skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't say they were dead when they fell into the bunker. In fact, the contrary.

From the abstract:

> Here we show that the ‘colony’ in the bunker survived and grew thanks to an influx of workers from the source nest above the bunker

And the introduction:

> Ants which had dropped through the pipe to the bunker were not able to reach the outlet, located in the ceiling, to return to the mother nest.

And regarding your question about being able to crawl across the ceiling, probably not enough texture to grip. After all, the article indicates that there was question about whether they would even be able to crawl up the ventilation pipe:

> the only way to free the ants from the bunker would be to enable their spontaneous return migration to the maternal nest through the ventilation pipe – assuming that the rusty pipe interior is coarse enough for that

And to your point

> it's reasonable to think that the "trapped" ants are just an accumulation of worker ants that kept falling into the bunker.

Yes, and that is the premise of the study. However, a million ants didn't fall down all at once (or in a very short period), so however long they were down there they had to adapt to survive - which is what the study is about.
In this case “compare” is used in a less formal way, basically “these things are in the same category”.

If the speaker had said “those things can’t be compared” that would mean one was so much worse than the other that they weren’t even in the same category.

It’s the same sense of the word you might use in the saying “you can’t compare apples and oranges.” The conditions that make an apple good are not the same as the conditions that make an orange good.
> The takeaway is that, even if we assume great efficiency breakthroughs and performance improvements to reduce the rate of doubling, AI progress seems to be increasingly compute-limited at a time when our collective growth in computing power is beginning to falter

A similar conclusion can be made for genomics too.
Ok, so of all the replies here, this is the first I've read that's actually raised a really good point. Simply blocking requests will make ad block detection easier for Websites. Then again, this seems to be pretty prevalent already (as in lots of sites I visit already detect this).
On my first trip to Europe I drove from Paris to Nice, stopping over in Epinal. We didn't have a GPS device and our phones didn't work. We did have some printed out directions from MapQuest IIRC. We still talk about that adventure today, "after the 13th roundabout take the second exit". Was this 12 or 13?
For those unaware while reading the article, "mash" is a term of respect used for teachers/professors.
It is such a great moment for India.
We have a lot of room of improving everyone's conditions, but we don't due to structural issues.
Good morning!

What is your point? Of course we all understand that being poor doesn't (directly) mean you can't return books. I could write a whole essay about how being poor could indirectly make it harder to return books (less free time from working, less access to easy transportation, etc) but that's not really a point worth making, and I don't think it would change your mind on...whatever it is you're trying to bring up.

What exactly is your point though? Just curious here. That the library directors made a mistake? That OP's point about library card suspension being correlated to income doesn't mean it's causation? Where were you trying to push the conversation here?
##c is easily the most pedantic chat forum I've ever visited. It's also the only place I've seen someone use a diaeresis in chat.
I think my single droplet has better uptime than GAE
I agree with you but in my opinion this could be seen as another symptom of societies with proliferating unaccountable leaders (in the so-called free world). We may think of some as harmless showmans that are all bark and no bite but they are dangerous precisely because they set precedents with what they say, how they behave and especially because of the lack of consequences thereof. We can only hope that it's about to change...
Little-known aspect of US copyright law means creators can reclaim their work
No worries! Happens to everyone at some point :)
This is not a valid comparison.

Bitwig gives you no access to their DSP technology in its scripting language, so it is not remotely comparable to Max in that regard.

Max, on the other hand, gives you no access to Ableton's UI or API.

I have both, but prefer Bitwig. But there is nothing out there quite like Max. Not even Reaktor covers the same territory.

I am hoping that the next big thing in Bitwig will be to open up their DSP API, and give us the ability to create our own Grid modules, and, beyond that even, our own native instruments and effects. But I do not believe that extending their Javascript API is the way to do this.
Regarding brave see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323576
If you want an simple algorithm to model this, waveguide synthesis can give surprisingly convincing results, including the difference between open and closed pipes. In short, a waveguide model involves delaying the signal (to simulate the signal traveling down the pipe), inverting it (to simulate wave reflection as described in TFA), and adding back to the pre-delayed signal.

Open pipes have two reflections, therefore two inversions in the corresponding algorithm, which can be combined into a simple positive feedback loop. Closed pipes only have one reflection, which is simulated by a negative feedback loop.

Here's an explorable where you can test it. In particular, in the "controlling the pitch" and "note transitions" sections, you can try changing the feedback between positive and negative values, and hear the corresponding flute/clarinet change in timbre.

https://www.osar.fr/notes/waveguides/
My congratulations!

