skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mexican here. Not everybody does the whole enchilada as it is portraited in the movies.

On this day, my dad used to got to the cemetery to visit his parents. Clean the tomb and leave some flowers. But now that he is gone and I don't leave near him any more we are starting a tradition to make an altar with some photographs just to remember them and make sure that the members of the family understand that we didn't come from nothing, there is a family history and people that left a mark on what we are today. I think it is a beautiful tradition, not as fun as Halloween but it has deeper meaning. At least to us.
Token?
Your comment has added absolutely nothing to the conversation. You're blaming them for paying low. Blaming them for paying high. Blaming them for an initiative that could put more dollars in the pockets of some of the poorest people in the nation. Then you posit a false pretense that they were ever supposed to act in "good nature".
The article is a bit misleading, of course you can make a bot that can beat Pokemon, just like you can make bots that can play e.g. World of Warcraft, but you'd end up embedding knowledge of concepts like trainers, shops, battles and probably even map-specific info into the code.

What we probably can't do at the moment is make a bot that can learn to play any Pokemon-like game, with no specific knowledge of the mechanics, just by operating the controls and observing the pixels.

For that you need to try a large number of strategies and see which works better, and "very little punishment" is a disadvantage when you're trying to tell a good strategy from a bad one. You'd much prefer being swiftly and brutally punished for mistakes so you can go back and try something different.

E.g. how do you know that winning is good and dying is bad? How do you know that getting past a choke point is better than just wandering around town? How do you know getting stronger is progress, but reshuffling your inventory isn't?
Their children were killed by an opioid user. They changed the entire system
http - ISP injects sales/billing garbage in the response. Completely insecure!

phone - I dial the number my bank gave me and no man in the middle ever answers or interrupts. But still completely insecure!

Now imagine you see me trying to enter my credentials over an http connection to AwfulBank.com. "Stop! That's completely insecure!" you say. "Sure, but so is calling a bank using the phone number they gave me."

If both cases are already completely insecure, why am I wrong?
True, California in general is pretty diverse. I believe it's "majority-minority", but what about the folks who make up the "culture" of the valley? The workers, VCs, professors, etc. Based on the diversity reports from the big tech companies it seems like they are still lacking. Even when it comes to female engineers there is a lack of representation. I remember a twitter thread a few weeks ago that lamented the fact that activity trackers did not have a "pregnant mode" to account for the extra calories and (perhaps) lesser physical activity of pregnant women.
I get that it's inconvenient for everyone in town to get up and leave, but once a region is no longer economically productive, it's the only thing that makes sense.
Nonsense--there is no "legal duty to maximize profits". That concept isn't really meaningful: maximize over what term? In fact Amazon is probably the number one counter-example to that idea, they've never prioritized profits and have plowed everything they can back into infrastructure. There's also no "legal duty to pay employees as little as possible", nor "legal duty to fight unionization" nor a hundred other things that some corporations do against the interests of their employees. For publicly traded companies the only recourse shareholders have is to vote out the board if they don't think things are being run correctly, but there's no law that's defining what correctly is.
Read Exhibit B of the Damore lawsuit. It's a virtual catalog of this sort of thing.
Your link ultimately led me to the Criminal Justice Act of 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_Act_2003) and the 2010 trial of a bankrobber, the "first criminal trial without a jury to take place in England and Wales in more than 400 years". (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/10/heathrow-robbery-...)

That 2003 law also created an exemption for Double Jeopardy. I guess Parliamentary Supremacy finally defeated the Magna Carta.
Or LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine?
Simple AV1 accelerators are small enough that they might put them in the silicon of shipping devices to hedge their bets, giving themselves the ability to enable AV1 or HEVC perhaps as little as a few weeks before a device is released.

There are also substantial overlaps in hardware video decode accelerators, and they could well both share silicon.
"global" and "static" are pretty overloaded terms. In LLVM, for example, Global Value Numbering has nothing to do with global values. "const[ant]" is also pretty bad, but that's more because there's several slightly different notions where the distinctions between them are pretty important.
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As a matter of fact we do have, and it's quite understandable by anyone with an understanding of high-school physics if you can spare a few (<10) hours to study.
It's really funny that you assume an article is objectively true
> Until a new format comes out which requires magnitudes more storage?

