skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is dumb, but the paper is actually pretty interesting.

Intuitively, I never treated differentials as "algebraic units" -- even though I can see why it might be tempting to do so. In other words, I never thought that dx^2/dy^2 = (dx/dy)^2. From my experience, most teachers and professors do hint that "something funky" is happening when you say "dBLAH."

Further, (and more to the root of the problem), as far as higher-order derivatives are concerned, I always held a firm belief that something like "d^nx" was not really a manipulatable statement and was just shorthand for "the nth derivative" and certainly not the "first derivative raised to the nth power."
Yes, it's the only way when your product is objectively worse than Steam in practically every way, so the only way to get anyone to use it is to force them.

It's not a good approach to competition though, and only hurts users instead of motivating innovation. I agree that Steam could use some competition, but Epic isn't actually competing with them, they're just forcibly buying their way into the market.
A lot of time I buy more canned food than I need, especially when preparing for holiday cooking. Donating it is really the only way to make use of it. Otherwise it will sit in my cabinet and maybe I'll remember to use it.

I get that money's always bets, but also encouraging people to get rid of excess purchased food before it expires and goes to waste can't be a "bad thing" altogether.
> viable

Not at all viable when you consider the cost of requisite social services to support such an initiative, which is one of the myriad reasons why no country has ever considered the option.
I never said it was. Just that it should have been mentioned.
which in turn lead to automatic and then semi-automatic actions

Hmm, now you've got me curious. I'm not exactly a firearms history scholar, but the earliest automatic firearm I know of (not including civil war era Gatling type guns, which aren't actually automatic) is the Mannlicher 1886, which was also produced as a semi-automatic at the same time. So I was under the impression that we got fully and semi auto firearms at exactly the same time.
What I like about applicative/functional is that it linearize the thinking process.

- function arguments represent what imperative programming means as state

- each recursive call is a step in the walk toward convergence

- every step has to reduce[0] something in the arguments

- every step is clearly identified in the recursive call

I don't think it is "better" than mutable state + while () { }, but it helps my brain massively.

It may also be linked with old research (Turing and others) about expressing program space as a N-dim vector that has to reach a point in this N-dim space.

Some people might be able to make sense of complex imperative code, old array/string algorithms are a bit like that, maybe Knuth has some dedicated brain area I don't know of. But all in all, starting with functional may be a better pedagogical space.

[0] see htdp, sicp, friedman the <adj> <verb>er books
Example Node.js library that I wrote a few years ago: https://github.com/fraction/node-hacker-news-api
Language models mimic the style of the surrounding text (as you can see from the examples in [1]), so the model will only try to give you low-quality boilerplate code if your codebase already contains lots of low-quality boilerplate code.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
Users don't have to install CUDA if you build your app correctly. Yes, AMD GPU users would be out of luck, but that's really on AMD for failing to get anything like cuDNN integrated with popular frameworks.
Agreed, unfortunately.
Not really. You’re probably still better off knowing you have the slow-growing benign prostrate cancer that you can monitor but not treat. Also, you might find you have the more aggressive form.

https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-surviv...
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countdown to 2.90 I suppose
Yeah, NVMe is so fast, few people will ever need the speed. You'd have to, what, record raw video to fill it that fast? What other uses are there? Do OSes have optimisations to better use swap space?
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Which is a wonderful behavior except for all the times that the error numbers are not actually GUIDs but rather identify general errors.
In our area, the charities actually ask people to put random foodstuffs in a certain bag and leave it on the porch for volunteers to pick up later.

If they didn't want that food and would prefer money, it'd be a lot easier to ask for that.

That leads me to think that they do want the food, but also that you're probably correct in thinking that people aren't likely to donate at all if it's not food directly.
Yeah I must echo your sentiments wrt their Google Now product, it is great. Not only does it provides relevant content but some of it is very new and or obscure which I really appreciate. I have linked people to videos I pulled off my Google Now feed and they are amazed that I know about a video on our very specific shared interest that is less than a couple hours old and has only a few hundred views.
I still don't. His actions last month will not have me loving him in a while.
Directly? Not much, supposedly. But maybe they sit in the boards determining the salaries of the board members who determine them.
There is a major boycott of Amazon this week after it came out they're directly competing for military contracts that Google declined to take [0].

It's almost certainly the case that Amazon is helping and urging people to post negative stories about other high profile competitors, Google included, right now. That's just how tech journalism works. Amazon is just much better at it than less successful attempts like the "scroogled" campaign.

This does not dismiss the bad things Google does. However, it does mean that it's a good week to remind people to boycott Amazon any way they can in addition to holding Google accountable.

