skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also 'assume queen until proven otherwise.' eg, if all remaining moves are diagonal, it stays a queen (even if it was really a bishop). And switch to an =K if you see a knight move (or the checkmate requires it to be a knight).
Collapse is inevitable in all systems given time.

But the article completely fails to convince me it's eminent.

It starts with a president the guy doesn't like being taken as a sign of "the end of times". Maybe author should have skipped more class at Harvard Divinity school.
Did you try Go?
Behavioral economics will help you kick your tldr addiction.
For some,

E[winnings] + entertainment value > cost

even if E[winnings] < cost
Here is interesting paper addressing that - "Proofs of Replicated Storage Without Timing Assumptions" - https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/654
I am amazed that a company in the business of putting up solar panels on residential homes considers selling the home to be a weird edge case in their business.
See ccrglaw.com -- Great lawyers, they did a great job for us.
You give them a better destination. Or in carbon dioxide terms, a new source of energy.

Everything else is just noise and misanthropy.
Estimating software development
Thanks for bringing that to light. I was unaware. Still, the EU fined them for SER(p) manipulation. And, independently of mr Epstein, one can do side-by-side comparisons btwn Google and DDG and Bing and one will see the manipulation in action.

So, while his conclusions might be disingenuous, his assertions (manipulation) can be independently confirmed.
Meh, expertise can be cultivated internally with strong, open minded engineers. They won’t get it all right first thing but it’s just another tradeoff.
The JRuby JIT is much more production ready and JRuby 9.2 on a newer JVM is ~3x faster on real, loopy code with blocks, method calls etc.
Which is a valid argument for numbering starting at zero, but not just for programming languages, but in general and including human spoken languages. The common counter-argument is "People don't generally think that way unless trained to do so". Like many things in life, often convention and momentum often trump reasoned argument.

In general, much of what's chosen for language design is influenced to some degree by convention. This is a valid design choice, because you're maximizing use of existing domain knowledge of your audience.

In this specific case, I would argue that since in many languages where an array isn't a small shim over memory management (Ruby, Python, Perl, JS, etc) where easing user friendliness is at a premium over performance, 1 based array indexing would make better sense... if most people adopting those languages weren't already fairly well acquainted with 0 based indexing from CS programs or exposure to other languages (and it wasn't a simple concept to understand). Since many new users are familiar with it, and it is easy to understand, it's simple to just go with what some percentage of people already know, so convention wins out.
Sample 105

"In 2009, researchers at NASA from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Microwave Propulsion Laboratory held a series of contests, including one for "best brain-computer interfaces." In their prize match, teams from around the world competed to develop new brain mapping techniques for ways of collecting data from inside people and rewriting it over and over. One single original BrainBridge video colonized all channels of web-viewing in the world. I've watched many of these videos on YouTube.

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On one hand, if you're convinced that the next breakthrough in neuroprosthetics will be profoundly more powerful because better/faster or cooler/more reliable algorithms capture the wiring that connects our neurons, then it makes sense to equip humans with mind-reading implants. But when it comes to real brain-reading devices, there are a slew of caveats, arguments, and threats on the horizon that mean that these technologies cannot take off anytime soon. If you truly think that these technologies will be the basis for a global brain-reading surveillance state, it makes sense to act NOW. Since so much money is on the line (in computers and other components, research funding, patent and trademark rights, marketing, investor interest) making and maintaining a head-mounted-camera program is done with a certain level of speed by enterprises like Google and Facebook."

That "Advertisement - Continue Reading Below" is very realistic indeed? These technologies, like GPT-2, will be the basis for a global brain-reading surveillance state, so indeed it makes sense to act NOW, like not releasing training data. Kudos. But this will be replicated with a certain level of speed by enterprises like Google and Facebook. Well said.
> …we do NOT need new architectures…

You do realise the irony in stating this regarding transformers that arguably made their first appearance as decomposable attention in 2016 [1] and then as transformers in 2017 [2]? It is not as if this is a vanilla RNN straight out of the 90s sweeping the floor with decades of model innovations, rather it looks like we are seeing the rise of a new, simple model category that works remarkably well – akin to how Mikolov et al. reconsidered how to learn vector representations back in 2013 [3] to ingest magnitudes more data than previously possible.

[1]: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D16/D16-1244.pdf

[2]: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/7181-attention-is-all-you-need

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781

I would not call myself a model-focused researcher so I would love to play down their importance, but to be intellectually honest one should call out hyperbole where ever one sees it.
I would add to that though, that while they are the expert in their industry, you would be surprised how experts can have blinders on regarding inefficiencies. So don't be afraid to ask questions and pitch ideas. I have seen plenty of experts that don't recognize huge pain points in their own industry because that's just the way it's always been done. You can be an expert in something, but if you aren't also an expert in software, you likely haven't thought of all the possibilities that software could solve for you.
> What would they negotiate for? They aren't directly paying for the drugs

They are in Part B, by your own description, but instead of negotiatinh they just get the deal that commercial insurers (who each have less leverage than Medicare would) get.