No, even that has a limit. We're getting to the point where humans will be unable to perceive additional improvements in resolution. It's no different from audio. CDs are unchanged from when they were introduced 36 years ago because humans cannot hear the difference between a CD and "higher-qualitY" audio. There is a point where that will happen for video: when you can fill the entire field of view of the human eye with video the same resolution as your fovea at ~100FPS, that's it. There is no more room for improvement.
The best test of staying power would be longevity and engagement by a large community. If a new language lacks either it is obviously far more likely to cease to exist a few years from now.

It's hard to pick unproven future winners fortunately you don't have to do this. Use what you know works.
Thank you, that explains the data. I'm not following innocentfelon's point though, because it doesn't look like that can be the real villain here.

SF's population has increased 10% since 2010, and I don't know how many people have been priced out, but it's probably at least on that order of magnitude. Held off existing properties don't make much of a dent into that delta, and it's unclear how to lower them even more if they're already so low. It's also unclear why it shouldn't be allowed to be brought up.
there is such a thing as “fedicuary duty” [1] which could be sometimes interpreted as “maximize profits” i suppose...

according to this ny times article [2] it states:

`There is a common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize corporate profits and “shareholder value” — even if this means skirting ethical rules, damaging the environment or harming employees. But this belief is utterly false. To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”`

the ny times article also cites some sources such as supreme court case; it’s well worth a read

[1] https://www.sandiegobusinesslawyerblog.com/fiduciary-duties-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
Right now, there are something around 20 article on the front page of Wikipedia, about half of them connected to recent news or anniversaries (birthdays, historic events, etc.) There are about 5.6 million articles in Wikipedia, it says. So how far would a Wikipedia page about Donna Strickland have contributed to her fame among those of us who are not physicists? And would the physicists among us have needed Wikipedia to learn about her?
"Simplest" can be subjective. There's not much that can compete with editing your nixos config file and adding

services.mattermost.enable = true;

and then running

# nixos-rebuild switch

to have a mattermost instance running.
The /70 had a 22-bit address bus, so I assume that switches 16-21 didn't have any effect unless you were entering a memory address.
Idle instances are what autoscaling groups were made for. Frankly, if there are a lot of idle instances, AWS features are not being taken advantage of - that's not on them.
I disagree with the bread analogy being on point.

For one, it misses the fact that learning how to bake it doesn't benefit the eating process. Whereas, learning how to code in C benefits (but is not required) in general programming.

I understand that analogies are always compromises because there is always going to be something that differs from the original motif. Also, analogies should be used when the motif is complicated with many layers of abstraction and using one adds something - whether it is clarity, succicicty or reduction of abstraction. In the case of parent comment, it is not too difficult to understand the original motif. So, the bread analogy adds virtually nothing to it.
I disagree with your statement. It would in fact be: scientists create unnecessary new notations and that causes a lot of fragmentation in the science community. They all try to solve one thing which is do science. On the other hand I would agree that some new notation could create new ways to see things that were not possible with the old notation. I think in the long run we're ok with many programming languages. Whatever is useful will survive and what isn't will die out.
That breaks my mental model of waves (which probably means my model needs improving). I imagined the probably of the wave reaching the detector was proportional to the energy of the original signal. Does that map directly to photons and probability? I suppose it must... woah.
True. I'm a native NYC dweller and live in the Ozone Park/Woodhaven area. Not a happening place but there is plenty of good food and convenience stores. I walk less than 5 minutes to the A train and I'm in downtown in about 35-45 minutes. Midtown in under an hour. Rent around the neighborhood is around 1200-1600 for single bedrooms and 1700-2500 for 2/3 bedroom. And these places arent roach motels, many are newly renovated. NYC is plenty affordable unless you're making at or near minimum wage or spend a substantial amount of money on take out or prepared gourmet food.
This thread apparently started out as a misunderstanding, but just to show how free this can be: https://godbolt.org/z/7ehDPx
Yep, I use Shellcheck in VSCode with https://github.com/timonwong/vscode-shellcheck.

But it won't save you if you're on a server executing raw commands so it's still good to know about the concerns of omitting quotes.
Relevant creepy music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6i7A8Plqb8
The last time I used Flow it was intended to be used a daemon constantly watching your code. This made it really difficult to use with tools like Webpack which are built for "atomic" operations like tsc.
I'm not sure if you mean that in a positive or negative way. As someone who lives in Manhattan, I would love to know.
In sports they always say you should play to win, not play to not lose.

