skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally Cython would allow to compile directly to Webassembly (and maybe using Pyodine converters), without going through C and requiring a C compiler also.

Of course that is a huge job and might very well never happen.
Near as I can tell, apart from the hard-line Brexiters that would be perfectly happy with crashing out of the EU without any deal, May and the other Tories want something resembling a customs union that retains the sovereign right of the UK to withdraw at any time and also make deals with non-EU partners on vastly different terms than what they have with the EU. This was a major part of the anti-EU sentiment: Being in the EU, you can't just make a deal with another non-EU country. Corbyn, regardless of what he actually wants out of any sort of Brexit, I believe is now angling for a General Election that would likely swing at least a little more support towards Labour. Despite the large EU Remainer elements in Labour though, Corbyn is himself about as much anti-EU as some folks on the Tory side, albeit in a different direction.
other way, kids today have access to the resources that Zuck's generation built (I actually think youtube, twitter, wordpress, amazon, and even Hacker News are much for helpful for an ambitious kid than facebook is, but whatever)

I definitely agree with the "The risk of not joining the elites at 18 should be lowered if anything else. "

but I don't think that's the would we live in
Did They Send Us Here to Die?
For many people, moving to NYC/LA is not the end-all.

That said, I think times are changing.

As we become more urban/suburban, the notion of living in the middle of the desert has less appeal, I should admit.

But for many folk, it's not a problem, or, it should be an adventure in itself.

As the commenter above states, it can get dry and boring, but I'd hope that the combination of maturity and 'sense of duty' help prevail over that.

Maybe the entire US Army / Forces should re-oriented how they move people around. Maybe they should try to have multifaceted bases instead of having to move people around constantly. Maybe 1 year long deployments can be broken up with bits of vacation and rest (that might have operational benefits as well).

Maybe they should beef up their bases near urban areas.

Toronto had a massive airport sized base, they closed it and it's now civilian. They should have kept it, it was big enough for a lot of kinds of training, and it could have allowed way more forces people to be in Toronto, the big city of Canada.
Still no AMP. https://i.imgur.com/8suGANP.png
It's underwhelming because the titles are misleading, not because the achievements aren't impressive. Beating humans by outhinking them and still using human-like reflexes and all game resources available is like 1000-cool-points, and beating them as they are now is 500-cool-points. Yes it's an incredible achievement, but they get you into the article with a misleading line, and so it's to be expected that all of your hype is deflated as you read, rather than building up your excitement. I just with they'd be honest about the shortcomings in their AI.

It's like the joke from Futurama about why humans don't watch the Robot Blernsball League (basically future-baseball).

Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson - there was a blern-hitting machine.

Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns. Wireless Joe Jackson was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.

Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer!

Leela: Yep.
>you want to change the drug war you have to get the public employee unions out of politics one hundred percent. they perpetuate the drug war and resulting prison state far more than any corporation. they own politicians and have no issue exerting pressure to keep their power

You mean that giving tiny minority of people the ability to collectively bargain against the people and institutions that call the shots for society itself results in perverse incentives that are bad for society?

Shocking. /s

I have no problem with private sector unions but public employees are in the unique position of having an employer who is legally required to be mostly transparent and ultimately beholden to the opinions of the public. The opportunity for them to be abused by the employer/employee power imbalance is far less than that of their private industry counterparts.
> A recent RAND study found the cost of training a basic qualified fighter pilot ranges from $5.6 million for an F-16 pilot to $10.9 million for an F-22 pilot.

Those numbers seem outrageous to me. Why does it cost so much? Are there frequent plane crashes?
Lethal Plans: When Seniors Turn to Suicide in Long-Term Care
Undefined behavior allows a compiler to make assumptions that some things never happen, which can allow them to generate more efficient code by not having to generate code that checks if those assumptions are correct.

If you're going around thinking computing resources are cheap, it doesn't make much sense to avoid those correctness checks, and undefined behavior is probably not good from that perspective.
"top software engineer" strikes me as "top dog". Not necessarily someone able to pound you into the ground in a competition, but the person who employs that person and can keep him employed there.

So "top software engineer" today might be somebody like Larry and Sergei, or Zuck.

All top software engineers today got there primarily by luck. They were born into the right circumstances, able to coalesce the right network, and able to bet big on the right technology at the right time. Hard work no doubt played a role, but I bet nobody at the top of the mountain worked as hard as a lot of fast-food workers do.