And in Part D they are subsidizing the actual payors, and it wouldn't be entirely unheard of for a participant in that role to negotiate costs for services purchased by the subsidized payors, each of which had less negotiating power than the central subsidizer.
can India really afford to do this? what about the economic effects?
> I can't lie, some people might not have benefited as much as others

You should also recognize that many people would be actively harmed by it, not just "not benefiting as much as others".

Whether the benefits outweigh the harm is a question I can't answer, but even if they do, it's still true that people are hurt.

None of these issues are easy or clear.
This seems like another one of those "money is speech and there are no values higher" => "oh no suddenly foreigners are paying huge amounts for speech we don't like" arguments.

> Ultimately, if America is no longer the top exporter of culture, what becomes of our identity?

Every other country is practically a net importer of American culture. Often to the detriment of their own. So they have had the same questions: is this just a market, or should there be cultural protectionism?

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/07/france... "Culture is like chewing-gum, a product like any other." -- Jack Valenti
Yeah, that was my thought as well, I have a very tight schedule which allows me only around 9~10 hours a week to dedicate to my startup.

Mo - Fri:

. Wake up at 5:30 go to the gym (6 to 7.30)

. 7.30 - 9.00 : Shower, breakfast, get ready to work

9. - 9.30 : Commute to work

. 9.30 - 6.00pm : Work

. 6.00 - 6.30pm : Commute to home

. 6.30 - 9.00pm : Tue/Wed: Startup, MWF: Wife

. 9.00 - 10.00pm: Dinner, prepare to sleep

... repeat

Saturdays: 9.00 - 2.00pm . Startup

So 5 hours on saturday + 5 hours on Weekdays = 10hrs in total. I wish I had more time.
I think its somewhat common to block countries that have a high spam/abuse rate. Kinda shitty.
Yes and no. I believe in this case they had an obligation to provide the sewer, and water/sewer ratepayers are responsible for costs. You can’t make an individual ratepayer responsible for the sewer.

Definitely a bad situation and a story told a thousand times in the US
You are correct. The code is using an inefficient cache access pattern, so most of the time is spent waiting.

You probably won't get 100x faster without SIMD, but 10x is certainly doable. Unfortunately, SIMD.js support has been removed from Chrome and Firefox a while ago, even though it is not available in wasm to this day.
It might not be a bad idea to to set up media ownership rules that exclude entities that are based-in or controlled by non-democratic regimes.
I'll email you a copy of the whitepaper once it is finished. The famous quote is, "CouchDB is bad at everything, except syncing." It has a built in revision system that will create two conflicting revisions on both ends, and allow your code to implement the business logic to determine the one true revision. This could be a prompt, or a rule based on the data (ex newer timestamp winds), or even an average of various data fields to create a whole new field.

http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/conflicts.html
Agreed. This is IE 6.0 all over again.
If you configure private networking, there are no bandwidth charges. However they don't have split-horizon DNS, which makes it a manual process.
Crystal isn't exactly something I'd run in production.

Besides it's crippled as a language due to never allowing anything to be null, so there isn't any powerful metaprogramming you can do with it. That is a big turn off for me. Otherwise Crystal would be such a nice sweet spot IMO .
Is Gab still a going concern? They've switched from open access back to invite-only, and the accounts I have show few new posts (they do have dozens of followers, though, so that's nice.)
Just because I like GNU parallel:

parallel -kj1 'f="{}"; [[ -f "${f/data/A}" ]] || echo $f' ::: *_data.csv
Phil Katz
Also, if Electron apps are just a packaged up webpage, could they even do things like run shell scripts locally? I'm also wanting to allow the user to browse for a file and have the full path intact instead of just the name of the file a browser would return.
Good. One-off corporate subsidies are basically corruption and create an uneven playing field. Crony capitalism at its worst.
That’s definitely true, but I wonder what the ratio is between people like that and people who don’t have a good grasp of the odds.
So the ability for your own constituents children to stay in their own home state given choice and opportunities is now equivalent to Amazon bringing in 25K out-of-state employees. Gotcha. That is about as direct a FU from the "I got mine" boomer crowd and politicians that nixed this deal to the next generation as you can get.
Hey Eddie! If you guys could please take a serious look at split-horizon DNS, that'd be awesome! I can't wait for the MySQL launch, we'll be first in line
> implying that you should be working your ass off for those 8.

TFA is saying you have a budget of 8 hours to allocate. The article explicitly states that relationships often consume a large chunk of that budget. It is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Digital devices are allowed, as long as that device is a "Chess Notation Device".

This enables you to record and replace moves (including helping forecasting moves).

If everyone used these devices, then problem solved.

