skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taught how to program a blog from scratch. I the code on my machine and could post it on Github. I never knew people cared. Thanks for pointing it out so clearly.

Some nuance: I'm a CS grad, so this perspective is relative to that.

Weak: SQL optimization, I have no clue.

Mediocre: SQL itself, I understand everything at sqlteaching.com and I never had an issue at work doing SQL.

Strong-ish: ORMs, read the API documentation and then it's just programming. I've experienced SQLAlchemy (Python) on a side project, Hibernate (Java) at work and Sequelize (NodeJS) when I taught at a bootcamp.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405188.
Apple just complied with a law enforcement request to take down an app (which didn't even prevent anyone from accessing the exact same information using safari)

Blizzard pre-emptively (and severely!) punished Blitzchung for daring to support the protests during stream.

Completely different situations.
Who is enforcing this? These types of sales happen all the time. I sold an exploit to Vupen who then resold it. Did I break the law? Did Vupen break the law?
Sure, it's politics.

As for it being subjective, does that matter? Millions of people are also racist and feel racism -- their racism, anyway -- is A-okay. That doesn't make racism somehow less bad, just because it's technically subjective and some people are fine with it.

HK protestors are for democracy, which is good. The PRC is opposed to democracy, which is bad.
With the scammers having your personal data, name and (maybe?) address?
I'd think thrice before starting a feud with a scammer.
How many apps did you submit? I'm curious on those numbers myself, not that I'm a Dutch CS grad (American epidemiology, actually), but it'd still be interesting to see that.
Mainland Chinese customers cannot have a real opinion about anything as they are fed with constant lies and propaganda from a single source of information.
Swift has the advantage of being the Javascript of iOS.
QM is fundamentally not correct. They assume energy and matter is interchangeable, which is not.
Build me a proton from energy and I will shut up, you can't.
The appearance of positions can be explained much much much much easier, once you got your electron model correct.

When I studied physics I never saw the periodic table as the result of QM model, never made sense for me. Now I understand, thanks to a more advanced, but classical model.

QM and GR can never be unified because GR is a effect of surface pressure and QM has the wrong surface.
"I know what is best for you, you get no say" is a retort of dictators, not democracies.
The iCloud one, I thought. Guess I must be misremembering, or it's changed. Thanks.
There is no deep learning without massive data. What do you expect? :D
I know at least one person in quantitative finance that is starting a greenfield project in Fortran. He says it works and has great performance, doesn't get in the way and appeals more to people with science rather than programming backgrounds.
Did you double-post on two different accounts?
I asked for the most notable movies and shows. A few choice specimens which you think would resonate would work.

For example, if I were to pick a few top candidates for nerd representation in media I might pick the IT Show or CSI or Mr Robot.
boston is the best place to meet people in biotech. more specifically, it depends on the kind of data product you're trying to make. there are a plethora of networking events for biotech in the area, and a lot of the local nonprofit institutions will have valuable people for you to meet as well.
This is the central argument for pursuing a phd.

But its rubbish.

Speed + onus behind learning > everything.

Also note the self-serving bias where Phd's swear:

"You need a phd"
This comment was originally posted on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408024, but we've merged it into the earlier submission, which used the link you mentioned.
Agda just uses proof terms directly - you could do that in Coq and Lean as well. It's a bit of a bummer though that neither Coq nor Lean have a currently-maintained declarative mode ala Mizar/Isar. The former C-zar included in older Coq versions (aka Mathematical Proof Mode) was especially nifty, albeit not totally free from bugs.

(One other approach is to generate a "declarative", human-readable version of the proof directly from the proof term. Very old versions of Coq (6.x series) and IIRC even Agda (1.x) could essentially do this. Declarative proof mode integrates better with complex tactics however - proof terms can sometimes get a bit weird.)
A Bubbles class, which is basically the same as a factory. I don't see a huge difference in practice myself.
Keep up the good work! :-)
My favorite example is "eating carrots improves your vision." Came from WW2 propaganda trying to hide the existence of radar.
Modern Fortran is still popular for computationally-heavy economics. C and C++ never really caught on because it's irrational to use one of those languages when Fortran will do. Julia, on the other hand, is now gaining ground because it's both fast and usable by humans.
Scala implicits. It's a curried arg list you can omit, but the compiler checks that you have implicit values of all the needed types in scope. Or you can pass whatever you want explicitly.

https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/implicit-parameters.html
> they're low-status and therefore low paid.

Pretty sure it's mostly the other way: They're low status because they're low paid.

Jobs are low paid when there is a big supply of people who can and want to do them. Which is pretty much equivalent to the jobs being low skilled.

