skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same problem. But I did just finish Exapunks. I think it was because the atmosphere of the game was very enjoyable, and the puzzles were a lot easier than usual. So it was easier to play a few levels as a break from real programming.

I also really love Zachtronic's earliest games. IIRC there's one about designing ICs at the silicon level, and one about reverse engineering hardware.

> I really wish the games used an actual language or assembly opcode set. If I could play TIS-100 and practice ARM or AVR assembly, that would be amazing.

Yeah. A lot of Zachtronic's games and other programming/hacking type games really leave me with a similar hunger for something more realistic. So I ended up making a prototype of such an idea where you can find and exploit a bug in an emulated ARM core to unlock a door:

https://vimeo.com/271555947

EDIT: This was the early reverse engineering game that Zachtronics released: http://www.zachtronics.com/ruckingenur-ii/ it's free and short; worth a playthrough.

And this was the semiconductor game: http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...

Of course Zachtronics is also indirectly responsible for Minecraft, so there's that too :P
It's really not that unusual these days...

Consider the Lancair Evolution
https://www.evolutionaircraft.com/

Turbines can actually acheive better specific fuel consumption (lbs fuel/hp/hr) than piston engines when operating at high power... it's actually at _low_ power settings that they really suck fuel wise.
Life is too short to feel like you always need to be productive. Believe me, I know the feeling and I find it frustrating because it impedes my ability to relax.

Time spent enjoying yourself and learning things (even if they aren't directly applicable to work) is not time wasted. Improving your problem solving skills is always good and it often feels good, as long as you keep the level of time commitment within a healthy range.
One (general-purpose) register! I guess we should think of it as a distributed systems simulator, not a CPU simulator.
Dylan from AssemblyAI here. Sorry for the mixup. This is just a placeholder page that we don’t link to anywhere from our site yet. I’m not sure how you found this page — but we took it down for now!

We didn’t realize our site got posted on Hacker News, and there’s probably a lot of things that are rough around the edges like this — we have been working on getting ready to do a big launch but aren’t quite there yet. Sorry for things being sloppy! Please let me know if you spot anything else: dylan[at]assemblyai.com.
They are all cargo cult sciences. Fields dominated by theories entirely unproven because they are practically unprovable. Those theories remain even after they are often demonstratably wrong. Look up replication crisis.
I meant to say that they banned their own version of $100, meaning the largest bill
I wonder when they'll start to give some pills to employees instead of sending them home. After all, they might need just a little bit of "motivation".
"Impact Journals, LLC" is on the old list of (possibly) predatory journals: https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/
I’m so glad this turned out the way it did. Kudos to you for having the courage to turn to strangers. And kudos to the community for not having a 4Chan like response. Good luck to you!
Not partaking in evil IS the result. Any further ulitarian calculations are just rationalizations. You cannot predict the ultimate outcome of any course of action fully, but you can treat others like you want to be treated. If you wouldn't others to look the other way if you got disappeared, don't look the other way when people get disappeared. Period. Not because of how it affects world history, but because of how it affects you.

It's not our job to "fix China". It's like some abusive alcoholic -- it's basically their problem, but if you go out drinking with them, and hold their beer when they kill random strangers, and then continue the conversation like nothing happened, you're helping making it worse, and are direct party to normalizing it.

Companies don't have to pull out of China, they'd just have to speak up and never shut up, and China would kick them out. And maybe one day, when the hangover is particularly bad, there might be a hazy memory of an upright person saying "call me when you realized this isn't working".

When people protested against Hitler, it was with slogans such as "murder isn't politics". Likewise, cooperation with murderers isn't business.
Have you tried nltk’s part of speech tagging?
> Microsoft doesn’t know that you have a virus on your PC

But technically Microsoft definitely can know that, if that were its goal. There's nothing technologically lacking to have that knowledge. Most probably it simply doesn't use that information, specifically doesn’t call random users.
Came here to mention baslers
1. Portion sizes are smaller.

2. Sugar. So much sugar. Specifically, corn syrup. The agricultural lobby has successfully obtained so much in the way of subsidies that corn syrup is actually cheaper than cane sugar. It's in everything. Even bread has sugar of some sort added. You know there's a problem when bread brands place advertisements on the packaging that it "contains no corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup".
Day 14 is up with some maths #100daysofML #100daysofCode
The way I read grandparent is that the game feels so much like real work that you might as well get something out of it. I have the same problem with a lot of puzzle games: I already solve puzzles all day every day, might as well go work on those.
We are about a year away from the first child born after September 11, 2001 being deployed to Afghanistan. The first child born after the second Gulf War began will be deployed to Iraq shortly after the next Presidential inauguration.

