skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GCP is definitely on a our list to explore, we don't have a firm timeline for it yet, but anyone that is interested in GCP we welcome hearing from to help gauge interest.
The difference between being better than humans at simple games and harder games like Go is scale. We thought this wouldn't happen for generations but here we are.

I don't see the how the sorts of problems presented as being qualitatively different as ones we can already solve. The problem is scale and having the problem formally defined. We'll separate the english-to-machine readable form as a separate step as I don't think that's the 'math' part of the challenge--specifically excluding math word problems.

We will develop better representations and search strategies and meta-strategy searching abilities and make advances in improving their runtimes as hardware devices continue to get faster allowing research to accelerate.

For the example question, a machine could have picked a special case, right triangles where a^2 + b^2 = c^2 and the area a*b/2. Now choose a^2, b^2 as whole numbers, say 2 and 3 ==> c = root(5) with area 3.

As noted in other comments, it would then have to take this premise and algebraically extend to all n>3 which I believe we have inductive provers as one example can do.
Thoughts on the Apple September Event 2020
It's an amusing quote in the sense that it gets used by two people on opposite sides of it, and they're both wrong.

People that hate ads love that quote because they like using it to lambast the tech industry (in general, and advertising in particular), even though only a small percentage of engineers or other tech industry employees work on ads.

People in the ad space love that premise. You know what's worse than that premise? Admitting to themselves that they're not the best minds of their generation and they're still stuck doing work trying to figure out how to optimize ad clicking - the worst combination. At least they get to pretend they're the best minds of their generation, if they buy into the quote, that's a consolation prize.

The best minds are largely not working in advertising (maybe a small share of them are). They're figuring out how to leverage CRISPR to cure and prevent disease, or trying to figure out a therapy for Alzheimer's disease, or working on immunotherapy. They're the kind of minds that were working at Pharmasset figuring out how to save tens of millions of lives by curing hepatitis C. They're designing and building the next generation of semiconductors at ARM, Apple, TSMC, Samsung or Nvidia, pushing against the boundaries of what's physically possible. They're working on electric cars at Tesla or VW. They're trying to solve our battery problems. They're launching rockets at SpaceX or Rocket Lab. They're designing the next airplanes for Airbus. They're at NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNSA, heading to the Moon and Mars, or working on James Webb, figuring out if Venus contains life, and so on. They're designing the next generation of nuclear reactors, ITER or maybe working at LHC. They're working at Illumina, Boston Dynamics, Intuitive Surgical. They're in national and university labs all over the world, trying to solve very hard problems on a daily basis. They're even working on hypersonic weapons, military drones and designing nukes. And that's not meant to exclude the rest of this giant world, as the world is filled with examples.
Yeah GOG hasn't "focused" on vintage games for at least half a decade now (and the switch from GoG and the original acronym to branding wise it's just GOG and its own "word" these days) and while back compat remains a core strength (though one as much exported at this point as most Publishers have paid attention to what GOG was doing and released many of the same games with the same tricks [ScummVM, DOSBOX, etc] on Steam and other platforms) has kept up with Steam (and Epic) on every major AAA release and a large swath of Indies so long as the publisher will allow a DRM Free release. Plus of course CD Projekt Red's own AAA releases (Witcher series, Cyberpunk) as obviously they want DRM Free publishing where available.
We couldn't agree more, extensions are fascinating area for Postgres, with several hundred that already exist they remove a need at times for whole new databases to crop up. The fact that you can build on a Postgres foundation as a solid and stable database, but add new functionality without waiting for a new major release is great.
The navigation between Windows and OSX is fundamentally different (and a large gripe I have with OSX).

OSX is _Application Centric_ while Windows is _Window Centric_. The fact that in OSX I first have to navigate to the App, then once in that app navigate to a specific window that may or may not be visible is frustrating. On windows you cycle between windows that are in a stacked order that has no relation to the application that owns them (they are first-class citizens for the OS). It's more focused on your workflow of documents and not applications. Also, in Windows, if I select a minimized window it will un-minimize the window automatically for me while OSX seems to thing making the focus on the application in that case is enough, even if all the windows for the application are hidden.

These seem like trivial differences, but they are fundamental changes in workflow that trip a lot of people up. Also, FWIW, many (most?) window managers on Linux follow the same window centric workflow.

Note: If I'm slightly off on any OSX related weirdness, feel free to correct me. I switched back to Windows once WSL was a working alternative and haven't really looked back. The only thing I really miss in the _AMAZING_ trackpads.
Another option is to make the choice to not support companies affiliated with the ad-tech industry and just use an ad-blocker. They will even block most black-pattern ridden GDPR popups.
> damaged Boeing economically so much already

It bothers me that when lives are lost, our first response as a greedy capitalistic society is to cut funding, considering there aren't really many competitors, and the switch-over costs for airlines would be prohibitive.

