skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seriously, as long as they ban, block, filter, and require Chinese ownership of foreign companies I don’t see why they should expect or receive different from other countries.

They'll stop impeding foreign companies once those are no longer able to compete - then they will say "We have opened our markets, so why do you exclude us from yours?"
,,This technology also allows people to be tracked without consent.''

I apploud this law, but Facebook and Google already does this.
Developing Conversational AI to Be More Human
The linked overview on Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range by O'Neill (of PCG fame) is insightful. It gives some more background and compares several approaches (including this, Lemire's).

It seems based on her testing that a very simple bit mask & rejection technique ("Apple's method", as Apple implemented it in their modification of arc4random_uniform) is the fastest among the unbiased techniques, particularly for large N, while for mixed N Lemire's technique seems competitive or better. She suggests a further optimisation, which now clearly "wins" except for large N.

Cool stuff - I find random number generation fascinating.

http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html
Nobody cares, neither it happened in Europe not in USA. In other words, not a west world so tribes don't care. I can say the same about plain catastrophes.
The problem with RedPitaya is extremely poor software support. And without that you have only an expensive brick.

Worse, the board itself isn't open source, AFAIK, so even stuff like finding a schematic to get things done could be a challenge.
It'd be nice if that was true but its not. A lot of Asia being a perfect example.
Oh my god I wish I had known you could do that, [warning, don't read if you don't want to hear a horrible story about a mouse] I put down a glue trap to get what I thought were cockroaches but came to find a mouse stuck in it. Horrified, I tried to get it loose with a stick, but the glue was so strong I accidentally broke its legs, the poor thing kept trying to pull them free... I immediately removed all the glue traps and got live catch traps, and caught something like 6 mice before I gave in and notified the landlord. They used poison, then sealed up possible entry points. I wish there was some way to tell the mice it's not safe to be in people's homes, I don't want them to suffer
Yet another reason why the mobile OS should (freeze / swap out / disable) an app upon entering the background ... at a minimum the user needs to have more control over degree to which above happens ... of course powers to be love a smartphones current total lack of such privacy
Yeah, but you think there’s no businessy way to explain that?

There are plenty of reasons to track prisoners and while it’s not acceptable today, tracking religion and other sensitive demographics was not at all uncommon.

You also just have to remember that while you might disagree with something being done it’s a national government asking you to do it. You think there aren’t things being done today that people would disagree with? We don’t even need to look to Saudi Arabia or Syria or Indonesia to find corruption and technology being used to oppress people, there’s plenty of that in the US.
Traditionally when a magazine goes under, the publisher sends you the remaining number of issues of some other loosely-related magazine. But since Maker Media isn't a traditional magazine publisher I'm not sure what they can do in a similar vein.
One thing that always surprises me is the inability of many Americans to accept that the whole world is not US. We are simply not fighting the political and racial battles that they have. In order to be a citizen in a globalized world, one has to be able to see things from perspectives of different societies, not impose their own perspective on everyone. I agree that the original comment about racial diversity makes sense in US and I would completely agree with it if the site was about US or similar countries where there are significant visually-distinguishable minorities. However, it simply doesn’t make sense in Lithuania. Also in many other EU members
Unreal Tournament, the ambitious project left drifting in space
S O -> Esso -> Exxon
La facturation facile et gratuite pour les autoentrepreneurs
So from '37, you'd contend, they had no sharing of skills, workers, or information? Why did they retain the same name if they were separate companies?

Did IBM in USA get money for use of trademarks, patents, etc., From IBM in Germany?
What does bootstrapped mean? I thought it meant self-funded
ABP is just as open source as uBO is.
I must say this is a very well written blog post.
Probably because it's more experimental and less mature than the others. It's a small operation. However, they got a lot of innovation in concurrency and recently filesystems.
I know you put /s, but I just want to say that if I were a mouse I would much prefer being eaten alive.
Search 'mousetrap mondays' for a great yter who demonstrates many more humane traps.
They are both really convenient though.
On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important, Inspiring
I started out a bit later taking apart the Atari and getting circuit kits from Radio Shack.

It was a lot of fun. I did a good number of electrical engineering courses as part of my computer engineering degree. Now with kids, I plan on doing small projects to pique their curiosity
From the Readme:

"Unlike in OpenAI's blogpost, I did absolutely nothing to manually cherry pick the quality here. Some examples are good, most are bad. Almost all outputs decay in quality as the post gets longer. I wanted to keep the raw outputs to give an accurate feel of the strengths and failure cases of the model. The truth is that using a GPT2 type model to create text you want is more an art than a science and can be very finicky."
> Those numbers are as you might find them in a dataset from summing with this particular problem. The problem we're looking at here is a binary churn/no churn problem, as opposed to one that looks at how many people churn out of a population.

