skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.
With git bisect you know what you are looking for.
So even if you did make a commit with e.g., a missing semicolon you can still call it "good" because it did not cause the problem your are trying to debug.
I've been playing with reinforcement learning on simulated robots, using OpenAI Gym[0] and PyBullet[1].

I find it interesting because, in theory, the learned policies transfer to real-world robots, and the time is nigh for development in that area. Plus you get to watch it do funky robot shit and slowly get better.

If you want a quick way to dive in, I have a repo[2] I've
been using to train on a variety of PCs and Google Colab[3]. The task is a Panda robot pushing a randomly
placed object. I had some trouble getting it all working with recent Keras at first, so my repo might save you time.

Email me[4] if you get stuck.

[0] https://gym.openai.com/

[1] https://pybullet.org/

[2] https://github.com/tlack/rl-experiments

[3] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HGmKMGwW_emok157ENr...

[4] lackner@gmail.com
Asking developers to learn an entirely new language or ecosystem isn't exactly my idea of productive. ;)
Who said there was a pattern and people continuing to drive after it happened once?
That was probably the Google Search Appliance.
Increasingly they're not. Wildfire has creaated an insurance crisis.

Lack of insurance, or rather, uninsurability, tends to reduce mortgage availability. Banks don't like smokey assets.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/homeowners-insurance/californ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/california-home-i...
Unfortunately that does not protect us from the 9th circus. For cases that I follow, just going by whether they were appointed by an R or a D president is 97% accurate at predicting how a judge will vote. If I can predict their vote without reading the briefs or listening to the arguments, I suspect they can (and do) as well.
The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments
Exactly how have you established what the commenters have or haven't considered? To me, its silly to make this about class or economic status. Also, this is not just a made up "policy" . Its the law (well, in most countries). If you want to relax the laws so that drowsy/reckless driving is accepted, you are welcome to present an actual argument.
I’m starting to get the sense that if Lindsey Graham backs it, it’s almost certainly bad policy.
I wrote a finite capacity planner for a pie factory in Excel v6. It made my Pentium 60 run a bit warm for a while. It took about 18 months - I was the only IT bod in the place. I also learned basic networking and installed a pair of hubs (yes hubs) with a 10BASE2 "backbone" and 10BASET to the desktop. I learned the new Novell 4 stuff, NDS etc and wrote login scripts etc. When I started, Planning were using Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS and some amazing feats of keyboard jockeying. When I finished with them, they cranked the machine and then used their experience to tweak the plan a bit. Run it past the Production meetings, feedback and twiddle a bit and send it out to the Team Leaders, Quality and the rest. If things started to look different, then run the plan again etc. I borrowed my Dad's logistic textbooks to learn about forecasting (v).

Getting from infinite capacity planner to the finite version took quite a while!

I don't think you can fault the tool. VBA in a spreadsheet gives you a lot of power but it needs discipline to wield correctly. I used to have a row at the bottom of all my tables with the word "End" in tiny text in each column, always formatted white on red. All my routines that ran down the table to look up and do something would always look for that signal that the end had been found. Nearly all formulae were entered by VBA. I had auditing routines that would test the various sheets for errors - I suppose I "discovered" unit tests. One of them looked for a row of text with specific formatting ... Another obvious check is having row and column sums cross checking each other. I (re)discovered loads of little things like that.

With care a spreadsheet can be quite handy for all sorts of tasks but please don't equate the ill advised monstrosities you (and I) might have come across in the past with a fault in the tool itself.

Anyway, there is a lot more to this story than that and back then I had a IBM System/36 running the show as well to worry about. Twinax is a right old laugh to deal with. I remember going to Eng and asking to borrow a spanner and a soldering iron - "but you're Planning, what do you need those for".

Sorry, started waffling 8)

(v) How to forecast demand from the multiples in the UK for pasties, sausage rolls etc, back in the day. There are two cycles one is weekly and the other is roughly annual, with peaks and sometimes spikes at Easter and Christmas and some upticks at bank holidays. The weekly one literally looks like a sine wave, the annual one is a bit more involved. As a first go, take the last three orders by day of week for a product and calculate an exponentially smoothed forecast for next week. For example take the last three Mondays to get next Mondays's forecast. Bear in mind that you need to prep, make, bake, chill and wrap the product and ship to depot with about seven to 11 days shelf life and it takes something like one to three days to do that. You are always making to forecast, which is quite tricky. This was about 25 years ago but Asda, Nisa, Lidl etc used to take our forecast and fax/EDI it back as an order without changes.
As a canadian, if they could get rid of the nickle and dime too, that'd be great.

If we have to have sub-quarter, i wish it was 12.5 cents instead.
I'm not clear how this isn't kicking the can down the road for awhile, when eventually nickels will be the new pennies? Is there not a better solution? How much do nickels cost to make?
> You may want to check out how elections were done in Venice in centuries past. They thought they could randimize their way to fairness too, it looks pretty silly and ineffective in retrospect: https://www.venetoinside.com/hidden-treasures/post/the-elect...