But I've only see someone using it once. Good chess players tend to already be good at visualizing past, present, and future positions.
https://1kprojects.com/project/arthur

It is not?!
Facebook in talks of settling FTC investigation with multi-billion dollar fine
This sounds very cool, and will be very useful when the whole Deliveroo service stops grinding to a halt every Friday night (yes, yes, I have an exciting life).
Thanks! This sounds like it might be exactly what I'm looking for, just need to find time to dig into it.
the US constitution only applies to US persons. someone living in china doesn't actually have freedom of speech protected by our constitution.
> ... but any savings there would be trivial

Uh, state income taxes can approach 10%. This is not “trivial”.

http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/income-tax-by-state
Has a platform based on providing a home to people kicked off other platforms ever worked out?
Also, there are tons of VC backed startups that "failed" because they couldn't squeeze enough profit out of their niche to pay for their exorbitant and lavish burn rate. A one-man, or very small team can find great profit where some of these bloated startups have failed.
It's our best chance going forward (short of Fusion) but how do you go about calming people who are quite rightfully scared by it? I live in Japan which has a long history with nuclear but after Fukushima people take to the streets whenever a nuclear plant comes (or is announced to come) back online. If a country like Japan can still screw nuclear up so monumentally I don't hold out much hope for the rest of the world.
That's not really a solution all by itself. Making the incentives performance based merely opens the possibility of being able to sue, nothing more. And when you're talking about companies with the size, power, and lack of scruples as Amazon, suing can be a losing proposition regardless of how correct your position is.
But does Crystal have either of those? It's also a statically typed, compiled language. Rust would require a complete rewrite of the code, while Crystal would only be partial.
There are serious consumer protection issues that need to be addressed.
Laws establish individuals rights and individual freedoms.
We need some good well-written laws by people who know what they are talking about.
Navy's Newest Carrier Needs Critical Updates to Launch and Recover Aircraft
I have trouble what to make of the article. Mainly because it itself points out the central hypocrisy. The US is just as interested in spreading its values by means of entertainment media as any other country on the world, it just had more money in recent history than anyone else.

And with countries like China or India having a larger market, what does America want to do? Not let them invest in the US, accepting that different viewpoints will be expressed? Declare them invalid?

One of the positions that Americans broadly have always held is that when ideas are exchanged, the people overall can figure out what the good ideas are and what the bad ideas are, that's in fact the basic assumption behind liberal democracy. So if these Chinese cultural exports are just propaganda and all around awful, surely Americans will figure it out.

If there's something to them, and they're genuinely valuable and give a different perspective, then it would be bad to try to suppress them.

So by liberal democracies own standards, I find myself puzzled by the flat-out fear of foreign cultural imports.
There is no more correct. There is simply more to purpose.

0-based indexing won in programming because it is simply more to purpose in programming. We rarely operate on ranges, but we operate on offsets all the time.

And 0-based wasn't solely "C won so 0 won". We had 1-based languages for a LONG time, and, if they were sufficiently superior, they should have displaced C. They did not.

In addition, in proper programming languages you don't count--you iterate, fold, accumulate, etc.--and avoid the index altogether because it is error-prone.

1-based indexing causes all kinds of havoc in circular ranges. In particular when you try to access things in a circular manner (very common in programming--uncommon in mathematics), it causes grief.

// 1 based

new_index = index % N + 1

new_index = (index - 1) % N // Careful: the parentheses are REQUIRED

new_index = (new_index == 0 ? N : new_index)

// 0 based

new_index = (index + 1) % N

new_index = (index - 1) % N

Range discussion from Dijkstra in 1982:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
You can't see the content of the room without creating an account now?
Never knew you could sell software on gumroad.
Given the construction costs, the case for keeping existing, already paid-for nuclear plants open seems a lot stronger than building new plants that won't pay for themselves for decades. Who knows what the electricity market will look like then?

Solar and wind infrastructure is now mass-produced and competition is driving costs down. It's unclear what forms of energy storage will win, but I would expect it to be competitive as well.
The comparison to Chinese influence in Hollywood is pretty apt. The point being, the Chinese companies don’t need board seats to exert influence.
What if they are the sole owner of a Delaware corporation? The corporation definitely does have free speech rights, per Citizens United.
Can we expect a day when WASM will be first class citizen in browsers (i.e like JavaScript) and not just a sidekick?
Maybe this is what you meant but the snippet can be optimised a ton as well unless I'm missing something:

- Move the "y * width" calculation outside of the "for x" loop.

- The multiply operators can be replaced with addition e.g. replace "y * width" with "counter += width" each y iteration and similarly for the x loop.

Optimising inner loops is really fun.

