skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A trusted third party, with an immutable transaction ledger

This is overall great. QLDB is necessary for a lot of things, and it will be useful for a lot of the stupid 'blockchain' projects to be displaced by a better technical solution.

Now cryptocurrencies and blockchains are exactly what they are: a decentralized version of this. I believe that decentralization has some use cases that are extremely important. Now it can stand on its own, without being conflated with verifiable ledgers.
Aren't there sandflies around Wellington (I'm sure they are around Nelson)? Those buggers are worse than mosquitoes.
"Dan Schawbel wants to save you from loneliness at work." Any time you see self referential sentences like this at the beginning of an article hit the back button. It is just another schmuck selling snake oil and I call shenanigans!

If loneliness is an epidemic then show some facts. Suicide rates, are computer programmers doing it more construction works? Other kinds of engineers? Police and firemen? No they are not. (fact check www.learning-mind.com/suicide-rates-professions/)

So everyone please help out. When you see crap like this article, call shenanigans. Don't take advice from snake oil salesmen.
I like that simple rule but I think it will lead us to have a lot of small notes super quickly, which might be difficult to weed through later. Do you find yourself with this problem?

How do you make the small commands findable/understandable while minimizing time spent on docs? When do you refactor and what does that look like?
Attempts to take this half-misinformation-flood style of propaganda into China are playing out in real time with Guo Wengui (and recently Steve Bannon, for some odd reason)

Edit:

For example https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2174235/guo-wengui-a...

As for the actual attack surface he's trying to exploit, I'm not sure. As far as I can tell, it looks like the target is chinese expats & international students who have access to the uncensored internet
"White" is so generic it's meaningless. It only helps when using skin tone to decide things, which is usually bad. There is no "white culture," but there is Irish, German, British, etc. I doubt anyone would bat an eye if you started a group focused on a European ethnicity.
Sometimes in a startup the posting stays up for a year because you can't identify and successfully hire a good candidate. I'm thinking of more niche roles, sure, but I've seen it happen multiple times.
>"More recently, there is a shift towards using a Transformer architecture, and right now I’m experimenting with that as well."

I'm really curious- any early results to share on that? Attention really does make a big difference on a lot of things (including work I've done so I know first hand). It should improve the coherence of the entire music piece in theory at least, right?
Inherited a codebase that ran nearly all revenue-critical operations, and operated at its core on some of the most metaclassy/dynamic tools Python has at its disposal.

Luckily I work in a tech company where the fact that nobody knew this code and it took years to effectively ramp up on was argument enough that it should go away.

Actual removal was a much messier story. It had tangled deeply into adjacent systems so you couldn't "just replace it". We are in the later phases of something like the Strangler Pattern (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns...) where we built higher-level interfaces over the top and gradually re-implemented the underlying functionality without using any of these custom frameworks.

That said, it's a long term project that is easy to lose steam on. It's been very important to regularly revisit our goals and how we're attacking them...AWS has released services that fundamentally changed our approach (for the better) in the years since this effort started and we've probably cut off at least a year from the overall effort by adopting those instead of continuing on the original course.

I wrote up some of these ideas about accomplishing big projects that span years at https://medium.com/@scott_triglia/ask-a-tech-lead-i-have-to-.... The parts about regularly re-evaluating the next steps in your course of action were directly inspired by this project I just described.
> you need a remedy for the inherent insecurity of credit cards

Fraud and theft are fairly general problems. I would direct your attention to /r/sorryforyourloss

> In other words, are merchants eating all the costs of fraudulent credit card transactions?

If the goods cannot be recovered, then yes, the merchant eats the costs.

> I guess either way the cost really gets passed on to us consumers in the end.

Someone will always be left holding the short end of the stick when fraud occurs. The alternative to shifting the liability to the merchant is the consumer being directly accountable (rather than vicariously as you're suggesting).
This. I have always said the #1 job of a for-profit company should be extracting money from the customers wallets, and it should be as frictionless as possible. But no - examples abound of companies that seem to hate money, as you say.
You adjust the timing window. If the display adds 20ms of lag, you expect the player to press 20ms later.

This wouldn't work for most games, because in, say, Mario Kart, the world needs to immediately react to the player's input. But in a Rhythm game, no one will notice if the visual feedback comes in a few ms late, as long as inputs are being read at the perceived-correct time. (Delayed audio feedback may be slightly noticeable in particularly bad cases, hence my note about key-sounded games.)

N.B.

1. This doesn't make the timing window more forgiving. Presses made at +0ms are counted as too early, because it is too early on the player's display.

