skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it me or they try real hard not to disclose the connection speed?

It's not possible to disclose precise information without knowing spectrum holdings/configuration, installed tower equipment, distance from tower, and the current network conditions. The only thing they could disclose are things like throttling video, and give an approximation of what a market might expect typical speeds to be around.
Considering that Blizzard has not backed down from their stance that their actions were correct, I don't see how this is sending a strong signal. If they think current and potential revenue from China exceeds anything lost as a result of this issue, then they aren't likely to take any lasting message from boycotts and protests.
"the stunningly low official unemployment rate of 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century. Working even one hour during the week when the Labor Department does its employment survey keeps you out of the jobless category."

Aha. Re-define what 'job' means, problem solved.
14% is still ~35 million adults. That's still a problem. And yes it's better than it was right after the global financial crisis, but this boom is not going to last forever. Our economic policies and policy makers are too busy sticking their heads in the sand.
There's just not that much to empathize with in the Apple case, their decision to remove an app hardly inconvenienced anyone.

Censorship sucks and all, but in the end the actions taken by Apple didn't really harm anyone. Blizzard definitely fucked over Blitzchung.
> Inconsistent indentation is NOT a problem in practice. inconsistent tab/space use is a problem in practice

Alright, I was talking about the latter, which causes the former when you're not evaluating file modelines.

> not a "wide" one in my experience

I have a ~/build directory that contains source files of 207 projects whose source I've downloaded over the years for various reasons. Of those 207, if I look for mixes of tabs and spaces in indentations using:

for p in ~/build/{pkg,repo}/*; do
grep -IPlr '^\s*( \t|\t )' $p/^.git | head -1
done | wc -l

I get 144. You may consider the pattern `\t ` ok though because some people think it's cool to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment, but if I exclude those:

for p in ~/build/{pkg,repo}/*; do
grep -IPlr '^\s* \t' $p/^.git | head -1
done | wc -l

I still get 110. Now, those are just the ones that have a space and then a tab in one indentation. How about those that use a space as the first character in one indentation and then a tab as an adjacent line's first character in its indentation?

for p in ~/build/{pkg,repo}/*; do
ag -lr '^ .*\n\t|^\t.*\n |^\s* \t' $p/^.git | head -1
done | wc -l

That's 142.

If I run that last one only against pkg/, which contains mostly official package sources of my distro, then I get 69 matches out of 89 packages.

Note these are not file counts, but project counts with at least one such file.

You may view this as using a small sample size, but at least, the practice is pretty wide in my experience.
One of these days, I want to take a year off to see how hard it is to find an actual job de novo, with no experience. I see so many trade schools and apprenticeship programs that its hard for me not to think that people just arent looking hard enough or in the right places.
"Getting started in biology" and "starting a biotech company" to me are opposite ends of a continuum, akin to "learning how to walk" vs "training for a marathon". I made the transition from web dev to bioinformatics five years ago and while I have a good job in academia, I wouldn't dream of starting a bioX company without a bioX cofounder.
> You can't compare the situation hundreds of years ago with today's standards.

That’s a very good point. But for some reason some people can’t leave 1714 behind!
our labor force participation rate hasn't recovered since the recession. 65.7% participation rate in september of 2009 compared to 63.2% today. look at the official data yourself: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln

the "low" unemployment is a result of nearly-unemployed people working small jobs which aren't enough to cover their basic needs rather than a genuinely improving economic situation. remember: 5% unemployment is normal and ideal because it representes structural unemployment plus the churn of people moving from job to job. we're lower than that now, which means that either our metric is not reflecting the scenario (as i believe) or that the fundamental amount of churn and structural unemployment has decreased, which i think nobody will try to argue.

the people knocked out of the labor force in 2009 have had an extremely difficult time getting back in, and the jobs they occupied have been destroyed permanently by the looks of it. in other words, while unemployment is very low, compared to then, the economy either has 2-3% fewer open jobs compared to the number of jobseekers (who may be employed), or employers are substantially more reluctant to take on new employees when those employees are not already participants in the labor force. or both.

there's two additional problems here. the first is that employers are unwilling to give unemployed and marginally employed workers a shot because they're tainted. this is especially true in "professional" and "high quality" jobs. the second additional problem is that middle-class people tend to hold out for a "good job" rather than taking any job which they could reasonably do, like waiting tables etc. knowing this, employers often refuse to take these people for those roles...
High school biology covers this. There is an observed increase in competitiveness commensurate with an increase in testosterone, within sexual arousal responses. see reference [46] within the testosterone wiki for whatever that is worth.
Wrong TLS certificate. I wouldn't feel at ease giving away my contact and business information to a startup that can't even properly manage its web server...
> “32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.”

