skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that this is done on a computer with a PRNG is significant here. (unless the game sources entropy from the environment, which is unlikely)

The PRNG has finite state. This means that it must be cyclical. This cycle of of states will manifest in a guest which will either loop infinitely without progressing into the maze. Or it will manifest in a guest which will progress a fixed, finite number of steps into the maze before the state of the PRNG cycles.

Therefore the guest either never completes the maze, or the guest completes the maze in time O(n * 2^k) where k is the number of bits of state in the PRNG and n is the number of inlets.
I mean, I have a phone with an audio jack, and I plug my headphones into the audio jack and I am happy.

How would you sell "no audio jack" to me? What's my gain here?
Joining an iterable of strings into a single string. Python does:

seperator.join(iterable)
"".join(["foo", "bar", "hello"]) # => "foobarhello"
", ".join(["Hacker News", "Twitter"]) # => "Hacker News, Twitter

Many people have complained about this strange syntax:

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.or...
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`["a", "b", "c"].join(iterable)` was rejected because it forces every iterable to implement iterable functions.

Additionally some iterables, like generators, are mutated when you iterate over them:

", ".join(streaming_api.fetch_names())

UFCS let's you write join as a free function and still use "".join(iterable)

NaN guarding:

import std.traits;
auto unwrap(T)(T input) if (isFloatingPoint!T) {
// Asserts cost nothing when turned off with -check=assert=off
// The compiler can fully inline this function, so it isn't expensive
assert(input !== input.nan);
return input;
}

Use like this:

if (objSize.unwrap < cellSize) {
// Allocate a new cell for the object
} else {
// Insert into current cell
}

The parentheses are omitted because Dlang has https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#optional-parenthesis. The above compiles into this:

if (objSize.unwrap() < cellSize) {
// Allocate a new cell for the object
} else {
// Insert into current cell
}
I would probably first start with examples from different eras and try to build a statistical classifier on it without resorting to detectors. Those seem like big overkill for such a task.
For example, creating a scrapbook of somebody's life from scanned photographs that lack any metadata.
New evidence suggests children spread Covid-19 more efficiently than adults
The gas is so not-dense that it's particles effectively never collide, so its acceleration never really changes, so it never radiates.
One of the biggest differences between the 4a and the older 4 and 4 XL is that the 4a has a rear fingerprint reader, whereas the 4 and 4 XL want you to use face unlock. So strange that this isn't emphasized (or even mentioned) on the comparison page.

This was actually the primary thing that kept me on a Pixel 2 for so long, since it also has a similar rear fingerprint sensor design (and I just pre-ordered the Pixel 4a today).

I can't be the only one who greatly prefers a rear fingerprint sensor to face unlock, especially in our new world order with widespread mask wearing -- but, even before! It's so much faster and less finicky.

(The new model's fingerprint sensor is also so subtle on the chassis on the phone that you can just barely make it out in the photograph of the phone's back shown on the comparison page. But if you squint, you'll see it. It's also discussed in many of the reviews.)
Mad as a badger.
"Liking What You See: A Documentary" is an excellent short story by Ted Chiang (these days best known for the story behind the film "Arrival") about this topic.

In the story, a highly-targeted brain treatment exists that can make it so that one is unable to perceive physical attractiveness. The story explores the ethics of such a treatment.

Here is a pdf, but if you like it, I highly recommend supporting the author and getting both of his collections, "Stories of Your Life and Others" and "Exhalation". You won't regret it.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vSPLnv...
Not that I am in favor of parasitic worms or anything but I would be careful to assume that erraticating helminths or any species for that matter would only be beneficial. I don't know where they fall in the food chain. Maybe they are essential for some other species to thrive that we depend on.
This reminds me of another study that showed that "90% of CEOs are of above average height." (source below)

I also wonder if the WFH revolution will reduce the advantage a tall, handsome guy has over a more productive, short guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination
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Totally true, but physical bias should not be a factor in the legal system.
File embedding seems to have been a low priority for the standard, perhaps because there's always been workarounds, but it has gotten some attention recently with the std::embed proposal: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p104...
Thanks for the link - pretty good review.
Totally agree with what he says about calling it SOTA. It's definitely a very interesting approach but I wouldn't put that much weight on whether it's achieved SOTA, because of the amount of compute they threw into it.
This reminds me when I once remarked that Elon Musk's various procedures to change his appearance likely were an ROI of >1,000x for him and have probably increased his net worth by billions if not tens of billions of dollars, just by making him seem more attractive.