What specific problem were the Venetians trying to solve with that design, and how did it turn out to be ineffective?
A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-Based Authentication (RBA)
A number of EU countries (Netherlands, Ireland and Finland, IIRC) have already unilaterally done away with 1c and 2c coins. They're still legal tender, but all prices/sums are rounded to the nearest 5c so they're not necessary.
Or severe flood zones with federal flood insurance that ensures the same cycle every few years.
This is awful news. Inflation will always make people decide to phase-out the smaller denominations. One can argue that the smaller denominations are already useless, but then starting to phase out the smaller denominations will only make sure the population doesn't notice things getting worse over time.

There is just a serious answer to this: freedom to trade in whatever currency you'd prefer. Legal tender (when you're forced to use a given currency in a country) sucks.
Almaden has been there since the 1800s. Lexington wasn't always just a reservoir, it was also once a town, going back to the 1800s as well. Hard to call them "irresponsible", they predate California urbanization.
Government’s Role in Major Technological and Economic Innovations
“ Beautiful, isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. At present I'm writing the definitive work on the subject. So I want you to be totally honest with me on how The Machine makes you feel.”
The new IE.
Goodsell's book, "Machinery of Life" is fantastic at giving a first-pass representation of the basic interactions in a cell that are otherwise invisible.

https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/machinery-of-life/
This isn't a new problem. There's a very good example of intellectual property retarding socioeconomic development in the industrial history of the steam engine.

Early steam engine development was a collaborative endeavor, with various engineers building on the ideas of others to make incremental improvements in steam technology. Then came Bolton and Watt, who used patents to stop the development of steam engines superior to their own products.

The Bolton and Watt patents prevented the development of steam railway engines, and in so doing delayed the beginning of the railway era--and all the societal development it created--by twenty years or more.

Intellectual property law is a gift to monopolists. It is not a social good.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine
A more appropriate example is:

`var list = new ArrayList<String>();` [1]

The compiler figures out the type of `list` without "annotations". Same with C++'s `auto` and Rust's `let`.

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286
Consider an alternate viewpoint: The universe is destroying natural resources both via growing blackholes as well as by entire galaxies moving beyond our accessible light cone due to expansion.

Thus we are wasting an unfathomable amount of natural resources by delaying our transition to a space-faring civilization. And world GDP is currently the best measure we have of human technological progress.
In Los Gatos, some homeowners were denied a few years back and Senator Feinsteinn threw a fit, so the insurance cos relented.
I call that the Microsoft Office Syndrome.

Tools such as Excel or PowerPoint are almost "too good" as in they allowed users to come up with usage which aren't what the software was made for.

As others have said regarding Excel, it's not so much what it's capable of but what you do with it and how you do it.

I've seen people using Excel as a tool for trading, as an inventory database for a warehouse, as a shared database to track task progress, as a Gantt chart, as a calendar and so on.

PowerPoint is the same. Who hasn't been given a PPT file as a manual for something?

"Oh, it's all in the powerpoint".

Or been given the same kind of file to familiarize yourself about something at your (new) workplace. Issue is you rarely have any of the material the speaker used to present the whole thing so you're left wondering about the meaning of it all while reading bullet point lists...

No, a powerpoint is not a proper doc...

So in a way, I have to applaud MS as they did great with these but almost too great...
Interesting, when I was microdosing LSD I was much more social: less social anxiety, more outgoing and more friendly. (A nicer person, as far as I can tell!) Also I was able to consistently keep an early bedtime for the first time in my life.

The most interesting effect for me was that it became impossible to procrastinate. (I normally spend 99% of my time procrastinating.) I would go on YouTube or Reddit but the whole time I was just consciously aware that I was trying to distract myself from something... so in the end it was easier to just go ahead and do the damn thing to get it off my mind. Very productive time for me.
Just finished “Camelot 30K” also by Robert L Forward. Humans meet aliens out in the Kuiper belt. Interesting ideas for alien life at very cold temperatures. Similar style to Dragon’s Egg (Mentioned in list) and equally enjoyable.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- William Shakespeare ~1598
I'm not saying it's simple, I'm saying that 1) Those prices don't seem particularly steep for the work and 2) it doesn't seem like it's a good idea to cut them, so complaining about those specifically seems pointless especially as it's probably a good idea to make sure premises aren't dangerous.
Yes please!
We spent a year traveling through Europe and it was such a pain in the ass dealing with them.

I ended up just not taking then back as change.
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Monaco also
Cognito setup guide for UI applications
No, this isn't really accurate.

Most cases aren't about fundamental Constitutional issues that you can bring before a court by right.

