skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen google and Facebook first hand. The practice is widespread, but the acceptance of "let's test it in prod" as a real stage in software development varies. Some people look at you like you are crazy person that should not be trusted, some people acknowledge and know it to be true.

Feature testing is one thing, but you can go a/b testing a whole binary between new and old version to catch interesting bugs too.
Housing is essential but a loft downtown isn't
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Human's also don't read redundant data. How many nearly identical news articles did GPT-3 have to read? How many redundant paragraphs from different wikis, reddit comments etc.
The research is still showing that training with video games is only improving the video game skill, the "common demands." It is not transferring to improved overall cognition. That is in line with what the article says.
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Are you paid to be a maintainer? Or is it just for fun/fame?

Is the game still for sale, and does it still sell enough copies to employ someone fulltime to do this kind of work?
This is incredible! Thank you so much for all your hard work! Words cannot express my gratitude for this. I have so many fond memories of playing worms WA with friends and family. Is there a way we can help support your work here? Or at least a way to say thank you?
I'm temperamental and have suffered the paralysis of a hundred note apps/techniques. I have a notebook I handwrite in too, but it's just one of the many approaches on the pile.

I was successful for a long time using GitHub Gists for notes, so much so in fact that I wrote an iOS client that lets you take markdown notes and saves them all directly to your Gists (OctoNote on iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octonote/id1433164731) but since then I've added probably 5+ notes apps to the list.

Just for fun, my feature list includes:
* Markdown (ideally compatibility + basic styling)
* Project viewing (sidebar listing out notes, representing folder structure)
* Customizable themes/fonts
* Git integration (or other cloud backup)
* Mac app
* iOS app
Different person, I think Last of Us 2 really stretches the medium and that is commendable. But the overarching themes are not satisfying.

I think people forgot that Last of Us 1 wasn't a satisfying ending either, aside from being able to empathize with why people did what they did.

In that light, Last of Us 2 really doubles down on making you feel dissatisfied, and I like that such a possibility mirrors real life: irrational, striving for redemption, but not necessarily getting it.

I hate that I had/choose to experience this in someone else's shoes. I love that they choose to portray it. The feeling is almost analogous to watching The Road if it ended with the adult's perspective, or how Children of Men kept me entertained, on the edge of my seat and able to admire the technical prowess of the intense long scenes with no camera cuts, but not sure if the resolution was a resolution at all. And how that's life.
Why would he step in?

The more money Gilead earns, the higher Gilead stock goes. Trump wants the stock market to go higher, so Trump wants to maximize Gilead profits.
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I’ve traced bugs back to similar issues. The underlying cause is that some floating point operations are underspecified, such that the behavior of some bits in the output of some operations are implementation defined. The intent was to allow future microarchitectures to make small refinements in implementation as transistor budgets grew that might flip a bit in some high-precision edge cases.

In practice, some alternative implementations of these instructions treat the underspecification as license to do just enough to clear the threshold of being technically compliant with the standard and no more. This can show up as material differences in output in the least significant bits in some cases.

For floating point intensive algorithms, these small discrepancies and edge cases will occasionally bubble to the surface as material differences in high-level code behavior. My introduction to this class of bug many years ago was an application that was counting things for tax purposes based on geospatial relationships. On AMD, it produced a count that was off by one.
if anyone sees this: wikipedia answers: "Hügelkultur is the practice of burying large volumes of wood to increase soil water retention. The porous structure of wood acts as a sponge when decomposing underground. During the rainy season, masses of buried wood can absorb enough water to sustain crops through the dry season"
That paper doesn't actually shows that its the lockdown that responsible for the decline. Its the classic correlation does not necessarily mean causation.
I don't imagine Charity (article author) was implying that the Amazon method of being on-call for your code was ideal.

I took it to mean that code ownership is important and you should be responsible for fixing things when your code blows up
Couldn’t agree more. I just finished rewatching The Return and it is such an astonishing achievement. I’m still kind of in disbelief that it exists.
My understanding is that mobile homes are named for Mobile, Alabama, and not for the fact that they are moveable.
Ask HN: Take advantage of GPT-3 as non-technical professional?
GPT-3 is significant. As a white collar non-technical real estate professional, I am astounded by the early output, especially Gwern’s writeups and experimentation. So my question is: how can I learn, experiment with and be an early adopter with this technology. I just get the feeling like early adopters in this space are going to win big in the long run.
On the patent owned by fauci Hmm!

