skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can just lie about my current salary, and easily get away with, as I have done so multiple times in the past, as well as has many other people that I know.

You're not fooling employers, they likely know you and your friends are lying, and discount the offer accordingly. Try bringing a paystub next time, your prospective employer will appreciate it. It's worked out well for me.

There have been some high profile cases of people who've worked for decades for a company, rose to the top echelon, and were discovered to have lied on their resume. They were out the door without their severance package.
Randomly entering "China" into the title makes the model oddly obsessed with the U.S. :

- The U.S. has a similar problem

- The same can be said of US citizens in countries with strict immigration policies and very few foreign nationals.

- I am really not sure how this is different to what is happening in other countries/countries and how it has changed.

- The US is one of a few countries the US was supposed to be a democracy. Not only that but there is a reason that it's no longer the case.
Well I them rock the boulders and they balance.

As ar as I can see they never actually move the boulders.

For this to have any relevance the bolders would need to be
dragged / pushed / towed into place
They should ignore wills and run inheritance as a random lottery. Would be fairer and a lot more amusing.
> Seems "deep learning" is just a wavelet transform with a sigmoid basis

Well... more like an iterated transform.

You're right, most of the mathematics is very old indeed. What changed was the hardware (parallelism), software (easy-to-use autodiff packages) and the availability of data.

There's a lot of hype in the field, but some of that hype is deserved. Computer vision was practically in crisis in the late 00's and early 10's. No significant progress was being made on problems, and there were few strategic directions to move in that hadn't been done to death already. Then smash: along comes deep learning, which changed everything.
My elementary school teacher would disagree: 2+2=4 not somewhere around 3.997.
SpaceX announces sending man to Mars (wired.com)

hncynic 1 minute ago

The most important detail was the last paragraph. The actual announcement for the launch of the Falcon 9 is here: http://www.spacex.com/releases/index.html

This is a huge leap forward for SpaceX to make it into space again. SpaceX will still have a large stake in the rocket, but that's a huge leap forward for the whole industry. I wish SpaceX would just stop [... redacted ...] be more aggressive and look at their competitors.
It seems nothing was disassembled here.
I don't see how that helps?

> A neural network computes linear transformations

They compute a nonlinear function of an affine transform. Neural networks are nonlinear functions.
I guess this is the source of all the insider jokes that people have been making for the past couple of days.
Video Speed Controller can do the same, and works on all HTML 5 video.
The ingenuity is indeed incredible especially since it relies on such simple principles. But I have to wonder how useful is that transportation technique when carrying the stones over dirt paths instead of a very solid, perfectly flat concrete one.
I bought a $20 oscilloscope for fun and learning, called a DSO 138. Probably not suitable for antenna stuff though.

You could also try a local hack space, if you have one. My local one, Vancouver Hack Space, has some very fancy oscilloscopes.
Your activation function needs to be linear to be able to achieve fully linear results.

However, this kills the neural network as a general purpose computation device.
kudos to the developers. The trailer looks really cool.
If the AI agent were quick and precise to answer everything, wouldn't that by itself allow a judge to tell a computer apart from humans?

I believe that faithfully passing the Turing test requires the machines to copy human behaviors feature by feature, bug by bug. Likewise for the machines to demonstrate a good human language understanding.
5) Encrypt data at rest (where possible) and look to take advantage of AMD's[0] or Intel's[1] coming features for runtime.

[0] - https://developer.amd.com/sev/

[1]- https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx
They can't approximate functions on unbound domain in general case.
Looks amazing, gonna get some friends to install and test a network (internet) game. We’ll probably jump a few continents to get us all connected so it will be interesting to see how the netcode handles players with varying latency.

