skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to believe his want for big tech to support the Pentagon is genuine when he's actively fighting to steal a Pentagon business deal away from Microsoft. If he really cares about national defense he can put his money where his mouth is and just undercut Microsoft's costs by making up the difference with a donation of his own.
Βόλος vs. Παναθηναϊκός, τρίποντο εξάδας στην Θεσσαλία
The author's active on instagram (linked from their medium profile), and has more recent writing there. From that, it sounds like they don't feel as if they've regressed.

For example, on Nov 27th, they wrote '[this year] I successfully treated depression with Ketamine'.

It's possible that they're not talking candidly on the shorter-form of an instagram post, but it's at least a sign that maybe it stuck, otherwise that phrasing would probably be a bit less positive.
Until the opposite has been shown, the assumption should be that a CPU that indicates that it supports AVX2 does support AVX2.
Ask HN: Past submission about the importance of the introduction to an article
I recall reading a post that showed how the introduction to an article or proposal, even though very generic and bland, was key to ensuring the reader agreed with the conclusion of the article or approved whatever was being proposed.
Cant seem to find that submission anymore.

Does anyone else remember reading something like this? Appreciate if you could share the link
That's kind of the point. Isn't there some advantage in supporting a venture that could ultimately produce an affordable new phone with all of those things?

At some point the existing stock of phones with the features you want is going to wear out unless somebody makes some new ones.
It most certainly is!

If you listen to kids they will tell you their take on the environment, consumption, worthy causes, etc. I’m quite sure they’re not thinking about these things themselves.

So yeah, teachers indoctrinate students with their biases. Some kids seek out their own information as they grow up, many don’t question it.

So we end up in places where nuclear power was bad, for example, or banning straws (when there are much bigger issues with plastics) and detrimental things like everyone is special and unique and the future is yours to conquer (and of course this leads to disappointment when due to outsourcing and shipping jobs overseas they end up working at dead end minimum wage jobs).
It's not really distributed if there's a single point of failure?
Bear in mind that there are millions of people directly affected by the special pensions. It's really deep rooted in the French nation.

They are heavily manifesting against any change to pensions because they are first targeted and have the most to lose, but there are many more people manifesting that simply don't want to have to work longer. Nobody approaching
60 want to be told they have to work a few years more and/or receive a lower allowance.
The idea that a R&D department has cost restrictions doesn't really hold water. You can be sure that they already have rooms filled with every single AMD processor that's ever been released, and a bunch which haven't. The cost of buying retail products at the scale of a company, even a small startup, is peanuts compared with even a single engineers salary. I was recently asked which test phones to buy for application development, and didn't get kick back when I said to buy every single one of the top selling on Amazon, to begin with.
This is especially a problem I see on iOS. I can find lots of examples and tutorials but each assumes a bare-bones project with a handful of files but none seem to teach you how to structure your project in a way that would support the size of a real-world application.
I find the notion of the distance between two objects increasing without the objects moving apart highly unintuitive.
I won the game with "collect a harem of sex slaves".
>> This is not a universal truth.

Nothing is.

>> Discount incentives work much better.

This is not a universal truth. See what I did there?
NodemailerApp – A fake SMTP service for desktop
It wasn't a unicorn when there are a dozen or two companies doing it. They were a normal business that tried and got beat by the competition.
> Now the question is, is the essay wrong or is the YC structure/culture wrong.

I think that's a false dichotomy.

> The moment pg allowed some companies/founders to have better access to him than others, or the moment he talked about how some founders are better than others, he implicitly set up a criteria for judging founders and their companies.

It's correct that this creates a hackable test, but the losses incurred via that might be less than "going on a crusade to completely eliminate all forms of favoritism". This does not imply that hackable tests aren't bad, meaning the the essay is wrong, just that the pendulum can swing too far in the other direction too. Which isn't that striking of a realization.
Why doesn’t Intel make a chip specialized for gaming? Something like a dual core CPU optimized for single threaded performance and a variable number of GPU cores (a guaranteed minimum up to a perfect maximum), binned by clock speed. Skip all the support for extra pcie lanes (except maybe for storage).

From your comment, it seems like Sony tried exactly this but failed. Is there an inherent flaw in such a design or just poor execution?

Edit: the biggest problem I see with such a design is RAM IO, but I would think that could be mitigated. Maybe even eliminate support for DDR, instead embedding 4 or 8 GB in the package.
Not everybody. I can DO them, but I pretty much guarantee that I won't do them WELL.

