skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The performance might be superb but the UX is atrocious, everyone has just learned to get over it.

I guess I'm one of those. I've been using reddit since before they enabled comments. I love that it's remained simple and it works really well for me.

The only items I'd imagine improving on would be remembering collapsed threads (like HN does) and preserving a deeper history of threads I've seen (maybe opt-in if it bugs people).

What's the "learning curve" that you refer to? Voting and comments are pretty simple, right?
I loved Coursera’s Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics course taught by Chris Cramer from U. Minnesota. Mind expanding. Some calculus.
The Theoretical Minimum lecture series on theoretical physics by Leonard Susskind. Covers the basics in a very approachable way. I wish this had been available when I studied physics.
Jeeves is a human.

If you think humans are going to work like that, you better never hire anyone.
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Towards a Type System for Containers and AWS Lambda to Avoid Failures [pdf]
> I suspect it would show there is a similar bias applied to males, but with a significantly smaller effect that's mostly lost in the noise.

In that case height is a factor and the taller the male, the more he earns.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/standing.aspx
Cash is the only simple anonymous way to transact. I think it'll get to the point where I won't be able to enter most stores because I don't want to get doxed for the privilege of shopping.
Awesome! thanks for sharing! I'm always looking for optimizations. Any idea whether fastly would support running out of specific regions? Or how many endpoints they have?
spending money on stupid stuff

The problem here, as with any economic ideas, is properly defining "stupid stuff". Value has to be defined on an individual basis. If someone gets more entertainment from digging holes and filling them with dirt than using their phone, then hole digging doesn't seem like such pointless endeavor. The hole digger will probably end up in better health than the phone user, too, so it's not like there endeavor is altogether pointless.

Taking options away (like cash) is a bad idea if you're optimizing society around individual autonomy. We should want as many options as possible.
A Q&A with Sophia Vicent, Uber's Director of Technical Program Management
Makes no sense from my point of view. The mouse could be an addition to touch, not a replacement. I certainly understand the concern, but I believe the benefits of supporting a mouse clearly outweigh the drawbacks, especially for business users.
Not in Germany, for example. We still have laws that cash has to be accepted for (almost) any trade.
Still, it's ultimately about balancing alternatives.

Whether there is a net-gain in exchange for an extremely rare potential scenario which every party is massively disincentived from ever pursuing even a minor exchange of 'tactical' nukes... let alone the even smaller probability 'world ending' volleys. War was brutal for centuries and was only getting more destructive until nukes.

As much as Oppenheimer may have regretted his involvement it's still has not turned into the total disaster many predicted. We could certainly do more to minimize the threat by reducing stockpiles but from a pure philosophical view of having nukes or not...eh I see a good argument in favour of it.

Likewise people clicking on ads has generated tons of value for society and is a big foundation of the recent technical progress we've all benefited from. This is the tradeoff we've exchange for the relatively minor downside risk of ads making people engage in meaningless consumerist pursuits or unhealthy behaviour or be lied to slightly more efficiently by politicians.
And if you've never taken any MOOC before this is a great one to start with because: it's only four weeks long and it's free.
Other than the BIOS issue I have had no problems with the Ryzen 5 2400G. I have an ASRock board. I tried running Warframe on only the APU but I think I need more memory which is very expensive so I put in an GTX 650.

If memory prices go down I should be able to use it with only the processor.
Ease up on the reins there cowboy, I think you took that comment waaaay too seriously.

That said, I've been following Mayweather closely as a boxer for many years. He's a boxing prodigy, but he's also a genuine imbecile. I wouldn't be surprised if actually doesn't grasp the concept of inflation. Really, no exaggeration.
>They are to provide those who live or work near them a snack safe space.

>"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't vend that to you. Would you like a Dr. Pepper or Pepsi instead?"

I realise this was humour, but you framed the problem as I see it perfectly. I don't feel safe if I don't know Hal's code, especially if he's talking to all the other Hal's (be they other vending machines or information aggregating corporations). And what are the odds that these things will be open source?
to compare multiple modes and even combine them
https://www.rome2rio.com/ is great
Yes! I agree, it's like propaganda that someone else could use to defend c.a. It doesn't come across as genuine, and based on leaked interviews via hidden camera with ca execs talking to reporters, its hard to accept anything written like this without guessing it was paid for.
"Brigading" is the single most idiotic concept to come out of the site admins in Reddit's entire history. It's a value judgment that conveys nothing useful.