But isn't that still a count per bin? Since it's a count it has a Poisson uncertainty.

> f you want to incorporate some kind of uncertainty in your estimates, then you either need to augment your dataset (i.e. include some random examples, roughly speaking), or estimate your model using the Bayesian approach which explicitly allows for uncertainty relating to the data itself.

Or use a likelihood that considers uncertainties. That also allows one to explicitly consider the uncertainties when maximizing the likelihood.
>It looks to me that these people (this Dale figure, the Vice reporters etc) aren't impossible dickheads who belong in jail, but well-meaning people who made (grave) errors in judgment. They deserve "comfortable lives" just like everybody else. I bet you've made grave errors in judgment once or twice. I sure have.

Dale genuinely could not fit me into his cognitive framework. He was an older guy who'd grown up on "Chinese can't be creative" which there is some truth to- it's really, really tough for us. What tripped him up is numbers- 1.3b of us, our outliers are...well like me. I am unlikely in a small pool- in a large one me, or someone like me is a statistical certainty. He made a mistake- and some people behind the scenes with other motives and their own prejudice who encouraged him to speak up and act on that mistake.

Vice knew. They made no mistake, no confusion, no misunderstanding- it was spelled out for them. Examples were provided of people in very similar situations and what the consequences were. Vice was flat out willing to subject me to state action for the sake of giving their story a "hook". Dale was, at absolute worse a prejudiced old man in a position where that prejudice did a lot of harm- Vice had multiple people involved who fit every definition of sociopath.
You're starting to make me think most of what I read about BeOS isn't true. One of those things was that it was designed for strong, concurrency support. They bragged about it in the demo showing how it didn't degrade under massive load. Another paper mentioned the "benaphores" that improved on semaphores a bit.

So, was it not designed for concurrency and they just somehow fixed a lot of it later? That retrofits usually don't work is why I believed claims that concurrency was a design goal.
So instead of making a point about the problem, mybe even publicising it, you want to just pull out of the south and give up because the culture is different? If so, good riddance.
I thought it meant "got from concept to ramen profitability" but I could be misusing the term so please let me know if I am. :)
Digital Currency Will Change the World (2016)
The Pessimistic Impostor
Ford was also a massive anti-Semite
the advantage of a glue trap is that the meat is still fresh...i never let a death go to waste...never
They'd probably be more impressed with the app. They could all download it to their phone and use it together!
It's not even about directly taking money - the inefficiences caused by his monopoly slowed down progress for many years, which meant saving fewer lifes that would've been possible if not for MS.
A quantum simulation of Unruh radiation
Our hardware tooling is all written in C++/Win32 and some MFC; it’s all tiny and light. Because factory controlling computers are (unfortunately imho but what can I do) older Windows versions (for us that is due to certification etc mostly) on weak but robust systems with little memory that need to run for years without issues/crashes. So lean, fast software, tested for memory leaks which can be restarted in very short times (downtime of the production line is expensive) is important.
The art minded part of it is what is really important to me. Hopefully someone can figure out some way to make that profitable (or at least sustainable) in the future. There is no shortage of tech conferences but I do not see a lot of gatherings where people share and talk about their exploratory projects that are done just because they feel like they would be interesting.
What better decision can they make?
You said "no they didn't" then described how they did exactly what the parent said, just with a gloss describing why they wanted to be allowed to "use it for evil".
Vermaden's comments on that were here:

https://lobste.rs/s/szzgjl/cheap_bsd_friendly_notebook

All the ones I saw in good condition on eBay were Intel's. I got a T420 with Core i7 to mitigate potential slowdowns from future CPU vulnerabilities. I've occasionally had to restart it from suspend/resume issues. Otherwise, it's been great.

One more thing: the function key and control key are swapped compared to most laptops. I didn't like that because I'm used to control being far left. duclare told me about a BIOS setting that swaps them back. Everything's fine now. :)
Grid-Group Cultural Theory
Home Depot has solved this in their appliances section. They now have e-ink screens on everything.
Companies that apply a nation-wide pricing scheme do see a reason, I guess.
The thing about mad cow disease is that it's a prion disease, which operate very differently from viral and bacterial diseases. Prion diseases can just appear out of nowhere, and can be spread by consumption or contact with affected tissue/fluids. Viruses don't appear from nowhere but are rather subject to evolution. The way humans do make the spread of viral diseases worse is by cramming lots of animals together. So while humans aren't at fault for the existence of the virus itself, they can be at fault for its spread. It seems though that Newcastle disease is hard to control.
Ask HN: What opinions do you hold that are unpopular among the HN crowd?
If my cat actually ate the things, I'd be impressed. Instead, being a fully satiated indoor house cat she spends hours and hours "playing" with them, and then comes to us crying when they don't move anymore.

