skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what world are you in that we have automate the selection of individuals aptitude for something, we can't even agree IQ tests are valid, or develop flawless visual pattern matching datasets that don't indicate that an African person is smiling or not in a passport photo.

And how do you know a VC biases are bad, is that your own bias playing out? If a VC had consistently bad biases I'm sure they wouldn't be in the game very long, their choices might not be always optimal but on average one would assume they come out ahead.

Of course maybe it's all just a coin toss and we can have an octopus choose.
Brilliant! A combination of artistic talent and math, well done!
Siteswap is really wonderful. It's so good that many nerd jugglers (myself included) enjoy reading about weird and extreme patterns that are way beyond our skills (or even human skills) but technically possible.
On a pragmatic note, the more of an accent a person has, the harder I need to work to understand them. Also, the more accent, the better quality I need from the phone to understand them.

Voice quality from worst to best:

1. cell phone

2. wired phone

3. Skype

4. in person

My hearing has declined somewhat (too much fooling about with hotrods), making the situation worse.

Another thing I've noticed when listening to a talk show. It's easier to understand the host than the guest, especially when the audio is speeded up. Apparently, a professional host enunciates words better.

I've looked around for a speech coach to improve my enunciation for the presentations I give, but all I could find were autism speech therapists and singing coaches, sigh. (I want to improve my enunciation because the easier it is for people to understand my speech, the more they'll pay attention to my presentation. I know that I sometimes give up listening to a presentation when I have to work too hard to understand the speech.)

I've been doing a lot of video conferencing for work these days (like everyone else) and decided to trash my $5 mike and get a semi pro one so people could hear me clearly.
Likewise. So many American accents are just awful nasally things. I actually can't stand listening to half the courses on Coursera for example. The southern accent is so much easier on the ear.
While we're talking about clever quantizing, we should mention the vertex normal encoding. In MD2 (iirc, not sure about MD1) each vertex normal was stored as a byte which indexed into a pre-established array of unit vectors which were more or less uniformly distributed around a sphere. It was a creative way to have good-enough per-frame normals in a tiny amount of space without forcing the engine to do any painfully slow per-frame normal generation (with the floating point division and square root which that entailed).
Market Leadership in Traffic Management Market
google trends can help answer your question:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=chess,fort...
What's the point?

You own it. You control it. YOU have the power. That's the damn point.
"have people learn other languages"

We can't even convince people to get vaccinated, or wear masks during a pandemic
Which you pay for from a general carbon tax, which is a tax on all carbon generating activities. I probably didn't make that clear sorry. Essentially I am saying infrastructure should come out of the general budget and we shouldn't fuss with counting KMs at all. A carbon tax on all CO2 polluting activities would just inflate the general tax revenue and hopefully enough to pay for the infrastructure upkeep.
> Care to expand on that? (brick your device physically)

The lock feature is implemented via iCloud and the "Find My Mac" page, which is able to remotely shut the soft fuses via BIOS/EFI, and in return physically bricks the hardware. Anybody that has control over your iCloud account (e.g. a malicious third party) can potentially do this. See [1], this happened to a lot of companies (customers) that had problems with malicious third-parties getting access to their network.

> That's incorrect. They sued the company because they were supposed to take the devices apart and recycle/recover the parts. Not resell them as manufacturer refurbished.

How come that they could only prove that by having more than 18% of devices that were sent to be trashed with active GPS antennas, and active remote iCloud software tracking? [2] Also, recycle is defined as re-cycling, not re-abandoning. The definition of recycling among the population seems to be a different perception than yours.

Do you honestly think Apple would've dropped the lawsuit if the devices would've been repaired and given away for free? Also kind of related: The lawsuit that happened in Norway, where Rossmann was called as a witness [4]

> They took out the headphone jack because wires are a pain in the ass and the state of the art for wireless headsets is good enough for the majority.

Literally a couple months after PayPal and other payment providers were banned by removing the headphone jack in the 8th gen iPhone, Apple Pay was introduced. You're making it sound like 2 or 3 tiny low-voltage wires are harder to implement than a Bluetooth antenna wiring... c'mon, really?

> (history of default shells in macOS)

You're making it sound as if bash was only inside macOS for a short time. bash, for the sake of argument, has been in use since macOS 10.2 which was released in 2002 [3], whereas 10.0 was a public beta and 10.1 was released the same year in 2001. The argument of a tcsh being in use for 9 months, and bash being in use for over 19 years is quite the opposite way around than you seem to perceive it.