I wonder how’s difficult is it to create tracks for STK...
Your comment prompted me to re-acknowledge my fear of mortality
Familiarity counts for a lot. I'm English, and I enjoy a variety of "fine" teas. I used to be a frequent shopper at this place [0] when I lived in the area. But none of it gives me the enjoyment I get from a strong cup of cheap black tea (PG Tips) with milk and two sugars. It's the familiarity, associations with my childhood, drinking tea on a Sunday afternoon at my grandparents, and so on.

[0]: https://www.imperialteas.co.uk

I suppose it's similar to how I sometimes crave a cold cheap lager on a hot day rather the red wine or "fine" beer I usually go for. Cheap lager is what I drank when I was a student and it has positive associations for me. It has very little to do with my capacity for discriminating between good quality beer and low quality rubbish — just that sometimes a pint of gnat's piss really hits the spot.
Ariane 5's computers never crashed. At least, not until they hit the ground. They operated flawlessly and ran the software the way they were supposed to.
Another example I've given before is the usage statistics for the UK "tier 1" system: //www.archer.ac.uk/status/codes/. Six of the top ten are Fortran that month (I think -- I'm not positive about NEMO). That's probably vaguely representative of typical general purpose HPC systems.
> You can learn something here, if you pay attention.

I'm all for learning and debating, but this comes off awfully patronizing.

> In a sound design, objects more usually get their attributes at construction time, and keep them until they are destroyed.

Immutable objects are nice and I always try to use them when I can, but arguing that everything should be immutable or you have a design problem... that's exaggerated.

> When something needs to change, from outside the object, it is usually better to make another object.

As with everything, there's a trade-off with any solution. Allocating and copying data isn't cheap. And the fact that you just pick one way of doing things and discard anything else as "bad design" doesn't inspire confidence.

> The key here is that the public member functions should be doing useful work for you.

No, the "key" is that you are abstracting access to data. Your setter may do validation or transformation on the data. You may only offer const access to data. You may even do a defensive copy of the data. You may set breakpoints or log access to the data.

> If the object doesn't abstract anything, it isn't earning it keep.

Not all objects need to represent functionality. Some represent data. And mutating data is fundamentally what every program does. Just because you have an aversion to mutating data outside your object and you are willing to pay the price for immutable structures, doesn't mean everyone else is following a "classic anti-pattern".

> Another indicator of bad design is public virtual functions.

I really don't see the wisdom behind this one.
Great news! Now if only we could get FreeCol[1] 1.0.0. Or at least 0.12.0. If you like free strategy games or loved the original Sid Meier's Colonization, this is a must-play.

[1]: http://www.freecol.org/.
I can't wait for headlines like these
"CIA warns against using Huawei P-190(TM) ear implants".
Or Hamcrest (http://hamcrest.org/)

Still have no idea what they were thinking with that one. Apparently it's an anagram of "matchers". Ooooookay.
From The Earth To The Moon is an awesome series from HBO and the Apollo 1 episode is great, with a great explanation as to why and how it happened.
The work is more about running named entity recognition on the text and correlating the names with other sources of data than it is about deducing the redacted words (which is probably impossible for the most interesting words). For example if flight XX1234 is mentioned in the text, he might be able to deduce that the plane is owned by some Russian oligarch.
I have an etymological question. The chap who supervised my ham tests insists that bugs have antennae and radios have aerials. I wonder if it is a US/UK thing? He is British.
Earlier in my career I saw exactly this situation come up with a manager of mine, had the perfect overlap of a few skills that don't frequently come up together but this was completely taken for granted. As a result there was an amazingly bad plan for expansion/handover/etc as it was taken for granted that it would be easy to hire a replacement.

> This experience has made me wonder if cognitive dissonance plays a larger role in blinding HR/companies.

I think cognitive dissonance was also at play in the case I'm referring to. There's probably a lot of biases at play when people are trying to estimate what skills someone has. Also its easier to delude yourself into thinking the Bayesian priors are different when you have someone who has the rare combination of skills on staff, I remember hearing a few versions of: "how rare could it be when we already have this manager on staff?".
No. In fixed format form, statement numbers are columns 1-5. "FORI=2TO9DO" is an unclassifiable statement; try "DOII=...".
Answer: because the exact mathematical theory can't give you models, just the performance of a given model.