After a couple of these fiascos, I just gave up, and decided to start my own gig. I'm fairly good at what I do, and it really is too bad that it doesn't show in half-hour theory tests.

I do have a pretty massive portfolio, though. Comes from doing open-source software for over twenty years. I was paid to manage; not develop, so I needed to keep my tech chops up in other projects.

I also realize that this is not a typical thing. It's just my journey.

I thought it was funny that I mentioned this once, and someone insisted that I could have faked the portfolio.

If someone can fake ten years' worth of commit history, in dozens of repos, and tens of thousands of lines of code, as well as hundreds of pages of documentation, and dozens of articles, you should hire them immediately, because they are a genius.
With hands to build tools that build machines and books to communicate. Basically dialing advantages of hunting in packs up in orders of magnitude over time.

Similarly, "the computer is a bicycle for the mind."
Is this actual research? Or is it just Zillow extrapolating from data they already have to drive traffic?
because most founders are in the business of raising money not building companies/making products
>Here’s an example. You can play one of two games an infinite number of times in an instantaneous amount of time: one game you flip a coin and win a dollar on heads, tails you pay 99 cents. The other game you flip a coin and either win 1,000,000 dollars or pay 990,000 dollars.

Both have the same risk percentage wise.
My harebrained idea for this:

- let companies register a wild card domain in the .local (or a newlocal) namespace: .acme.local

- designate the acme company with the ability to issue certs that never expire for any name in ".acme.local" but the browser will refuse to use certs signed with that key for anything outside "*.acme.local"

pros:

- the acme company can now make equipment that the users browser can connect to over an encrypted channel with zero config on the user's part

- the equipment can live off the internet indefinitely

- if the acme company is breached, and their signing key is stolen, the attackers can only use that key to impersonate acme company, it doesn't allow them to impersonate any other domains

cons:

- the browser manufacturers don't care about this use case so its never gonna happen

- the cert on the device never expires... and can never be replaced automatically somehow. I think the only workaround is acme could enable users to load their own certs if they are so inclined, but that shouldn't be required.
My high school did intense drilling for SATs as an after school thing. The average kid in my class had a 180 point improvement versus the PSAT as a result.

High SAT scores are evidence of high SAT score.
Count your code contributions this year with this simple bash script
I've wanted to check my contributions to each project I've worked on in the past year without granting 3rd party apps access to my projects for a while now. Today I wrote this script that counts additions and deletions for a specified user.

Run the script in the root directory where you're hosting you're projects in, just feed it the git username you're commiting with.

You can get it from here: https://mateioprea.dev/contributions.sh

Or simply: curl -O https://mateioprea.dev/contributions.sh | bash
From Consumer to Creator: Why You Should Create Stuff?
Nitpick: I'd rather use the python -m pytest way than modify sys.path (AKA "the django way").

Modifying sys.path is an ugly hack which makes python look like some... idk. matlab?
I'm a lot more willing to believe that Intel is attempting to cook benchmarks, than it being a decision made out of caution to save face for AMD if the results are incorrect. They sat for an excruciatingly long time making no obvious improvements to their processors, and then suddenly more than halved the price of everything the moment there was competition.
This thought is incredibly stupid. Use the product to understand the pain points of customers. I can't believe how idiotic that advice is.
The art of transferring control of property without a “sale” is already well known and widely practiced, rendering transfer taxes useless in every jurisdiction in America.
They should be grateful they didn't hire me for that job.

My cat loves to sit on my nice warm laptop keyboard and type things in. I am always having to revert her code changes.

In case anyone ever wonders, this is why I use rebase!
SpaceX has a very easy path to profitability. They may even be profitable right now. And if they aren't, it's because they reinvest everything in R&D for starship, so if the shareholders decided that they just wanted to make cash on the short term they could just stop reinvestments in R&D and milk the satellite launch market, they are making a profit on every one of those launch and customers are queueing to be on a falcon rocket.

As for Tesla, their last quarter was profitable, sure they aren't profitable year over year yet, but saying that 'neither of his companies are remotely profitable' seems pretty far from the reality.
Actually if a large amount turns up in your account I wouldn't give it back or touch it at all. That's how you end up enmeshed in scams and money laundering. Insist others sort it out properly. Whether the person tried to spend the mistaken money is really speculative gossip, we don't really know.
So do category creation. Just be in the same categories that are being created by the big 4.
`poetry new`[0] is what you are looking for, previously I have used pyscaffold[1] but I like the pyproject.toml from PEP 518[2] better than all the old stuff. Unfortunately poetry does not set up docs like pyscaffold does though.

