skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's no use your weapons having a 20:1 kill ratio if they're so expensive that the enemy finds it better/cheaper/easier/faster to throw 21 'good enough' weapons at them.

The US is falling into the German WW2 trap of having the 'best technological' weapons that are so expensive that only a few can be built. In WW2 both the US and the Soviets swamped the Germans with huge numbers of 'good enough' weapons. Sometimes on the East Front the Germans had a handful of extremely good Tiger tanks which had no hope at all against hundreds of T34s. And the same thing happened in Normandy against the Shermans.
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Not really - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_stability

If your algorithm is not stable then even 64-bit won't help you.

Compare Euler vs Verlet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration
Blackmoon tokenizes Xiaomi IPO. So now, what would be the lockup period?
I'm a little confused by the beginning of your response, because you don't appear to be the person I replied to.

When you wrote this, what did you anticipate my reaction would be?

Why?

I must admit, I really don't know what it would be like to be working in the bay area on mass surveillance AI for half a million a year.
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Alternative: finger and the Norwegian weather service YR - https://github.com/ways/pyyrascii
> I agree that literate programming works well for Knuth because of the kind of programs he writes: mainly, as you say, that the program was written for a particular purpose, and when that's achieved it's "done".

A piece of software in itself really isn't much of anything; the true value lies in the support you get from the development team. "Done" software is inherently unsupported, therefore close to worthless and probably won't be used in a production setting.

> (Knuth has no qualms about having similar code in different programs; it's almost universally believed by other programmers today that that's a terrible thing.)

It's a waste of programmer effort. In the open source realm at least, it would be a far more efficient use of programmer time and energy -- and easier on the users -- for programmers to collaborate on a single definitive program for each task, rather than reinvent wheels and confuse the marketplace with competing implementations of the same abstract process.
This shows how much staying with UTC time or adopt the International Atomic Time (TAI) is a false problem.
As time references changed because of the telegraph and railways, computers will make us change from UTC to TAI. The question is when.
That's a wrong argument. Sugar is three times less calorie dense than fat. (that's not an argument for sugar or against fat, just a fact).
i still think brasseye is better, but onn was very good too
Has any of the code for this survived?
You sell at the Series A raise timing in parallel with raising your A round.
Eliminating the biggest cause of sadness and suffering (not to mention, economic loss) sure sounds like something that would be widely accepted as good. There's a reason why almost every religion offers some kind of afterlife.

There's a good argument to be made that the assumption of mortality is baked into so many things in our economy that it would break down if people suddenly started to live much longer on average. But that, again, is a default - some state attractor. Something we can try to work around.
You're making a different argument.
I don't think the product I bought was unpure, I got it from different, generally reliable, sources (and tried all the shades Kratoms came in at the time).

I fully accept that different people have different experiences coming off of a drug. I should have mentioned in my case that was about 8 months of daily use, although the withdrawal symptoms shown themselves very quickly (less than a month after I started taking it regularly).

I personally feel sluggish the first days if I stop coffee for a while, but even after drinking coffee every day for a comparable period of time, I don't instantly feel the withdrawal creep up on me as soon as caffeine (mostly) leaves my bloodstream.

For added context, at the peak of my consumption I would take about a teaspoon every 4-5 hours (consistently as this was the time it took to feel the cold symptoms again) through tossing and washing (just swallowing it down with some water). I've no experience with Kratom pills and no amount of sugar can possibly overcome the intense bitterness of Kratom tea at that dosage (and I like bitter).
Siri on CarPlay is useless for me. Maybe it’s my situation (RP British English, driving in Sweden) but it usually takes 10 attempts to get it to recognise a track I want to be played, and getting routing information is easily double that for anything other than ‘drive home’. I one tried to get it to route me to ‘Malmö’ (third largest city in Sweden) and gave up after 30 attempts. I honestly have no idea what I’m doing wrong, but I suspect nothing and it’s just useless software.
Ha. Sneaky CIA knows me too well.
Probably quite stable; this stuff dates back to the telegraph...
IANAL, but the product tying interpretation of US antitrust law specifies that making one product or service a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service can be considered an anticompetitive practice.

The "feature" in question in their application was "searching the web". Imagine if they shipped a default e-mail client that only allowed you to use Gmail, and you had to install a separate client to use e-mail with any other e-mail provider. How many people are going to just use Gmail rather than go find some other app and provider? That's an unfair advantage due to product tying.

