skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that you allude this the coexistence of C++, Java, Python, and Go because I think this bolsters my point. The overwhelming majority of services at Google are in C++. There are individual C++ services that consume more resources than all Java products combined. I think this speaks to the appetite for performance and efficiency within the company, since it is demonstrably the most difficult of these languages.
Even an artificially low interest rate will do this, albeit as a slower burn
Maybe you should though. The people receiving the increased donations would probably support that - you did well and increased the value of your donation, so you can be rewarded for that.
Who do you trust?
Developing a viable cannabis breathalyzer
I watched the game against audience members, and the bots seemed to overextend at times. Also weird courier scouting glitches (which makes sense if all couriers are currently invulnerable for the purpose of this generation of bots).
Another funny thing was watching them use smokes for no apparent reason.
Did you mean something besides "Matlab" in one of these instances?

"Second place for me goes to Matlab...
I can't say anything about Matlab..."
The problem is that they can't for it all forms of signalling. The game is just a frustrating semantic argument on what kinds of signals are allowed. I can't tap 3 times but can I move my card at 3cm per second?

Getting good at this game simply means getting good at one of the allowed forms of signalling.
At the moment, we're focused on providing great support for the Python and R analytics/machine learning ecosystems. We'll likely expand this in the future, and in the meantime it's possible to hack through many other usecases we don't formally support well.
The dollar auction is usually run as an experiment in game theory classes and works a little differently from the penny auction sites. In the latter, all of your bids at any point are a sunk cost.
You should get a tax break when you donate to charity, not when putting it into an intermediary vehicle that holds the funds. This is just asking for abuse.

This is exactly the kind of self serving 'financial engineering' wall street has become infamous for, and now they get to suck their fees from the charity sector too.

Their fees are a parasitical tax on funds that should have gone to charity and used today given the tax breaks have already been given. The fact that the banking sector can still successfully lobby and get bills passed to operate in secrecy without accountability reflects how badly broken the financial system has become.
>“He had formulas that enabled him to pull off his magic,” Pitt said. “And I didn’t have the formulas.”

The more I do pure mathematics, the more I realize just how important these kinds of insights are. Very often, solving a theoretical problem involves two key ingredients:

1. Rewriting your problem in a particular way, so that it is amenable to a certain suite of methods/looks like known results.

2. Apply a key bit of knowledge gleaned from intuition. This is unrelated to the formal way the problem was written down.

Sometimes, showing your intuition is true formally actually takes a lot of work. And for some proofs, looking at the problem a particular way makes the solution obvious on its own, with no need for a step 2. And other times, like this, all the technical tools in the world are no match for just knowing the right piece of information.
They overextended in the enemy safelane. Maybe killing the enemy carry is #1 on their priority list :D
Examples of Browser Automation
> but mostly this does not seem surprising to me

I know what you're tying to say but I'd just like to put it out there that conclusions from scientific studies do not have to be surprising. Scientific exploration is to find out the truth - sometimes it is "common sense" and sometimes it is surprising.
'Amateur' would seem to conflict with 'retiree.'
Does the name Mark Bernay ring a bell? He was one of the giants of the "blue box" era. From Slate: "According the New York Times obituary of Apple founder Steve Jobs, after reading [Ron] Rosenbaum's [Esquire] article, Jobs and his partner in founding Apple, Steve Wozniak, 'collaborated on building and selling blue boxes, devices that were widely used for making free — and illegal — phone calls. They raised a total of $6,000 from the effort.'" Rosenbaum article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/... IRL Mark Bernay (http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/; https://twitter.com/phonetrips?lang=en) is Richard Kashdan: https://www.facebook.com/PhoneTrips Very cool guy, alive and well in San Francisco
We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained
One of the things I like about TNG is that different people love different episodes.

"The First Duty" is one of my least favourite episodes. I love the goofiness and variety of the first two seasons. I like Pulaski. I like it when Wesley saves the ship. I don't particularly like "The Best of Both Worlds".