It's one of the few (probably only) indian states with an eye on the long term future. Rest have given to sound bytes.
> Why not just block all extensions? That's clearly the most secure solution.

That's pretty much what phones do. Both iOS and Android take a white list approach for third-party add ons.
Guaranteeing that the video is genuine still doesn’t solve the problem that [person] != [car] != [license plate]
Thankfully, it's not only up to owners. People (governments) can set the rules the owners need to abide.

Of course, people need to value this rule changes enough to enact it.
how would they have access to past earnings?
For a long time we had a situation where transistors got smaller and cheaper and faster and more power efficient all at the same through the wonders of Denard scaling and we gestured broadly at the whole thing and called it all "Moore's Law" without needing to distinguish which exponential improvement the term referred to. But in the mid 2000s Denard scaling broke down and now it looks like transistors are still getting smaller and cheaper and more power efficient but they aren't getting exponentially faster any more. So we've mostly settled on the smaller bit as being the true "Moore's Law" and that's more or less kept going but might be running out of steam. It's still very nice from the perspective of very parallel tasks but as consumers we don't see as much benefit from it in our computers except in graphics. But sooner or later Moore's Law will run out too, transistors can only get so small as long as they're made of atoms.

Luckily the laws of physics have precise limits for just how efficient computation can be, Landauer's principle, that are just as binding as the laws for how efficient a heat engine can be. Progress in engine efficiency did indeed form a converging sigmoid on what's allowed by Carnot. But we're still quite a distance away from Landauer's limit and if transistors can't get us there we have every reason to believe that other computational substrates are possible and can.

In the meantime we might be looking at an interregnum. But while AI is gobbling up computational cycles because they're available there's no reason to think that efficiency gains aren't possible - just look at the orders of magnitude improvement in training resources from AlphaGo to AlphaZero. I don't see that this should stop progress, though it might slow it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
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Do most people in the US use some smart speaker at home and give commands via voice?

I'm not in the US, so I'm curious how pervasive it is. Is it the minority who doesn't use Alexa and co.?
Higher income taxes only protect the rich, because their wealth is largely asset, not income based. Unless you go full Marxist and seize property (assets) higher income taxes only prevent the middle class from accumulating wealth. Warren's asset tax for medicare for all is the fist serious contemplation of asset seizure that I can think of by a mainstream politician in recent memory.

Similarly, massive redistribution of wealth just further divides society into givers and receivers. The elite will continue to control the government, education, and big corporations and continue locking out the receivers.

In Europe, for example, the same families have been rich and in control forever, because the high income tax scheme protects them from new entrants, while their assets continue to appreciate. The middle and lower classes are supplicated through state benefits, so moving up the ladder isn't as much of a concern.

By the way, I am not against high taxes and redistribution, but people should be totally aware of the trade offs being made. High taxes and redistribution are often sold as "socking it to the rich" but in reality it is the complete opposite and cements the position of the rich.

I agree University reform is absolutely needed in the US. The cost is too high, we subsidize garbage degrees, rich kids benefit the most from it, grades are too subjective (because outside of engineering/medicine objective testing is racist/sexist/etc.) Kick out the legacy students that shouldn't be a factor at all.
It is the correct usage and it is not used to mean “equate” in this case.

compare - ”estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between”

To use the word “equate” may go a step too far because he did not actually say that the two are equal, he said that they were both mistakes. Saying that he “compared” rather than “equated” invites less criticism of their reporting.

Sorry you were downvoted for asking for language clarification. An anti-Saudi story will attract those with general anti-foreigner sentiment who like to police the comments to make sure we’re all red-blooded, freedom-loving flag-wavers. This one will also attract anti-capitalists, so it could be quite a rollercoaster.

Sorry for the idioms.
This definitely reminds me of the scene where Gavin gets pelted with a water ballon and storms into his office yelling “There was a time where guys like me could have guys like that killed! But, times have changed.” And then turning to his lawyers, “unless...”
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I was writing less about the steps students would go through when solving the problem on their own, and more about points I try to hit when using the problem to teach. At this point in the course, strings haven't been taught, so using them would not be a natural solution for those without prior programming experience. I will also review logarithms if necessary.
I wouldn't have a voice assistant in the house myself but even so I've still interacted with one. Mostly in the form of "Hey Alexa play Rick Astley as loud as you can" at the end of video calls with one of my colleagues...

(before hanging up obviously. I mean I don't want to have to hear that. :P )
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(Google Customer, not Employee)

We have two slack channels here. One is where our internal monitoring agents post, as well as an RSS subscription to the GCP status board. We have a separate channel for less critical things (like GitHub).

