skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While your comments have gone a long way towards changing my mind, Karpathy's comments are a bit rich, given that Tesla's systems could have benefited from a crutch to help avoid running full-tilt into large obstacles.
Capitalism is indeed a form of oligarchy, I don't think this is a controversial view.

Oligarchies can be justified by different reasons: religion, lineage, etc. In the case of Capitalism, it's an oligarchy legitimated by the “merit” of the dominant, who were somehow chosen in the great market competition.
Pwn2Own fell out of the spotlight over time because they managed to piss off sponsors and teams alike, not because any material improvement occurred in software security, involving systems that for the most part continue to be millions of lines of C just like they were in the 90s. Security processes have improved tremendously in recent times, but software security in general has advanced only incrementally at best, such that individuals can still succeed at breaking the majority of software, and are able to do so with such reliability that the practice is done as a sporting event.

Per the slides over 150 of those kernel bugs resulted in code execution, and that is already a lowball count of the true number. Upstream Linux, being possibly the most visible and well-resourced OS codebase around, even by 2019 does not have the tools necessary just to automatically find the bugs we already know exist.
Most A.I. vendor cannot answer these 17 questions. Can yours?
That will definitely make them reassess their choices and do the right thing. Hopefully, they will tell their scammer friends to do the same! Problem solved!
Unfortunately, a lot of that appears to be wrong. (Unfortunately because I'm sure it's true that recognition goes disproportionately to white men in rich Western countries, but you harm your case by giving examples of this that turn out to be wrong.)

Joshua Lederberg's Nobel prize was not for the lambda phage discovered by his wife, it was "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria".

No question about Burnell. That's a major scandal. The only good news is that everyone knows it now, and I can't remember any occasion when the discovery of pulsars has been mentioned without something along the lines of "of course it was Burnell who discovered the pulsar and it's shocking that Ryle and Hewish got the Nobel and she didn't".

I've never seen Babbage get the credit for inventing computer programming. I have seen him get the credit for designing the first programmable computer, which is fair enough because he did.

I'm interested in the evidence that Franklin discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. For sure her work was super-important and it's scandalous that she didn't get a share in the Nobel prize, but so far as I can tell she specifically thought the structure of DNA probably wasn't helical, even though others working on the problem thought it was.

(It doesn't look to me as if Crick and Watson ever thought the structure was a single helix, either. I think their first model was a triple helix with the phosphate groups on the inside, and Franklin pointed out to them that the phosphates had to be on the outside.)

Meitner should absolutely have got a Nobel (or a share in it) for fission. But what reason is there to think that sexism is why she didn't? Frisch had about as much claim as Meitner, and he was passed over in the exact same way.

Incidentally, what you said before is that it often happens that women and PoC discover theorems and are ignored while rich white men do the same later and get the credit, but none of your examples involves discovering theorems. [EDITED to add:] Oh, but maybe "theorems" was just a typo for "theories", in which case you should probably ignore this paragraph.
You can even start streaming the desktop directly. AFAIK there is a setting for that.
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Do you really think a ticket on the potential route Sydney-Mel will be <$100 one way?
> At the bottom, you can find a reference to the previously published chapters. Complexity & big-O was addressed in the initial.

I stand corrected, thanks. I knew this was part of a book and did go to the sidebar to check the titles of older chapters, but there the first part is called '"Programming Algorithms" Book', not 'Introduction & Complexity' like at the bottom. Going only by the title, I didn't think there would be complexity there. My fault.

> The second variant is path compression.

Yes, but only on the "add" operation. It's more important to have it elsewhere. Imagine a set of elements {a, b, c, d, e} where you do a sequence of pairwise union operations on (a, b), (b, c), etc., and end up with the data structure degenerated into a linked list a -> b -> c -> d -> e. If you now repeatedly check whether a and b are in the same class, you end up searching the entire list twice, every time you do this search.

You could try adding path compression in union, but I don't think a complete, efficient solution is possible: You would always be able to construct small trees that you would have to link to produce bigger, deeper trees.

That's why path compression is always where it matters and can make a useful difference: In find. In the example above, depending on the details, you would have one or two full linear searches, and then every query on a and b would be constant time.

> Yes, it may also be implemented in find, but it will make the code more complicated, in my view.

That's one of the reasons why union-find might not be the best introductory data structure. As for your view, to some extent, when you teach standard stuff, your view is not as important as actually teaching what you claim to teach. If you claim to teach union-find, you don't get to pick something somewhat similar but with radically different complexity.

> This isn't needed here [...]. I ll think of adding it back.

