skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's a hard-to-address problem with any number system like this (for example, most other base-32 systems have this problem, as do Base64 and pretty much everything else using the full alphanumeric range). Aliasing U and V is an attempt to do the same for a different case (addressing e.g. decimal numbers 519571 and 421594).

If I didn't have as strong of a want for a power-of-2 radix I'd have aliased G/g to 6 (and re-aliased L/l to 1) to further address this. Maybe even aliased B/b to 8, since sometimes that's a source of readability issues (and it further mitigates 11594129).
100% this. The modelling data and predictive analysis is where the true value in this lies. If they make that available to the players trainers it's going to assist greatly in helping players improve against tricky opponents.
Nice. If anyone is wondering if they should try this, picotorrent is probably the most lightweight GUI torrent client for windows (no linux/mac version).
Totally right, though I wouldn’t underestimate the growing community of people for whom p2p is a feature. Being able to use something forever because no one can shut it down is important to some.
The key point I had meant to make is that procgen allows wide exploration of the simulation space -- which ofc is only interesting if the simulation is itself interesting. There's nothing wrong with that, but it only works with a sufficiently enabled sim -- Dwarf Fortress is the target here.

In a more shallow simulation, procgen falls on its face, and mostly wastes time as it fails to note any interesting aspects of the sim (or repeats itself, or only points it out once every so often). Hardcoded levels wins out here: its more concise.

That is, as simulation complexity increases, the amount of procgen can be increased. The scaling between megaman (weak sim, all hardcoded) to roguelikes (decent sim, mixture of hardcoded/procgen) to DF (sim porn, procgen porn).

Of course, you can also have a complex sim with hardcoded levels, but this is unsatisfying as it leaves a lot on the table -- you don't play a grand strategy for the campaign mode.

Nintendo games are intentionally fairly weak sims (few general behaviors, usually explored throughout the full game), and thus hardcoded levels works well -- there's little of the simspace remaining to explore when you finish a title -- so procgen would just be a noisy, verbose explanation by comparison
That's pretty cool! Do you see any way to easily add/inject graphs to the game - so we could plot each variable over time? Because that's the one recurring thought I had after 20 minutes of play: I wish I could see the stats.
Which means, most probably you never been to Ukraine or Belarus, but you mock or hate them simply for the fact of belonging to their nation. Congrats, this is what nazis during WWII did. What people like you still do.
Only if you like Stephenson Endings.
This is my take on it as well, and some other quotes like this one also show that he's somewhat exaggerating for effect:

WSJ: Do you have a date in mind for when your workforce returns to the office?

Mr. Hastings: Twelve hours after a vaccine is approved.
This is why I feel that the “China steals all its tech” argument to be facile US propaganda. Simply having the tech secrets is a small slice of the pie when building a business.

If those people were right, little weak Taiwan is somehow able to withstand the force of Chinese industrial spy agencies to learn its secrets. That’s idiotic. China has vastly more resources and could easily get the secrets if it wanted. The fact is, building great processor manufacturing is extremely hard and knowledge has to be developed within to overcome future hurdles.
The card could also be used for gaming.
An object that moves far enough away from us is said to leave the observable universe, because with the continual expansion of space, it or anything it interacts with would have to travel faster than light back toward us in order to have any effect on us. Should we say that objects that leave the observable universe continue to exist? Should we amend our theories to include a new fall-off effect separate from gravity that says things stop existing when they exit our observable universe?
Yeah, removal of the X11 dependency on Mac was one of the major features of the v1.0 release a few months ago IIRC.

FWIW, at some point last year, I switched away from Illustrator to using Inkscape, for better native SVG support. On my wacom-enabled Coffee Lake Thinkpad, I've yet to find an app in either Windows or MacOS that's as responsive to pen input as Inkscape is under Linux.

It's just a shame that Gnome support for mobile Intel graphics sucks so badly.
Spotify is really the true top 40. Because there are direct statistics about what is most played and shared..
Noted. Apologies to you and the person I replied to.
The whole point of having a JSON field is so that it has more structured than just text, otherwise you can just use a text field (like SQL Server does). Also they all support various JSON querying and indexing functions that including subfield access with optional computed properties.

Sure MongoDB has some extra ergonomics for dealing with JSON/BSON data, but how much benefit this really adds is still up for debate. As horizontal scalability becomes more natively supported, MongoDB will lose even more of its benefits.
Linux ISOs downloads mostly.
Well atleast their ancestors used to be
So asp .net core is pretty much a complete rewrite and different runtime than asp .net, right? So it's not like huge changes don't ever happen in Microsoft land. If you have clients running on asp.net that ask to migrate to .net core , is that going to be painless? The clients probably all wanna run on the newest thing probably.
And who's to say .net core doesn't have any breaking changes in 5 years, are they guaranteeing not to do any breaking changes at all to the framework?
This sounds interesting... I’ll give it a go tonight. Thanks
MIPS is used in a lot of US' military applications, even still today.
That's not really accurate. It depends on the tree type, but the growth cycle is somewhere between 50 to 100 years for optimal results.

