skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was after the Spanish authorities were kicked out of that region. The New Laws and Laws of the Indies, which had been in place for nearly three centuries by then, forbade such actions.
Overwatch, CSGO and virtually all other team based FPS allow you to queue solo, as group, or a full 5 person team. This is outside of a specific league. There are dedicated LFG sites for different games to help find groups ahead of times. Generally you will be matched against a similar team, and different games use some form of skill based matchmaking, but depending on how many players there are, what modes, what region you are in, as a solo player you could be matched against a premade or vice versa.
They're prohibited by law:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/39/320.6

There are minimums they can charge and some speed requirements.
So someone to extort colleges to remove bad reviews?
He's saying their experience speaks for itself after the 3 year mark. Before that you'd be required for a degree. So it's "employment risk for others, but not for me".

Kind of backward from the original premise that was stated.

I've vetted no degree people with their side projects and how many were actually completed rather than just thought experiments. "Can this person show the drive to finish something when someone isn't telling them to do that?" The complexity of said project and whether they have had an internship.

For someone to get higher than the low bar is to have a proven record of relevant contributions to projects of their own or open source. No "modify some docs" commits but actual end to end features.
Typical Indian cities/towns are not very well planned (Chandigarh being an exception). Narrow alleyways, haphazardly shaped houses/neighbourhoods are generally the norm (especially in smaller towns). Beyond the backbone (which tends to be pretty good in general across ISPs), the main factor of speed of mobile internet, which Indians mostly use for accessing internet, is directly proportional to the reach of the cell tower to the consumer. I have seen excellent speeds in one room of a house and not so great at another room of the same house with Jio and Airtel.
That sounds like work. Which costs money.
The example you're using is election mail. That's paid for by the government. How is it possible for the rate they'd have to pay in a competitive market with low margins to make it non-universal and yet it isn't already? If you want to deliver to everybody then you have to pay the cost to deliver to everybody, one way or the other. Subsidizing it through more expensive postage (disproportionately paid for by the poor) seems obviously worse than paying for it through taxes (disproportionately paid for by the wealthy).
There is a large contingent on HM that doesn’t seem to want to discuss anything that’s related to politics in the smallest way, no matter how directly on topic it is for technology.

So you’ll find stories like this one that should be pretty high up which have been flagged to death and no longer appear on the main page.
Did you know that Germany currently bans overt support of Nazis?
I've seen numerous tweets from this guy and they frankly annoy me. If u are about to bring down the hammer on my career, using btw exclusive access to an API that you have through connections, then just do it already. Stop with this teasing videos bullshit that we've seen many times.. as if you were stirring up a frenzy at a games con with demo reels. Show me the money or take your smug twitter Avatar profile and gtfo
I think it's more of an engineering revolution. The opaqueness of (at least current) machine learning means we won't really enhance our understanding of the universe, just our ability to predict it.

Some people would argue that these things are one, I think otherwise.
I wish someone inside would leak this list so maybe this big tech’s political bias and influence tactics would be on full display.
Guy got the license plate “NULL” and it was a total disaster
> Main guy commiting 600k lines and the second most committed guy 450 lines.

> So yeah, it wouldn't take him a whole lot of time if he really wanted to change the license by removing all the others' commits and rewriting it by himself.

Good point. I may try to get involved in its development as well to spread that out a little more.

> Also, what does AGPL has anything to do with keeping the license open sourced?

The AGPL requires that any code linked to it also be distributed with an AGPL license (the difference from the GPL being that hosting over a network counts as distribution). Every part of the project is technically linked to itself so if someone makes a change, no one else can use that change in the project under a different license.
Ok, I'm back. I've been thinking about this, and I think it would be best if I presented my own ideas in a more organized form, and then said what I think you are saying, and ask some questions.

So here is how I look at things To start out, dictatorships vary greatly in how cruel and oppressive they are. And how oppressive they are is greatly determined by whether or not they are ideological. The non-ideological dictatorships are often less violent, while the ones that are ideologically revolutionary invariably are very oppressive.

The reason is they have different sorts of goals. Non-ideological dictators just want to stay in power and make use of the state for their own benefit. To achieve this they only need to eliminate and suppress any political opposition, through means such as jail, execution, and controlling the media. The rest of the society they leave as it is.

On the other hand, revolutionary ideological dictatorships want to radically change the whole culture and society, top to bottom. The problem is that invariably a large portion of the population is opposed to this, to the bottom of their souls.

So the regime has to resort to extreme measures, like endless propaganda, and violence such as execution, imprisonment, labor camps, and starvation, and aimed at large portions of the public. The idea is to eliminate opponents (Stalin: "Man is a problem. No man, no problem") and terrorizing everyone else.