Do you know what someone following a link on Reddit and clicking around and participating where they end up is? Normal usage of Reddit! The idea that you're not allowed to participate just because you came through an on-site link reflects a kind of isolationism that has nothing in common with Reddit's philosophy, nor how real people ever used the site.
Wealth inequality is not a problem. The change in the amount of wealth inequality is a problem, in that it seems to be moving further away from the optimal amount of wealth inequality, which is not zero.

In other words, the proportion of rich to poor is skewing further away from optimal, which could be measured by a curve showing the wealth one has as a proportion of the next-wealthiest person, or by a graph showing the percentage of global wealth owned by a given equal-sized fraction of all people (i.e. the top 1% owns X%, the next 1% owns Y%). A perfectly flat graph indicates perfect communism. A sharply inflected curve indicates oligarchic plutocracy. An unspecified (and likely undiscovered) shape would be optimal economic conditions for civilization as a whole. My concern is that we are moving further away from that presumed optimum in the direction of oligarchic plutocracy, which historically has resulted in violent rebellion, every time it has been observed.
Anyone in the UK who is not already using Monzo should definitely check it out.
Second the Jennifer Windom course. That's been the most useful course to my career.
Definitely agree with this one. It's called Algorithm Specialization on Coursera. I'm now on course 3 and it's definitely helped me a lot in thinking about how reason about algorithms.
At least it's slightly more reasonable than Bay Area prices... haha
I understand what you are saying.

But the issue is not so black or white. Google/Alphabet is not pouring billions of dollars on free products from the goodness of their heart, they are doing so increase their revenue from ADs. As matter of fact, I would think that most of their ad revenue does not come from direct ad products, but indirectly from other products.

Whether ads are ok or not is a different argument (I don't have any problems with Ads as long as they are not too annoying), but the feeling of righteousness is something I can't understand.

Please understand Google is a for-profit public-traded company, with the only objective of making money for their shareholders (nothing wrong with that), but to imply they have all these free products without any hidden revenue agenda (is, mostly Ads), is just ridiculous.
If we were running under the liability model the CSO's final option would be to resign which sucks. But he is basically in the same situation that any employee is who is being forced to do something that is clearly illegal. But, I guess that is a good argument for why liability might not work because you end up not having a security team or you put good people into legal dilemmas that they shouldn't have to deal with.
As an aside, I wish articles would just put the age ranges in the title for the group they are referring to, rather than a blanket term like "millennials". For example, if millennials [0] includes anyone 22-37, the image in a person's mind of "a millennial" could greatly vary from someone fresh out of college to a a young couple with a baby. That creates a disconnect from actuality if the article is referring to a specific subset in their late 20s-early 30s.

[0]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/defining-gen...
Calm down trendspotters – ‘lagom’ is not the new hygge (2017)
Quantum physics dropwise
I think it would be hard if approached as a human technique automation, but there might be other ways to connect power and signal lines in a car in more mechanical ways. Depending on how much thought and desire has been spent by experienced factory designers...
MI - machine intelligence. Actually, it sounds like the article actually means MI when it says AI. John Giannandrea mentioned in the article used to be a head of "search & MI". So it makes sense that Jeff Dean would become a head of MI.
> I regret every bit of it.

Why make a statement without even one item of support as to why you regret it?

The ASUS board problem sounds inconvenient, to say the least, but the way your phrased it implies it doesn't effect you in particular.

Comments on a popular online electronics retailer's website seem to be positive for this model.
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Scientific dataset processing with R and python frequently pushes up against 16GB. Having more room with 32 or 64 would be fantastic.
Chicago is quite expensive unless you live very far out or are willing to compromise on less desirable areas to live. I'm not sure the employment opportunities in these other cities are anywhere near the levels of the coasts though. Perhaps things have changed a bit recently, but my understanding is that most Midwestern areas suffer from brain drain issues.
I don't want to be mean, but people like to make fun of Java. In this regard life is much, much easier. Yes WORA is only partially true, but it is still true. Life is so much easier it's not even funny. Except for the most performance critical bits I'd never write anything in C++... Oh, and embedded.