[0]: Although that outcome was largely driven by collective action from employees and reports of some employee retaliation were public as a result of it.
Sorry, can't view the article since Medium is insisting that I upgrade for $5/mo
> 30% became the industry standard not just for video games for a reason.

Yeah, it became the industry standard because it rakes in mind-blowingly huge revenue for the app store owner, e.g. https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-reven.... From the article: "It’s no wonder Services — which includes App Store revenue — has become an increasingly important business for Apple as hardware sales have slowed.".

While you're correct that it costs money to run Steam, it's not _that_ much money.
Not quite sure what I'm projecting here... Your statement "I would probably classify myself as a 10x" is very misguided, and your response here is a poor attempt at manipulation. I only spoke up because I saw others agreeing with you about being a 10x under your definition; which is more aligned with a programming intern's view of the world.

Here's my opinion on what I have seen in the workforce for 10x and 100x engineers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20441541

I think you'll connect with my last statement in that comment.
Same here. Although still utter crap, I find the search of AliExpress to be better than Amazon's.
In Walmart for $11 you can buy 1 pound of chicken breast ($2/lb), 1 pound of rice ($.50/lb), 1 pound of tomato sauce ($.50), 1 pound of carrots ($1/lb), 1 pound of bread ($.88/20 oz), half pound of butter ($3/lb), half pound of cheese ($2/8 oz), and still have $4 left after tax. You can literally feed a family of four with this. Of course, most nominally poor people will spend much more, because they're not actually all that short on money.

If you take 1860s unskilled worker wage and spend it all on food, you'll get about as much as you could with SNAP benefits (~$130/month) today. The UBI is already here, it's just our standards have rose significantly.
Yeah because they are all traditional retailers and have that brick and mortar mentality. They have to pay the "but we have all these properties already" strategy tax every time.
>why not visit the website and glance through their annual report?

Number 1, I'm lazy and don't want to do that.
Number 2, I'm not a business person and don't have any idea of what an ethical administrative budget would be. 5% of donations? 50%? I have no idea.
It was the best of times--no, wait, the worst--well, maybe both at the same time.
As others have mentioned, it's quite normal to have the queen on the front of the note, and some other historical figure on the back. As far as i can tell, this started in 1970, with a £20 note with William Shakespeare on it:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknote...
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Then we can introduce some dogs to solve the cat problem...
Contributing to Fighting Anxiety Disorders Without Even a Penny Given
I'm part of a volunteer organisation that does provide free food for all sorts of folk and does entirely run on volunteer labour - it's really not obvious that such an organisation does need a full-time CEO.
Polyform, a project to standardize software source code licenses
If accepting the money implies or enforces certain favors in return even if that is just silence, then it matters. If making the donation is used as a PR smokescreen to advance or obscure other unethical behavior, then it matters. That doesn't mean the money shouldn't be accepted it just means organizations should not allow donations to change their behavior and if a donation has a detectable nefarious ulterior motive then they should think twice about accepting the cash.
"outrage outrage outrage".
I wonder how much of this has to do with relationships?

If I was Chinese man who came to America for school and was single, I'd move back to China too. Study after study shows that the dating game odds are not good for that particular demographic in the US.
A little off topic... but I love this because it gives me an idea.

I've been looking at LinkedIn with some immensely negative feelings for some time now. I've always wished someone would just disrupt the hell out of them, because they don't deserve the near-monopolistic position they're in. They just don't care about their users!

And before someone says, "well [pushes up glasses] their real users are recruiters that they sell $20k/year seats to their search tool". Yeah, as a hiring manager I've tried using it. Awful! :)

And jobs boards are nothing new, I guess, but something feels really nice about how much bigger these "Who is Hiring?" threads are getting on HN. Maybe we really do need a jobs-centric "social network" for industry verticals. Beyond terrible UX and general disrespect, LinkedIn also just doesn't do enough with their data to make it useable. Maybe that's because it's just too hard to do for every job and industry out there.

And maybe that next-gen professionals' social network can be the first open and free one?

Or maybe I'm just wishing too hard for something that can't/won't be done.
shut up and take my money already !
I don't know that I entirely believe this, but I think there might be something to it.
No exactly what I expected. I was thinking it would be more technical.

