skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So it makes sense to go with the plan with the best payout in case there will be no unknown unknowns.

Yes, this intuition is in the right direction. A key point about online learning is that we usually measure the performance of online algorithms by static regret, which is the difference between the reward/cost incurred by the online learner and the reward/cost of the best fixed action (for example, the payout of the best single arm in the multi-armed bandit setting). The goal is usually to design algorithms whose static regret is sublinear in the number of rounds played; the intuition here is that if the learner's regret is sublinear, then the average reward/cost incurred by the online learner across rounds converges to the average reward/cost of the best fixed action, so in that sense the online learner's choices are converging to the optimal choices. Any online learner which incurs an additive constant more cost per round (on average) relative to the best fixed action cannot have sublinear regret; hence it is important that the learner aggressively exploit any upside it finds. Put another way, if the learner consistently misses the mark per round, for example by being too conservative, it will not achieve sublinear regret.
The great lie that games tend to run with is that if they define a sufficiently large lookup table of results, they get a convincing effect without being accurate to any form of reality.

This is basically true with almost all character controller behaviors(perfect ability to jump high, sidestep, slide etc. without stumbling) and also with combat results(add enough animations and you have a melee combat system; turn granular physical reactions like bullet impacts into a state change making the target "hurt" or "stunned"). And it's even true of the earliest ball-and-bat games: reduce hitting a ball to a lookup table of trajectories and you get Pong without having any trigonometry in your algorithm. You can define a massive swathe of gameplay code as combinations of "lookup table, finite state, timers, resource counters".

This is also true of the physics solvers: define the solver in terms of eliminating all the visibly wrong results(which in the base case means filtering the set of results that contain penetration), and you have one sufficiently good for gameplay. For 2D games this has classically meant solving AABB-AABB movements along 1 axis at a time(i.e. if your raycast is diagonal it's reduced to two one dimensional on-axis movements, which is trivial to compute). Once you want realistic physics as a "special effect" you typically will switch towards using a physics library to provide both solver and colliders, and so as a gameplay programmer you may never have to learn the physics problem in much depth.

The video games that really work with physics instead of against them are kind of exceptional, and tend to be categorized as "simulators" - flight sim, racing sim, pool sim, pinball sim. Or they are joke games like QWOP, or at their most fantastic, space games. When we actually simulate anything, the scenario-and-story space tends to reduce dramatically as everything starts converging around the sim's chaos. As we eliminate the sim, more can exist in the designer-fiat space. That's how we can have games about wrestling and swordfighting and yet not really be able to convey the physics or controls of those activities.
What's not clear is the difference between owning a watch and getting your annual EKG with your primary doctor? Can the watch detect fibrillation not detected in your annual? I've never understood that.
The same kind of person that thinks santa hats are as offensive as swastikas
Yes we are, just adding context for anyone reading who is unfamiliar with Evan's work.
Don't forget it's also free on every platform. That isn't something new either but it's also a big reason for their success.
Hey whatever happened to your cat?
Why would the brain require real numbers for a complete state description? Physical reality is discrete and finite, as far as we know.
How do you pronounce Ded Moroz in an anglophone way? I noticed you used “Dez” instead of Ded.
The issue of gendered locker rooms and bathrooms can be reduced to an economical problem of building personal unisex booths. It is a bit more expensive, through compared to the budget of building a whole school it is a very minor increase in construction costs.

So the issue is an 0.(many zeros)1% increase in taxes to address that particular issue.
Oh. The app isn’t like the website. It’s an app and takes advantage of geolocation and camera integration.

I don’t really find the website a great novice oriented UI design. But it’s been worth learning in my case because it has high information density. That’s more important because to me because it supplements my long term interests.
I think it's great. Western-style democracy is on its way out and we will probably see its end before our own deaths. It's good to start easing younger generations into an absolute surveillance so that the transition will be easier for them to accept later.
Ha! Good catch
That's where you learn the material?

Beyond that most of my anthropology classes (I minored in anthropology) had class discussion as part of the grade. I even had one professor who had us move the desks into a big circle as we entered (and put them back as we were leaving) in order to better facilitate discussion.

Also you'd have to be there to hand in previous assignments and get new assignments. Most of my classes (in all classes) had assignments due either every day or at least most days.

You'd also have to be there to hear about changes in the schedule. If you only show up for tests and the day of the test changes you'd need to know.

