skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper, the only conditions of the first player (the person picking the initial two random numbers) is that they are distinct. They don't have to be random and (as the implementation has) bound by the same range as the second player. If you use a different bound range for the two players, you get about 50/50 odds.

The part I changed is scaling down the first players range by a factor of 100

a=random.randint(-R//100,R//100)

b=random.randint(-R//100,R//100)
1) I used to work in HFT, so I know what I’m talking about.

2) While it’s a joke, I have no knowledge that Schwaab engages in anything related to front-running:

> Nobody is front running some guy day trading AAPL on their lunch break.

Just like Google doesn’t spy on you, they spy on everyone together.

If this wasn’t a problem SEC wouldn’t have pressed for something like the CAT.

Perhaps you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Intel’s Cascade-X HEDT Squares Off with AMD’s Threadripper
This is really awesome! Needs more breakdowns.
Well you could read up on Ambdekar, or on Gandhi's hunger strike against untouchable representation. Or his documented letters promoting segregation, also between Indians and Africans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar
Nice visualization.
I really do hope this rejuvenates development on Meteor
I was in Paris two weeks ago and a local told me it was a worker who was smoking and dropped their butt in the wrong place.

(Not sure if that's true)
What's the demographic?
India had advanced steel making, ship making and textile technologies which were taken by the British.
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network
Etrade and Ameritrade did end up following suit and slashed their commissions to zero as well.

But yes, I expect they're afraid of losing customers to RobinHood. Given that brokerages typically make very little on commissions (the real money comes from interest on cash deposits), dropping commission fees is probably a great move.
Why I Called It ‘Quantum Supremacy’
It had advanced education, universities which sent scientists to participate in conferences. Of course Saddam was a tyrant but at least the country functioned.
What's wrong with reminding people (who are probably from the US) that their government is worse? The whataboutism that I see most on Hacker News is Americans complaining about the Chinese government, while their own country has a horrible record when it comes to human rights (Iraq War) and democracy (regime changes organised by the CIA).
always being happy to help and people using that as an excuse to be their shit dumping ground because they are [lazy|incompetent|arseholes]
Releasing Two New Datasets to Improve Natural Language Understanding Models
My metabrowser [1] transludes webgl volumes into 3d space, and is navigated with FPS controls or VR. It’s ultimately a web site, but I’ve had chromium developers argue with me it’s not really “web”.

[1] https://github.com/exokitxr/exokit-browser
are you 100% on "only check files which have been shared between users though." ?
- I do not recall seeing that in the info I read some time ago.

"typically use hashes of files" - I don't think this changes anything as far as msoft employees and others looking at pics of your kids or wife /gf / bf, etc; if you have taken the photos or he/she did and sent them to you right? This would only remove some of the internet shared/saved photos from the pile right?

Privately taken pics saved on the windows computer are / would still be sent to employed humans to look at, from what I understand.
Stone Crusher Machine Toppled
Do you think it is reasonable for a company to instruct and require their employees to break the law?
Two-dimensional semiconductors host high-temperature exotic state
No it wasn’t some utopia of course not, but at least the country functioned on a basic level, like it had reliable electricity and services, education and medical services (including research) and wasn’t ruined by war.

How often do you see Iraqi scientists or doctors these days participate in international conferences? Whereas that used to be commonplace.
For Reference: this type of chart is called a "sankey diagram"
Revolut started to allow trading 1 month ago, but only for Metal cards customers so far. Hope others (Monese, Monzo) will follow.
At this point I think it's irrelevant. I got a 'Sorry' popup before I sent out my application.
There is a joke in Lisp / Lisp dialects that they don't write their code in Lisp, they write the language they want to write their code in in Lisp.

Then solve the problem in that language. It's often not true, but writing DSLs in a Lisp is technically much simpler than other languages I reckon, if your problem domain actually requires such a thing.
IMO, this is a problem that very few people like to talk about, because we all subscribe to the (correct) idea that a good developer should be tech agnostic. Sadly, those in charge of hiring don't seem to believe the same thing.

