skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a former world ranked competitive player who specializes in fast time controls (blitz and bullet) — you guys are severely underestimating how important the time factor is in blitz.

Blitz is almost an entirely different game from classical chance. Yes, technically the rules are the same, but tactical ability and ability to think under pressure plays a massively more important role than positional ability, which tends to be the deciding factor in top level classical chess.

A 5m to 4m time advantage is the equivalent of a 100-200 point handicap. Think about it... if both players are evenly matched for 30 moves taking the same amount of time, say 3m, then you end up with an interesting middlegame position where White has 2m and Black has 1m. Now you are playing bullet chess with a 2 to 1 time advantage, which is more of like a 300-400 point handicap.

All that to say - blitz chess, even at the world championship level, is characterized not by "slight inaccuracies" but by major mistakes if not outright blunders. You can even have wild swings in the final minute as each player makes critical mistakes.

To get a feel for chess at this speed, I highly recommend watching some bullet chess streaming videos from chess.com or lichess. It is both highly entertaining and very instructive about the time aspect of chess.
A couple thoughts:

1. Summarizing entire bodies of text down into "bite-sized" chunks isn't inherently a good thing. It seems the main use case (and at least the one suggested in the demo) is to be used for news articles. Now, I'm totally understanding of the fact that not everyone has the time to read every news article, but as it is, only reading part of the article (or more commonly, only reading the headline) is a huge issue with current consumption of content. This attempt to further summarize articles into small, context-less bites seems to be going in the wrong direction.

2. On the demo page, there is a "Fake News Detection" feature. I threw a couple of articles at it and it left me with so many questions I don't even know where to begin. For a few articles, it just gave me a binary "Real:1 , Fake:0" output. For others, it spit out a couple of numbers for stats like "conspiracy", "irony", "bias", "pseudoscience". Why are these the attributes chosen to measure? How are they calculated? Is something like "irony" even meaningful when trying to detect fake news?

Viewing the documentation section of the site, there is a small blurb claiming that it uses "custom AI classifiers", "custom machine learning models trained on fake and biased articles", and "database of trusted and biased websites created by our experts" to calculate these numbers. AKA, there is absolutely zero meaningful explanation as to how these numbers are calculated and why they should be trusted. This entire feature is a complete black box, and for all we know, the "database of trusted websites" could be created by Russian spies trying to sow misinformation.
I'm sure AWS will be offering satellite VMs soon enough
I read once that the answer to any article whose title is a question is always "no."

In my own anecdotal experience over the past couple years, this no hypothesis has been right about 90% of the time.
You’re way off on a tangent now. That’s telling people how to spend their money, and nothing to do with how to make a purchase after that decision is already made. I dont think you understand the car business as much as you think you do, as you’re clearly unaware of some basic business practices. All new cars come from manufacturer affiliated dealers!

Just one example of why you’re wrong - the dealer doesn’t subsidize the loan, the manufacturer does using their captive financing company. Therefore, it’s a completely different line item that the dealer has no flexibility to touch. Obviously, if you can borrow at 0% without giving anything up, you’d be foolish not to.

The bank has no other way to make money from you. You say that’s a good thing, but it isn’t. The reason is that the manufacturer can take a loss on the loan because they make money selling cars. This has nothing to do with the dealer, and you can’t negotiate an alternative unless the manufacturer provides a similar cash-buyer incentive. They often don’t, and it’s 0% or nothing regardless of the sale price.

”I actually forgot that people can get repair service and financing from a manufacturer-affiliated dealer.”

To forget something so basic and fundamental means you really are not in a position to present authoritative sounding absolute statements.
My 10 day retreat even felt like prison from time to time...
> A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition,

That's about 32 semester units ($46/unit). An AS typically has a minimum of 60 semester units as a requirement.

Plus, an accredited BS is likely to be better regarded than an AS for many purposes.
This does kinda sound like something off the Dollar Menu, though.
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Honestly, that's hysterical even for HBO's Silicon Valley. As someone who has never lived in or experienced Silicon Valley, I always assumed the show was a bit of an exaggeration. But people like this are proof that it's not. It's a documentary with a comedic element.
This is the story behind Replika.