[0]: https://poetry.eustace.io/

[1]: https://pyscaffold.org/en/latest/

[2]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/
I wrote about this years ago [1] and all the feedback I received was: Hey that's great and all, but the business world will never care about anything other than percentage return. Go start a charity if you don't share that priority.

[1]https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/startups-need-to-start-val...
I suspect there are two main reasons: 1) Dilution comes with the game when going the VC route (which founders may or may not have realized ahead of time) and once you've started down that path, it's hard to reverse course since you often don't have the cash to buy out investors. So their ownership gets diluted away to obtain funding to keep the lights on and/or with the hopes of cashing out down the line. 2) The plan was always to cash out ASAP. Many startups aren't being built for the long run and more than a few are just attempts at a quick cash grab before investors figure it out so they don't care that they get diluted as long as they get a payday (a.k.a. a 'liquidity event') since that was the plan all along.

You are right that once you lose control, you are just an employee and there are many cautionary tales about what can happen from losing control to getting booted out of the company you founded. As a result, there are some companies (notably Google and Facebook) where the founders made sure to retain control. So it's just a matter of priorities and deciding what one is willing to put up with to achieve their objectives.
It’s like a bitcoin, you buy it because you expect the price to rise, and someone else to buy it at that price.
Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser
That is why they can't recruit math teachers for example...
If you go to the MKL library, it specifically says it speeds up performance on non-Intel processors as well. That they would state this and still sabotage the performance for AMD processors by directly disabling performance enhancements for them shows to me that this was a calculated decision that was willfully made.
I read it as "something random and mundane like this", not "this is the specific thing that has happened".
I was skeptical at first, but you are right

Today, there are ~77 million Americans over 60.
In 2040, there will be ~100 million Americans over 60.
it's absolutely true between species, along with how developed particular areas are. Within a species with roughly the same relative size and brain area development it is not the case. The poster didn't imply anything else. Scientists tend to condition it with brain to weight ratio as a close correlation to intelligence. It's easy enough to find on the internet if you're interested.
You can install Linux on modern PS4 - failoverflow team managed to get it running. With 3d support even.

See their 33c3 presentation on how they did it. It's filled with great details on how PS4 differs from PCs: https://youtu.be/-AoHGJ1g9aM
>I try to foster this type of communication and I've noticed a lot more developers opening up and providing valuable product-orientated feedback which often has an upward positive spiral of them feeling more appreciated and speaking more

I guarantee engineers love working for you because of this. If you look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs you are filling that esteem portion that is really lacking for a lot of software engineering teams in the wild.
I find it somewhat depressing that the "internet default" is to be a jerk…
Totally agree with this.

The guide presents a false dichotomy. The main package doesn't have to be in site-packages as the alternative to this sys.path hack. It just has to be accessible from your PYTHONPATH. Running tests as a module from the project root will put your main package on the PYTHONPATH.
If the experience had been seamless I think it would have taken off.

But it wasn't, mostly due to the games. Many of them would require emulating a mouse just to get into the game, which meant emulating a desktop. Then the game would start and it would switch over to the controller mode.

Many games just didn't work well under it, and so forth.
What makes you say that? For early stage startups, it seems especially likely that increased awareness can (though usually will not) create a material amount of additional success.

I know that a few fortunate tweets my startup received drove tons of traffic our way, and likely resulted in the press coverage we received soon after. And that press coverage brought more users, and also the proof points of having been covered by major media. That makes fundraising and partnerships easier, etc.
Don't they kill more people annually than any other mammal?
Nice, thank you! Will definitely check out poetry now - have been avoiding it for reasons of inertia so far. :)
The way I read the study is that within the top N% group, higher scores predict "eminence". Not the top N compared to everyone else.
Reminds me of that movie Sing where the chameleon’s glass eye resulted in a winning prize typo.
> due to a 'hack' by Geohot

This is OT, but I think people here might enjoy it: Geohot doing hackerrank problems for 5 hours straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EecfVsdQMcM
The question is why would they spend that much money to test it on a competing platform.
> ...an easy job like retail....Retail should pay less than other jobs, _because_ it's more fun to interact with people all day than to work at a hot grill.

Your response screams, "I've never worked a retail job in my life!!". There's nothing easy about working retail in the United States, and interacting with the majority of retail customers is far from "fun".
We honestly don't know how this impacts the results as was noted at the end. I'd like to see the numbers from the same run w/ the env variable set on an Intel CPU. Perhaps this debug code does something drastically different?
I thought so as well, but it simply isn't true. Total number of folks in their 60s will continue to grow.