We should be funding efforts to investigate the heck out of this and make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm not sure how one would structure such funds to make sure they aren't abused, but I certainly don't want Boeing cutting more corners and hiring less-competent lower-salary aircraft engineers because they are now low on funding and need to get the plane out before some damn quarterly earnings report.
Thanks for the warning.

Honestly, I've used an unfortunate turn of phrase in my original comment. "Your little plot of land" indeed implies a fixed, entrenched moat. What I meant was something different - the area of code I'm currently working on. That may be a different place with every new task. My coping mechanism isn't building little kingdoms - just focusing on the code a given task involves while purposefully forgetting about the global context of the application, in order to not think about how minuscule and irrelevant the task is to the exciting things the company is doing. That context is usually not useful when doing the changes I've already planned beforehand, and it is emotionally distracting.
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I'm not a boomer. I am a market professional for whatever that's worth. Yes with age there does often come less risk tolerance. Money is a more serious thing when one is older with responsibilities, bigger dollars involved, and generally higher stakes for mistakes. But there is also some element of experience. I've worked as an investor since 2003. This year is the first time in my entire career you have really seen significant popular retail interest in individual stocks. The 2000 crash just wiped out that sentiment for 20 years. There are many things this time which are different. There are also many parts of the market which are eerily similar. If you are 32 today then you were 12 playing video games the last time a market reckoned with sentiments like "valuation doesn't matter." Ancient history for the textbooks. Every generation needs to learn this lesson anew for itself by losing money. Someday then you can be the old fart telling youngsters that these speculative frenzies rarely end well.
I think the multi-device strategy is a clear winner. The lifetime value of a console itself is probably not terribly high. After all, most game companies do not sell hardware at all and a few who have eventually gave up (Sega, Atari).

Plus, the PC, Switch, and iPad markets are largely orthogonal to the XB/PS ones. Content for the former probably doesn't compete with the latter, so it makes sense to sell in those markets. And lastly, could you imagine how Sony execs would feel if their best selling PS titles all came from MS studios? That would certainly put them in an awkward position to suddenly be financially dependent to some degree on MS.
> That's because while Bytedance may retain TikTok's algorithm, it will still run on US Oracle's infrastructure.

That's concerning. So we'll continue to accept the propaganda promotion, censorship, dissident tracking that comes with that? What are we really gaining here?
yeah he sounded like he was tech lead for the project, i am surprised to learn he's "independent"
It's not a security measure, it's a noise reduction measure.

It reduces the number of people jiggling the handle on your door, but if all it takes to get in is jiggling the handle, you have bigger problems.
Whether it didn't have to or not is immaterial, it did activate, and did so within minutes after take-off. If it was rare then we would not have had any crashes at all.
It’s been a hot minute but basically the talk was about the programming language that they’re using which the lead was one of the main writers/collaborators for and how it was a secure language among other things that just weren’t really making sense.

Overall, I got the sense this was a person who aligned with their founder in selling themselves as badasses.
it's funny how there's a framesInCommon removal for printing out stack traces; but something similar _could_ likely be added for x lines repeating y times continuously

(_could_ because I don't know how mathematically hard that is)
It is very cumbersome to write nested updates using the old syntax, and overlapping names between records was quite painful to deal with.
Alternative client without being to independently verify their correctness do not fit the trust model of Signal or any of the chat systems.
Here is the superseding indictment itself: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/downl...

Assange is alleged to have actively recruited hackers and directed them to find particular information from particular sources. Among other things, agreed to assist Manning in deriving a password from a hash file. (It is irrelevant whether he succeeded or not—the crime of conspiracy is complete upon taking the first substantial step toward achieving the goal of the conspiracy, such as passing the hash to someone else for cracking.)