Since everyone can flip a burger, you don't have to pay much to find someone to do it.
This comment was originally posted on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408024, but we've merged it into the earlier submission.
That's just how money works, though: the more you have, the more you can amplify your speech. The "media" (including social media) is really just a group of people with a lot of money who use it to selectively amplify messages.

To that end, I think your position is contradictory. If X group has a moral right to use their money to promote speech via ads, why shouldn't media owners have the same right to use their money to promote speech via their platforms?
Right, I understood you believe this, I'm trying to understand the basis for that belief since it seems both counter-intuitive and at odds with available facts.

Edit: you added a bit of detail about the IRS after I replied, are you saying a yandex email makes it easier to evade taxes? That the advantage of such an email address is skirting or breaking laws and regulations?
You can set which radios are disabled with Airplane mode with an adb command. It persists and will even transfer to a new phone.

The default is:

adb settings put global airplane_mode_radios cell,bluetooth,wifi,nfc,wimax

I have mine set to:

adb settings put global airplane_mode_radios cell,wifi,wimax
How does that work? "Oh, you have a high GPA, clearly you're too theoretical."

I have no clue.
I haven't stayed at Airbnbs in the US but it has been a common experience in Europe to be instructed to say we're guests of the owner if asked. I assume this is about either HOA rules on subletting, or tax/insurance/regulatory issues.
SQL optimization is a bit overrated, IMO. I code in SQL and R daily, and my experience is that most SQL scripts, it doesn't matter if it takes 6 seconds or 60 seconds. What matters is deeply understanding what your row is, how to join other data onto those rows, and how to effectively communicate/analyze the data after you get your final dataset. If you can't do the last step, it doesn't matter how fast your code runs, unless you're specifically tasked with speeding up legacy code or something like that.
I don't know, I just stated my personal reason for wanting independence, but I think it's not very representative.

Regarding your question, it seems to me that it's too late now. First, the spanish public opinion would not accept any kind of "concession" to Catalonia. Second, any such concession would likely be dismissed as insufficient by independence supporters.

The only realistic way out that I see is an escalation of the conflict until it becomes unsustainable economically for spain.
I don't have such a breakdown, but I do know that the budget of the LHC alone is a billion dollars a year plus $13B to build it. That wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for a long-term commitment.

And I know that few fields get that kind of commitment. Maybe cancer, maybe something in semiconductors. Lots of other fields would produce things if you offered them many years of billion-dollar commitments.

I'm not saying that it was wrong to give so much to fundamental physics. I'd just be very happy if we gave that level of funding to lots of other things.
The US city preparing itself for the collapse of capitalism
Hire them :) you'll have shorter meetings and they don't job hop as much
Tangent but: what's the additional overhead on a modern chip of parsing this crazy instruction set vs. a simpler to parse one like PPC64 or ARM64? Is it significant compared to all the other stuff that almost all modern CPUs do like out of order execution, register renaming, SIMD, virtualization, etc. etc. etc.?

I've seen many people argue that it's significant but I never see anything in depth from anyone who really knows. People just assume it is.

A counterargument I heard once is that there is kind of a fixed complexity to parsing it and that it was significant in the past but as CPU feature sizes have shrunk and transistor counts increased (Moore's law) it's stayed relatively constant and become insignificant today compared to all the other uses of die space.
Great, now they just need to save another $200k and they'll have the down payment on a median priced home!
The title is a bit confusing, actually means things they attribute Go's success to.
The humans need to come to terms with how we communicate facts and opinions. This started in the modern age with Bernays [1] in 1928.

I'd like to have an ISO9001 traceable, encrypted log of all the ads shown to me. Every pixel that was placed on a screen meant to change my mind. And it should be traceable all the way back to the mine the ore was dug from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
I've stayed at 22 airbnb's 11 were fine. 11 had issues most with false advertising in some form or another. One listed the wrong location and if they had listed the correct location I would not have rented even though the room's interior matched. A few claimed to include onsite parking but didn't which of course is very inconvenient. The last one that did that claimed "Easy Street Parking" as AirBnb's blatant lie. I usually had to park a mile way or pay for a $25 a night garage a few blocks away. One claimed wifi but was actually just stealing it from the neighbors and it only worked in a corner of the apartment if lucky. Another who I asked if their heaters worked, because a previous one was cold, said yes but when I got their the heater was as loud as a vacuum cleaner and their wifi had a notices "don't use much as it will run out". This for a place I expected to get work done. AirBnb in Japan is full of listing claiming 2 or 3 bedrooms but that actually only have 1 and this isn't a cultural issue. Look at any J-apartment rental site and there is zero ambiguity about what 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms are.

