skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a question that has to be left up to the courts, somehow.
At one point we need to ask if the emission requirements are realistic, if everybody is cheating on them.
I don’t get what you are trying to claim here. There are well known differences between races (e.g. lactose tolerance) that are minor but medically relevant.
For every problem there is a solution that is simple, neat - and wrong.
How is blockchain beneficial there? This problem seems well-solved with traditional databases with ACLs.

The only benefit of Byzantine fault tolerance would be if you don't trust your friends.

P2P lending (none of the lenders/borrowers know each other) is a better candidate because there is no central authority and actors can't be trusted.
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Do you have links for these pretrained models? The only one I am aware of is OpenAI's where they fine tuned a Transformer architecture for 1 month on 8 gpus:

https://blog.openai.com/language-unsupervised/

https://github.com/openai/finetune-transformer-lm
The external temperature is the 3K level of the cosmic background radiation. The external wall emits radiation but also absorbs radiation.

Probably the problem of this application is that it's much better to have very good insulation in the walls than to try to capture the escaping heat and try to use it for something useful as heating.
"American Values", in this context, is used as a bait-and-switch.

The version that you're referencing would have most of the NSA up on the gallows. But it is obviously not the version running our society and being pushed onto the rest of the world.
I thought this would be about the Hare-Krishna movement in 90s hardcore punk.

Might be interesting for someone here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnacore
Well, depends how far East you go… But generally yeah that makes sense. Or talk about the two governments: "Nazi-Soviet war"
Who do you think created CSS? CSS was not handed down on stone tablets by the gods, it was designed by humans, and I presume that at least some of the people who designed CSS actually used it (though to be honest I don't actually know who was on the committee). I don't know if it was their intent to make something Byzantine that served as an effective barrier to entry to doing front-end design, but that was in fact what they did.
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This is why unions exist.
My approach towards software development has been pretty similar except that my order of priorities is a little different. I prefer:

Correct, simple, fast, in that order.

In other words:

- First get a correct solution working that solves the problem correctly for typical as well as corner cases, hopefully with good test coverage for both typical and corner cases.

- Then improve the solution to make it simpler while preserving correctness.

- Spend time on making it fast when there is actual evidence of performance problems such as data from performance testing with current workload and expected future workloads.

The reason why I like to ensure correctness before simplicity is that many times what might seem like a simple solution initially might turn out to be the wrong idea when all corner cases need to be accounted for. Ensuring correctness first requires me to think through the corner cases well and write test cases early during the development phase. With correctness taken care of and protected reasonably well with test cases, it becomes easier to iterate on the solution and increase its simplicity.
> You believe EV is "clean" ...

> Further the current electrical grid can not support ...

Oh no, please don't go into that well-debunked FUD.

(I am biased on this: I've both a Nissan LEAF and a Tesla S and have done almost 60K miles of pure EV driving in the last 4 years.
Over the last 3 years, our solar PV system has provided 95% of the electricity we've used, including charging the cars).
Use a identity theft protection.
We reached the maximum thread depth.

>> Simplicity is a much better goal for the day-to-day work. Because it can be tracked, measured and evaluated for every individual change.

>How does one purport to measure simplicity?

There's 40 years of research into that.
And loads of tools to support dev teams.

You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

Also related are costing models: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO
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Hear hear. When building a bridge it's obvious when they're building a test bridge or a real life bridge for people to drive over.

"So you want to spend 100 million dollars on a bridge that you're only using for testing purposes. And you want to put this bridge right where it would be really useful to put a real bridge to handle rush hour traffic. And you have a deal with the city to collect toll payments for this 'test' bridge for the next 50 years. Yeah, I don't think we're going to be cutting any corners for the 'test' bridge."

VS

"You want me to take 2 hours to add in a test feature that can be conditionally compiled in for testing purposes? Also I talked to John in testing and they actually want this feature for testing. Seems legit."

Two months later. "Hey, I found this test feature that would allow us to cheat on the regulations. All we have to do is set this compile flag to true. The programmers even made this neat UI that allows us to change the build configurations without having to talk to them."
I mean, we're not talking about all regulations here, we're talking about the emissions regulations. Emissions that kill people.

So I don't really see the point of the coral snake thing, interesting though it is.

> If you want to you could regulate that cars run off of happiness and that their exhaust contains no pollutants. But the result would be that either everyone cheats on the tests OR that there would be no more cars. Including the trucks that bring us food and other useful products.

Well, I'm not suggesting that at all so again, not really relevant.

