skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are you saying the loot box model is more addictive than standard gambling? There are currently efforts to implement more skill-based gambling into digital gambling, ie fight game machine tournaments with money stakes, etc
Yes, actually. It's a theme that Scott is annoyingly fond of, in his fiction and non-fiction. Unsong is entirely about kabbalistic puzzles as you know. Scott and others before him were enamored with the ideas of Leo Strauss. You can read more about Strauss' ideology of hidden truths that only the brilliant and/or worthy can perceive at the link below.

Scott Alexander uses the Kolmogorov post to have plausible deniability for his discussion of "race science". There's a reason writing "HBD" was banned in the comments section and it's that it was giving the game away to too many people.
(discussion of HBD is not banned, it's simply not permitted for that string to appear - i wonder why that might be)

http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2014-06.html#drury-on-strauss

Have you missed this post?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-a...
I can't wait to see how powerful Ryzen 4 desktop be.
Concorde was incredibly loud taking off, long before it went supersonic.
I lived about five miles from London Heathrow, and you had to pause your conversation for a minute when Concorde took off.
It really depends on the size and configuration of the organization. It might be manageable at a few dozen people, but it becomes much more difficult to scale when you have 1,000+ engineers all working on different accounts with different architectures and requirements.

Additionally, our growth and enterprise plans all have guaranteed savings. 3x and 5x, respectively.

For instance, if you chose the growth plan ($5k/month) and saved less than $180k after 12 months, we'd give you a 100% refund.

Similarly, if you chose the enterprise plan ($10k/month) and saved less than $600k after 12 months, we'd give you a 100% refund.
99% of the time it works all of the time.

Like humans.

How do we deal with problematic humans?

Retraining or replacement.
When simplicity is not an option
From my personal experience, podcast is more of a "main stream" thing in US/UK than most other countries. Most people know what it is, and sometime people recommend shows to you in casual conversation the same way they might recommend a tv show or a book.

In HK and Japan, while it is still quite widely used by the relatively more tech inclined people, you can't randomly ask a new friend if they like any podcast and expect them to know what you are talking about.

Also, English is a widely used language. My native language is Cantonese, but the amount of shows in that is very low, and I'm more comfortable with English than other Chinese dialects including Mandarin, so I listen to mostly English podcasts. I imagine similar thing might happen in countries with more than one spoken languages. I know some Indian friend who has a podcast that they did in English even though the topic and target audience are mostly Indians as well.
I do not feel that "Cops are natural aggressors" needs further litigation but agree on the rest. However, how do you find Ring cameras protect your packages from theft? Do package thieves notice the camera and avoid your house, or do you send the video to the police who find the person based on their appearance or vehicle? If the former, why does the camera need to even be functional? And if the latter, why is the "cloud" necessary compared to a Ubiquiti style camera, or if you prefer a cloud camera, one from a company other than Ring who has shown extreme eagnerness to use close relationships with law enforcement as a form of marketing?
hey, are you on reddit memexy? i'm /u/foobanana, ping me if you are.
admire your attempts at reasoning with the unreasonable here.
I'm sorry if I should have been more nuanced. Lack of transparency support was my number 1 pet peeve back with mspaint.

Kolourpaint's scope and interface are similar. It can be found in most distributions'packages, and on flathub. Looks like nobody bothered to package it for windows, though, which is a shame.
Absolutely. Here's a Bulgarian example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Ganyo

But despite getting the works 500 years ago, it's more than a little silly to blame it on the Turks.
Technologically it's not a big deal for developers who want to run PHP on Windows because WSL can do that. It might affect people who have, say, a .NET app running on Windows in Azure who wanted to put a Wordpress marketing site on the same server. As of PHP8 they'll have to either use an 'unofficial' PHP build for Windows or move the PHP site to a second server.

