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The name Mentat is derived from the Dune universe.

Quoting: "A Mentat is a fictional type of human, presented in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. In an interstellar society that fears a resurgence of artificial intelligence and thus prohibits computers, Mentats are specially trained to mimic the cognitive and analytical ability of electronic computers." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentat
I don't know how old you are, but the internet (and before that, BBSs) used to be a much more friendly place than it is today. When I was in high school circa 1996-8, my parents would drop me off to meet random people I had met online, and it was totally no big deal. Nowadays I can't imagine anyone doing that -- the dark corners of the internet have gotten a lot darker over the years.
Huh. Thanks for including the relevant part of the US Code. I'll be honest, I had no idea it was a requirement. I've read plenty of patents where the patent definitely would not function to let someone build the invention in question. I wonder how strictly this is enforced.
From the article:

> "We have to filter out influencers who have basically bought bots. There's a lot of those these days."
>My original statement should have been: "We can't model Humanity's Collective Objective Function" - which is what would be behind what we are interested in: Stable functioning muti-agent systems. I think EY took a crack at this a long time ago and rightly abandoned the concept (see: CEV).

If no such thing exists, then it was the wrong thing to investigate, so stop being interested in it.

>Even with that clarification I disagree with the premise that we can model an "objective function" for an individual strictly in-vivo. Modelling an individual agent's reasoning/function system doesn't account for the environmental context it exists inside of, gives input into and responds to. So even if it was possible to understand the mechanism for intra-personal decision criteria, and I don't think it probably is, I don't think it's generalizable without having the context of inputs.

That's just an inverse reasoning/theory-of-mind problem, one that normal theory-of-mind models and actual human brains solve every day.

>Assuming that we could do this, I don't think you can extrapolate intentionality directly from individual to collective groups - which for an AGI is what is existentially important as it needs to be collectively general to solve the existential problem.

What's this about "collectively general" and "the existential problem"? You seem to have gone off the deep end into philosophy salad.

>I also don't think this is desirable as a framework for AGI - as humans, despite our intelligent status, are quite unstable and sub-optimal in groups.

Considering you don't seem to know much about how humans work and what causes us to work well or badly in various situations, this statement comes off as almost racist.
I mean, if you are being serious, there are tons of reasons to use the C API. I heavily use intrinsics in C++ templates. Clever use of templates allows me to write a function once which can compile to SSE/AVX/AVX-512 and different data types (float/double) and different arch (x86/x64). In most situations this will be faster than assembly since I can inline everything wherever I want. When the need arises I will drop down to assembly to try to get any last perf gains, but otherwise I found that clang/icc/msvc are pretty good at generating assembly.
>Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox.

The comma after the 'and' in English lists allows us to apply 'why' to both "AT&T bought Time Warner" and "Comcast and Disney want Fox"
In a history lesson, the teacher will not be looking to students to uncover new explanations, so I'm unsure why that would matter - the narrative is already set. Which direction you're describing it in boils down to how to best convey the knowledge to students.
Some web pages I read make it look like so, and not only, some say directly that it's impractical. But maybe it's my infamiliarity with the ecosystem that makes me think so. If you know of a nice tutorial I'd really appreciate it!
Finally! Love new experience... literally anything would be better than iTunes (Windows)
Probably not good when climbing a mountain.

On the obituary "Lost grip due to an auto-play ad at full volume...". ;)
I would create an Instagram account just to follow this guy.
It's a subtle nuance that people often get wrong, though -- or they may be speaking in a dialect like British English, where 'want' (plural subject) is used for corporate entities. (I admit the latter is unlikely for an American publication.)
Hopefully no need for them to be only artificial realities.
This was my first thought too. For extra confusion, Mac handles were pointers to pointers managed by the OS while on Windows, a "handle" just meant a pointer to a struct.
Soda Player is accessing private files and mail
Now your data can be stolen by the Chinese government at unprecedented speed!
Verizon wanted to divest itself of HuffPo almost immediately. The service provider(s) who ignore content and focus on the network infrastructure (Internet pipes, if you will) and practice(s) “net neutrality” as fundamental to the business model will come out on top. The vertical integration of service providers and content producers will only end poorly.
Not that the Fox News outlet is the only thing that Fox does, but I for one would prefer cartoon substitutions for the human hosts on Fox News. At least it would equalize the current hosts with their true reality.
I've seen something which I think is even more interesting.