Microsoft bundled IE into Windows 98 in a way that you could not remove. Microsoft argued that, hey, it's just a standard part of an operating system, and you can get something else, what's the big deal. The government didn't buy it. They settled before the government could reach a final ruling about whether this was anticompetitive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)#Microsoft_pro...
> Deliberately breaking an existing feature that caused zero trouble to any past, present, or hypothetical future user is never, in any circumstances, "perfectly reasonable".

It's also not a realistic scenario.

Anyone who bought a Samsung Galaxy S from Verizon got a phone with Bing as the default search engine. Some of the people who bought that phone would've preferred Google.

Because of this feature, there was added additional effort in using the phone due to the need to switch the search engine. And likely some of them didn't even know about the option, and wound up with an experience worse than they would've without it being present.

Adding to this, there is malware that changes this setting.

I think this was a valuable option to have -- but there are no features that cause zero trouble to anyone.
Pretty much yes. The same thing they are supposed to do when any other apartment they don't live in floods.
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It improves many lives in many significant ways. Atleast for Indians, it's a huge milestone for a variety of reasons.

1. Some technologies used in space flight are under severe sanctions from other developed nations, to slow down the development of missile technology of lesser developed nations (developed in the context of military technology). There is a lot of impetus to research and develop those technologies in-house. This leads to a huge gain to India in terms of technical skill, research infrastructure, research know-how, experience, etc. This leads to "down-the-hill" technological advantages in related fields (for ex. medical, industry, etc.). Since the research is public domain, related technological improvements are available for cheap. (A recent example is the opening up of Li-Ion battery technology by ISRO for interested parties in the Industry)

2. Launching a rocket, especially a manned one, is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a huge amount of work that goes into making that happen, a lot of which is Research & Development. Rocket technology directly leads to better and advanced missile technology. This ensures (though some may argue otherwise) a credible deterrent to enemies, ensuring longer periods of peace. This directly improves lives of the citizens.

3. There are numerous examples of technology developed to enable space flight trickling down to medical and industrial uses.

In fact, the same can be seen in Formula 1 races. Many technologies we take for granted in modern mass market vehicles (ABS immediately comes to mind, several safety features, crumple zones, etc) are the result of extensive developments in F1 racing scenes.

Even in management, having two teams competing with each other to solve a particular problem, almost always leads to an explosion of ideas and generally a better final solution to the problem at hand. Case in point is in the development of the iPhone, etc.
> That's great and all, but nobody needs a 32-bit anything in 2018.

Then why x86-64 integer instructions default to 32-bit register size when REX prefix byte is not present?

You can double x86 FP throughput using 32-bit floats versus 64 bit ones.

For GPUs, the performance 32-bit float performance advantage can be more than 4-10x (sometimes a lot more).
> caused zero trouble to any past, present, or hypothetical future

I'm sure this commit was largely motivated by business reasons, but it seems pretty reasonable from a forward-looking technical standpoint as well.

Google search on Android has gone far beyond an endpoint where you give it a string and it gives you a list of URLs; it gives smart autocomplete, you can search by voice (which is smarter than speech recognition + text search), it provides custom result widgets for various situations, etc. As the feature set expands, it becomes less and less reasonable to have a single client that works against an abstraction implemented by many competing backend services, so the idea of a "search engine picker" makes less and less sense. It's saner to just say "this is the Google search client, and other search services can write their own clients". For example, Bing has its own Android app with its own design and features not in Google search. (That's not to say it's fair; Bing needs to be a separate app, whereas Google search is a first-class part of Android.)
Yeah, we are all in big trouble when Plaid or Yodlee inevitably get hacked and millions of bank passwords leak.
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for rank-2 tensor work you can do 4x as many operations, for rank-3 tensor work, it's 8x, assuming memory bandwidth is the bottleneck.
It's integration with the Google Analytics 360 Suite and DoubleClick Digital Marketing. Gives easier business results.
> But I always failed to maintain longer than a week’s worth of concentrated productive habit. Why? I have a theory: you can’t maintain rigid schedules and habits if you have family too.

Counterpoint: I too fail to maintain a concentrated, productive habit for longer than ~a week. I do not have kids (yet) now, and I've also been failing at it when living alone. I was good at cutting out the distracting presence of other people, too, and it didn't help. I conclude that, at least for me, it's not about other people. There's something within me that prevents me from sticking to a habit I try to force on myself.
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I note that people are referring to Slashdot in the past tense. I don't disagree with the implied statement, but do regret its passing.
The Australian National University has deep relations with China ranging from its numerous Asian culture and language courses, to its huge international student population. The Australian government is far more diplomatic and tactful about Chinese relations than the US government. It's unlikely that either entities would be playing propaganda games with a specific and embarrassing story like this.
They should get insurance. It is very silly to suggest that they will act as a one man fire department.
Working on a pet project and working on something you get paid for is also different.

