skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous, and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon numbers(1). ... It is often easier to make up words of this kind (deregionalize, impermissible, extramarital, non-fragmentary and so forth) than to think up the English words that will cover one's meaning. The result, in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness.

Orwell (1946)
So in ideal conditions you have a big, heavy gun that can sort of harm an immobile target that isn’t using basic countermeasures. Meanwhile a BMG .50 rifle can put a hole in an engine block from twice the distance, is cheaper and more reliable, and never runs out of juice.

Way to put the “PR” in PRC.
A bit technical, but some of the most vocal critics of Orch-OR claimed there was no way that quantum states could orchestrate across synapses or between neurons. This quite interesting finding argues otherwise.
Any reason they don't use rechargeable batteries? No power to charge them? Too hard to set up the infrastructure? Don't last enough charges to make it worth it?
Sure, the answer is trivial: 100% perfect agent isn't possible. Just have an AI play against itself. Since the game is simultaneous moves, there is no "first move advantage" or anything, so it would play out exactly as a mirror (give or take some random noise in the model). The only thing that would break the symmetry is where food spawns, which also would just be a coin flip which snake it would be close to.

In a 8 player game, it's a little different because there are 'side' and 'corner' positions. Obviously this isn't symmetric anymore, so if you played many games, one position would make itself clearly superior. That likely depends again, on the probability of food appearing in a snakes "zone of control" which you could represent with a voronoi diagram.

My gut instinct is that a 'side' position would eventually be revealed to be stronger because the snake has more options and freedom.

Of course, in a tournament setup, it's fully possible for an AI to have 100% win rate just by random chance, because you are only playing a finite number of games.
So basically, post-doctoral STEM employment punishes taking the hours to parent, like so many other professional positions these days.
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It would be very simple for manufacturers of autonomous cars to obviate the question of "who is liable" for a collision by simply loading insurance into the price of the vehicle.

Extremely easy to price into a lease; less obvious but still eminently feasible with a sale.
BotLand is a blast (can write your own scripts or use built in options to get started without coding). There are also related developer streams on Twitch most days if you're into pulling back the curtain. https://bot.land/
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Not be there.
Agreed. Especially this excerpt:

> Per above, I didn't want to code tone of messages to avoid bias, so this table only indicates the rate at which people told me I was playing incorrectly or asked that I switch to a different character. The qualitative difference in experience is understated by this table. For example, the one time someone asked me to switch characters in the masculine condition, the request was a one sentence, polite, request ("hey, we're dying too quickly, could we switch [from the standard one primary healer / one off healer setup] to double primary healer or switch our tank to [a tank that can block more damage]?"). When using the feminine name, a typical case would involve 1-4 people calling me human garbage for most of the game and consoling themselves with the idea that the entire reason our team is losing is that I won't change characters.
Have you considered an alternative that allows you to not only manage all your books but to also read then across Android, iOS, Desktop(Web) and have your comments, bookmarks, highlights and reading progress synced?

BookFusion also has a Calibre plugin to allow you to easily sync your library. More at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre

PS: Founder of BookFusion. Would be happy to hear any feedback that you might have
I use different desktops for different tasks/clients and have a script that keeps track of which one I'm on.

Using the desktops is an extra bit of information I can use to give context to the robot to help with tracking.
Hmmm, capacity for 10 full duplex HD video streams sometimes, or full duplex 1 HD video all the time...

One would like to think that degradation always results in 3G speeds, as the absolute floor of service quality.

Depends of whether to want to stockpile and binge from local device storage (tape delay, podcast style), or live stream current events as them happen, while on the move.

Personally, for me, this just means I’d hit my data cap faster, probably dumping my allowance in 3 days, instead of 30.

On prepaid, this potentially means everything gets ten times more expensive.

Unlimited data usually comes with abusive contract agreements, credit checks, obnoxious customer service, devalued credit scores for late monthly payments, and oh yeah pushy sales people that act like total fucking jerks at retail shops.

Actually, why don’t I just throw all my internet toys in the garbage? Really. Why not?
>Why is this person entitled to being paid to "work at office" when he's not actually "working" while at office, he's actually [getting coffee | taking a walk | socializing | etc?

does that help why this makes sense?
> abject poetic nonsense.

No it isn't! Either it is math all the way down, or else it isn't.

If it isn't, then what is at the bottom?

So this is actually an existential question.

Suppose we reach a final description of reality that is entirely accurate (no longer an approximation that fails to account for some structures and processes).

