: it's simply an empty expression of unsupported complaint. Your finishing formulation, is unfortunately simply more prolix.

I do not see those sorts of comments as up to the usual standards of HackerNews. Perhaps to be expected on an article like this, but still they should be discouraged.
Re:Affleck, again, that’s not the claim being discussed. Nobody is being criticized for scientific study – this is just a bunch of rich elite men talking about politics.

That said, it also doesn’t match the claims you’re making. Affleck wasn’t saying that no bad had ever happened with Islam, but rather that it wasn’t good to make such broad claims about a huge and diverse population — note that each of the things mentioned are also true of Christians but we are far less likely to treat such blanket statements about them as useful or accurate.

> Take a look at what evolutionary psychologists and biologists have been facing over the past decade.

I’m well aware of that and you’re misrepresenting it. They’re not being criticized for actual science but for unsupported claims which aren’t supported by the scientific evidence but are conveniently close to existing political beliefs.
Haxe-in-Haxe notes
It will be Vulcan and Dx12. Microsoft is nothing if not a stubborn 800 lbs gorilla.
> GWAS have proven to be, at best, of little value. In fact, due to the unfortunate way that many researchers chase p-values, these analyses often result in misdirection.

I would certainly challenge that, its just that some people considered GWAS as the solution for everything which it clearly isn't, especially because rare mutations where underestimated (and cannot be discriminated in GWAS) and because GWAS was never able to detect the causing variant, just associated/linked genomic loci. And last but not least, the regulatory genome is turning out more and more complex (with interacting variants leading to complexities of O(x^n)) and we do not know yet how it will all be understood, its just that GWAS is one of the better tools we have.
Posted with a throwaway, since my primary user is public.

I worked at a company in which my reporting manager was significantly harassing me. He did so via recorded systems. The next day, after each time I had a direct complaint and brought it to HR, he then walked through the punishments indicated in the handbook. He indicated "we don't have good ways to ascertain performance", and then said I had "bad performance" during the HR meeting. This set up no bells and whistles with HR.

Eventually, he then made up data claiming that I didn't maintain a specific system in a certain way. Truth of the matter was it was handed to me in a failed state before I started working for him. HR was complicit in supporting manager in a firing, even after proof of harassment and retaliation.

HR is only good for one thing - and that is defending the company. You're a nothing; a cog that can be replaced. If you have problems in your company, leave. It's not your duty to fix their problems. That's for the C()O positions. Leave before they can make you do so.
HR is many things though, and I think this article focuses solely on the HR-BP (Business Partner) role. That's the person your org/division reports to for matters of policy and disputes. Of course they will always side with management, that's their job. If you go into it knowing that, having a good relationship with them can be beneficial to your career. Besides, they really can't be your friend, and I'm not sure when anyone was lead to believe that was the case. There's this thing called conflict of interest, still, that doesn't mean they can't be friendly to you and offer you advice.
Peter Thiel's Failed Education Experiment Proves There's No Shortcut to Success
As long as they can walk away without belief they had magic pixie dust. If they think something about them rather than (unrepeatably good) timing into random movements won..
LANGUAGE pragmas just end up being like imports. It felt weird to me at first but by now it’s just as natural.

If you want to have some on by default, you can set that up easily in your cabal file.
I'm not sure that might be enough; it can still probably still "phone home" about when it's being used, what devices have been connected to it, etc. See if there's an option to factory reset it.
Parent is talking about Amazon, which started as an online bookstore.
Maybe this time it is different. Maybe the massive capabilities of modern robotics and AI are more transformative than the assembly line and sewing machines. Maybe our society isn't ready to handle mass unemployment from entire categories of jobs being eliminated.

Currently, I see a few ways this could go. One is the bright shiny utopia of robot servants and abundance for all. I don't think it's likely.

The other is a world that clings to jobs as long as it can. A society that demands its citizens' labor to pay for their own basic needs, even as more and more people are unable to cobble together enough part time work and benefits to support themselves. The desolate turn to drugs or suicide, perhaps rioting eventually. People demand industries be brought back, long past the point they're a viable career. Under debt and unemployment, the economy collapses.