I've always liked that mentality and this articles echoes that sentiment IMO.
Did anyone else hear her interview on BBC radio? They ended by asking why she hadn't applied to be a full professor yet, and she clearly didn't want to talk about it. Wonder what's going on there.

Edit: this episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w25chfb2c1f Interview starts at 12:55, awkward question at 16:45
The three possible target audiences for saying something are yourself (i.e. getting catharsis by articulating one's beliefs), others (i.e. that there is a network effect to him convincing you and you convincing others and shifting a social consensus), or the subject of the speech (i.e. Amazon will read Hacker News and make decisions based on the extent to which the comments flatter them).

On that basis, is the implication here that hearing anonymous and vague internet praise actually tips the utility calculus of the company in some way?

Because if not it's hard to know why anyone should praise them -- as opposed to acknowledging the decision, or silently mentally updating one's assessment, or not engaging with the news at all, or criticizing them for not doing more.
I think that's absolutely a thing, especially at the top levels of wealth. A favorable rewriting of the tax code that saves you a few hundred million could be repaid with a portion of that going to fund the politicians who helped push it through, it's like a win/win!... except that you're pushing all those costs off onto other people.
In some contexts these mean the same thing (a layer of abstraction), while in other, more technical, they mean different things.
Of all the things you can blame, diversity of race is not. SV is majority Indians and Asians in engineering roles. Of course it could do better to have more white, black and Hispanic engineers
Yeah I think the downside elements you mentioned are important and it's a significant factor.

Add to this the one year cliff plus one quarter before any options vest and even then there's a good possibility you will leave them on the table b/c you don't have the money to buy them when you leave.
If you do move to Hetzner, you will quickly realize the value of premium bandwidth. Maxing out your Hetzner pipe is quite difficult in my experience. OVH/AWS (my other two experiences) on the other hand maxes out the pipe without issue.
Wouldn't $150K/year in total compensation be $75/hour - thus changing it to ~ 100 hours to review the document?

I think you still make a valid point. The deluge of patent applications and the relatively specialized knowledge base of certain patents makes it a challenge.

If anything $150,000/examiner seems a bit low if we are trying to tie in building overhead, administration, and benefits to a per person figure.
C doesn't necessarily teach you how computers work. But it does teach you how software works. Our modern software empire is built on mountains of C, and deference to C is pervasive throughout higher-level software design.

>You may have heard another slogan when talking about C: “C is portable assembler.” If you think about this slogan for a minute, you’ll also find that if it’s true, C cannot be how the computer works: there are many kinds of different computers, with different architectures

As with many things, this phrase is an approximation. C is a portable implementation of many useful behaviors which map reasonably closely to tasks commonly done on most instruction sets. C programmers rarely write assembly to optimize (usually to capture those arch-specific features which are unrepresentable in C), but programmers in other languages often reach for C to write the high-performance parts of their code. The same reason C programmers in the early days would reach for assembly is now the reason higher-level programmers reach for C.
... which now just LLVM, because it's so confusing! http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-December/04644...
I'm guessing Archive.is will probably disappear within the next 5 years, taking all data down with it.

Nobody knows who owns or maintains the site, and recently the mysterious owner started taking donations to keep the site running. It's a commercial enterprise.

Slick UI or not, Archive.org's longevity is probably more feasible.
Why not assembly language? Learn a simple one in a simulator (like 6502 or 8080).
Kind of funny that the Portlander mentions racial diversity. Portland remains one of the whitest cities in the US. (https://priceonomics.com/how-diverse-is-your-city/) (NOTE: I'm also a Portland-er.)

The bay area actually is one of the _most_ diverse in the country, which does include San Jose: https://www.kqed.org/news/10435390/bay-area-cities-among-mos...

The issue isn't racial _diversity_, it's racial _inequality_: the economic gains made in the Bay Area aren't including everyone across the racial spectrum. (https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-urgency-to-achieve-an...)

(I do agree about the commercial diversity argument though, but that's mostly my own anecdotal experience.)
You forget that every language has its own ABI, and runtime quirks. Sending a string to a function works differently in C vs Java vs Python vs ...

Sending objects with references to other objects (which may need to be GC'ed) is even more difficult.
Oh I don't carry the cash on me.

I probably should worry more about muggers, but I just can't get myself to be afraid, so.
That particular comment is very likely traceable to some work undertaken by DeepMind in learning symbolic representations using deep learning, described here:

Learning explanatory rules from noisy data

https://deepmind.com/blog/learning-explanatory-rules-noisy-d...