Now Marxism-Leninism is such a radical philosophy, and so whenever Marxist-Leninists come to power, they invariably resort to all these extreme measures. Yes it matters that they come to power generally through violent revolution. And yes it matters that they face military threats. But the heart of the matter is that they have ideological goals that can only be achieved by great violence against their people.

And this means that the personality of the leader, like Lenin's ambition, is not what is key here. A leader who was basically a good person but believed in Marxism-Leninism would still have to follow similar policies. Most radical Islamic terrorists for instance, sincerely want to do what they think is good for the world, the problem is their ideology and what it clearly requires.

One more point. Marxist-Leninist regimes differ in how extreme their ideologies are, and that considerably effects how violent they are.

Now I apply all that to the case of the Pol Pot regime, and it was Marxist-Leninist, and so I think one could have predicted with certainty from the begining that it would be violent. And it had an extreme form of Marxism-Leninism, so one would expect it to be very high in violence.

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It is a dimension, in your hypothetical example with no known real-world correspondance. It is not the fifth dimension.

"The" fifth dimension is a scifi concept, not a real one. Perfectly normal, mundane reality contains numerous instances of much higher dimensionality. Which of the subcolors of the pixels on your screen is "the" fifth dimension?

Dimensionality isn't "about" parallel universes. It is a very tiny, and really quite useless, instance of the concept, which is full of useful and interesting members that actually, you know, exist.
Not sure what's up, but this website refuses to scroll on any Chrome based browser on my phone. Works fine in Firefox though.

Edit: Weird. Now it works. Though there still some initial "resistance" when I start scrolling...
I have limited first-hand experience, but yes, contractors can be paid independently of government pay scales as far as I know, and far more than you'd think (in terms of breadth of jobs) is done by contractors. I remember reading that the people who do security clearance investigations largely are, or were, contractors.

My impression is that if you do work directly for federal or state government, you also are likely to be alongside a substantial number of contractors.

Reality Winner was a contractor, by the way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
Why can't a person open a bank account?

I mean, I can't because I sold some bitcoin via Bank of America 4-years ago. Someone stole my info, I reported it as fraud and BoA reported me for fraud -- and all my bank accounts closed. And they refuse to fix it.
And you measure that by money?
> Decimation” is the death of 1 of 10.

No, the primary modern definition is “kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.”

Etymologically, it comes from the name of a Roman punitive practice of deliberately killing one in ten of a group as a form of collective punishment of the group, but outside the context of describing that specific practice it is pretty much never used to refer to the death of 1/10 of a group.
The constitution also gives Congress the power to borrow money and declare war. That doesn't mean they have to do so at any given time.
To say you've fucked up in the face of a global pandemic seems a bit obtuse.

The current state of normal is not the same way to operate when there is no COVID. Sort of like saying we should have always operated like the bubonic plague never went away even after it did.

Treating the situations the same is too dogmatic.
> The work needed to implement an HTTP server is growing and growing and growing.

It's a header. We've all had 25 years to get those implemented :)
Enumerating what we want from notation helps us understand how far we are from the ideal. The whimsical introduction of Notation to talk about notation makes it practical. Given a domain in mathematics, adding notation (e.g. modulo arithmetic) can make complex notions pretty to express and quick to prove. I used to really enjoy this and tried to redefine notation for each exposition. It's shorter and prettier, but just pushes complexity into the notation :) and teaching people new notations is expensive, actually unless repeatedly used, more expensive than laying out details in a less concise notation.

Programming languages are notations within this framework - and domain specific languages, while much more efficient are unpopular as the costs of changing notation, in terms of training people, are too high.

The cost of communicating the notation is captured in a few of the desiderata (e.g. 1,7) but practically it is most important. If we want to be easily understood we should speak a common language!
On Laughter and Dreaming in Pushkin (2017) [pdf]
Has anyone cracked SHA with this?
Reviews seem like the biggest need.

“The culture in the X department is terrible, everyone works 80 hours a week and is miserable”

“Night life is great at least, the grad students usually go out for student nights at blah blah after seminar”

“Underrated X program because at university Y, don’t be fooled we literally have 4 of the 5 top researchers in field Z”

Etc.
You don't need a public postal service to achieve those ends. Many European countries have partially or fully privatized their postal systems: https://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/privat.... The government then pays a subsidy (which can be easily scrutinized) to maintain universal service obligations.

Purposefully making public agencies inefficient in order to ensure "good salaries and job protections" for workers is a bad idea. It's highly not-transparent, and it's impossible to figure out how much the public is paying for those "good jobs." And also, you end up getting crappy service as a result. (Public transit agencies in the US are great at providing jobs with "good salaries and job protections." They're bad at providing transit. Meanwhile, in countries like Sweden, there is a lot of privatization in the rail and transit industry. Stockholm's subway, for example, is operated by Hong Kong's subway company. Denmark has bus and train lines operated by Deutsche Bahn. Europe is far ahead of the United States now in public-sector privatization.)
Agreed that understanding the business is critical. Writing is one of the best ways for someone to develop a better understanding of the business - e.g., what metric are we tracking and why?