When I work on my own things, I waste a lot of time trying different ideas/implementations because there's no time constraints or due date.
The test I’m referring to only uses blood from the mother, thus it should be risk free.
Yes I agree with what you are saying looking strictly at my own experience as a candidate and as a hiring manager.
There's nothing wrong to get slowly to the point where you can ask candidates about complex algos, it just allows you to see how far one candidate can go.
The new trands are not supported only buy young people that jump from trand to trand. That was a terrible thought, maybe showing some frustrations?...
But I have to agree with the author, many times we have the tendency to overcomplicate a solution for the problem at hand. To keep it simple and stupid and smart it is close to an art. Especially when there pressure to get things done quickly and you havd to keep on improving an existing solution.
Lots of levels touched by the ideas in this article.
This is one reason why too much phone time can be detrimental to child development. Modern kids are losing out on verbal skills because they are able to "hide" in their phones and avoid talking to adults. It is sad when parents fail to say to their kids, "hey, an adult is speaking to you, pay attention and answer them."
"hey Siri, destroy all evidence!"
phone begins wipe
Who watches the watchers? Government bureaucrats are human too, and why are they somehow superior to the rest of us in making decisions? If you have a bee-watcher, you must then have a bee-watcher-watcher, an so forth. If everyone makes their own decisions, we call that freedom, and it means we don't have some fallible bureaucrat deciding what is best for me (which I very much doubt they will do well).
Indeed.

Both reciprocal (inverse) square root SSE SIMD instructions were available in Intel Pentium III, released in 1999.
So, is it ready to do the complex task just like google and amazon echo?
Well what is it then?
Do you mean "valuation" instead of "raise"? Otherwise I don't understand this sentence.

If this is what you meant, $38M still seems like a pretty lofty pre-money valuation!
Here's a much more thorough article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-06/chinese-hackers-infili...

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Slide for reddit is another reddit client. Fully open source under GPLv3, nice looks and hi designed very well such that you never have to reach for keys at the bottom. Wholeheartedly recommended.
Can you define what’s the moral difference against trisomy prescreeners? Or are you against these too? Honest question btw.
Serious simulation is already a thing in racing, aviation and military.
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I also kicked all those habits. I'm curious and I was a bit of psychonaut.

This isn't me defending myself as not having an addictive personality, I'm sure I do, but I managed to stop smoking, coffee, alcohol and marijuana, some of those at the same time. Addiction is a problem that still plagues pretty much every country but even then I wouldn't say I'm necessarily in favor of banning kratom.

My original comment was only to point out that it clearly isn't as benign as a wide range of people make it seem. Of course if you go on the kratom subreddit you'll see addicts praising its benefits and rationalizing all sort of life improvements in the short term, as well as legitimate "success" stories, but most people who kicked the addiction don't repeatedly frequent and post there. I'd think this massive bias to be fairly obvious, but it might be worth repeating (this isn't aimed at your comment specifically).
Are humans really blind to the gorilla on the basketball court?
Some

https://github.com/theoremprover-museum/logic-theorist
> Personally I feel the best method is using lots of small repos, one for each service or library, that get stitched together by the build system.

But then your teams have to manage dependencies - or your release team has to do it for them. It's very easy to run into diamond-dependency problems or runtime classpath issues.
A major factor in the US-China trade war is about winning at 5G
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This is so cool :D
Not if they want anyone besides themselves to access the file, they shouldn't.

There are some good reasons to allow filenames with Unicode characters, but there are about a zillion good reasons not to.
the handset vendor (the actual customer of android) can change the search provider to use their own implementation, as evidenced by the many that do exactly that. Additionally, the end user can use any search application they prefer, and many exist.

despite a single commit indicating that the google search engine is required for some feature somewhere in the OS, the reality of the situation is that android is not tied specifically to any search implementation.
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Not the original source but pretty explanatory:

https://history-computer.com/Library/Logic%20Theorist%20memo...
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I can rephrase without that assumption. The argument is that high speed traders are able to trade before others can receive or react to information. The time advantage therefore translates to an unfair information advantage. Compare insider trading, which we make illegal because it is unfair, even though it improves the price signal.

The direct benefit of the real-time market vs. batch auctions is that pricing information is updated faster in the real-time market, but is there any need for microsecond resolution pricing?
I would prefer halign=left/right/center/justify, valign=top/bottom/center. But yes.
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* A slower speed of light tries to render things according to relativity physics, while this video only applies some bending and discoloration to a flat image?

