skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh back in my coding days it was PHP. And before that in my undergrad years was Vb6 ... which provided me and several other programmers with lots of frustration and consulting hours to fix the mess the owners' kid made while "programming" their new CRUD system.

There will always be a "cool new" language attracting newcomers and kids.
I personally find procedurally generated worlds boring. Whenever I see something unusual in a hand crafted game, I can wonder why it's there, how it fits into the lore, how did it come to be?

With a procedurally generated world (unless part of that procedure was simulating a very detailed history) the answer to all of my questions are, this particular oddity, just like all other oddities, is just an artifact of a psuedo random number generator.
> Obviously getting regulatory approval takes much, much longer
Macbooks always turns on dedicated GPU when connected to an external monitor. Maybe you're using it in clamshell mode?
I usually like Scott Alexander's work, but this article left me scratching my head.

He was sleeping an average of 8 hours without any supplements, so it's not surprising that he wouldn't see much difference with sleep aids. I wouldn't expect most of the named supplement's ingredients to have much impact after 8 hours anyway.

That said, Nootropics Depot has been moving more toward branded proprietary blends lately, presumably to increase profit margins. Some of their recent marketing material has really been over the top and exaggerated (see the CBD material). I trust their quality control, but they're not a great source of information about compounds.
>It only means they are in the best position to make the claim.

That's a good point I hadn't considered.
I always just type "#" first before pasting... That way it is just a comment I can inspect before running
I’m currently struggling with our startup’s CTO over this point. He is from BigMediaCorp and wants a way to account for our developer spend. Tracking story points is his method.

Hopefully I can argue the points in this excellent article successfully, before our culture gets too badly off course.
Have you ever tried to reproduce research from academics and or companies ? Some papers take more than a day of work to reproduce . Not only that if you publish the research without the dataset it’s practically impossible or extremely expensive . Doing GPT-2 from scratch is around $50k or compute time and data collection.

Even a simple deep learning paper will require you to have at least a NVIDIA 1080ti if you are lucky and for NLP I needed to buy a RTX Titan ($2500 graphics card).
Management: Guys... Productions on fire!???

Devs: Oh yeah... It does that now.

LMAO.
Creating a Todo Service with Actix
There's a Safari extension called StopTheMadness that prevents this sort of thing. I just tested it on this page, and it does indeed stop this particular nonsense.
I'm beginning to think there are no best practices, only best executions.
The power cuts are country-wide. The sole, state-owned power utility Eskom has neglected its infrastructure despite warnings going back decades and now cannot generate enough electricity to meet demand. And the corruption under former president Jacob Zuma has caused newer power station projects to be botched and run way over schedule and budget. In the best case we will be having regular power cuts for the next 18 months at least.
It's unfortunate that the price difference between 27" 4k and 27" 5k is enormous.
If I take your comment to mean collaborating is good and some people are better than others at parts of a solution because they are currently specialized I agree. The "right" answer is often difficult in practice especially when you depend on many other teams as dependencies and need to get something out the door.

On the other hand if you're drawing diagrams of things you haven't personally made sure could work well together at even a trivial POC level then I am not a fan because that is precisely why some devs hate anyone who is called an Architect.
+1

I am big in MTB community, and horrible presentation is super prevalent on quite a few websites for brands.

Perhaps the worst example: https://www.yeticycles.com/bikes/sb165
benibela doesn't sound like s/he is talking about the 1970s. Rather, the point seems to be crashes today.

But no, the people back then weren't fools wandering in darkness. C won not just because it appeared better, but because it was better. Pascal appeared better - it had better theory, and a better story. But for actually writing software, C was better. Even with all the "shoot yourself in the foot" potential, C was still better. Programming in Pascal was like picking your nose with boxing gloves on compared to programming in C. (I exaggerate, but Pascal was noticeably - and frustratingly - clumsier to use.)
That developer makes abusive design decisions. He does not maximize player entertainment, he tries to maximize how much money he can squeeze out of players with addictive loops. There are better options in this genre.
C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
30hz is a non starter for me no matter what task I am doing.
Tesla's Hardware 3 computer frightens legacy auto after Model 3 teardown
also in some cases, even with the right adapter, which type-c port you plug it into;

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/354688
...surely you could write a computer to click circles relatively easily?
Solid skeptical rebuttal...
I'd actually like to buy that.
Money quote from Google rep:

> If there are concerns about invalid traffic, they should communicate that to us, and our Ad Traffic Quality team will monitor and evaluate their accounts as needed.