According to the indictment, he was closer to running an operation to expropriate sensitive data from all over the world than being a journalist neutrally publishing documents that people sent him.
The way is just to provide a thin wrapper good enough for the features that the application needs, not a full blown framework.
> there was originally planned for Destiny 3

That was Activision's plan. Bungie never wanted pop new destiny titles likes CoD. D2 also designed with content being constantly added in mind - main story is super short. It's easier to sell cosmetics to fund "big" dlcs with small seasons in between. At least, compared to convincing people to buy an entire $60(70?) new game and wait for all of your friends buy it as well.
This is a good observation. I'm in my late 50s and more and more I keep getting the feeling "I've seen this (or something very similar) before" whether having to do with software development trends, politics, fashions etc. That old adage about there being nothing new under the sun didn't make much sense to me when I was younger, but now it seems to often ring true.
This would surely be more impressive than playing starcraft. But I don't see how this is possible without AGI.
Imgur strips EXIF data on upload, so that's unlikely.
Are you being paid by Telegram?
Whether it succeeds or fails isn't important, rather if
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> I think this writer is engaging in lazy projection. Stop buying the crap and you'll stop seeing the crap. (I don't like this piece, if you can't tell.)

What's actually "lazy" is the individualistic, personal-responsibility-focused demand-led philosophy of preaching to consumers that if they (a single individual) don't like the industry they should stop buying, and that will bring about change. This offloading of responsibility from the industry onto consumers is nonsense, and belies the political nature of marketing, advertising, lobbying and the creation of a culture and market for "crap".

> the wealth of the American economy has driven the rest of the world to create a world of low quality goods to sell to us

And this is more lazy American exceptionalism. America is not the only wealthy economy.
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La Niña conditions are present and are likely to continue
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> It seems like nowadays you just can't make money building interesting things anymore.

Sounds like you haven't tried or you haven't stumbled on an actual issue. There are lifetimes of problems out there, and many existing solutions are poor or non-solutions.

I run into them all the time and cannot possibly dedicate my one lifetime to all of the problems I see viable commercial solutions to.
The recent (modern startup, hip and happening and VC invested company) I built a CRUD frontend for has a lovely system: mysql but the db is not relational: 1000s of tables matching the Objects in their OO code. I have so many scripts and generators and, especially for mysql, introspection tools it was not that much work but what a horror show.
Thanks for sharing your company, https://siftrics.com

I'd never heard of your company but this service looks GREAT.

I wish you financial success.

Question: your price points are sooooo low (which is great for the consumer) but I get concerned it's too low for your company to stay viable. Is that a concern? Please don't take this an me knocking your company. I really love what I've seen on your site.
For me, the big thing is that older developers need to use their experience in helpful manners. In my experience, it's used it to simply block or scoff at the actions of younger devs or managers while not always working to solve the issue. In order to be useful, you have to also work and suggest alternatives and solutions, otherwise you're just a curmudgeon. That's at least what I've found working at a site that is mostly older engineers.
> Unlike previous times in Apple history where they went all-in on a new and not yet widely adopted bus (USB1, FireWire) IMHO this is purely about improving their margins.

I don't think that's the difference. I think the difference is that, the other times 3rd party companies made the switch to whatever Apple was pushing, and this time, they didn't. USB-A is good enough, and common enough, that all of these companies making keyboard and mice and whatever components, just didn't bother to switch. So, I don't think that this transition was different from Apple's perspective, I think it has just been a failure.
I have the same experience with non-standard port usage, and I think it's a very reasonable thing to do, while also caring for the security of the service behind that socket. SecOps will thank you for not having to wade through log spam in the endeavor of preventing attacks.
Mind of numbers is what I am using to understand learning. There is also a course on this on Coursera. Check it out. It's too rated
As dating, I can see it.

Part of the issue with dating is that some people are wanting to date, while others are looking for other things. The only real purpose of dating during a pandemic is actually dating, all of those other purposes are stripped away.
What of those opinions should change in your opinion?
Emissions of a city bus are more than double the emissions of a VW golf, but that doesn't mean mass-transit should be reduced.
Thanks for this analysis. I knew something like that might be happening but didn't know enough about js to confirm.
Can AI even verify proofs now? Say it's presented with a solution, can it check for the internal consistency.
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It is as good as impossible to run an oscillator based receiver that is also connected to an antenna that does not radiate. That's nothing to do with poor design, it's just physics. Zero coupling does not exist in practice. By design the mixer stage sits pretty close to the initial amplifier and it will result in some of the oscillator energy making it back to the antenna circuitry. FWIW I built a ton of transmitters and radio gear in my teens, it is pretty easy to take a theoretical stance here and declare that anything that leaks is not designed properly but that's about as 'true Scotsman' as you could get.
It really just depends on where you're interviewing. A lot of places that hire software engineers don't ask algorithmic questions at all.

It's really impossible to generalize about most aspects of this career in my opinion. There are no hard rules about anything, even hiring.

I think about this in relation to the "skill gap" in programming a lot. There are people who work in very senior positions in software development who couldn't do a LeetCode easy or a FizzBuzz. They don't read articles about how to get better at programming or about concepts like DRY etc... but maybe they do the very specific thing their employer wants well enough, that combined with their long tenure and relationships with other people they are pretty much lifers.

