skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You certainly don't buy gold coins directly from the mint.

You buy them at only a bit higher than spot price from 3rd party distributors. For example: https://www.apmex.com/product/1/1-oz-gold-american-eagle-bu-...

American Eagle coins have a slight premium, due to their guarentee by the USA Mint itself. If you don't care about serial numbers and want to just have bullion, you can buy other gold coins. But American Eagles are great because they are enforced by the powers of the US Government itself. So you get a bit of security (and therefore, the price of the coin is slightly higher compared to gold).

But not much higher. Really, it isn't. Checkout 3rd party sites like apmex or your local gold shop if you don't believe me.
That's Intel's term from the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual. MS-ROM stands for microcode sequencer ROM. Complicated instructions aren't decoded from x86 into μops. They're read from the MS-ROM (what Fog calls the microcode ROM). They pollute the μop cache. Basically, they support the really complex instructions but that's it.

Clearly the ROM is a ROM and read-only and I mistakenly said that user microprograms would be written there. No, they'd be written to a WCS, Writeable Control Store.

All that said, the Intels + ARMs of the world would hate this idea. You'd be eeking out a wittle bit of performance at significant support cost. They'd just tell you to buy a faster or another CPU.

User programmable WCS was an idea from the 80s. But now, it's a bad idea. If it were a good idea then Microsoft or Google or Amazon would be all over it because they have the capital, the leverage and the need to do it. Yet they don't.
That decision would have been up to HR and the executive team. I was neither.

Speaking personally, if the company hired an interpreter, I would have been OK with it. If the company insisted on having all design meetings in a chat room, I would think that crazy. Most people's typing speed is a small fraction of their speaking speed.
And one worker on the board would change that? How? If the managers - whose duty is supposed to be knowing what's going on, that's literally what they are paid for - can't, how one person whose job is doing something else, could in addition to that gain adequate knowledge of what's going on that is impossible for others to gain? Especially in a company that has, say, a hundred of people? Best case they would know what's going in their corner of work, but in any company which doesn't fit in a single room that won't be representative of others. Unless you make that worker spend whole day on figuring what's going on, talking with all workers from all other rooms, systematizing and analyzing and processing this information to make conclusions - by which time, you just made him a manager.
Why “Uber for X” startups fail
Isn't Safari managed through the App Store?
Hi, I'm one of the co-authors of MOE (it was a fork of my PhD thesis).

We haven't been actively maintaining the open source version of MOE because we built it into a SaaS service 4 years ago as SigOpt (YC W15). Since then we've also had some of the authors of BayesOpt and HyperOpt work with us.

Let me know if you'd like to give it a shot. It is also completely free for academics [1]. If you'd like to see some of the extensions we've made to our original approaches as we've built out our ensemble of optimization algorithms check out our research page [2].

[1]: https://sigopt.com/edu

[2]: https://sigopt.com/research
> As long as you disable the disk write cache.

> I had a home Nas running zfs on a unreliable power supply and I lost the contents of the Nas a few times before I disabled the write cache. Ext4 seems to tolerate this much better.

Maybe it is because Ext4 by default "bypass"[1] write caches by default.

[1]: Look at barriers in Ext4 documentation: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/ext4.5.html
> This doesn't seem like something that's particularly difficult to do with c/gdb.

Well, why don't you do it, then? Not trying to be snarky(not much anyway), but I feel you are seriously under-estimating the work involved. Either that, or the description does not make it clear enough.

It's a full blown REPL. We are not talking about just printing out the code at that point, or maybe mutating a variable on the stack. We can execute arbitrary code and even replace entire sections of code with new code, and then hit continue and it works as if nothing happened, only now running the new (and hopefully corrected) code. Just the memory management implications of doing this in C would be very interesting.

Note that you can also do this over a network connection. NASA folks used this to great effect to patch Deep Space-1. Lisp machines also used this capability over the entire OS.
I have also used a similar mechanism (with Chicken Scheme) to do incremental development on iOS, without having to do the whole xcode deploy/run cycle.

The closest analog I can think of today is a browser's "console", which lets you do similar things for javascript code.
Because a for profit business is ... for profit. If they manage to stay in the black, I’m “donating” my money into investors’ pockets. If they stay in the red, my donation is meaningless because they’re death spiraling anyway.

No, thank you.
"So, when people would say things to the group like “the other team raped us because our mid kept jungling,” I would attempt to reflect back more appropriate language by saying back to them “so you’re saying your team lost because you weren’t working together.” I can’t say that I think it had much impact, but I figured this was the long game, and slow and steady would win the race. Cultural change requires perseverance and consistency over a prolonged period of time, right?"