Either way, there is very little, possibly nothing, that a company not named Google can borrow from Google. The scale and venue that Google operates in too different.
Yeah, because those guys never get it wrong. /s

It is always okay for citizens of this country to criticize the actions of our government. It is healthy to be skeptical of programs.
Even if it's technically interesting, to me this seems to epitomizes two trends I strongly dislike:

1. The road to digital serfdorm by removing the ability of running software directly on our individual machines.

2. Programming degenerating to internet and AI assisted copy-pasta code monkeying around byzantine boilerplate APIs. The upside is that such tooling makes filling in said boilerplate less painful. But I don't want garbage APIs to become even less painful (and hence less likely to be weeded out) than they have already become thanks to stack-overflow etc. I also wonder if this will end up producing more "plausible" and hence invidiously wrong code; similar to Xerox's infamous jbig2 smart image compression fiasco where copying sometimes changed the numbers in the document.
Keep donating canned vegetables, you can eat that stuff raw, it lasts for years, and it's incredibly healthy even when you consider the high sodium levels.
I don't think that article is giving you a balanced overview of the situation in Philadelphia. Specifically it says nothing of Major Nutter at all and the work he and the Philadelphia police did to clean up the city and make it safer for all law abiding residents, young black men in particular who Nutter recognized as being particularly at risk for becoming victims of crime. From what I saw, Nutter was a good man motivated by compassion for the people of Philadelphia, and being that good man meant that sometimes you had to break some hard truths to people. And sometimes that made Nutter unpopular, but from what I've personally observed in the city, he was doing a lot of good. Nutter didn't have police go into black neighborhoods to hassle them for sport; he did it because the crime in those communities harms the common people a hell of a lot more than an active and attentive police presence.

Do police in Philly pull over black people 3x as often? Probably. Are there 3x as many police officers in black neighborhoods in Philly? From what I've seen, at least that many. And why? Because that's where the victims of crime are at.

(Note that under Nutter's (white male) successor, Jim Kenney, crime is up again (351 homicides in 2018, compared to 246 five years earlier.) That guy is a bumbling idiot with his head in he clouds as far as I'm concerned. Might I suggest that to Nutter, the concerns of the black community are personal, while to Kenney they are academic? That Nutty was motivated to actually make a difference, while Kenney seems to be motivated by maintaining the appearance of doing something, rather than actually making a difference. This is perhaps best exemplified by his ineffectual but incredibly regressive soda tax (https://www.phillymag.com/citified/2016/04/24/bernie-sanders...)
人才也有等级，到哪都一样
Yeah. The intriguing thing about knowledge and the study of it, epistemology, is that once discovered, it doesn't just go away. It sets the world on fire and burns away cruft.

Bullshit can be seen as both the cruft that gets burned away by true knowledge, or the fire that demolishes old ways of understanding, however true. To see it the other way, imagine attacking the hegemony of the Catholic Church with incisive bullshit.

Small societies have their reactions to the larger one and the veins of bullshit they'll propound onto the larger. By the time you or I see a particular incarnation, it's already been through numerous iterations. We can't have witnessed the genesis of Pizzagate, but we know that idea has to have one and the subsequent generations until it reached final, grotesque, form.

These ideas are self-defense weapons, shields against an onslaught of 'liberal' ideology.
CTRL-F "emacs" <no results> back.
Try news.google.com. It works there.
It's amazing how many scams and malware-serving websites are in Google Ads, and how aggressively Google refuses to address it. I've actually had Googlers (here on HN) go and report and have removed the malicious sites I reported, just to see them back a handful of hours later, without so much as rotating domain names out.

Google must be stripped of any profit from criminal activity on their platform. When a fraudulent site is removed, Google should be forced to give up all of the profits generated from it. Though I doubt Google would even make the Fortune 500 if it did.

Section 230 absolutely has to go for order and justice to prevail.

My go-to example for the particular type of predatory crimes Google knowingly and willfully enables happens whenever a senior citizen searches for "mapquest": https://www.google.com/search?q=mapquest

I actually took a call yesterday from someone who "couldn't get directions from MapQuest without installing something". And if you look at the search results, you'll see why: Ads that look like real search results that claim to be MapQuest push the real MapQuest below the scroll fold. And computer-illiterate individuals get taken advantage of, again and again and again. I've been pointing out this example for six or seven years, and the same domains that were operating then are still operating today, because Google simply makes too much money from them to care.

If you work for Google, this is where your paycheck is coming from, and if you use Google, this is the cost of your convenience.
> By the time you cut that out you are only going to get two cans worth.

Even then the one donated can is becoming two if people just donate the cash equivalent! Even in your example donating cash would be better and the money that doesn't go directly to services but instead to advertising and management expenses will also hopefully bring in more donations. But again even in your example if we ignore 100% of the benefits of advertisement and good management 1 can is /still/ becoming 2 cans!
I think most people already drink caffeine and it would mask this issue. So I have no idea how many other people are in this situation.
Well, it's a US export sector. US professors do work and foreign money flows into the US.
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CURTAs are collectable and thus really expensive.