Won't that description consist of nothing but math?

Then, if it is complete, how does that description account for the fact that reality isn't math? If there is a difference between reality and math, can't that be described with math, so then it goes away?

If you want math to just be a description of a structure that itself isn't math, then the structure has to have attributes that are not covered by the math. The math is then using a substitute structure with fewer properties as a proxy for that structure. Once all the attributes are rolled into the math, there ceases to be a difference between that target structure and the math; it is that mathematical object. To prove otherwise requires one to name the difference. If two entities are completely described and found to be the same, they are just one entity.

> You may as well be declaring the world to be flat.

It is testable that the world isn't flat.
I wanted to suggest a crypto enclave built into recording devices that could sign recordings with private keys controlled by the manufacturer but even that wouldn't be too hard to circumvent by piping fake images/audio into such an enclave so long as you have hardware access.
Full text archived here: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...

"coalstuff" always makes me smile a bit because it is the literal etymology of "carbon".
I'd say this isn't about "talented people", this is just basic decency that an employer should have to extend to an employee, regardless of that employees position or talent.
> Actually, how about cryptographically signing videos as they get written on the recording device?

That wouldn't prove much besides that the person sharing the video had access to the device's private key. I think the best you can do is timestamp the video by uploading a hash of it to a blockchain, but even then that only proves the video existed sometime before that instant.
The fact that this thread is in the site is scary, seems like there are parties interested in a public outcry to make some potentially very harmful tools be released to the public... the question is, why?
>Dota has gotten better as a game as years gone by.

Not from my experience. I quit Dota around 2016 because the community was becoming too toxic. I think MMR ranking system they introduced was a big factor. For me the sweet spot was 2013 to 2014, the game felt a lot more fun and casual.

I was never much good at the game but I used to play a lot 3 hours+ a night every night for almost 4 years. I calibrated at 2k MMR when they introduced the system (which is very low) and over two years slowly grinded my rating to about 3.8k at peak. I found that higher I climbed worse the attitudes of people I was playing with became.

It got to the point where I was deliberately avoiding solo queue and only queuing in party with friends until I started logging in less and less and just stopped all together - one day I was sitting at my PC about to log in and just kind of had this epiphany 'Dota isn't fun anymore, why am I logging into this game where I know people are going to insult and belittle me.' I haven't played since. I still have a lot of good memories of early years of Dota but I kind of look at it with horror about what that community morphed into.
"I'm leaving because your company is too good."
I really hope they succeed. Redis has real solid tech that has helped tens of thousands (millions?) websites scaled.
They expect 100-200m revenues per annum.
How good does that sync between devices?
what could be more fulfilling than [disruption|big data|reactive web|microservices|deep learning|tech evangelization|nosql]?
For a given altitude, trim, and power, the airspeed is always the same no matter the wind. Wind only affects groundspeed.

Ground speed = true airspeed + wind component (where you're computing a vector based on wind direction to determine what amount of it is either tail wind (+) or headwind (-).
Noticed this when double clicking a word to highlight it - at first I thought it was one of those badly designed sites where you literally can't select anything and then it selects everything at once. But no, it's a fancy night mode, very good job Cloudflare! :)
Same thing happened to my wife. A newly promoted VP transferred her out of a great position she loved to work on a special project he invented to make department look innovative, under promise of a promotion once complete. Instead as soon as the project was done he hired a new manager into another newly created position above my wife, only supervising her. He proceeded to have the manager take all her responsibilities and make her life hell until she quit. Manager was told she would get a director position for doing it, instead they did the same to her a few months later until she quit too. VP promoted to SVP.
Your statement may be right. I am inclined to believe that he means he needed to take her to therapy and then back. This means he might start the day a bit later or he might be unavailable for some time. People generally WFH in those situations as it saves the time of commute and they can get something else done. Overall it might be an hour or 2 that he might not be available or it might be just the same as before as he saves commute time both ways and can work later in the day as he is already home.

No need to jump to nefarious meaning. Also further he mentions how others in the team were working from home anyways once a week and he was ordered to come and sit at 7am.

I understand the need and curiousity to dissect each and every line but please don't let this 'one potentially, open to clarification' statement take everything else from the author.

I apologize if you didn't mean to, but since this is the top child of current top comment, I felt the need to. Let's not lose the forest for the trees.
That's because Amazon doesn't work like a cohesive monolithic organization. Two teams that seat next to each other may have complete different cultures and ways of working.