"Who Watches the Watchers" would be one of my absolute favourite episodes.
Yeah, I was thinking more in the lines of the aftermath, after diving – getting stuck in the forest behind the enemy tower. But you are correct, they seemed hella determined to get that Slark kill!
> Psychology isn’t really a science

Why not?
>Value stocks outperform growth over the long haul.

I've seen a paper asserting the opposite. I don't remember any names, but I don't think this is something that can just be assumed to be true.
Was the second company Meraki?

EDIT: I don't expect to receive an answer to this (and that's fine), but I'll give more color to my guess. Meraki had a side venture in internet connectivity-enabled location analytics which was more profitable than its actual router sales. This is one of the reasons why its acquisition price was so high. It has since contributed to a location analytics service within Cisco.
Worked at a university dealing with this some years ago, the publishing companies blocked our IPs on regular basis because they had detected "hacked student accounts"
Then we had to block them and swear they changed password before they unblocked us.
They said that it was Chinese phising emails that tricked students to give up their password.
If you dont know, a couple of years ago almost everyone accessed the publishers sites thought revese proxies at the school, so sci hub collected accounts and proxied you thought them, dont know if its still the case.
We used this software called ezproxy, Think it was pretty common.

Also pretty sure many students gave away their passwords freely, based on that nobody seemed that surprised/worried when we said their accounts was compromised.
I wouldn't call it mooching at all. I persuaded Amazon to open source an entire deep learning framework (DSSTNE). it would have been super nice if someone had built a python interface to it. I'm not complaining but when I'm told the tech companies aren't open sourcing interesting technology I tune out.

PS we're building that python interface now ourselves...
Not just that, but that he did it with rudimentary tools.
Rule of thumb is never having sensitive conversations where such exploits are feasible.
>> You don't get it back.

Yes, you can get it back. All the donor has to do is find a recipient who agrees to buy goods or services from his/her company for above-market prices, in exchange for receiving the donation. It's called a quid-pro-quo arrangement.
About point 2: Almost all wealth in this country is owned by people who do not identify as Native American. The US is the most successful society economically over a long period of time. The US has a capitalist system, probably more so than most other countries. Doesn’t that imply that the wealth in this country was generated by immigrants (and their descendants) under a capitalist system?
“Whenever someone tells me that they can't figure out how to raise the first $25,000 they need to get their company started I stand up, walk over to the cereal box, and tell this story. It is a story of pure unadulterated hustle. And I love it.”

https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/

Edit: if you were to create something really capital intensive like rockets, Boom is a great story for that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346947
Time to Accept It: Publishing in the Journal of Statistical Software
I think the model itself could probably run on a PC with 64gb of RAM/VRAM (Well okay, it would be an unorthodox personal computer, I guess my point is, you could probably fit it in a Single computer, not one you have at home though). Training it definitely not possible without a large cluster.
Is that common with IRS-approved charities?
Hey man, I always wanted to write my own OS like xv6. Can I bother you?
Perhaps combine the PiDP-11 with this: http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/PDP11%20V2%20Bo...
In that case your original assertion is trivially wrong.
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The Big Short - nice movie, check it out :-)
You're really just describing an anarcho (-capitalist) framework. Which is fine, but isn't actually libertarianism, anarchism, or really any -ism without accompanying heuristics. Essentially your first three paragraphs describe what we already have, just in different terms - really, read them with that in mind.

The real questions are about who gets that power, how it accumulates, and what that power is actually able to compel. Ancap/Libertarianism subscribe to an assumption that markets are generally efficient, and so kind of throw up their hands with regards to these questions in the small.

> Isnt the real underlying archtype of license plates and well..any authoritarian laws by the government a sort of protectionism for those of us without the money for defense and offense of our own free persons?