I'm sorry you guys still have to go through all this pain, I know it's a really hard problem with all the legacy.
I'm dumb. The probability of rainy Seattle would be (8/27)P(R) where P(R) is the prior probability of rainy weather, no?
Hmm... seems like if someone in your household is diagnosed with some terrible (expensive to treat) illness, you should just operate under the assumption that you will be declaring bankruptcy after all is said and done. And therefore:

- Do NOT touch IRAs or any other asset that might be protected during bankruptcy (i.e., don't liquidate everything in a futile attempt to keep up with the medical bills).

- Pay as little as you can get away with on those medical bills during treatment. Then sort it all out in bankruptcy court.
CS50x and Stanford's Startup Engineering one.

Got me into programming and part of an exclusive club of MOOCs I've started AND finished.
Old Man with a Basketball
If you want to dig into more complicated situations, I really like this one: https://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html

It's much harder to find on Google today than it was 8 years ago.
Wonderful topic. Still remember the article about "tit for tat" strategy which can be consider to be the basic moral principle that similar to "Treat the others the way that you want to be treated".

Most normal people don't see the association of this principle to the Godel theorem so they don't strongly against preemptive strike policy and elected mathematically stupid political leaders who caused chaos world today.
Financial markets by Robert Shiller: https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global

I wanted to invest better so I took this course to learn the basics of financial markets (I'm a software guy and have zero training in finance). After taking it, not only do I have the basics nailed down but have gained a massive appreciation of finance as a technology that, at its best, mitigates risk and advances society.

Shiller is an authority on the topic, having won a Nobel Prize in Economics no less. His penchant for financial market history and human behavior angle on things is a massive plus for this course. I'd say the course is useful education for entrepreneurs and curious folks alike.
Wealth inequality is a problem because it is an inefficient distribution of society's resources. When we divert productive capacity to build someone a yacht instead of feeding the homeless, we allow many to suffer in exchange for the marginal improvement in happiness for one person.

It can be argued that inequality leads to more utility being created overall, but I feel this justification is rarely scrutinised in much detail. Instead it is elevated to a moral premise that those who are able to earn more "deserve" their excess share of society's resources, regardless of how many suffer for their consequently smaller share.

Personally, it seems to me we have the resources to feed and shelter everyone in our society, and I'm highly sceptical that doing so would create less utility overall than whatever it is we're doing with those resources instead. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if this argument extends to the world as a whole.
https://courses.knowthen.com/p/elm-for-beginners

Elm for Beginners, and the followup course. The first one is free and does the 70% case of the language.

Well organized, good pacing, good content.
There are several reports about this happening. Granted it’s rumor: https://www.cultofmac.com/519763/apples-got-secret-plan-merg...
Yeah when you trot out “actively censored and silenced people who were complaining” you may want to consider whether they were a vocal minority or not.

Especially if your measure is “posts on forum in question itself known to be games by bots and spammers for the lulz alone”
Pick your dystopia!
And has a major OS to his name.
Why should people be free to pursue maximum compensation? Why can't they be free to pursue any unprofitable work that benefits society as a whole instead of chunking out more candy crush/Farmville/clash of clans clones or other making pointless artificial rents (e.g. something you use to own, but now only available as an electron-SaaS) or other economic/socialogical waste?
Maybe they're trying to strategize on SAT Prep book marketing /s.

Jokes aside, SAT score is not a good indicator of "success" in terms of salary at least in my personal circle. Some of my friends who got perfect scores on their SATs are all at sub-standard jobs, getting paid significantly less than the average salary. Of course, this is purely based on personal anecdote but attending top-tier schools seem to have a stronger correlation.
What are you supposed to be using?
I think if you use a good app like rif or sync, you will realize that they do add considerable value to "a text-and-images-and-comments site". I find them easier to navigate than any website. Another big plus is that apps have a lot of settings. You can customize the layout, colors, basically everything in a good app.

This is basic stuff. A single website can never provide all the flexibility of use that an app based on the api can.
I remember the days of OSes not written in C, where the C ABI wasn't the same as the OS ABI, with each compiler having their own view.

Even old proprietary UNIX compilers had their own set of compatibility issues.
I've taken "From NAND to Tetris" by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken while at high school. Very nice explanation of the whole stack.

As the name suggests, they teach the necessary to build your own computer, assembler, language and finally a simple game.