A method for activating a mammalian immune system patented by fauci and others is used in this drug.

A small piece but with millions of immunizations.
LibreOffice does this to power it’s typelib library, which is part of UNO.

I’m trying to figure out how this stuff works right now by building unit tests so I can add to my work in progress book.

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/bl...

The chapter I’m writing deals with types:

https://chris-sherlock.gitbook.io/inside-libreoffice/univers...
Yes, you can use it on iCloud.com
The Erlang ecosystem (including my personal favorite BEAM language, Elixir) has been kind of a secret weapon for a lot of companies for years. There are a handful of freelancers in the community who have had the experience of going to work for a company doing Erlang/Elixir, only to be told they can never reveal the company’s identity because they consider the language a competitive advantage. One big corp went so far as to say they use Java in all their public-facing info (including hiring).
Along the same lines, I was very surprised to learn "sandwich" was named after its inventor! (Earl of Sandwich.) Guy literally invented the sandwich and had it named after him.
There was a specific Embedded Windows product, it wasn't just a matter of vendors configuring the desktop version.
There is definitely the aspect of talent. I've seen (and arbitrated) players who began at an early age, had the most effective training and became completely average or even stagnated. And I've also interacted with those who heightened their chess skills in a really short time and are among the highest rated players.
Thanks for linking the paper. It's abstract, results,and discussion were interesting reads.
No, it says that it improves whatever skill is shared in common between the game and other task:

> In line with previous work, we suggest that transfer is dependent upon common demands between the game and transfer task.

Which is, I mean, duh? Was someone else suggesting that playing a game would improve a completely random skill? Obviously there'd had to be something in common.

Maybe I'm misreading this though.
You might like the Mexican thread. They call the government/narcos just a bunch of thugs or the appearance of legitimacy. Protection rackets and all.
How are other examples not a valid counterpoint to the claim that it was "mostly Windows CE palmtops"? They don't claim that it is still overly popular or not being replaced.
I wish I could upvote this a thousand times. At the end of the day, it's all ego driven development. Nobody wants to think that their job has already been solved, and what's left is mundane and boring [engineering wise]. And so the business ends up with using a distributed log to handle a data set that could fit on a big thumb drive.
I know people who talk like this, and the user history checks out. Either way, the comment is misinforming: Those quotes are from Descartes, not Turing, whose views as to whether machines could think were opposite.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test
A question: Is there any place where the patch can be purchased / downloaded to install onto existing files (apart from Steam)?
I really think economics is undergoing a sea change - a lot of what was mainstream theory is getting overturned (as a lay person looking from the outside) what with MMT and the above (see also Josh Ryan-Collins). I am watching an interesting series from UCL (cannot find it right now)

Edit: search "rethinking capitalism" UCL on youtube there is a list (mix?) of twenty videos. It seems to be an undergraduate course aimed at people in public policy. Include the above Marianna Mazzucato as well

Edit edit : mainstream their overturned is probably a bit rich - let's say now-liberalism is getting cut out
It's literally not even a few days for the father. There is a referendum on the books to raise it to 2 weeks. Luckily my employer gives me 12 weeks but as you say, this is voluntary.
Oh wow, this is amazing. Not only is the game kept alive literally decades later but it's being done by a fan no less! This is really great, I might actually fire it up to play a game or two, maybe some mates will want to relive the "good old years". Haven't kept up with Worms after 3D came around but the original formula is absolutely ingenious.
Let's hope that a well-constructed, well-behaved and well-participated argument forum maintained over long enough timescales can lead towards better outcomes for everyone. Best of luck with the project.

You might be aware of it already, but just in case, the most progress I've seen in the area of web-based argument mapping has been Arguman ( https://github.com/arguman/arguman.org ). They're also following an open source model and there could be opportunities to co-operate and/or share ideas.
Perhaps he means that you won’t be able to attract great talent. A lot of extremely talented engineers don’t want to work on code bases and technologies that are 15 years old.
So it's "Open" AI but a closed beta that will eventually be priced out to benefit "good". Ok.
not sure if sarcastic, but for other readers, this is false [1].

