skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't really artificial restraints though, more like artificial advantages without them. The interface delay challenges are pretty relevant to making things fair in almost ANY competition. The physical part of the interface is an essential part of the game here.

You aren't really testing the thing you really want to test otherwise.

You could probably play tennis pretty well against Nadal if you made him wear goggles that gave him a quarter second delay in response time, but that's not really a fair test.

All other things being equal, if you match up two chess players, and one can just say or think the position instead of having to physically move the piece before they hit the clock, that advantage will accumulate over time.
yes it would be a factory, the difference being that you don't have to use a different syntax (`Klass.build/new Klass` would be `Klass new` in both cases)
The title looks interesting but I haven't read the article because of the paywall - not sure why people keep sharing these.
ha ha, classic arm-chair expert who has run ZERO business in their lives.
I think Facebook is evil but it isn't like TV and radio advertising is held to some high level of fact checking or truth. The one minor thing FB might be able to do is to target smaller groups better than tv channels or radio stations.
Yes, that's an excellent point. The socioeconomic status of your parents is a big influence up to a point. In developed counties we don't see this effect as much because it's the baseline. Almost everybody gets sufficient nutrition and medical care to meet the very low standards where it would otherwise negatively affect your intelligence and development.
Omio Acquires Rome2Rio
Toyota Settles Hundreds of Sudden Unintended Acceleration Cases
For us non-pilots: what is CAPS?
Using ISS parameters, it's more like 8:1, with it taking much more energy to get to speed than altitude.

"Low earth orbit is halfway to anywhere in the solar system."
Apart from droughts and the heat etc. what happens when people try to escape all those consequences in their countries by becoming refugees? Germany would need to do something about it, whether let them in, keep them out by huge military force etc.

https://www.climateforesight.eu/migrations/environmental-mig...
Our Grand Delusion
FORTRAN is pervasive in earth and space sciences. There are large models that have been built and extended for as long back as the 50s and 60s.

I’m not sure I would have been inclined to use something like functional FORTRAN when I was working on that stuff since mostly the models don’t change too much, and most new code is some kind of glue between parts.
No thabks. individuals need to have the right to be able to pay the standard publishing fare to publish their voices. That right shouldnt be reserved solely for state sanctioned political parties. That's a sad sad state of affairs.
But, a business does not make decisions. The people of that organization make the decisions. We must pierce the veil and hold the individuals accountable. Start picketing their house, where they eat, everywhere they go.

The folks that care should really be taking lessons from the anti-abortion people picket outside of a physicians home.
Half of the point of Access is that it's not in the cloud; it's a locally installed app that doesn't even require network access or admin rights.
Grow a spine and quit.

Otherwise you’re literally endorsing the censorship of the ccp.
It's the other way round: Blizzard got huge coverage because it was related to Hongkong.
The issue with limiting it past what humans can do is that in the self play training they'd never encounter what humans could do. The benefits of trying to make the limitations somewhat human-like is that the self play optimizes around roughly what it will encounter when it goes against humans
Not all of us use your personal dictionary.

Well, that's unfortunate because his definition happens to be the right one.
I think I found it accidentally while searching for gifts for new parents in Google or Amazon.
RE: "Having a PhD means that you've spent years on a certain subject. You cannot just read a book and be up to speed on biomedical research and CRISPR."

Isn't that what books are for? To compile, document and share knowledge some people spent years to figure out?
So, the Humane Society or Susan G. Komen Foundation soliciting donations for charitable work is a political ad?
Not as a single tool, but if I'm using numerical libraries I need to be accurate, and not have another unpleasant experience with numerical methods. That said, I can usually get by with the prebuilt libs
Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success
> Where and when would the civil aviation authorities stop manufacturers from creeping ever so closer to the performance limits of a product?

You hit the nail on the head. These manufacturers and the airlines are compromising safety for dollars: trying to put more people on a plane than it was designed for.
Few countries are like the USA if you’re willing to look close enough. The differences are there even if they don’t scream out at you.
Their average revenue per active user faaaaar exceeds $2-3/yr in the US at least.
London Perl Workshop 2019 Videos
> Why try to make it safe for your population NOT to have to think instead of just teaching them how to think critically?

Hmmm...a question like that is essentially opening up the gates for speculation - the kind of speculation that may not paint the government (the body that seems to be pushing for, as you say, "trustworthy information") in the most benevolent light.

I agree with the essence of what you're getting at - it's the old biblical trope of giving a man a fish vs. teaching a man to fish. But I could think of many possible benefits (for a government) in having a population with a reduced ability or incentive to be analytical and think critically. To be fair, I can think of many possible costs as well - I don't know whether one would outweigh the other.
In my early (okay... mid) thirties now. I have been laid off once and left on my own will from three jobs through the last 12 years of my career.