DOS was a 16 bit operating system. The 8088 (the processor of the IBM-PC) was an 16 bit (if you consider the instruction set) or 8 bit (if you consider the width of the data bus) processor.
From what I heard about Obamacare it seemed a quite crappy deal indeed, and not really criticized properly by the Democrats. It's sad that either party can't acknowledge their own errors and have to just tout their own version of reality to make it true for their supporters.

And about lying, there are degrees of lying that can be established. The earth is not flat even though some believe it to be so, to state the opposite is untrue. On the other hand, sure you could say eg that Americans have obesity problem (compared to the rest of the world) or they are just normal weight as "only" 1/3 of the population is overweight. But which is a truth or a lie?

I think the problem is largely a cultural shift in politics where the issues have become secondary to the rhetorical war between the two opposite ideologies. It's not about establishing a truth in a sense than it's trying to beat the other party. Yet there is a consensus that can be established, honesty that could be had when stating facts and acknowledging their up and downsides. It's not just black and white wordplay.

Perhaps we should just get rid of the politicians, have our best scientists (preferably chosen at random from a pool of candidates) run the government and people would just vote on things that they wished to improve (immigration, job-safety, healthcare etc). All results would be evaluated afterwards and their effects measured with meticulous statistics. I know that it could be abused too, but even that would be better than what is the current situation in US government.
His conclusion: most of those >40% would be able to borrow money to cover an unexpected $400 expense, and only 14% of all people truly would be unable to meet a $400 obligation.

That's pretty much exactly how I interpreted the original.
How is american society 'openly fostering fascism' ?
"I'm fine with a CRUD position"

Are you? Then put together some CRUD line of business stuff. You may actually find you don't like it, or get 'too creative', or... whatever.

Build a small CRM. Allow people to add doodles to the user records. Case solved...
It is definitely amazing and a huge step forward for RL. However, the paper says that it started off with a policy that beats 84% of players based on imitation learning, so it didn't learn this strategy all on its own from scratch. Also, this required hundreds of thousands (millions? some large number) of simulations to learn, it is much more difficult reach that scale of learning in the real world.
Or control a fleet of armed drones, more likely. I’d be surprised if darpa, etc aren’t investigating applications like that right now.
Not in the way the post you are replying to means. Our “math based theories” of physics do not require a world without cause-effect paradoxes. Indeed they seem to explicitly permit them.
You can axiomatize anything. The axioms are chosen because they reflect reality. The axiom reflects the blocks, not the other way around.
Yes, I think your own site is best. You can do Medium too for promotional reasons but it’s good to have your own brand and own your own stuff.
Judging on your comment, I'm beginning to realize that compared to those business perspectives, I simply want to move too fast.

Based on my own experience, in most cases when I tried to move too fast things went fine. And sometimes they went horribly wrong (but since other times it went fine on average it was always pretty good). So there's a bit of risk involved.

What happened in the world for people not daring to take risk?

But alright, I'll build a nice looking CRUD app. I suppose I should build it in at least 5 languages, because if you can do it NodeJS that doesn't mean that people trust you to be able to do it in C#.
It seems like it's only a matter of time though.

StarCraft II also has a rock-paper-scissors nature to it though, so you wouldn't expect even a perfect player to win 100% of the time. There are some strategies that are hard-counters to other strategies, and because of the imperfect information nature of the game, by the time you scout your opponent and see what they're doing, it may be too late to shift and deal with it.
> nobody cares that I fast-tracked

In fact, if fast-tracking cost you even 1/10 of a GPA point, it is actively hurting you - if they’re comparing somebody with a 3.9 GPA to somebody with a 4.0 GPA, whether the second candidate got that extra 0.1 because he was only taking one class per semester doesn’t come into consideration.
No it doesn't. In both Facebook and in newspapers there are a few words at the top. Sure, this can be misunderstood or go unnoticed, but it does in both cases.
If by "verified properties" we can infer "regulations and warranties", aren't you just reinventing hotels?
Yep that's actually something we want to do in the future: giving design/front-end better continuous integration/testing tools such as diff-checking and visual regression testing
Gamers are very different from your average customer.
>Apple just removed some apps that people in the west weren't really using that much

HKers didn't really care either, those who had installed the app still have it on their phones and the rest have no trouble accessing the same information from tens of other sources.
Band 12 alone dramatically improved indoor coverage. Prior to this they were the only national carrier without low-band (under 1000mhz) spectrum holdings, with the exception of Myrtle Beach's band 5 license (weird company acquisition history there).
Thanks! Glad you liked it. I wish I had time to post more on there, but I’m happy with heat I’ve produced over the years.
Through ads, political parties don't necessarily have to use true statements. In addition, they can target specific groups of users based on demographics and other attributes Facebook provides. The issue is that regular users who post have a higher burden of truth than someone who pays to play as a political figure.
Goes well with their equally horrible hardware.
Time to realise the Mac era is over. Sadly. It hasn’t been a focus for the company in over half a decade.
We are doing forward time travel right now at a rate of 1sec/sec.
There are already regulations that dictate how companies must regard and comply with laws and regulations of other non-US jurisdictions. This could be a similar thing. Or maybe not, maybe there is a better way.