We are also less than three years away from the war in Afghanistan becoming longer than the Vietnam War.
old style is seeing a revival amongst young Chicagoans fwiw, there isn't a bar in Logan Square or Pilsen without it on its menu
Exapunks is 'Early Access'
I'm waiting for the full release to play.
How we designed the Quotas microservice to prevent resource abuse
yes. Ask Jack Dorsey, here YC, Steve Wozniak, the owner of NYSE, G20, IMF, Andressen Horowitz, the CEO of Techcrun ch, IBM, Microsoft and many other prominent tech community members of why they think it's revolutionary if you don't get it's uses/benefits.

you can start from http://a16zcrypto.com
You-Dont-Know-JS
Envoy Service Mesh Case Study: Mitigating Cascading Failure at Lyft
Scroll down to the bottom of that page to the "Income tax rates in history" section. Observe that the top marginal rate was as high as 91%, and did not drop below 80% in the entire period between 1936 and 1981.
You've copied and pasted this comment from a few days ago. That, plus the fact that it's written in high flamewar style, indicates an account that is using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed on HN, regardless of the ideology you're battling for/against, so I've banned this account until we get an indication that you want to use HN as intended. HN is intended for intellectual curiosity, not smiting enemies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s too bad my “browser isn’t supported”.
Yes, definite afterthought. Or perhaps rather a best a guess at an unknown trigger. It seemed he acted on an impulse.

It’s like if my doctor asks me why I think my blood pressure is suddenly extreme. It would be the first time I reflected over it.
Well there’s a car hacking then for a future Defcon tuning panel then... because if I buy it, I want to be able to hack and modify it in any way I want. As long as I’m not violating emissions, then it should be within the law

Thankfully, automakers have quite and uphill battle to actually make something secure and inaccessible, so I feel confident a solution would be found :)
> It's really unfortunate that abiding by local laws and regulations is considered unethical.

It seems unfortunate to you, because you are not aware of the thought and research that went into this insight, and the roughly 100 million dead people.
"Whataboutism" has become a tedious buzzword and is now pretty much a signal of offtopicness here.

The word does have some curious properties. Since it's nearly always used reflexively, it reproduces the phenomenon it criticizes. That makes it a word with anti-persuasive power, i.e. it refutes itself.

(Not picking on you personally! It's just a bit of a pest: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whataboutism&sort=byDate&dateR...)
John Oliver viewers, not hackers, responsible for FCC system outage
Dylan from AssemblyAI here. We didn’t plan to launch on Hacker News for another few weeks — and are surprised to see ourselves on here — but really appreciate the interest. That’s why we don’t have more thorough benchmarks and technical specs ready yet. We totally agree that we need more information to back up our claims and are absolutely working on it. Please bear with us for now!

If you do end up trying the API now and have any feedback definitely let me know. Our goal is to work towards making the API really easy and simple for developers, but we know there’s definitely things we have to improve on.

We’ve been working hard towards launching publicly in 1-2 months but everyone on HN knows you can’t always control this stuff.

Dylan
Microsoft open sourced Detours
Failure of an ecosystem is very severe. What does the base rate fallacy test have to say about playing russian roulette? No one talks about the 5/6 times it doesn't cause any problems.
That's astounding.
I just can't read NY Times after Jeong debacle.
The Mom Test is a quick read, and will answer all these questions. The name comes from the idea that asking your mom what she thinks of your brilliant product concept is generally the opposite of what you should be doing. http://momtestbook.com
While the computers vision seems to work well the robot arm control is poor. The hand just points somewhere to Waldo. I would have expected that always the same finger points on him.
Wow, I just spent several hours today trying to integrate Google's text-to-speech with a simple webapp. Here's a comparison.

Google: "There is a multiloculated fluid collection adjacent to the liver."

AssemblyAI: "There is a multi located fluid collection adjacent to the liver."

Google does better out of the box, but it isn't customizable (e.g. to a medical vocabulary). I think this is a major limitation of Google's approach, but certainly something they might offer in the future.

I do think AssemblyAI needs to offer a real-time dictation as this is the major need in medicine.
> Yagni only applies to capabilities built into the software to support a presumptive feature, it does not apply to effort to make the software easier to modify. Yagni is only a viable strategy if the code is easy to change, so expending effort on refactoring isn't a violation of yagni

This is doesn't concord with my understanding of this term. My YAGNI encounters are MUCH more often around technical design decisions that will theoretically make software easier to modify down the track but in practice we have no idea if the design will look the same by then and hence whether the benefits will be realised is almost impossible to estimate.

Things like "It would be better if this configuration was stored in a database table than a text file" or "these modules should be refactored implement the same interface so they can share code" etc.
What if they told you their products are so fast they don’t need a total bandwidth?
This is very important. We do not store or copy any of the audio data you send to the API. We do not train on any audio data you send to the API. We’re a small company and absolutely believe in security and privacy.