Being laid off puts kind of a stink on you, even if slight, that requires a bit of interview time be spent clarifying WHY you got laid off instead of entirely being able to focus on experience, accomplishments etc. When I was moving from one place to another, there seemed to be a noticeable sense of urgency on the new company's part to recruit me away.

However, as long as you get your story straight I think it’s easier to explain a stretch of unemployment more now than it used to be. I can appreciate that I'm probably saying this from a place of privilege working in tech-orbit. I bet my tone changes if I suffer a layoff in my older age.
Ever heard of NoScript?
Ubuntu 19.10 Makes It Easier to Share Media to Your TV, Games Consoles, etc.
There are plenty of ways to get access to and use the advanced equipment that you may need for research after getting past the beginner and intermediate level. This comes to mind: https://www.biolabs.io/
So Destiny?
Startup Lessons from Roger Bannister
No thanks. As a member of a small party that seems like it would just make us unable to meet the ridiculous requirements to qualify. As it is right now we can just pay for ads instead of having to meet arbitrary criteria. Thats a much fairer state of things
Even then you'd need intricate knowledge of the target satellite to hijack it - somehow opening and making electrical connections to a satellite you've never seen before seems rather infeasible - not even getting to the software side.

Nah I think it's far more likely it really was just a research vessel for more classified experiments they didn't want on the ISS.
T-Mobile ISP
Cirrus Airframe Parachute System - a whole aircraft emergency parachute
I just use reader mode on iOS or Firefox, otherwise I think you can disable JavaScript on NYT.
> drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

(https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762)
In 1954 Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. At the time such a feat was thought impossible. 46 days later another runner, John Landy, did the same. 46 days was not long enough for Landy to become a significantly better runner. The change was a mental one. Once he'd seen Bannister do it, he knew it was possible. Start-up founders face similar mental challenges when creating new products and services. In this post I discuss how we can emulate Bannister and overcome the fear of uncertainty to break new ground and create truly original products.
It's a soft-paywall (you get to read an article free), and an easily avoidable paywall at that (clear cookies or disable Javascript). Completely accessible for everyone.
> But it is possible (I claim: likely) that more communication leads to better political outcomes

Not when that speech is deceptive, and particularly not when people can pay money to a company to ensure that those lies are disseminated as widely as possible.
I actually think you're right and if any regulation is to be made, this seems the easiest and most non intrusive while still offering all candidates a level playing field.
There is a lot of commonality between some of the sayings of Christ and some of the sayings of Buddha. But the shared eastern elements are more obvious in Buddha, more subtle in Jesus.

For example, when Jesus says, "All who draw the sword will die by the sword" (Matthew 26:52), that's obviously and blatantly false, in the literal sense. But it makes perfect sense from a Buddhist non-dualistic perspective: when we kill our fellow man, we kill ourself, because we ARE (one with) our fellow man.

More to the parent's point about ego dissolution, the following words of Christ take on a totally different meaning if you view them through that lens: "In such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Matthew 24:44). The surface-level interpretation is that the hour of His coming will be unexpected. But the subtler esoteric meaning is that if we want to meet the Son of Man, we need to turn off our thinking!
I would say the part I find most disturbing about what I see on Airbnb is ... the presence of cameras in every room. One place we stayed at had obvious cameras on the outside but then just as I’m about to go to sleep I look up at the ceiling and there’s another one in the chandelier above the bed.

Yeah, it's policy that you have to disclose any cameras inside the room in the listing. It's not clear what happens when you do find one though. You spend all day traveling and are in a strange city. On the one hand, you're entitled to get out of there with no penalty, but on the other, it might be hard to find alternate accommodations.
Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.
Yeah, as an ex-gamedev as well there's a large divide between the values a devshop tends to hold and the publisher that finances your project. I've yet to see a studio acqui-hire that doesn't eventually head south as the publishing culture seeps into the previously independent company.
The Five skills to be a great CEO (Advise from Startup Coach Brett Fox)
If you have a problem with the paywall. Here's how to solve it:

1. Open the Dev Console. (Ctrl Shift Eye)

2. Click Settings on the Menu. (F1)

3. Look for 'Disable Javascript'

4. Refresh page and click on Disable Javascript before paywall loads.
>say they cannot find jobs that provide a middle-class income and don’t come with an expiration date.

Unemployment numbers don't measure quality. We have tons of available jobs, but low quality. And/or the people looking for jobs don't have the skills required for high quality jobs.

Edit: Here's an income quintile graph from 2016 that shows quality of jobs (scroll down):

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55413
> The infrastructure of catalunya (high speed trains, ports, highways, etc...) have been paid by all spaniards during many, many years. Like ways, may people from all over Spain live and work in catalunya and viceversa.