Politically though, it might be a big deal. Microsoft don't think supporting a native Windows build of PHP is worthwhile. That could say something about the server-side scripting language landscape changing. On the other hand, it might just say that it costs a few hundred thousand dollars of engineering time every year and they believe that could be allocated better. There's no way to know from a single post.
Widespread pandemic hair might be just the luck hats needed.
One of the biggest factors is cabin altitude.

Both the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 XWB have a lower (than previous airliners) cabin altitude of 1,800 m.

Note that some private jets do quite a bit better again: the Gulfstream G650 has ~1480 meters.
> The Unix kernel

Which one? Linux?

By that logic Windows NT kernel won't go anywhere in 100 years either, since it runs on nearly a billion devices.
I like the concept, but what you are offering isn't really comparable to Premium Bonds in the UK. The prizes in Premium Bonds are guaranteed every month. It's a raffle where every £1 deposited gives you a unique Bond ID. This is totally different from a lottery where the prizes are not guaranteed to be awarded for every draw.
GPT-3 is too large to be useful for practical purposes. Look it up. It's the equivalent of a Formula 1 car or a Saturn V rocket - an impressive feat of technology but of no practical relevance for getting you to work and back.

And certainly fine-tuning and distillation are part of the story why we wanted these large do-all-be-all models in the first place, but the question of what's next for the state of the art - and that currently would be featurization through a large transformer model (i.e. BERT, ERNIE, GPT-2) with some deep-but-not-huge task-specific model on top - isn't simply answered by "more compute".
that feels pretty dismissive / reductive to me...

seems like you're all saying that

var actual = calculator.GetSolarTimes(new Date(...), new Location(...));

is JUST SIMPLER and better than

public async Task<SolarTimes> GetSolarTimesAsync(DateTimeOffset date)

with an internal location provider as a dependency because it's easier to test.

but i think that ignores the reason why DI containers were invented in the first place and assumes that the solar calculator is just a simple entrypoint-type application, rather than being a component in real application. You might have 20 layers of THING, somewhere inside which, this solar time calculator lives and is used... and you still have to get Location from SOMEWHERE to pass it into the calculator.

so what happens when Whatever uses the location provider to get the location and pass it along needs to be tested? and through how many layers of stack do you need to pass Location before you realize that every test of every intermediate layer needs to know about location, but only for the purpose of passing it along?

I think it's a more nuanced case than you're making it seem. Beyond some level of complexity in an application, it becomes simpler to co-locate dependencies where they're actually used.
A Planet Movement Simulator
They are extremely successful compared to more classical approaches to management.
IMO its not about replacing deterministic algorithms used in van Neuman machines (even though that would be a nice side effect).

I feel that if we ever want to build an intelligent problem solver machine, we need some facility for abstract reasoning and work like this papet is a major contributor towards that goal.
(if its reproducible and valid ofc...)
Hello -

this is a post I wrote about scaling to 50k users without a marketing budget

https://medium.com/rezi-resume/0-to-50-000-users-a-candid-lo...

It might be interesting for your blog?
Note that the "it's just cosmetics" argument is flawed. Loot boxes are still exploiting the human psyche to earn enormous amounts of money from a small amount of customers (or whales, as they put it, ugh...), regardless of the perceived value they actually offer.

There's actually the toxic culture revolving around cosmetic upgrades in games, where using the default skins is considered a sign of poverty, and leads to discrimination among groups of young people. Fortnite is one of the games where this issue is more prominent.
It's kind of an interesting moral question though. Should immigrants have to pay reparations for the crimes of a state that neither they nor their ancestors were a part of?

If we accept that the entity of the United States is responsible for these crimes and owes reparations...is it fair to use fungible tax dollars paid partially by immigrants to pay those reparations?

I don't know. Interesting puzzle to think about though.
I've worked on .NET Core services that ran in Ubuntu containers since the preview versions of .NET Core 2.0 (that was around spring/summer 2017) and since then .NET on Linux has been great. You get some config issues sometimes and weird use cases like if you use a closed and password protected 3rd party NuGet source, but it doesn't take that long to resolve those. I'm on a Mac nowadays and the same applies.
> I barely even have any traditional PC hardware

Can you elaborate?