Plus pop quizzes. They aren't used much in college, but I think I had one or two.
Sounds improbable. A lot of people claim that the halving has been priced in, so it's not a reasonable single price indicator. Also we failed to see the same retail interest 2019 as in 2017 – which drove large parts of the all time high BTC price. I'd say a 250k price seams more plausible in 2024 – when there's more adoption and even less supply.
"Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day."

That's a little disturbing.
If you'd probably be interested in a startup in the AI / devops space, drop me a note: hackernews@smashmail.de
In leap for quantum computing, silicon bits establish long-distance relationship
I totally agree.
Infact the FAA owes me money if they allowed drones below 400ft.
This is a taking of my property. I own up to 400 feet.
If these drones want to follow the roads that is fine with me.
Don't tread on my private property.
My coworker showed me that hooks are just functions, so you can still pull apart your functional components hooks into a bunch of imported or defined functions.

Of course that doesn't help if you're still pulling in a lot of hooks, since it's 1 line per hook minimum.
> HNers:

Ooooh! Nice mathematical Christmas tree! Great for learning for the next Algorithms interview.

> Everyone:

A Christmas Tree! Merry Christmas!

> Me:

While it’s always nice to see articles like this on HN, I’m afraid that on this occasion I’m partying with friends on Christmas Day. So for today it’s a meh.
What happens if you don't own a smart phone?
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That’s a typo.

The pronunciation is close to “dee-yet mah-ross”
Sure, and thanks for contributing to the decline of the free web.
As somebody who was top ~2% in Starcraft I got heavily triggered until this part

>The key insight from Starcraft is that you need to be constantly testing and adjusting your hypothesis by scouting your opponent, all while continually executing whatever the best strategy you know of at any given point in time.

This is one of actually a good description of what is to be (in part) learned from Starcraft. However the level to which you can opt to commit to your idea without accurate information is larger than most people can suspect, and a lot of work goes into making the unwanted adjustments seem a non-issue.
Once they secured their monopoly, they stopped maintaining the facade that they were anything but what you described, which allows them to get away with a lot more.
Terminal burial. Paradoxical undressing. People do strange things when they get cold. In winter mountains, it is not unusual to find bodies in unusual situations. People abandon warm tents, walk barefoot, and make stupid route decisions.
What should I do if a genius in my employ comes up with an innovation of benefit to society?
Ah yes well known unbiased news source "tri state livestock news"
Post-Main Sequence Stars
Uhh can I see a lab report.

This is a pretty incredible claim. 44mg of estrogen?! If true they could just pivot out of the food business and into the meds for transsexuals business. Somehow I have lingering doubts about the motives of "tri-state livestock news".
This title isn’t going to last long on HN. For posterity it currently says “Impossible Whopper has 18M Times as Much Estrogen as a Regular Whooper”.

A better one would be the real and less clickbaity one “Impossible burgers are made of what?” ...but not nearly as popular.
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He also contributed to an Emacs package

http://ergoemacs.org/misc/Richard_Stallman_and_Julian_Assang...
Obtaining a Method object is, I think, pretty slow. But calling through one is fast - I'm not sure what happens exactly, but after some number of calls, some sort of JITting or some such happens and a call via a Method object is as fast as as through a handwritten equivalent (which does the same unpacking of arguments etc).
I once took a “hero dose” of 1500 units, (15 ministamps) as my first dose - i used LSD 3 times after that.

My first experience was ... very holy. Time stopped. I had hallucinations of spider webs weaved into my visual space, and it mixed with sunlight. I felt i was eternal.

I understood what love is, and what grief is, and why (bear with me now ..) if god would to exist, he would have been the loneliest thing, and in his grief and loneliness, he gave birth to otherness, and here we are. I was my own mother, i was my own father, i was everything that ever was, and i did it all because i had one moment of terrorizing loneliness that i (as god) couldn’t take.

It was all for me, a show i put on to entertain my eternal self, i thought about death and i felt immense gratitude, and i suddenly realized how scared everyone else must really be ... i felt extreme grief and love for my parents.

My other experiments, at much lower doses just made me feel anxious. I watched the joker on 400 units, and I nearly cried. it was extremely intense and jarring. I generally find that LSD will amplify your base emotions, sort of like turning a volume dial to max.

It’s a drug to be respected, the kinds of convictions it can generate in the human mind are intense and the impression they leave is significant.

Its definitely not something i would lightly take, or take often, but am thankful for trying.
Correct artice and being from ex communist country even after more than 25 years I certainly have issues celebrating christmas. "They were able to celebrate Christmas, but they had never done it before." most resonates with me.
Makes me realize the importance of traditions and how fragile they are.
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Phytoestrogens, which do not have the same effect on the human body.

> Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male.