That is not true. Most of the investment in trains, port, highways in Catalonia started as private investment, mostly because it was one of the first places where they were being built (roads and train are the best examples).

And in the more recent years, and considering public investment, Catalonia is clearly under invested (specially Rodalies, according to most news and friends in the area). The budget for transportation is lower than the GDP and population in average, and most years less than half the budget is executed [1][2]

In terms of airports, 1/2 of the revenue of the airports in Spain come from Barcelona's airport [3].

The more I look at the numbers, the more clear it is that Spain's interest in Catalonia is $$$.

[1] https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2018/10/02/companias/...
[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20190120/454182028060/...
[3] https://www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/20150327/el-prat-aen...
I don't think this is something that needs regulation. The capitalist solutions of boycotts and protests seems to be sending a pretty strong signal to blizzard.

At the end of the day, while china is a huge market, it isn't the whole market.

That does mean, however, if you think that Blizzard's actions are immoral, then vote with your wallet. This doesn't work in every case (particularly where companies have practical monopolies on essential goods and services), but at the end of the day, Blizzard is a company that peddles luxury products.
"It's interesting how hard Zuck is working to try and conflate the idea of 'free speech' with paid advertisements."

My free speech rights include the right to pay for an advertisement to get across my message or to join with others to do so. Progressives dominate the media and academia and want to shut down other outlets.
While AirBnB nominally "encourage[s] you to be as specific as possible and accurately describe the guest experience and your expectations as much as possible", in reality, the way it handles feedback and complaint resolution discourages the candid reporting of problems, as was evident in several places in the article. The root cause of this problem is that AirBnB makes no attempt to determine the truth of any complaint. Nor, apparently, is it doing much to identify patterns of abuse.
"What you pay is what you get" rule applies.

Hotel chains are also experts in misrepresentations and omissions often fueled by fake positive reviews.
During my recent stay in Manhattan at $350+/night hotel - the whole building was wrapped in construction fabrics and workers were walking right in front of my window all week.

This of course haven't been mentioned during reservation.

But at least you deal with host management in person, and not with some shady pimp hiding in a background.

And then of course - you can file chargeback with credit card if everything else fails.
> To me, the primary issue is that Facebook does not adequately differentiate organic content from sponsored content.

This is a classic isolated demand for rigor. “Sponsored” is exactly as prominent on Facebook as “op-ed” is on newspapers and “advertisement” is on whole sponsored segments of magazines. In all cases that word is there at the top in a normal font. What else are they supposed to do, make it flashing and rainbow colored? Why not complain about newspapers not doing that?
tt-rss works well enough for me as a google reader replacement

Better even since it has plugins to inline some comic strips where the RSS feeds are just links to the pages.
The amazing thing to me is how rarely this really happens. Some people love to say that human nature is fundamentally greedy and deceitful but here you have an enormous system based entirely on trust and reputation (since apparently AirBnB doesn't have checks beyond that) and although there are examples of abuse, overwhelmingly people have a good experience.

However I think most likely it isn't that AirBnB has no checks on hosts, they are just a big stupid company dealing with a messy problem. I've heard similar complaints from hosts with their own set of anecdotes where they felt unfairly abused by renters who unfairly complain and AirBnB applying decisions without any transparency or recourse.
Just clear your NYT related cookies and it will work fine.
Reallt? I just say they didnt have money to pay me and ask the interviewer really pointedly if the company I'm interviewing with has money to pay me.

I feel lay offs are easy to explain. Firing is different.
Ask HN: How does your company manage quarterly OKRs?
What software or processes does your company use to manage quarterly OKRs?

Does this work well? If not, why not?
ok thanks, I was just thinking of elements and attribute names as being important.
Which sounds like the "Unix Philosophy"

>Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
Is it required that one disclosure they were laid off vs saying was interested in changing companies?
Who cares if they get banned from a fraudulent business? Why would anyone want to continue doing business with a company if they treat you this way? When I'm at the point of doing a chargeback, it's a "burn bridges" move and I'm not going to be doing business with the company anymore, regardless of whether they ban me.
Hmm, I wonder what the ideology he's battling is? Could it possibly be the hypercapitalist ideology promoted by the sorts of people who own the site? You know, the white billionaires who own and control Google, Facebook, Twitter, AirBnB, etc?

Funny how some ideologies can be "fought against" safely here and others can't be. Climate change denial, a-ok. Criticizing china? It's for freedom! Labor unions? Fair game. Want to openly defend fascists? Go right ahead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20961603

Criticizing Carmack working for Facebook? now that crosses the line.