Are you using a Macbook or something instead?
Almost invisible and only to the type of radar it has been tuned against which usually means the fire control radar of fighters and missiles.
No they are absolutely not. Ask Jon Skeet for example:

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2010/12/01/the-joys-of-date-tim...

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...

Or look at the usual falsehood list:

https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...

Some interesting ones:

A week (or a month) always begins and ends in the same year.

Months have either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days.

There is a leap year every year divisible by 4.

The day before Saturday is always Friday.
Dealing with phone numbers in contact book
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/u/foobanana
I would argue Proton is a bit more than 'only' Wine and that it also includes projects like DXVK/D9VK. These make many, many more games playable at decent performance than would be possible with Wine's own solution.
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Use the built in git tool in visual code. It highlights differently for white space or you can also turn off white space differences.
Evolving sorting networks was cool.

This is not cool.
I use Pinboard since April 22, 2010.
And I use it every day since then.

Best $6,28 I ever spent...
Shouldn't WSL do the trick? Especially with WSL2 I found no need to use a dedicated virtual machine to use Linux applications in Windows.
Kind of wish I stole my MacBook from my last job now
Well, for obvious reasons they are hard to find afterwards.
It's crazy to me that in 2020 a first world city with a 2.7 million population has 80 shootings with at least 17 deaths in a single weekend. All forms of violence, including police violence, would drop if America managed to bring its gun addiction under control.
You are right. If I could still edit I'd replace 'you have' with 'in general' because that was what I was referring to. Didn't refer to you in particular.
Are time-driven release cycles really the best option for mature languages and platforms?

Instead, shouldn’t we value stability and drive releases based on new functionality? If there’s no new functionality, there’s no need to force obsolescence by incrementing major versions based on a fixed time table.
The compromise you're suggesting is what Dataminr is doing. Monitoring publicly available media like Twitter to look for evidence of criminal intent (albeit in an automated fashion).
Nice, anyone have some suggestions for quick ways to build parallax sites like this? Like themes, frameworks etc
It sounds like beyond MoPop and some of the brain research work, the legacy was not to be operating his projects, but rather giving away his fortune for causes.

I wish Cinerama was self-sustaining... and LCM is a huge loss... but I suppose they aren't 100-year institutions as they were created by Paul, but rather, showing us what is posible.
Not Windows 10 but Windows Server is a server OS. Usage is probably declining but it's still in use in most companies somewhere for file storage, authentication (AD), databases (SQL Server) or even web servers.
Chelsea Clinton forming venture capital firm: Report
What are the obvious reasons? Are you saying posts and comments were outright deleted?
Microsoft?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190828160817.6250-1-gregkh@li...
The code (which is a few percent faster than quicksort) is on the last page:

procedure QUICKSORTAGENT(input state)
2: Let i = 1, j = 2, l = 3, h = 4
3: if FunctionID = None then
4: return vh ← Function1(vl ← vl, vh ← vh)
5: else if FunctionID = 1 then . QuickSort
6: if vl < vh then
7: if prev = None then
8: return vi ← Function2(vl ← vl, vh ← vh)
9: else if prev = (vi ← Function2(vl ← vl, vh ← vh)) then
10: return AssignVar(j, i)
11: else if prev = AssignVar(j, i) then
12: return MoveVar(i, -1)
13: else if prev = MoveVar(i, -1) then
14: if vi > vl then
15: return vi ← Function1(vl ← vl, vh ← vi)
16: else
17: return MoveVar(j, +1)
18: end if
19: else if prev = (vi ← Function1(vl ← vl, vh ← vi)) t hen
20: return MoveVar(j, +1)
21: else if prev = MoveVar(j, +1) and vj < vh then
22: return vh ← Function1(vl ← vj , vh ← vh)
23: else
24: return Return(h)
25: end if
26: else
27: return Return(h)
28: end if
29: else . Function ID = 2, Partition
30: if prev = None then
31: return AssignVar(i, l)
32: else if prev = AssignVar(i, l) then
33: return AssignVar(j, l)
34: else if vj < vh then
35: if prev = Swap(i, j) then
36: return MoveVar(i, +1)
37: else if (prev = AssignVar(j, l) or prev = MoveVar(j,
+1)) and A[vj ] < A[vh] then
38: if vi 6= vj then
39: return Swap(i, j)
40: else
41: return MoveVar(i, +1)
42: end if
43: else
44: return MoveVar(j, +1)
45: end if
46: else if prev = MoveVar(j, +1) then
47: return Swap(i, h)
48: else
49: return Return(i)
50: end if
51: end if
52: end procedure
I still want a Zero Halliburton briefcase. It would be wildly impractical for me, but I want it nonetheless.
Training Models with over 100B Parameters
No, they are not trivial at all as I explained in my previous comment.
For more sauce: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...