There are so many lawsuits because Congress has given the right to sue over so many laws. Or, put another way, created laws and regulations whose content and loopholes enable people to sue under those terms.

If the laws were absolutely clear and drew bright lines for many things, there would not be the ambiguity to sue.

I think it is generally a product of our own creation. Yes there are more diverse commercial interests and entities now than 40 years ago, but Congress has equally generated the complexity you see.

The courts are absolutely drowning under this load. Effectively, the likelihood of your case being heard is now low enough that settlement is likely how the matter is going to be resolved.
Huh? What lawsuits? There is an impeachment trial and that's it.
Best would be to replace 25 cents with 20 cents.
I agree.

I think acephal is ill-informed on this subject. I've seen rising anti-Western (and anti-asian btw) sentiment across the continent, especially throughout sub-saharan Africa. As a matter of full disclosure, I think it's a problem. Africa was the last place in the world where ethno-nationalism hadn't swept through, and the past year or so has seen it sweep the continent with a vengeance. Even white South Africans, I think, would admit that there are serious problems in this regard. Panafricanism is a thing, to ignore it and say it doesn't exist is just sticking your head in the sand. (Pan-Africanism in the traditional sense is not bad btw. It would even be helpful. I'm talking about the brand of pan-Africanism that demands a harmful kind of ethno-exclusivity. No one has an issue with the pan-africanist tenets of strengthening links between African nations and inviting slave descendants to move to Africa. Which I support as keys to Africa's development.)

Acephal is also mistaken in thinking young Africans do not think like American blacks. Their exposure to the West, and unfortunately, to the US, has given many first hand experience in, for instance, police behavior. The ones who return to Africa to tell the tale are, if anything, more radical than American blacks.

The good news is that I think the rising ethno-nationalism in Africa is very much a reaction to the rising ethno-nationalism in the rest of the world. If it could be checked elsewhere, it may tamp down in Africa as better stories about treatment make it back to the populations of the various nations in Africa. Right now, the stories of what happens outside of Africa have turned decidedly negative. That's the issue driving sentiment in my opinion.
Six Sigma, 25 Sigma
Imperfect Projections
McAfee has been at this for years. I guess it finally caught up w him. He was in some prison last year.

I met with people who work w him btw, he has an interesting group of compatriots

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/john-mcafee-tweets-phot...
Sounds very on brand
> all of the above is unsafe

Humanity has a pretty substantial record of doing "unsafe" for the betterment of themselves, mankind, or just for giggles. The risks are well-known to themselves, who are you to suggest that they cannot manage those risks?

Some people manage it their entire lives, while others do not. However, I'd trust someone driving who is well aware of their boundaries over someone who is not aware, any day.

My wife fell asleep at the wheel once, I just reached over and kept the wheel straight while trying to wake her up. I hope cars can do that in the future, for those times that I'm not there. And for the record, she's one of those that has never fallen asleep before or gotten drowsy at the wheel.

> Having climbed from societal rock-bottom to a decent position in the tech industry

I've done this as well. I've gone to war, I've seen things you likely can't imagine without a bunch of CGI and special effects. Most of the tech world has no idea what "rock bottom" even means except through the view of Hollywood, and even that doesn't look all that bad from that angle.
"The researchers, using World Bank and International Energy Agency data covering 1990-2014, found that nuclear and renewables tend to exhibit lock-ins and path dependencies that crowd each other out, identifying a number of ways in which a combined nuclear and renewable energy mix is incompatible."

It would have been preferable to look at a slightly wider or later window, e.g. 1995-2019, as renewables (and batteries) seem to decrease in price with each year, and the Fukushima disaster was in 2011, which probably casts a shadow over the final years of that range.
When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018)
Life can't be simpler yet because systems do not yet understand the consequences of their actions.

The first step to advanced simplicity is making it easy to do again what you did already. This is the "reorder last shopping cart" level.

The next step is to have a good understanding of what people are likely to re-order, and how often. Some marketing systems are starting to get this. If, last time, you ordered a hammer and some nails, next time you should be offered more nails, but not more hammers.

One obstacle to advanced simplicity is cross-vendor integration. This is why more than one remote is often necessary. There are entertainment systems that self-configure when plugged in, but only from one vendor.
I wonder if any Nobel Prizes will be given for COVID research in the following years.
Abusing Cloudflare with IPFS BitTorrent and WebRTC
tell me something is it unstoppable, by using bittorrent, webRTC and ipfs. this is a demonstration of a real world test of anti censorship through peer to peer.
Then why did Facebook’s cofounder do it to save $600M?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmitchell/2012/05/11/faceb...
Yeah, and next up should be the dishonest price mentioning of 6.99 (which is just 7, unless you buy 3 other products of x.99).
Was it good enough? I would argue that if it enabled your firm to make $12M before being the proximate cause of losing $10M, and the alternative was "we don't win $12M nor lose $10M because we can't afford the project" then I agree it was good enough.
Wow! I was his student many, many years ago. I had to take his class because he was the head of our department. I thought I was going to do something very different with my life and I wasn't very interested, except that he was a great lecturer. In retrospect he was easily the most influential professor I ever had.