As a Colombian guy, all these fuss over using certain words is really a problem when there are no other problems to be solved.. When you are are lucky to go to nice school, get paid lots of money, and work at a job in a really fun environment, and really, compared to our standards a perfect life, when you don't have problems, you create them.. If I tried to explain the type of problems this guy is having working at Riot Games to my friends or colleagues they would think it is absolutely ridiculous. Why would he work there if he was not expecting that? I have played LoL and this is how people being friendly talk to eachother, its not about hating women or something..

I wish I had problems like that.. You can't understand how hard it is for me to comprehend leaving a place of work that seems like heaven because some small language offends you..
when I talking about Three Body, I mean the trilogy, not specific to the first book.
What would be the point? Taiwan isn't going to roll over without a fight. TSMC's physical and intellectual/human assets would be blown to bits. The world would boycott China. The US would shut off China's shipping lanes. China's economy would nose dive. The number of dead PLA soldiers would be enormous. All for what?

If China is going to take Taiwan and hope to profit from it, they have to do it with a soft approach through engagement, business, and diplomacy -- a scaled up version of Hong Kong and Macau.
Explaining why this doesn't work is a great ML interview question.
In my experience, most of the feedback I've gotten has been trite and superficial. It's not surprising, since most interview processes are not designed to measure quality but rather to measure interest.

I once got feedback that I wasn't technically qualified, and when I asked how they knew that, they said that I hadn't spent enough time on leetcode studying the answers.
I thought this was a solved problem. Is there some reason why we don't have more urban raptors? Are the city pigeons so fouled with urban byproducts that their consumption eventually kills off any unwitting predators?
I didn’t bother looking at the comments but in this modern age, people may be confused by fake accounts and where the purpose is confusing popular opinion. Fake accounts without people contributing thought but some algorithms faking discussion with swaying to a direction of support.
I use Pandoc to convert directories of Markdown files into static HTML websites.

Here's the build command for responsive.style[1]:

pandoc $file -f markdown -t html5 -H templates/header-prod.html -B templates/nav.html -A templates/footer-prod.html -o (echo "../$file" | sed '$s/\.md$/.html/') -s --data-dir=./ --highlight-style breezedark --variable=file:(echo "$file" | sed '$s/\.md$/.html/')

Works beautifully!

1: https://github.com/tomhodgins/responsive.style/blob/master/s...
I'm not sure if this was meant as a jab or accurate, but btrfs is a good example. The core of it is stable, but there are a few features which are unstable/experimental, yet still included.
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Neat! If you wanted to extend this more (string diffs, non-json encodings), a custom function would be the next logical step. In Python it might be:

import sqlite3

def delta(*args):
ret = {}
for name, old, new in zip(args[::3], args[1::3], args[2::3]):
if old != new:
ret[name] = old
if ret:
return ret

db = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
db.create_function('delta1', delta, 3)
db.create_function('delta2', delta, 6)
db.create_function('delta3', delta, 9)

print db.execute('select delta2("b", "20", "20", "c", 3.4, 3.6)').fetchone()
>> (u'{"c": 3.4}',)
They could become a non profit with a journalism branch like National Geographic used to be before they split off their magazine section and sold it to Fox.
Presumably with what's called a "reasonable accomodation". For example, interviewers always facing the candidate to facilitate lip-reading and allowing use of a speech synthesizer. Perhaps even paying for a sign-language interpreter (although, for eventual employment, that may well not be reasonable).

These are, of course, just examples from a complete non-expert, and there is a plethora of information on the Internet regarding accomodations, as well as what's considered reasonable (and how that's arrived at for each situation).

Even if a heavy-enough accent could be accomodated in a similar manner (which is debatable, at least), it's questionable if it's a disability under the law (philosophically/morally is yet another matter).
Thanks - I've left him some messages.
THere's a big difference being paying a tax and lending somebody money. And an even bigger difference between having cash in the bank and being unable to borrow.
> There are different approaches, but you can come up with any simple programming task.

My challenge internalizing this phrase is that I have a hard time latching onto the idea of simple. It's a highly subjective measurement. For example, if I ask an to implement FizzBuzz & they can't do it, to my satisfaction, are they a not worth hiring? I suppose it depends on what satisfies me. If my criteria for hire/no-hire is whether they wrote concurrent & streaming FizzBuzz, maybe my expectations are unrealistic. If I'm expecting someone to write FizzBuzz in as few characters as possible, am I going to flunk anyone who implements a verbose concurrent & streaming FizzBuzz? Is there a case where it makes sense to hire someone who implements Enterprise FizzBuzz? I may struggle myself with keeping things simple, so there's that to consider :)
Nothing is really a secret in SV. Do you think Waymo engineers are going to stay at Waymo for the rest of their lives? Look at Chris Urmson, AL, etc.
TL;DR This wasn't much of a writeup, more of a nostalgic media-piece.
This is entirely predictable. These people profit from monetizing users' data, so of course they want rights to freely do that.