Given all the comments here, and everything else I've read about Google having ~no human support, this is plainly bullshit.
The danger here, it seems to me, is that once you make it clear that the people saying that there aren't enough female chess masters have a legal right to be on this forum and cannot have their posts thrown out as "political," the people saying that men are naturally more suited to the game of chess and women should get back in the kitchen will rub their hands in glee and realize that they now have a legal right to be on every other chess forum, because their posts, too, are merely "political" and not libelous. They know how to toe that line - doing so a core competency of internet trolls (see also "hide your power level"). That is, the tradeoff of saying that the powerful majority no longer gets to regulate forums and must give the marginalized a voice is saying that the marginalized no longer get to regulate forums either and must give the powerful majority a voice - and the powerful majority is, after all, powerful, and will take advantage of this too.

So the practical result is that only people with the resources to moderate their forums to the point that they're willing to accept liability will run moderated forums. That requires either significant resources to run the moderation program (and a chilling effect on what gets approved) or significant resources to deal with liability and American-style lawsuits. The breastfeeding mother who's setting up a blog for her three closest friends to comment on will technically be fine, but she can no longer grow her community beyond her three closest friends. The powerful (whether that's "big companies" or "socially powerful races" or whatever) are happy to keep restricting what happens on their platform and take on liability because that liability will affect them less.

I don't have a solution for this, and I find your argument mostly compelling, but I don't know that it gets us where we want to be either. I'm not really comfortable with "The price we pay for keeping MRAs from derailing forums is allowing people to say that feminists are derailing forums," but "The price we pay for making sure feminists can speak is making sure MRAs can speak" feels equally uncomfortable.

(BTW - I upvoted both of you because I think you both made good points.)
Did I really need to make a 2x2 self-regulating nuclear power plant that is fed by a 3x2 beaconed kovarex sushi belt? No, but I wanted to.
I find the argument about the Tesla windshield being a cost savings fascinating. Truck transport companies operate on thin margins in a commodity market - if there was something to be squeezed out in efficiency or cost savings by using stronger glass - wouldn't it have already been done?
Can you please do a blog post at the end of the project to let us know how it pans out as a case study?
I agree that cloud operating costs are lower for NLP AI, but for a different reason than you cite. I think they are lower because the type of data that they operate on is much more compact than AI that is operating on images, video, or audio.
Especially for a "brick and mortar business" I can't see why you couldn't try other things - direct marketing, cold calling, events, cards in doctor's offices, whatever else.
Huh, NPR has a well-established bias which targets specific demographics - as admitted by former NPR CEO

https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/the-other-half-of-america-that...
Pyro – Deep Universal Probabilistic Programming
From the article:

"Although genomic evidence does not support the idea that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory construct, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here, and it is unclear whether future data will help resolve this issue. Identifying the immediate non-human animal source and obtaining virus sequences from it would be the most definitive way of revealing virus origins.
This is an interesting concept. Another thing that would be interesting is if recruiting firms started operating like this...
Oooh, in the same way that the higher 5G frequencies don't travel as far!
Sure, AI is "just" statistics in the same way that software is "just" math.
Feinstein first became mayor via assassination, but she was subsequently elected to two full mayoral terms of her own.
Don Eyles has a web site, where there's an interesting article called "Tales From the Lunar Module Guidance Computer":

https://doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
For the most part, the government shouldn't get to tell people what they can or can not do with their money. We don't currently stop people from going to vegas, buying lotto tickets, buying expensive cars, clothes, buying education, etc.

Said another way, 'anyone' can invest 'any' amount in a public stock today and lose it all tomorrow. Heck people were even suckered into mortgages they couldn't afford by our trusty banks.
Hopefully you did not set up ACH to withdraw money from your real account.
So it's as if they give you funding in return for stock, but you can only use that funding to pay salary to their guys and nothing else.
Maybe. The problem with ad networks is they don't pay well. Google is probably the best but still it's a pittance.

I think the sweetspot for adsense is a site will millions of visitors who are not targeted for anything so adsense individually targets them for you.

But if you have a site that is niche then you are better off finding a direct advertiser who will pay you more, and neither of you have to worry about getting banned or quality scores or all of that shit.
I can see this work very well.

It's like a very hands on incubator where the VCs are basically providing human resources and are invested in getting the start-up off the ground and moving by providing exactly what the start-ups need.

Instead of giving start-ups cash to hire, they provide the expertise as needed. Marketing gurus, tech gurus, generalists, etc... It can save money and time, especially if the VCs have good technical leaders that have lots of experience building products efficiently.
That's really nonsensical. Nothing about using an audio input makes code more vulnerable. The interface is always there if the hardware is.
A Cyberpunk 2077 Nvidia GPU might be coming soon
Sure, I'm just saying I don't hear it 'on the street' where I live. I honestly find the whole officially-approved nomenclature issue a bit overblown anyway. I'm completely happy to use whatever people prefer, but have known enough rednecks who can inflect racism into entitrely innocuous language, to feel that 'correct' word choice is a pretty small determinant of what's communicated. At least beyond the twitterverse.
I intend this less as a criticism of the material and more as a criticism of Popular Mechanics. I do have plenty of criticism of the material but it's a little more substantial than an apparent lack of copy editing.