By design, Amazon is an aggregator of many small "startups" with different budgets, different issues, different approaches to solving problems.

The connecting tissues are the leadership principles, the infrastructure, the resources, the mobility and the top-down strategic guidance on how and when to tackle different opportunites.

This is also probably the reason why many Amazon acquisitions like Twitch thrive under them.
They get integrated into the Amazon ecosystem and get all the efficiencies from the larger machine but they don't get consumed into a strategic vacuum. They're left to figure out all the potential synergies and paths to move forward themselves. They don't need high C-level leadership to help them figure and execute on all the internal collaboration opportunities and increased efficiency. They just do it because the system allows them to do it.

All the data and mechanisms are there. Most impactful innitiatives start with a six-pager that almost anybody can write, and they exist mostly just to unlock budgets. That's basically what Amazon leaderships does: "Someone is saying that we should throw money and resources into this? Should we? Will this make the company stronger? Will this generate more synergies and opportunities?... Yes or no? ...Move on"

So it's not that people don't care. It simply feels too foreign, too abstracted from your own personal reality and day to day. It's almost feels like if those claims were coming from a completey different company that happens to have the same name.
How much do people work on average?

Would your CEO take a phone call from a client/lawyer/bank on the fifth day?
You cut the part that explained that some of them merely cut back on their hours rather than "leaving STEM," a point that is repeated at least twice in the article:

They either went part time, switched to non-STEM careers or left the workforce altogether.
They blog a lot, yes, but CF is a CDN. It doesn’t matter how fancy the technology is if they have less pops or poor targeting.

CF blog is a marketing tool, and a lot of their claims are inflated or are capturing a hype train.
I completely disagree - seems like pricing insurance for self driving vehicles competitively would be a great way to ensure more people transition to self driving vehicles rather than conventional vehicles.
LMIA seems like a balance. In LMIA, the employer is made to test the local labour market before applying for a visa, rather than an LCA in which the USCIS trusts the employer's word.
This appears quite similar to the difficulty in explaining Monads (from the programming perspective rather than the mathematical)
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If my manager asked me to come to office at 7am, I would ask for 6am instead, so that I could be gone at 2pm and have a life, with a bonus of avoiding traffic jams. Choose your punishments carefully, aspiring middle manager!
We also learn far more from robot/probe missions per million dollars spent than manned missions. The Mars rovers have explored for years on end (albeit slowly) while a manned mission to Mars and back may only be able to stay for a few days. I personally would love to see us walk on the Moon and Mars in my lifetime as I was not around in 1969, but the science can be performed just as well if not better with modern robotics without even needing to bring them back.
nb: The algorithms that people use in practice (e.g. in MATLAB) are even more sophisticated and based on ARnoldi iterations, an entirely different set of algorithms, through the ARPACK set of numerical routines.
> Wind is "named" after where it comes from.

This is absolutely true, but has always infuriated me because it seems needlessly contrary as compared to the way we speak about anything else travelling in a direction as read from a compass. Does anybody know why it's the case?
His podcasts had him on for about six hours weekly iirc.
In art, sometimes you want "happy accidents", even if they are not always reproducible.
Just as a tangent, Starsiege: Tribes is still around and active on the friday+weekends. The community took over patching a decade ago and run custom coded master servers now. You can get a modern client at https://playt1.com/

20 years on and it's still going because of community modding and dedicated servers. I'll eat my hat if Overwatch is available in 20 years.
10x return on the $60m investment means getting $600m back. Depending on ownership stake, that's probably between $2.5b and $6b after IPO. A big multiple these days is like 20x, so that's $120m - $300m in revenue.

FWIW, $25m was a pretty conservative estimate. One way to look at it is to take the number of employees and multiply by $200k. That would imply upwards of $50m in revenue. https://www.saastr.com/how-to-figure-out-your-competitors-re...

It may take some time to get there, but they'll almost certainly break $100m. The VCs at this round probably won't sell immediately after the IPO, either -- trying to make 10x in 2 years isn't the plan.

Also, 7+ years to that level isn't the worst, by any means. The more relevant metric is growth in the last couple years. If they're still doing 100%+ year-over-year, that's pretty great. https://redislabs.com/press/redis-labs-announces-10th-consec...
Paging Peter Thiel ... :)
My very fuzzy recollection makes me remember that DWANGO and Quakeworld gamers were more hostile to women than subspace games, and Dan mentions in the article that he played Subspace.
> The way you use ‘solar’ sails for interstellar travel is to propel them using a fixed laser at their point of origin, and possibly another laser to slow them down at their destination.