We were caught off guard seeing ourselves on HN tonight — and our ToS is something we’re improving for when we had planned to launch in 1-2 months.

The reason why we include some of this language is because right now you can send in text data to the API for us to do transfer learning in order to create a custom language model for your use case. And soon, you can also send in audio data + transcripts to the API for us to do transfer learning on our base RNN acoustic model, to fine tune the model for your audio data.
Pretty sure adding an additional test not in the list doesn't exempt them from the patent. It's "at least one of" not "at least one of and nothing not in this list".
In the late 90s I was on a US project which included a small Dutch software company. The founder told me about Dutch people who had been living in the US for thirty plus years, speaking perfect English, now in nursing homes, who with age or dementia or whatever, can lose their ability to speak English. They revert to their native language only. I've never heard of this as an issue again, but I wondered how this might turn into a serious problem caring for many immigrant people who lose the ability to speak English in their later years.
Wow,

I merely do Facebook and few of my friends post very many "personal experience" pictures. A few do and it feels like no one gets judged that much. Other corners of the site may have a different ethos.

But this seems like a disturbing way to exist.
A graph that starts at 1840 doesn't show the past 10 000 years at all -- in the long view, that's all just a bunch of noise. What happened to the 'completely different picture' that the 10 000 year view held?

Here's the 10 000 same graph with some colours https://i.imgur.com/GWhaGCU.png Blue periods were colder than 2009. Yellow periods were warmer. The past 10 000 years were mostly colder than 2009, and we've only gotten warmer since then.

And... precedent isn't the main issue here. Those large bumps have causes. This time, the cause is us. It's up to us [collectively] whether we want this.

Maybe the Roman Period's ~-29.75C represents a better climate for humanity than the 1855 levels. That's right around that '2 degree limit' people talk about. If that's a target, it's about time to transition out of making 'as much CO2 possible as fast as possible'.
Common Lisp is just one example among 11 programming languages that I have listed.

Maybe take some time to check the other ones?

As for value types in Common Lisp, even if one bit is lost for tagging, it doesn't make arrays, structs and primitive values, less of value types.
Please do not deploy demagoguery here
I disagree that evolution can be "understood" by one person readily explaining it to someone else.

Yes you can get a brief summary of what it is about. But you are not at all in a position to evaluate how sound it is without spending months or years.

Short explanations between laypeople is essentially propaganda, no matter which side of the issue they are on. What I mean is: How believable the explanation is is only correlated to the rhetorical skill of the presenter. It is not related to how true the proposition is.

I think this is a general problem. Climate isn't an exception in any way, it just happens to be the one area that really matters for our future (consequences of people not believing evolution is far far less).
Not the gp but that's exactly how I feel about these kinds of games. They're fun, but they're too close to what I actually do for a living and I might as well just go do some work. It means they're not relaxing.
KOHCTPYKTOP, Engineer Of The People was the "IC design one". It's an abstraction of NMOS semiconductor design, making it a difficult game to approach. Fun, though!

http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...
Just signed up! I've been annoyed with how Meetup.com is treating forums and their new "discussion" feature and I want to move communication/knowledge sharing for my local CSS Meetup to an alternative platform. Am also looking at Discourse as well.
Not when you allocate it on the stack via stackalloc, as of C# 7 also allowed in safe code.
Announcing SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
I agree. Ripe bananas are revolting to me for some reason. I think it's the mushy texture. I prefer when there is just a hint of green left on the banana.
He said he actually has better fuel economy with this engine than with the original, because he can quickly climb where air is less dense and cruise at that height at low throttle.

It probably helps that the original Wilga is very fuel-hungry, it's basically a flying tractor :)
Or don't buy a house where there isn't a diverse portfolio of companies around.

Because moving from one rental to another is not that hard.
That job didn't vanish, it relocated.

That's subtly not true; the very nature of the job changed. It started off as a job-for-life type job, supposedly secure, didn't quite work out that way, but that was the original intent. Now it's a mobile offshore job, that is fully intended to keep moving every few years chasing whatever location is cheaper and less regulated.
> unfortunately iPad only.

Mostly for practical reasons. I can't imagine how the UI would work on a phone -- either the text would be microscopic, or you'd have to scroll around constantly.
How come others have to have "objective" morals, but for you "seems to me" is perfectly fine? Of course it's subjective, that doesn't take away from it at all, since any opinion that it being subjective is a problem is subjective as well.

> Maximizing profits seems pretty ethical to me.

Up to extracting gold teeth from people murdered in concentration camps, or is there a limit for you?

> [Q: Isn't there a certain calculus that someone who is sitting in the shoes of a Condoleezza Rice can make, that they're responsible for the best outcome for American citizens, and there's an upside of going into Iraq which is we get one of the greatest material possessions in world's history, and there're downsides which are: we upset the international community, and maybe there's more terrorism. Couldn't you envision a calculus where they say, sure, that's the reason, and it's a good reason, let's do it. What's the flaw in the calculus?]

