skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually go the opposite route; I hate calling myself an engineer, because that word actually carries weight due to older, more established professions. The tech/software industry wants the prestige of that title without the work and effort that goes into it.

We are not engineers. We have no standardized certification process or tests. We have no (or very little) accountability. We have no codes of ethics. We may or may not be following proper, accepted development workflows. We may not even know what industry standard processes are.

I am a software developer because I solve problems primarily via software. This can and does include many different responsibilities and skillsets, but at the end of the day I primarily architect and write code.

It's up to you to educate the layperson as to what a software developer actually does. Although I'm not a writer, I understand that a "writer" doesn't literally only write. People can understand better than you're giving them credit for, I think.
You said that “being a witness” means testifying at trial. Now you’re saying it’s not? Very confusing.

Why wouldn’t I call the IT guy a witness if he’s providing access to information relevant to your prosecution?
Yes, but it was certainly written by a Russian and possibly even written in Russian and translated after the fact. Not every journalist from around here I know can write articles in such flawless English that has no traces of a Russian accent. It's a thing I can only envy.
Can we please have "Stability in the Windows 10 May Update". It's nice that Microsoft's giving us free updates, but Python support, a new terminal, and all the other things would be more appreciated if our machines remained reliable while before the features.
In order to render current games / 3d with reasonable performance you need dedicated texturing hardware. Intel's Larrabee had it even though it never shipped as a graphics card. And early plans for the PS3 involved adding texture units to a Cell cpu, but Sony went with a Nvidia gpu instead.
> When people play Avalon, the games are usually rich in “cheap talk,” such as defending oneself, accusing others, or debunking others’ claims [10]. In this work, we do not consider the strategic implications of natural language communication...

In the 2189 mixed human/agent games we collected, all humans knew which players were human and which were DeepRole. There were no restrictions on chat usage for the human players, but DeepRole did not say anything and did not process sent messages

I think the fun part about Avalon and other hidden role games really comes from the "cheap talk", where people try to convince each other that their picks / approvals make sense as a member of the good team, as opposed to making the decisions from picks and approvals alone. Though from the results it seems that those concrete actions are already enough to outperform the humans.

There's also the consideration that because the humans know the identity of DeepRole as a bot, they play differently: "That's what I'm gonna pick, because that's what bots do" [1]. I wonder if a combined DeepRole + human-for-chatting-only team would outperform either alone.

[1] From Appendix F of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RkUFHYTo_s
Proves nothing about authenticity. Requires an internet connection which means in many cases it's completely impractical.
But we have data that show how people die and what sex they are, and we see that some methods are mostly preferred by men and some methods are mostly prefered by women.

Threads about suicide on HN are suboptimal because most people don't really know what they're talking about and the CDC data is fucking impossible to use (compared to data from the UK).
It is, so I sent him some BAT.
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Please look at http://pulsar.apache.org/ which is multiple fold better than kafka on scaling as well as easy to operate
I hear everyone saying this. It seems like 12-years of global QE is gonna cause a massive spike in inflation. Everyone's valuing things as if there's been hardly any inflation since 2007.

The reality is, there's 120% MORE narrow money (M1) today than there was in 2007. There's also 74% more board money (M3).

Has there ever been a long period (12 years, in this case) where we've had only ~25% inflation with ~120% growth in the money supply?

Naively, it seems like there's either too much money (not sure how you solve that) or everything is too cheap.
Are newspapers supposed to endorse the same as the public votes? I would say 57-2 is about what I would expect when a bunch of educated, and engaged citizens set out to determine if Trump should be President. Seriously, not supporting Trump is no indication that you slant left. It means you know incompetence, fraud, demagoguery, and disaster when you see it.
Cookies, SessionStorage, LocalStorage. What’s the Difference?
The past five years has been one of the best forming markets ever. I would not assume a strategy which worked well since 2014 will continue to do well until 2034.
If Huawei forks Android and gets a "hybrid" of bad security phones.... don't let them sell phones there then.

This seems like a weird argument, I get the gist but it kinda focuses on an after effect that i'm not sure should wag the dog.
Amazon knows. Google knows too, if your Amazon emails went to your Gmail account. Your credit card company has a good idea of who you bought from, but not what.
Radiation Dose Chart.

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
For me it's deploying to mobile, mostly. There's ONNX but it doesn't seem to be terribly mature and it doesn't support some of the common ops, and e.g. FB's own Caffe2 doesn't run it natively. There's also no mature tooling to produce quantized models. TF remains the only real option to do quantization aware training or even easy post-training quantization.

Specifically, my life would be a lot easier if I could save a mobilenet-style model to e.g. ONNX or some other static graph format that does not require model code in order to load weights. I would like then to be able to load this saved model directly into something on Android and iOS that can use GPU and DSP present on the chip, with minimal extra futzing.
This is all true, I guess I just come down to supporting twitter’s calculus on this one.
It'd be great if they mandated that any research performed must be made public with free use of that research.
The right term is "entreporn" which what this article really is.