2. I say "display" for simplicity, but IRL it's often a mistake to assume that audio and the display are delayed by equal amounts.

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Edit: To be clear, you can't fix this—the developer has to add user-adjustable latency settings. PS2 games designed for zero-latency CRTs and will never work properly on laggy LCD screens.

New games, however, usually let you adjust for latency. Although, they often make the mistake of not accounting for audio latency, or not allowing visuals and audio to be adjusted separately.

Btw, I've heard that the newer Rockband games in particular can auto calibrate for latency via hardware built into the peripherals.
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It's very sad, but understandable that you're getting down voted. It's understandable because most devs want to put their own stink on a project so rewriting code the "right way" is a way to do it. Problem is, they get 6, 8, 10 months in and figure out the same thing their predecessor did and leave. It's sad, because they don't realize that if a piece of code is out in the field and it's working, then you really shouldn't do a wholesale rewrite.
> Without any evidence whatsoever, he said that Democrats were trying to steal the election through "FRAUD."

Well, wait a minute - both of those races had already been called in favor of the Republican candidate on the night of the election until boxes and boxes of mysteriously Democrat-leaning ballots were suddenly found the following day... I think that constitutes evidence, even if it's not conclusive.
had they continued the same game instead of drawn, caruana would have had 15min to make 10 moves

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/live/...
The comments on that blog post are examples of the problem. They're diving straight into disagreements about matters of fact (like whether a party cheated in a particular election, and whether both sides cheat).

The point is that we're not (no longer) disagreeing about values, but about the facts, and that authoritarians are deliberately attempting to muddy the waters here. They're clearly succeeding, and the commenters seem to be distracted from that.
Anyone know where one can find a vod of the entire match? All I can find are cut little bits with the most cut out.
Slightly off topic, but I was in rural Portugal recently, and my impression was that about one in three buildings was in some state of ruin, from otherwise delightful little cottages with holes in their roofs and empty windows, to remains of ancient walls just clinging together by the sheer will of their graffiti. (This isn't to pick on Portugal either - I've seen it in several different parts of Europe.)

For the less damaged ones, I don't really understand why it's not economical to throw a new roof on them to make them habitable. In the US, when a house rots it rots, because it's going to be made out of wood and gypsum and insulation that can't come back from exposure to the elements, but the buildings I was seeing were all stone. Is there some special failure mode that's harder to see in them, like black mold in the cracks or structural instability that makes them unrepairable, or is just lack of demand?

A good example is this building: https://goo.gl/maps/7uzuvfrUQHD2 This is right next to the national palace in one of the wealthiest regions of the country, and instead of fixing it up and putting it on Air BnB as "The Cottage by the Palace" you can see from google that it's abandoned and the roof has slowly been caving in for the last ten years.
Whoa. How does knowing the match ahead of time help the second pass?
Ironic considering SSRN is owned by Elsevier, which is renown for trying to limit/control information for profit.

It even published fake journals to spread "fake news" ( aka ads ) for the pharmaceutical industry.

"The company has fought legislation designed to open up academic research, offered scholars money to file positive reviews, sued libraries for oversharing, and allegedly published fake journals on behalf of the pharmaceuticals industry."

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-the...
The two participants didn't appear at the same time. When the first participant appeared and set the original price, that price became an obvious Schelling point.
> The reason why candidates overanalyze stuff is because you left a wide gaping hole by providing no feedback.

Moving the goalpost to more specific information, weakens the employer position. Now they are no longer interviewing potentially qualified people, but interviewing people trying to intentionally pass themselves off as specializing in a few skills. Weak hiring practices are the norm, so the strategy of hiding information (the most valuable skills) benefits the employers. People are very good at faking skills at a cursory (or specific depth, like side projects), which is part of the reason Headhunters are derided, prepping both sides to fail for their own commission.
Even for classic time control, 15 minutes per move is too much; they get about 3 minutes per move on average: 120 minutes for the first 40 moves is quite common. In this championship, they each had 100 minutes + 30 seconds bonus/move for the first 40 moves, which adds up to 120 minutes if they reach move 40 anyway. Of course, some moves are played very fast and the players do take 15 minutes, or more, in some tricky situations where they have to make a key decision.
This made the news last year (you have to renovate and make a tourist trap or some economic positive):
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/italy-is-giving-away-over-10...
That was an update on an older program that was pretty popular:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/world/europe/sicilian-tow...
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What versions of nginx and php? Was caddy given a try? I have no idea how much optimization was given towards PHP on non-x86. But I've seen some videos and presentations that show significant improvements in the latest PHP versions. Lower on-chip caching and behaviors could account for a bit of this wrt the latest version.