No, not inherently. For instance, one can also say that authoritarian laws by the government are to serve those with the resources funding the government, in order to enact their agenda. Both are right, but not completely.

One of the biggest instances of market inefficiency is the power dynamics of a given situation, which are indeed effected by technology. For instance, a gang of four thugs can easily beat and rob you with impunity. But if all five of you have guns, then that gang has to weigh the risk that you might just get a lethal shot off [0]. That is a qualitative change to the dynamics of the situation.

To bring things back to a very concrete example about the current topic, we all know how draining and damaging being the target of a baseless lawsuit by a well-funded adversary is. If one can only post online along with their real name, that means every small-fry whistleblower or critic is under immediate threat by this type of might-makes-right retaliation. Whereas if one is able to post anonymously, then they have an opportunity to completely sidestep being attacked in this manner.

[0] disclaimer: of course, maybe we don't think that people getting shot all the time is the type of chaos to structure a society around, but that was an example not a universal endorsement.
Ask HN: Are you dead?
Can we please stop entitling articles, “Is whatever dead?” Let’s leave the drama to Bruce Willis and ask better questions.
Being a publicly-traded company sucks. I wouldn’t want to take my company public either, unless I had given up wanting to do interesting things with it, and just wanted out.
To be precise, G.711 is PCM but with a much lower bitrate (and correspondingly lower quality.)
Ward usage also seemed strange. At some point the bots put a sentry ward inside the top enemy tower's range - not sure if they gained anything from it at all.
If you speak to someone who knows a thing or two about security they may tell you this is a good idea.
> Adding a default implementation for a protocol requirement shouldn't stop existing types that correctly conform to that protocol from compiling.

I would disagree with that; adding that default implementation is not a simply internal change. It flat-out changes compilibility; it makes invalid code into valid code:

protocol P {
func f()
}

class C : P {} // Error!

---

protocol P {
func f()
}
extension P {
func f() {}
}

class C : P {} // Okay

Given the trap demonstrated here, the converse should hold as well. Doubly so in light of the ways the compiler (mostly helpfully) enforces various aspects of subclassing, as you pointed out.

In many ways, protocols (right now at least) feel like Swift having its cake but not eating it: strictness floats around them in ways that do not help developers (ugh, PATs!) but is absent where it would:

// This all compiles without any warnings?!
protocol P {
var i: Int { get set }
}

protocol Q : P {
var i: Int { get }
}

class C : Q, P {
var i = 10
}

// Now make a protocol that inherits from another,
// where both are class/AnyObject constrained

//---

struct S : Hashable { // Swift 4.1, synthesized
let s: String
}
extension S : Equatable {
static func == (lhs: S, rhs: S) -> Bool {
// Hashable semantics, smashable semantics. Hold my beer.
return lhs.s.first == rhs.s.first
}
}
> We have entire operating systems that would be classified as made by hobbyists, yet are used by "serious organizations".

Which ones? Linux certainly isn't made by hobbyists today. It used to be, but that was a very long time ago.
Thank you for the reply minimaxir - are you sure a 2015 macbook pro cannot run a compiled version of the neural net so it can play itself on my computer?

Just wanted to double check - can someone else verify this before I spend weeks seeing if I can get it to work?
R.I.P. Golight gear (the original company that went bankrupt because they made such fantastic equipment and priced it too cheaply). I bought their lightest backpack many years ago and it's still great. See: https://sectionhiker.com/golite-trek-backpack/
To add to this, martial art communities are great because you get to meet all types of people. I train regularly with an Uber driver and a professor. You get to have serious in depth conversations and goofing off cause at the end of the day, you just like beating up your friends!
I was thinking in terms of availability.

There are more pigs in Australia than people, comprised of about 24 million feral pigs and about 4.5 million pigs produced each year for consumption.