I'm suggesting that the emissions regulations that we have are fine. Cars can and do pass these without cheating so they're clearly not unrealistic.
EPIC Bites and Snack Strips. I have been following a similar diet and these are awesome. Low sugar, too. I recommend the Cracked Black Pepper Venison Strip and the Hickory Smoked Bacon and Pork Bites. I live in Maryland and have been able to find them at both Whole Foods and Giant. https://epicbar.com/products
When I was smoking, hanging outside with other smokers was half of the addiction.

Completely unrelated to this case, which is just about old fashioned profit over the common good.
Maybe because, besides being shopkeepers, they are also human beings?
TLDR the standard practice of using 'word vectors' (numeric vector representation of words) may soon be superceded by just using entire pretrained neural nets as is standard in CV, and we have both conceptual and empirical reasons to believe language modeling is how it'll happen.

Helped edit this piece, think it is spot on - exciting times for NLP.
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I don't know. I think ~15% of the daily volume is traded at the opening/closing auctions. Why do you think the end-of-second (or end-of-tenth-of-second) auctions won't be popular?
Yeah, no shit, because there's no major RISC-V silicon that's OoO. If you solely look at ARM cores that don't speculate, then ARM cores aren't vulnerable either.

Also pretty sure BOOMv2 has been taped out: https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Wed0936...
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Logistics is the low hanging fruit that absolutely makes sense to use a blockchain for. You have multiple agencies and actors that don't need to trust each other... just send their data to the distributed database.

If you have tainted spinach, you can track where it was introduced into the supply chain and figure out very quickly the source of the issue.

When you have pharmaceutical returns, you can validate the source of the manufacturing and validate the returned product can be resold.
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I disagree. Many bad leaders are very expert at sounding like good leaders in a way that is hard to detect in precisely this type of situation. There’s really only two options: seek advice from someone you trust who worked with those leaders, or else you just have to spend a bit of time working for them to find out. You cannot tell from interview questions, unfortunately.
Definitely excited by this, but wish the article was a bit more detailed.
Don't know. I have yet to actually see anywhere to buy one. It's all email or phone and I've done both from China and Hong Kong and never got a reply.
"- where is the pressure to close Guantanamo?"

There is a lot of it. However, it's countered by the pressure of, "Where do we send those people? My constituents don't want them in our district."
IDK...

Everyone freaking out about how "disruptive" an open source core would be... You still need someone to place it on silicon (unless you want to waste most of your FPGA on a soft core) and you need someone to make peripherals which lets be honest is 80%-95% of what Cortex M-type embedded processors are doing at any given time. These seem like the major barriers that aren't solved by removing a licensing fee for the core.

Maybe I just don't get it, but it seems a LONG way out for RISC-V powered top tier phones.
So I currently use a combination of Launch Center Pro and Workflow (the developer of which was purchased by Apple last year, and appears to be the source of what has now become Siri Shortcuts) to do what you're describing.

I have a Workflow that when run, uses Maps to estimate the drive time between wherever I am and my house, pads the estimate by 5 minutes, then adds that to the current time to get an ETA, formats it into a text message and sends the ETA to my wife.

In Launch Center Pro, I have a geo-fenced shortcut that presents a notification to run my workflow whenever it sees that I have left the area around my office building.

The UX is, halfway between my office building and my car, I get a notification from LCP - I tap the notification, Workflow thinks for a minute, and presents me with a text message to my wife and I tap "send".

As nice as this is already, I believe Siri Shortcuts may improve it in several ways:

1) Currently, apps are not allowed to send messages without explicit user interaction, so Workflow can't actually text my wife, it just presents me with an imessage screen and an already-written message that I must tap "send" on

2) Workflow does not support geofenced or time-based running of workflows, hence why I need LCP to launch my Workflow based on a geofence. If Siri Shortcuts supports this, then I won't have to rely on LCP anymore.

3) There is no way (that I'm aware of) to trigger my workflow automatically, I must tap a notification and unlock my phone, or run an app and select the workflow within it. An improvement would be a programmable Siri Shortcut ("Hey Siri, let my wife know my ETA"), and even better would be automatic running of workflows based on defined conditions, so my workflow would run and send a message automatically when crossing the geofence without me even needing to be aware of it (besides maybe a notification that lets me know the workflow has run).
After reading your clarification, and reflecting on this a bit more, I think Siri might actually have a chance to impress. What came to me is that I sorta have a per-app ToM for Siri (which i suppose parallels humans being good at some things and bad at others). But what I realized is that...