Calculating EM equations exactly is also a GIGANTIC PAIN IN THE BNC connector.
Thankfully there's not many people like this but I have met a few over the years.
Honestly just a list of names, people, places and dates mentioned in the document could be a boon to investigative journalists.
DataScript – A Database for the Client (2016)
Elon Musk tweeted that an over the air update will resolve the issue in time for the next test firing.

Rockets are dangerous esp when you try out new designs , things blew up rather spectacularly during the early days of the space race.
Wow, this has been in the making since forever. I truly admire the dedication that went into this project for over a decade now. Congrats on that release!
"PureOS on the Samsung Galaxy Notes 7" (Yeah, with an "s" too many in "Notes")

hncynic 1 minute ago

How about an OS like this?

I don't know if there is a market for this kind of thing for the iPhone, either..

hncynic 1 minute ago

Why do they need to do this? They don't seem to have the time to make this happen, but they seem to have a strong sense of humiliation.

I think this kind of thing could go on for a long time, as it's already done.

hncynic 1 minute ago

It's just a matter of time before someone can go to Samsung on the Galaxy Notes. They are amazing devices with a great interfaces and usability. Samsung is still a huge company and it is great that they can get a foothold in the market that people don't understand. They deserve to be seen as the premier product manufacturer, though with no hope of actually doing much with it anyway.

They're also not going to change their brand or look like the best product manufacturer to date.
You rarely see gaol anywhere but in old books and articles on this side of the pond either. Perhaps that's why it's mispelled "goal" in this article — the spellchecker "fixed" it wrong.
It's always an aerial in the UK, where the radio was once called the wireless.

I suspect the British chap being picky about transatlantic language exchange probably called them insects, not bugs. ;)
Meanwhile check this if you are interested: https://www.axios.com/explore-a-detailed-version-of-the-muel...
> over the air update

Is this a joke?
PowerShell 7, the next release of PowerShell based on .Net 3 Core
Seems like the typical way is modeling them using blender, with special objects and properties to mark game details: https://supertuxkart.net/Making_Tracks
Microservice design (or rather, any good distributed design over multiple factors such as time, location, knowledge, structure, QoS, programming language) is dependent on the following criteria:

- Orthogonality: service X is independent of its requirements of service Y. Your mail client is not a web browser. Your payments platform is not a web-shop.

- Programming against interfaces. Your interface should be relatively stable over iterations, while your implementation can change.

- Comprehensible interface by short-term memory. This means the service/component does not entail more than, say, seven ‘items’. For example, an authentication service should not have more than seven concepts (token, credentials, state, resource owner and so on)

- Related to orthogonality: failure of this service should not entail (immediate) failure of another. This is akin to how the Arpanet was designed.

- No singletons. Services should not be designed in such a way that only one, and exacly one is running.

Follow these guidelines, and micro-service design becomes manageable and scalable.
Accelerating Dynamics of Collective Attention
I’m not sure but it seems there are no bills anymore and you have to use a debit card. Quite dangerous because if there is any substantial amount of fraud the system collapses and all the ‘money’ is worthless.
Proper ThinkPads (e.g. A285, X390, A485, T490) come with a card reader option for regular consumers
I had to take a look this morning when reading the article title -- it was about the M68000 and the Xeon E5-630. It is an exciting thing to see what it is all about.

For those who are interested in the math, it's also worth a look here: http://www.dbstrom.com/db2008/08/21613/xeon-es5-630th-annive...