Australia's population is currently about 25 million.
Woah woah are you recommending personal responsibility here? Careful.. ;)
This is the most interesting comment I've seen on hn in a while, keep up the awesome work!
I hate them so much I almost downvoted you.
“I’m sure there will be applications that nobody will expect. I think the hallmark of good science is when you do something just because it’s cool and then somebody turns around and uses it for something you never imagined. It’s really nice to have this type of creative stuff.”

Thinking atomic bombs :(
What about companies that loan a boatload of money to do buybacks ?

Because loaned money effectively creates a preferred share class with buyout option (meaning if the debt can't be paid, company gets owned literally by the lender and shareholders lose everything, but shareholders can buy out the lender if they choose for a fixed amount)

I mean, you only answered the very easy questions, so I figured I'd throw a harder one out there.
I’m with a bank that has one physical branch and I’ve never seen it. The few things you can’t do online you can do through the mail, and they reimburse my ATM fees anywhere.
In this case you got lucky; other times you'll underestimate the amount of effort required. In the end it'll even out.
While there are many codecs than can somehow cope with noisy and lossy channels, G.711 (ie. what is in telco world known as "The PCM") is not one of them.
Have used Neovim exclusively for a few years now and I can’t say I need to switch back. It is Vim now.
#9 is really interesting, and apparently the most correlated with all forms of malevolence. Are we just kidding ourselves when we do things like take political action, or even punish criminals? Is it really just feeding our need for hate and malevolence? Is hatred necessary? If it’s all based on self-justification, how do we know when it is appropriate?

I think this is the metaphor with lady justice. She is blind but very exact. She does not interpret, she executes. She has no empathy nor malevolence. Because we know that those are the seeds of our delusion.
Immune to lice. Easy to spot ticks.
How about the donor opening one - the St.Facebook Orphan school for ants who must justify the means.
I think the idea there was to take tower hits so they can keep pushing without taking hero damage. And delaying until the next creep wave arrives. Not sure it had much effect in this game, but it can be situationally useful.
One of my employees was contracting out his entire job. His performance was great and then fell off a cliff. Turns out he stopped paying the contractor and the contractor stopped doing his work for him. When he had to do it himself it was horrible.
haha yes I saw that, it seems forest navigation is a strength though, tho sometimes they dont search
It is true that psychology as it is currently practiced in many places has one of the worst replication crises [1] of all sciences, with lots of p-hacking and other unethical practices going on as researches attempt to get publishable results in a field where most data you get is necessarily messy and difficult-to-control confounding variables abound. But that's more about the usual perverse incentives in the academia rather than a fundamental problem with the field itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> Psychology is one of the few sciences that isn't directly traceable back to physics (In fact, I can't think of another one).

Computer science is not "directly traceable back to physics."
Just out of curiosity, what do you think 2.0 could fix in terms of community toxicity?
With enough processing power, you can listen to anyone as long as you can get an object in frame that’s vibrating with speech (the UK and Chinese CCTV networks comes to mind). Depending on resolution, I’d expect this to be the case for any footage already stored. It’s just a matter of having a distributed computing job kicked off to comb through video data and add the additional audio metadata.

Will you only speak of sensitive subjects in rooms with no windows? Will we be silent in public? These are issues where technology, politics, and human rights intersect.
Which is pretty thin. I wouldn't consider mathematicians of the pre-word-processor era amateurs.
The charity in this case is Silicon Valley Community Foundation. They may not be aware of any secret deals made between the donor and the recipient. The charity just gives money to whoever the donor directs them to give to.

The fact that the donor directed the donation is hidden from public, which allows this kind of abuse to occur.
It’s one reason of many. Putting personal liability on the CFO and CEO makes them a little more likely to stay private longer or accept a buyout. There are other things happening too: tax favorability of debt, plenty of private money, execs not wanting to deal with activist investors.

I don’t think the net outcome is the calamity that NY Times concludes. If companies are still getting founded, we are in good shape. I’m more concerned about Financial Services. Very few new banks came up post-crisis, and that’s a sign of a calcified industry.
"I wasn't paid enough for it" is probably close to the best reason.