No, don't! You're right that a full list of nodes is never needed by the data structure itself. A user of the data structure might need one, but also they might not. I have in the past used union-find in settings where it was more convenient not to have a complete list of entries.
> Model 3 has the lowest probability of injury of all cars the safety agency has ever tested.

Sounds like something Trump would say.
If the car has the highest rating of safety ever isnt it obvious that this is the safest car they "ever tested"?
You said why already in the second sentence of the first paragraph - there is nothing to be gained from it and the codexes wouldn't be binding and the last thing we need is to give liars more tools to feign trustworthiness.
It is fairly obvious that he has a forum where he is explicitly promoting extremist speech. And that speech is far right.

The person in question openly admits to this promotion as a place for infamy, in a completely unironic way.
This made me laugh out loud. Sooooo true.

"The excuse is 'what about ancient applications that don't run properly in recent Windows.' But you know the real reason is 'I suffered for my art, now it's your turn.'"
I think our boss has made a good job with our bug workflow, but she had the authority (and Jira access) to do what she (and the QA lead) wanted.
> When people say 'Linux' in reference to WSL1, it's a Linux Kernel API emulation layer on top of the Windows kernel

I have always thought it was some kind of "low level" VM. Based on your comment, it's more like a Frankenstein monster...
I'm using a custom procmail setup build over the years around Bogofilter [1]. I find it still works well, even though Bogofilter is more or less unmaintained at this point. I'm only aware of one serious bug in the upstream distribution [2], but a patch for that exists.

The running yearly average false negative rate for me is currently 6.5%, which isn't perfect but it's survivable. It's hard to say what false positive rate is, but over the years I can't remember an instance where I would go fishing in the spam folder for a mail I knew I should receive (I do have classification settings very much biased towards false-negative rather than false-positive)

[1] http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733622
I think the point was that the mathematics being described is bound by geography rather than by ethnicity. Arabia is used both to refer to an ethnicity and a geographic area. So the usage is sound, as is namirez' subtle clarification due to the history of the area.
If you read the NHTSA letter they go into detail that their crash testing is done against fixed barriers, which means that it doesn't say anything about the safety of a lighter vehicle crashing into a heavier one. In a crash between a big heavy SUV and a Model 3, you can be better off in the SUV even if it has a worse crash rating.

NHTSA describes that they have a specific guidelines document (which has a rule about comparing vehicles 250 lbs apart in weight) which Tesla apparently hasn't followed, so they're not making up rules selectively against Tesla.
Which journal?
For example these guys suggesting $500: https://www.wired.com/story/lidar-cheap-make-self-driving-re...
can you check out this, do you satisfy the theory and reasoning they have given.
https://geniesmag.com/being-single-women-new-freedom-trend-j...
The Digital Antiquarian has an article that goes quite in-depth on the history and context of this game:

https://www.filfre.net/2015/07/a-new-force-in-games-part-2-a...
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I suspect that optical will also supplement LIDAR in cases where very precise angular resolution is needed, such as human gesture and posture recognition (which is necessary if only because sometimes humans direct traffic, but also for things like profiling pedestrians to anticipate which is likely to jump into the road without looking.) Being able to detect which way a human head is facing will at the very least be necessary, and while you might be able to read faces with LIDAR from a distance, my gut says that optical will give you better data for that.
According to Moxie (https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120), this isn't a positive for user privacy.
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> Though be forewarned: It's a dietary path that gets you equally harassed by vegetarians and the meat-and-potatoes crowd

What kind of people are you mixing with if they are ceaselessly harassing you for what kind of food you're eating?
I'm surprised people still want to work for amazon and would pay 1k/h for a simulated interview.

If people are actually using it I must admit I'm impressed by the idea. You probably can't get closer to printing money without getting into illegal things.
Notwithstanding the Schiller P/E, it's kind of hard to figure out when things are overvalued, and the average person has not time to track things.

On 2018-12-24 the S&P 500 tanked, and a lot of people were freaking out:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/12/buying-when-stocks-...

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/12/5-thoughts-on-the-m...

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/12/the-forgotten-bear-...

And then they went up, and then hit an all-time high a little while ago, and there seems to be a bit of a swoon now (2019-08).