About your question it’s impossible to answer without further context.
There may be DST tonight, or a leap second, or the enforcement of some strange treaty that will change the time zone..
The median for retirement in CA is 61.9 years of age. Age factor plays a large role in setting pension, one cannot retire early without giving up a portion of the pension. The average monthly benefit is $4,088.

Here’s an idea of pension contribution

> Teachers contribute 8% of their monthly salaries into a state pension fund, while their employers contribute an additional 8.25%. On top of these payments, the state of California contributes another 2% into the fund.

All from https://www.teaching-certification.com/salaries-benefits/cal...
The main similarity is that they are both voltage modulated capacitive devices.
Publications of scores doesn't happen any more, atleast for the exams similar to the gaokao, which would be the JEE. It happened only for localised exams AFAIK, where almost all applicants were local, and the pool was small enough to be printed on a newspaper. In the pre internet era, it might have been necessary though, since it wouldn't have been possible to mail all scores and expect perfect delivery in the rural parts of the country. But the internet has ensured almost all test results are online now and not published openly.
> More importantly:

> China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: (source AP)

> Are you aware of this? What is your,opinion on those events?

It's the same thing they do to the Chinese, which frankly seems worse to me.
Clarification from Sara Golemon here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/ho9dgq/comment/fxgk1sc

Key takeaway:

>This message means Microsoft aren't going to produce official builds for PHP 8 onwards.

>This message does NOT mean that nobody will.
The analogies help break it down for less technically oriented people so that they can get behind the cause as well.
I've been playing CS:GO for 5 years, totalling close to 3,000 hours. I can tell you cheaters are still a huge problem, especially at high rank.

Also, the matchmaking system is utterly broken. It's insane that half of my games are plagued with at least one low-level steam account with a player that's totalling 400 hours and dropping 35 kills in a game. Also, being LE and queuing up against MGE that instantly headshot you while jump shooting feels sad.

Considering CS:GO has 500,000 to 800,000 concurrent players at any time, I find it difficult for the system to create such unbalanced and flawed games.
That does seem like it would have been bad, if it had happened.
>How long should a child be responsible for the crimes of their fathers?

This is a fundamentally flawed analogy. Our government - the same government that has existed since these treaties were signed - is still around.

> I find it very difficult to find the moral obligation to pay back that money when the people who were the actual victims are long dead

The question of a "moral obligation" is entirely irrelevant and unrelated to our government's legal obligation to uphold the treaty that our government signed.
Simple enough--there is not enough time. Even if we were to stop dumping CO2 into the atmosphere today, the global temperature change will exceed acceptable limits. If we continue with business as usual, substantial parts of the earth will become uninhabitable. Nothing on a global scale can be done in the twenty or thirty years. Collaborative global problem solving does not seem to work.
In some podcast someone mentioned that in (some) asian countries it feels like air conditioning in public transport is build to ensure quick and regular air exchange. And it would absolutely make sense, as they are way more used to these sort of problems than "the west". And also have generally higher population density. Might this also be true for Tokyo?
This brings me back to my years of running Gentoo as my daily driver. All fun and games until you update your system over the weekend and spend the rest of the weekend fixing broken networking. But it is all worth it if your goal is learning the ins and outs of an OS and how it all fits together.