What if someone sent out a bunch of these things to wander the galaxy until they encounter a civilization cable of detecting it and slowing it down? Perhaps it was even sent purposefully after signs of life were detected on earth. That seems like a feasible communication method with today's tech, the galactic equivalent of a station wagon full of hard drives.
This.

"DAE Amazon is a horrible employer?" is a pretty common circlejerk the commenterati like to jump on.
The energy that goes into writing tweets is also energy that could instead go into works of lasting value. I've noticed that with all of my favorite writers, the moment when they turn to Twitter seems to be a moment when their production of high quality books/essays seems to go into decline. One of my favorite economists had a 10 year streak when he was absolutely on fire, then he started tweeting on Twitter, and his production of books and essays almost vanished. When it comes to fiction writers, I could also put J K Rowling into this category.

Everyone should beware of small, frivolous activities that keep us from achieving our life goals. And it seems Twitter is almost uniquely destructive in this regard. Not quite as bad as meth, but not a whole lot better either. And social media, in general, sucks up too much time, for too many people.

If you want to do something great with your life, be careful how you spend your time. If you'd like to create a great game, or a write a great novel, you need to focus on that. Don't waste your energy on Twitter.
Saying 'the code is out' is a little misleading. It's some supporting code for working with a trained model, and a model definition of what is already a standard and widely-implemented architecture. It doesn't include the dataset, the code used to construct the dataset, or perhaps most importantly of all, the code to train a model on a fleet of TPUv3s.
Yeah that's it, it's Mauritius in Spanish apparently.

ICANN definitely went overboard on these required reservations, but of course we have no choice but to comply.
For those of you who find this interesting, there's a whole site dedicated to this: https://groundspeedrecords.com/

801 MPH is not even close to the record, even for a 787.
How do you think your defense would obtain a copy of anything you said to use in your favor? In a situation where you would need it, it won't be presented unless you happen to have been recording yourself. But if you trust the police to not use things you say against you then you're also likely to trust them enough to not be recording your interactions.

The prosecution has no incentive or motivation to present evidence that could be used to the benefit of the defense.
Discussed at some time previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7671549
This is exactly what BookFusion does. Your able to read on Desktop(Windows, Linux, OSX) via Web and can read on Android and iOS devices while having your reading progress, bookmarks, and highlights synced across all devices.

You can learn more at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library

PS: Founder of BookFusion
Wow, magic flags I've never seen before - look useful.

As I understand it, -ffast-math is NOT useful here. That only effects floats and doubles.
I was recently offered a job by a software company, work from home, paid monthly. I presently work in metal fabrication.

Not only was their offer $30,000 below my current income, their deal was I front cash for expenses and submit claims monthly.

Is this standard in the software world?

Because from my perspective there’s only one possible answer to paying expenses out of pocket and having to claim them back: No.
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Does anyone know how much redis enterprise costs?
> Battlesnake Tournament March 2, 2019 || Victoria Conference Centre

What continent is this in? From the sound of things it's in a Commonwealth country but that really doesn't narrow it down much ;)
I assume I'll have to buy insurance to go into 'manual' mode for a few minutes at a time, the price fluctuating according to the time, where I'm driving, and a possible breathalyzer-style test ;)
And then using latinized words also makes normal things sound more technical or scientific than they really are. For example you can say "let's implement business process improvements" or you can say "let's do things better."
Yeah, it's fun :( Sociopathy seems to be the norm these days.

Anyway, nothing beats that one German bank that told all employees of a branch on Friday that on Monday they are working at a location 80 miles away and are required to be there as usually.
Great to see Cloudflare doubling down on this https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-workers/

BTW If anyone at Cloudflare is interested in doing the work of making GitLab Serverless https://about.gitlab.com/product/serverless/ compatible with this we're all ears.
Looks better every year!!
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I think community expectations are important. People in general, (maybe kids especially?) want to fit in, so they will meet whatever the perceived expectations of their peers are.
Looks like offering childcare onsite could alleviate some of this at least in the early years —but may only postpone the inevitable departure.

As far as I understand it even at these high perk Santa Clara/Silicon Valley companies childcare isn’t a given. There are waiting lists and other limits. They want to attract women, but they fall short on this aspect.
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