It bugs me that YC appears to have absolutely no policy of conduct for the companies they fund. It's totally within their power to say in so many words "be evil and we'll pull your funding and report you to the authorities". IMO AirBnB is complicit in these issues. There is no punishment for bad listings and often AirBnB doesn't even have the options in their system to list them correctly. They even removed my review that included pictures of proof.
The best way to access the iOS ecosystem is by using Swift, so that makes it a bit of a special case.
> "You don’t need a PhD, but it helps."

> "A PhD is nice because because it demonstrates ..."

An employees willingness + investment to singularly do just one thing for the rest of their life.

It works as really good signaling for a CEO / hiring manager to assess someone as a really consistent employee.
> pro-independence parties are majority in the parliament

Spanish democracy is malapportioned: Basically, rural voters get more of a say than urban voters. The pro independent parties have a majority in the Spanish parliament for the same reason that Republicans have a majority in the US Senate: Americans and Spaniards prefer havoc and civil war to democracy, so they'll do everything they can to make sure their parliaments are illegitimate. It's worked for them both before.
Yes, I understand this. I guess I disagree better/smarter would be better, because in videogames what matters is the illusion of challenge, not a real challenge. So spending resources into developing a real AI for Civilization is probably not the best idea; as long as it tricks casual players into believing it's putting up a fight, that's good enough.
In the UK, it's illegal to listen to radio traffic for which you are not the intended recipient, so yes, it seems the ham committed a crime. But at the same time it sheds light on a very GDPR non-compliant method of transmitting PII and other patient data that can be read by anyone.

The pagers don't use encryption and are clear-text after a trivial demodulation process.

The same type of system is used in the States, where SSNs, names, symptoms, diseases, and the like are regularly transmitted via pager.

Pagers work well in the medical community to disseminate information rapidly and reliably, but at the expense of patient privacy.
Back when I was faculty at a .edu, I installed this game in my student labs and it got a lot of action, despite the availability of much newer games.
Whoops, I thought we were discussing our personal experiences, not just whining about “the system”. My bad.
Why You Might Not Want to Believe Michael Baden on Epstein’s Death
If it's not too private, what kind of dreams are these?
...If only there was a way to serendipitously browse through hundreds of thousands of images and videos...

(spoiler: check my profile)
I recently selected Fortran for a greenfield project. The reasons were primarily (1) speed, (2) clean mathematical syntax, especially for elemental multi-dimensional array math, (3) clean array slicing syntax, and (4) arbitrary array indices[0] result in cleaner code for my use cases.

People normally think of Fortran as being inscrutable spaghetti code, but for me using Fortran results in the cleanest, fastest code.

[0] Fortran arrays are 1-indexed by default, but can technically use any integer, including 0, or negative numbers. It's trivial to have, say, an array indexed from -7 to +7:

real :: array(-7:7)
But define "better". Literary fiction is "better" in the sense of "communicating profound ideas better". Popular fiction is "better" in the sense of "being something that people want to read".
This is really nice. I wonder if anyone has tried fuzzing a CPU's instruction decoder? It would be surprising if they didn't have bugs.
Strategy is limited by available tactics, and the ability to execute them. Your (human) tactics and strategy would necessarily change if you and your opponent were required to use a mouse that can only move across the screen over the course of a couple seconds, or if you could only click once per second, or if the computer added noise to when/where your mouse click arrives.

Strategy and tactics are a function of constraints. If an unconstrained computer can beat a constrained human, have we really shown that its strategy and tactics are better? To do that, you'd have them to play under the same constraints. Or at least have the constrains be close enough, which is what people are debating.
Agreed.

I thought I was a really good programmer leaving university.

Now I know I was useless the first 3 years. I only became someone I would consider hiring now after 5-7 years.
Man I used to love BZFlag - it looks like it's still active, I should get back on.
Stoyan Sarg understood this problem in the 90 and fixed it by building a model from scratch that actually works :)
Termux to drop support for android-5/6 from 01-01-2020
Trees compete viciously for sunlight, soil, water. They strangle one another, poison one another, create seeds that poison animals, and on and on.

But its all consistent with vegetable blind optimization for their environment.

As for social organization, works, cooperation - the fact that they grow in a group and are impressively big says nothing about their sentience.
Why are Phds so cheap to hire if their skills are so valueable?
There's actually a term for this called underemployment [0], that can google you up a lot of discussion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underemployment
The number one reason for Go’s success is that Google backed it.

There are a lot of very nice languages out there. However, if you look at compiled languages, they largely need a company backing them. Java had Sun. C and C++ had AT&T and later Microsoft for C++. Objective-C had Apple. FORTRAN had IBM.

Don’t underestimate the amount of resources and press that Google’s support brought to Go.
I think you are right, from the paper:

>During training we used three agent types that differ only in the distribution of opponents they train against, when they are snapshotted to create a new player, and the probability of resetting to the supervised parameters.