I'm more surprised it isn't roughly 1/2 the price it's being pushed at. It seems to be more expensive than the x86 side.
>>I actually can't imagine wanting to live in the same house for more than 10 years.

"Wanting" is kindy tricky. How much money do you have? You can live in a new house every year...or hotel. But not all have that luxury, that's why I made that comment. You buy a house and you know shelter is almost solved (taxes+maintenance do cost but...)
Stock prices are essentially non-forecastable in the traditional sense. You have to really be on the most cutting of the cutting edge in order to get some results, using extremely novel, proprietary data.
oh that news didn't hit my radar.. a great person indeed.
Interesting, but what's to prevent the person selling the data from completely fabricating it (as opposed to following noise according to some differential privacy algorithm)? Or is the assumption that enough data owners are truthful that you could filter out this behaviour?
I can second this. Our family plan is 60-75 and we are really not trying to save.
I've written several frameworks for optimization and the approach here of defining special objective functions works quite well. I like the look of this and would love to try it out soon.

This is a small thing, but I'm really happy to see that their L-BFGS line search algorithm supports a maximum step size. Many numerical optimization libraries do not offer this simple feature, which is critical if your goal is to find a minimum that is close to the initial starting location. This is important in atomistic geometry optimization.
Sounds like there'd be a good market for places that charge you for the time you spend in them rather than for the merchandise. Maybe just a bunch of desks and someone walking around with coffee/tea and snacks (free or cheap). Charge, say, $10/hour.
It’s simple - either people act however they want, or they watch their behavior. In the former they develop stronger bonds with each other. In the latter they are more respectful of each other.
Hadn't seen those before! Yeah I suppose they are, although could you call Roman numerals decimal? I don't know enough about the technical definition to say. I'm assuming "decimal" and "base 10" are synonymous. And the base is the number of distinct digits you have to work with. Roman numerals don't really work that way though. Man, I remember when I first learned about different bases, it took me a bit to wrap my head around the idea that base 10 is completely arbitrary. It doesn't make more sense than the other bases, it's just what we standardized on. Now I'm realizing that maybe the idea of bases themselves aren't some rule of the universe.
If you have a lot of know-how about these threat models, I'd highly encourage you to write one for democracy as an idea. I'd love to read it!
See my edit, please.
Then I'm not sure why it's so strange to you that people might want to associate with folks who've grown up with the same hardship. I'm a nerdy white guy with autism; I probably went through much the same shit you did. That's why I sympathize with other minority groups. I know how much it sucks to face discrimination for something you were born with, and I want everyone who's suffered that to find welcoming support.
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> To go from 0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3, you simply add a stick each time. To go from 3 -> 4, you pinch together the bottoms of the 2nd and 3rd sticks.

The subtractive part of Roman numerals is an innovation the Romans generally didn't use. (Which is why clocks say IIII and not IV.) It adds significant complexity for no benefit.
Yes. We're allegedly "re-writing" it but the organization is too dysfunctional to make any progress. Another guy and I are keeping the company alive basically. I've spent many, many hours reverse-engineering and documenting things. Sometimes I'll spend weeks to find out what single line of code needs to be changed to fix a bug.
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Transformer is working really well- I'm very excited. I'll probably be sharing results soon. Yes, the attention makes a huge difference & the pieces are both more creative and more coherent.
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To be fair, Italy and Greece are republics (for the umpteenth time) as of today.
i don't understand why anybody, especially a person with technical knowledge, would purchase and install a device that constantly listens to its surroundings and uploads conversations to the internet

it's scary what a third party can do through your smartphone, let alone all the IoT garbage connected to an Echo
Or the common good, or providing the weak a champion to resist violence had no role in the establishment of institutional policing?

David Friedman has a great summary of how a variety of societies pursue justice and the origins of our own system and comparisons of the systems.

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...
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I love the promise of automatic carrier switching, but the reality is somewhat lacking -- you need special firmware, and anyway T-Mobile and Sprint seem to be merging.

I would love to consider a MVNO that actually supported roaming across carriers, using the normal stuff that's in phones already, as long as they had a reasonable data plan with some measured amount of high speed data, and unmetered low speed after that. I could live with always low speed data too, I just want better coverage than I can get with a single network.
There's also a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09361
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Exactly. Everyone thinks that the predecessor is an idiot and they can do it better. Every time you throw away existing code you lose business knowledge.
> Yes, but genes are one of the last equalisers out there.

Are they equalisers though? And what makes you think gene editing won't be available to everyone? It seems like the sort of thing with an exponential cost curve. It will very rapidly become cheap and accessible to all.