It's unfortunate that appearances are always so important, but it's definitely ingrained deeply into reality. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
> Common responses to complaints on /r/GooglePixel about piss poor battery life are that the user hasn't waiting long enough for the system to develop a proper AI/ML model.

Oof, this sounds like the sort of thing that could go really frustratingly wrong in some cases. Do you happen to know if this results in apps being erroneously killed when switching to the background? My phone killing whatever is playing on Spotify or Podcast Addict when I switch to another app has been a recurring annoyance for me on Android. I've always been able to find a fix but, bewilderingly, the fix has been different on almost every phone I've had.
> The atoms, mostly hydrogen, are at least 1836 times more massive ("but graceful for their size"), so going much, much slower. The average of the two motions defines the temperature.

Isn't it the case though that thermal energy is not the same as inertial energy of motion? I.e. that "hot" atoms can be essentially "vibrating" in place much faster and more violently, and not necessarily moving through space?
With the exception of mandatory minimums, sentencing usually is broadly subjective with judges having significant leeway. In contrast, convictions are based on juries who are provided strict instructions on how they must arrive at a verdict. Swaying the judge can you get you lighter sentencing but has no impact on the verdict.
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I find it surprising that, according to the article, attractiveness affects the severity of the sentence, but not whether someone is judged innocent or guilty. If the former is true, the latter seems too good to be true.

If both are true, it's fascinating. We should then research the mechanism that makes judgements more fair, and see if we can't change the way the sentence is determined to match that.
There's also PocketPCR[0] and MiniPCR[1]. $499 for OpenPCR is still pricey imo when you can buy a proper programmable thermocycler with heated top for less than half on eBay, presuming it actually works.

I'm documenting my journey in self-learning genetic engineering[2][3] and in the market for PCR and electrophoresis setup, so I'd be happy to hear what folks recommend.

[0] https://www.minipcr.com/

[1] http://gaudi.ch/PocketPCR/

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You’re saying that if the details (the ones you mentioned being “enough [paying] tenants to move the needle” and “the buildings were up to code“) were in place that his loan acceptance would be guaranteed, but if the article is correct and he’s not getting the loans because of discrimination, then he wouldn’t get the loans even if the details were all correct.

So I’m saying that if your argument holds and he would be all but guaranteed to get the loans with the details sorted out and he doesn’t get the loans, then you would essentially have to agree that discrimination is a factor.
As mentioned in the article Godot has a low processor usage mode:

> If true, the engine optimizes for low processor usage by only refreshing the screen if needed

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_os.html...
I would imagine there's a strong causal link between competence and being "dressed-to-the-nines"/"very sharp". Maybe signals of fitness and fitness here are to an extent the same thing.
No, I just check my comments.
But the alternatives are of similar price range.
> To me, the biggest limitation is the limited range in luminance. The difference in light intensity between sunlit snow and shadowed rock is often far, far more than 8 stops.

The bit depth of a photo or display device is not the same as the dynamic range at which that photo is displayed. With traditional SDR image formats, on some screens a "0" pixel will be displayed at about 1 nit brightness, and a "255" pixel will be displayed at about 100 nits. But on other screens, the same pixel will be shown at 500 nits or more. Thus with SDR images, the luminance range depends on the characteristics of the display device in use, and not the fact that it's only an "8 bit" photo. "8 bit" ≠ "8 stops". On the other hand, on displays with very high peak brightness, you may get banding even with images that are properly dithered to take advantage of the full capabilities of the 8 bit range.

The point of 10 bit and higher is that you can accurately capture all the details in between a very dark portion of an image and a very bright one without banding. The point of the new HDR standards (which are just now being introduced to images) is that luma is now on an absolute scale, so that you are no longer dependent on the characteristics of the individual display. (You have to have both together for either to be very useful.) But whether you're working with SDR or HDR, 8 bit or 10 bit, fundamentally the question of how many stops you can get (the display's true contrast) is a question of what the display is capable of reproducing, not the underlying technology you're working with.
Of course that's how it works in theory. I'm just surprised (and encouraged) to find that it appears to be true in practice.
> Generally, attractive people are perceived as more intelligent, more socially skilled, more appealing personalities, more moral , more altruistic, more likely to succeed, more hirable as managers, and more competent.

I am always astonished by how much we humans mix how moral is someone and how horny that someone makes us.