So, one word answer: luck.
Sure it will - that's the joy of compound interest :)
A nice side effect of it being so commonplace now is that most youtubers are doing their own editing, meaning the jokes and queues are very authentic to their personality and intent, vs having to be inserted after the fact by a separate professional who just wants to get the job done. See for example shows like Laymen Gaming or Girlfriend Reviews, both of which are full of Arrested Development style cutaway gags.
The most-used emojis are designed as a language of emotions, making them ill-suited for most programming projects. But that doesn't mean that there aren't emojis that would be very useful in programming. Emojis just aren't used because we lack good input methods for them (outside of smartphones)
I really like this XKCD diagram to give a sense of scale of how fast things are changing: https://xkcd.com/1732/
The study:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.11151
>She is treatment resistant and homeless by choice

I think it’s significantly more complex. It would appear she became homeless through financial/employment issues but elects to not accept what she sees as special treatment which would secure her housing. It reminds me of John McCain electing to stay a Prisoner of War despite being given the opportunity to be returned because of his status as the son of an admiral. Yet It’s odd to say McCain was a POW by choice, he wanted his presence/story to bring to light the story of all POWs, he wanted to be treated the same, just as this woman clearly wants light shed on all homeless not just special treatment/help/housing because her status.

She suffered from homelessness as a child and yet began college at 14, became a world champion/Olympian, even appears to have returned to school successfully after she stopped competing. I mean come on with an experience like that people are here calling her lazy and mentally ill? No doubt mental health issues will follow any homeless child for life, but the track record is clear the woman isn’t lazy and certainly capable, To return to homelessness in her 50’s is tragic, and I’ll double down and say for society to blame her because she is being offered charity and she refuses to accept on principal and then calling her situation a choice is a double tragedy and again more a reflection on society than her.
University admission exams are very stressful, but they put everyone in a position where they know they have the same shot at getting admitted.
Using DuckDuckGo with a backup of !g (send search to google), I don't think I've ever hit an AMP page in search results in my life. Maybe because I only use !g for really technical searches.
That's a misunderstanding related to the fact that in a few parts of Europe the Spring-related word became commonly used to refer to the Christian feast. In most languages of Europe, the name for the Christian feast is derived from the Latin paschalis or the Greek pascha, in turn derived from the Hebrew pesah.

See:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/paschal

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Easter?ref=etymonline_crossr...
Fiber layup machines are really cool [1]. Hard to tell from the picture but I'm assuming they machine is one of the circular fiber layup machines rather then the newer multi-axis ones. Carbon Fiber layup is a huge market that's still relatively untouched. There are many companies racing to be the winner but not have prevailed so far. If you can manage to make one that affordable for industrial usage, you will be able to make a lot of money.

Found an "old" video demonstrating the technology that is mentioned in the article [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK4gMDduHgA
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19na8LMBnE
China’s Economy Stabilizes After Beijing Opens the Bank Vaults
me too ever since about Nov/Dec? is when I noticed the increase in "sponsored content". and the result has been me spending less time looking at IG
>These should mostly cancel out and keep the university’s acceptance rate (offers extended per application received) about the same.

I agree w/ your argument, but there are probably other factors that have changed w/ college applications.

The article seems to disagree w/ my point below, but from my anecdotal vantagepoint, I think there is a kernel of truth to my opinion: I see many 2nd and 3rd tier schools near me (I'm in the eastern US) opening themselves up to foreign undergrads. I don't know the reason for this, but my suspicion is that these schools need to stave off the onslaught from entities like Coursera and edX. As such, they are trawling from bodies, wherever they can get them. I've met numerous foreign undergrads who can barely speak English and my thought is usually "How could the University of _______ accept you in good conscience and move you toward graduation when you can't even understand your lecturers?"

e.g., I taught a class at a local university a few years ago. Class saw an influx of students from 1 particular country over a few years. Most of the foreign students from this country could barely speak English and it was obvious from "pop" quizzes that they didn't understand the material (which is understandable if you can't understand the language). They all tried to cheat on the exams (using a remarkably elaborate scheme). Eventually, I figured it out and I failed them. The mastermind emailed me and said that he knew he did not deserve to pass, but if he failed he would need an additional semester to complete his engineering degree.[1] IMO, the university behaved unethically by admitting these students into a system that they are not equipped to legitimately succeed in.

Anyway, I assume that if you increase your applicant pool from outside the US, the acceptance rates will drop--at least for a little while. I know that's not the only reason for the drop, but it might be part of the issue.

[1] After that, I stopped getting students from that country in my class.
I'll add to your comment that Microsoft is a known, patent troll. They can give a business something free under MIT, wait until it makes a fortune, and then sue them for same code in patent courts. License like Apache 2.0 give a copyright and patent license for the code. Makes such scenarios impossible.

Whether they'll actually do it or not is an unknown. I'd prefer we default on licenses that nullify the patent risk.
Well less than that for one and to do a whole lot more, at a far lower wattage :)
Also, DPP's logo is in green and they are often referred to as "Green Party" (while KMT "Blue Party").