Siri is a cartographer. It seems like she has good domain specific mastery of maps, directions, places, etc. and not to mention, she might even have have an thin (but growing )representation of her own, about my desires and what I know and dont know when it comes to geospatial logistics. In maps Siri really shines, right? I could say something like "Siri, where is the nearest Jack-in-the-Box" and via Maps she say stuff like - There are two Jacks within 3.1 miles, but you might also be interested in knowing there's an In-n-Out and a Shake-Shack nearby as well. In-in-out is currently not as busy as it usually is this time of day, and examining traffic patters I've formulated a shortcut. Should I give you those directions?

Then a few min later I might be eating a double-double and say "Hey Siri, how much memory do I have left on my phone?" and she will reply "Sorry I can't help you with that" (the actual response I got to that question just now). Know thyself Siri! Anyway, it's just stuff like which makes it so difficult to pin down what she is capable of.

But I'd be satisfied if Siri were to master of a few more apps in a domain general manner. That way I can continue avoiding the rote memorization of commands and simply rely on Siri being a domain general boss at this or that app. Paticularly for other use-cases where (as in maps) it actually makes sense to get and recieve info via voice and not simply interacting with the screen.
I think OP is trying to say something like, "The variance between groups is less than the variance among them"
I think you might have written CryTek there when you meant CIG so I'm not sure quite what you meant. Was it:

> I remember reading about this and being left with the impression that [CIG] was in the green there.

If so, ISTR CIG is fine, but then they have a lot of money and fancy lawyers, a lot of smaller companies might have fared less well, and it doesn't really look good when a vendor is seen to be suing their customers because it is rumoured they are running out of money.
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None of those are "serverless"
I've been trying to find one on and off for a year. I wonder if they ever made more than a production sample.

It looks more like some kind of threat / showing off than a product that you can buy. Email and phone calls go unanswered regarding buying one of these.
For a few things ("I'm leaving work" messages, in particular), I've had good luck with Workflow[0][1]. Unfortunately, it's all manually programmed and no learning, but it is decently intuitive and powerful.

[0]: https://www.workflow.is/
[1]: No affiliation -- their app just solves a need of mine.
> You haven't yet answered any of my questions.

That's because you're asking the wrong questions.

"Is there anything I mentioned that's not a realistic assessment? Is it me that's negative, or is it the actual situation?"

Those are the wrong questions. The answers to those questions don't get you any closer to a solution to the problem. They only get you to the conclusion that the situation is hopeless and that you should give up.

OK, you want an answer? It is both you and the situation that is negative. But the reason that the situation is negative is because of people like you who have decided that the situation is negative and that the only reasonable thing to do is to give up. And you know what? You're right. That is the only reasonable thing to do. Which means that the only way to solve the problem is to be a little unreasonable and carry on despite the fact that it makes no sense.

That's why I'm doing things like this:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib
>>PE doesn't any more than programming. Banking's laws are just moats for the established players masquerading as regulations.

PE sure, I probably should have noted I know little about that, but when you talk about banking you're now going from "have no ethics laws" to "well, they exist, but they're not effective in my opinion."

>Law has them, but in a strange twist, their ability as lawyers make it so that they don't matter

Lawyers get busted on ethics violations all of the time. My mother is a lawyer and for a short time I worked as a pseudo legal secretary in a mid sized city. I recall numerous lawyers being disbarred for ethics issues. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but I don't think you do either.

>And medicine is too complex for me to really comment, but from my vantage point, it looks like they're free to be scumbags so long as they claim they won't be when they get their degree.

So you don't really understand the issue, but you've heard some stuff on the news and maybe from friends, so you write the entire things off.

How about civil engineers who are personally liable for their work?

>But every one of these are largely just regulated by the idea that if you're too big of a scumbag, the feds will nail you for wire fraud. That seems to be the only real rule of law or code of ethics we have in the professional world. And software engineers have to obey it as much as everyone else.

Again, moving goalposts. If you don't feel the current regulations wrt doctors, lawyers, and bankers are enough, fine, many would agree, but that's not the issue here.
That's also true. The interface is in fact much older than the piano, having first been used on harpsichords, clavichords, and (I think) pipe organs. If I'm not mistaken, the black+white keyboard we use today was invented around the 1400's. The piano itself dates back only to the 1700's.

I can see the argument for the keyboard being a timeless UI because it's lasted mostly unchanged for about 600 years now.

I can also see the argument that 600 years isn't that long in the scheme of musical instruments. We've found ancient flutes from at least 30,000 years ago. The lyre, popular in ancient Greece, is not that different from a modern harp. Lutes are thought to have been present in Mesopotamia around 3000 BC.