The introduction of the article really plays up its significance and this is clearly intended to be a big feature piece for PopMech. But it introduces very little new material to people who follow this issue and, as I was mentioning, doesn't even seem to have been carefully prepared for publication.
Thanks for the safety net tip. I might be more methodical than most, but in copying commands from external sources (ie, ~anything other than my own code or notes), I paste into a local buffer to examine and confirm contents. I do this as both as a means to generate documentation as well
as for hygiene per se -- and it occasionally helps to sanity check my intention and prevent a footgun.
It's still pretty variable, actually. Mine is pretty good (built 9/19), with only a few discernible misalignment. But other people who have taken delivery in just the last couple months have had terrible alignment. Maybe most are perfectly acceptable, but it is incorrect to suggest it is a completely solved problem.
If you manage to pull that off you probably won’t have to do a rewrite in the first place ;-)
My g13 has recently started playing up. I'm just switching to keyboard. :/
Except that people want some kind of textile feedback for what they type—which is why SelfieType likely would only be just a “cool technology”
On the other hand, Starlink is going to make use of their next-gen Starship, and with a viable amount of business space launches will become cheap enough for launching lots of cheap specialized space telescopes.
"Libertarian" is a very broad label. Even more so when you consider left libertarianism, which people usually forget.

But, in any case, many libertarians are in favor of UBI, for example - the whole point of which is to solve the "lottery" problem without creating a bureaucratic monstrosity that is means-tested welfare.
> aren't even the ASCII quote character; you get horrid unicode quotes

Why should they be ASCII, and what’s wrong with Unicode?
There are horror stories as recently as today in r/teslamotors. Some of the service centers are quite good, some are just terrible.
I could see VC-provided specialists, like a lawyer, CPA, perhaps also specific skills like a data scientist before a startup has enough cash to employ one full-time but I don’t see why this would be any better than the startup employing the contractor themselves with cash.
> I am therefore regularly shocked by how much money is poured into or otherwise spent on tech and tech workers and how laughable the result is. I've really never seen a server infrastructure at any company where I haven't shuttered in horror within a few hours of looking at design, practices, or systems themselves.

Yet, all these companies remain in existence.

Maybe what you consider to be "laughable" is actually "good enough" when it comes down to dollars and cents?
That's pretty much the experience I had with Consul and Traefik (containers orchestrated by Nomad).
> If that was true, HN would be infinitely more popular than reddit.

Reddit communities live and die by the strength of their moderation. Sure, Reddit as a whole is mountains of garbage. But the beauty (if that's the word) of the subreddit system is that to folks who want to talk about communism, hating women and minorities is garbage, and to folks who want to hate women and minorities, communism is garbage, and they both get the experience they want.

Reddit's popularity is due to the fact that a) people have multiple interests and so they want to hop communities with low activation energy (same high-level reason that GitHub got popular over individual git hosting sites: you already have an account) and b) there is some correlation between being a "bad-faith actor" across communities, regardless of their specific moderation worldview (e.g., neither /r/GamersRiseUp nor /r/FULLCOMMUNISM is interested in V1agr4), and so "you have some karma at all, regardless of source" is a useful filter.

> Once again, if you were right, twitter, reddit, facebook, etc wouldn't have grown to what they are today.

All of these systems put work into blocking abusive participants site-wide (including real humans who are very carefully and intentionally spewing vitriol) and are increasingly automatically blocking them.
What a time to be alive.

I never thought I'd see it, but it's happened.

The tipping point has been reached where conspiracy theories denying this stuff have become crazier than the reports of it.

I think a new and very rich vein of crazy is about to make itself available to the masses for their entertainment, that is the mental gymnastics some people will tie themselves into to deny the existence of something which they find impossible to face.
If you're missing a part of your team and they have a good person, I could see this paying off.

Finding the right person could take time and money you don't have.
About the last paragraph, R and Pandas both have that issue. (Although I'm not sure if it's a bottleneck in typical code, since there are other problems too.)