I guess that's not too far from where it is headed. A lot of the work is going into the kernel and memory model and the CPU, and this article is mostly focused on the instruction set itself. There is something to be said for the CPU's performance and memory model, and the CPU's performance and memory model are both important, and all that should be noted is that the 630's performance has been improving so dramatically that you still need the same CPU memory to run the full code on the same machine. This is because the hardware is much more efficient than the CPU, and it was designed to support the CPU architecture so that it can run on other machines.

It would take some serious work to do to understand the architecture of these devices and their implement@@
I mean, it is not even wise politics. It is just hold on to their seats and let management know they know HR knows the attrition rate...
Everybody?! The communist propaganda was very careful to underline that they only took from those "who had too much" to give to those "who needed" for the "betterment of everybody".

Too bad if you (dirt poor and uneducated) went to fight in WW1 to get some land and then spent the years after WW1 working that land like crazy to buy more land because you believed that gave your children a better chance in life than you had.

Because that's what happens when you don't have principles (like "private property is sacred") and you replace them instead with nebulous beliefs that sometimes it's OK to steal from others, as long as they have more than you do and you get some of that booty.
Hey, maybe we haven't communicated this well, but we are actually doing exactly what you've described as "the norm in finance and financial economics". We run 1,000 simulations to produce the model output. In each simulation, there are 30 years. Each year, we sample a new "Annual Appreciation" rate. So each simulation does indeed have paths that go up or down.

I didn't mean to suggest that simulations are always correct. Just that I believe ours is, in this case :)

Can you help me understand your point about the "probability cone" please?
Ah, Hacker News, where even Winston Churchill is an ignorant leftist.

1909 was a very different tax landscape. Income tax was 3.75% and Winston Churchill was trying to raise it. I don't think CGT existed in its current form at all.
> I wonder if it is a US/UK thing?

Primarily, yes. Though Wiktionary has the following usage note:

> Some make a distinction between an antenna and an aerial, with the former used to indicate a rigid structure, and the latter consisting of a wire strung in the air. For those who do not make a distinction, antenna is more commonly used in the United States and aerial is more commonly used in the United Kingdom.
I did a google with fair results - but point me in a decent direction for my re-introduction? Thanks
Input: "Elon Musk to Star in Next Iron Man Movie'

>> As an aside, here are some other movies in this directory.

* The Iron Man and Aliens ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt010248/ )

* The Mars One ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638888/?ref_=tt_1 )

* The Mars Orbiter ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt009608/ )

>> So Musk got a job at Apple and then worked on it at Apple for a week before he was told the movie went live.

>> This movie is really about this as an advertisement for the movie. Just so you guys know, this guy is making a better movie by talking about the movie not about the movie but just the movie, and how he has a lot of different experiences.
WPA3’s Secure Handshake, Dragonfly Affected by Password Partitioning Attacks
I have a c# lambda in aws for taking screen grabs and PDFs of pages. If the service is running and hasn’t idled out it takes ~2 seconds. Takes about 8-15 on first run. Sometimes I’m willing to accept.
And here is a tweet thread on why using NLP models to "fill in" the redacted portions is a horrendously terrible idea.

https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1119081131234611201
A quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac, but when I went to use it a few years ago I wanted a citation and found that his actual words were neither so pithy nor so broadly implicative:

"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait."

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a forgotten crime, because it was properly/cleanly done," is my fairly literal translation, but I am not really fluent enough to capture subtleties.
How did you publish the landing page?
That isn't too surprising as an extension of the Upton Sinclair quote
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Essentially those who benefit from the status quo will nearly always rationalize it as why it is a good thing even if it is transparently benefiting from and perpetuating travesties.
It sadly takes a good deal of integrity and self-awareness to not do so.

There seems to be a major cultural force in the UK of enforcing their own bubbles of hereditary elite self-justification at all costs - and that is sadly by no means unique. It has been seen many times throughout history and around globe and usually ends in utter disaster when reality comes along and slaps them in the face - often after many smaller disasters which should have been major warning signs were ignored.
Golf.horse – leaderboards for the Kolmogorov complexity of word lists
Uhh Nobody wants to do that stuff? Lol
What would you do with more land? Considering that in the UK there are significant restrictions on what you can do with the land.