This is patently false. If you don't accept "go read some research," consider this - what trans woman would go through the medical bureaucracy to get hormone therapy if she could just drink some soy milk? /r/TransDIY would be all over this if it worked.

Also, beer contains somewhere between 1-100 mcg phytoestrogens per 100 mL, depending on what source you trust.
> The Takeaway: Soy is a unique food that is widely studied for its estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects on the body. Studies may seem to present conflicting conclusions about soy, but this is largely due to the wide variation in how soy is studied. Results of recent population studies suggest that soy has either a beneficial or neutral effect on various health conditions. Soy is a nutrient-dense source of protein that can safely be consumed several times a week, and is likely to provide health benefits—especially when eaten as an alternative to red and processed meat.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/
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You probably just don't get those attendance points?
These are important questions with very difficult answers. I think one of the fallacies in business is to actually think you are in control. You can plan and have the best intentions, but reality is the business tells you what you are going to do each and every morning and it has absolutely no sympathy for the fact that we are a human beings with very real limitations.

I equate it to sailing in stormy weather, something I've done a bunch of times. It is important to know the general direction you need to go and establish a few goals, yet is it foolish to think you are actually in control. The ocean tells you what to do from wave to wave and you work hard to do as it desires while constantly pushing towards your desired outcome. It's an art, a science and, yes, a bit of luck never hurts.

That's the challenge of entrepreneurship. You can either let the ocean, the business, sink you by taking you off-course and causing you to make bad decisions and face dangerous circumstances or you can navigate what it puts in front of you every day as best as you might be able while also pushing hard to generally point in the direction you want to go.

Sure, there are cases where people get on that boat and the thing just pushes forward with favorable winds and it's go-go-go (Facebook comes to mind). Yet that's not what a typical business looks like. Most businesses are like the aforementioned storm. Which is to say: Hard work, uncertainty, fear, joy, trepidation, doubt, bad decisions, good decisions, bad luck, good luck and, maybe, if things align, a good outcome on the other side of the storm.

This is why I think --conjecture on my part-- groups like YC have found that multi-founder teams consisting of young people without prior business experience do better than single founders with the same life experience.

Anyone can operate when the weather is great and winds blow in the desired direction. Yet that's not reality. You are going to tear a sail or break a mast here and there. In these situations the right team can be much better than a solo founder, even if they lack life and business experience.

My best advice is to not use the past as a source of regret but rather as a source of wisdom. Failures hurt (I've had a few, I've been bankrupt, penny-less) but they are also absolutely invaluable if one is able to remove emotion and learn from them.

At the moment I am in the process of starting yet another company, this time in the vertical farming space. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that my failures in life and business have helped me and will help me along this new journey far more than the success I have enjoyed.

Don't dwell in the past, use it to make you a better entrepreneur in your next adventure. Make something that solves a real problem and give it all you got. If you are willing to navigate the storm the market will reward you for it.
For a while there I was getting emails about open-source related conferences organized by a guy named "Hans Reiser". After the infamous Hans Reiser was in jail. It was a bit creepy, and I felt a bit sorry for him (the non-infamous Hans just trying to organize conferences, not the infamous one who murdered his wife).

EDIT: Speaking of which, Wikipedia seems to think he may be eligible for parole in a week or so. O_o
I'm not sure about ethical but for myself, personally, it's essential as I couldn't afford it otherwise.
"I've been told if you have mental issues LSD and their like can make them much worse!"

That's the usual received wisdom. However, back in the old days there was some research in to treating various mental disorders with LSD. Here's an example of treatment of childhood schizophrenia with LSD and psilocybin: [1]

LSD has also been used to treat alcoholism (with the most famous case being that of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous).

All of these studies were done decades ago, so I'm sure contemporary scientists would have lots of objections regarding their methodology, ethics, and so on. But the early studies do show promise, and I hope one day these avenues of research will be further explored with modern tools.

Even now there is ongoing research in to using psilocybin to treat depression and end-of-life anxiety in cancer patients.

Of course, it is important to note that such research was in to using psychedelics in a therapeutic setting, with trained, experienced therapists, and not just haphazardly taking psychedelics to "get high", "party" or "have a good time". The results of haphazard use without proper guidance, particularly for people with mental health issues, is likely to be far riskier.

[1] - https://maps.org/news-letters/v07n3/07318fis.html
Doubtful. Apple hasn't provided proper drivers for years, way before 10.14. And regardless of GPU brand.