Guo obvisouly doesn't agree with DPP's ideology.
If the spiel that HR puts out is to be believed, in that the company only hires the top 1% of engineers, (despite the abundant fallacies) we're all top software engineers.
Sure, but why is it a popular taboo? Otherwise it's like saying "this book is popular because the topic is popular".
And that's the production during snowfall. Even here in Michigan, the sun shines a great deal more than we literally have snow falling. And if the snow is falling all day, it's going to be a light snow that probably isn't reaching 0.2mW/m^2.

Plus, if I'm seeing the physics here in my head properly based on their description, you can't just stick this out in the snow like a panel and get a consistent 0.2mW/m^2 even under optimal snow conditions. As the snow accumulates on the collector it'll insulate the collector from the rest of the snow. You really want the snow to be brushing the collector and then departing having given up its excess charge, not accumulating on it. Sunlight obviously does not present this problem, since it basically is 100% made out of charge (if you'll pardon the sloppy terminology, asp precision wouldn't really buy anything here), so there's no additional mass to dispose of, just any waste heat issues that may arise.

I'm pretty sure that in real conditions the difference between the two would be another two or three orders of magnitude larger, which is why my other post is so grumpy. It's multiple orders of magnitude obviously not even remotely feasible, to the point it's almost insulting that it was said.
Does it rely on the user moving around to knock off snow that accumulated?
Here is a link to the actual checklist:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44186/97892...

I'm a bit perplexed that something so simple, can reduce post surgical deaths by a third.
Yes, this has been a thing forever. (Former 33S/17D here) I went through two separate instances of reductions in force (aka "force shaping") - 2006 and 2010 - but there were others as well. (I chose to separate in 2010) They believed they brought too many officers on board in the 2001-2004 timeframe and were looking to trim down, especially because of budget cuts. I remember hearing about your situation as well (letting ROTC accessions off the hook). Yet the USAF periodically seems to cycle through "we have too many"/"we are way short" phases and this has now come back to bite them for their most critical asset, pilots. (Cyber retention is an issue as well - how do you keep them from getting out and working as contractors? The incentives don't line up)
What is “Saturday detention”? That sounds awful.
I think what people don’t get when they want to celebrate this is that there is no dominant strategy for a game like this. To play optimally you need to adapt your plan according to what your opponent goes. If anything, there is evidence that this AI, as well as the Starcraft one, don’t do this. They just have a world view of what works best and try to do that. And then it kind of works because the AI is much better at micro.

It would be very ineffective if this AI had to input everything through a human body somehow. Now to be fair, it would be very difficult to not win on micro. There’s no real set of constraints I can think of that would make it a fair match.

Ideally they should probably be shifting to a game where micro just isn’t as big of a differentiator. Or, consider moving to a game where a strategic player issues commands and human players execute them. Off the top of my head I can’t think of anything that really fits that build.

Alternatively, spy party (an incredible game) could be an excellent candidate as it requires deception, and a strategic awareness of what the other player is thinking. And, at a high level of play, micro is practically flawless.
California Is the Most Innovative Economy in America
Something like this seems to be infecting our entire society.

See: Graeber's Bullshit Jobs—he blames, more or less, the takeover of Finance and with it a new form of managerialism, generally.

See also: common everyday experience and observation.

See also: the mysterious non-Baumol's cost disease not-so-slowly eating "the West"'s, and especially the US', ability to get anything done.
Just a single sortie is very expensive in just maintenance + supply. You need a whole crew to prepare a plane. Not to speak of the whole infrastructure required to train pilots, having places to fly from, teachers to learn from. It all adds up to a huge number, that when you divide by the number of pilots trained, doesn't get reduced by a lot.
That's interesting. I'm curious how much of your college costs that ROTC participation covered. Just tuition, or housing too, or also a stipend?
For the chance to fly a modern fighter jet? Wouldn't have hesitated at all, regardless of age.
In France, a surgery checklist is available since 2008 or 2009 but alas, it's not mandatory.
My take on how to solve the natural-sounding translation problem: https://www.lokalized.com/#a-more-complex-example

The magic is a tiny expression language which understands plural cardinalities, ordinals, etc. so a translator can encode all required logic in a JSON file - the application code can be "dumb".
I found this in the report:

Air speed estimation. Another way of adding redundancy to a pitot system, or even dispensing with it altogether, is to estimate CAS using other 'non-air' data. WK uses a CAS estimation algorithm, which estimates CAS as a function of throttle position, pitch, engine speed and air density. Presently its output is not used as a redundancy to the pitots, but to calculate the dynamic pressure reference value, which was used in combination with
dynamic pressure readings to identify and disqualify erroneous dynamic pressure readings. Several academic papers on CAS estimation exist and the Panel were able to develop a CAS estimation algorithm and prove the concept using WK flight data.