Today, there are ~77 million Americans over 60.
In 2040, there will be ~100 million Americans over 60.

You can play with the numbers here.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...
The risk of extinction is greater for the second game. Which game would you play?
I am solving for this problem right now and my solution is working great cross OS. The file system is not the files contained by that system. The thing that effects performance is the CPU time for compression.
Non-voting stock in a private company is rare, but if the company exits for a value where the liquidation preference of preferred stock doesn't matter, all shareholders share in the distributions pro rata. So if you own 10% of a company via non-voting stock, you generally own 10% of the economics, you just can't vote on decisions that require a stockholder vote. Of course, the value of 1 non-voting share should have a discount to 1 voting share, but if you own a small stake, there's not much of a difference since your vote doesn't count for much regardless.
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I don't understand. Shouldn't Intel be using the CPUID feature detection system they created?

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-detect-new-...

They don't need to test to see if it works on AMD. The processor advertises it. In their own words:

> It is important to understand that a new instruction is supported on a particular processor only if the corresponding CPUID feature flag is set. Applications must not assume support of any instruction set extension simply based on, for example, checking a CPU model or family and must instead always check for _all_ the feature CPUID bits of the instructions being used.

Indeed, my 3900X has the AVX2 flag flipped. So why would it not get used?

I don't think the precision loss argument really holds water. If you can't trust their AVX2 implementation, why can you trust any other instruction on the CPU to not have similar problems?

Unless I am misunderstanding something, it really looks like they're not following their own advice and artificially limiting the use of AVX2 to only Intel processors.

edit: Also, we really have no reason to trust Intel's honesty. Don't forget:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110312082557/http://www.compil...
Conversely, when such feedback and communication is overlooked or ignored, over and over, engineers often stop giving it even when they are interested.

POs in my recent experience could benefit from listening more to their developers, who often know the domain much better than they do. (Or perhaps the wrong people are becoming POs)
Yeah, some companies might deserve the benefit of the doubt but Intel isn't one of them. They shouldn't be judged in a vacuum; Intel is a company with a long and nasty history of underhanded bullshit.
I suggest you read the document and maybe learn about the math involved.

The stuff the voter keeps cannot be used to prove anything except that the voter's vote is in the count.
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Humans really tend to anthropomorphize animals but it's about 99% more likely that the orca didn't want the great white in its hunting grounds or near its pod's younglings.
The point is that by ignoring people’s circumstances, we are creating special cutouts. In the speeding example, the “more capable less scrupulous people” capturing the cutout are those who can afford to not care about the fine.
If you kill yourself when doing medical experiments on yourself, you are at fault.

This should be obvious.
You haven't RTFA, have you?
> than it being a decision made out of caution to save face for AMD if the results are incorrect.

It's not about "saving face" for anyone, it's about the possibility of bug reports that need to be investigated, and possibly new code paths need to be added if a fix is necessary.

> and then suddenly more than halved the price of everything the moment there was competition.

This would have happened regardless of how much or little their products improved in the prior years. The price is what enough people are willing to pay, and that goes down if there's an alternative.
You are moving the goal posts. I was talking only about standardized tests, and now you are also including credentials on the mix.

As for the IQ test - it wasn't online and it wasn't a study, as far as I know - but I can totally concede that it was not a "real" IQ test.

Anyway, the story happened over 20 years ago. Part of the driving exam in Brazil included a "neuro-psychological evaluation" and the doctor flagged me for some extra tests.
From what I remember I went to the clinic the next week, did one test, did the "neuro-technical" exam and was told to wait for an IQ test. When I got the form, it was the same as I got before originally (different order of questions) Long story short I asked why I was re-taking the test and I thought I "failed" somehow. They actually said they were not aware of the first one and later on found it.

Now that I think about it, perhaps it was some weird psychology test? :)
The only reason it's less dangerous is their service isn't protecting or offering anything of value.

If they had no password at all, and anyone could log into anyone's account with just a username, you could still make the claim that their threat model was only, "that's inconvenient, someone messed with my account." Heck, if every third time you tried to log in, you were automatically logged in under another person's account, you could still make the argument that their threat model was low.

But that wouldn't mean their security policy was good.

Their decision not to store much data has nothing to do with the terrible way they are storing and managing the data that they do collect. They're arguing that hashing passwords would require them to store more sensitive information. That's like arguing, "I can't lock my door, because then I would need to put more valuables in my house." The two decisions aren't related.
It is intended to be, but in reality it’s just a system that trains students to pass tests. For the most part, such system leaves students highly skeptical towards everything - which is a good thing.