Site note - I was surprised to learn that Bach lived before the piano became popular and apparently did not endorse the instrument until a few years before his death [1]. He would be familiar with the interface from earlier instruments, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano#Early_fortepiano
You believe that but the people who run the site believe otherwise and have said so. Flagging is a way you can help them and everyone else moderate the site, not an invitation to engage in a contest of wills over a settled matter. Chances are, if you keep doing it, you'll lose your ability to flag.
Your choice of names is not compelling.

- Tesla was a multi millionaire during his life who decided to risk, and lose, his wealth pursuing ideas that did not work out.

- Gutenberg was granted royal title along with all the privileges of such including an endless stipend and industrial volumes of grain and wine during the 15th century. Works from his press sold, during his life, for what was years of salary per copy. He was almost certainly a millionaire, though my point was primarily related to capitalist societies. The 15th century was still more feudal come mercantalistic.

- Curie won the nobel prize which entailed a prize of hundreds of thousands of dollars and a solid gold medal - almost certainly totaling in the millions of dollars as well.

And so on. And in many ways a billionaire of today is what a millionaire of times past was. I don't mean because of inflation but in terms of relative scarcity and effective 'power.' Ramanujan is the closest to a reasonable example, but there are significant extenuating circumstances there. He was religious to the point of bordering on insanity, grew up in colonial India, and had no interest in anything other than the private pursuit of his mostly abstract mathematical works. Whatever he may have 'deserved', he certainly was able to live his life as he wanted.

The big point here though is that this is not a coincidence. When people contribute to society, they tend to be rewarded. There are certainly some exceptions, but the great thing is that they are now a days, without doubt, the exceptions.
Why artificial intelligence has no common sense
Aside from exotic safety features, performance cars tend to be better weight-balanced and tend to have better brakes and better tires than average cars. In normal driving, performance cars are safer because they'll be easier to control in emergency maneuvers.

(Of course when you push the limits of the car, all bets are off again.)
I've never heard of this legal definition of "professional" that you put forward. Where is this in state or federal law?

In law school, we were taught that a professional has obligations that go beyond his or her own self interest. Unlike a real estate developer or a widget manufacturer, an attorney has an obligation to do what's right for the client even if that causes the attorney to lose money or imposes a competitive advantage. Attorneys, for example, can't engage in the kinds of advertising speech that would be entirely lawful if done by a car dealership or furniture store.

This traditional definition is hundreds of years older than the bar exam or ABA code of ethics, and older than formal graduate law school (a 20th Century American invention). All of that came later, after lawyers understood themselves differently.

I would encourage people who write code -- software engineers, developers, coders, hackers, however one chooses to describe this work -- to think of themselves as professionals with obligations that go beyond their own self interest.
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Is this not already common? I had presumed it would be how many founders make a decent chunk of money pre-exit.
> Your example is a case of premature optimization. That is not what the author is concerned with.

I think he is. Premature optimisation is putting the order: fast, simple, correct.

So although the author doesn't explicitly state it, premature optimisation is something that would be avoided if you followed his advice.
I don’t think it happens often.

Though Lawsuits are not uncommon in civil engineering. When I worked as an EIT (passed the state engineering exam, on way to becoming a Profesional engineer), our office did an analysis on someone else’s slope stability calculations, because the slope wasn’t stable and they wanted to figure out if it was done properly.

Civil engineering designs have a clear paper trail and the buck stops with the engineer who signed and stamped the drawings.
The event's time has changed, though. The local representation of when it will occur has not changed, but if you set a timer today and they change their timezone tomorrow, the timer will expire at the wrong time.

We should store the actual time of an event and update it when the scheduled time changes.
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Maybe it’s obvious to you but at least in my experience lots of devs when confronted with feature request rarely consider if said feature should be implemented. Most of the time they only think how it could be implemented.
>You're right, future times are more complex and might require more attention to detail. But I think you can still achieve the requirements in a simple way, perhaps by storing it as UTC + lat/long and running a script to update future dates when someone changes their rules.

Seriously? That, in your opinion, is simpler?
How serious is it? They falsified results for internal testing and the cars still passed regulations.
>But essentially the problems are getting simpler.

The same could be said about you and someone who started their career in the late 60s. You probably didn't have to write your own OS.

If you were building software that businesses expected in the 60s in the 80s, then your job in the 80s would have been a lot simpler than it was in the 60s. And If you are building the software now that businesses expected 20 years ago, then yes your job is much simpler.

That's generally not how it works though. As capabilities increase, expectations increase, and many times expectations increase even faster than capabilities.
Lack of GPU droplets is also a big gap, and something that has been promised for several years now.
this is very encouraging to read, thanks for this comment