It was fun booting to a graphical desktop in a few seconds, opening activity monitor and seeing < 70mb memory used. This was with XFCE around 2010. Now it is 2020 and Task Manager on my daily Windows 10 machine shows 27gb memory used.
According to the limitations stated in the doc.

1. It runs slower on modern CPUs and you need neural logic units to see the speed benefits

2. Model needs the be fined tuned to the data for best performance.

While it may be better than quicksort in certain usecases it isn't going to replace it anytime soon.
It was true, at the time.

I live in a third city in Sweden, in a slice of time that the company needed to find someone and we do not pay competitive wages.

I’m sure we could find someone qualified eventually and if we paid enough, and we have had good female candidates at other times albeit for different roles than this one, however they didn’t want to relocate.

Context being what it is, it takes us roughly 2 years to hire a new person to our team because people don’t want to live where we are or accept the rates we pay.
They're both facts about his wife
Whether or not you are a terrible person has nothing to do with legal obligations. If your ancestors took out a loan and signed a lien against a property, that doesn't just go away if they die. Its a legal contract. The whole "white guilt" argument about some sort of collective burden that people are supposed to bear is entirely unrelated to a codified, legal treaty signed by our government.
NB; Very few trains have windows which are passenger-operable.

The engineering considerations of air exchange with the outside environment are admittedly far simpler than jetliners.
Not sure there is any High speed trains that do allow to open windows though.
I think it is a false dilemma to assume that either person would become rich by means of owning the land at that time. The second the land was stolen it's future was changed forever but that does not change the original value of the stolen land. I assume the land was bought and sold between many parties before the person who finally found oil and became rich owned it, and assuming a tribe recognized ownership at the time the person who had the oil rich land stolen may not even have been of that tribe under an alternate timeline. I do understand the point though that the greater the size of the theft, the more reason to give back but I wouldn't go as far as to say there is an obligation by society in general towards that murdered man's grandchildren. I think the analogy still stands, in that the victim is long dead, the thief is long dead, and there was no crime knowingly committed by the living. I also think if we referred to the country of Spain as the "Spanish Tribe" and the country of England the "English Tribe" and the Colonists the "Colonist Tribe" and said they were warring with each other, then we probably would not even have this conversation.
Bare metal Raspberry Pi Smalltalk-80
If I could get a nice wide-brimmed sunhat that didn't blow off in the slightest breeze I'd be a happy man indeed.
Kernel raises $53M for its non-invasive ‘Neuroscience as a Service’ technology
"all" of a constant number k of such inputs, not "all" of the entire input. It's not possible to feed a neural network an arbitrarily-large number of inputs in one batch.
Bulgaria is the EU imperialism poster child. Make it impossible to find a job inside the country and blame everything on communists.

Beautiful country though, and the food beats everything I've seen elsewhere.
Facebook also pays 1/3 so.... ?

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2019/0...
We suck really hard at proving code correct that was written explicitly with the goal in mind to be formally verified. The techniques there are still quite immature. I wonder how long it will take until we have a reasonably working pipeline of ML+formal verification. Maybe it's just easier to generate correct code from the spec than to learn it from examples and then verifying it with the specification?
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China to build 6 to 8 nuclear reactors a year from 2020 to 2025: Report
There is no general consensus. It's a work in progress.

But given that a fair amount of post-war contemporary classical was written using aleatoric techniques - basically constrained randomisation - and no one had a problem thinking of it as music, and modern generative music can be far more sophisticated both culturally and structurally, I think your prof was just plain biased and wrong.

See also: digital photography isn't real photography, vinyl is better than FLAC, computers will never play chess/go, etc.
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