> Oh, I think that's exactly their calculus. But then we ought to just be honest and say, "Look, we're a bunch of Nazis." So fine, let's just drop all the discussion, we save a lot of trees, we can throw out the newspapers and most of the scholarly literature, and just come out, state it straight, and tell the truth: we'll do whatever we want because we think we're gonna gain by it. And incidently, it's not American citizens who'll gain. They don't gain by this. It's narrow sectors of domestic power that the administration is serving with quite unusual dedication...

-- Noam Chomsky, Talk titled "Why Iraq?" at Harvard University, November 4, 2002
As far as I know nearly all recent Intel chips have an IOMMU: are you saying thunderbolt bypasses it?

Also, there is the thunderbolt authorization protocol (see: boltctl on Linux): is that broken in any way?
A reminder: import of cheese into Russia is prohibited by the Russian government, not by the Western countries.
I totally agree. I've got Facebook, which I use very sparsely, and Instagram which I use a bit more often to post images for my closest family and friends. Thus I don't feel a need to post images displaying how "perfect" my life is. They already know what flaws, and what good things, I have in my life, so to try to pretend something else would be plain out weird.
I’m well aware this is an example and extreme set, but I feel like the anonymous data set lost almost all value in the process and might as well not even include age as a metric as the ranges it includes are nearly useless.

I would think that anonymizing ZIP Codes would be far more useful to researchers in this particular case. Perhaps even inventing a system where nearby regions can be coded as such without giving away identifying populations or perhaps even physical sizes.
The 6502 only had one (general-purpose) register and it did just fine.
dogville : )
The US Navy needs to expand but the US lacks sufficient shipbuilding capacity

The UK did this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17127488
Robot Security Guards on Patrol
A map is not copyrightable. It is just a diagram of facts. Mapmakers protect themselves by inserting fake data which they can then use to claim copyright.
An (Opinionated) Beginners Guide to Start-Up Web Architecture
But does it do 22Gbps?
maybe it's more interesting if you aren't a programmer?

I remember a 3d artist friend saying they had zero interest in Second Life which they saw as working outside of work.
You are not a doctor.
Webpack 4 course – part seven. Decreasing the bundle size with tree shaking
Honor 9N review: Mid-range device with premium design, average performance
Al Gore continued to repeat this claim until at least 2009, my source is snopes and their sources.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/

I trust Snopes here since they are desperately attempting to cast Gore's statements in a positive light. They choose to address whether Gore "predicted" this event, rather than whether he disseminated the prediction. If the question is whether he confidently disseminated this prediction, the answer is a resounding yes.

The IPCC publish estimates generally between 2035 (on the very low end) and 2100+ (generally "possibly before the end of the 21st century", i.e. possibly later) for the arctic ice cap to melt almost completely.
Tone is a tough thing to get right, and I'd say your initial post came off pretty condescending to a lot of people, regardless of whether you meant it or not. It's not even a C thing either, I've seen the same thing where someone declares functional programming as the only "serious programming" and category theory is easy, so everyone else is wasting time with imperative languages. So, it's a bit off-putting.
Yep. Thank you!
Dylan from AssemblyAI here. Thanks for trying the API!

Time to implementation is one thing we’re focusing a lot on. We’re really trying to make it fast to get up and running with Assembly — for example not requiring you to specify any meta info about your audio (like sample rate, bitrate, etc).

We do have a real time endpoint but it’s not production ready yet — our primary use case right now is for phone call recording transcription.

If you want to try the real time endpoint, you can email me at dylan at assemblyai dot com and I would love to get your feedback!
I'm glad I'm not the only one reading these. :)
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Thanks s1mon,
Have you used this concept in practice?
> I can go on Facebook right now and post any opinion I like of my government.

No you can't. Facebook regularly censors content just like every other rational organization on the planet that hosts a forum. (Though it's a bit amusing to hear how free Americans think themselves to be when so many of them struggle to get basic healthcare.)

> The censorship demands made by China, for example, absolutely are of a different character and breadth than any made in the west.

You might consider that different cultures actually have different standards about what's acceptable speech. There are certainly other Asian countries which control speech much more rigorously than China ever could. Indeed, it seems China doesn't care so much about criticism until it becomes actionable (ie protests, terrorism). Anybody familiar with China would understand there's actually plenty of criticism of the government in a nation of a billion people. Compare this with regimes where insulting the royal family can land one in jail. Yet Google happily operates in these countries.

And of course, not ironic at all, here come the proud HN free-speech defenders eager to downvote the pesky facts they don't like.
These things keep coming now and then on HN. I built one myself[1] long time back and this makes me wonder if there is actually a market for clipboard mirroring.

[1] https://github.com/krishnaraj/oneclipboard