Second tier influencers (100k followers) paying expensive hotels and private plane trips of first tier influences (1 mil followers), so that they can appear on their feeds, and gain new followers.
I love the idea here, but I submitted some feedback before: Specifically, I think they should provide a clear notation of which have automated export tools and which do not, and a news feed for when the methods of data access become available. The site would be much more useful if I could quickly use it to locate export tools.
I got a paywall unfortunately. Seems interesting.
Subscribing to many services because each offers some exclusive stuff is inconvenient and taxes the user with the overhead of each service. People want to find more in their favorite stores.

If creators would have been independent of distributors, this wouldn't have been a problem to begin with. Each creator would distribute in each store. But all this integration causes exclusivity that only inconveniences the end user. Netflix isn't any better in this sense, since they have tons of exclusives too. Competition on exclusivity is not good in the end and only benefits the distributor.

In this sense, the idea above is spot on. How are these fragmented services (with DRM to boot) going to compete with torrents that offer everything without DRM through unified hubs? Film makers need to pull stuff together and fix it.
Then those with the power, the employers, can work to earn that trust.
Sorry to be skeptical here but I'm flagging the post. This is literally a random anonymous site asking for my iTunes login.
That would be accounted for though. If say the standard prep for chicken involves butter, all the training recipes would have butter with chicken.
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Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?
I'm a mid-senior level software engineer with 5+ years of industry experience and making $100,000+. I don't consider myself a bad software engineer, and yet I can't seem to solve some basic problems on a white-board in 30-60min (i.e. traverse a heap, merge sorted arrays etc).

I joined my company as an intern ~5 years ago & when I interviewed for the position I didn't have to solve any white-board style interview questions etc., since it was an un-paid internship. After a few months I had demonstrated my ability to write code they made me an offer.

When I now casually look around and apply for mid-to-senior level positions I cannot seem to get past phone (coding interview) part, that involves solving some basic algorithm on collabedit. I get nervous and given I need to solve (perhaps a simple) problem in an optimal/sub-optimal way in 30 minutes, my brain sort of shuts off and I cannot arrive at a clean solution, let alone solve the problem end-to-end.

I'm respected within the company, if you were to ask any colleague I have worked with whether I can write clean testable code that solves real business problems, everyone would attest that I absolutely can.

How do you create that environment of - "Coding under pressure and someone looking at your code while you're trying to think of how to solve a problem and your brain is thinking about everything other than a problem itself"???

One idea is to just keep applying and failing until I become immune to it. But each failure kind of brings me down, and makes me think that I'm a bad engineer.

Last thing I want to mention is that I don't blame the process itself. I think white-board style questions eliminate a lot of bad candidates.
I know that the process has to be rigorous because those jobs pay well. But there's also extreme examples like the inventor of homebrew that got rejected by google because he couldn't reverse a binary tree.
> living out of a Jeep

Hey, that's me!

2+ years, 80,000+ miles and 35+ countries in Africa living out of my Jeep. I've just passed the half-way point and am really looking forward to the Cape to Cairo run North.

http://instagram.com/theroadchoseme/

http://theroadchoseme.com
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Study Finds Bitcoin Mining Energy Consumption Highly Overestimated
This approach is contrary to youtube’s Business model. They’d rather just block kids. Which makes kids (and parents) just pretend to be 18.

Goog just needs to give up and partner with pbs or something to make kids videos a charity.
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That is entirely the point. This guy made a conscious decision to feel in drugs he knew we illegal and harmful. I have zero sympathy for him. He knew exactly what he was doing, and what the consequences were. He did this to himself
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"Influencer". From browsing the influencers in the article, the formula appears to be a) expensive clothes b) expensive hotels c) trailing photographer, d) regurgitation of corny "I am so cool" lines like "It takes cool people to do epic shit", "No one here gives a fuck".

Do you think we could design an AI, maybe GANs and caption generation, to generate influencers like these? The hotels could pay the AI makers to use their images, and would solve their problem of actually having to host them.
There’s explicitly no guidance system. It just keeps the rockets more or less vertical. Been following along with his efforts on Twitter for a year and a half or so. He’s made pretty impressive progress and streams a lot of build/debugging sessions and posts a lot of launch videos.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312414
I simply meant that the bare xxxintrin.h stuff is annoying enough that if you're using it directly you might as well write assembly.

I absolutely agree that once wrapped up there are good reasons to use a language-level interface instead of asm for most things.
Tips for Finding the Best Coffee Makers
http://revfluence.com/
Wow, nice to see readable math proofs that "run themselves", e.g. they define (a unary representation of) natural numbers as follows:

Inductive nat : Type :=
| O : nat
| S : nat → nat.

S = successor

Then they define 'plus' as

Fixpoint plus (n : nat) (m : nat) : nat :=
match n with
| O ⇒ m
| S n' ⇒ S (plus n' m)
end.