Unfortunately, it does depend on GCP updating their dashboard. However, to date, we’ve only been impacted by one of these major outages. This morning, I saw the alert in our channel, but all our things were still operating (fortunately!).

YMMV, but I’ve found this very helpful.
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People are comparing this to the mobile revolution but I am curious to know why history should repeat itself. As far as I can tell there's currently no secret sauce that will make AR usable that Apple is uniquely in the position to monopolize (needing higher FOV, rendering opaque objects, etc).

Is it just the ability to drive cultural adoption to avoid "glasshole" stigma?
Weirdest bit of apologetics ever. Making small tactical adjustments that reduces the spread of statements target, but has little effect on its meaning or effect.
Understandable given where the company is. The unit economics don't work without autonomy. Maybe it works in its original rendition as an on-demand black cab service, but not as a general-purpose transportation provider.

I understand the controversy behind Kalanick. I really do think that if he were still at the helm, Uber would be in a different (read: better) position than it's at currently. It's surprising how common these founder narratives tend to be. The meteoric rise to stardom, the fall, the schadenfreude, then in some cases a rise again.

As far as Kalanick goes, I suspect he's currently underrated. I'm cautiously optimistic that his new venture, Cloud Kitchens, will be a success.
In the 30 years between 1969 and 1999, manned space travel didn't really make any progress. Technological progress generally follows an S shaped curve. It's only interesting in the neck. Computers have already leveled off in terms of Moore's Law.
That thing looks like it will lift off and fly away in any kind of windy weather. That's a huge red flag in any part of the world that has hurricanes and tornadoes.
A lot depends on use cases. I, on the other hand, got an Apple Watch with a data plan and I canceled the plan because I never used it outside of my phone's range.

That said, there's a lot of potential for comfortable wearables replacing a phone in your pocket for many purposes. We tolerate carrying wallets everywhere just as we tolerated carrying wallets and keys everywhere because that's just the way things are. But it doesn't need to be that way forever.

I have a lot of questions about how AR will progress. I can imagine having essentially a high fidelity HUD but I'm not sure either how close we are to enabling something like that technically and how hard it will be to get mainstream consumers over the Glasshole effect of having omnipresent connected video (or maybe even if they should get over it).
> If I don't do this, when I come back to the code an hour later

Good coding means two things, in general:

* There is no more understandable comment than no comment needed.

The code should explain _what_ it is doing as close as possible in words such that any programmer, including you, can read the code and understand what it is doing.

Bad: sum = a.length + b.length

Good: totalNumberOfGoodProducts = exceptionalProducts.length + acceptableProducts.length

* Comments should be the exception for _why_ something odd is happening.

Bad: if(r == 42) return; // Nothing happened.

Good: if(ioReturnCode == 42) return; // Ignoring code 42, an undocumented value and seems to be a "no operation happened." We'll retry again later in the code.
Calling Gawker "rude" is at the same level as calling Baghdadi an "Austere Religious Scholar"
IMHO a more accurate description is "It's beneficial for me if my tribe acts to help its members at the expense of members of other tribes, instead of treating everyone equally" (which may or may not be true depending on the situation, and how influential your tribe is), with no value judgement necessary.
I never did like this kind of binary thinking. What if people could work twice as hard, but after acquiring more money than you can spend in a beautiful life, decide to either retire or work for free? I believe this would reduce inequality too, and it would only require that earners set an upper-bound on their earnings. You could still compete on, for example, velocity. (I call this my Enough number, by the way).
Mortgages can be difficult to obtain for mobile homes. Part of the reason is that mobile homes tend to decay and lose value over time. After a certain number of years almost no moving company will accept the risk of moving one. As a result, mortgage loan rates can be higher with less issuers to choose from. Also due to changes in regulations from the Great Recession, smaller mortgages can be very difficult to obtain. Banks don't like making home loans under $150k due to fixed costs they're not allowed to adjust for the size of the loan.
I understand the shock people feel at seeing Dara's dissembling answer, but the vast vast majority of Silicon Valley has done nothing to lessen its ties to Saudi money, and almost none of the major tech figures who feted Mohammed bin Salman on his US publicity tour -- Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Peter Thiel, or Reid Hoffman -- have said a word in protest of the Khashoggi assassination. Hopefully the furor around this video will encourage some intrepid journalist to ask them!
Please note that the article merely encourages the application of some of the best practices introduced by functional programming - strong typing and more mindfulness around mutability and side effects - into all forms of programming.

