skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is a serious defect in the high school system. Other than our valedictorian with an Eidadic memory got too marks in all classes, the rest of us who did band, a non honors course, all 4 years suffered from not getting a the weighted boost and ended up ranked a few places lower than our peers who got the same 1 or 2 Bs but took honors theatre or honors debate even if they actually liked band or track team better.

The similar issue repeats itself in college where employers lkke McKinsey and Goldman prefilter for the 3.8+ gpa kids as a proxy for intellect/hard work. But this discourages the career minded students from going for the hardest classes with tough but intellectually stimulating professors and comes again down to who can figure out how to best cherry pick for easy grades.
Would 20G be more attainable? Or, what about +/- 10G? That's not possible with a pilot onboard but should be achievable in an unmanned aircraft.

If I were designing such an aircraft I would make sure that the onboard missiles could be rapidly swiveled. Someone on your tail? Easy, just swivel a missile around 180 degrees and then fire. No need to maneuver the entire aircraft.
There's a comment below about Da Vinci, but I'd say that the problem claimed in this article has been around since Archimedes yelled "Eureka" in his bath. The way science has tried to protect itself has always been when research is published, not when it was funded.

This unfortunately comment is filled with bad and dubious comment but this seems notably deceptive. Society has to various extents aimed to protect itself from the very worst behavior and the worst people - and has succeed in to a rather spotty extent, certainly. Still, every stage of science has involved some filtering out of the bad and worst. The increase in science's scale has lessened the degree to which a scientist had to be "respectable" but added filters like objective grant criteria, etc. Still, there's no way a single filtering method can work. You can't count on publications to weed out determined frauds - science counts on a certain ethos from scientists (and counts now less than it should and suffers for this). Science needs a community of honesty and it's significant the number of commentators who can't understand this here.
This would be pretty short-sighted. Shopify benefits from the app store ecosystem (and can generate revenue from it) while allowing developers to invest in the platform in exchange for building their credibility as Shopify partners & developers (which generate more Shopify business for them)

Stealing the good ideas and adding them to the core platform would generate more money short term but would destroy the app store
5/200 is 97th percentile, roughly speaking. But I would guess that acing the test is something that general population would be able to do at 80th percentile, maybe 90th (although I'm a bad judge of such things and a quick google search reveals nothing elucidating).
What's the most important US law that seemed insignificant when passed?
That is a very bad design. Especially since you have only one byte to work with.

What is the decimal range of values used?
Simple economics of keeping the defense industry employed when they're not producing the equipment you need and doing the R&D for future needs. And you don't just want them on a retainer as workers' skills will lapse.

Also the jets sold overseas are generally "export" quality and have downgraded features or require embedded expertise to maintain.
Was this a front end web framework or back end?
Rumor: Pixel 5 is slower than the Pixel 4, has same camera as the Pixel 2
Fun, interesting, and in this case, very timely.

Taking this break isn't just about not doing anything, but is also about actively seeking new ways to handle my current situation. Had I not been on HN, I wouldn't have found this treasure trove of a document :)
I wonder if incandescent bulbs were better for us in this one area.
I'm an accelerator physicist and I wouldn't want my code to end up on acceleratorskeptics.com with people that don't understand the material making low effort critiques of minor technical points. I'm here to turn out science, not production ready code.

Sure, and that rationale works OK when your code operates in a limited, specialized domain.

But if you're modeling climate change or infectious diseases, and you expect your work to affect millions of human lives and trillions of dollars in spending, then you owe us a full accounting of it.
If everyone in your company (plus your CI system) is behind the same firewall/IP address, that's going to be a lot more than 200 pulls.
Thai citizen here. I've always seen the lese majeste laws as immoral, but unfortunately talking about the monarchy in any negative way is so taboo that many are not willing to do it publicly for fear of being penalized severely.

Anecdotally, public opinion of Rama X is lower than Rama IX. The latter was, objectively speaking, very prolific in the arts and sciences. The former, well, for one, spends excessive time abroad and has gotten into a number of controversies. It's definitely got more people questioning the lese majeste laws.
> The ethics of killing will never be left to AI

I hope you're right, but what makes you so sure? In a wartime scenario, if a country is short on skilled personnel why wouldn't they release AI combatants if they had the tech? Especially if they're facing a perceived aggressor or defending their territory.
Since drone swarms are a hypothetical, why do you have such a problem with the hypothetical use of tactical nukes as a response?
An improved title might be "Lawyer claims developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine".
That seems to be more about intention, and I'll agree that even style can be intentionally selected, my dude. Perhaps there are larger leftover pieces, gaps, or other footholds to consider here. I'll agree you might not even need a machine, but I am concerned about unjustifiable ML-empowered humans sifting even more effectively for justified dissidence through style, sentiment, and semantic analysis. Do you think this is an arms race that is won by hand?