I was in a somewhat similar boat. I was a .NET developer that wanted to try something new, and despite eight years of experience few people wanted to take a chance on someone. I managed to find a role doing Ruby, and I've managed to transition to a new stack and language fairly well.

The only roles where I had any real bite were the ones where I applied directly, and where the person on the other end of the table from me was a developer. To highlight the issue, the second I had Ruby on my CV after taking this role, the same companies that wouldn't hire me for a mid-level role wanted to offer me an interview for senior-level roles...
Nathuram Godse likes this.
There, at the top of "Other Expenditures", Slightly smaller than running the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales.

That is what's governing the entire political agenda right now.

That's the amount of money stuck on the side of a bus with the suggestion that we could spend it on the NHS instead
http://www.lightyear.fm was inspired by the opening scene of Contact
The app has the facility to introduce yourself to potential conversation partners.

> 5. Answer five questions to define your political opinion. Tell your chat partner a bit more about yourself - if you like!
Based on the gp's handle, I believe the full story [0] had been posted here [1] before:

0: https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
32 inch 4k LG monitor: I use i3 window manager and just set "Xft.dpi: 144" in "~/.Xresources".
There's nothing unreadable (and certainly nothing obscure conceptually) about 'Box<>'. It's just unfamiliar if you don't know Rust. But we'll get nowhere fast confusing readability with familiarity.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has done interesting conceptual and/or empirical work on readability. It seems like a very slippery and difficult concept to me. Readable to whom? Readable in the small or the large?
>He was against giving his wife penicillin to safe her life for religious reasons and she died.

This is one of those debunked smears that instantly disqualifies whatever else the speaker says. We're talking Elders-of-Zion level smear.

(This is where somebody will post as a source the Commentary article from 1983, where the author hears this from somebody at a cocktail party who heard it from someone else.)
The word “should” can also be “used to indicate what is probable” (according to the OED). I think that's the way GP intended to use it. As in, "why is it probable that the syntax is more familiar?"
You indirectly answered a question I had about what this means for the nature/nurture debate, thank you.
Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) Enabled by Default on Windows
App Detects Eye Disease in Personal Photos
sadly I feel this is the best advice. Modern management are a bunch of feeding piranha when it comes to people who can do stuff.
It's a pretty neat way to visualize P&L in a pretty logical way (money comes in on the left and goes out on the right).
Double-click enables synthesis of chemical libraries for drug discovery
They're generally salaried so they're paid a fixed amount no matter how much they work, with that amount normally negotiated by their union.

All data indicates that teachers are working less than 40 hours a week on average, which makes me believe that the ones putting in 50+ hours are a vocal, tiny minority.
Not to the mainland, they’re not.
That's why everything should be left at "the customer is always right".
Yes, I tried looking for it and had to use the search feature to find it.
Google still operates in China. They help Chinese military develop AI to round up Uighers for future organ harvesting.
https://youtu.be/wqWVH38jtQo5
I just received my Mercury.co debit card in the mail, and now I'm planning to move all my money from SVB into Mercury and close my SVB account. I already use Brex for corporate credit cards, and they've been awesome. It looks like I will need to "request early access" for Brex Cash (and I probably don't meet their requirements since I'm not VC funded), so I'm not going to wait around for that.

However, Stripe is the very core of my business. They already offers corporate credit cards, but I've never thought about switching or adding new cards, because I'm very happy with Brex. I use Brex virtual cards for everything now, and I recently received a physical card that I can use for flights and hotels.