The point is, this is a long term issue of national security. US companies bolstering a foreign authoritarian regime by facilitating it's propaganda and censorship gives aid an comfort to a regime incompatible with our values.
California: Maybe prescribed burns once every 500 years are not enough?
Computers can directly prove some theorems today, and in other cases there are various interactive provers that let humans and computers work together to find formal proofs. In some systems using computers can give much better confidence that the proof is correct, because computers are very good at carefully checking every step; nitpicking is their forte and they don't get tired.

Freek Wiedijk maintains a list of 100 challenges for math formalization and the status of various systems here:

http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/100/ - Formalizing 100 Theorems

Lean hasn't accomplished as many as some others, but it's certainly a contender!
That's what I was digging for as well, as it's LTE based I can't imagine a consistent connection or a particularly fast connection.
It is not just you. Also, asking for contact information just to do a coverage check is very sketchy.
TV stations have been making these judgement calls for decades. It seems to work fairly well.
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Well, at least 70% of the HN crowd has been misunderstanding it.

The article has an anecdote in it where the "better" guy has grandiose ideas about wanting to make a perfect system that always does the right thing, even at a huge increase in implementation complexity.

In that specific case, not having to restart system calls after an interrupt. I've always thought the "worse" guy made the right choice by shifting the complexity out of the core, because we should deal with each problem in the place where it's most natural. There's nothing wrong with requiring users to make and use (or only use) a wrapper that deals with that complexity in one specific way that is right in the given situation.
You could make the same argument about the television remote control as it relates to broadcast TV. There is a popular phrase these days, "progress trap," [0] which I think adequately explains the issues with both today's internet and the remote control.

We have indeed made some advancements in some interesting fields due to the modern UI of the web, but what underlies this is a really heavy-handed plasticity on the infrastructure/architecture fronts. That is what the earlier web lacked, and what made it such a fantastic, democratized resource for information and communication.

The remote control achieved the same thing for broadcast TV - a way to make the format easier to use mindlessly. And what it enabled was channel surfing: building it into the hunter-gatherer human mind that the TV was a universe to be explored, filled with wondrous gifts for the would-be explorer to uncover. But that's a lie merely proposed by the interface - the most common thing to land on during a channel surf is a network advertisement. You will of course land on some shows, too, but the channel surfer is destined to see more than a couple of ads before they are finished with their remote.

Getting the internet away from its keyboard-driven beginnings has led to a similar outcome on the web, and it's plain to see. The advent of touch screens has made this interface/architecture authoritarianism even harder to avoid now that the entire package has been shrunk to the size of one's palm and available at a moment's notice or a passing whim.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_trap
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> But most surprising is that it didn't make any "breathtaking" moves or actions, as opposed to AlphaGO.

I don't play any competitive StarCraft so my view might be moot but I was surprised at the number of siege tanks it uses. It made me wonder if there's some critical advantage to having so many tanks stacked up in a line so that the splash is spread out.

Also I find it weird that it did not build any marauders at all, in any of the games I've seen.

And just in general, no sexy units. No battlecruisers, no infestors, no swarm hosts...
Individual experiences are interesting, but not automatically indicative of a trend. Maybe she's just terrible in interviews? I've certainly interviewed people that were obviously intelligent, but paralyzed with nervousness. Tried compensating, but the situation was too far gone to salvage.
There's a past link at the top, below the link to the source article.
No one can truly understand all of the background for the field. Doing so would require like 10 PhDs

It is important to have a fundamental understanding of biology and chemistry, and ability to critically evaluate data, but once you have that, its more important to be able to find people with the right domain expertise and have productive interviews with them about data. If you are a neuroscience PhD you should not be evaluating a cancer assay or a GLP tox study on your own, you should read enough to have a productive interview with someone with more expertise, then go have that interview

You need a rigorous science background to start a company but that is not sufficient. Many projects are just not fundable. For non scientists, id recommend learning how the industry works and how value is created, because that complements the expertise of scientists who know the science but dont know the right clinical applications
There's a lot of knobs to wiggle here. I'm more interested in finding out what emerges in the system that we can actually call "AI" the more restraints we put on it.
That pales in comparison to starcraft at a higher resolution, which has even more points to click on screen! And even that is nothing compared to playing horseshoes in the physical world. There are an infinite number of moves at any given moment! And an infinite number of moments! Horseshoes is clearly the most complex game of all.
I never thought of that. That's a good point. My master degrees have high GPA's because I didn't fast track them. But other than a tier 1 consultancy firm (I went far and wide with this job search), no one seemed to care about my grades.