"Three years ago, Kuyda hadn’t intended to make an emotional chatbot for the public. Instead, she’d created one as a “digital memorial” for her closest friend, Roman Mazurenko, who had died abruptly in a car accident in 2015. At the time, Kuyda had been building a messenger bot that could do things like make restaurant reservations. She used the basic infrastructure from her bot project to create something new, feeding her text messages with Mazurenko into a neural network and creating a bot in his likeness. The exercise was eye-opening. If Kuyda could make something that she could talk to—and that could talk back—almost like her friend then maybe, she realized, she could empower others to build something similar for themselves."
https://www.wired.com/story/replika-open-source/

Or a more in depth read:
https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memo...

You can talk with the deceased friend:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roman-mazurenko/id958946383?...
> It's regular-ish grammar helps. It has simple conguation rules and almost no declensions. Its irregular pronunciation rules do not, but in practice they only make the speaker sound foreign, and do not make them unintelligible.

Are you talking about Chinese or English here? It would apply to both. The hard part in learning Chinese is the script, which simply requires a lot of time spent memorizing. If you're willing to settle for the literacy of an uneducated villager, learning Chinese isn't that difficult.
I find it curious that there isn't any analysis suspecting the BTC crash to the breaking of the USDT peg. It started a couple weeks ago and now USDT is routinely trading at a discount relative to $1.

There were a ton of articles in 2017 speculating that the bubble was being directly inflated by USDT printing and when the peg broke BTC would crash[0]. Now that those things have happened - silence.

[0]: http://fortune.com/2017/12/05/bitcoin-btc-price-usd-tether-l...
The bigger impact isn't luring U.S. scientists to China. It's keeping top Chinese scientists/students in China. Chinese grad students/postdocs are highly represented at elite U.S. universities. With recent political changes in the U.S. making more difficult for international students to come to the U.S. or at least giving the impression that the U.S. is not as friendly to immigration, enrollment from international students have started to drop in the past 2 years.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/13/new-internati...
https://cgsnet.org/first-time-over-decade-international-grad...
> the whole membership process again

Again? The UK never joined the EU through a membership process, the EU evolved around it.

The terms would be different if the UK joined the EU by proper mechanism, but perhaps we shouldn't want to be in a club which has different rules for old vs new anyway?
Just a weakly related comment here.

When one talks about security, it's really hard for people to follow what she really means; the context has always been qualitative, but not quantitative.

I found the idea "Vertical/Horizontal Attack Profile" interesting, which may help measure security when people argues different container solutions or even VMs.

https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/measuring-the-horizontal-...
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Or else what?

I appreciate you sending this letter, and your concerns have been duly noted. After careful deliberation however, we regret to inform you we have decided to proceed anyway.

Have a nice day.
As a side point, I've seen mention recently that 1M alignment may not be optimal in some cases either. The recommendation was to use 4M instead, which apparently worked 100%.

Just wish I could remember where I read that. I remember taking it on board as it made sense and the source seemed very credible.
> while they're sleeping or if they get stuck on something, they should punt it over half-finished or half-broken to the infra eng

By the description of it, the root cause of the problem is your setup. Dismantle the infra eng team and make the dev team to monitor their own apps.

By reading of your explanation devs should have more access and responsibilities.

You set up a half baked process and you are blaming the devs for it? Not cool.
Being in a position where you can't do anything about your responsibilities is a big part of the fantasy. If you can do something but are just choosing not to; that doesn't provide emotional relief. You still get the anxiety, guilt, etc.

If you hole up in a Motel 6, then every minute you're there; you're choosing to not go to work, get a job, socialise, look after your kids, etc.
I hope the patients won't regress when their pets almost inevitably die before they do.
A follow on article that includes a video of the drop can be found here - http://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/remember-parachuti...
Rats brains are used to study mechanisms presumed to be conserved by humans eg aspects of molecular biology. That doesn’t mean that rat social behavior couldn’t be used to model some aspect of human social behavior.
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I don't think biology explains away the gender gap.
But is the bulk of that lowered cost due to the removal of the cap and trade, or is it mostly unrelated?

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not sure, but looking at the average gas price in Ontario (no cap and trade), Quebec (cap and trade) and Canada on [1], the same kinda of savings existed all around, so we can't really credit the removal of the cap and trade. Overlaying the price of cure, it does seem to have had more to do with the massive price drop in crude.

[1] - https://www.gasbuddy.com/Charts
> The wrong answer is to ask what the answer is.

Then I definitely lost this one myself.
I am curious if we'll actually see any extradition from any of the involved countries.
Nope. It is not. There you go. I gave a similarly strong argument to yours.