They definitely have a predator psyche.

Still, living in the country in an older home we tried for years to stay on top of our mouse problem. There's no way we could seal up all the holes and accesses here.

Once we got the cat, it was an instant transformation. A couple times a year the mice come in from outside looking for shelter and the cat has a week of entertainment and then we're mouse free.
For Men Who Hate Talking on the Phone, Games Keep Friendships Alive
It's inventive, I'll give them that.
Very true. People often get an incomplete picture of things, which leads them to make the same kinds of mistakes that led up to WW2.

I still run into people who think the logic Nazis used only existed in the Germany of the era, but othering logic is deeply embedded in human culture. It comes out like this in our darkest moments, but all of us are vulnerable to it. Treating someone who commits atrocities as a monster keeps us from realizing how terrifyingly human they are and how short the path can be.

Pride month is a good time for this discussion because the Allies left a certain kind of person behind in the camps to serve out their sentences under laws based on the same kind of dehumanization the Nazis preyed on.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gay-prisoners-germany-wwii...

The famous Nazi book burning photo was of books taken out of an era-equivalent gender clinic/LGBTQ+ center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...
Just like facebook or google can block your account and prevent you from accessing all those logins you linked ever again.

So you better log in with your own email, but of the 3, I’d rather pick Apple as the lesser evil!
Facebook pages and logins hacked by Anonghost(#Facebook hacked) – Meet Hackers
The irony that it's behind a pay wall and I immediately lose interest. I wonder if the WSJ talks about that?
Anything that doesn't conform to the dogma for certain "givens", it's like a religion sometimes.
> Despite its rotund appearance, from which its name derives, the J 29 was a fast and agile aircraft for its era

So why do all modern fighters look similar and nothing like this?
What dollar value do you assign to misinformation that undermined the national discourse around the 2016 U.S. election...

It has been priceless for "both" the "major" parties, that such a baseless falsehood as RussiaRussiaRussia has allowed them to avoid any scrutiny of how their chosen candidates could have been beaten by a reality-TV buffoon. After enough arm-twisting, FB finally allowed that, sure, whatever, Russia bought a couple thousand dollars worth of ads. Thanks Facebook!
What is the difference precisely?
When will people place a value on their personal data? A video uploaded with a copyrighted song in the background can be challenged by the IP owner and often is. But even with public outrage over things like PI breaches at Equifax, 23andme gets full ownership of peoples’ dna.
BMW consistintly ranks at the bottom of reliability raitings, and toyota at the top. Its hard to compre the difference in construction. BMW has more luxury feel, but the fit and finish, and general construction are not on par with their japneese rivals.
> But isn't that still a count per bin? Since it's a count it has a Poisson uncertainty.

Yes, as presented there. But in a binary classification setting, that's not how the data would be presented to the model. Instead you would have one row per customer with a churn/no churn label for that customer along with values for a number of independent variables you deem relevant. The reason I put it in that 2x2 table like that is just to make the problem more apparent. If you had potentially millions of customers (and therefore rows), the exact separation problem would not be as blatantly obvious to the naked eye as it is there - this is partly why I recommend using confusion matrices to check for whether this is happening.

> Or use a likelihood that considers uncertainties. That also allows one to explicitly consider the uncertainties when maximizing the likelihood.

Insofar as a set of parameters arrived at by means of MLE has associated standard errors, yes there is some uncertainty involved. If I understand you correctly, what you're talking about is modifying the likelihood to be flatter so that it can't get caught in this one localised whirlpool as easily. That's effectively regularisation - which I cover in the article. You could do it, but it's more or less a band aid. Really the data itself is the problem. Did you have a specific thing in mind when you were talking about likelihoods?
I recommend skipping the article and jump straight to the movie if you have the time:
https://archive.org/details/The.Yes.Men.Fix.The.World.P2P.Ed...

It was released under a Creative Commons license on recommendation from the EFF, so that the U.S. House of Chambers could not stop it (yes, they tried!).

The movie is a documentary of sorts, featuring two people who go to conferences posing as high-profile businesses, promoting oft-ridiculous products to make a point...the only problem is, people keep taking them seriously (even Halliburtons SurvivaBall).

At one point they end up live on BBC news and inadvertently wipes $1B+ off a companys public stock value.

It is hilarious, and well worth the watch.
"History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes"

Soon after supporting Jewish oppression, IBM decided to switch tracks to supporting black oppression[1]. They were one of the biggest tech providers to the White Apartheid government in South Africa to enforce their brutality.