WK = Watchkeeper drone.

CAS = Calibrated air speed. Note that general aviation airplanes are operated perfectly safely with CAS (or actually just indicated air speed) being used as a proxy for angle of attack.

Instead of using this estimate, the on-board computer averaged the values from the two pitot tubes, despite having already ruled them both as giving invalid data. While this is unfortunate, it is also unfortunate that there were only two pitot tubes, and that both of them are prone to being blocked by moisture in clouds or rain, let alone the ice that they were trying to find (the report attributed the blockage to moisture, not ice.)
Predicting Student Performance Based on Online Study Habits
I wish, I'm sure they make a hell of a lot more than I do.

Many years ago I decided that keeping up with and being invested in games didn't make sense - stuff went microtrandaction, content released as add ons that clearly should have been part of the game, the focus is on multiplayer streamable, etc. I hate it.

So indy titles or GOG style games for me only. It cut way down on spending, toxic communities, supported artists and older digital works directly, and it's more fun (to me). Plus GOG games have no DRM!
The media and pundits often push a narrative that society is 'dumbing-down,' regressing, or that standards are being lowered, and maybe to some degree they are depending on where one looks, but we also see evidence of increased competitiveness and higher standards. Cramming for AP courses and SATs have become the norm for an increasingly large number of high schoolers. High-stakes testing is also common for New York's elite public and private primary and secondary schools. A high school grad who gets high AP and SAT scores and a 4.0 GPA is demonstrably smarter and more competent than someone than from generations ago without such scores and credentials.
The reason it has to be prefetched from not-you is to protect the users privacy. Until they click a link it is not considered acceptable to leak their search to the potential destination. Links have to be fetched from a third-party who the search engine trusts not to share the data, that at the moment is Google but will hopefully expand.
what gives you the right to claim this is "The new standard in Machine Learning"?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
It's not an actual standard if it's forced on everyone by a single vendor abusing its market dominance.
Weirdly, the article says almost nothing about the impact of drones on career pilots, especially their will to reenlist. The focus was fighter jocks, but I doubt most will end up flying commercially -- the skills of flying passengers or freight don't overlap much with dogfights, missile tech, or flying invisible.

The article also says nothing about which kinds of pilots are in shortest supply (fighter, heavy, rotary, carrier-based fighters, VTOLs, etc), or which service suffers most. It briefly mentions the cost of training fighers, but nothing on non-fighter pilots, which must make up the vast majority of onboard pilots, much less the cost of drone pilots. Nor does it mention the rate of departure for all of these MOSes.

IMO, this article went to press with far too little background research. That, or it was edited out later.
Article is missing some relevant information.

1. Enzymes in the fig digest wasp parts so you don't normally find wasps inside your figs. So they really are vegan.

2. The males are flightless and wouldn't have escaped anyway. The females only escape long enough to go lay their eggs in another fig. So it really isn't that dramatic.

Source: https://www.jerseyshoreonline.com/dear-pharmacist/figs-reall...
Sure, there's a lot of potential customers but:

a) no one pays $100 for internet. Maybe some in monopoly-internet USA have to, but literally no one else.

b) most countries are poorer than the US and would definitely not have $100.

c) Local providers can simply lower their prices, and SpaceX will have competition from Oneweb and possibly others.
- Years of training on multiple platforms (initial pilot training, follow up training on the platform itself, possibly others)

- Maintenance and logistics of those platforms

- Probably amortizing the cost of those planes across each pilot using it for training
> While I do believe what was said above, it seems that whatever choices they are making that supposedly are resulting in a failing company from an engineering perspective, are resulting in a successful company from a financial perspective.

Finances for big brands can be lagging indicators.
I'm guessing it has to do with flight time. Flying a jet is expensive. A jet will consume something like $10,000 of fuel per hour of flight time. Not to mention maintenance costs, the costs of the maintenance crew, the cost of having dedicated f-16s and f-22s for training is probably included in there as well. Not to mention what is probably a high dropout rate. All that adds up. $5.6M still sounds high to me, but I imagine there are a bunch of other costs I'm not thinking about.
Know in advance how long an algo is going to run
Ask HN: Developers in London
Will be moving to London and hoping to get connected to the developer scene in London. Formerly a software engineer myself, I'm building an AI deployment platform and hoping to eventually build a team out once we've successfully raised funds.
Well it was a screen plant.

Then going to be a weird amalgam of R&D / engineering offices spread out across Wisconsin for no reason.

And now ... back to some sort of manufacturing like ... thing ... maybe.
I barely glanced through the Verge piece once I saw they were basing it off a Wire piece they admitted had a lot more depth to it. When another news outlet regurgitates an article in this way I at least want it to be in service or more analysis and interpretation of that original piece, which wasn't really happening here.