Adding three to two now gives five, as we'd expect:

Compute (plus 3 2).
The simplification that Coq performs to reach this conclusion can be visualized as follows:
(* plus (S (S (S O))) (S (S O))
==> S (plus (S (S O)) (S (S O)))
by the second clause of the match
==> S (S (plus (S O) (S (S O))))
by the second clause of the match
==> S (S (S (plus O (S (S O)))))
by the second clause of the match
==> S (S (S (S (S O))))
by the first clause of the match
*)

via https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/Basics....
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> SQLite uses serializable isolation by default, this is built on top of that.

That's sort of a meaningless statement tho. Everything in the world is built on top of RAM which is serializable. The real complexity comes in how those foundational blocks are abstracted and combined.

We know that it's not performant at scale to represent an entire database log a single Raft group. So how are the Raft groups structured organized, and how and when do they cross-communicate?
Abandoné la escuela
> in the same way that you generally aren't allowed to store large quantities of high explosives in a suburban garage

You can do that with low explosives, you just need a separate, unattached shed, the right license and submit to letting the BATF show up at any time with access to it.

Quite a few of our motor suppliers for the bigger stuff(K/L/M/N) did this, although this was about 5-10 years ago so the laws may have changed since then.

There's basically no high explosives(explodes in open air) used in model rocketry, everything is low explosive(accelerates under pressure), ditto gun reloading and other things that go bang.
Mostly for simplicity. Most folks can quickly tell you their annual salary, it would likely be more difficult to calculate their post-tax income. There is also the possibility that individuals may prefer to withhold more or less throughout the year depending on how they approach taxes, so that could potentially skew the numbers.
I just get "Loading..."

No JS errors, no Ajax requests, disabled adblocker, tried both Safari & Chrome, tried Mobile Safari.
Combined Compute and Storage: Configurable Memristor Arrays to Accelerate Search
Did you miss popup window which connected to Apple with green status bar?
The one I've heard about is https://influential.co - they're definitely out there
except, YouTube Kids already exists, and the whole point of the NYT article was that it's not working.
The GRE is designed to reward hard workers as well as intelligent people, that's why it is a widely used metric. Grad schools need hard working people as much as (probably more than, to be fair) they need intelligent people.

I am joining a CS PhD program in an US university this fall. The GRE, especially the math part, is high school mathematics. If you are not good at math, you can ace it by studying hard for a month.

That is why a low GRE quant score reflects that you haven't really bothered.
Whenever I get lunch with a group of coworkers, this is what everyone talks about and it’s absolutely exhausting. One issue is that I’m 24, craving new, novel social interaction, while most of them are in their late 20s or in their 30s, settled down, and fully in the Netflix trap.

The only benefit to seeing this is that it makes me want to never become like it.

The most genuine conversations I have are with actual friends: People I’d hit up on the weekend to walk in a park, drive somewhere for a hike, or grab dinner with. I also have a circle of friends that I go out with, which I understand not everyone is interested in.

Get out of the house as much as possible, and embrace the relationships that you genuinely enjoy. Small talk about Netflix will still be a thing with people you’re not close with, but you can help steer the conversation to be more interesting if you know the things that you do/don’t want to talk about.
It's interesting it took ATT and Disney this long to figure out that this is a thing.
How to turn off autocomplete and autofill
If you've ever looked into getting a patent, it's expensive (for a normal person not making much money), like thousands of dollars. I don't have that kind of extra money right now, and a provisional patent application is only $100. This will suffice until I can get funding so I can still test my idea, because the "patent pending" status would protect it from being stolen.
Somewhat related, did anyone analyze the probability that the best team wins the tournament in soccer?
You’re not missing anything.
fair point, poor language from me there.
Things are honestly still pretty secretive. Even here in SF. Anti-gay bias is everywhere and pushes many gay people to just quietly hide their sexuality. Fun fact, one of the two times I was ever called a faggot by a stranger was on an SF Muni bus (I was holding hands with a dude). Stuff like that, plus the long glances and stares, plus you remembering other forms of discrimination, just kinda makes most gay people in my experience very reserved in public compared to straight couples.
There is no technical trick but I don't think this constitutes clickbait. What would you suggest as a better headline?
I didn't miss anything, it just feels like a phishing attempt. No offense if it's not but perhaps you should just put the source upfront rather than hosting a service. People have their whole lives connected to iTunes accounts.
I am not familiar with business school admissions, but it is very rare nowadays to get into non cash-cow grad school programs in STEM fields on the basis of the GRE score alone.
That would be true if each of these services had enough unique content to stand on it's own. Netflix does, Amazon does, and HBO does if you take their entire historical cannon into account. The rest of the services (Starz, Cinemax, Hulu, Showtime et al) have 1-2 great exclusives and a bunch of old so-so content.

