skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's a lot of circumstantial evidence that he cut or disappeared during suspiciously fast splits. Meanwhile there is no definitive evidence that he's actually able to finish races as fast as he says he is -- not a single instance in which an observer or tamper-resistant GPS tracker can verify his splits. Until we have that evidence, the balance seems to tip toward him likely being a cheater.
Cool! But one thing I'd like to see discussed is to what extent the images in various publications have been cherry-picked.
Yeah... I think this is the key thing. For "normal" runners, if someone wants to cheat - no big deal, whatever. It's all supposed to be fun and there's no reason to be too anal about auditing results. It's lame if they cheat or whatever, but they're really only cheating themselves.

For the age group record, it matters! It should be, like, a real thing... the people who get those records work really, really friggin' hard, so they deserve to be treated fairly.
"volatile" is really insufficient to work with modern memory systems. Is there total ordering, or is it another episode of Bus Master Wild West? Are writes combined? Do reads bypass the write queue, stall, or dig out as-yet-uncommitted values? How sensitive is the hardware to "harmless" extra reads or writes? Let's not forget cache protocols, and what happens to in-flight operations on a fault (sometimes partially executed instructions have to be "finished-up" by fault handlers, whose memory operations can be different in emulation from the actual native instructions).

volatile is a weak tool in the face of all the stuff that hardware folks do to achieve performance or cost goals. Most of the platforms I've worked with use abstraction layers that bottom-out in compiler intrinsics or assembly language. I'm deeply suspicious when I see code using bare volatile declarations, as the code is often wrong.
No way. Open source will (keep) finding a way. It's a force of nature.
Stuck on this one, can see readme.flag but not sure how to proceed
A parked domain?
If you want to pursue critical thinking, what are the explanations for the various discrepancies in his races?

I see on the marathoninvestigation site the Dr. has been given opportunities to explain these suspicious discrepancies and either hasn’t or provided explanations that are contradicted by hard facts.
Disappointed. I thought it was Clippy.
I checked out the reference implementation and although there are some heuristics to make comparing numbers faster, you're completely right that the worst case scenario is quite complicated: https://github.com/douglascrockford/DEC64/blob/master/dec64....
> Yes, it would. Again FB will have just 1% of the control at launch.

But wouldn't FB be running/in control of the most of the infrastructure behind Libra? The stability of the currency would be dependent on FB providing the core services behind Libra. Having "just 1% of the control" doesn't matter if FB can just shut it down and/or destabilize it's value at will. It's FB actually intends for it to be an open cryptocurrency then why make a new one when we already have several options available other than being able to exert control over it?
Not all. Siri is a gender-neutral name. It defaults to a female voice, but you could imagine a male named Siri as well.
I just went through and clicked on the dozen or so I didn’t recognize, and I’m much better off for doing it. This is a fun and great site.
I can't say I completely blame them. I had the Moto Qs and Samsung Blackjacks and loved them to death. I thought the initial iphone was silly...a phone without a keyboard, what a failure. In fairness, I still prefer a physical keyboard, but wow I was wrong in how far ahead iPhone was capability wise. So I guess I sympathize a bit.
That’s not really ageism, but effectivenessism.

I think companies like younger people because they are cheaper and perhaps more agreeable.
A company I worked with once hired a team of old contractors to do a job. The job was done on time, on budget, no drama, no overtime, and the customer was happy. Each of the contractors received the contractually agreed upon bonus for meeting all the targets.

I asked a manager why they didn't apply this model to subsequent projects, and never got much of an answer.
Genius link here, in case anyone needs it:
https://genius.com/1136925
(1) Studies on the correlation between these sorts of linguistic tells and deceit tend to be very poorly designed.

(2) they also tend to be massively over-interpreted. Oh, were people 10% more likely to look left if they were lying? “Looking left is a sign of deceit.”