Overall, I'm not saying that there aren't a bunch of other important things to running a business, just that great writing makes running a business far easier.

On a side note – implementing performance management gets crazy gains without requiring process changes. I used to get an immediate 30%+ productivity bump when I'd implement performance management (e.g., metrics, daily huddles) in a place that had little of it.
ex-theoretical physicist here. I read Terry's post and I totally saw your point about "Notation^{-1}(C)" being more wit than clarity. Of course, I also share your respect and appreciation for Tao.
This is useful to increase plays by reducing “ladder anxiety”
The article reads like a hate piece, doesnt really contain any argumentation. Yeah I hate broccoli too.
There’s More for Your Life at Sears (Just Not in the US)
While Jio was a revolution in India, this article misses a lot of context.

One of the primary reasons competitors could not respond was a combination of some trumped up scams which had them tied up in legal hassles when it came to allocations or frequencies for years, and because in a moment of some of the greatest idiocy every, the Indian legal system allowed the government to apply new taxation laws retroactively, leading to many competitors owing sums of many that was multiples of any possible revenue they earned and could have expected to earn in decades.

In a further move of genius, the courts declared, in a completely unenforceable ruling, that their parent foreign investors were liable for the taxes breaking limited liability, and trying to apply Indian “laws” (this wasn’t really a law but something the court made up) abroad.

It’s still not enforceable, but it froze any further investment from the majority of Jio’s competitors.
Ha ha I know where you are going :) My take from the post was that there needs to be some information provided to end users based on which they should be able to decide what colleges to choose. Ranking thatis dictated by third parties cannot be a criteria. And student should not spend too much time emalining each and every college they are interested in.
Study on over 17,000 Black women shows how racism changes the brain
Emirates have First Class on 777s too!
Just use create-react-app, it’s not hard.
From Oil to Jio
We were never taught the notations, he would just pull out dozens of glyphs from his vast experience in mathematics - not the standard notations you might find in a text book. I won't deny that I could've researched these topics deeply in my own time enough to keep up with the graduate student, but I myself had no interest in being a graduate math student just to pass the course.
> Most games aren't chess -- where the only variance is picking who's black and who's white -- in fact, they might include dozens of RNG mechanics (from critical strikes to ability rolls, to spawn points). These mechanics (while fun and well-designed) might pollute your "idealized" model. There's also the problem of RPS (rock-paper-scissors) mechanics or pick-counter-pick mechanics which will also heavily skew win rates. For instance, given a slow combo Magic deck, you will most likely auto-concede to mono red aggro (regardless of skill level). If you're using Elo, this will pollute your model. (Hint: you shouldn't be using Elo.)

None of which matters? All that means is that the results of individual games are a bit higher variance. Elo handles that by design. If you lose a certain proportion of Magic games to less-skilled players then this should be considered a reflection of your skill, because the only reasonable definition of skill at the came is the rate at which you actually win it; anything else can be gamed and so should be ignored.

> Most games also don't have chess' high skill ceiling. Chess has such a high skill ceiling for a number of reasons -- it's one of the oldest games still being actively played, for one. Suppose your "game" is simply the flip of a coin (everyone wins 50% of the time). Zero skill involved. Trying to model win-loss-ratios using a sigmoid curve is silly. Obviously, no game is going to be a coin flip, but there's a world of difference between chess and DOTA.

That's also something that Elo handles just fine? If every game is a coin flip then everyone will end up with the same Elo. If player A has x more Elo points than player B, then they win y% of their games. If your game has a skill ceiling where even a complete beginner always wins, say, 20% of their games, then that just means no-one will ever be able to rise above a corresponding Elo rating.
> Is the point really predicting outcomes?

Others have pointed out how there is a psychological aspect of rating systems, and no developer wants to constantly field complaints. That said, I believe the answer is yes. A rating system derives meaningfulness from its predictive power. In other words, people want to know how good they actually are compared to one another.
Angles and VCs are getting way too excited watching twitter GPT-3 demos. Just wait until they discover the magic of prolog.

The AI aspect of this demo is really just NLP. The heuristics taught to GPT-3 could just as easily be encoded in a database.

There would be a lot less magic if these demos showed the prompt they used to prime GPT-3.
I guess you missed the sarcasm. If you want me to s-p-e-l-l it out - maths is convention.
No. We don't need a consumer review website, because PhD students (I am one) are not the consumers of doctoral programs. We're the workers. We need a union.