I shouldn't have to pay for 5 additional instances of Netflix to get one instance of Netflix worth of quality content. You were late to market and lost, deal with it and list your content on Netflix or Amazon, band together to form a joint competitor, or service a niche market like what Crunchyroll did with anime.
“Terrified” San Francisco Tourists Shocked by Aggressive Vagrants,Needles,Bodies
The War on Tesla, Musk, and the Fight for the Future
The problem isn't technical at all. In fact, the problem stems from trying to use technology to replace humans. The problem comes because the thing that your entire proposal rests on, curation, isn't being done.
> Anyway, are there companies which have interesting technical problems to solve and not consider outsourcing them to other vendors? Maybe I should get a job in a company which ... has some room for creativity?

2 points:

1. I hate getting involved in tech projects where someone got 'creative'.

2. The "interesting" aspect is definitely in the eye of the beholder - what's interesting to you may not be interesting to anyone else in that company.
Nobody in here seems to appreciate the networking complexity that Netflix deals with - they are 37% of North America's internet traffic! At that point the network isn't an abstraction that "just works" like most web apps; you have to be aware of physical and business realities that dictate traffic (e.g. negotiate peering agreements, deploy caching/CDN boxes to network POPs, etc.).
I read all of that as hypothesis, are you talking about this part?

"Another theory is that differences in religious commitment reflect change during the life course. Although young adults often start out less religious than their elders, they tend to become more devout as they age, have children and begin to face their own mortality (or so the theory suggests)."

They have a lot of hypothesis that could all be true - i.e. the younger people who started off with a lower percentage religious as measured would end up with a higher percentage religious if measured as a group later, but still less than the current age group measured right now.

Or maybe this one?

While not ruling out the influence of other factors – such as when and where people live – one research team argued that “life course trajectories may trump generational placement as predictors of religious behaviors and orientations.”

Lastly, they have the caveat that America is kind of special case with several contravening indicators, with some conditions among the best and among the worst.
3 year olds don't understand copyright law and frankly I'm not about to try and explain it to them when I'm sat in a restaurant or queuing to get his hair cut. If watching something on YouTube (on my phone with the sound muted) pacifies my kids which make everyone's experience more tolerable then I wouldn't class that as bad parenting. But I guess the problem with appeasing judgemental individuals is you're damned whatever you do. However for what it's worth, almost everything we watch on YouTube with the kids we do also have on DVD.
Apparently the advertisers buying space in FT's "How to spend it" issues think at least someone cares.
Worth noting too that he can probably stretch the defense out just because he’s Messi. As a defender you’d be a fool to take your eyes off him.
As I get more familiar with rust macros I may compress this down a bunch. It will make it easier to maintain.
I build websites using Wordpress on GoDaddy. How much do you reckon should I charge?
Same people making Chumboxes.
There are real-time sensors in the balls. Players are tracked with cameras and ,I think, also sensors in their shoes. We read about a systems developed by a German uni in an event processing class (they generated millions of events per minute) but I cannot recall the name right now.
Excellent article (previous discussion on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4200846)!
From my experience in speaking with talented technical people. The greater part of the satisfaction of a job comes from the peers you work with and the people you are around with rather than technical solutions.

Have you tried searching for the right company with the right values and culture that would allow similarly minded people to flourish?

I am not aware of a service that allows you to find companies with interesting technical problems as of yet so I can't recommend you one.

I do know of keyvalues.com is a service that lets engineers find companies with the qualities that matter to them.
Here's a bookmarklet to get around that pay"wall"
https://bookmarkify.it/9810
>It really doesn't. If anything German is a fairly soft, camp-sounding language

Not for us non-Germans listening to it (though the video exaggerates of course). There's a reason behind the stereotype, and that's not WWII.

Even the mere written form of the words is more somber and threatening looking: schmetterling vs butterfly or farfala for example, or Wissenschaft vs science.

Can't compare with something like Italian or French.
It is, and so is boost::unordered_map, that's the whole point of the comparison. Just check the implementation out.
I think "THE BLIZZARD RANT" explains it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzT8UzO1zGQ
Good advice for nearly anything.

Whatever it is, teach it to someone else if you want to understand it better yourself.
I read this and then it striked me that this is what I have been trying to convince myself since long.

Now I have to ask - is there a particular word for this kinda feeling, like borderline deja vu?
As a European myself, I still find German non-melodic and menacing compared.

Besides, "only to Americans and some Englishmen"? Ask a frenchman, an Italian, or a spaniard about how German sound to them...