Functional programming as it exists today takes these ideas to a somewhat extreme form. That has its place and value, but as experience in the real world shows, as long as it feels so mathematical, it isn't everybody's cup of tea. Hopefully, over time we find more intuitively accessible abstractions for the really useful principles that functional programming is based on.
"Should"? I wouldn't go that far. I will say however that people are the uproar is somewhat overblown for three simple reasons:

1. Google wants people to use Chrome. It's clearly of benefit to them (and, for the most part, to users, at least for now);

2. Alternatives exist; and

3. Switching to an alternative is essentially trivial.

This just isn't a Microsoft Windows monopoly situation.
What type of developer are you?
We would have adapted to the situation we found ourselves in. Some of the most creative solutions can come from constrained environments.
This is just too nice. Someone needs to partner up with you and make cute little isometric pixel art graphics for it. I'd pay to play this.
It's not surprising, but, so far, it seems like this new Facebook News is going to have a right bias. They've said that they are going to include Breitbart, but they haven't mentioned any leftist news organizations in the list.

Plus, Zuckerberg has been having dinners with far-right media figures, but no leftists, and now we know that the person in charge of FB News runs a right biased news outlet.
Before the Internet, I always had a nice backlog of books to read.

And I also remember those times quite fondly.
Thinking "The country I live in now is the best country in the world for people like me; I would be terribly unhappy if I was exiled." is not being nationalist. At most it's patriotic.

I miss my home country and I feel exiled by (one of) the government's policies. Every bit of my home is a deep part of me. I hope one day to return to live. I wouldn't want my home country to be divided, for security reasons, nor to be ruled by an outside power (though one can hear the English salivating at the possibility they could re-invade once Brexit is complete). But probably the transfer of power back downwards would, in my home country as in America, help heal the wounds of the last decade more than anything.
They built their MUMPS IDE themselves, and their change tracking / bug management system. And effectively the database code is also entirely written by Epic- the business logic and database are both written in MUMPS and live side-by-side.

So they have quite a lot on their plate when it comes to tooling. When I was there, there was a truly horrible attempt at a DSL for code-generation that would build database querying code, but I found it both unwritable and unreadable.
Until recently I would have agreed with you. It seems to me that Apple is in a luxurious decline. Cook is great at squeezing money out of their product lines but he's done it at the cost of good will.

I was in the market to upgrade, I love OS X and I was willing to pay a premium... but with crappy keyboards and systems that can't be upgraded it's just was not worth the price tag. I recently switched from my macbook pro to a thinkpad X1. I have to say the first week was hard -- especially the trackpad -- but the adjustment so far has been fine. I'm struck by how much better windows has gotten. Even more, I'm impressed by how innovative it and the eco-system has become again. I think that's the challenge for Apple. How can they stay big and remain innovative? Right now it seems they are coasting on good management and design... but they are missing that element that presumably Jobs brought to the table by directing those elements towards a new innovative vision of a product line.

Anyway, I could be wrong but it seems to me that Apple is coasting. These announcements seem more like a big company flailing around to get in on the next big thing. On the other hand, Apple is great at the self-contained devices (ipad, iphone, etc.) with no moving parts. These products seem rock-solid and I think this is where the real revenue is. My concern is that this money is going to allow everyone to hide from the fact that the company is not as innovative as it used to be.

Interested to hear from others though. My work is elsewhere so I don't track this company closely.
Great work! Maybe extending the keybinding would help with playability? Something like assigning workers to letters for shortcuts. That would make the pairing of tasks to workers more efficient and faster to play. :)
"There is no moral issue with inequality"

Well, there is. Thanks to legalized corruption ( lobbying ) the rich are able to twist laws and regulations more and more to their advantage. This is self feeding process and the final outcome does not look nice at all.

"Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard."

Nice try at twisting the line, who is talking about absolute equality here? You know there are all kinds of shades between black and white.
Reddit co-founder thinks about energy like a bank account (why you should too)
It's surprising to me that "where id = 42 or id = 4711" behaves differently than "where id in (42, 4711)".

I would have guessed the database optimizes this away. It seems like an easy to implement and safe optimization. (Look at abstract syntax tree, find "or" expressions, find equality test expressions under there, check if two or more compare the same sub-expression against constants, then combine.)

Did I misunderstand what the article is saying PostgreSQL does, or does it actually not do this optimization for you?
The mean-value theorem?
Obviously it wouldn't be okay to birth and raise humans for the sole purpose of consumption. That's why you don't see humans being raised for consumption.
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