Notice, by the way, that Apple isn't mentioned :)
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SigOpt (YC W15) is a related service that performs a superset of these features as a SaaS API (I am one of the co-founders).

We've been solving this problem for customers around the world for the last 4 years and have extended a lot of the original research I started at Yelp with MOE [1]. We employ an ensemble of optimization techniques and provide seamless integration with any pipeline. I'm happy to answer any questions about the product or technology.

We're completely free for academics [2] and publish research like the above at ICML, NIPS, AISTATS regularly [3].

[1]: https://github.com/yelp/MOE

[2]: https://sigopt.com/edu

[3]: https://sigopt.com/research
My coworker tells me that if he received a UBI each month he would blow it on hookers and drugs.
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> and axed 25% of its OG staff.

That's not what the article says at all. It says that 25% of the staff fired in the year prior to the experiment would have been given the "toxic" label had they been subject to the experiment rather than fired for whatever reason. Most of the employees labeled "toxic" were, as you might expect, younger and junior, with less experience in "the working world". The article suggests nothing about some huge portion of Riot's "OG" staff being fired by this policy.

> Riot looked at the preceding 12 months of gameplay of every employee and discovered there was a correlation between in-game and in-Riot toxicity. They determined that 25% of employees who had been let go in the previous year were players with unusually high in-game toxicity
I'm curious about python being on that list. I worked with python on multiple applications, some fairly large (500kloc), over 10+ years with multiple version upgrades without issue. I always considered python's backwards compatibility to be one of its strengths. That was why the python-3 was such a big deal, it would break backwards compatibility which had always been a top priority.

I am missing something?
My natural wake time is 5:30 - 6:30 am and I am definitely a morning person. I can assure you that my being a morning person has more to do with me being too tired to stay awake beyond 10:30 pm than anything else.
i.e. Comcast.
That's a great example of how shoddy Buzzfeed's journalism is and why they shouldn't be supported.

> BuzzFeed was harshly criticized for publishing what Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan called "scurrilous allegations dressed up as an intelligence report meant to damage Donald Trump"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Russia_dossier#P...
I found the feedback from my Triplebyte rejection to be very helpful in directing my preparation for other interviews. It helped me get a job offer 3 days later from just the type of company and role that they screen for.
Actually I think it's more akin to Natural Selection.
I don’t know. This represents a kind of Coaseian solution for the provision of a public good. There’s nothing wrong with alternative funding models. Another example which we don’t see much of in the us is direct government funding of media, which has had good results in a few places.
This is probably the best one I've seen because it gets the phrasing just right
You can enable it. I’ll dig through my notes for the command.
I agree, it's a bit ridiculous talking in these terms. Primarily I just want to have my facts reasonably straight if I'm going to have a debate.

Shakespeare was born approximately 500 years ago, Cambridge University was founded 800 years ago where as 25,000 years ago was in the depths of the last ice age (11,000) and Wooly mammoths still existed (4,000). I can visualise the first couple in my head, not the last two.

Given the fairly drastic things that are happening to the great barrier reef (50% loss in 2 years and it's about 6-8,000 years old [0]) I question more and more, how much of a risk nuclear is worth taking until solar and wind can take over.

> 500 years of storage is a hard problem, and from the perspective of us, our kids, their kids, and their kids and a dozen generations after

I agree, we're passing on another problem, but it is a solvable problem. Humans are capable of building structures that stay intact for more than 500 years. With climate change, there's so many factors involved we've no real idea if it is even solvable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef#Geology_and...
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I was with you until you said that refraining from hiring someone because his accent was too difficult to understand. That's an insane reason - why pass on a good candidate for this reason? Can your company afford this?

If you are working closely with this person, it will be 3 months before his accent is sufficiently adjusted.

This is a stupid reason to pass.
My issue with this is that warm light encourages melatonin production so I end up dozing whenever I have red light or f.lux/Night Shift/etc on.
I’ve been having this problem too. It’s the worst. Going to bed at 10 and waking up at 3 when your alarm is set for 6; exhausted but weirdly alert too. Then feeling like a zombie all day, collapsing into bed, and doing it all over again.
People risking their own money tend to be non-corrupt about managing it. Those who pay with other people's money tend to be more corrupt.

It has nothing to do with the color of their collars. Either interests are aligned or they are not. When you pay the costs and get the benefits, you are less likely to be corrupt. When you get the benefits and the costs get shifted to somebody else, you are more likely to be corrupt.

As I've already said, workers have power. They just don't have power that rightfully belongs to the owners. It seems like another way to create a monopoly over the labor supply and it would be destructive in the long run.
In 1978, China wasn't what it is now. Wages for workers has stagnated in the US but not abroad.