(3) I couldn’t find the source of the quote, but it’s worth noting that spoken language studies do not extrapolate to written statements at all. The same things that are a tell in an extemporaneous conversation are just signs of editing and preparation under other contexts. Preparing to make a public statement? All those signs that make it into the pop-sci lie detection books don’t apply.
I’ve put my toy drone in the microwave and can confirm that this technique works
The nan==nan bothered me
the bad faith arguments are the ones that claim that minorities should get free passes to break the law. And the straw-man arguments are the ones that cite single examples of officer/judicial misconduct and ascribe that to the hundreds of thousands of men and women in criminal justice. What if someone cited a handful of examples of minorities acting badly as representative of the entire population? Tell me about the faith of that argument.

> It sounds like you need to do some reading

you are no in no position to recommend me reading when you evade the most basic questions about the central premise of your argument.
Anyone else just hit their mid thirties and suddenly become aware of agism?

Not something that is affecting me, but something suddenly I've become more cognisant about it.
I have no comment on the incriminatory data points. My comment is on the incorrect inference being drawn for a specific non-incriminatory one.
Vaccine is foreign word to one afraid vaccines.

Pro choice, pro life ... what the heck is birth control?

Is Elizabeth the 2nd the most popular person in that list of people or is beth a common name?

[edit: I mean to say, there are hot topics, and search results that land on wikipedia, and the two don't line up super well for some specific parts of this particular report]
They almost made the same mistake with XBox, but Allard, Fries & company managed to convince Gates not to brand things as Windows.
I don’t understand. Are you saying you’re unbothered by the disingenuous use of unlimited vacation policies by start-ups and others seeking to avoid payouts on unused PTO while also creating a culture that implicitly pressures workers to take less vacation?

I’m not making a normative judgment about your comment (for example, you are clear that it’s totally down to your personal use of the vacation policy, and that you don’t consider how it affects others when deciding whether to be bothered by it ... this is not bad or good, just one particular way to attach an evaluation to the policy). I’m just asking to clarify b/c it’s not clear to me which aspect of my comment you’re replying to.
This is pretty non-functional, i think it only got upvoted because it hit all the right buzzwords in the title. Some combination of "Open Source", "Neural Network", and "Go" gets you real far huh.

Here's how mine went:

me: please calculate 4 x 5

bot: That makes 4
Everyone is still opted-in by default! The human tragedies will continue at nearly the same pace.

These locks just provide a way to shut up the outlier loudest complainers and a rationale for victim-blaming everyone else. ("You could have locked your credit, you know...") By what right do the CRAs demand individuals consumers' time and protection money?

It is incredibly frustrating to see these feckless, disingenuous half-measures cited as progress. It only confirms to me the futility of collaborating on market-based solutions with market players whose interests would be harmed by meaningful solutions.

I wish it didn't come down to imposing regulations, because regulations truly harm market efficiency. But what choice are we left with?
OpenSSH to Keep Private Keys Encrypted at Rest in RAM
I still use a windows phone. A Lumia 635. Cold dead hands.
There are also many of us who are having trouble finding work. I'm 45, and have a ton of experience. I lost my last job after a few more younger people joined the team (all fresh out of college). They all lived together near the office, went out each night after work -- I'm a single dad with kids so can't do that these days. As much as I liked working with them, there was this growing feeling that they felt that I didn't belong (even though I had been on the team since they were in high school). Code reviews got tougher, I heard complaints from my manager that they thought I took too long on tasks. The final straw was an argument that erupted when I took a day extra than they thought it should take on a particular task. One of them had pulled in OpenSSL a little while back to do some crypto. I needed to make some changes to their code and noticed that the random number generator wasn't being seeded. I wrote some code that I've written before to gather a little entropy from the system and feed it into OpenSSL's PRNG. Even after showing them articles about weak entropy being the cause of security breaches, they collectively felt that I wasn't working in line with the team. At that point I was the only original team member, and I had six team members, all of whom were well below 30 years in age.