To even consider doing it (for me) the value I gain should at least relate to the value I'd produce.
There was a very serious call for an open source CAS a couple of years ago foe the very simple reason that the CAS code used in research needs to be auditable. There are a ton of papers out there which base their validity on the premise that Mathematica performed correctly. Without source code, the validity of these calculations cannot be realistically proven.
My furry friends throw awesome parties and are some of the most creative people I know. I've gotten a lot better at DJing thanks to them :)
Referencing the companies in the original tweet, each one has a landing page (internal or on Github) for how they contribute to OSS. Making open standards which are cross-compatible between programs doesn't happen overnight, where often community-driven users are a force under which further awareness and adoption are spread.

[0] https://opensource.microsoft.com/

[1] https://aws.github.io/ and https://aws.amazon.com/mp/oss/

[2] https://opensource.google.com/
I live on and repair /removate a canal boat in the UK. It's like a hidden village threaded through London. Extraordinary experience.
Pointing out hard truths is never popular. Thankfully Feyerabend blazed a trail and made it easier for others to follow.

Is Feyerabend still widely hated? Or just back in his day? Because many people I've met regard him as one of the foremost philosophers of science.
One size fits all and everything.
HTTPS gives you clear upgrade path to QUIC and handshake costs of TLS 1.2-3 as well.

This is the very goal of this study - to determine how feasible is it in the real world and what's the performance impact.
It's cancer. I like the idea of 4chan, but when you experience it you realise it's full of the most nasty, unpleasant, vile, and very childish people online. Among those, some truly wonderful and knowledgeable people.

You grow out of it.
And it's on track to be half of the 1981-1990 number again in 2011-2020?
Not only is it ethical, it is the reason we are on computers right now and not foraging for food.
> I think it'd be fair for donors to get a tax break according to how much the stock is worth when it's given to charity.

In the most common scenario, that would mean people could receive deductions on a larger tax basis than the value they actually donated. If they waited long enough, they could even receive a tax break that was greater than 100% of the amount they donated.
You are always giving away more money than you receive in tax benefits. People forget that.
Does uTox use the core library or reimplement the protocols? Because the core is GPL and uTox is supposedly MIT, but that can't be if they used the core library.

How did they manage to do video chat? What is the underlying library or algorithm or did they somehow come up with a novel video chat system that performs? Did they use WebRTC or something?
> Euler was the first person to realize this, afaik. Is there a term to describe these kind of "de-unit-ified" equations? More than once I've found myself needing to reconstruct a proper equation (with correct dimensions and constants) from one of these bastardized non-equations.

Not very surprisingly, it's called nondimensionalization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondimensionalization).
Ah, yes, I saw this in 2010. They didn't have high enough resolution to detect actual vibrations, so they used an algorithm based on per-pixel color shifts. Really clever.
I was thinking about this issue. Once this feature is on by default, all Firefox DNS query goes through the Cloudflare, a for-profit company which resides on US whose government is infamous for spying everything.

My conclusion is, what's the difference?

Currently, Cloudflare is one of the major CDN in the world and most traffics goes through them.

Even worse, by it's nature, Cloudflare and most of the CDNs are practically doing MITM attack so they can cache the data. For that, HTTPS isn't that secure the most browser vendor want us believe to be. The rise of CDN cause serious single point of failure but most of us don't worry about it like DNS.

To solve this problem, we need to invent completely decentralized new network that doesn't relies on the current Internet even at the physical layer. Probably fallback to the level such that we carry storage by foot or pickup dead drops.
I've had a couple of customers that double bill their own clients, I never stuck around long once I realised what they were doing.
A really strange thing I’ve come across is when someone becomes a sociopath. It seems like it would then be possible to go back to ‘normal’, but it doesn’t seem to happen much. Why is it so much easier to go in one direction than the other?