It's true that most forests today are not old growth anymore. They have been cut (usually clear cut) and then either replanted or just naturally reseeded and are now essentially waiting for the next cut. There are some areas where they are monocultural tree farms with not much else growing, but forest industry starts to realize that that's not the most efficient anyway. Most forests today, even those used for lumber (which are almost all) are integrated ecosystems. That's a great benefit to nature.

Clear cutting is quite bad for the surrounding ecosystem. Habitat loss, soil erosion, it's a pretty traumatic event for a forest. (Some shrubs really thrive for a few years after a clear cut though. In Sweden that's when you get to pick tons of wild raspberries, for example.)

An alternative is selective cutting where you only cut the oldest trees and leave everything intact. For that, such a legged harvester would be much better. The traditional method is to use horses, but that's too slow for modern forest industry.
Some time ago I wanted to do something in photoshop and the old < $100 home version they used to sell would have done the trick. But they wouldn’t sell it to me anyone, instead wanting me to pay a subscription, which I was unwilling to do for an ”a few times a year” task. So I looked for alternatives and found Affinity Photo. Now I doubt that I will ever pay for photoshop.
It feels to me like 'roguelike' has recently come to mean something totally different than in used to. It used to be games like Nethack, Moria, Angband, and later AdoM, where you're an @ walking between walls of # fighting d and o. Now it seems they can be any game that involves dungeons and fighting.
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The HN submission was initially called "advice on using GPU for deep learning" so I was hoping for optimization tips, too.
Don't know why I get down votes for pointing out the slowness of Rust which is well known
You say “music characteristics hadn’t much to do with it” but then you list a number of specific characteristics that make music more likely to work on radio. That suggests the opposite of “any music will do”. Only music with very specific qualities will do.

Or maybe you just meant to say you don’t like pop?
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"Open source" has been in use in the early 90s, as a simple usenet search will show.
Yep, that's the one major missing feature. The good news is there's nothing stopping an application from implementing it (and indeed, with 8-character / 40-bit chunks being the recommendation, that lends itself well to sticking 8-bit checksums/ECCs/whatever onto 32-bit values).
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We used MemSQL with 100s of billions of rows for years in production.

If you're working at that scale, it sounds like that's more of an OLAP use-case where MemSQL and other column-oriented databases would suit better than an OLTP document-store. Maybe you can share more details for better recommendations.
So if you listen to Bad Guy by Billie Eilish, Chun-Li by Nicki Minaj and thank u, next by Arianna Grande. You would say all of these women sound the same and have the same instrumentals?
And many other similar "falsehoods", collected at https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
This applies to most European countries actually.
Hell in the UK most people get atleast 6 weeks. I currently get 27 + 9 'public holidays' that I can take when I like.
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I'll see about throwing that into the comparisons page, thanks!
It’s not a point of view, it’s the legal position of at least the European Convention on Human Rights/UK Human Rights Act and I believe also the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
This story made me think of the joke about the guy who was told by his doctor that he has only 6 months to live. He decides to move in with his mother-in-law, because living with her for 6 months will seem like forever.
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The pop music industry has seen at least three disruptions to its controlling gatekeepers since the 1950s (1956-60, ~2000 with Napster, and presently with Spotify and YouTube), but each time a dominant hegenomy re-emerges. I doubt this time will be different, though the brief renaissance will doubtless be appreciated.

Charles Perrow wrote of this in the mid-1980s:

After the critical period from about 1956 to 1960, when tastes were unfrozen, competition was intense, and demand soared, consolidation appeared. The number of firms stabilized at about forty. New corporate entries appeared, such as MGM and Warner Brothers, sensing, one supposes, the opportunity that vastly expanding sales indicated. Some independents grew large. The eight-firm concentration ratio also stabilized (though not yet the four-firm ratio). The market became sluggish, however, as the early stars died, were forced into retirement because of legal problems, or in the notable case of Elvis Presley, were drafted by an impinging environment. Near the end of this period the majors decided that the new sounds were not a fad and began to buy up the contracts of established artists and successfully picked and promoted new ones, notably The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan. A new generation (e.g., The Beatles) appeared from 1964 to 1969, and sales again soared.

But now the concentration ratios soared also. From 1962 to 1973, the four-firm ratio went from 25 to 51 percent; the eight-firm ratio from 46 to 81 percent, almost back to the pre-1955 levels. The number of different firms having hits declined from forty-six to only sixteen. Six of the eight giants were diversified conglomerates, some of which led in the earlier period; one was a new independent, the other a product of of mergers.