> There’s no actual skill called business. Avoid business schools and magazines.

Proceeds giving a bunch of generic business and life lessons.
Probably hammering metal on metal (hammer and stake) created small and hot metal splinters – like sparks, but not glowing red – and this was enough to start the fire.
I think beyond meat is completely revolutionary, the one way to stop them is if somehow some study finds that eating this stuff causes cancer, but even that i think if off some years, where hopefully BYND can establish market dominance and work on alleviating whatever issues arise.
Considering the layers of software and hardware I think any product of some level of complexity is a risk, period.
> Isn't a heartbeat in general to be considered an "electrically induced flickering" of sorts?

A heartbeat is an "electrically induced flickering", yes. Neon lights are also "electrically induced flickering", but I wouldn't call that a heartbeat.
FedEx to not renew FedEx Express domestic contract with Amazon
IIRC, the full extent of what was actually going on in Germany didn't become apparent until near the end of the war, as Allied troops started liberating the concentration camps. Even Germans who lived near those camps claimed to not know what was going on there, although nobody was in any particular mood to believe them at the time. Many of them may have been telling the truth, though.

Taking a census is a perfectly normal thing, although the questions asked on that census and how the information obtained from it may ultimately be used can be controversial. (Take, for example, the current kerfuffle over the possibility of a "citizenship" question being included on the upcoming 2020 U.S. census.) For the German census, it would be useful to know whether they were asking very pointed questions like "Are you a Jew?", or was it more general questions related to ethnicity and religion and so on.
Isn't Android license under the bounds of US law ? If US law bans a country/company, how how can China fork android and put it on Huawei or any banned company devices ?
Those are single-market, single-currency products no? Facebook wants one coin to serve all it's 2.4bn users - a larger user base than USD I might add.
That workaround reminds me of phpBB Forums that blocked URLs, so users would spell them like "hxxp://www..."
I don't understand the question. I'm only describing the phenomenon. No judgement of merits. It just...happens. Can't really stop it.
Talk starts at 4:05, you can skip the intro without missing anything: https://youtu.be/Jnunp-EymJQ?t=245
>While I don't like the "let's teach everyone to become coders!" thing

Why not? I reckon it's a good idea as a shotgun approach. 90% of the people just won't get it and move on...the other 10% probably are suited to be real coders.

Expecting everyone to code is unreasonable, but a throw it against wall and see what sticks approach to identifying interest & ability seems reasonable.
A quant is somebody who specialised in solving very specific finance problems, and a data scientist is somebody who specialised in solving very specific statistics/data analysis problems. I wouldn't hire myself for a data science or quant role any more than I would hire a data scientist or quant for my role, because there's a whole bunch of ancillary skills that we each have that are required by our respective jobs that go above and beyond just programming.
I don't think most people know the actual costs to R&D, market, develop, etc of new drugs. They just complain that their new anti-cholesterol or anti-depressant costs $300 (at least before the insurance kicks in).

But many consumers don't do their research. Most new patented drugs aren't much more effective than numerous generics that would cost a few dollars. It doesn't help that doctors seem to be bribed to prescribe the newer ones.

I do feel bad for those people on experimental cancer or other life-saving drugs who have no other options. But that is capitalism.

What really bothers me, though, is the generic market is completely fraudulent, so much that apparently the US Government is filing a lawsuit against numerous manufacturers.

The one drug I need costs me almost $150 / month out of pocket. Its patent expired before I was even born, and I've purchased it in Europe for about $20 without even needing a prescription.

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/generic-drug-lawsuit-massive-fr...
Larrabee had dedicated texturing hardware, but management decided to not expose it or try shipping it as a GPU.
But the same thing applies - in Poland men will be chosing more violent methods (such as hanging) while women will be chosing poisoning.
Agreed, but that claim intersects in an interesting way with phone OS vendors who also make their own hardware. I’m not sure Google wants to go down that path either.

Man, now I really do want to see the original source material.
The page itself is not the scam. It's a page showing tweets where somebody is scamming people on Twitter, pretending to be Elon Musk giving out ETH.
The ISS has a limited life due to thermal cycling and such. (One hot/cold cycle every 90 minutes). Think airliner cycles. The first part was launched in 1998.

ISS was actually supposed to be deorbited in the 2015 timeframe under Bush II (to make funds available for the Constellation program), later extended to 2020 and then 2025.