And it works both ways. To tell someone that you are not attracted to them is perceived as a judgement of their value in society and morality. When we actually decide if we are horny for someone in just 1 second from a picture and zero knowledge about that person.

Many years ago, I worked for a company that hired the hot one instead of the competent one. And it was amazing to see the twisted justification. But, I believe that the hiring manager was not aware and was convinced that the decision was based on the bogus conclusions.

> Some researchers are skeptical that real jurors will have the same biases as the studies in simulated juries.

I would expect even worse bias when you do not feel observed and you are not a student that may have knowledge about the concept of biased decisions.
The water filter question is interesting, would you mind sharing which sites you used for guidance? In this same situation right now and having trouble navigating the waters.
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Ted Chiang (wonderfully talented sci-fi author, wrote the story Arrival was based on) wrote this great short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" that explores a device that causes people not to see physical attractiveness, by inducing something like prosopagnosia (a medical condition where people can't recognize faces) in the wearers. It's written in short snippets of people arguing for or against device and whether it should be mandatory. It didn't consider the legal system angle though!
> How well does godot support dynamic/programmatic layout (w.r.t odd aspect ratios and resizing),

Very well (it's a game engine)

> localization, and accessibility?

Poorly and not at all. Godot has a student adding PO files:

https://godotengine.org/article/gsoc-2020-progress-report-1#...
No one made the claim that it did exist only in the legal system. This article is just about bias in the legal system.
In the context of the situation imagined in the article, "blatant lie... guy is nuts" is over-doing it.

While "you need to download and compile the framework from source" is an option, "you need 5gb and to register an account for the download" is also a fairly plausible way to present it if that option offers time savings vs the former to the person you're hoping to review your project.

I'm reading your response as jumping to "lazy" and "cheap", which I find to be pretty uncharitable. The Qt Company is free to demand whatever they like, but nobody has to like the demands.
Does that matter? I thought the point of having the entire public wear masks is to stop the wearer's breath from spreading germs, not stop the wearer from coming in contact with germs.

Obviously medical professionals or other people who come in close contact would be better off using medical-grade masks in a hygienic and consistent way- but for the majority of grocery shoppers and such, I thought the purpose was simply reducing your ability to spread the germs.
A maze to surpass Mr. Bones' Wild Ride
A) You can dress to the nines without spending a fortune

B) Dressing to the nines can work against you as a lawyer or litigant

Source: I study jurors and coach trial lawyers for a living, among other things.
I understand the concept, I meant the target could avoid the DUI by calling an Uber instead of driving their own car.
I have seen a strong inverse correlation in my (anecdotal and quite brief) professional life :|
Except for Nexus 5X that was a great, but defective phone. I had 3, the first died of the famous 5x death a month after the warranty expired, the second died in warranty and it was replaced with a third that is in use even these days. Not too solid in 2 cases of of 3.
My bet is that they didn’t test for that.
Really? because there are many examples of smaller less sophisticated companies getting owned by hackers. ADT might not do anything with your data, but hackers have lots of uses for it.

So in your world, Google being able to sell target ads is more dangerous to you, then hackers getting access to your security cams or baby monitors, or stealing your personal dox and reselling them on darknet markets for bitcoin?

There are millions of people who have been harmed by identity theft from databases going around of people's personal info that have been hacked from less secure companies.

There was have been cheap IP cams that have had backdoors that were exploited, unbelievably, to build a search engine for readily available for pedophiles (https://ipvm.com/reports/the-search-engine-for-hacking-ip-ca...)

You have millions of people scammed by Indian call center scammers by taking advantage of terrible Windows security.

You have tons of scammers buying people's personal financial information from existing databases that are traded.

These are all real, palpable harm, where people have gone bankrupt, spent years cleaning up identity theft, had their children's room monitored by pedophiles and pranksters, etc
This should be obvious to anyone who isn't gifted with top ~10% looks. Not just in the legal system but in the way the really attractive just have things easier. The person who just smiles and avoids trouble, etc.
Thanks!! "Generic intensifier" is a very useful label, e.g. it's been driving me nuts how "literally" is used so frequently and inappropriately, on HN and other places. It's become a generic intensifier. But these words that cry wolf lose their..Ah well, this is what language evolving looks like I guess - like it's going downhill! But it's like Reutersvärd/Penrose stairs, only appearing to descend.
The vast majority of us don't care for an ultrawide camera. Especially people shopping at a $350 price point.