I'm happy at least one company did.
"Service" roles have been put in a weird state where, because they involve relating to humans, they're difficult to automate. But because they involve doing what you're told, with low room for autonomy and creativity, they're low-status and therefore low paid.
At this point? A few decades of drought, fire, and famine is probably what it’s going to take. The science is clear, but you have to play the long game, and humans are notoriously bad at long-term thinking in aggregate. We’ve enjoyed unfettered growth forever, but the piper is coming...
Thanks! I think it's an unorthodox enough usage in English that IMHO the article should have had a clarification.

Actually I would have preferred that the article should have used the "English" term (as it does with, say, President of China) but such procedure is highly inconsistent. Merkel is referred to as "Chancellor", which is literally the English version of for Kanzler though in English "Chancellor" now means something quite different). Likewise the President of Iran is called President even though there is an executive agent above him/her (less powerful than the Spanish President).
insane? I learned cursive but I was always faster writing without it. this has never been a problem for me. I type faster than handwriting. Cursive is a waste of valuable school time. there are more useful things to teach.

if you actually think "fast hand-written note taking" is a critical skill you should advocate for teaching shorthand. I'm not convinced cursive is actually faster and the science on that is hardly clear. http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/cursive-handwriting-and-o...
I think it's instructive to realize that mainland Chinese people are being fed state propaganda about "rioters" destroying HK and demanding independence, thus their opinions should be weighted lesser on the issue accordingly.

The sparse examples I've seen of Chinese people actually being exposed to the reality in HK and being surprised, tells me the state media is being effective in its Ministry of Truth role.
> If we go by polifact (https://www.politifact.com/personalities/), the highest rated politician has a truth rating of 14%.

My very first check of that assertion has a fully "True" rating of 20%[1]. And if you count the entire true spectrum it's 73%. And there is not a small sample size. I assume your statement is only regarding the current executive branch?

I also tried a spot check of the Congress, but my very first check also failed to meet your criteria[2]. The problem with this is that it undermines your entire point. The executive branch has the most strained relationship with objective reality, and that stems from the demands of the current president. They're basically forced to lie for political reasons because the truth is too damaging.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/personalities/barack-obama/
[2] https://www.politifact.com/personalities/mark-warner/
Perhaps better is to read the comments from the person responsible for the report:
https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/1073951343608545280
Also: This is a long term issue of national security, making the behavior of a company subject to a bit more scrutiny: US companies bolstering a foreign authoritarian regime by facilitating it's propaganda and censorship gives aid and comfort to a regime incompatible with our values.
Sure, but did you really not understand what I meant?

We outlaw things when a) they cause sufficient harm, and b) don't have sufficient countervailing utility. E.g., kitchen knives remain legal even though people are murdered with them, but you aren't allowed to buy a tactical nuke. I'm saying that whatever previous necessity drove us to allow political advertising despite the historically obvious harms, the Internet makes that much, much smaller.
> Hm... when I think "worse is better" I'm not thinking of software that is "rock solid, fast, and small". Have I been misunderstanding the essay?

Have you read the 4 bullet points of the worse-is-better philosophy, in the beginning of the essay?
>... a 40-year-old 16-bit ISA designed to be source-compatible with a 50-year-old 8-bit ISA.

In fairness to the Intel of that era, they actually did a really good job with this. They gained basically zero warts from the 8080 assembler source compatibility. They mostly set out to make the best variable length 16 bit instruction set they could. They had significant competition at the time and they pretty much had to make the 8086 instruction set something very usable. The x86 instruction set horror mostly came after that.
I understand "worse" as tongue-in-cheek. We also often see "stupid", "dead", "dumb", and similar things, as desirable qualities.
They didn't even beat South Koreans at Starcraft 2 in the article
If a law is literally never enforced, there's not much point in having the law.
I'm confused by what you mean. DI doesn't introduce any more dependencies compared to a non-DI approach (like hardcoding dependencies via module import or static methods), so how does it change the unit of work? DI doesn't add additional things to mock. DI simply means that dependencies are explicitly passed in. In a non-DI approach, they are implicit but still exist.