If we're in a good program, we're receiving valuable training both in our coursework (or before PhD in an MS/MA if your country does it that way) and in our research work. Ideally, we're building up a network of collaborations and acquaintances in the scientific community that gives us an "in" for the next stage of our career, while also being mentored by world-class experts in our fields.

In a not so good program, we're used as TAs for a few years and then rapidly encouraged to drop out.

Either way, most of what we do is not like most of what an undergraduate student does. It is like what an entry-level professional does.
But it is so hard for people to give reviews. People seem to give good review when are they are very pissed off or very happy. Later seems to be a very rare case.
What Happens When You Delete the Comments?
It was added in Libc-1158.1.2, which shipped with Sierra: https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blame/maste...
SHA is not crackable with quantum computers. RSA and Diffie-Hellman are though and nobody has done it yet (or come close).
it does, indirectly in a few ways. code size affects performance, human effort spread over more code paths, more branches.

you could have two totally separate compilers, which go does, there is the gcc variant. i don’t know if it tends to produce faster binaries though.
Twitter will suspend accounts tweeting about conspiracy theory group QAnon
I don't understand the section on how the economics work.

This French vodka maker doesn't quit selling vodka under their own brand. They just also sell some as Kirkland. So don't they have to keep doing a bunch of marketing so that their brand-name vodka keeps selling in all the other stores? How do they save any money on marketing?

I would guess the real reason it works is that it opens up a market of people who wouldn't buy name-brand vodka at (say) $29.99/bottle but will buy Kirkland vodka at $19.99/bottle, yet without cannibalizing their ability to keep selling it (in other stores and in Costco) to people who are currently paying $29.99.

Or another theory is that many Costco buyers aren't vodka experts, so there is some degree of randomness to how they pick vodka. If there are 10 brands of vodka, selling under the Kirkland brand and their own means they are 2 of the 10 brands instead of 1 of the 10, so to the extent that people pick randomly, they get picked twice as often. (It's like buying two raffle tickets.) A similar effect would apply to people who cycle through brands of vodka.
Hey! Thanks for the comment and going to the site (Prompt.com). We're focused on students for now, but we will be launching supports for professionals in the future. We're almost all B2B sales, which is why you found it harder to find us than you'd have probably liked.

As it turns out, most people aren't similar to the Hacker News population – they won't seek out and act on feedback on their own. As such, we've found the best way to improve writing skills is to require people to get feedback and act on it. This means working with K-12 and higher ed institutions.
The code to parse and populate commandline arguments comes from the linker, and is part of the generated binary, not the standard library. Here's a much better explanation https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2019/04/08/a-general-overv...
They are the leading bodies for taking credit for it, however.
Different Types of AI Hardware [video]
It's disingenuous to compare the relative reach of AOL in the 90s to that of Twitter and Facebook in 2020. In absolute terms, both Twitter and Facebook dominate contemporary discourse at a scale far surpassing any company prior.
The three polarizing filter experiment using common sources of light can be explained perfectly without using quantum mechanics [0]. These effects only need QM to explain in the single photon regime. The polarized light from the LED display is definitely not in the single photon regime thus this experiment does not demonstrate any quantum effects. Without any quantum effects, it is much more difficult to justify the quantumness of this supposed quantum computer.

[0] http://alienryderflex.com/polarizer/
MRI brain scans of 130 mammals, including humans, indicate equal connectivity
Isn't that the exciting part? That your average literate person can do things that only a programmer could do previously.
As somebody who has only used Audacity and Pure Data, what's an example of a good audio editor?
You only need this if you're doing multithreaded WebAssembly. The typical applications that need that (e.g. games) also require a huge amount of infrastructure, let alone a web server config.
I hope you realize that in your definition of "us" it is just you and a small grp of your European friends. Rest of Europe are busy searching on Google and sharing photos on Instagram.
Costco holds a special place in my heart. Even though I'm single I still get most of my groceries there. I've been going to the same two locations for +3 years and I've seen very little employee turnover; the employees seem genuinely happy to work there, as opposed to other big box retailers such as Target or Wal-Mart, whose employees are often lackadaisical or barely out of training.

I haven't had 100% success with all of their products, but the vast majority of the time I do not regret my purchase. I know that I'm getting a solid (if not stellar) product in that segment, as opposed to, say, Amazon, which in 2020 is basically making me pay $120 for Prime for the chance to play Russian roulette with their products, even the name brand ones. I will probably cancel Prime since it encourages unnecessary consumerism (at least it does for me) and the price has gone up 200% since my student discount is no longer applicable. Long live Costco! :p
I'd personally recommend Next.js instead. It's even more painless, seamlessly handles a lot of other concerns (like routing), and can be used both as an SSR server and to generate purely static HTML bundles.