But Julia and the newer Weld compiler apparently have loop fusion:

https://julialang.org/blog/2017/01/moredots/

https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2018/07/30/weldopt/
En dashes are for ranges and sometimes for compound modifiers, like "billiard-ball–size hail" or "New York City–based attorney." Not sure who advised MS Word to turn two dashes into an en dash, ever, but it's not correct. Whether an em dash has spaces around it is a matter of style.
There have been some pretty egregious examples posted in the last month or so on r/teslamotors. So it still happens, though I don't know why. Mine is basically fine, though I'd say it isn't quite up to the level of fit and finish as my Camaro.
Startup Idea: Computer Vision-Based Tennis Coaching
Here is a long term bull case for the stock market: currently the largest asset class is real estate. But as the world population stabilizes, real estate will lose much of its value as a lazy way to protect capital from inflation. There will be rebalancing of the global capital portfolio from real estate into the stock market. If real estate was securitized and turned into a liquid public electronic exchange, this transition would be even faster. Long term I am bullish on the stock market until it becomes a much larger percentage of the global wealth.
Bisection Bandwidth
I think they are talking a about styled quotes, the kinds that point inward, which a REPL won't interpret as an ASCII quote and will throw some type of Syntax error.
SKT, KT, LG Uplus Strengthens 5G Expansion with VR
That's a nice idea. But here in the real world financial fraud happens and it is frequently not resolved by the courts and the justice system.
I currently work with ex-Uber guy. Rotten to the core. Stay away.
Rodney Mullen: From the Ground Up
This works really well, if it's partnered with cash. Like a competitive advantage of why you'd want to work with his VC company, but without money it's worthless.
Engines aren't built on the body assembly line, they are also subject to completely different engineering practices, and have their own set of workers. And robots, too!
iOS 13 design guidelines, templates, and downloads
Excerpt:

Significance of bisection bandwidth

"Theoretical support for the importance of this measure of network performance was developed in the PhD research of Clark Thomborson (formerly Clark Thompson).[3] Thomborson proved that important algorithms for sorting, Fast Fourier transformation, and matrix-matrix multiplication become communication-limited—as opposed to CPU-limited or memory-limited—on computers with insufficient bisection width."

Opinion: That's probably the tip of the iceberg with respect to many algorithms, not just those mentioned above, and their scalability relationship with bisection bandwidth...

Also note that bisection bandwidth -- differs with different network topologies...
Oh good grief. One party didn’t “lose its moral compass.” Chuck Schumer is just as likely to support a bad law as John Cornyn. And the facts support that time and time again. “Moral compass” is such a loaded term. Banning abortion could be seen as “moral” just as easily as passing stricter banking regulation. That’s the problem — morality has become so muddled as to have become a useless measure. To me, it’s immoral to want to take money from me and give it to some favored group. To others, it’s moral to take money from me and give it to some favored group. What we need is smaller, less intrusive government, then there is less opportunity to be bothered by the morality of laws — because there would be fewer of them and they would have a smaller scope.
Ok but those are standard, valid characters like any others. Why are they ‘horrid’?
There are better ways of pointing out that the markup used isn’t optimal.
Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video
I think one reason for the "Assange is an asshole" hate is that there are many people all over the West who love and believe in the USA as a unequalled force for good, and they are filled with resentment towards Assange for destroying that belief.

They can't deny the terrible acts perpetrated by the US, so they try to reclaim some moral superiority by accepting and repeating the completely unsubstantiated (and in some cases, ridiculous) smears against Assange.
I like to work with two columns of windows and the shortcuts to move and tab windows around are easier/more convenient with one monitor versus two. I can easily swap between all of my open windows and snap the two I need side to side. I also find myself moving my head around less and everything just seems a bit more at hand.
While sub-pixel sampling provides little benefit for diffuse surfaces, sampling the same pixel multiple times does provide better smoothness across the surface of the object.

Since it's not much more computationally expensive to do sub-pixel sampling than to repeatedly sample the same point within the pixel you might as well just use sub-pixel sampling.

Additionally a pixel has no knowledge of its contents until you cast a ray. And even if the ray did hit a diffuse surface you would have to do more math to determine if the edge of that surface lies within the boundaries of that pixel. Might as well just use sub-pixel sampling.
a virus that kills < 1-2 % of the population (likely mostly elderly) isn’t going to hurt the economy long term. Remember preventive medicine is actually more costly than letting people die sooner, even for non viral killers like cancer and heart disease.
As someone whose car recognizes traffic lights (though not with perfect accuracy), it is the most useless feature I've ever seen. Right along with recognizing garbage cans. I would not pay a dime extra for the visualizations, especially since they're quite inaccurate in many cases. So, many, cones, even when there aren't really any cones.
Starlink for sure

Satellite companies can't even compete with Starlink due to the launch costs.

Elon Musk is a genius. It'll be the ISP of the world. Unrestricted by ground infrastructure. I can only imagine what he's got cooking once starlink is 100% operational.

His plans are massive. Tesla, SpaceX, solar city, the boring company. He's vertically integrating everything that has to do with what's needed for space colonization, but doing it in a way that is benefiting and creating value on Earth.

I'm pretty certain we're a few discoveries away from being able to successfully and efficiently colonize a moon or planet. Once we get a portable fusion reactor, higher density batteries, and the nanotech shrinks enough, we'll be off this planet.