Not only that, the cost of implementing a Metal frontend is trivial for NVIDIA.
They are optional. The option is just not visible in that UI. If you have Windows 10 Pro or higher, open the Group Policy Management snap-in, navigate to "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update", edit "Do not include drivers with Windows Update" and set it to 'Enabled'.

If you have Windows 10 Home you can get the same effect by manually creating the registry key the Policy controls. Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate", create a new DWORD 'ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate', and set it to '1'.
Well not quite. US/UK/France/Germany all steal IP from each other, but with China it’s asymmetric. It’s a one-way flow of unprecedented scale. And the former countries are allies and the alliance isn’t in any way weakened by this. Again with China it’s different.
Okay, sorry. I had misinterpreted your comment because an associated (I guess coincidental) downvote.
This is a publication for cattle ranchers. I think it's bias is pretty obvious. It doesn't even mention the number one reason people want meat alternatives which is environmental benefits.

Also, the poster is literally calling himself a corporate shill apparently.
Privacy policey updates all happening at once
Just saw three policy updates (Yelp, Quora and Coursera) and probably more in the past 24 hours.

What is it with companies doing such things over christmas, do they think they could slip it thru and nobody would notice.

Certainly is a trend that's sprung up this season. I mean if I wanted to slip something past somebody without them looking in detail, a festive holiday would be the way if I was into such devious tactics.

Anybody else noticed this recently or is this an annual thing that's slipped me by past year?
Maybe look in to psilocybin mushrooms? I’ve heard they are very helpful for people with depression, but not good for people with schizophrenia.

I found this podcast to be a great fact based overview of the latest research on psychedelic therapy. The results from major research institutions are promising, though there is less research on use outside of a research institution.

https://psychonauts.co.za/
But I didn't put "cult of personality" in the title. I'm talking about [0], specifically:

> [P]lease use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

My question is really for the submitter, although it doesn't look like they're going to come back and explain themselves. V isn't somehow a sum of Go and Rust. Seriously, look at that stupid stupid statement. Consider it in its fullness. Imagine how many small misconceptions about the nature of programming must have been added together in order to get such a pseudoprofound utterance.

Cults of personality are a real problem when it comes to programming languages. By my quick estimates, about half of TIOBE's list of popular programming languages are languages that exist due to a mythologized Great Man (Ruby, Python, C++, PHP, JavaScript) or small conclave of Great Men (C, Go, Swift, Java) having deep insights or understanding of programming. However, there's no serious evidence from outside our system to suggest that any programming language is good, and that should put the entire premise into doubt.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fear not. It's pg's old "Christmas ornaments, kept in the basement" code that we uncomment-out every year for a bit.

Here it is in 2007:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071225140214/http://news.ycomb...
>Is that the primary advantage? I’m not as sure as you seem to be.

It's the combination of that and exhaustive pattern matching that I see as the reason to use strongly-typed functional languages.

>No type system is enforcing those.

This is quite different from not having static type checks at all though. At least with static typing I know that bind and fmap have the correct signature, which is certainly not a verification that they follow _all_ the rules they should (though I am a big fan of dependently typed languages too), yet it is still assurance that the function fulfills a basic premise.

>If you’re comfortable trusting someone else is following that rule why is trusting they follow another so alien?

Because I have seem them betray that trust, over and over again, intentionally and unintentionally, though never actively malicious. Type checking is work the compiler can do for me, so I see no reason to do it myself, where I am known to be rather clumsy and stupid and prone to writing bugs and being human.
Not hard. No dedicated device required, either.

It requires reverse engineering which data in being transferred to the school. This likely occurs using a simple HTTP request. Or series of requests. Copy the data from that HTTP request. Then replicate those HTTP requests.
Attendance was mandatory for almost all classes when I was at college.
I think trying to essentialise consciousness is a wrong move. Consciousness is just an advanced strategy employed by self replicators in order to keep on replicating. It is the result of the environment and competition/cooperation for resources.

Concretely consciousness is a loop including environment, perception, deciding on an action and then acting and observing the results. The agent has to fight against external perturbations and for that it learns the value of various states and actions. It learns from positive and negative reenforcement.

It feels like something because it has perception (internal and external) and these sensations hold value because they represent the path towards life. Agents that don't properly assess the value of the states they are in and don't select good actions perish, thus only those who act in accordance with the needs of the body survive. Feeling is just a way to assess the best next action.

The real magic of consciousness is not just in the brain but in the self replication abilities of the agent and in the complex challenges presented by the environment.
Ah christ, I only thought to tap on the committer's name!
Just get a random swe job and see how it goes. Worst case you get fired.

Also find a team of nice people like you.