For most people, the best thing to do is ignore the news, and put away a little each month automatically ("pay yourself first"). Dollar cost averaging is a thing that works well in most situations.
At this point anyone who works in a office has had a computer on their desk for two or three decades. If they decided not to learn how to use it I don't have much sympathy. Much of these situations are what is called performative ignorance, where someone pretends to be ignorant in order to get someone else to work for them.
> trying to get me to go through pointless troubleshooting steps

There is a double edged sword here. IT support people are taught (or learn quickly) not to trust the user. In the sea of users who think they know better there will be occasional user who knows what they're doing but it's hard to tell them apart. So in comes the script, applied as a matter of procedure.
FWIW, lidar is very effective in finding the surface below forest canopies. In fact, it will often identify the underbrush, in addition to the canopy top and the surface.
GNU grep is fast as well but by default it doesn't ignore anything. Granted it's handy to have this configured out of the box, but I prefer to know and use the flags and perhaps write a shell script wrapper, and I find that practically it feels just as fast as rg or others. My main point in doing this is to avoid the situation where I'm on a different machine to my laptop and can just get going right away without having to install anything. There's a trade off in all things, I just prefer it this way.
Isn't that short for "Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019"?

Am curious how an individual would get access to Windows 10 Enterprise.
True, there are probably no theoretical obstacles. But there is a huge implementation effort, and judging from other new proof assistants that started out without tactics, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Unless you desperately need exactly this kind of fancy logic, if you actually want to get stuff done, you would choose a different system. That's not great if they are interested in wide adoption.
This is one of the first “old” codebases, made public for historical purposes that I’ve seen with really a really good README. It seems possible to actually compile, if not run Habitat?
Latest projected price for the lidar unit is $500 to $1000 e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/lidar-cheap-make-self-driving-re...

No-one is expecting to use experimental $75000 Velodyne units in production.
> please don't make this about something it's not.

No, you are. How do you think 8ch manages to be a breeding ground for terrorists? By kidnapping people and sending them off to terrorist training camps?

Obviously their method is emotional manipulation. That includes hurting people’s feelings. Censoring speech to protect people from that is a piss poor long term strategy compared to equipping them to properly deal with it. Society will end up as a bunch of babies unable to deal with reality.
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It's odd that on Android you can play with it, whereas on iOS you are only prompted to download the 3,49€ app.
Following your link:
"3. It causes the symbol to become a constant variable."
and following the link to constant variable: "constant variable n. a variable, the value of which can never change; that is, a keyword[1] or a named constant. ``The symbols t, nil, :direction, and most-positive-fixnum are constant variables.''"

This doesn't mention the function slot of the symbol, so one could perhaps argue that therefore the function slot is not meant to be a constant variable, but one could equally well argue the opposite. The various implementation obviously differ on this. That alone means that this is either undefined behaviour, or that some of them have this as a very long-standing bug, at least since their inception.
"Rich white men" like Abel, Galois and Cantor? Way to derail a thread.

I'm sure women would be better off in countries run by "PoC" and not the big, bad, white men.
It is absolutely not "just a translation", they greatly improved and introduced new concepts over prior work of Greek and other scientists considerably. The volume of novelties of Muslim scientists of the time is huge.
It's amazing to me that people can make the argument that it's not right to eat something based on intelligence. We should give extra care to less intelligent feeling beings, not less.
This is really fascinating, a settlement was always in the cards but I think many investors believed it would be significantly below this (per Axios https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-39c89ee1-54b...)
A working computer from 1959.... astonishingly cool.
A bit more from this fascinating topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqaddimah#Biology

It seems like he had a fully formed theory which is pretty accurate.
Nope. WSL is basically a reimplementation of the Linux kernel's syscall layer (or at least the original version of it was - WSL 2 is an actual Linux kernel running in a VM). If you do a Linux syscall from within a Wine app it calls into the actual underlying Linux kernel and Wine itself makes heavy use of this within its libraries. WSL on Wine isn't possible and doesn't really make sense. I guess it might be possible to add support for WSL 2 since that's just a VM, but I'm not sure why you'd ever want to since it is just a VM.
At work, no. But I have side projects.
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The internet, I assume.

Aside from mother-in-law wanting to know why I’m not eating her (dish), I don’t think anyone in real life has ever inquired about what is on my plate and why. And who the hell really would, beyond “that looks good, what are you having?”
It's still a subsidy (if the rail traffic is taxed and not supported by govt), except that it's a weird kind of subsidy that's near impossible to eliminate.

Also not necessarily true, you can't land a big plane with too much fuel.
If you are a desperate bastard like me, you can install it with Windows build 18917 as described here : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-2-is-now-avai.... Caveat: I have not done it, but hopefully will do it during the weekend.
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It's not a real answer though. Imagine everybody adopted it (pretend everyone is using sip/VoIP). The only thing that would change is you'd get same amount of calls from the actual numbers - what are you going to do about it then?