I'm not saying I disagree with you. I want to know more about what you think.
There’s no error in the original example; in Python, the ability to participate in inheritance diamonds with arbitrary other classes is a feature which must be explicitly documented and maintained. James Knight wrote a really good piece on this many years ago: https://fuhm.net/super-harmful/

The solution is just to avoid inheritance. It’s full of terrible pitfalls in most languages, but Python more than most.
I'd say it's the other way round: people were trying their hands at what they called AI for a while. See the original AI winter etc.

The modern renaissance in AI came when partially from trying to put these techniques on more sound mathematical footings like statistics.
Just a showerthought, could it be like everyone accumulate mental “age” at a constant rate from birth, such that people of same generation has roughly same mental age, and so burnout state is observed when those ages become mismatched?
Is there any reason to believe the spontaneous consensus that arises among the kind of people involved in government institutions can't also be biased, in an unsavory way, towards certain goals that benefit them as a class?
PySide2 is the offical Qt Python bindings, and so the Qt website has reference docs and examples for it. PyQt is a separate project by Riverbank Computing.
Twitter is a machine for removing intelligence from communication
I'm guessing that they have a patent on "same number on both sides."
I mean if you're selling in either store you have a relationship with Microsoft.

They have completely different ToS.
Best of both worlds: Drone platforms carrying anti air missiles? :)

Just for fun, and I have no qualifications whatsoever, but the Aim 9 comes in at 188 pounds (85.3 kg), add say 20kg for a release mount? (just guessing), so might be doable.

Might need something more upmarket than a Griff 300 (max altitude 1000m - see https://www.dronetechplanet.com/the-griff-300-review-drone-t...) but even with that, if you had network of these remotely operated they could pack a hell of a surprise for an unsuspecting pilot (missiles would only go active when released), can be positioned strategically around assets.
I don't think anyone was the under the impression that they would be unable to afford the taxes.
The two heuristics I use for this difficulty:
1) Recognizing "Comparison is the thief of happiness"
2) Recognizing that the internet burnishes these peoples' successes and hides their difficulties and shortcomings and suffering.

I don't see the full picture, and looking at the picture wouldn't make me happier anyway.
Hong Kong man was reinfected by the coronavirus, researchers say
I'd accept a goldback. Maybe even 10. Same as I'd accept barter for anything interesting.

But not 100 or more.
I would have loved this show as a kid. Was this local to the bay area or was it picked up by other PBS stations?
What model have you got? I've been looking and it a seems robot vacs have finally started to be good.

So looking to make a purchase between now and Christmas-ish.
How awful. I'm very sorry for you and your family. I hope you all can find ways to recover.
I appreciate the author's rant. It touches on the larger problem of the 'telephone game'[0] in media, news, youtube, twitter. Syndication of syndications of summaries of abstracts of research.

Any abstraction or simplification runs into the risk of having its underlying meaning changed. It is our duty as humans to be willing to chase the core of truths or to change our minds given new evidence pointing to truths.

It was said well in Hamilton - "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

Also, i hate that it's called Chinese Whispers... I digress.
Healthy 33-yr-old man first to have confirmed reinfection with SARS-CoV-2
Coincidence; I discovered Cavestory few days back and I'm currently playing now.
> As an example, you seem to be complaining that their Monte Carlo code has non-deterministic output when that is the entire point of Monte Carlo methods and doesn't change their result.

Not so fast. Monte Carlo code turns arbitrary RNG seeds into outputs. That process can, and arguably should be, deterministic.

To do your study, you feed your Monte Carlo code 'random enough' seeds. Coming up with the seeds does not need to be deterministic. But once the seeds are fixed, the rest can be deterministic. Your paper should probably also publish the seeds used, so that people can reproduce everything. (And so they can check whether your seeds are carefully chosen, or really produce typical outcomes.)
That's 419-level "put out some bullshit to scary away the non rube costumers".
The core accusation is not that he was a sexual predator, it is that he was using minors to trap and control people, for as yet an unidentified beneficiary.
Sure the naming conventions for for versions are arbitary, but there's still a lot of exciting stuff in these pipelines regardless of name. I love how much the definition of "color" has expanded in CSS4. You can query on color gamut range and define your own color spaces. CSS5 is getting color operations based on lch so you don't have the gamma squaring issue that plagues Sass and Less. I like that the direction isn't just to copy these preprocessors but make it better from the start.
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To help support this, keep an eye on a UV tracker. I used to be terrified of the Australian sun, but with a UV tracker I know when it's safe to be outside for hours with no sunscreen, and when the danger levels are extreme.

https://www.arpansa.gov.au/our-services/monitoring/ultraviol...
> Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics

Oh how I wish that were true
Btw, I totally agree with you. I should have said a minor improvement to gwbasic data types.
Your comments made me also think about adding a few data types, specially decimal, dict and set.
Make your [vim] setup truly cross-platform
Dissecting the immune system’s response to Covid-19
If you could have spun up a Tevatron at will for $10, would the culture be the same today?