Look man, I don't expect you to go against your boss's wishes and allow discourse that actively criticizes their actions, but don't come in here to try to sell me a different story.
Where is the best place to meet the right people? I talked to my friend (PhD) and she explained the process of conversion from Illumina file formats all the way to numpy , but I would love to know more.
Depends on what you're trying to test. You could just as easily argue that _not_ allowing the AI to make use of its natural APM and interface advantages is unfair, and that it should be allowed to play without restrictions in order to demonstrate its full potential.

AlphaGo had an "unfair" advantage in its games against Lee Sedol in that it was able to "think" far faster than you could reasonably expect a human to, and could therefore evaluate many, many more moves than a human player possibly could have. If you artificially limited the speed at which AlphaGo was able to "think" to match human limitations, would it have been able to win against Lee? I'd argue probably not.

Similarly, here we have an AI that's easily able to crush top SC players if it plays with an uncapped APM and no camera limitations, but only reaches grand master level when you impose artificial restrictions that force it to behave more like a human. The question of which configuration is more "fair" is kinda arbitrary; it depends on what your goal is.
Well, you could a look at the antebellum south of the US, to start. Don't think much more needs to be said about that...

Or you could look at the contemporary US. We have basically no unemployment, enormous wealth, no war on our land in over a century and a half, we're probably the most prosperous and least attacked people in history, and yet we see quite a lot of majority-minority strife.

You could also look at the article or the book it's talking about, which is also talking about a period where your theorizing didn't hold up.

Maybe let's flip it, do you have examples of peaceful high-well-being societies where people who were different from most people in the society were equivalent participants in that well being?
Presuming of course that test-taking, geometric drawings, mathematical concepts are not cultural either...
Old School Runescape is where you want to be
> In Smalltalk, how would how would the consumer be given differing implementations of this "new" method?

Classes can simply override that method. The default implementation of new is:

^ self basicNew initialize

And basicNew is a method that allocates and returns an instance of the receiver.

So a custom implementation can easily change self to some other class, chain more messages or replace initialize with something else, add more logic before an object is returned and so on.

> And wouldn't that just make the "new" method a factory?

Smalltalk actually predates the discovery of object-oriented design patterns by a couple of decades so it's the factory methods that are like the new method. For some reason language designers turned it into a magic keyword and people rediscovered the fact that methods are better.
> The speed at which AlphaStar overtook previous AIs seems to me to be nearly unprecedented in AI research

In pretty much any field, top performing humans are at the physical limitation level, you will not see any sort of breakthrough, just incremental improvement.

Machines on the other side, can be scaled arbitrarily. Once you've built a small crane, you can build even increasing ones, it's just a function of money and interest.

Some say that intelligence is not like that, that it can't be scaled arbitrarily. But the burden of proof is on them, especially given the consequences if it can.
Physics took 2 wrong roads and it got stuck in a local minima of the truth plane. Understanding that physics is the most ignorant field of science and how proud the field is of it's models, I don't think this will come anytime soon.

https://www.pnas.org/content/112/24/7426

PS: you need to understand how gravity is derived to manipulate it's propagation. Since the mechanisms are very stable due various reasons, only a very good understanding of many processes will allow you to design an experiment that works. I have adopted a very fringe physics model that is unified and explains more using less assumptions. From this perspective I can tell you that contemporary physics is so far from understanding, that most likely we will not see anything in this direction, before we fully trashed our planet.
I was similarly baited on the Chase credit card travel site. Bought a few nights at what was advertised as a Hilton in Miami but on the day of got instructions that made it clear we weren't staying at a Hilton. Turned out to be a vacation rental in a condo in the same building as the Hilton. The listing on the chase travel site used a similar name as the Hilton (neither the real or fake actually use the word "Hilton" in their names), same address, same photos (pool, restaurant, front desk, rooms, etc), and even figured out a way to list the reviews for the Hilton in it's listing.

Ultimately we stayed elsewhere because the condos were flop houses. Chase didn't have any interest in helping us or making it right after dozens of calls and hours of conversations. As far as I can tell the "properties" have all been removed. (There were similar listings for other name chain hotels like the W chain)
It would only negate 6% of the cost of going to orbit. And you'd have to pay that 94% pretty quickly to not fall down.

Except that it would be better than that, because rocket nozzles work best at a specific external pressure, and getting to launch your rocket in vacuum means you can design your engines for strictly that.

There are occasionally some ideas of launching rockets from tops of tall mountains, like Kilimanjaro. The advantage directly gained from being 6km closer to space is negligible, but the advantage gained from being able to use more expanded nozzles would be substantial -- albeit likely not worth having to haul your rocket up a mountain to launch it.