Or did you really want to give arguments but you forgot it?
you should try rearranging the order of the words in your comment so that it makes sense
This drop is something CCP leaders dreamed about for years and they didn’t have practical way to do it.

And Trump made it
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Actually they get routed to servers operated by security companies that log incoming connections. This information is then shared with internet providers and corporations to help disinfect the end users machines that are trying to coordinate with the botnet.
> Citation needed.

Several active shooter situations where they need to retrieve downed officers / civilians without exposing the rescue team to gunfire. Most recently in the Pittsburgh shooting it was reported they used an armored vehicle to get to injured officers outside.

> Police all over the world do their jobs without these tanks.

First of all they are not tanks. They have no offensive capabilities so they would be classified as armored personnel carriers.

Second, these exist all over the world, here are some image results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=european+riot+vehicle&t=ffab&iar=i...

> People have been throwing rocks at and shooting at US police for two centuries. How does having a tank help in arrests?

Allows officers to take cover behind it while the vehicle moves forward. When it reaches the people throwing rocks they can move to effect the arrest.

For shootings it allows them to much closer to barricaded subjects and make sure they cant escape / provides a platform to negotiate peaceful surrender.
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LOL. I worked in Nokia Networks for quite some time.

> downtime is not an option

HAHAHA - sure. Of course.
Civilians can buy heavily armored vehicles, yes. They can also buy military vehicles, provided they are certified (like not carrying weapons) but it is definitely possible to be rolling around in a MRAP style machine completely legally.
Even cheaper learning yourself by building out random ideas, posting your code on GitHub and blogging about how much you like to code/create stuff.
The ratio does not convey quality.

Stars can indicate interest where as issues are correlated with both usage and quality. A star is not nearly as strongly correlated with either usage or quality, it is most strongly correlated with interest. I star a thing because I think it is interesting and what to learn more about it.

If I'm writing an issue on a thing I never even have to star it because I am either actively using it (and thus perhaps watching it) or I'm a drive-by issuer that just stumbled on this thing and thus will either star the project because it interests me or not.

Stars to Issues is Interest to Usage, the more interesting a thing is an the least used it is the better it scores.
Yes, BTC and other crypto are down 80-90% in a matter of weeks, but this is Bitfinex making it "easier" to withdraw your money. Are you gullible or trying to deceive others to save yourself?
Yes. If you just type ahead in Pinyin and accept whatever the input method makes out of it, human readers will be able to fix the remainder. It works analogously with handwritten characters, where you don't need to remember every stroke, so long as the general shape is recognizable.

u ll maek urlself look dum tho
Fun fact - Ethereum's Virtual Machine also allows for computed (and fully dynamic) gotos.
> let us not pretend that China is close to most democratic countries on this scale.

Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...
The demanding work life the article references is real. South Korea is #2 in the OECD in average annual hours worked, at 2,070 hours per worker for 2016 (the US was #14 at 1,789 hours by comparison, with the OECD average at 1,763). That's 41.4 hours per week across 50 weeks, basically the average South Korean is working overtime every week (by US standards).
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Not selling out loses all meaning the moment you do.
You're saying his moral position is invalid because he doesn't apply it consistently, and that is not true, and also possibly harmful.
Are bug bounties a good use-case for blockchains?
At what point do we decide that a difference in culture may make some careers more or less attractive to a group on average than a different population, and that that is OK?

What if it's a cultural difference that has negative effect on the population in question?

Do you respect the difference, or try to change things so that those in said population who would prosper under different outlooks can do so?

This is a serious question, and I genuinely don't have a good, general answer. I can see this line of thought being used to superficially validate any bias one cares to in a "that's just how things are" kind of manner, which helps no one.

But we also have to acknowledge that differences will lead to, well, differences. How do we differentiate between negative and neutral causality?
This is only really true at startups. At a bigco, your on paper comp can be 250 or 350k annually in cash equivalents. That quickly generates wealth even if you are given only cash.

You're comparing 2 pre-ipo companies to Google and apple.
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> C people just do not get multidimensional arrays. They think an array of arrays is good enough.

I have to say, i dont get what you are trying to say. Do you have a source that explains it?

What is the difference between a multi dimensional array and arrays of arrays? And what does a FORTRAN compiler optimize here? It is a piece of memory written and organized in a certain way. What is there to organize. You basically have a pointer to a memory region with an offset for the position at row X and column Y.

