skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, but surely it has to retain some information about the past to be able to know how to update that belief vector? Outside of directly being on a mission, the only major "good" or "evil" actions are voting for/against missions, once you know if the mission succeeded or failed. Do you just not take that into account?

It's possible this is in the paper - a lot of the more math/modeling parts went a bit over my head, so feel free to point me to a section to specifically read if I missed out.

If it's literally just a representation of the outcomes of the missions and who went on them, then isn't the Belief Vector just the venn diagram of how every mission went with some iterative statistics laid over it? I would have assume any regular/competitive players would be fairly good at keeping that mental model themselves, which makes it seem confusing to me that the Agent would be better than that, unless it's essentially just saying that the game is better if you play purely logically and ignore all context, which defeats the fun of playing it?
I do live in the US, and I really enjoy my area. There's an abundance of nearby outdoor rock climbing and snowboarding, both of which I'm very skilled at. I have a well-paying tech job, no debt, not much baggage, blue eyes. I think my biggest deterrent for women is that I'm somewhat short and have a slight receding hairline, which is apparently enough to detract from all my positives.

I've lived in the Midwest before and it's worse there, partly because I couldn't practice my sports which kept me out of shape, partly because it was even harder finding like-minded friends, in part because I don't like regular sports. I would definitely consider moving out of country if that opportunity ever came up.

> And women don't want a man that they have to "guide" anyway. They want to attach themselves to a guy who's got his sh*t together and knows what he wants.

This leads into what I consider unrecognized female privilege. From what I can tell, women have a pretty big list of superficial expectations from their partners, and are really quick to dismiss those who don't fall into place. They also gave an abundance of interested suitors who they can sort through until they find they one they way. Me on the other hand, I'm lucky to find someone interested in me who even passes my most basic tests.

Equality in dating doesn't exist and it's highly skewed in favor of women.
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
That’s a classic example of a problem that can be trivially solved with another level of indirection (reference to a reference).
Well... the obvious normal ones are baby sitting, house sitting, yard work, mowing lawns, painting walls etc etc etc. And of course the venerable news paper route.
And during the process of learning what interests you, do you ever find that something tangentially related, you don't fully understand and should learn more about it.

I don't think anyone literally thinks, I need to know this to improve my intelligence as it is a weakness. It's usually more abstract.
Let's see 3% payment cost vs 30% fees... If they wanted to just charge the transaction cost. And yes there are cost centers and profit centers. If you want to eat the cost of something you could do it. And once it becomes successful maybe you start raising fees slowly to catch up to that 30%. Many strategies are possible.
Sure thing, but at least Android is open source.

Huawei's drivers, which is what led GCHQ to probe into Huawei's code and write a rather uncharitable report on what their coding practices look like [1], are not. Admittedly, as members of the public we can only take their word for it that they found shoddy code by any reasonable standard. But if the latter is true and any indicator of how they'll maintain their own fork of Android, it's doesn't inspire much confidence.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversi...
I think Cambridge University's Trojan Room coffee pot probably wins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
You know, whenever I vow to stop explaining Sun, there is some yet-more outrageous claim that I just can't seem to summon the willpower to ignore, for fear that it will join a corpus of alternative facts that poison the wellspring of future generations.

So, in that spirit: Sun emphatically did not "ignore the internet" (?!) -- and was in fact a pioneer of distributed systems in many ways. Instead of rattling off the many important, early distributed systems that Sun built -- or the many pioneers of distributed systems that Sun employed -- I will vector you to a single Sun-authored paper circa 1994, "A Note on Distributed Computing"[1] (and to Chris Meiklejohn's discussion of it at Papers We Love[2]). The paper itself drips with wisdom that still feels current and important a quarter of a century later -- and it very much reflects the zeitgeist of the time at Sun. Please read the paper -- and more generally, take the time to educate yourself as to the history of our domain and the many people and companies who have made seminal contributions to it; the generations whose shoulders your work stands upon will thank you for it!

