skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why to discourage people to try things with low probability of success? It's hard to find these guys, let them be happy at least for a while
Coyotes will take deer, but they're not that quick to target healthy adult deer. In the suburbs, they generally end up in smaller packs going after both garbage and scrubland prey like rabbits, so they're not an especially good check on white-tailed deer. (Wolves would be, but then they're not going to be allowed to stay in most suburbs.)
No, since a proof is finite. When you enumerate Turing machines to generate a proof you execute the first n machines for n steps. At some point some machine must decide something, so some n is the bound.
Depends on the language I guess, I can compile Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, TCL, Python, Ruby, Common Lisp and any other one able to produce LLVM bitcode on the JVM.

Also 86% of the mobile OS market runs on Java.

Additionally smartcards, a big portion of electricity meters, factory automation, smart copiers, M2M gateways, Bluray Players,... run on Java.

Alongside JavaScript and .NET, it rules software development across the corporations of the world.

Hardly a failure, only for naysayers.
And it's reasons like this that I never expect to see anyone under the age of 21 consume alcohol.
Do the alternatives require less transportation?
A simple litmus test that saves you from most clickbait, si whether the actual paper title contains, more-or-less, the equation P=NP or P!=NP. I cite Andrew Wile's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, titled "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations" . The title will be about the how, and not some pop article title.
Not surprising. VPN referral marketing is a cesspool in general; generous affiliate payments establish a huge incentive for "reviewers" to promote whatever site is offering the best kickbacks at the moment, and a lack of easily comparable (or verifiable!) features leaves little material for honest reviewers to work with.
I would argue that inherent discrimination against minority traits is what makes that heuristic bad.

Given a single counter example, the burden of proof should be on the users of the heuristic to show why the use of that heuristic is an improvement over the alternatives (which have no counter examples).
How else do you expect journalists to retire?
Reminds me of the guy who calculated that it's cheaper to commute from Barcelona to his London office than to rent a London apartment
https://bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com/2013/10/24...
Some people feel like they need to have adversaries, enemies, or inferiors. Some desperate people are looking for a social group, any group, to fit in with.

Unfortunately those people sometimes choose the easy/wrong people or groups to fulfill their desires.

It's not always ignorance or fear, it can be a psychological need for connections or purpose that overrides common sense.
> What do people mean by this exactly? I've heard some people make the case that the exact boundaries between ethnic groups can be socially constructed, which makes sense to me (like how one draws a hard line between two groups which have some admixture).

Pretty spot on.
There are lots of reasons the involvement of lawyers could slow things down. That doesn't mean that Google was behaving illegally.
So every hobby must have a practical purpose or it's unhealthy? I'm glad for my own sake I don't agree.
>> being two separate entities

> They aren't really though, they both make money on my privacy with relatively little consent.

They are and they aren't: they're two separate parts of one business. The advertising department makes money for the owners, while the newsroom writes the stories (and is hopefully insulated enough from the interests of the owners and ad department that it can be honest).

> this feels like bait, no one is asking for the newsroom to kill the story, they are asking for the newsroom to kill the practices of the advertising department.

The newsroom doesn't really have that authority. The firewall is there to protect the newsroom from the advertising department, because the ad department is naturally more powerful (due to newspapers being businesses and the ad department being the part that actually collects much of the revenue).

> Its kinda just pointing out that these authors have control of who they publish for and that its quite hollow to warn people about a poisonous medium in a way that draws more people through that medium.

The world is more complicated than that. It's more poisonous to distract from the warnings just to point out they weren't published in some low-reach niche publication whose privacy practices satisfy some random internet commenter.

If you actually care about privacy, you should celebrate these articles because they might reach a wide-enough audience to actually cause real action to fix the problems.
Currently just showing some generic car footage. Apparently they will demo their self-drivin features: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-self-driving-autonomy-day-wh...
Thank you! I appreciate it. I do it as much for the love of bringing things to life as the money.
The state to which the US tax system is an absolute hellscape becomes crystal clear when/if you move abroad. I currently live in one of those small european countries touted (often accurately, sometimes not) as a utopia, and sure enough filing taxes is basically 99% automated. The more complex your income the more work is involved - of course - but for the vast majority of users who own 1 piece of property and derive most of their income from an employer, it's basically ready out of the box.

The hardest part for me - by far - of filing income tax is and remains filing my US taxes, which unsurprisingly becomes extra complicated and burdensome as an overseas citizen.

We can only dream of the day when the bizarro hydra that forms the anti-tax-reform lobby is somehow defeated, but that realistically feels like a not-in-my-lifetime kind of deal.
I'm getting ~ 50fps with 2.2GHz Intel Core i7 and Iris Pro 1536MB, MacBook Pro 2015. The matrix multiplication is using numjs, and runs on a single core (no web workers).
You and I, and most HN readers, are a lot better at making those sorts of distinctions than the norm.