I think most expect ISS to stay in orbit until 2028 or maybe a little later, so some extension is likely to happen regardless of what Trump's policy is (same as how Obama extended ISS). 30 years is a really long time for safety-critical space hardware, and ISS absorbs an astronomical amount of funding. It's not hyperbole to say that the Trump Moon shot would have plenty of funding if ISS wasn't around. We're talking about an additional $4-5 billion per year.
I've noticed this for a lot of web pages too. It seems a lot of search engines put a disproportionate amount of weight on keywords that are found in titles/headings as opposed to text bodies
This seems very plausible to me.
The article title is clickbait nonsense:

“The findings in relation to knowledge acquisition were mixed. While an online study involving 604 adults (and using the more comprehensive measure of intellectual humility) found the aforementioned link between greater intellectual humility and superior general knowledge, another involving college students (and the briefer intellectual humility questionnaire) found that those higher in intellectual humility achieved poorer grades.”
My experience varies a lot. Maybe it's just my colleagues write better commit messages but blame (and looking up the PR and code review) is often a good method of understanding why the code is that way
I'd love to see some regulation around this. Ads should be clearly and unambiguously identified as such in a machine-readable way.
A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton for Stealing Its AI Data
Taiwan put on list of countries by US defense to goad China
Collection of Links Related SwiftUI
Like I posted below, 40% of SOFTBK's debt is in USD and they have been doing most of their larger issuance in USD recently. Bloomberg is showing that they have a weighted average coupon of 4.4% so they're not exactly paying 0%. Additionally, most of their debt is front loaded with a weighted average maturity of 2025. None of this points to them having a lot of time to sort things out or room for error.
Absolutely! The private company will have some high costs associated with a single trip, but it’s the taxpayers that footed most of the $100B station to make it all possible.
What's the Difference Between LightSail 1 and LightSail 2?
I love how Spotify complains about Apple's 30% cut when Spotify itself takes a 30% cut. And Apple's cut drops to 15% for recurring subscriptions.

From Freakonomics' interview with Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek [1]:

"DUBNER: So that 70 percent flows then to the rights-holders , which are primarily still the three big music labels.

EK: Yep."

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/spotify/
To steal a Chicago quote, "we don't want nobody that nobody sent." Your solutions are nothing because you're nobody. Sorry, but you're trying to tech your way through with out having an invisible hand behind you. That includes but is not limited to a network of people IN the industry you're trying to help, which gets you strategic partnerships, funding, etc INTO the solution. If other people don't believe in you or can't make money WITH you, your solutions really wont get anywhere.

Before you read another start up book or more effort in to another idea, read books on psychology. Also, try getting a job in an industry one of your solutions is targeting - that might help you become somebody rather than nobody.

Good luck.
What if his password is, "I sell weed for a living"?
Exactly... nobody who has ever tried going any significant distance on a pogo stick would ever mistake this for a real transportation alternative.
Youtube video titles as well. Especially kids video where they stuff a bunch of kid-related words in it like 'Play Doh Elsa Johnny Johnny Yes Papa Masha Bear ABC'
Sampling/texturing helps but I can't help thinking that the software stack is the critical factor. You might make a great new open ecosystem but if I can't Port my OGL/OCL/etc benchmark to your hardware easily, I'm probably not going to waste my time.
The Roots of Big Tech
Steel can make sparks. I'm not sure it can be done on concrete, but the spike may have had some rebar in the middle that would be hard enough to chip off fragments of steel. A hot spark could then smoulder in the grass for some time (like if the guy then decided to go for a smoke break to let the Yellowjackets calm down) and be out of hand by the time he got back.

The story does kind of seem a bit farfetched as it goes on with the lengthy string of failures on his part. There is a nonzero chance the guy didn't want to cop to burning trash in his overgrown and tinder dry back yard and made up the crazy story. There's probably no way to prove it either way.
The point of arcade tokens is to prevent people breaking in to machines, feeding them slugs instead of coins, and reduce the number of employees with access to unlimited free quarters.
Every country is a national security threat for every other country. The only thing that changes is how severe that threat is.
I am not judging on "sound", just pointing out that self consistency is the core exception.

That statement on "values", coupled with the other ones, all support strong self consistency.

How people evaluate things can, does, will vary from a highly rational POV.
I'm not sure I follow that argument - I don't think that the skill of programming is relevant to most people's lives, and I feel like the world of tech is actually getting easier for users to navigate - comparing DOS to a modern Android device, you basically don't need to know anything about command line commands to do whatever you need.
... or a contingency password that causes the phone to immediately be wiped clean and then unlocks? Still doesn't address the notion of a system that "knows" the user is under duress without some sort of overt signal or action by the user.
>> SSL

Who manages those certificates?
A big part of the article is about how all the middle men want to spend more money, not less. For all the "tech" in AdTech, it's surprising how much gets canceled because it increased efficiency and made revenue go down. Even efforts to align incentives end to end like CPA (cost per action/conversion) don't do well for the same reasons.
There's no need to distribute MSVCRT dependency if CRT is linked statically (/MT or /MTd C++ compiler option vs /MD or /MDd C++ compiler option).
Repos wiped without notice, quickly restored – but why?
Do you believe it is only for looks? No genuine and valid motives?
SEO is making all titles/descriptions be less creative and use more targeted keywords.