[1] https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79mjsLdkpY
I wouldn't be positive about that. Someone with more intellectual humility may be more likely to seek out more information and to continue learning than someone who doesn't.
heavy-handed central planning at its finest.

no one is forced to work at these companies and no one is forced to buy the stocks. if you don't like the way the company is run don't work there or invest.

imagine the opposite heavy-handed intervention. what if it was proposed that companies are banned from allowing employees reps on the board...
How Early Stage VCS Decide Where to Invest
VS Code has too steep a learning curve for someone who has never even written Hello World!

Learning to code is hard enough, without having to learn a new software UI, especially if all you've ever done on a computer is browse Facebook and write Word documents.

If you want a great example of a beginner's/child's first IDE, have a look at SonicPi
>Did they delete the training data (the photos and labels)? The models trained on the data? Both?

It would be interesting to find out if that were the case, considering that it forms the basis of Azure ML Ops (along with Pipelines), introduced at Build a month ago, with an aim to track assets and create an 'end-to-end' audit trail.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/take-your-machine-lea...
They're in the Nasdaq and S&P 500. Even if you don't own them they do have systemic impact on the rest of the market, given that lots of money tracks those indices and they're used as a measure of economic health.

Not investing in banks didn't make people safe from the financial crisis.
> Do you know how many versions of how many operating systems across how many different platforms and products my company uses?

What OSes besides Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, z/OS, mobile (Andriod, iOS)? SCADA stuff perhaps?

And how many of those operating systems are targeted by worms and ransomware?

I know when I used to admin Solaris and IRIX machines we were worried a lot less about attacks than the Windows desktop folks. An nmap of the systems showed SSH open and one or two other services, which meant very few vectors for attack.

The fact of the matter is that by securing desktops, one probably takes care of 80% of a company's attack surface. Next take care of your Windows servers, which is another 10%. Then go after Unix-y servers and things like printers, HVAC, IPMI, etc (which should be VLANed off).
How does Russia feel about this? They have modules too, and face similar issues.
My favorite college professor was onto this way back in 1988 with the subtitle to his great book `Another Sort of Learning`

`Selected Contrary Essays on How Finally to Acquire an Education While Still in College Or Anywhere Else: Containing Some Belated Advice about How to Employ Your Leisure Time When Ultimate Questions Remain Perplexing in Spite of Your Highest Earned Academic Degree, Together with Sundry Book Lists Nowhere Else in Captivity to Be Found`

https://www.amazon.com/Another-Sort-Learning-James-Schall/dp...
There's def a sizeable representation of FB folks on HN, know some personally.
Such a simpler time.
I am coming back from vacations next week and have 2 PRs to finish (couldn’t merge before because they are high risk), I am antecipating a lot of pain just to pick them up where I left off... I would rather do my tax returns instead lol
I remembered the EoL date for ISS being 2024, but it looks like a bill was passed this September extending it to 2030.

https://spacenews.com/house-joins-senate-in-push-to-extend-i...
Coop living for the elderly I think would be a fairly good start, I'm German and we have some of those communities in the south, it's usually like a small village where older residents take care of each other with the assistance of some company who provides caregivers, but people enjoy much greater autonomy than they do in their homes. It's not only cheaper, but also more dignified and people seem to be happier.

For younger people I think coops are a great thing too. In the US implementing policies that discourages single family housing and promotes closer connection between workspace and living space I think would help. If you live and work in walking distance of your chess club going there is more likely compared to someone living in the suburbs.

For communities there's also time banking which has gotten a little attention in recent years. Essentially paying people in a special currency for reciprocal help in their local communities that can only be exchanged locally, and everyone earns the same based on how long they work. Basically an egalitarian approach to fill in the gap where markets are too anonymous to provide meaning or where they don't exist at all.

And then I think government and companies should do much more to promote education for middle aged and older people. And not just online learning, but physical interaction. In my experience educational institutions are some of the best places to make new social connections.
What I learned as developper and Data Scientist is: either you know what you’re doing and can see the big picture, either you’re walking blindly to a “good enough” solution.

In the first case, I spend most of my time in architectural design and modelization. The implementation phase is rather quick, because everything is well defined and you can write a lot of tests upfront.

In the second case, you’ll discover the big picture by facing the problems while trying to find and implement a working solution.