How did they do it? The major companies asserted “increasing central control over the creative process”[352] through deliberate creation and extensive promotion of new groups, long-range contracts for groups, and reduced autonomy for producers. In addition, legal and illegal promotion costs (drug payola to disc jockeys, for example) rose in the competitive race and now exceeded the resources of small independents. Finally, the majors “have also moved to regain a controlling position in record distribution by buying chains of retail stores.”[353] The diversity is still greater than it had been in the past, and may remain high, but it is ominous that the majors have all the segments covered. As an executive said, “Columbia Records will have a major entry into whatever new area is broached by the vagaries of public tastes.” But for a concentrated industry, the “vagaries of public tastes” are not economical; it is preferable to stabilize and consolidate them. This would be possible through further control over the creative process and marketing.

Charles Perrow, Complex organizations : a critical essay, 1972, 1985. pp. 186--187.

The dynamics, actors, and economics remind me strongly of the software / high-tech industry, though with much weaker coupling and different lock-in mechanics.
Anybody else thinking of the walkers from star wars when reading the headline? I was a bit disappointed seeing the size as it promises "giant" which does not really live up to star wars size expectations..

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Walker
I choose not to visit those sites, they're on my (mental) block list. Typically if a link goes to a US news site, or a newspaper I won't follow it. As a result I get most general interest news from https://bbc.co.uk/news
That's a quadratic solution. Try solving an inverse problem to get insight - how to know if a sequence is almost a palindrome and what's the "palindromicity" metric - and you will find the faster solutions. (I think it leads directly to a Knuth-Morris-Pratt like algorithm. And you can further apply a variant of divide and conquer on top.)
Someone facing health issues later in life is going to be better off if they didn't splurge all their income on trinkets.
I've just gone back to WFO and here are the reasons it sucks for me:

- an extra hour per day getting ready and travelling which increases stress and is ~250 hours per year simply wasted - many people have to waste much more.

- my office has terrible facilities. there is no natural light, heating is inconsistent and it's dusty.

- my office is attached to a factory so i have to listen to lathes running for a full 8 hours per day while i'm trying to solve problems.

- no eating area so i pretty much sit in my car for my lunch break

- people are constantly interrupting me with trivial issues that have absolutely no priority

- i don't really socialise at work much anyway so what's the point? i'm the only developer so there's no benefit from being near a team

Instead I could sit in my office at home with a superior set up, superior comfort, relaxing environment. I can go and have a lie down whenver I want. I can start and finish work at odd times if necessary. I can go to the gym on my lunch break.

It's just no contest for me personally although I must admit the quality of my office environment is certainly below average.
Ahh, errexit:

unless
the command that fails is part of an until or while loop, part of an
if statement, part of a && or || list, or if the command's return status
is being inverted using !.

All hope is lost.
Uhhh, yeah I have. More often using Haines Manual. But I've done CVs on 69 and 72 Beetles, a bunch of early 70s Leyland Mini race cars, two different late 80s Suzuki Swifts, late 90s Ford Laser, and Alfa Romeo Sud and a Sprint, and a 2005-ish RAV4.

I've also totally stripped and rebuilt several VW Beetle motors (and a Kombi one), a 13B Mazda rotary (which ended up in the 72 Beetle eventually), and my Ducati Monster 900 (engine/gearbox). I own one motorcycle that needs a new top end rebuild every 10,000km (A Cagiva Mito 125cc two stroke). I've done the desmo valve clearances on that Ducati every 20,000km since 1999 (it's got over 320,000km on it now.)

So I'm not particularly scared of most mechanical things (I'm more put off by the pains of a 50year old body crouching down next to a motorcycle in the cold these days than worried about working on the mechanical stuff...)

But I _am_ acutely aware that many (most?) people didn't have fathers who taught them how to work on cars/lawnmowers when they were 7 or 8 years old, and have no clue at all how tight fasteners should be or much force you can put on them before starting to worry about whether you need to start checking if you've missed the lock nut or split pin. People who have no feel for whats "About right" for a 10mm fastener compared to a 17mm or 32mm one. People who don't read a torque spec of 10Nm for an M6 fastener and realise "Oooh, that's not very tight, must be a stainless fastener into a soft-ish allow..."

I _strongly_ stand by my advice of making a more experienced friend and having them oversee things and be there for when you're not sure if you're doing things right.
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Careful calling it an RPG, because to fans of actual RPGs, roguelikes don't involve any actual roleplaying. It's just the hack & slash and level progression elements.

Just like there are people who care about the definition of 'roguelike', there are people who care about the definition of 'rpg'.
Wouldn't stopping the very suboptimal behavior earlier be a net good if the crash is inevitable? It sucks to be caught in it of course but returning to remotely rational of renting it to /someone/ when there is demand should help the whole long term.