How much of the speed up in the article is because the JS engine can't figure out how to optimise it compared to the WebAssembly compiler?
Climate Change Special Report: Gone in a Generation
Except FileCoin is Hooli and Sia(Coin) is Pied Piper. They're essentially reinventing Sia with money. https://sia.tech/
Announcing Linkerd 2.2
I've been a part of a lot of acquisitions, and a lot of investment rounds. The stakeholders always want to start stirring the pot sooner or later. Maybe you get a year or two of being left alone, but eventually, it always happens.
Thank you! Your profile only has your Twitter handle, and I tweeted @you last night - https://twitter.com/willediger/status/1095901887537315840

I also added my email to my HN profile.
That image at the top is just cringeworthy.
This is interesting. The vertical slicing the author talks about sounds a lot like the conventional way to structure a functional component based UI. Components + state tree + selectors + reducers in a typical react app fit together in this way and it makes it very difficult to apply traditional OOP design patterns. This is a huge source of contention on my team between the front end and the back end developers who are all c# dotnet guys. If anyone has any suggestions on where to find more information about functional, flow-based application architecture I would really like to learn more.
I looked at your list, sorted by "new": https://www.oppslist.com/?order=new

And the opportunities listed all seem at least a year old. That's not very "new", is it?
Totally feasible! You could probably put a whole one-person workspace into about fifty square feet without getting cramped, less with some squeezing and multitasking, and I'd guess basic toolset would run you less than $500 retail.

The grinder I used is a pretty simple unit with a water reservoir tray under the grill that keeps the bit wet via a sponge feeder; probably about $100 new, used bargains if you go looking, but, yeah, water feed of some sort is key to the grinding working well on glass.
I agree with this. OpenAI isn't particularly 'open', compared to other AI research organizations (Notable ones that open source almost all their work are AllenAI and FAIR, but I'm sure there are others).

Wonder what their excuse is for not releasing the source model or code for their DoTA bot. Surely there's no safety issues there?
> People were getting their insurance through their unions. Before the unions started doing this, nobody associated health insurance with employment. This made people grateful and happy with their unions. The government, in order to weaken the unions, paid employers to give their employees insurance with a tax break.

Do you have a source for this? Nothing I've read has made such a claim. Even the NYT says that the root cause of employer-based health care was wage freezes during WWII followed by the tax-exemption of employer-provided health insurance.[1][2]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...

2. https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/the-question-o...
> It's basically standard practice for any business to negotiate tax breaks for building in one place rather than another.

Yes, this is common. But just because it's common doesn't mean it's right or should be allowed.
Breaking news: The world's 2nd biggest economy now employs the same soft power techniques as worlds largest economy.

World's largest economy is shocked and outraged.
You won't get anything near the performance of a usual Rust code by optimizing some CPython code. It doesn't matter how much you try.
Maybe this is a stupid idea, but at this point the economy is tied to 0-based indexing so much, that I would rather get math moved to 0-based indexing, than computing to 1-based indexing.

Being able to easily port code between languages (and math articles) is important, when there's no clear winner, I like consistency.
Yeah, but some languages are designed with performance in mind and others are not. So while people have made faster implementations of JS, Python, Ruby, etc over time, they're at a disadvantage compared to languages like C/C++, Fortran and Rust. You can't really compete with a good compiler for those languages, which is why WebAssembly, Julia and Crystal exist.
One difference is that sugar pills can actually be very effective.
I got to use the studio's supply, so I haven't had to really sort out glass buying myself. And yeah, I was lucky to benefit from access to a really great collection of glass. But there are some commercial firms (Spectrum does very flat, transparent glass; Delphi does stuff with more character) and you can go haunt estate sales, watch for hobbyists getting out from under their supply, check with art schools, etc.
While using those tools isn't a sure sign of an opportunity, I've rarely met someone running their business on spreadsheets that didn't wish they had some extra functionality or ability to scale up larger. Sure, some are plenty happy with Excel and email, but there are just as many that would pay for something better if it existed or if they knew about it.
Big media companies have weaponized the government to serve their interests, it makes sense that social media companies will do the same.

They’ll write the rules together, make the barriers to entry even higher, and pat each other on the back.

Then it’s on to the next moral panic, this one’s been fixed!
Very unpopular (flagged). It's a harsh world where we live, especially when there exists harsh data resulting from this type of glorification in rich countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
A Boy Who Inflated the Concept of ‘Wolf’
Ignoring the oversimplification aspect for a moment, would that not be quite ironic from a philosophical standpoint?
Not anytime soon IMO because WASM still has to access browser APIs through the DOM, which is really built with JS in mind.
Those city govts can choose 0 in new business or new business with jobs and income taxes and property value increases.

A business choosing a location is a business transaction, as is city taxation choices. Both can freely choose how to woo the other.

NYC chose to lose possible decades of high paying jobs over their unwillingness to deal.
Thanks, that answers the question on 0 standbys.

Do you also happen to know the answer on synchronous vs asynchronous replication?