Or do you propose returning Chinese workers' wages to 1978 levels in order to afford restoring American wages?
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> There's a presumption in the parent that people who work for a living are corrupt and that managers and executives are not

I think the presumption is much weaker - that people for "work for living" (I assume you do not, for some reason, consider management to be work) can be as corrupt as "managers and executives", given the right circumstances.

> There is clearly a great power imbalance between a company of any size and one worker, unless that worker is a superstar (like a star coder).

Given how much money certain tech companies feel necessary to throw at their workers - and I'm not talking select few, I'm talking averages - it's obviously not just star coders. Moreover, given how many companies pay over minimum wage - I would say it is almost never the case. If all the power was in the hands of the company - why pay more than the minimum wage? Obviously, leaving - or not applying in the first place - has some power too, and this power is measured in real money.
I had a pigeon problem at one of my previous gigs. The fire escape (where we’d frequently go out to smoke/vape, or try to) was a biohazard area. There was an inches-thick layer of fecal matter coating the ground, it was crackling if you attempted to walk on there, and the smell was toxic. Nevertheless, the pigeons appreciated this situation and were nesting in there. Something was regularly killing them (either a predator or disease) and so someone had to undertake the perilous task of disposing of the bodies otherwise they’d stink up the place even more. I still remember sending an invoice with a “dead pigeon removal” line item.
I'd appreciate a bare minimum C compiler capable of building gcc written in either assembly or x86 machine code that can be trivially audited in as-executed form.
Hrm. In hindsight, it seems obviously preferable that the public got to view this dossier. It would have been hard to have an informed opinion about e.g. the Strozk situation without knowing about the dossier and it’s contents.
Apple actually has enough cash to buy Intel. Or AMD 10 times.
> Coding questions ideally yield an answer that can compile and run and return correct output for at least some valid sets of input. That's about as objective as it gets.

Except for coding style (incl. naming convention), code organisation, test coverage, arch style, level of abstraction..plus a myriad of other things. I don't know anybody who treat the code in a coding question as a black box. It gets about as subjective as you can get when reviewing, with the (objectively) correct answer weighted the least.

Shit code that gets the right answer rates worse than code which ticks all the above subjective boxes but gets the answer wrong.
If you want to try something really fun, install OSMAnd and download the Wikipedia maps, and then enable them I think in the "layers" option. I don't even think that's OSM data, I think it's geocoded Wikipedia articles. They show up on your map, and you can click on them and read them all offline.
Incorrect.

"Tapes Show Enron Arranged Plant Shutdown"

In the midst of the California energy troubles in early 2001, when power plants were under a federal order to deliver a full output of electricity, the Enron Corporation arranged to take a plant off-line on the same day that California was hit by rolling blackouts, according to audiotapes of company traders released here on Thursday.

The tapes and memorandums were made public by a small public utility north of Seattle that is fighting Enron over a power contract. They also showed that Enron, as early as 1998, was creating artificial energy shortages and running up prices in Canada in advance of California's larger experiment with deregulation....

https://outline.com/f2N42r (nytimes)

Also:

Enron defrauded California out of billions during energy ...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/05/enro-m10.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
IT's possible they work for the NSA. Down voting to suppress the actual number of people that really understand what is happening to the people of the USA.

The so called "news media," is supposed to be our eyes and ears.. but nothing is being said or written by them about this.
It's a shame. Looks like we are in a upward swing to fascism.
One nice trick that I use all the time is to convert html to md and back again in order to clean it.

Anyway, pandoc is great.
This.

I wonder how different things would have played out if the other AAA titles had lower requirements.

That being said, WOW also focused on other game tools that opened it up to a wider audience that other games who only listened to their "core audience" never would consider.
Even though org-mode has its own exporters, Pandoc is great for the extra bibtex integration.
That would be the way to go, but why invest in x86 at the time where it mattered the least to Apple's bottom line?

ARM is the way to go.
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The fact that you interviewed twice implies you're a candidate they like, but for some reason or another you weren't strong enough.

If a company keeps the door open, it's certainly in their best interest to help you enter it sooner rather than later.
You're the Economist author?

A point you might well have included is the topic (and perhaps, questions over authorship) of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's PhD thesis: "Mineral and Raw Materials Resources And the Development Strategy for the Russian Economy".

https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/putin...
doesn't PCB stand for "Printed Circuit Board"? So it's still mostly printed.. The rotor is 3d printed, and the stator is manufactured via PCB techniques. I understand what you mean regarding it not being totally printed though.
You can print pneumatic (or hydraulic) motors. You will need pneumatic pump or an other source of compressed air to power them, of course.

PS.
You can also 3d print electro-static motors, but they require high voltage, blades, and doping. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMK0dEKWJdY , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHMpbJIXWtE .

Also, regular electric brushless motor 3d printed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ikMRXNs9s .

I hope, this will inspire someone.
> And seagulls, because they will fly over you on purpose

Source? I’m really curious as to how shitting on people provided any evolutionary advantage.