I see a lot more political support for the latter.

There's also the possibility that new technology creates new jobs. That seems like wishful thinking to me. Do you think everyone will be AI programmers and robot engineers? I don't see that happening today...but I do see those old jobs being eliminated, right in that article.
No one is asking for a specific "hard 50% +c". Just more than 50%. "Usually" most emphatically does not mean "often" or "a lot of times." This sort of dumbing down of dialogue and tossing about of opinions is the opposite of what HN should be.
Just asked a friend of mine who is a civil engineer. He said desert sand is a bad idea for standing concrete structures. However, mixing a bit with supported concrete structures like a concrete pad or roads makes them less prone to cracking.

For particular demanding applications all sand is sifted and structure/shape of the sand checked.

For evening more demanding application sand may be produced via crushing to get long flat sand grains.

Also the checking of the quality of sand is called sieve analysis.
San Francisco's mass exodus of residents
Can you not do this on Android now? IIRC it offers you the option to skip.
Suboptimal to say the least. https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/low-cost

With Vanguard/Fidelity/Schuab you can make only 45k/yr over your whole career, put the $5500 into an IRA in VFIAX/VOO starting at age 22, and have an retirement income of $58k/yr (not including social security) when you retire. This approximately 1.1-1.5 million in retirement is enough savings IMO, and allows you to pursue whatever career you want, e.g. nonprofit/teaching/part-time with much less anxiety than a traditional pension or more active investment like a restaurant.

Maxing out an IRA is only a 12.2% pre-tax savings rate for someone with a $45k/yr income. This is not difficult at all, however it is important that it starts in the early 20s.
Fun fact: China’s GDP per capita growth over the last 25 years is only modestly more than Japan’s GDP per capita growth from 1970-1995 (20.5x versus 24.5x).
Eh, not for WebGL it won't. Nobody even implements DX other than high-powered desktop GPUs.

Will it live on? Sure, we will still have games and Xboxes. But if you're going to pick a standard that can work on mobile and desktop, there is no contender other than Vulkan.
> Later, the OG PoWHcoin smart contract — that immutable, incredible construction made out of memes and duct tape — was drained completely of its $2 million total, leaving Ponzibot with the loss of over $2.5 million on his hands.

> How?

> Because the developers of the OG contract had failed to use the safe math functions included in Solidity, the language of Ethereum’s smart contracts, this allowed an unknown hacker to make an unsigned integer underflow withdrawal — giving themselves an infinite number of PoWH’s tokens to withdraw, and draining the contract.

It is absurd that one needs to opt-in to unsigned integer underflow checking, especially in a language designed for writing financial contracts.
An Offline Bitcoin Wallet for the TI-84 CE
I am not sure what you mean by "fault" but it was certainly the result of accessibility advocacy.

I'm sorry but I disagree strongly with your blind friend. E.g.

> this continuing trope of "OMG I didn't realize we needed to make our content accessible! Woe, woe are we!" passed through the realm of disingenuous and into that of pure bullshit a long, long time ago.

They are just videos of a lecture. They can be put on the internet.

EDIT: That sounds like I don't understand his point. I think I do: we've had decades to get used to the idea that content should/must be accessible, and of all institutions, a large public university should certainly be doing that now, in 2017.

However, I just can't make myself accept it. They are just videos of a lecture. They can be put on the internet. Certainly they would be better if accessible, but once up it is vandalism to take them down.
Sure, specially with some operations, e.g. code requiring "shuffle" operations [1], which use constants for programing byte reordering, having most compilers problems on complex functions, where because of register pressure some "shuffle" constants are moved in and out from the registers (even when using the "register" keyword for 'helping' the compiler).

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/524215
Abstracting Primitives
Thank you for the precision. Yes. It is a web or network of unending obligation. Like his example of the women who are always heading off to give small amounts of foodstuffs in some complicated pattern.