I've been out of work for 12 months now. Previously I passed every interview I went to (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) and had the luxury of choosing between multiple offers. I haven't got through an onsite loop with any of these recently, nor with a bunch of other companies. The only thing I believe is different is my age.

BTW, the me/them thing is reflection after the fact, not how I felt at the time.
All of this paved the way for Nadella. I count it as a net gain.
Anyone used the HP TouchPad? I favor that OS more than iOS and Android.
Yes. I’m also a parent and that was also eye-opening to tech jobs being geared to childless workers.
Iris Automation is hiring an account exec for flying autonomous vehicle software
Ironic: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." —Gates, 1995

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#The_Road_Ahead_(199...
Whatever for would google want sun. Java is open source, Solaris and sparc are struggling
Everybody eventually will make a graveyard mistake as you really just can't win all the time. It's just part of the cycle isn't it? Steve Ballmer was on the path to destroy Microsoft, and they were very lucky to have found Satya Nadella before it became all too late. He's truly their savior.
Unfortunately for people who never switched to the subscription model, the CS6 updates stopped at 13.0.6.

You need 13.1 to launch in 64-bit, which is only available to CC subscription holders.

Edit: it seems that at one time it was possible for non-CC license holders to upgrade to 13.1 but it doesn't work anymore.
To be fair, the challenges are impossible to solve on a mobile phone so I am not sure why they should invest time and effort to make it mobile friendly.
As tensions rise, Iranian hackers step up cyberattacks against U.S.
> I still hate actually working out but I use Netflix while on the elliptical so I get through it.

Before I started running outdoors with a training program I actually like (not C25k) I would always take my Kindle to the gym and read while I walked at an angle on the treadmill or biked. Found I could easily go for hours this way. It's quite a bit of a motivator.
It may be risky but I've started putting "working with legacy code and obsolete languages" in my list of skills.
How would you implement the trampoline without a global? And would the captured context not count as a global?

In C the only memory available to a function is its arguments and data with static duration. That static storage is synonymous with global state, if it isn't known at compile time.
That’s true. What’s untrue is that being absent from one opportunity to build that counter-claim somehow, and I quote, “says it all”. It doesn’t. It doesn’t add to the weight of evidence one way or another. Believing otherwise demonstrates poor judgement.

If there was an evidentiary record of the participant specifically avoiding that event to avoid being definitely found incapable, that would be a different data point.
I’d think the beam width is much narrower, as it’s probably operating at X-band or higher. Given it’s a solid reflector, as opposed to mesh, and using a sub-reflector (which would be several wavelengths in diameter).
Feels like there is an opportunity cost to not have time off early on in your life. Even if you somehow end up a billionaire later, you can't get your twenties and early thirties back.
Don’t wish, do. Nothing stopping you from building it. I’d use it :D
How are you defining "big"?

Mario 64 was impressive for its time, but the worlds are pretty darn small by modern standards.

The game also uses multiple mission objectives (and a requirement that you return to the start of the map after each mission) to pad out the length.
In 1992 or so, I visualized a computer/watch hybrid device with image/video capture, wireless data, a touchscreen that didn't suck, apps that offloaded some of their work to remote servers, and voice communication. The image I had in my head looked a lot like a modern smartphone, but I imagined it worn around the wrist. I didn't imagine it as an evolution of the phone, but as a new class of device. There are products that allow a smartphone to be worn that way, but they aren't popular.

A couple years later, I imagined glasses that paired over a short-range wireless network with such a device to provide a wearable HUD, with a camera that did face recognition.