If the callers (who LE can get to already with enough questions) are safe now, they'd be safe after the change. Sure, the hn crowd will easily set up appropriate filtering, but we were never a viable target to begin with, so that's actually helping the spam calls reach better targets quicker.

It would maybe reduce the number of scam calls though. Spam, not do much.
Wouldn't you need advanced AI for that? I mean even humans that are basically conditioned from childhood, at least in the western world, to judge traffic have at times trouble doing that. That's why we have safety distances. In case your prediction fails you need enough distance to just react and avoid an accident. Just one of the reasons why true self driving is such a hard problem. Already solving the question of what is ahead and around a car a reliably come up with course around these stationary and moving objects would be a major step forward.
Ooo they passed a law making it "illegal", that will stop the international scammers. Just like the war on drugs. Pai knows this stops nothing. Fuck that piece of shit, even when it looks like he's doing good he's actually doing nothing.
>If you read the NHTSA letter they go into detail that their crash testing is done against fixed barriers, which means that it doesn't say anything about the safety of a lighter vehicle crashing into a heavier one. In a crash between a big heavy SUV and a Model 3, you may be better off in the SUV even if it has a "worse" crash rating.

All I am reading is that the NHTSA has bad tests?

If they are so mad Tesla is saying "We have the best crash test rating of any car", why not change the test to include those issues?

If someone was mad that I said "My code passes all of the tests", but there were still bugs in the code, the issue isn't my statement. The issue is that there is incomplete coverage.
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Same here. It's not a biological itch for me, it's a desire to leave/change something for this world. In my case, it's [adoption|stepkids|nieces|nephews].
Musk is betting on a lot of things lately. I would rather have him focus on one or two hard problems and solve these first.
I never had any trouble unlocking any of the iPhones my family purchased from AT&T.
The £30 Apple Pay limit in the UK is becoming less of a thing. In major retailers that accept Apple Pay I have used my phone to pay for items into the hundreds of pounds without issue.
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I have seen it, and they give 5 star rating to it. What isnt obvious here?
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It is amazing how a leech company like Elsevier can extract so much rent from the academic system. It is ironic how they trick the academic world offering just "prestige" and getting back not only the exorbitant journal prices, but what I suppose are thousands if not millions of PhD+ level man hours for practically free.
It varies a LOT by discipline. There are niches where OA already won and for-profit journals are essentially irrelevant, or even where the entire paper publication mechanism is just a legacy used only for dick-measuring contests and to ration funding - all the real work happens as GitHub PRs, or as mail to a mailing list maintained by some random guy or a Facebook group or something (Warning: Examples somewhat facetious).

But there are also niches where the reality is that key people are happy as Elsevier Journal editors, and they function as gatekeepers, and for the foreseeable future the only route forward in those disciplines will be to get published in those high impact Elsevier Journals.

Because of this variation, lots of people can't do anything. It's a highly distributed problem. No amount of Computer Science professors however prestigious can change how Social Sciences do journals. And we shouldn't want it any different, even though in this case it kinda sucks.
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A hard fork.
So there are essentially remnants of our browsing history linked to our devices shared among numerous ad companies.

They then serve relevant ads for us all over the web depending on where they are being paid to display relevant ads.

Twitter is at it. We've experienced the same behavior from Google & God knows Facebook is at it too.

I've even had conversations where the only connection we had to the web was our locally running Alexa only to see ads relating to our specific conversation 10 minutes later on the web.

Can anybody think of a technological approach to flagging this behavior?
> Why people angry enough to kill and end their own lives in America?

There people who are angry enough in other countries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_shooting

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack

The thing is that with easy access to powerful weapons, it is easier to implement such impulses in the US compared to other industrialized countries.

The US is not some hell hole where people have nothing to lose: for the most part it is a nice place to live (though, as with any place, it has better and worse areas). I think a lot of these incidents could be curtailed with better social conditions.

However, having a lot of weapons easily available is like having a lot of dry brush in the country: all it takes is one person's spark for things to catch on fire. Furthering the analogy, it's not that other countries don't have people who can be lit off, it's just the surrounding environment has reduced (though not eliminated) the chances of a large conflagration.
The things detectable in the visible spectrum are what humans use to drive.

Will it be apparent how fundamentally problematic this is when a human runs over a kid chasing a ball into the street because it couldn't see him between the cars?

How many people have been killed by human drivers due to blind spots?
I don't think his original two bets have been fully solved yet, electric cars and private space exploration. He seems as dedicated to those two goals as he ever was.
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Agree to lot of your points.
Insipite of all these risks, a lot of management teams find value with outsourcing. I guess they feel risks are every where around.