While getting experienced means how fast can you figure out the big picture.
Exactly, you pay much more for a GB outside the EU when roaming.
Made me think of this classic:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
And yet China has parallel search engines, chat platforms, e-commerce platforms and social networks. A billion people make a big enough target audience to enable a lot of things.
Whatever you do, please don’t argue “think about the artists”. The artists are getting screwed over by Spotify and the labels.

Btw, can an artist get around paying 30% percent of revenue to Spotify to distribute their music?

Can I add music I bought from some other place and include it in my Spotify library?
These isekai novel titles have long since gone past the point of ridicule, and that stands even if you limit the selection to translated versions. I do wonder if this is a byproduct of SEO, or simply differentiation between products.
I guess we're thinking of children along separate lines - I see it as a potential outcome of a good, stable relationship, but you're defining it as a goal, where the getting a mate is a step in the progress towards said goal. It's just a different way of defining relationships and lives.
>I'm tired of updating my GPU drivers and experinece (5-10 minutes)

I never understood this complaint. You can be perfectly fine running GPU drivers from a year ago. You don't need to update them every day.

With Steam, it "updating" every time you run it seems to be a lie really, but I think most people who run Steam just leave it always on.

The games, I have 400 on Steam. Maybe 1-3 update per day on average, and there's lot's of overlap ie 90% of my library hasn't updated in a year, and 9% of the leftover updates maybe once a month.
Of course it runs NetBSD.
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Purpose in Life Protects Against Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults
> Sure thing, but at least Android is open source.

Some of it. Certainly not many of the hardware drivers. There's a reason that updates are dependent on hardware vendors and mobile network operators and that most phones don't have fully functional Lineage builds.
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Who defines what "good enough" means? Is it basic functionality? What if that basic functionality contains security vulnerabilities? What if it is written in such a way that will cause potential, foreseeable problems down the road? What if it is written in such a way that it is only understandable to the author? What exactly is "good enough?"
Inducing presence through fidelity – could vr be heading in the wrong direction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEerPQHl_4k

With high fidelity, we are looking into another world. What would photorealism feel like on a large, high refresh panel?

How would a physics engine designed to match photo-realism handle science fiction and fantasy games? What about tactical competitive games?

Is this level of fidelity even possible with VR within the next several decades?

Or will we be stuck in the enthusiast hardware loop of "not quite presence educing, so more expensive widgets" forever?
In a surveillance state, all behavior is by definition suspicious behavior.
It is, but not for tax reasons: giving employees stock is cheaper because it is the shareholders who pay for it, while cash comes from actual company account. Stock that is awarded to employees as stock-based compensation is typically new-issuance stock that's added to the total number of outstanding shares, thereby depressing the share price. Thus, the company doesn't have to pay anything, it is the shareholders who suffer dilution (albeit a very minor one).
What are you doing? How many writes/s? How much processing are you doing in the app server? Do you have a queue you can offload work onto?

Your question is a bit open-ended.

Scaling your database is generally the hardest part. Any jerk can put 100 app servers behind a load balancer. Scaling data is significantly harder, especially when it comes to writes. There are options to get around this, but they come with compromises.

So, really, it depends on what you're doing. In general, use things you're comfortable with. Is Python slower than Rust? Sure. But do you need 2ms response times from your app server or is 10ms fine, especially when latency between the user and your first load balancer is likely 3-5x that number? Build it, test it, if it's too slow, cache it. If you can't cache it, break out the offending piece and optimize it or put it into a faster language.
THX 4 the URL, and the insightfullness re mobile handset.
Error 418: I'm a teapot.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
I'm actually thinking more of social skills and written language, not programming. I said something about this in a different thread earlier this week, and someone was baffled as to why I thought being able to write and sell was important, since you just wind up doing what your boss tells you to do anyway.

As opposed to telling the boss what you're going to do.
> Comments don't have to decay. Discipline is important. Culture is important. And yes, these have to be intentionally set and upheld.

These are things that are often completely outside your control.

> If you set a culture...

At most shops, you don't get to set the culture. About the only time you do is if you're a founder or early developer. Otherwise you have to fit into the existing culture, or attempt to find a company that better reflects what you want. Sure, it's not hopeless; you can likely influence to some extent, but your influence is usually limited.

> And nothing really substitutes for an english language explanation of the "why" and the intention of a particular section of code.