If you just want a mechanical device full of cogs and gears and springs you can pick up old bus ticket machines. Something like the Almex Bell Push: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Almex-Bus-ticket-machines...
I mean, this speaks to the one child policy as well as the value put on education in Asia. From a western perspective having to spend 3x annual household income on a masters degree would be absurd.
Or one Ted Biers from Ted's Holdover channel on YouTube.
I'm curious why you would use Blender over Maya for modeling if you have both?

I tried Blender a decade ago but since I had access to Maya & 3D Studio Max I didn't give it much attempt since the UI seemed more confusing & the material available to learn was lacking.
> "I saw this presentation by a Google developer and I think we need to copy their release process"

I heard exactly the opposite from some Googlers. That you DON'T want to copy their release process. At least, not without a good reason.
Google could support H.264 or H.265.

The only reason they don't is because they want to push their format.
The silver lining is may be at least you do not seem to be from India or China whose waiting period for GC is 70+ years for EB3 right now apparently
I cannot wait to publish our stats on how effective google captcha is blocking bots.
Fixing the notation would be great, saving numerous future generations from confusion.

Getting agreement to do this is difficult. Short of laying it down in the law as part of a treaty (throw it in with WTO or Berne copyright?) there doesn't seem to be a way to make the change happen. Nobody wants to buy the calculus book with weird non-standard notation. It would be like a trigonometry book with the symbols Feynman invented in high school.

We're more likely to get serious mathematicians calling equations "math sentences".
Yes. Are you not a fan of tax evasion?

Edit: To be clear, I am not against taxation as a concept. However I do have issue with the American tax code and the atrocities committed with its revenue, so I am not morally opposed to helping other members of the middle-class avoid paying taxes on all of their income.
https://github.com/TommyX12/company-tabnine
Perhaps my favourite best first sentence:

Bother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice’s Lenten fast in the desert.

From "A Canticle for Liebowitz"
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Keyboard is a big difference.
I think the bigger issue is how it affects people and the power this tech gives to control various things about socio-political landscape which a single corporation shouldn't be trusted with.
On the other hand, there are companies that decide to put effort into little employee "perks" like that rather than putting effort into improving the things that really matter, because it's cheaper and easier to stock a soda machine than to solve institutional problems.

For this reason, I don't consider the existence of stuff like that to be a reliable indicator of anything at all. When a company does this, it neither impresses me nor puts me off.
Baumol Effect
What about times they get something right? It’s a thankless job I hope to never have.
According to the document linked, each GCC has its own PTF comprised of four Caesium atomic clocks. So between the two sites, they have eight atomic clocks.

Presumably if one atomic clock seems suspect, they simply look to their other seven?
> there has never been an easier time to be alive

This is not a fact.
I bought one as an upgrade disk because IMO they are easier to install. I don't need to worry about mounting, routing a cable, etc.
You're not supposed to apply for a green card on a non-immigrant visa though.

I graduated from a top US university with an engineering degree (actually, rated the top university at the time). Felt like the federal government was looking for any excuse to accuse me of being an illegal immigrant and throw me out of the country, so I decided to go ahead and leave of my own accord.
The plan has already been withdrawn, at least for now:

https://www.latimes.com/style/pets/la-me-farallon-islands-ra...
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In the last few years, I've started getting migraines from sugar. That caused me to look at carbs and start reducing them as well. I still consume more carbs than I'd like, but I think I'm definitely below average on that scale.

That said, you've made me think and it's worth seeing if I can't further move my intake towards proteins safely and cost-effectively. And then maybe next time I try to reduce caffeine, it'll actually work.

Thanks!
Keep in mind there is a distinction between rich America and poor America. If you are not poor you have little risk of getting murdered.

I want to raise my kid in a place where you can speak out about human rights abuses and not censor yourself because the government is listening.
Right, very little content. Also Graphene batteries are already out and unfortunately they perform about the same as regular lithium batteries.
I remember when I was a kid riding in my car with my mom. I would pretend we were racing other cars. It was a completely meaningless endeavor, of course.

It was great, because any car behind us was losing, and every car that passed us, in my mind, decided they no longer wanted to race. Therefore mom and I were always winning.

I am a petty person, and this approach helps to this day. When someone surpasses me, I think about what's important to me, and then say "oh, that person is playing a different game with different goals."
But by formal education they were zeros. The person on the opposite end of that spectrum would be Kelvin who deemed heavier than air flight impossible.
For the interested: https://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~mtov/pmcc/modularization.pdf
I agree that software development is creative, I do think that's an important part of the process. I'm not convinced that every "10x developer" is solving software engineering problems on the same level at which Rembrandt painted or Bach composed.

It seems to me that painters and composers create art that is appreciated much more widely and over a much more varied audience than software engineers. Given that the inner workings of software are visible to a much smaller audience, isn't it likely that their skills are being over-rated?