And correlation between science spending and suicide? I'd say that they both correlate to population, so their relationship is just confounding. But then, I'm no statistician.
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CERN started transitioning to CentOS several years ago. SL was a Fermilab Computing product at this point. I also personally switched from SL to CentOS on my workstation years ago (partially because it took so long for SL7 to come out) .
You mean Fermilab. CERN started moving to CentOS in 2015, Fermilab has finally decided to as well.
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This statement, "If it's free, I'm the product" is becoming less and less relevant because, "Even if it's not free, I'm usually the product anyway"

Think Comcast, Verizon, various Android phones, various modern TVs, etc.
>side note: spending literally every moment with someone for 3 months strait in a very confined living space while constantly dealing with every day problems neither of you have encountered before is a really great way to break in a relationship

That or just break it.
>These are all issues disproportionately impacting women

That men are raised with the social expectation to not find problem and to not let something impact them is not to say that women are impacted more by it. With reference to non-consensual encounters, there is a great deal of bias that refuses to see men as victims and even encourages them to see being the victim as a beneficial event for them.
This is correct. The odds that a VC investment fails because the company copied work and gets caught/sued is very low. Thus, there is little incentive to dig through all the weeds to ensure that absolutely no work was copied.

Ultimately, the VCs probably just ask the founders "Hey, your product looks very similar to product A, how is yours different and did you develop it on your own?" If the founder denies copying and gives a reasonable answer for how they developed it on their own, the VC then makes a judgement. They also may hire some consultants or have some outside experts look at the tech stack to make sure no red flags pop up.

However, you can't dig through every line of code and every document in diligence and compare it to several other companies code/docs. It would take too long and everyone involved (VCs, lawyers, start-up) would be annoyed.
Maybe they're just better? I'm sure A16Z was aware of both and decided to fund only one. Money (especially smart money like A16Z) goes where it's treated best, and apparently some smart people think smartcar isn't going to treat their money as well.

Copying and pasting the docs seems a little egregious, but that's a pretty small issue that could be changed in a day.
OP probably meant within the current context. An NP problem is defined to have a (polynomial sized) proof that can be checked in polynomial time by definition.
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This is surprisingly and unfortunately common. I do technical DD for big tech companies and VCs in my areas of expertise -- databases, geospatial, and sensor analytics. Plagiarism, particularly of white papers and documentation, is ubiquitous. I've personally been plagiarized by famous unicorn startups that are now post-IPO. I never call any of these companies out but it is a poor startup strategy for two reasons:

First, someone like me flagging this has killed or crippled potential acquisitions by big tech companies. In most cases, the startup has no idea that the plagiarism was discovered but it follows their reputation. It is a giant red flag since it raises questions about the provenance of the rest of the IP. Plagiarism reduces your probability of a successful exit.

Second, in some cases, it puts you in the position of tacitly trying to execute someone else's technical vision that you may be lack the expertise to replicate. I've also seen this failure mode multiple times. Plagiarized documentation makes a promise that will be difficult or impossible for the startup to deliver on because they lack specialized expertise that the company they copied it from has. This is a form of self-sabotage since it puts the startup in the position of executing from a position of weakness in order to match the content they ripped off from some other startup, which leads to poor product and poor customer experience.

Copying abstract ideas is fine, there are many possible implementation variations, but blatantly ripping off other startups is a very low ROI strategy for startup success.
> transfer them to a pointless project or put them on something that will cause them to leave on their own accord?

This could be the subject of a dystopia or a dark comedy where the free world has been taken over because could-be revolutionaries are placed on boring, pointless, mismanaged, tail-chasing projects so they have no time to think about the bigger picture or take any real action against the system.
But will the UX/UI actually be good and how will we hold them accountable? My city's site for filing is absolutely terrible and I'm surprised I can even make it through to the end and submit payment. I'm actually surprised they have online filing to begin with. I'd rather pay for good UI/X than a crappy experience that wastes even more of my time.
This is probably an unpopular opinion here but I don't think these meat substitutes are sustainable for long term health in humans...our bodies are clearly designed to consume meat (especially apparent when you compare our bodies to those of our mostly herbivore relatives) and by extension we need these nutrients to thrive (not just survive, mind you). I understand the incentive for people to go vegan but people should tread very carefully since it's completely contraire to their evolutionary makeup and that doesn't come without consequences.
> A one day class can cover

...probably not much more than a 1 day C++ course would offer a random person. :)

That's nowhere near what a farmer needs to read much into an ultrasound. It takes a medical student years of learning (medicine) topped by a lot of practice and experience in imaging until they are useful in actually reading an image. And even a 1-2 day course costs thousands of dollars.