That's the reason I didn't enjoy this video as much as I hoped I would.
Realism and defeatism are not mutually exclusive. That's the thing about self-fulfilling prophecies: if you believe in them, then they are actually true.
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but good employees will get retention packages to stick around with the new company

Maybe. Often acquisitions are just for the customer list. Betfair is located in London (and Dublin for tax purposes IIRC), it has no office in Scotland.
What would happen if Twitter were to shut down over night?
Is that possible? What effect would that have on public opinion? Is Twitter/social media the Bayer, Degussa, IG Farben of our time (See also facebook in Myanmar)?
(Correction: fixed in Edge within a month; IE doesn’t get such fixes. Also “IE and Edge both” should read “both IE and Edge” for increased clarity.)
In a true hackerish style, I rolled my own solution: https://github.com/marekjm/issue

Back in 2015, I decided that all the issue tracking systems I knew are too heavy-weight. I don't need kanban, agile, or any other buzz - I just need a simple tool to track my issues. I had several requirements: 1/ it must work off-line,
2/ it must be distrubuted (to allow many people working simultaneously on their off-line clones),
3/ it must work in command line,
4/ it must provide minimum distraction,
5/ it must allow me to tag, and search the issues,
and I worked from there.

fast forward to 2018 ...and I'm still using it. It does the job for my Free Software projects, and helps me at work (tested in three companies already). It is definitely not bug-free (but the risk of data-loss should be low), and the installation must be done manually from GitHub, but it Works For Me (tm) ;-)

Sample workflow:

$ issue open "OH noes, a bug"
$ issue ls --open
deadbeef OH noes, a bug
$ issue slug --git-checkout --git-branch --git deadbeef # or just issue sl -gBC de
...hack, hack hack...
$ git commit -am "Fix"
$ issue close -g HEAD de
$ git checkout master
$ git merge -

By using the `-` as the placeholder for "last active issue" I can make this sequence even shorter. Minimal distraction, no switching between the terminal and the browser, no waiting for slow Web interfaces.

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This is really great advice, I just started a project like this and there's a lot I need to go back and map-out. I feel better when I'm just coding, but I get that's part of the process, I just haven't seen anyone explaining it.
Any good reading tips about dark pools?
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> Compare insider trading, which we make illegal because it is unfair, even though it improves the price signal.

Insider trading is arguably illegal because you're misappropriating company information for your own use. There a few other technical points, but they can be ignored in a casual conversation.

This applies if the CEO told you something that they shouldn't have or if they told you something in confidence and you abused that trust.

Trading on information that others don't have is generally legal and investors do it to a much greater extent and to much greater profit than HFTs.

> The direct benefit from HFT is that pricing information is updated faster in the market, but is there any need for microsecond resolution pricing?

The big direct benefit comes from maintaining fair prices for ETFs and other products whose prices depend on other products.

Furthermore, "microsecond" pricing is a very natural system. HFTs and other market makers put out passive limit orders whenever they want. Investors and other aggressive participants send marketable (usually limit) orders if it's the price that they want.

It's the far more complicated batch auctions that need to justify their existence.
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If you couldn't even do half your coding assignments, you're probably fucked. That indices edge case thingy with that problem is an annoying thing that trips me up too, but here you're saying you couldn't do half your coding assignments.

Let's say you want to make a single player Tetris game right now, on a platform of your choice. Could you do that?
What your comment tells me is that you believe it's easier to build a $210m company with the help of VC than it is to build a $38m company without VC.

Why would that be the case? The $210m company has 5 times more value - building up to that is really hard, and not really just a matter of how much runway you have available.

(Alternatively, you know that VC's overvalue things, so maybe it's easier to inflate the numbers on paper than actually building real value in the business. That's certainly true but really cynical.)
Does Google finally allows user to configure top-level actions, instead of the silly "Ok Google, ask $someapp to do something" (where what I want is simply "Ok Google, do something")?
It may be worth mentioning that Vue is an entire framework with a crapload of features and caveats and whatnot and thus not exactly an equivalent of an especially flexible PJAX library which is the best definition I can come up with when defining Intercooler
Hence Siri’s name.
> I don’t know what the difference between the normal struggle associated with coding is and the sort of struggle that means it’s just not for me.

Everyone struggles as they strain to reach the next level. Do you enjoy the struggle or its outcome? If you're not having fun now, programming as a career will seriously suck for you. If you are having fun, don't worry about your speed or how well you grok algorithms - find a job, any job, and try to kick ass at it. That'll set you up for a better job. Rinse and repeat.