However, if Stripe ever offers a bank account in the future, then I'll immediately close my Brex and Mercury accounts and just migrate everything into Stripe. Nothing would beat a single login where I have my bank account, debit cards, credit cards, and all of my customer payments. Also Stripe is much bigger and I have much more trust in their security and engineering teams.
The US (and allies) pushed Saddam into war against Iran. Then there was the Gulf War, then sanctions that reportedly killed hundred of thousands of people (remember Madeleine Albright testifying that it was "worth it"?). Then the unforgivable, unjustifiable war of 2003. Then civil war and unrest, then ISIS. Iraq has been constantly at war and suffering for 39 years and counting because of the US.

Isn't imperialism wonderful. It makes me sick and I don't even know a single Iraqi :/
Grand-parent made the absurd assertion that startups do not create wealth. Presumably they would prefer to live in a dark world without airplanes [Wright brothers], and the light bulbs [Edison], as these inventions and subsequent industries did not create "wealth".

Wealth redistribution programs have their place in economic policy. Growing wealth inequality in the USA is real problem to social and political stability. [Disclaimer: I am not American] Furthermore, the US government has failed to support citizens rendered chronically unemployable through automation and globalization [e.g. especially middle-aged former auto workers].

However, I will challenge the widely held belief that wealth inequality is undesirable. Effective allocation of capital [including human capital, e.g. gainful employment] is not a given. It's not a given nor immediately obvious how to allocate 1,000,000 highly experienced software engineers into economically productive endeavors. Some individuals have proven excellence at allocating capital [Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Ma], so it makes sense that those people should have access to greater amounts of capital to efficiently allocate said capital.

And for the most part, the wealth of Gates, Bezos, Buffet, and Ma is tied up into economically productive activities.

When the EU taxes bonuses, in SOME instances the EU constricts SOME proven entrepreneurs [allocators of capital] from allocating greater amounts of capital into economically productive activities. Note: I'm in no way asserting that the EU should not tax bonuses, however there is a trade-off and the EU must be careful to both understand the trade-off and careful not to overly tax the wrong people [specifically highly industrious people with a knack for entrepreneurship].
True, the most sexist (in the sense that men were treated differently from women) boss I have seen was a woman. She seemed to prey on weaker personalities, an d treated men better than women.
Had a job working for an online gardening shop, where I was on minimum wage and despite being a junior I was probably one of the more switched on devs there (I had to convince everyone to use a git when joining, previously they edited files directly via SFTP on the prod oscommerce site that had not been updated in 6 or so years and had lots of config.php.2009.barry.bak type shit going on).

Someone not in the IT department went around our back (held us in disdain because we pushed back with his silly demands and deadlines) and got an outsourced team to build us a solution to replace our proprietary accounting software, which needed to tap into the accounting software's MSSQL db, and our ageing OSCommerce MySQL database.

Because he didn't talk to us, the spec was completely absurd and he didn't even mention that there were two completely different databases.

So my task was basically to take the immensely poor quality, wrongly specced code, and "make it work". Think having to chew through a giant class with literally thousands of mysql_ (no escaping or anything like that) queries and having to rewrite them either using PDO or the mssql extension. I think I lasted about a week on this project before I got up from my desk and left, never to return.
Yes, C and Ku are dominant now, but not on LEO.

LEO is dominated by 400-500Mhz for milcom, L and C. Resurgence of Ku in LEO is mostly due to regulatory regime already being cleared for satellite internet due to previous entrants, and cheaper hardware for consumer market.
I worked on contract at a place for 4 years, worked on 5 or 6 projects. Only one went to production, the management changed their mind on the others after they were finished, the money was good though.
They increase the cash back by 75% of whatever it already was. So if you were getting 3% back (currently, for their Cash Rewards card, that can be 1 of the following categories: gas, online shopping, dining, travel, drug stores, or home improvement/furnishings), you'd now be getting 5.25% back.

Which is a complete rip-off. You could easily get 2% interest on that $100k you're leaving with them by just leaving it with a better bank. For that to be worth it, you'd need to get at least $2k cash back on that credit card. At 5.25% (which is only for that 1 category you chose!) you'd need to burn through $38k/year... i.e., you gotta $100 a day on that card.