[1]http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.co...
No it's not

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping
Grew up in the country (and live there now) and my dad used to do this in the garage, which isn't humane at all, but very effective:

Take a 2 litre pop bottle, remove the cap, put some food with a little poison inside. Make a little ramp for the mouse to get in. The mouse can go in, but it's too slippery for them to get out, they can't get traction on the plastic. They die inside the bottle, but can't spread the poison around to cats or other predators that might eat them.
Well meaning? What does that mean? Like intent? You could not possibly read anything but malintent from Dale’s writing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anyone-could-have-invented-bit...
I live in flyover country, with a paid off house, and good income. If you don’t have a mortgage, then it will be medical insurance (which costs just a much). If not that, the college savings, which is also equivalent.
Politics is interesting from a meta standpoint because if there are millions of people taking a political standpoint different from yours, the odds are quite strong that there are people who are well-informed with good intentions who have thought through their position in-depth and have reached a different conclusion than you have. It's also obviously a place where humans act the most like herd animals. So when you find a really smart person who has a different opinion yet wants to know more, it's an opportunity for both of you to test out your own reasoning skills.

This can be quite fascinating and intellectually humbling. Instead of viewing politics as something for dumb people who want to clan (which it can be for many), you get a personal feel for how much each of us relies on definitions and language that prevents us from doing much introspection. And if it's true in the political arena, it's certainly true in all of the other parts of our lives.

But that's just the first step of the journey. It leads naturally to questions like "How do we 'know' things?" which is a great adventure on its own. Eventually you lead to questions like "How do people of vastly different cultures and background communicate on anything? If I were dropped in the middle of a neanderthal tribe 40k years ago, could each of us learn the other's language and culture? If so, how?"

You end up with a profound sense of ignorance, but that's okay because most stuff works most of the time and we don't have to go around poking at the foundations of knowledge simply to drive to the grocery store. But then you see one of us tech folks make some dramatic and overly-confident statement like "C++ is obviously better than Java" and you think across the panopolpy of human experience you're able to have a good conversation without feeling personally threatened.

Intellectual humility is not only learnable, it's the first step on a grand adventure of realizing where we all fit into the universe.
Do you think you qualify for receiving the Darwin Award?
Baseless falsehood? I take it you haven’t read the Mueller Report or seen the indictments of Russian Nationals. Willful ignorance or intentional misinformation?
I used to work on cloud gaming and the business is tough. We were the second generation, Onlive and gaikai were the first. We had some edges, but not enough to make it work.

The most difficult part is not technology: delivering low latency video streams. The most difficult part is cost control. At the time we did it, the cost to support one user to play for two months will be more that buying a decent pc or console, assuming 8 hour game play per day.

Google did something smart, using Linux and working with developers. This could make user isolation easier and save money. We engineers thought about it too, but our PMs wanted shortcuts, they wanted to make existing games work.

Cloud gaming is hard. You have to own every piece of the technology to make it work. GPU, video encoder hardware, OS, cloud infrastructure, game content, game distribution platform. Out of all companies, Microsoft seems to have most of the pieces.
Let’s play devils advocate - “So what? What is the big deal if my DNA info is out in the public?”
Pretty much every country is doing it or will be doing it. Some will do in the open and some will hide it from unsuspecting citizens. It is just how human nature works and it is just another way to maintain power and order.
In short, nothing to see here...
And probably has Google ad/tracking, and presumably Facebook social links too ...
Because "computer says so" isn't good enough when your decisions affect someone else's life. The standards are set in other areas of statistical modelling, not other areas of software development.

There are countless examples in the public domain of AI systems improperly discriminating on race and gender when processing job applications, aiding medical diagnoses or targeting ads for housing and career opportunities. These outcomes can vary from annoying to morally questionable to explicitly illegal, and are all the more common when you don't really understand what your model is doing.

Statistical inference is important, and it's hard to get right. Centuries of thought have been put into methods to explain the effect of X on Y, accounting for Z. It's not the same goal as maximising the AUC or minimising the MSE. In many cases too, it's far more important.
Isn't this different because with fb and google you're signing a EULA?
DNA is like a computer without harddrives.
My friend got it because she wanted to know what the company has to offer with their service and she is okay, with this service using her data I guess.
In 1981, moral philosopher, Alisdair MacIntyre, published his prophetic book, A
Denotational Semantics
What I find most amusing is ratings (and also awards/nominations) before a movie has been released.
Series tend to be rated higher than movies, probably because people that don't enjoy them stop watching and rating after one or a few episodes.

That effect may well be spilling over into movies, considering far more movies are now sequels.
The office is for Azure DevOps, our source code hosting / work item tracking / CI / CD / package hosting solution. I think we are looking to hire software engineers and senior software engineers, but if those titles don't fit you, I would say apply anyway. I personally would rather have a great person than the right title, and I suspect a lot of us feel the same.

Feel free to email me if you have any more questions about Microsoft or the RTP area.