I would say it goes to an "appropriate" level of detail. You certainly won't become an electrical engineer and game developer with it, but it gives great insight on all layers and how computers actually work, and explains concepts such as pipelining.
Apple has an architectural license. I would expect that allows them to add instructions (assuming modern ARM still has the concept of instruction set extensions)

Google didn’t answer that for me, but I found out that there now is a ”cp15 sctlr[1] (alignment bit)”. http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.... says this about it:

”3.5.1. Alignment faults

If alignment fault checking is enabled (the A bit in CP15 c1 is set), the MMU generates an alignment fault on any data word access if the address is not word-aligned, or on any halfword access if the address is not halfword-aligned, irrespective of whether the MMU is enabled or not. An alignment fault is not generated on any instruction fetch or any byte access.”
You're legally obliged to accept cash in Germany so offering any other means of paying must be well worth it (fees, readers etc.).
If anything it's closer to - How I built a multi-regional apigateway API with multiple creative workarounds despite there being no official way to do it and it only becoming possible to do so 5 months ago :)
I hear ya man. These algorithms seem to fall into stupid uselessness after just one error or prioritization change .... like code does.... normally.... but it is telling that the "intelligence" behind these things is still ultra fragile as far as their ability to cease to function as far as the user is concerned.

Hal 9000 failed because he was told to lie.... You'd think that prioritization would be easy on the outside. Granted it was a story but it seems to fit that a minor change results in a collapse as far as function goes.
Yeah, it's a phrasing error... although there are species of inferred behaviors (he went into a room for an hour and then came out and walked to a store. I don't know what he did in that room but I can infer that he breathed while in it, although as with all inferences that may be untrue.)

I'm not arguing against revealed preferences as useful aggregate information regarding the probabilities of someone choosing X, I'm saying that you both can't know their intentions regarding those choices and more specifically those preferences are untrustworthy in predicting any single opportunity to choose X.

The idiocy of many current products, be they physical or informational, is replacing the user's ability to make a choice with what the product designers believe... especially without explicit agreement. In most cases the user didn't opt-in to outsourcing or subordinating their decision-making to product X and every time their intent conflicts with the product's decision-making the user will become more discontented with the product.
Please tell me you meant to add an /s to this
That's true, but if not for advertising they wouldn't exist.

Advertising is like pornography: lots of technology finds its first application or even invention in either.
I see your point, but I don't think we should be aiming at a solution of continuing to promote overconsumption. I think we should aim for a world where people are less manipulated into overconsumption, but everyone still has the means for a comfortable and happy life.

It may sound obvious when I put it that way, but it seems to me that many times the political or economic proposals I hear fundamentally disagree with this goal.
This still takes more time than touching a wallet to a sensor
Understanding GANs through a statistical divergence perspective
Using Apple Pay is so nice, it's definitely the fastest way to pay for anything, including cash. But it's important for cash to still be available and normal to use.
There are plenty of legitimate scams in the cryptocurrency world, but the games we're referring to (PonziCoin, PoWH3D, CryptoCelebrities, CryptoKitties, etc.) are very transparent about the fact that they are zero-sum games where you have the chance to lose a lot of money.

These games should really be considered simulated bubbles instead of Ponzis. A Ponzi scheme collapses when the operator walks away with everyone's money. PoWH3D doesn't have an operator since it's totally decentralized. It will collapse when everyone decides to sell. Likewise, CryptoCelebrities will never crash but inevitably somebody will get stuck with a collectible that nobody else wants to buy. It's akin to buying a beanie baby or a tulip for an exorbitant price, only to find that there's nobody to resell it to.
I imagine the rants when issuing currency was restricted to a state monopoly were pretty similar, and pretty similarly misguided.
Doesn't hurt that Missoula is a great little town.
Updating BIOS is a common thing for newly released CPUs. Things like that are expected if you're building the PC yourself.
Reddit users don't like to admit it, but Reddit is basically anonymous Facebook.

Facebook for introverts.
Cities have a lot to offer kids as well. My kids will have independence from not being tied to a car. Schools/friends are an easy walk away; it doesn't have a "drop off" lane. Enriching family trips to museums, zoos, aquariums, parks, etc are all a train ride away with free passes from the local library.

If the research is representative of people's opinions, then perhaps this is a failure of marketing.
Beijing-Based Huobi Crypto Exchange Officially Launched in South Korea
I think Denver is out simply because it's on mountain time. I'd think they'd want a location on EST. It also suffers from a huge divide in talent between Denver and Boulder, which IMO are just far enough apart to make commuting between the two unbearable (even though a lot of people still do).
Will the Saudi Kingdom Collapse Under the Resource Curse?
If someone could find a link to this that would be incredible