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/fauci-didnt-invent-wont-pr...
I also highly recommend Rana Foroohar's two books 'Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business' (2016) and 'Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us' (2019). These are both easy to read, highly informative and well thought through.
Any chance of seeing an update to the Dreamcast version? :p

(Thank you!!)
GoldenEye had the Klobb gun, named for Ken Lobb.
I'm surprised and skeptical about some of this. In particular:

We also measured networks across more than 90,000 Microsoft employees in the United States. Frankly, we expected to see them shrink significantly, given the rapid shifts in environment, daytime rhythms, and personal responsibilities. Instead, we discovered that most employees maintained their existing connections. Even more encouraging, most people’s network size increased. We had assumed that in a time of crisis, employees might strengthen networks within their own work groups in an insular way. In fact, we saw network growth not only within existing work groups but also across different groups, indicating that to adapt and thrive teams sought to build bridges.

This does not square with my lived experience. Close connections at work have stayed relatively strong, perhaps even strengthening as we shore them up with recurring 1:1s and social team meetings. Peripheral connections have gone down the toilet. Team and role homophily run rampant.

I wonder what evidence they actually used to back up this statement. I suspect the effect is actually in the opposite (and more intuitive) direction, and that their finding is actually a result of the McNamara fallacy.
If you played and liked the games, read the books too. There are many things that can be written in the story, but are difficult to put into gameplay or movie.
OK, so it's a troll simulator.
ebonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZlWw8Di10
Interesting, and (so far) well-sourced. You picked a good day to post here. For some reason, Sundays is always it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it on HN. Every week I see variations around the same theme. It's cool to have the topic covered with reduced scope (societies, not the planet at large), and in-depth.

Which brings me to my questions. One, what is "The West"? Would the French Revolution count as a civilization-wide failure? The Bronze Age collapse? Sea Peoples? The Long March? The Hellenic Era ending? Perhaps this is explained elsewhere, but some clarification would be helpful.

Two, it might be good to cover all of the "false positives" when it comes to predicting civilization collapse. It's been quite the cottage industry over the centuries. Romans were quite concerned with the lack of morals and corruption the Greeks brought them. Many believed that signaled the end of Rome. Why, some of the "new" Romans weren't even sleeping on the ground any more! They were using beds!

Three, and I apologize for so many queries, but "collapse" or "failure", or whatever you're using could also use a bit of definition. The Western Roman Empire collapsed and failed, that much is obvious. But just when that occurred is much less clear. People in Europe thought of themselves as Romans long after modern historians view Rome as being gone. I believe there are a couple of other examples of unclear failures, where the people involved in the failure couldn't see what was happening right in front of them, but none come to mind right away.

Good work. Look forward to seeing more of it!
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was pretty sure America was a separate continent - pretty random !

https://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/aug03/america.html
The runtime takes care of making immutability fast (enough), you realise how good it is when debugging code that does lots of mutations via references in other languages. Also it helps to reason about parallel code because nothing is being mutated from another thread.
That isn't, and never was, the choice, however.
I hope they'll release nvUltra soon: https://nvultra.com

I use this as well, have all my stuff in a git repo and sync it to my iOS device so I can edit it with apps like iA Writer or 1Writer easily.
If the person reviving the email has some benefit, then the business probably has some benefit and can pay someone to read the incoming email.

If not, probably the million emails send in the campaign are just spam.
Maybe Stats 110 from Harvard? YouTube videos:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube

Professor Blitzstein summarizes top 10 ideas on Quora:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-10-big-ideas-in-Stati...

Cheatsheet for the class: http://www.wzchen.com/probability-cheatsheet

Book is also online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VmkAAGOYCTORq1wxSQqy255qLJj...
My experience has been the opposite. The Rails ecosystem makes updates straight forward and is very well documented. Been running various Rails apps for almost a decade now.
>... you have a discussion between Marxists of the classical and less Leninist sort and Randians you will find huge areas of overlap outside economics. These include technology, the notion of progress, science, the importance of education, etc.

You can see that on a Pournelle chart of political ideology which maps ideology on a 2d graph instead of just a line.

>...The x-axis, "Attitude toward the State" (labeled statism), refers to a political philosophy's attitude toward the state and centralized government. The farthest right is "state worship" and the farthest left represents the state as the "ultimate evil", preferring individual freedom.

>...The y-axis, "Attitude toward planned social progress" (labeled rationalism), refers to the extent which a political philosophy is compatible with the idea that social problems can be solved by the use of reason.