Except even if you somehow were planning to spend $100/day on that one lucky category, your cash back would be an order of magnitude lower, because they'd only give you that cash back on the first $2,500 in purchase, i.e. you could only earn $131 at most. So you're losing out on at least $2,000 to earn at most $131. Terrific deal!
Wait, why do the leaves contain no data? What's the point of even adding them then?

With data in the leaves you could easily do something like:

@dataclass
def Node:
data: "Any"

@dataclass
def Tree(Node):
left: Node
right: Node

using the new dataclasses module. You could also add a type parameter to the above if you really wanted to.

The pattern matching will need to be done manually though, following python's philosophy of duck-typing.

Edit: An alternative involves abusing the pattern matching that python does have to write things like:

data,*subnodes = myTree
for node in subnodes:
# etc

but whether that's really a good idea is debatable.
People who have money and power today are on average less intelligent and less competent than people who don't. I guess this is the result of the past 10 or so years of expansionary monetary policy. It enabled greedy people with very little talent to capture a lot of money. Value creation was sacrificed for the benefit of value capturing (rent-seeking) activities.
What is a tool and what is a toy? Or do they overlap?

I would classify a motorcycle (I have one too) as a tool for both transport (get me from A to B) and fun (riding it is fun).

That being said, holy mother of god it is stressful when there are other cars on the road, people are freaking scary in cars.
I am wondering if machine learning can use used to solve these problems. I have heard that Google uses a machine learning to auto find the bugs and raise merge request against them. Someone from Google can confirm.
Yes, this is the right thing to do very often, especially for one time tasks.

It’s not the thing you should do if you need to do it repeatedly, like once a day or even once a month.

This all depends on a lot of circumstances, and its hard to calculate time for implementing a script vs doing it by hand for a future you don’t know yet.
Note that there is a, less known, google site to make simple website with no coding skills and an interface similar to google slides : https://sites.google.com/new
Ah, Blue Prison. One of several RPA (robotic process automation) tools—AKA glorified screen scrapers—that all cost tons of money, work horribly with web apps, and have no public documentation on improving the situation. Each one has its own special way of interacting with a browser, and none of them is half as good as scripting with Selenium.

I have to support clients who are all getting into RPA and wanting to know how to use it with our web app that was never designed with those in mind. If the tech were better, it’d be fine and I wouldn’t even know about it. As it is, it’s a ton more work for everyone involved than just asking us for an API. But then you don’t get to watch a browser window change magically in front of you, I guess.
> If the argument is that teacher pop growth outpaced student pop growth, therefore there’s an oversupply of teachers, that includes an implicit assumption that the 1987 ratio was correct. There’s no reason to assume that’s the case.

Yes there is. Total cost in K-12 is up 180% since 1970 and results in Math, Science and Reading are basically flat. Employees are up almost 100%. If you almost triple inputs while outputs stay the same you’re probably just wasting money.

https://fee.org/thinkecon/articles/the-problem-with-educatio...

https://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-achievement...
You Won’t Survive a Merger with AI
Deceitful behavior diminishes our ability to read emotions
Predatory lending and fraud isn't really a feature of business banking. Predatory and fraudulent lending isn't restricted to business - though perhaps may be more lucrative. Banks do rather have the deserved reputation of lending an umbrella to ask for it back should it rain.

The bullets the GP lists were standard features of the high street business accounts I've had. Didn't care about reward points, but I don't seek those on personal accounts either. :)
Nice visualisation. But why is "VAT refunds" an income? And why is "Petroleum revenue tax" an expenditure? (2.2B, coming out at the top of the 241B "Taxes on income and wealth")
That is a great idea. Understanding government expenditure on some level should be a fundamental part of a citizen's participation.

I don't yet fully understand how to read it. It's not really clear to me what the difference in income and expenditure is - the impression the diagram gives me is other that income is balanced by expenditure, or that there is a budget surplus maybe. I think I recall that there is a budget deficit that the government runs.