It would be a massive expense for very little real life benefit. I'm guessing AI and a remote doctor would do better. I kept reading a lot of good news recently about AI helping with diagnostics in medical imaging so I guess we can't be too far.
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No judge would agree that damages are anywhere close to 100k per instance.

It just isn't something a judge would ever agree to.
But doesn't MM mean 2000 in roman numerals?
I think OP meant "food desert". Food deserts are typically defined by not having access to such a store or that the only available ones are overpriced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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> Meredith Whittaker, who leads Google’s Open Research, said that after Google disbanded its external AI ethics council on April 4, she was told that her role would be “changed dramatically.” Whittaker said she was told that, in order to stay at the company, she would have to “abandon” her work on AI ethics and her role at AI Now Institute, a research center she cofounded at New York University.

I don't understand why a person who organized the pressure group that led to Google disbanding their AI ethics group would expect her role not to change, since she's involved in AI ethics, the very thing she helped sink. She helped make it politically toxic and a PR disaster for her own employer.

I'm no fan of Google, but they tried to organize something to satisfy a politically diverse group of stakeholders to at least have a discussion on this topic, only to have their efforts very publicly sabotaged by one of their own. Are they really obligated to continue to fund the work she's done to harm the company?
Agree with generally not worrying about the competition — we were a little worried since a valley startup of ex-Big4 people cloned us 3 years ago, but they haven‘t managed to come far, despite a whopping 8MM seed round (we were bootstrapped).

This example however seems to play in a different league, the extent of ripoff here is absolutely staggering.

If I were OP, I‘d immediately call Daimler‘s PR department. After the whole dieselgate shitshow, none of the German automakers are out for the slightest bit of negative PR...

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/01/10/168588...
>free from cruelty.

Do you mind if I ask what your requirements for this are? At the end of the day, isn't ending life cruel, no matter the means?
>Yes, this post is about our own “claimers” in complexity theory.

>The TV Claimers meet a grisly end. We will not say any more about it. We want to be nice.

>Please: Do not stop reading. Yes we know that it is likely that no claimer really has such a proof.

I understand the author's frustration on the subject, but I don't think his disdain is warranted. This reminds me of the time Mehdi Sadaghdar, who runs the YouTube channel ElectroBOOM, disagreed with former MIT Professor Dr. Walter Lewin's proposal that Kirchhoff's Law is "for the birds".

Sadaghdar reproduced the results from Dr. Lewin's experiments, but proposed an alternative explanation about what could be happening. He created a video for Dr. Lewin, and stated that he was open to being proven wrong, ending that "either way, the science will win".

Dr. Lewin's response, instead of educational, was belittling where he generalized Sadaghdar as one of the group that holds to Kirchhoff's Law "religiously", and that he needs better education. The explanation was wrapped around in copious amounts of disdain. Sadaghdar eventually realized that they both fundamentally believed the same thing, and that their disagreement was only an error in communication, however, Dr. Lewin's videos are far more disliked than liked, and he didn't come out appearing to be the good guy from the exchange.

My point is, maybe generalizing the people you're criticizing, even though you "think the vast majority of claimers of P=NP or other big results have almost always worked alone" and comparing them to a group of people who die a "grisly" death in a fictional TV series, before you begin a lecture, isn't educational.

[0]: Sadaghdar's original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TTEFF0D8SA

[1]: Dr. Lewin's response video 1: https://youtu.be/AQqYs6O2MPw

[2]: Dr. Lewin's response video 2: https://youtu.be/ototTU5NUNA

[3]: Dr. Lewin's response video 3: https://youtu.be/d_XqrZo5_7Y

[4]: Sadaghdar's last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9LuVBfwvzA
Classic in C is to use a define to enable/disable print statements.

//#DEBUG 1
#include "debug.h"
Firing people for organizing is in fact taking part in a war. It's just the wrong side of the battle, which you may prefer.
> These days many of them are moving to 'xubuntu' (mainly avoiding the unity+gnome3 mess).

And here I am using Ubuntu with Window Maker.

I guess things are different when you're installing across a lot of different systems and don't want to have to coordinate One More Thing.
"If Google is still mostly focused on writing software and building the future, rather than prosecuting culture wars, that strikes me as a slight but real positive sign."

In other words, if corporations stopped trying to prevent sexual harassment and discrimination, Jordan Peterson would consider it a positive sign.