Ayn Rand and various Marxists would likely both score high on the rationalism scale (and be at close to opposite sides of the statism scale).

(There might be many other multi-dimensional mappings that work better to map political ideology, but anything is likely better than the common practice of just mapping all ideology on a single line.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
Deep Blue brute forced that search space. With 1997 hardware. They didn't have to look at 10^120 to beat Kasprov.

"The system could search to a depth of between six and eight pairs of moves—one white, one black—to a maximum of 20 or even more pairs in some situations" - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-years-after-de...
Despite that you’re getting downvoted, I’m rather curious about the connotation of these words myself.
I only use the sources available to me at the time.

Another value published by Wikipedia is 30GiB [1] as of 2020, which includes punctuation and markup.

I explicitly put the measurement unit as ASCII characters. If you have a better source for your size (remember: ASCII characters for article words only, no markup), feel free to post it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes
good point. i haven't seen such recipes yet, but i checked my scale and found that, while it claims to have 0.1g accuracy, it doesn't do well with amounts less than 0.5g.

(it's rather wierd. it does go up in 0.1g steps after 0.3g, but if i add something heavier and reset to 0, i have to add more than 0.3g again before it shows a change.)
Hmm, under 16 not contacted by recruiter.

Starship Troopers specifically discouraged people from joining the military.
As Talanes mentioned -- the problem is with the decision method not the governing body. Again, comparing to the medical industry, where doctors don't vote on the existence or not of a virus causing a problem.
> This is NOT a course for absolute beginners

I disagree with that, as long as you have some mathematics background (calculus, a bit of linear algebra), and an understanding of probability theory (which can be taken from the prerequisite course https://www.edx.org/course/probability-the-science-of-uncert...), this course is self-sufficient and does not need prior knowledge of the subject.

I was a complete beginner in the subject and I am able to follow the course without too much difficulties.
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People I don’t have to talk to on a regular basis at work feel really distant now. Lunch used to be a great time to randomly hit up coworkers to talk and share ideas. That network has completely dissolved now.
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Another one? Blimey.

How is this different to the 94320 others?
I would be particularly interested to hear from people hired during the lockdown who didn't have existing connections at all.
If it’s the same analysts who do their telemetry analysis then you’re probably right.
I am sure you know about Solid.

Just in case:
https://solidproject.org/
Think about the `git stash` use case. The goal is to go from a messy, WIP state that may or may not compile, back to a more stable, probably-working state represented by a commit.

That messy state may include a new, partially-implemented module file. By default `git stash` will leave it alone, because it's untracked. But `git stash` will also remove its corresponding `mod` declaration, and any uses of it, all at once.

Now say you want to build and run. If that WIP module file gets picked up automatically, it will probably break the build! It may simply be incomplete, or it may depend on some of those stashed changes, or whatever else. Even if it happens to typecheck, now you're assuming that it's all dead code- but it may have some public API (including trait impls!), and still be included in the build!

In fact, we already have a taste of this kind of problem, ever since Cargo started running build.rs scripts automatically, even without a `package.build` key in `Cargo.toml`. If you add a build script with some build-dependencies, run `git stash`, and then build, the build script will fail to compile!

Perhaps you could argue that this is a deficiency in `git stash` that Rust shouldn't have to be concerned with. But if `git stash` removed untracked files as well, that would simply break other use cases instead! For example, I often have a few extra files laying around, which I don't ever intend to commit or .gitignore- sample inputs or outputs, short-term todo lists, or other scratch-pad-like data. Ideally `git stash` would leave those alone- but it's hard for git to tell those apart from the problematic cases above.
I always get bubbles under my screen protectors. And I don't use Apple. Not for me, I guess.
Eh vim isn’t either. That’s why I use it.
Various States are failing because big government (itself a result of moral and financial corruption delivered by social welfare and crony capitalism) have destroyed the West.

Reasons are more than one, but CO2 and climate changes have nothing to do with this topic.

Not everyone is equally bad - it's easy to see some have failed worse than others.
Seconding NieR: Automata. It's a pretty quirky game with tight controls and combat, which is a plus, but the story is interesting and has a lot of variety.

In a similar sci-fi vein I've just started on Detroit: Beyond Human, which I've got high hopes for, story-wise.