For example, Skydiving dropzones. Some in Wisconsin:

1. Skyknights -> Skydive Milwaukee
2. AtmosphAIR -> Wisconsin Skydiving Center
3. Green Bay Skydivers -> Skydive Freefall Adventure
A lot of later PS3 games started pulling GPU shading tasks onto the SPUs instead, because the shader pipeline was comparatively slow and SPUs were so well suited to the task. Here's a great presentation about occlusion on the SPE, part of a series of wonderful presentations about SPE use in Killzone 3: https://www.slideshare.net/guerrillagames/practical-occlusio...

And another about shaders on the SPE as part of a deferred rendering pipeline: http://www.dice.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Christina_Coff...

The RSX was still generally used for texturing and rasterization.
It's fiscally irresponsible for a company to not take advantage of a legal tax-dodge, unfortunate as it may be.
Japan is the third-biggest economy on the planet, after US and China. Their shopping spree sounds more reasonable than the Icelandic one.
plus the fact that the "enormous containment structure" had to be rebuilt twice in under twenty five years, speaks to its flawed design and the soviets lack on engineering know how
So why would any private company fund such research?
This looks fantastic for quick and dirty audio work, especially hobbyist pedal building/prototyping.

A teeny feature request for the multimeter would be an easy way to make a spreadsheet out of multiple measurements, and/or transistor parameter measurements. Since the bandwidth is so low, I'd imagine a lot of users will use the scope to hand match transistors.
I'm not entirely sure I understand the question. No, they can't legally do that - but yes, a bad cop can put a gun to your head off-camera and coerce a confession.
lead author's page with links to other researchers' pages, the paper itself, and nearly 200MB of supplementary materials: https://www.ohadf.com/projects/text-based-editing/
There might be one metaverse the same way there is one internet. It's not that you want to share all your experiences with all other people, it's that when you make it easier to seamlessly move between different experiences, you make it easier for any one of them to be used.
You won't get any takers for offsetting some of that $100B in costs if there's zero incentive for a private company to fund such research.
This happened to me. Rather than have an email address that only works in one country, I stopped using the email address.

It was a pain.
Most people talk about 1) tourism and 2) research which makes sense, but I can see a lot of benefit for marketing and branding. Imagine promo videos of someone using your gadget in space. A private company could fly up a few models/actors, a few of the latest brands goods, and get shots looking back at earth or floating around.

Luxury goods like watches and pens have already capitalized on this (Fisher Space Pen, Omega Moonwatch). I could see other high margin luxury brands snagging a seat:

- Sneakers (Air Jordans -> Space Jordans?)

- Jewelry (Diamond industry could play up a diamonds/stars theme)

- Fashion (play up the weightless/effortless aspect)

Any brand could get in on it if someone figured out the economics of a testing service. Small brands and Kickstarter projects could pool resources and fly up a few hundred toys and say they were 'tested in space'.
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You do have a point - that's not too bad, but to my eyes it's still more arcane than Python and Ruby (spoken as someone who has written less than 30 shell scripts in my life).

I still contend that Ruby and Python are far more accessible than shell scripting, because they are very popular, especially Python, cross-platform, and less arcane.
> I'm painting with a broad brush here, but a lot of government employees do as little as possible.

Welcome to humanity. How many people actually devote their lives to the improvement of the human condition, or have a devotion to even the jobs that they are working for? I fear that treating your job with the devotion necessary to do it truly effectively means that you limit yourself and future opportunities, because you must devote time to your own growth.

And how many people are interested in devotion to any cause or personal growth? Personal growth is hard, and devotion to a cause, a serious one especially, is equally painful. Understanding climate change, for instance, is so painful that people reject it in its entirety; it could be because it is a direct refutation to their world view, or because the idea is just so uncomfortable on its face.

I feel as if Ada Palmer had it right when she suggests that the first rule of Utopians must be "I hereby renounce the right to complacency, and vow lifelong to take only what minimum of leisure is necessary to my productivity, viewing health, happiness, rest, and play as means, not ends".

I think that's too much weight for the vast majority of humanity, and understandably so. In America it feels as if the way society is structured is designed to sap willpower (for example: the Atomic Family). I can think of a number of reasons why this might actually be the planned outcome of its current design.
It's included in the $35k:
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1136994156595859456
Apparently this was the big thing that held Larrabee back as a GPU. The hardware was capable, but they never got their drivers to the point where they could do a good job with existing OpenGL, Direct3D, etc. code.