Of course, I was a kid at the time and didn't know how to build anything of the sort, demonstrating the principle of execution being far more important than ideas.
Big tech would. Small tech is way less likely to. My last job at a startup had no bg checks. My last job at a tech giant had bg checks.
Artist Arrested by Detroit Police While Working on a Mural for the City
CTF = Capture The Flag

(I didn't know what it stood for at first).
US Government Hiring of Young People Continues to Be Terrible
It's proven that access to education and skills development significantly reduce prisoner recidivism, which means less prisoners to house in private prisons. The private prison industry has been lobbying at the state and federal levels for years to create new laws to increase the U.S. prison population (the highest in the world) and eliminate programs that reduce recidivism. This isn't "laughably ignorant", this is intentional and by design.
Chatty Bot Challenge
I've been challenged to break a very sophisticated chatty Bot, with verbal responses only. Running low on ideas and it's really important I show up an asshole. Any help welcome.
I really wish all developers had to do support at the beginning of their careers and so they understand how to build things that the ops team can work with. Devops/SREs are one approach to this, but I'd really like to see it be more widespread.
no, those pda where at a price point. Jobs’ gamble and vision was that people would pay at multiples of that price point if the device was useful

To rephrase it, the issue wasn’t fundamentally technological it was an ingrained assumption at Ms, palm, Nokia that the price needs to be below x and Apple challenged that assumption in one risky Vision
It's very easy - observe that each time the model is built it samples from the hyperparameters. So it's easy to have N workers all working in different hyperparameters. To coordinate the testing of hyperparameters, you use something like vizier, which is a service that the workers can call into to get their hyperparameter assignment.

If you have a distributed model you have to make sure all of your workers on a single variant get the same HPs. Again, vizier. (Hi, I'm job 25 worker 3, what are my HPs?)
Yup, it was going to be an embedded, first-party personal organizer.
How do we know this was their actual strategic internal decision vs a practical one because an SDK for third party applications wasn’t ready yet or not important at launch?
As a mid 20s guy I have never received an offer from any of the big 4/FAANG companies, though I have from companies that prioritizes work-life balance, and I’m sure that’s come through in interviews. Suppose it’s helped that I was willing to move to major tech hubs but still, could just be a matter of finding the right fit. Everywhere I have worked has had people 40+ years old in technical roles making good money.
“I have no idea how this “maximizes airflow”—I suspect maximum airflow would come if the holes from one side were drilled straight through.”

I believe the claim apple are making is that increases the surface area, and therefore it acts as a more effective heat sink, not that it maximises airflow.
Windows Everywhere was a bad slogan, bred tunnel vision.
Wbox doesn’t sound as good either.
I don't really understand what Bill Gates is getting at here.

Back in 2010, Android was still very clunky and sluggish. Windows Phone was sleek and fast. Both OSes allowed you to install developer tools and write software for free.

However, there's 2 differences that no one calls out! First, Android used Java as a way to leverage 15 years of software. Windows Phone v1 was c# only and back in 2010 no one except Stack Overflow was writing anything other than enterprise software in C#. So you literally had to write 95% of your software from the ground up.

Second, instead of quickly catching up, feature for feature with Apple and Android, only 2 years behind at the start, they stopped, not once, but two times to re-write their Phone OS still using the original feature set from 2010.

They should have 1, BENT over BACKWARDS to get every API they could and ship C++ and Java compilers. Talk to developers about what they needed to get their software written. In 2010 and 2011 there were hundreds of developers at every company that would have loved a small 20% project to bring up their software on a Windows Phone. Yet with it only allowing C#, it would have required developers 80% of their time and that was just not a reality.

Second, they should have continually added features and more features, and innovated on features that no one else had. 2010 still had a lot of room for owning the narrative of what a mobile device could be.

I don't know about you, but it frustrates me that they don't own up to their actual mistakes. It's not about the lack of companies building the apps, it's that whoever managed that Phone project was incompetent and mismanaged the whole thing. They treated it like just another 9 to 5 job with little expressed passion for winning.
>Magic Leap alleges that Chi Xu, who left in 2016, exploited its confidential information to “quickly develop a prototype of lightweight, ergonomically designed, mixed reality glasses for use with smart phones and other devices that are strikingly similar” to the Florida-based startup’s designs.