What am I missing? Are you only talking about the syntax for the final address? What has that to do with the compiler? Do you mean the parser?
> Most of the time

Key phrase there. We expect our police to be equipped for any situation. So what happens when something like the North Hollywood shooting happens again and you have pinned cops/civilians? In that case officers had to commandeer actual money trucks and raid gun shops to get the equipment they needed to stop the shooters.

> Here's an example I was present for

If that's true then I'm all for punishments / legal action against officers that do wrong.

> If that's not the world you like, let's fix the police!

I'm all for police reform where evidence shows it can help.
> abolishing tariffs

Like by having a single market and customs union? Many FTA. Abolishing tariffs is what the EU does. 1 standard, no tariff, less government.

>abolishing immigration restrictions

Free movement of labour is one of the four freedoms of the EU. The main reason Teresa May is citing for leaving the single market is so she can increase immigration restrictions

The EU does not increase government. It sets common standards that mean trade is much easier, and encourage the rest of the world to abide by those common standards and to enjoy the same freedoms. Instead of every country having customs rules with each other, a country outside the EU can make a deal with one authority and then trade with all of the countries.

Chile is a good example. I imported from Chile in my last job. It was a doddle, because Chile have a FT deal. I apply Common Customs Tariffs of 0. Before the EU a small South American producer would have had to have worked out a deal with each of the 27 states, each with their own standards.

If you want to license medicines in the EU, one process covers the whole EU. That is less government! If you want to sell electronics, again the CE mark covers all of Europe and many other countries. If you match EU standards in any area you get equivalent treatment to a local producer. That is less government.

The UK is working out how it is going to replace all of those agencies with new ones. That is more government doing the exact same thing.

On the contrary, all I hear about on the news about the US trade is about Trump and his trade war with China (this time). When he tried the same with the EU, he was dealing with a much larger market for US goods, and the EU took the sting out of it. Lower tariffs and less government.

I cannot for the life of me see how having more independent nation states with their own trade deals will create anything other than more different tariffs, protectionist regimes and more government.
Silence? No analysis? Prices on every crypto are down massively. This news is hours fresh. What are you talking about? What are your expectations here? Was this not a crash?
> “It's strategic, it's rational, and still it's disappointing.”

You’ve lost me there. I don’t see how disappoint is the conclusion. It seems equivalent to suggesting the player should take risks or chances based on what might stylistically please the audience as opposed to what might win the match overall.

I’ve never understood spectators watching competitors and thinking, why won’t they do what I want them to do instead of what they think is best for the situation?
> The UK wants a deal like Norway or Switzerland. The EU, who wants to not encourage further separation, will fight against this

I don't understand that argument. The EU is a voluntary-membership organisation. There should be no consideration of 'punishment' in the face of leaving.
How do you then explain that the gender gap increase the more equal countries are [1, 2]?

This doesn't mean that one gender is more capable than the other, women actually do as well on average in the sciences as men, but it seems to indicate that the genders does not make the same choices if social or economic limitations are removed. Also, why are the choices women make in countries like Norway inferior to the choices they make in less gender equal countries?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
[2] https://phys.org/news/2018-10-personality-differences-sexes-...
ASUS are generally good for consumer level boards. I've heard of the occasional bad board, but (from my perspective) they seem to be rare.

ASRock, as you see from this HN posting, has a reputation for not being quite as polished. Probably best to skip for now if you don't want to be messing with potential weirdness.

If you're looking for higher end things, Supermicro boards are good. Recent weirdness - "Chinese installed backdoors on Supermicro boards" - aside that is. ;)
> $70K/year is what many would pay for in-state including living on campus.

A quick check of UCs shows total all-inclusive annual cost estimate for in-state students tend to be $25-35K depending on living situation. (Which includes things like housing and food that getting a degree sooner doesn't actually save that much, if anything, on.)
I am not suggesting the autonomous AI robot version more like approach stopped vehicle and take transmit info remotely to the officer at a safe distance.
>That's about 32 semester units ($46/unit). An AS typically has a minimum of 60 semester units as a requirement.

So about $2700. But it depends on your income, and most sudents end up paying almost no fees at all thanks to the Governor’s Grant. San Francisco City College is actually completely free for all residents of the city now.
If only guns caused food poisoning; we don't even care about lead poisoning.
> With actix-web, you can run asyncio and sync code in the same server. It lets you take full advantage of Rust's concurrency.

Will actix-web become obsolete or be replaced when Rust releases async/await in 2019?
At which point type safety goes out the window