From where I'm standing (studying symbolic machine learning algorithms) the obvious next step in machine learning and AI is the combination of sub-symbolic, with symbolic approaches. It's just, nobody has quite figured out how to make it all work yet. There are reasons for this, not all technical, but it seems to me it's the easiest "next big thing" to at least try.
Huh. Interesting thoughts.

Maybe they should do actual protests and "riots in the street" then, instead of trying their best to be tagged as loonies :^).
Here is my opinion on why you should join a startup (or any company for that matter) in order of descending importance.

1. You like the people, and they like you.

2. You like what the company is doing.

3. You need a job.
React recently decreased in size... To 10 megabytes. This could be helped by the use of CDN and caching, but react discourages this in favor of webpack bundles.
No, it's not. The Damore case is a textbook example of someone who thinks they're the smartest person in the room, and how "I can't be bigoted/misogynistic, cause science!" despite the fact that much of the quoted science was debunked, or his use of it was wildly out of what those that actually wrote the papers he quoted meant.
You can take the legal documentation from the previous patent battle to see how to frame arguments. It's not uncommon for intellectual property and patent attorneys to dabble in their area of expertise to better understand both the exceptions raised by experts and form arguments that experts understand. My wife asks for advice all the time on how to phrase key points because at the end of the day they are trying to make compelling arguments.

Do you really think it's impossible a founder and engineer who went through a three year battle over patents could form a similar document? You'd only have to understand the assertions and have an attorney review your work. There are tons of legal reviews which end up with only one person being listed while the others are not given attribution to the document.
That would make a great episode of Star Trek - finding a planet like Earth, with a moon, and no sign of life on the planet or any visible structures of any kind. But their moon has tracks and vehicles.
Indeed, I misinterpreted that passage. Thank you.
That sounds like a very reasonable and logical solution.
I have friends in IT who get really angry when I refer to them as computer-janitors.
Yeah, BUILD's where most of where my impressions come from, especially from how pleasantly happy that the Fluent Design Team was with finally merging in some of Office's design resources and working to align Office towards dogfooding Fluent controls directly.

The implication I take from the UWP "Office Mobile" app shutdowns is that Office is now confident that if UWP returns to mobile it will do so with "real" Office, which was my takeaway from BUILD that that was the strategy they were pursuing.

I think it's another case of Microsoft not being able to properly spin "nuance" in a press release, because they don't want to comment on future plans or publicly commit to things still in flux/prototyping/development.
No. But it helps, as will learning any other language, including assembler and if you have the time for it some electronics.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Is still one of the best resources if you want to go from the ground up.
Not true, most of that can be done with TypeScript. $Values might be the only one missing.
> Based on the diversity reports from the big tech companies it seems like they are still lacking.

Lacking compared to what? When comparing to the diversity of the U.S. or even California, most tech companies way over-index.
Likewise for the system which caused them to act in the greater good - the demands of their customers. How is that any different than when a human is "forced" to act by their sense of empathy or duty?
GDPR is simply forcing them to show how these sites violate your privacy by trying to take information without your consent.
Yep. Recursive CTE are most bad ass feature of SQL which makes it do stuff that LISP and Haskell does but more declaratively
Most see those who can't reliably reconsile family responsibilities and the responsibility of having a job to provide for said family, as bad employees. Maybe only bad because of lifestyle fit, but bad for your org. Being unreliable is worse than not being there at all for most jobs.
It's to their advantage to do this on their clock, so I agree. If they push this through, they'll be much more prepared than any of their competitors.
Well I don’t agree with unions politically, the threat of unionization does have a positive effect at times ...
Blockchain has got to be the biggest hype and no-show that I've seen since the original AI winter.
No, not in any meaningful way.
Anyone have any idea how using HAProxy compares to say Kong?
While I wouldn't suggest anyone learn C for the explicit purpose of learning how computers work, being familiar with pointers and memory allocation can go a long way.

Novice unity programmers struggle to understand why using classes (reference type in c#) in a game loop causes performance issues, but structs (value type in c#) are not as costly. For someone who has called malloc before, this isn't too hard to grasp, but before someone who sticks to garbage collected languages, it seems bizarre and arbitrary.

Of course memory allocation is an OS function, so this isn't "understanding the hardware," but it is a much deeper understanding of computers than not knowing what happens when you create an object.
the other two winners, male, had pages https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1047098079097380864, there's a broader argument about bias here