In fact, i'd argue it's likely to be more equalizing than inequalizing.
Even today in the first rapid, there was a comment (from Svidler/Giri) that early on Caruana played a move too fast, as if he was already in blitz mode, when he should have thought a bit more and found a better move.
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I've never vouched for a post and had it not come back so I think when the account is shadow-banned at least it only takes one vote. I also very rarely vouch for it's possible there are additional factors at play.
You could also solve the problem with a hardware database. For instance, I know my projector is delayed by 22ms because multiple reviews mentioned it, so that's the value I use in Project Diva. You can't find this info for most TV's.

Unfortunately, no one with the resources to really tackle this problem seems to care enough to do it.

I should also note that what many games do do is offer some type of user calibration, ie, press the notes with as good timing as you can manage, and we'll assume the average is the amount of delay in your setup. This kind of works sometimes, but it's imperfect for obvious reasons.
But AWS (maybe others as well) only lasts for 1 year and lambda and stuff might have higher free tiers but stuff like EC2 barely covers a T1 micro IIRC.
What would you do if the codebase was actually 5 codebases absorbed from 5 different smaller companies? Assume that zero institutional knowledge about the code / business have been passed on.
these houses should probably go to extremely low income people, not a software engineer
I disagree with this characterization, especially in a Bayesian context (which credible interval comes from).

Parameters into a model can be modeled as random variables. Probabilities themselves cannot be, unless they are themselves parameters (or happen to coincide with a parameter) into another part of a statistical model. A statistical estimation of an event (in the sense of probability theory) must bottom out at a single number.

Let's take a coin toss as an example. It does not make sense to say I think that the coin has a 0.05 chance of flipping heads with a 0.9 credible interval of (0.01, 0.1). It does not make sense even to have a probability distribution on coming up heads (strictly speaking).

Coming up heads is an event and events do not distributions associated with them, but rather single probabilities.

On the other hand, we can model the outcomes of a coin with a Bernoulli distribution with parameter p where the probability of heads is p and that of tails is 1 - p. Notice here that p is a parameter that just happens to coincide with our probability. It then makes sense to talk of p as a random variable and having a distribution, credible interval, etc.

Note, however, that our estimation of the event of the coin coming up heads is still a single number at the end of the day. Our intermediate calculations might just involve integrating over the space of intermediate values of p, which means that p no longer coincides with the probability of heads (indeed it doesn't really make sense because p is no longer a single number).

But how do we express the intuition of "confidence in my probability estimate?" After all it seems like there's a difference between me saying this coin has a 50% chance of heads when I know it's fair and me saying a 50% chance of heads when you have me an unfamiliar coin I've never inspected (even though reasonable statistical models for either case might both say it's 50%).

In Bayesian statistics this is encoded entirely by the function that updates your posterior probability. If you are very "confident" your posterior probability will remain similar to your prior probability no matter what evidence you see (I know for sure this coin is fair so even if it comes up tails 1000 times I still think the next time will be 50% chance of heads). If you are not very confident your posterior probability might change more dramatically (hmm... I saw a string of tails, I'm pretty sure the next coin flip probably won't be heads again and I'll modify my probability accordingly).
> It's one of the many reasons i'm concerned that models like Chinas will actually flourish more than they otherwise would in the coming years.

That's why the soviets won the cold war? From the british empire to the nazis to the soviets to cuba to even north korea today, the state controlled and censored information and they all failed or are going to fail. The US, with all our misinformation, is still going strong.

Also, china has succumbed to misinformation a few times in the past 200 years. The US is more or less "vaccinated" from misinformation because we deal with it everyday. China, with its sterilize propaganda environment, is highly susceptible to misinformation and no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to completely keep misinformation at bay.
Carlsen was a better player within the rules of this tournament. His strategy clearly shows he was playing to win the tournament, not beat the player.
Ehh I totally buy the plausibility of there being a connection between the institutions of policing and enforcement of slavery, particularly in the context of the antebellum US system, and reconstruction period.

What I find striking is that GP doesn't have facts at hand.
Gov Snyder (with house) got rid of tax credits.
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When i checked those, searching uncovered statements that most smart phones are lying. Which would explain why my tests never worked in my phone.

Maybe I've been led astray, but from what i gathered about a year ago, media queries cannot distinguish between desktop and phone, you need JS to do this.

Please tell me I'm wrong about that (at least, if you give me a hint on how to do it).
Remember: Companies that have great responses on social media don't have great support, just attentive marketing.

For every case that has a great resolution after coverage on twitter/facebook/hacker news/local news station there's a hundred that languished unsolved and customer screwed.