I suspect that software really is different in this way, and treating it like it's complex, one off hardware is cultural inertia that's going to fade away.
It was definitely in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. So, probably picked up by most of the PBS's.
you criticize society yet you participate in society! how curious!
> The ethics of killing will never be left to AI,

Ha. I know of a device with a very simple AI program that can tell if an enemy is standing on it. If so, the enemy is killed.
It’s called a mine.
They have been used in every land (and naval) war since they were invented.
I think the points here are pretty interesting.

Related to this, I feel like there's a missed opportunity for the federal government to create a national public online university.

There's a lot of talk about online education being the future of education on the one hand and a lot of talk about "College For All" / cost of education / inclusivity on the other hand, but it seems like the people who care about the two things are disjoint.

I used to teach physics, and every semester it was the same thing: confusion about the right-hand-rule, rotational motion, Gauss' law, ..., and every year I explained things the same way (and so did all the other teachers in the classrooms next door.) Why not record these lectures in some ridiculously high-end way, blowing $10M on that one course, make it epic, and then just be done with it? Imagine the amount of money that's spent every year teaching stuff over and over again...

The federal government should allocate something like $1B-$5B toward building out a virtual course catalog and open it up for free to the public. I feel like it could fill the need of community colleges / public four-year institutions quite well. In fact, I could see community colleges basically transition into a set of distributed testing facilities where you go to take your final exams or something.
Using NLP, machine learning and AI should be a good way to go upon automated moderation...
I agree that one may reasonably ask that. But there are much easier ways to acquire power and influence if you are extremely wealthy.

The only reasonable conclusion you can draw about the man is that he was both legitimately interested in furthering science and interested in acquiring personal power. That doesn't make anything he did any better, and we shouldn't say things like "well, he did all this sexual abuse, but he also funded science". I'm not advocating that.

But I also think it's overly reductionist and cynical to say that he was funding science for the sole purpose of insulating himself from legal prosecution for abusing women. It's just a ridiculously inefficient way to do that, if that's your only goal.

My broader point is that I think we need to be better about handling moral, not ambiguity, but...ambivalence? Epstein is not a morally ambiguous character, but he did do more than one thing in his life. Some of those things were good, some of those things were bad. The bad things unequivocally outweigh the good things, but it doesn't mean we have to erase them, or find some way rube-goldbergian way to re-evaluate them as actually sinister.

Which is also not to say that we shouldn't think carefully about the kind of power/legitimacy conferred by Epstein's activities. I think that's a legitimate and important discussion. But i'd find the inability to handle multi-dimensionality in some of these discussions strange.
> Personally, I think Result types make a lot of sense -- a program either succeeds with some output, or fails with an explanation of why

Usually, this is what happens. Usually, the error-signalling return is accompanied by a message (posted to stderr).

> By default, pipes stop piping if one command fails

set -o pipefail
IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Teams
It's not true. It only works if the "other" nation accepts the arrangement. That's why the multinationals put the IP-owning company in Ireland to park the EU profits (and not all global profits).

Of course, you do anything illegal legally if the government declines to prosecute.
Could it be incentives? Make the project bidding fixed-cost; as a contractor if you add delays without the change in requirements, you eat the costs.
Amazon’s Audible Debuts Cheaper Service – $7.95/Month
Related - why are there so many IPOs particularly right now?

It seems like there is more than usual IPOs this August compared to previous years: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos
I think it's a little disingenuous to call America a heterogenous society. While the share of population for different ancestries[1] makes it look heterogenous, a large part of the equation is cultural homogeneity. American culture is derived from its anglo history and I'd argue economic and political pressures have forced "model minorities" to forgo their heritage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
Before anyone starts speculating on what the developer did "wrong", keep in mind that the Mac developer Charlie Monroe was mistakenly flagged and then reinstated by Apple just a few weeks ago: http://blog.charliemonroe.net/a-day-without-business/
I don't think that's actually a fair explanation for why the game is so janky. Very simple animations that aren't loading new resources like Ysera Unleashed visibly badly lag even on the top end machines used for tournaments.