The more I learn about this guy, the more of a scum bag he appears.
checks math

Ok, so maybe it'll be ok for two years.
It is an awkward notation. Nobody says 100M for $100,000, they say 100K. So why should 100 million be 100MM? It forces people to pause, and think unnecessarily.
Cool, I'll wait! (no pressure :) )
I have definitely been close to people who seemed to book an unreasonable amount of vacations to get away from their mood disorders.
> I think that you need to have this kind of childlike way of looking at things, as the writer Albert Murray described, and which you see with children before they’ve been conditioned into race-thinking, which is that the color of your skin is not white. The color of my skin isn’t black. Those colors don’t even manifest on human flesh. We don’t even describe ourselves in words that are actually accurate to flesh tones. Any fool can see that white people are not actually white and black people are not black.

I agree with this. I think calling people 'white' or 'black' is stupid and I don't do it (and not just for this reason). But Williams does use these words to refer to people elsewhere through the interview. I wonder why he does it, after making this explicit point?
Even then, they are still parasites with no ethics.
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M is a stand-in for the Roman numeral Φ, or 'mille' which is the Latin word for 'thousand'.

So MM is thousand thousand's, or million.

The reason it was adopted in finance was because M means thousand, except in English where we adopted M to mean million.

Of course metric units where M = million makes more sense today, though. It's a legacy thing that stuck around.
Scheme requests for implementation often have this specified, soo for example https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-140/srfi-140.html

It specifies it for every procedure (the preface says that procedures that don't specify asymptotic performance run in O(n).
Arrogant American people won't believe you. You are lying, Amazon is the best. US is No.1
No, heme is naturally found in all plants but in tiny quantities, they put the gene for heme into yeast to mass produce it. Read more here: https://impossiblefoods.com/heme/
This is common in industry, don't think about it too much.
It's not much different than logging into any other tax website provider, except that it's less slick and nice, and you have to actually fill out the forms rather than answering questions.

This is the actual direct link to the site in case you actually haven't been able to find what you're supposed to use:

https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/
Or people trying to be too inclusive and forward thinking without thinking about the implications of what is being said. Race and ethnicity are so closely tied, that from a biological standpoint, it's almost pointless to try to separate them.

I made a comment about this previously in reply:

>This isn't really a good argument. Western people use lactose in a variety of ways such as a drink additive (tea), for cooking (cheese, cream-based sauces), and even consuming by the glass (good ol' fashion milk). However, there's a high prevalence of lactose intolerance in Asian countries. There are just some sensitivities, diseases, and reactions that are more prevalent in some ethnicities than others including lactose intolerance, sickle-cell anemia, and Tay-Sachs disease.[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19420642
Long ago i remember briefly reading some research articles about FPGA vulnerabilities. Don't know if it's practical, but people designing critical system are justifiably paranoid.
Society isn't the government, though. This conflation is a nice trick when arguing, I'll give you that.
Beyond being not remotely surprised at this, what constantly baffles me is: Why are they still there? And pending an answer to that: Why have they not walked out again?

Presumably the Walkout was a "fix this or we walk out" type of situation... but after Google refused to do 6/7ths of anything they demanded... they're still working for Google and not actively protesting. I would argue that Google called their bluff here.

A traditional protest against an employer, a strike, entails "give us this if you want us to return to work". Googlers walked out, made demands, and then walked right back in the door. Google said "we'll do one of the things you asked for because the rest of the industry was already going that way anyhow", and then refused the rest and everyone, for the moment, seems alright with this?
Seriously, that's about the size of my bathroom. I certainly could have a smaller shower, but I'd change my tune if I had to sleep in it.
Carl Sagan once complained that all people who contacted him and claimed to talk with aliens always reseived simple unoriginal messages like love each other. Aliens never provided anything humans did not already know.

If someone comes up with a proof, they are in good position to troll.
Hi. I'm the author of the post.

I actually agree here. As soon as I realize it's going to be non-trivial for me to trace the issue with the debugger, more and more instead of setting up complex conditional breakpoints I just step back from the computer and have a think, and white board out my current understanding of how things are working. Usually, I get an "aha!" moment pretty quickly.

However, sometimes I don't get that "aha!" moment quickly, it random issues endup taking 30 minutes to hours to trace.

What I've come to understand is that's only true because debuggers are so limited. For example, white-boarding out the problem is incredibly useful.. why can't my debugger do that for me, by presenting a number of ways to layout the program and some filters so I can just view my code as graph and watch execution slowed down? Today's debuggers even in their best form are like looking through a tiny peep hole at a picture, I can only see this tiny section... but I want to see the whole picture.
OK, but:

Medicare spending: $705.9 billion in 2017

Medicaid spending: $581.9 billion

Private health insurance spending: $1,183.9 billion

Out of pocket: $365.5 billion

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
as you see Medicare+Medicaid make a nice chunk of health care spending. Airlines lower prices as a last minute resort, they'd go bankrupt if half (or a nice %) of seats were to be sold at half price.