>The startup alleges that Xu plotted during his roughly 13 months working there to launch his own competing company in China and “neglected his work duties” to acquire proprietary information.

While these are valid allegations to make, I'm not sure what IP "theft" has occurred. It sounds like Magic Leap is accusing Chi of looking at Magic Leap's designs and having the intention of launching a product in the same market and with roughly the same form factor - but crucially, does not allege that Chi exfiltrated any CI/trade secrets or infringed on any IP.

The second set of accusations is also kafkaesque, by the way, as they are accusing Chi of having the intent to launch a competing company by himself - something that many, many tech employees have dreamed of (and done) without ever being sued. I'm not sure what that allegation is there for, honestly.
What is “leetcode”?
Yasso 800s are a good predictor but don't substitute for an actual time trial.
Wow... I cannot imagine feeling like I didn't want my children around so I could be having more fun, or "children that he feels he likes better".

It's not OK to feel ambivalent about your children. In truth it is about selfish as one can be.

"Among fathers I see, I’ve noticed they’re more irritable, they’re down about the fact that child rearing just feels so challenging..."

Wow! Pure selfishness. My 1st wife had to be committed to a psyche ward after losing our 2nd child at birth just 14 months after our first was born. This meant I had to fill her shoes and become a "Mom" too for our daughter. Now that was challenging.

So, no apologies when I say that sounds like the wimpy whining of spoiled children that've never grown up and still don't want to.
> No one is making money on running marathons

A few do. For example, the first-place prize for the Boston Marathon is US$150K. That's one race. Then there are endorsements etc. Running is big business.

> if people want to cheat, more power to them

That's just a crappy attitude in any context. Even if absolutely nobody is hurt in a particular instance, cheating should be discouraged to maintain the integrity of the system for when it does matter. Also, as it turns out, this is a race. People competing against one another is an essential part of the exercise, even if there's no money involved. That's why there are rules, and significant effort to enforce those rules, and everyone who participates pays willingly for that enforcement. Comparing their performance to others is an important part of how people motivate themselves to do better. Among people who run marathons more than once, it's why they put in those long hard hours training. It's also why cheaters cheat. They wouldn't risk disqualification and censure if they didn't believe that the competitive aspect matters very much. Apparently the people in these races, both honest and otherwise, believe in the benefits of competition. The implication that competition is meaningless sounds a bit like sour grapes TBH.
Dick Tracy had similar back in the day.
The neural network code for that is used to train this bot is only 350 lines, that's really succinct: https://github.com/olivia-ai/gonn/blob/master/gonn/gonn.go

Update: Well... the results are not really great.
Yep exactly explains why Microsoft is a trillion dollar company /s
You people may be thinking about thinking about intelligence. I am mostly thinking about: Wow, 10 feet long grilled squid. LOL!
Same. As far as I can tell, none of the usual restricted shell escape tricks work, so you just have to search through all the binaries on the system until you find one you can abuse to print the file contents, and that seems like more of a time sink than it's worth.
I filled in the form and was immediately met with a login form. No thanks and also made a mental note to never visit this site again.

There’s zero reason I should need to login to see these tips.
IEEE754 also has multiple representations along with imprecise representations of integers, it’s limits (+Inf, -Inf, NaN) and simple decimals (0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3). For now, the biggest benefit is that we have hardware acceleration for IEEE754 everywhere, not that it is particularly good for any use case or that it is without weakness. But when we get FPGAs in commodity CPUs, the pros and cons value of IEEE754 change rapidly. Custom arithmetic formats could become more common.
GPT-2 is, however, not adversarial at all, and that might be part of why it rambles and lacks consistency or much of a 'point'.
Thanks for the tip on using iconv. I spent an hour trying to figure out which command to use for that README.flag! Learnt something new!
He played the most shows, by a lot.

That's the bulk of it.
Does hoard avoid atomic ops on the common case of both malloc and free?