So exploiter agents aren't fed a specific strat, instead they discover the weak spots in the same way as the main agent tries to win. The GANs similarity is there.
I wonder how much better it perform without being restricted to 264 APM
It sounds like the company made the right decision based on your words alone.

The tone of your description of their "CRUD applications" comes across as dismissive. What the company wants is people who are happy to work there or at least not unhappy enough to leave (and, even better, will keep their unhappiness to themselves). The company wants this more than technical ability. You might be really talented but it seems like you'd be unhappy there. Perhaps that's not the case and you're just bitter about the rejection?

But don't make the mistake that the the sole purpose of recruiting is to find the most technically capable people. It's not. It never was and it never will be. It's to find people who will fit the company's goal of coming to work, doing their job, going home and doing the same thing day in and day out.

You may well be bored developing CRUD apps. If I was an interviewer for that company I'd certainly be worried about that. Isn't that a possibility here?
Ubuntu classic vs. Snappy core for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4
Appreciate the opportunity to dive in and read this myself!

The story doesn't "change", that's the abstract where they're presenting the different pieces of research covered in the paper. It's like they're giving a tour of the house, here's the bedroom, here's the living room, here's the kitchen.

There's 3 main chunks across 8 pages, including 2 pages of tables of different studies:

- A survey of scientific publications

- A survey of expert scientists who published about climate science

- Other similar studies that attempted to estimate "consensus"

I appreciated their closing statement:
"From a broader perspective, it doesn’t matter if the
consensus number is 90% or 100%. The level of scientific agreement on AGW is overwhelmingly high
because the supporting evidence is overwhelmingly
strong."

Overall, I'm glad for the opportunity to read further, and agree with the conclusions of the 8 page paper. Thanks scientists, you've done a great job. The climate is changing, let's move on and build solutions.
Not many had it on their phones - it was only able to be installed by anyone for a few days because previous attempts at app store approval were rejected.
Hawkins was on Lex Fridmans podcast a while back. Seems like he's got some controversial ideas based on what I saw in the comments, and he definitely doesn't suffer from lack of confidence, but the hierarchical reference frame concept makes a lot of sense and kind of maps to what i feel like is going on in my head when I go about my day.
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"Check Availability" does nothing useful. The landing page is an opt-in lead generation tool.
The lab was in a bio lab, so the AC was set to STP. Well, mostly. Just having a warm person breathing in the tiny room was enough to throw the mirrors off. Since we were doing active tuning and development on the optics, we had to be in there, and it took a bit to get the room to a steady state with us in it. Fortunately, during the summer or winter, the only thing what would change was humidity, not the temperature, and that seemed to not affect things too much.

Also, not a stupid question. We thought of it too and it took us a week to collect enough data to rule out the AC system as a cause.
>> Wait what do you do when someone breaks into your house? Grab a bat and go fight them? That's an easy way to get stabbed or shot.

Right back at you. Do you seriously run away?

Is that your response to any situatuon that includes potential danger?
We've been using zeroheight at Modern Treasury and are big fans thus far. It's clearly built for design versus other platforms we considered, and was way easier than building something ourselves.
Why passwords don't work, and what will replace them
time cat
In love with Donald – what Trump can teach us about belonging
I believe it was 27,000 vs the 30,000 Boeing stated. How long is 3,000 landings in days/years?

The FAA is going to be investigating Boeing for everything minor and major if they want to gain a fraction of the credibility they lost.
First, there are lots of suicides in prison. The suicide rate is 4 times higher there than in the general public, and the rate is highest among pre-trial detainees, like Epstein.

Second, people are generally pretty bad at suicide, and the methods most likely to succeed (firearms, drugs, falling) are not available as options.
curious, in what ways is swift the "javascript of ios"?
The Blender Video Sequence Editor Resurrected
When you register to appear as an option on a ballot paper, wouldn’t that be sufficient to qualify for your quota of airtime for which you do not have to spend campaign funds?
At some point you can't fix a model by adding more stuff to it, if it's already inconsistent.
Removing the wrong assumptions first, helps more then adding new mechanisms.
I wonder if implementing tactical pause would eliminate interface advantages. Players can pause game, scroll around map and give orders to units before unpausing and watching them execute.

It will be a different game, but you can see how AI does against humans tactically and strategically.
What makes this amazing isn't specific to StarCraft 2. AI in strategy games has been really lackluster. I can't think of a single example of a strategy game where an AI was competitive against experienced players due to strategy and tactics, rather than inhuman speed, accuracy or cheating. So it's not just about AI in StarCraft 2, but rather AI in essentially any (strategy) game. Now we have an example of an AI that can compete with real players.