The "pray and delay" logic also seems to reflect inverted causation fallacies where they think a lower rent business will neccessarily drive away other higher rent ones and "devalue" it instead of it being a reflection of the fact they can't sustain the higher rents required to pay for it.
What is scary is that american gender stereotypes are becoming popular. In my school times I never heard "girls have problem with math", on the contrary, the majority of math and science teachers were women.
Eastern Europe is unique because we never really had our own petty bourgeois being effectively colonized, so farmers became workers and workers became bankers.
Someone really should write a monograph about Eastern European Cooperative Banking, it's quite amazing.
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Right, but how does China having the ability to license MIPS affect this?
The one thing I dislike about such timed tests, they promote quick and dirty hacks rather than thinking and elegant or performant solutions. On a systemic level, that's not good for business and will crowd out people who know better.
The difference being that American Idol contestants are often actually quite artistically good - they only managed to get where they are because of skill and looks and luck, instead of just the latter two. (This isn't universal; it's often the case they pick someone up who is actually pretty awful but is interesting for the whole mechanics of the show, either being very attractive or standing out in some other way... but it still holds that the show has actually managed to scout real talent on the whole - just look at how many of the people who didn't win managed to snag successful music careers afterwards.)

But that's beside the point here. My biggest peeve is that there are plenty of "Top 40" "artists" that can barely hold a note. And it's been that way since the 90s, thanks to the magic of Auto-Tune. Anyone with a marketing budget and access to an industry insider who can make the right moves can just start dropping albums and buying hit slots.

What's changed is that now, anyone with a YouTube or Twitch channel can just start publishing music. Create a Soundcloud and you can get rotation in any one of a dozen DJs podcasts. TuneCore will put your stuff in the Music Stores. Spotify and Pandora are a little harder to break into, but not much. Setup a Twitter account and talk directly to your fans without needing a publicist.

A whole industry's worth of Kingmakers have been turned into online services, and that's really changing the landscape of the industry.
Your email address seems to be bouncing.
Another example of Khronos being stuck with C mindset and poor tooling.

Vulkan Compute so far hasn't gotten anywhere.
Another vote for novelty. When I met my wife, she was pushing us to do new things all the time. It seemed like every day we would try a new cafe, a new restaurant, see a new part of town, explore a new trail... There was a 6 month period that felt like it could have been years.

Since moving to the valley and getting absorbed in work, we've stopped doing things. We'll try a new restaurant every week, and maybe go on a day trip every few months. We're coming up on our two year anniversary of moving here and frankly I feel like we could just move on and forget the entire chapter of our life. The last two years feel like 6 months, and that's only because we got married last year and took a week long honeymoon.

If I look back through my photo album, there is a startling difference in the number of pictures I've taken too. I've started forcing myself to just take random pictures now and then just so I don't end up without a record of this time in my life.
In a lot of TikTok songs, the 15-30 seconds of the song that you've heard dozens of times is the best part of the song, with the rest of the piece being rather dry and bland. "Hit or miss, I guess you never miss huh" and "I'm already Tracer" are my quintessential examples of this.
We’re actually just in the middle of our move off Snap. Do subscribe to the mailing list and I can send an update once that’s out.
Beautifully done, as a developer it makes me cringe on behalf of my profession.

Covers invasive collection of personal details, "security questions", upsells, ReCaptcha and more.

Please consider sharing with your teams everyone : )
Techies don't like to think about it, but it's obvious. The only reason why Chrome has come to dominate the market is because Google leveraged their monopoly in search. And even beyond Google Search, if you used Google Mail or anything else by Google, they'd repeatedly put notifications telling you that Chrome is great and why don't you download it? Then there's using all those billions of dollars to pay everybody to help advertise Chrome by adding it to their installers as an opt-out. It's no wonder Chrome is everywhere, Google did their best to abuse their position to ensure that it was a foregone conclusion.

I wonder more about why people accept their anti-competitive behavior when Microsoft was shafted for doing pretty much the same thing.
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> because from a ecological perspective the walkers are superior

You sure about that? Soil compaction is the most serious long-term damage caused by timber harvesting. It's why only tracked harvesters driven by highly-paid fellers are allowed off the gravel. The masses of everyday log-truck drivers (and their wheeled vehicles) are not allowed on the dirt.

You want the ground pressure spread out as much as possible, not concentrated on tiny "feet".
I'm not sure how they do it, but somehow this happens as soon as I arrive at the office!
No it's not quadratic: since there is at most one conflict it will be linear.
Reminds me of @lutusp's story.

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From my experience onboarding means showing you where the bathroom is, giving you credentials for your new emial account, pointing you to a company wiki and introducing you to your new team and then you are at the mercy of your team to "get you up to speed".
Stories of some fun activities sound like some sort of novelty to me.
No one is in charge forever, lead by example and if you’re doing things right eventually people will follow. You are as much a part of the culture as the current “boss”