Unrelated, but what the hell is the obsession with cameras? Are you all constantly on vacation, bumping into celebrities and taking Instagram pictures of your food or whatever?

I almost exclusively use my camera to take pictures of notes and other text that I need to reference later. Occasionally I need to share something noteworthy that's happening in real time with a friend but I don't need professional level photos for that.

Besides, even if you have low quality photos you can "easily" upconvert them using one of the many available open source super resolution neural nets.

I realize average people aren't going to know how to do that, and there's a convenience factor either way, but this community consists of fairly intelligent folks
Yes, that is exactly how you use sqla alembic: You connect it to your development db, generate the migration, then run the migration locally first then on staging/prod.

This has both the pro and con of your app being quite tightly coupled with the database.
In theory, should be less of an issue with Project Mainline now. Of course, we said the same thing with Project Treble. Though it is starting to feel like the idea of an Android Version Upgrade is becoming less and less meaningful with so much of the OS modular and upgradable with Google Play now.

<---Pixel 2 XL owner who really sees little reason to upgrade.
This is exactly what 'this' is in C++, it's a pointer to the class/struct instance and the compiler inserts it as the first parameter behind the scenes. There's no difference between a class method and a class static function that takes a pointer to a class insance as its first parameter.
I always say this when I can, Credit Karma’s support is terrible. I would never recommend them. Great if nothing goes wrong but you’ll regret it if you need them for something.
In Canada, with tax it goes up to CA$550.73. Not worth it.
This isn’t true in education. I can’t speak to other fields but early childhood interventions are not more effective than later ones in that field. We can’t be sure, statistically, but the opposite is more likely to be the case.

https://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-heckman...

https://www.nzae.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Rea_and_B...

IS THE HECKMAN CURVE CONSISTENT WITH THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON PROGRAM RETURNS BY AGE?

The Heckman Curve depicts the empirical evidence on rates of return to public investment in human capital as rapidly diminishing with age. Investment early in the life course is characterised as providing significantly higher rates of return compared to investments targeted at people who are older. In this paper we use the Washington State Institute for Public Policy estimates of program benefit cost ratios to assess whether the Heckman Curve is consistent with the latest evidence. The data does not support the claim that programs targeted earlier in the life course provide the largest returns, or that adult programs will have benefit cost ratios that are less than one. The paper concludes by discussing the various features of both human capital and interventions that might explain why the predictions of the Heckman Curve are not consistent with the evidence.
> Maybe all the lawyers and jurors should be literally blindfolded, like Lady Justice.

I bet lawyers would get biased depending on their voice then.

You could have their sentences read by a computer though (you could do it today too and not let the lawyer be visible)
> Maybe all the lawyers and jurors should be literally blindfolded, like Lady Justice.

This should be doable by requiring the entire process be done remotely. Seems like a perfect time to try it out too! Even regional accent bias[1] can be removed by requiring unformatted text responses.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent_perception
That isn't the same type of HDR that these HDR modes on cell phones are. You seem to be confusing bit's with stops of dynamic range.

To simplify I'll pick a grayscale image so with 8bits you would only have 0-255 as pixel values for the intensity.

With 12 bits you'll have 4096, and so forth.

What cellphone HDR usually does is take the image at a high exposure and a low exposure and combine the result. (Also the sensors inside the cellphone are also more than 8bit)

Even if you take a 12 bit photo if it's overexposed you can't do much. All you get is more play but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of too much light hitting the sensor, or vice versa if the image is underexposed.

Now there are more advanced camera sensors that let you set the exposure time (or usually the ISO (which just translates to gain) at specific horizontal points of the sensor so that you can get even better images in one frame.
I have added an option in the data view to customize text alignment, thanks for the good idea
I don't think anyone was disputing that.
I strongly disagree with the first item that GA is overkill. How much data is too much is very much a subjective judgement and it almost always the right thing to over-capture and figure that out later than to realize you should have been collecting info that yields meaningful business insights.

The rest of the critiques are valid though.
I've had some success convincing anti-cloud (cloud reticent?) companies by pointing to things like FedRAMP compliance: "You know how hard it is to get ______ compliance? Your data is probably safer there..." kind of conversations.

I'm sure your mileage will vary but in my not so humble opinion companies that are still trying to cling to their aging fleet of servers are making pretty poor business decisions. I think this internet stuff is catching on.

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