I do agree with this. Any code that can't be written in a self-documenting way absolutely must be commented. However, if you find the need to do this often, it might be a sign that you should focus more on code clarity and less on (likely premature) optimization, or perhaps consider if you're really using the right tool (language, framework, etc.) for the job at hand.

I will admit that I probably comment less than I should, but I feel like the average is way too verbose, and that enough comments are out of date and incorrect (often in very subtle ways) that it adds significantly to my overhead when trying to understand someone else's (or even my own) code.
Latex is not that hard to learn. The very basics you can learn in under 20 minutes. Then grab a template from openlatex or sharelatex and don't mess with it.
And if something doesn't work out, ask on tex.stackexchange.
If there's a workaround and it's not hard for people to find it and paste it into the comments, then it's not hard for people submitting articles to post the non-paywall version in the first place.
Banned from guns, Texas gave him a license anyway
And are the employees suppose to work for free?
So put it under an export embargo. This press release seems like they're already preparing one anyways.
Surely the long play is turning Facebook into sovereign nation state? Only half-joking...
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Relevant to recent discussion on other threads about the difference between founders believing their own bullshit vs the Steve Jobs reality distortion field:

"VCs are trying to determine whether this founder will be able to create a compelling story around the company mission in order to attract great engineers, executives, sales and marketing people, etc... Will the leader walk through walls when the going gets tough—which it inevitably will in nearly all startups—and simply refuse to even consider quitting?

When Marc and Ben first started Andreessen Horowitz, they described this leadership capability as “egomaniacal.” Their theory—notwithstanding the choice of words—was that to make the decision to be a founder (a job fraught with likely failure), an individual needed to be so confident in their abilities to succeed that they would border on being self-absorbed and egotistical.

You have to be partly delusional to start a company, given the low odds of success and the need to keep pushing forward in the face of a constant stream of doubters."
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His point is that their competitive salaries, regardless of their numbers, make other companies, with profit, up their offers a bit.

Instead of getting a small slice of the pie, we get a small slice plus a few percentage points (that perhaps we should already get). That's huge for most people that aren't financially independent or even close to it.
Facebook is stopping Huawei from pre-installing its apps
The whole system does. The trick is you never trace anything out. You needn't. A spin interacting with a flying field is itself a pure system. It's just when you trace out the flying field that the system may become impure. If the spin interacts with the field, and the field is measured with measurements local to the field subsystem, the entire system will stay pure, and you'll see the qubit's wavefunction "collapse."
Then you don't understand why it is a terrible idea.
I find it very hard to decouple VC from innovation, if its the case that this 1% area has most the VC is true, isn't most of the world's innovation coming from it too?

Europe hasn't been creating as much as the US before GDPR, I would think it gets worse after it.

I am pretty sure some other reason for the decline will pop up, if not the alright denial you displayed.
This comparison is ridiculous, the amount of private information you can gather from my mail is incomparable to the amount of information you can gather from my phone. My phone remembers more about me than I do. Conversations I don't recall having, places I don't recall going to. Open up your Google timeline and scroll through it, you'll see plenty of things that make you go "Huh I wonder what I was doing that day."
The app itself is entertaining, but a lot of false alarms. My favorite so far was a county worker who tripped my camera with his...i want to say water collection tool...from off camera before hanging a doorknob sign warning of mosquitoes. I took a screen capture while at work and zoomed in on his shirt to see the familiar county symbol.

Most of the crimes are petty...the older generation doesn't always lock their cars..., although one guy shot up a barbershop a mile or two away, killing several barbers. Good to know. Also, I know why that police chopper is circling or what caused that fire in the distance. My neighbors are pretty good at being on the DL, but this is a lot faster. Not as good as a scanner, but my local PD refuses to be on the internet scanner apps anyway.

Not to say that even the police reports get it right. Shoplifting and armed robbery aren't the same.
Another trend: Titles are getting shorter. Publishers use larger title text, clearer images, and more colorful/contrasted covers so they stand out at thumbnail scale.
Anyone know if they're also deleting other videos like Tiananmen Square?
That was a good start!
Talking about peer-reviewed papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#/media/File:Pee...
Most of the data that is collected by Mozilla is not PII.

See our data collection guidelines: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection
I wish my mother knew what a compiler was.