It's a silly metric.

As someone else pointed out in this section, you need to look at holding by value not by area. That's the more important figure.

I can by 1 acre of land in the country for say £20k but I can do nothing with it except perhaps mow the grass. But that £20k wouldn't get me 1msq in the City of London - because that land (well more of it) can be used to generate lots of economic activity due to its proximity to/location within the world's economic centre.
You're assuming an app that scales linearly with hardware. That's very hard to engineer. That's in fact the problem we're trying to solve: The hardware's there but the app can't make use of it due to some contention somewhere.
I discovered Erlang and Joe around 2008, and it made rethink everything I knew about programming. The BEAM has now become my favorite development environment.
I always wanted to meet Joe. His brilliance, his jokes on stage, his way of mumbling and walk all around the stage and getting excited at things were amazing.
Let it crash.
Perhaps dolphins are descendants of an ancient civilization, they evolved from land animals https://www.whalefacts.org/dolphin-adaptations/
about 50 million years ago. Just imagining here, but what if they had an industrialized civilization that caused global warming that led to the PETM temperature rise, their civilization declined and they had to adapt to a water world. Chuckle, just a kooky thought I had after reading that article.
Visual Demonstration of Approximating Arbitrary Functions with Sigmoids
There is a video of them moving; it’s a rock, rotate 180, rock, rotate 180, etc. sequence.
Civil: A community owned platform for independent journalism
Duh.

Then again, this is not repeated enough! Moreover, I have the idea that companies don’t know, they should.
I disagree with the author of the parent comment in regards of using SQL and using Spark instead. I actually first wrote my "SQL advocation" as a reply to this comment but decided to leave leave this view for what it is and write my own "rant" against complicating "big" data transformations with Spark or EMR (Hadoop Pig) or vendor-locked Spark-instrumentations like AWS Glue.

But I agreed with the parent comment's author about pretty much anything until the third bullet point of the second list. I'd like to get more reasoning behind his SQL hate.
I would suggest one of the alternatives listed at https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-google-anal... . Fathom in particular is open source and can be self hosted
Rollcage Redux (2015)
Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19711416

I couldn't find a nice way of making the slider logarithmic (in Desmos the only way to do it is with an intermediate variable, which is kind of confusing), so I reduced the maximum number on the slider. I also fixed a bug.
Thanks, will email you!
I would totally buy into this, recently i found two really disturbing facts that made me uninstall Instagram,
- first that while its open it listens to what you say and then shows you adds based on that (no i didnt search for the same thing or could be an expected interest of me)
- second i found that my location was briefly turning on and back off by itself, on one of those on/off and instagram notification arrived, after uninstalling that never repeated.

We need control back on our devices. I friend went so far as to add a physical on/off on he's macbook. I went out of my way to get a mobile i can root easily. There is a market for this.
Lol, these auto-generated comments are getting out of hand...
Well even funnier than that he said bugs and then corrected himself (although I am pretty sure the two words have a strict definition that means they are not interchangeable). He also used the word antenna lots of times too! Most ham textbooks in the UK use the term antenna, but common usage is definitely still aerial
We love playing this game.
The advantages of the proprietary compilers are quite over-sold. GNU Fortran is pretty good, and distinctly more reliable than some. (I don't have experience of the LLVM-based ones.)
Music video based on the same video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LjmDCOM-8&t=147s
Of course the thing about systems of rules with people is that they react to incentives in inconvenient ways. At best they would save less to pass on if nobody they cared about would receive any of it.

Really if we valued equality of opportunity at all cost we would either collectivize or randomize children but needless to say that would be incredibly unpopular and not lead to good outcomes given aspects of mammalian child-raising and bonds - we already know from our experience with orphanages that calling the results sub-optimal is an understatement.