Grateful for advice/corrections ...
> Thank you for TypeChain, it's great. I remember last year, I got Gitcoin to give you some free money to put up bounties.

Thanks!!! I really appreciate it. I am actually wrapping up a new version of TypeChain for my Devcon talk (yes, I got a speaking slot! ;) )

> One reason I'm not building on ethereum right now, is you have no contact with customers/users, because for 90% of the projects, there aren't any. In my other software projects, you are talking with customers every week, it is hugely helpful.

Yeah... this space is definately over-hyped sometimes...

Btw. are you still in crypto space? If yes, what other blockchains than ethereum do you work on?
I think you missed the full comment. I said in terms of downloads which is the primary factor for companies investing in them. This might be an unpopular opinion considering the negative votes on my comment, but numbers speak otherwise
"the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales" takes over 12 billion to run?
My eq-3 Bluetooth Thermostat is just showing “UPD”. How can I “unbrick” it?
I also don't understand why they picked a name like this when anyone who is anyone first thinks of Brexit. Not a good look.
I have had this the syntax is horrid conversation many times. I share your traits of how symbols are seen and mentally spoken clouding the concept. My adversaries argue from positions of clearly complete comprehension of the algebraic intent of these 'words' and they can't understand my confusion. It's like arguing with a native English speaker about illogical spelling, it just gets a "get over it" response.
There is a tiny red deficit "income" at the top just to the left of the middle of about £55.8bn
>Etiquette Secretary of the Internet

One teeming contradiction is how the same people who stress the importance of inclusivity and diversity “in tech” are the ones obsessively policing etiquette. Adherence to procedure and order is purposeful, but etiquette demands patience and yielding to a threshold comparable to one’s power over other individuals. The startup world’s etiquette obsessions are akin to the Victorian aristocracy in their effective alienating of all other social sects. The history has and is being written.
The missing piece of the puzzle seems to be the upcoming EU legislation surrounding tax declarations of offshore accounts.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/18/european-co...

It's not a matter of national expenditure, but that of personal expenditure of those pulling the strings. It's just being framed that way by the "will of the people"/"take back control" brigade, and people are dumb enough to listen.
I think its only as hasty as assuming that it's a straw accumulation zone.

Considering that a lot of land in a city isnt your garden/house (shops, offices, parks), I would suggest that that would tend to balance out the risk of this being a SAZ.

I take your point that this is a data point of one. But if I found one straw in my garden, it is astoundingly unlikely that is the only wild straw in my city. I wouldn't start putting a figure on it from that, but it does suggest the lower bound is much higher than one.
I saw a nice gov revenue/expenditure of Singapore here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/cdtf4i/singapore...

Wish this UK one was in millions, not billions.
I started seeing the TB as a missed opportunity for a second screen but with the Golden Chaos touchbar replacement (a preset for Better Touch Tools) I see it as my computer's Apple Watch

The touchbar is totally under-utilized by Apple. Golden Chaos demonstrates that it just needs a new and appropriate sign language and immediately gets much more useful.

With Golden Chaos I use my touchbar to see my current email count, whats playing plus media controls, calender, time, weather, battery – and if I press a modifier key a whole universe of shortcuts opens up. My only addition - and the most heavily used function - is a button to push my current window to the other monitor. So my touchbar effectively is my tool to utilize my second screen more easily.
Came here to say exactly this.

And also to point to this excellent article: https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html
nice of them to admit last times it wasn't serious then ;D they been calling this out since advent of ipv6 >.> are they just trying to sell ipv6 or what? since a lot of companies move to cloud solutions i can imagine this being less of an issue and a lot of blocks to be returned to the pool?
The leaves are intended to stand for more complex leaves the actual data type held in the tree is boring, only its properties of nodes and leaves matter. (I think)
Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials