skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't get any information if the probability of the beam balancing is either 1 or 0. If you put everyone on the scale, the probability that it will be balanced is 0 - you don't learn anything. So the trick is to exclude some of the sample group in every measurement. You can use a binary search strategy where you divide the coins into "on the scale" and "not on the scale" groups, until you have a set of two that definitely contains the one you're searching for (and then one more measurement will tell you which one of those two it is) - but that strategy requires too many measurements, so you need to use more information at each stage, and you can't throw out coins you've determined to be non-counterfeit.
When I was a kid websites were cool and new and weird. It was a brief escape from the walled gardens of AOL/CompuServe, where you could write whatever you wanted and make it look as crazy as you wanted it to be full of animated gifs and memes. You'd write websites about the games you were trying to make and the "reviews" of rollercoasters you wanted to visit that summer. You'd find free hosts like GeoCities or Angelfire and send links to your dozen friends.

Sure, a kid today could just post all that to Facebook or Instagram, but there's likely to still be some of that rebellious creative spirit to break free from the walled gardens and do your own thing?
Hey, this is unfortunately not in the expected format for this thread :(
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> he preferred to hire people out of college whom had lower GPAs around 3.0 then perfect students because he thought these folks made for better team members and well rounded employees. Simply put he wanted to hire people who perused side passions and had a social life.

But these things are not exclusive - you can't look at someone's impressive academic achievements and assume they don't have a social life or hobbies.
This is probably akin to taking advantage of financially uneducated person, in an emergency situation, no less.

There are laws (or should be) protecting the layman. Examples: title companies check if a seller is mentally competent and understand what they are doing (encountered one case where the seller was selling his/her house significantly under market to a flipper, without an agent). Similar to that, and similar to how mortgages require thorough financial background checks and whole process of payments is rather dumbed down, it should probably be similar for this case.
How many dual income families make that much?

Looking at the sold houses in my neighborhood and the families that move in: a lot.
Ask HN: Would it be possible to automate these job postings to match?
Not sure which category this falls into but:

Who is hiring:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17442187

Who wants to be hired:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17442189

Gives us a great opportunity.

Someone should write an algo to see if you can match the candidates to the appropriate job.

If not, that tells you a lot about the current state of job descriptions and candidate resumes.

It could even be this person:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17442740
Yes, Yes, love Costco and Winco. My grandma's city just got a Winco across the street from their Costco. Awesomeness
Those are great points, they're just further up the chain than where we are when we're trying to execute our day to day. It was an option on the table he didn't have to take. He's a grown man, and he made a call. It may have even been the right one.

I come from a "payday-loan poor" family, and spent a good chunk of my adult life there myself. It's hard, but people with comfy salaries paternalistically taking options away because they know better really agitates me.
Renesas also still sells SH2/4 chips

https://www.renesas.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-micr...
> The only thing that matters is staying ahead of the curve. It's always going to be hard for GM to do that, because it's focus is always going to be on incremental improvements of the same way of doing things. The "years of design and manufacturing experience" you mention.

This isn't true. They can continue to make their general automotive improvements while also upskilling in EV - the Bolt is a prime example of that. Frankly, they beat tesla to the punch there.

> Look at their $1B acquisition in Cruise Automation. Like you said, GM is not a power company, its' a car company. Its' business is cars. GM should have developed self-driving tech internally, and not had to buy it. Cars is GM's job. But GM missed that boat entirely, because everyone in GM is focused on incremental improvements on manufacturing.

Hmm, you mean like Tesla bought the solar manufacturer for Solar City? Is that not acceptable to you? You bring up an argument against your point. GM can easily purchase anyone. If they slightly miss something a purchase is all that's needed.

> Even your comment mentions that "most people don't care about EV right now." EV is not a big focus for GM. Sure it has the Chevy Bolt, but that only began development 10 years after Tesla started. GM does not care about EVs right now. It's focus is still on manufacturing traditional cars, and will continue to be this way until someone else forces them to change.

EV is a big deal to GM because they know where the future is heading. They also are not hemorrhaging money and burning runway because they also have a sustainable business now. So they can do both.

Meanwhile Tesla can't even scale a 35K car. They're a luxury brand. period.
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For the first: your facts of the case are wrong. It originated in 2012 and in 2014 Colorado allowed for same-sex marriage. However that's irrelevant to the case because even though same-sex marriage was not allowed, Colorado had the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act prior which prevented businesses from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, among other things. Saying it was a bad initial case is outright wrong considering the facts they make up in their ruling.

The travel ban is also incredibly racist. North Korea being on the list doesn't matter because North Korea rarely allows people to travel to the United States and the Venezuelan ban only bars a few high-level officials. Those countries added to the list are an excuse for the government to say 'look we're not racist we have non-Muslim countries on the list!' while the rest have little to no actual security rationale behind it.
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I keep a semi-pristine vimrc because of the first video, after having seen how heavy vim plugins can be on my low end equipment
The Convenience of the Digital Age, at 11,562 Feet
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That type of insurance is often called cyber insurance, and is pretty common among businesses. I work for a nonprofit--not even a tech company--and we carry cyber insurance and require all our technology vendors to carry it too.

Personally, I would not be opposed to CAs requiring proof of cyber insurance in order to issue an EV cert.
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Nanotechnology Leaps Forward by Manipulating Molecules
I think that this is generally bad advice. It results in worlds that feel more like a series of zoo enclosures than a living world. Cities built around this concept end up feeling more like an amusement park than a place where people live and work.

I think this misses the point that when we tell the story of little red riding hood, we still say that she walked for a long time in the woods. We just don't describe it in detail. It's still important that it be true, however as that is part of what makes going into the forest perilous. The same sort of thing can be implemented in open world games by means of various fast travel mechanisms. Ideally they should be sufficiently easy to use, such that that player is bored, but sufficiently restrictive such that the meaning of distance is preserved.
That's not a very satisfying answer, as it doesn't apply to the languages typically compared with C- C++, Rust, or even D, Nim, Zig, etc.
An interview with Francois Chollet
This part of what you say is true:

"It repeatedly implored Congress to increase fiscal spending. That didn’t happen, so monetary policy had to attempt to compensate."

This part is not true:

"At least in America, we did a good job of this."

High unemployment should have been brought down in 2009 but instead did not come down till 2013. Labor force participation remains suppressed. Wages for men have been in decline for most of the period since 1973, and that only includes their monetary wages -- if you consider the decline in what's covered by health insurance, then the situation is even worse.

The situation since 1973 has been bad, and the situation since 2000 has been awful, and the USA has yet to show the political regeneration that will be necessary to turn this situation around and resume the broad based prosperity that the USA enjoyed during the mid-20th century.
Starting a Second Machine Learning Company, 10 Years Later
> Fruit & veggies are a disaster unless you like shrinkwrapped everything or you know all the codes.

Not in my experience. The codes are all right there (on a sticker on the fruit or vegetables) or easily looked up by name/picture.
We just drove through Wyoming and we had this crazy spontaneous experience where we came over a rise on a rural road smack dab into a cattle drive. The family driving the cattle included several young kids riding ATVs and horses and I pointed out that a little girl younger than my 8 year old son was riding a horse and twirling a rope to help move the cattle. Lo and behold there was also a couple of kids my daughters age (12) out there, one on an ATV and one on horseback. It was definitely an eye-opening experience for my kids to see how other kids are living and what they are doing.

I grew up in my dad's welding shop where he repaired heavy equipment like tractors and bucket loaders, worked on cars (and pretty much everything else). Everything was sharp and dangerous in there. I pretty much had the run of the place.
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
C doesn't have anything to say about whether bounds are checked or not. That's why so many things, including pointers to arbitrary locations in memory, are undefined: the standard was built to accommodate both embedded system implementations where scribbling all over RAM is desirable, and implementations that do things like bound checking.
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I am a remote Machine Learning Researcher/Engineer for different startups of San Francisco. I have an MBA and I have also pursued a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. I was graduate with first class honors and I have been awarded several by the research and work done, both locally and internationally. I love maths since I was very young and I have been finalist in s couple international math contest I joined in by hobby.

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Using the DB app is really helpful to me. All delays are near real-time. It makes using public transport so much easier. Now the German ticketing machine, please fix that so it includes the stops instead of just end points.
I think this is an absurd simplification of things. Apple is all about the integration of top notch tech into a product that the market really wants. Take the iPhone’s touchscreen for example or the mini HDDs in the first iPods.
My brother graduated from RPI early because stuff with Shirley was so bad, she is a crazy dictator of a leader and I heard horror stories from both Professors who were under immense pressure to publish and students who were paying 65k a year for an education from professors who were under too much pressure to publish to be effective teachers.
I think we see some of that already, given the persistence of XFCE and Mate.

Still, for the vast majority of people trying Linux, the recommendation is "use Ubuntu" which means "use Gnome." And the number of people trying Linux is relatively small.

If Haiku's implementation was complete, and ran on the range of hardware people want to use, and ran the apps people want (a lot of ifs in that statement), I could see "use Haiku" being a viable option for a lot of folks. I remember non-technical and technical people alike being very excited when encountering BeOS back in the day.

To be clear, I think the most likely future is crappier desktops for the masses. Windows is downright baffling to use with the unified start menu / advertising billboard / hide-the-control-panel interface. With every release, macOS makes at least one regression in terms of stability, security, usability, or performance and gives us some new useless feature to "defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSPleaseJustLetMeWorkInPeace -bool true." And Linux == Ubuntu == Gnome, which is the Philip Glass of interfaces.

I realize I'm ranting now. BeOS was a happy place for me. I just like to fantasize that Haiku could be such a place again. :-)
Yes, that’s my point — you need to use 2048 bits for key to get 128 bits of security, so there is no way to fit the public key in the IPv6 address.
AI-Driven 3D Cell Modeling: “Closest Thing I’ve Ever Seen in Science to Magic”
What if we do daily scrum/stand up over Slack?
Fundamentals of HTTP API Unit Testing
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