If his work in something like "Design of Everyday Things" seems underwhelming I would guess that is because it has become so influential that you already have absorbed a lot of the ideas in the book. You certainly live in a world that is slightly shaped by them. As a teacher, Norman constantly taught through anecdotes about the way things work.

ATMs used to give you money and then after they gave you money they would return your card. The model for the bank was take card, do transaction, return card. The problem was people kept leaving their cards in the machine. Donald Norman pointed out that the "mental model" for people was go to atm-> get money. Once the last step is accomplished the customer doesn't thinks they are done. They don't want to keep thinking about the ATM. "Mental Model" of an interface is a term you may have heard and he coined.

Now every time I go to an ATM and it gives me my card back before the money, I think of him.
pointing at charts and reciting acronyms
I personally feel walrus operator is a much more prominent improvement, considering how prevalent it can be used (like, I use it in almost every single `re.search()`, and at least half of conditional list comprehensions and `while`), while I don't find the old way of updating dict (`{a, b}` etc.) too bad.

But of course, both are very welcomed!
I implemented something like this on my website [1] and I'm not really sold on it and I'm considering changing back.

The two things that I've lost are collapsing margins between paragraphs/headers and the ability for any asides (like a floating image or a footnote) to vertically span multiple paragraphs.

For margins between paragraphs I replaced them with grid-gap, but always having the same grid-gap is not great; you want some content closer than others.

For asides, it means I have to write smaller footnotes that vertically match the height of paragraphs - exactly the kind of lack of content/style separation I want to avoid.

This guy's site is fantastic and the article is well written tho, and it probably works for some people.

[1] example article that uses full-bleed sections: https://nickpunt.com/blog/category-defining-products/
In those stick buildings Americans call houses.
It seems likely that the GPL will fall if that's the case.

>In this particular case, the court’s interest in the matter might stem from an amicus brief filed by a group of civil procedure, intellectual property and legal history professors, who argue that the history of the Seventh Amendment in this context compels recognition of the jury as having broad authority in assessing the fairness of any particular use.

That's not arguing that the API isn't copyrightable. That's arguing it is fair use to take GPL code and change the license. If Google wins on that, the foundation of 35 years of free software is utterly destroyed.
In all fairness, people over 40 are probably less likely to dance like puppets for founders who want "someone who would live and breathe Canny."
You'd be surprised at how common that was. I've known two other financial orgs that scraped Yahoo as a critical part of their investment system...
Sorry if this is very minor, but if possible, please also take out an extra ‘o’ from “Dooom” in the title.
Currencies that are worth $1 more or less should round cash transactions to the nearest 10¢. Then we could simplify coinage considerably and we would all save time waiting in line for people to count out pennies and nickels over amounts that are immaterial.
Then that is nuts, and you don't need to remove calculus to fix it.

Presumably there's something you're teaching that we (in the UK) aren't, or more depth somewhere, but I don't know what it is. Our systems are quite different in that mathematics becomes optional after GCSEs (15-16yo) here, but statistics is taught from a far younger age than that, to that, and beyond for those that take A level(s) in mathematics. (As I recall there are six statistics A level modules total, S1-6, I think S1-2 are compulsory for a full A2 (vs. AS) mathematics qualification (which consists of six modules total). In order to do all six statistics modules one would at least take the second A level 'further mathematics', and probably (pun intended; unless statistics was a particular passion and the school allowed it) 'further additional'.

NB I quite liked that structure - there are 18 'modules' total (arranged in 'core', 'further pure', 'decision' (algorithms), 'statistics', and 'mechanics'. Three A levels total available (six modules each) or fewer and an AS (three). Which ones you want to do are almost entirely up to you if the school's big/lenient enough. IIRC you could even decide for yourself how to allocate the modules' grades across the number of A levels you were eligible for, e.g. if AC would be more beneficial to you than BB.
Web page generation systems should support remapping external URLs
Or... just throwing this out here... they could start by selling actual digital goods which they advertise by a "BUY" button, and charge a service fee if you want them to keep a copy around in their cloud. That way you have your own copy, and the convenience of not having to keep track of where you stored those bits, and when the company inevitably dies/goes bankrupt/is sold/merges with Disney they stop charging the service fee and stop providing the service and you go back to keeping track of your own copy of the bits.
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As an Australian who immigrated to Canada, it baffles me it took you guys so long!

Australia got rid of theirs in 1992.

Whenever I go to the US I try as hard as I can to always drop them in the take-a-penny-leave-a-penny-tray lest my pockets tear from the bulk.