That's why I laugh when I see articles on Hacker News articles where it says if you don't do X Y or Z you're not a "real" programmer. Meanwhile a huge swath of people employed as programmers haven't even heard of a lot of this stuff, much less actually used it.
True. I wasn't able to find a good source on how common memory leaks are in modern C code. Do you have one?

I'd be surprised if memory leaks are far less common than double-free, use-after-free, dereferencing NULL, and out-of-bounds access. I'd expect they'd be roughly equally difficult to detect, either manually or using tooling like Valgrind and static-analysers. I'd also expect memory-leaks to be of generally less concern, and therefore less 'newsworthy', as a small memory leak isn't as likely to pose a real problem as any of the other errors.
My point is that the set of choices available to the poorest among us is largely determined by the richest among us. The only way for the poor to improve their situation is by playing the game of consumptive behavior that has been laid before them by those in positions of power. Keep in mind that reproduction is a deep-seated biological drive and that the one factor strongly correlated with lower birthrates, education, is a scarce resource and one that is subject to all sorts of manipulation at many levels of governance.

It's also somewhat-to-highly myopic to assume that relative wealth isn't an important factor in an era when humans are faced with devastation of the natural processes that we've relied on for millenia (I.e. rising tide raises all boats). Sure, we have social media and iphones, but those don't feed and slake us, and the A/C bill is overdue.

Cf. modern, independent (even 1st world modern) farmers' plight. It's not possible to make a go of it being a subsistence-type local producer. Someone will come in and undercut you with an ersatz product and financial/legal maneuvering.

Aside from that, it's largely been proven that the hysteria surrounding birthrate and overpopulation is a red herring strongly advocated by industries trying to obfuscate the problem of climate change.
Moving your SSH port isn't really about security. It's about reducing noise in your logs from annoying port scanners constantly hitting common ports. Although that does then have the benefit of making your logs more useful for detecting actual attacks. And it probably reduces some CPU cycles too as an added bonus.
>had a long standing grudge against John Carmack made me loose so much respect for them.

No kidding. You want to keep a guy like Carmack in the family in whatever capacity you can, because he carries such deep respect in the industry. It was a stupid thing for ZeniMax to burn that bridge.
True, but I still prefer to completely block IPs who tried to log in via SSH and failed multiple times.
I remember doing pretty good with a decent map book. I'm not sure traveling these days is really that much simpler. I did some pretty big trips before the age of always on and it worked just fine. Also me and my wife still argue navigation in the Tesla with its futuristic built-in navigation (that's not always perfect). My "reliable" not-80's Subaru Outback broke down on me in my last big road trip (which indirectly led to getting the Tesla, so far so good).

Not to knock down all the real progress, but things were fine 20+ years ago as well...
I live in Manhattan. I don't know what anarchy they are talking about. It is calm, peaceful, and beautiful here right now. I have not seen, nor heard, a protest since June or July? I've biked all around Manhattan and the only distressing thing I've seen is the closed storefronts and "for lease" signs plaguing city blocks. Mayor de Blasio seems intent on ruining the local economy with petty rules and restrictions.
Its not about selling Xboxs anymore. Its about Game Pass subscribers.
Indeed, the hybrid era has been a complete washout. Hamilton is a great driver, but any mid level driver could win the driver's championship in a Mercedes car.
signify is nice when key distribution, revocation, and rotation is handled for you... but how do you do that securely for many different publishers on a single repo?
The article has some interesting history but it also misleads by omission. Europe's forests were denuded by hand-tool harvesting of wood well before power tools were invented. The earliest use of coal in European iron making was motivated by charcoal supplies running short due to extensive deforestation.

When the article says "two-thirds of the wood that is harvested in developing societies is harvested sustainably" it's also saying "one third of the wood that is harvested in developing societies is harvested unsustainably." Even the very low energy consumption per capita of biomass-reliant populations is not sustainable at modern population densities.

Biomass is a very low efficiency method of converting sunlight to energy useful to humans. That's why mainstream scientific and environmental organizations are more interested in solar photovoltaic technology; PV can provide 50 times more useful energy per hectare than biomass. The "high tech" approach is not just fashion-driven technology for technology's sake.

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Biomas...

https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2018/biomass-and-land-use/

https://ucanr.edu/sites/WoodyBiomass/files/78993.pdf
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> Apps shouldn't really have access to anything beyond the very basics without explicit permission.

Now you just need to have everyone agree on what the "basics" are.