Maybe more clearly, whenever you enter a game there's a loading spinner that freezes for several seconds even on the very highest end desktops; you'd think for a game whose main graphics concern is exactly "image asset streaming from disk", they have wouldn't need to hard-freeze the menu UI to do the loading.
Academia is an indirect way to acquire that power, though. The direct way is to befriend and donate to politicians. It's much more efficient, and someone as intelligent as Epstein surely knew that.
As a French citizen, I also "agreed" to pay my taxes last year :). I even paid the full amount I was being claimed. How generous of me.
Black Venture Capitalists Confront Silicon Valley's Quiet Racism
His app opens fine for me: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/attics/id1434981632

Does it normally disappear if a dev account is terminated?
Unmanned combat air vehicles tend to have net weights in the 30kg-2000kg range. The F/A-18 is closer to 15000kg. We'd need gryphons.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/video-tearing-with-gef...
The existence of the TSA disproves this theory. The public didn't clamor for 1000 rules. The bureaucracy is self perpetuating and captures by special interests.
Luckily though, companies have cash to pay for registrations, and those that won't probably have engineers who can set up Squid proxies.
Any IPO at this point (combined with standard 6 month lockout) will result in capital gains being realized no earlier than 2021.
I don't understand why that's relevant. You should know that your comment reads as an excuse or an acceptance for the deeply creepy and awful things that Epstein said and did, not sure if you meant it that way so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
As a rule of thumb, I try not to quote from media unless I have seen the whole book/story/article/movie myself and am sure I understand the quotation in context.

Part of that comes from the kind of frustration Hillel Wayne voices here:

> People will offhand use famous quotes to support their arguments, when the context the quote was given in has nothing to do with it.

I spent a lot of hours in high school debate listening to people misattribute quotes or misconstrue them to mean the opposite. This was frustrating at the time but in retrospect this was a valuable lesson -- if EVERYONE is gonna say that Voltaire said that thing about disagreeing with what you say, what else is everyone wrong about?

I'm also pretty sure I had this idea reinforced by an Asimov book where he argues that intellectual societies decay as they begin to rely on secondary-source research (going to the library and reading what people have written about others' experiences, instead of going out there yourself and looking at stuff). But I can't find the source now, ha ha.
Much as my son happily got up early before school to watch Pokemon, I happily got up early before work to catch The Computer Chronicles.
On the other side of things... I went to a high school that didn't weight AP courses - Calc 2 counted the same as PE.

There tended to be ~10 valedictorians out of a class of 300 - all with perfect GPAs.
I'd really like this answered as well. I'd like to try this, but that prompt has put me off.
Only problem is American medical students take on massive student loans while those in other countries often have their tuition subsidized by their governments. Instead of paying for medical education via taxes, we pay via employers, insurance premiums, deductibles and Medicare taxes.
There's a big market for this, it's just not for individuals. For example, Bloomberg distributes factual news on its terminal. The Bloomberg terminal even highlights important words in news stories so you can absorb the information more quickly. So if there was a earthquake somewhere, it might highlight the word "earthquake," the number of people that died, and the economic cost, for example.

Also there are news wire services that do mostly what you're describing. If you just want to be entertained (most people read news for entertainment), then they don't really care about the facts. They want to hear about so and so blasting so and so or whatever. But if you're trying to make money from information (traders, journalists, etc), then you really don't want to be reading the kind of stuff the New York Times is publishing.
So? It takes a billion dollars of funding to get an IPO, but it is still extremely popular. A business is not like a single employee.

Anyway, its simple if have regulations step up with growth over many small steps, as they already do today.
Seems to me that 5000 is just too much, and 400 daily recommended might be low. Seems like between 1000-2000 is a sweat spot.
I cap this picture from Chinese media. Also, It is common knowledge that big techs in Chinese have CCP division setup in it.
I have been prototyping all of my new applications in context of commodity x86 with 10GbE links and NVMe storage.

I personally feel like distributed (coherent) shared memory is a bit overkill. I would much rather the kind of grain that a solid 10gbps link works well with. I.e. anything that is sensitive to latencies measured in microseconds or lower just lives on the same node where it needs to be sampled.

I can't think of too many applications that couldn't be designed to work just as well using 10GbE vs Infiniband/RDMA/shared memory. Even most real-time simulations could be designed to run in a practically syncrhonous fashion across a number of distributed hosts using stuff you can buy at Newegg or Amazon.
>The ethics of killing will never be left to AI, but the technicalities of acquiring and prosecuting the target?

This is unfortunately completely wrong. Fully autonomous weapons have already deployed for years, and are currently in use on the North/South Korean border. Fully autonomous weapons systems, including drones that use AI to autonomously choose and destroy their targets have been under development for many years.

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2017/07/28/autonom...

There's a reason experts are sounding the alarm - because the ethics of killing are being shifted to AI right now.

>Kallenborn, an expert in unmanned systems and WMD, describes one type of swarm that he calls an Armed, Fully-Autonomous Drone Swarm, or AFADS. Once unleashed an AFADS will locate, identify, and attack targets without human intervention

https://mwi.usma.edu/swarms-mass-destruction-case-declaring-...
My aunt trained in medical illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She switched to primary education years ago and could never get a gig in her original field.