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[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208987

[2] https://www.theverge.com/apple/2020/10/4/21499422/apple-sues...

[3] https://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-102.html

[4] https://repair.eu/de/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/

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Again, my arguments were to counteract the argument that "Apple is acting in good faith for the people", because I do not think that anything innovative can happen on a crippled platform.

Apple actively shuts down innovation, every time it could be seen as an alternative to their own product, which they will release only once market adaption has been done by pioneers. This was happening a lot of times with hardware, and a lot of times with software.

I personally would choose repairability over anything, always, because I've learned my lessons the hard way with financial burdens.
I agree totally agree you in that many people that are into bodybuilding are strong willed or rather drive by obsession, to stick to a strict diet.
> So the only thing we could do to compete was to make ourselves into multiple people, 10x if we could. An easy way to 10x ourselves was by not having a personal life and not taking care of ourselves.

Sounds great
Some of the (few) other sail cargo ships make it work by having most of the crew paying for the privilege. It's kind of like an adventure vacation.
If your anxiety steams from the belief that investors are all-knowing people, this might be the time to correct it. You should assume you are more knowledgeable about your customers than investors and teach them what you know and try to learn what you don't know. Think of them as an UI engineer joining your company and how you will explain your server side code to them on their first day at job. Best of luck!
I don’t know that there’s an architecture limit that means that higher than 16GB is infeasible. I suspect we’ll see 32gb in the new iMacs and presumably a lot more than that in the next Mac Pro (which I’m really excited about in terms of how they scale the architecture).
I mentioned Adobe Animate because it’s actually a rebranded Adobe Flash.
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macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon
Could you be more concrete? Why do you think it Wind+Solar+storage would not "improve anything"?
> as I'd never be sure my opponent wasn't just putting the moves into a computer and playing whatever it told him to play.

That's less of a problem than you might think. The reason being that most online chess systems will give you an Elo rating and use that to match you up to similarly rated potential opponents.

Anyone that was using a computer to play for them would quickly gain a high rating and so either be matched against really strong players who stand a chance of beating the computer or others doing the same thing.

Give online chess a go, it's great.
> Doctors had to make a decision about which patients to let die

Not in the uk they didn't, no.
Working 60h/week is fine as long as you are the founder. You're working for yourself (as well as the athlete and the musician of your example). The "problem" is working 60h/week for someone else (even if you have equity).

Founders have less work/life balance than regular workers, in US, in Sweden and everywhere else.
I also built (and abandoned!) a small static site generator, and it was as well a very surprisingly pleasant experience. Unless you are doing something very different on purpose, all of the underlying blocks already exist somewhere. You just need to find where and exactly how to combine them, so you are basically writing glue code. It feels even more like a superpower compared to normal programming, you write a few lines and suddenly you have this huge feature working quite well.
What I’ve noticed in the Bay Area is a “fetishization” of multi-culturalism; at least amongst the upper-middle class. Lots of “it’s so great our community is diverse”, but then I realized that’s more of “it’s great I can find authentic Mexican food" or "the Chinese New Year Parade is so fun!", but it's pretty apparent by their behavior they are not comfortable with them living in their neighborhood.

Or they’re comfortable with an ethic group in their neighborhood as long as they are firmly Westernized and of a similar socioeconomic class. Outside of that there is very little interest in mixing other than as some fun Sunday leisure activity. Like going to the zoo.
Steel is fine too; the crust of the earth is about 5% iron, so it's not like we're going to run out of it. Current steel production is terribly high in emissions though, but e.g. hydrogen reduction as is being done by the HYBRIT project in Sweden show the way how to fix that.
> Lol they highlighted running Linux in the first announcement of the ISA switch, they see no threat in Linux at all

First they ignore you

Then they laugh at you
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This is no criticism, interesting comment. But...

It's really fascinating that the HN crowd always obsessively needs to put a technical spin on any single topic posted, whatsoever.
Most Roblox games also have their own in game currency that you can earn or buy with Robux within the game. But you cannot buy/sell that currency for real world money.
Why is apple capitalised?
I have had 24h+ battery life on a 64bit x86_64 machine - clearly good battery life is possible already.

Edit: Yes, this was with the lid open and me doing things. Not videogames, just some light coding.
> Both the EV tax and the ICE fine for parking in EV slots were mentioned in the original article

I think the discussion just moved on that's all. I wasn't commenting about the fine,the fine makes sense.

My suggestion was to inflate general tax revenue with a carbon emissions tax on all carbon heavy activities (driving or other). Then forget the per-mile/per-litre stuff all together. I wouldn't even be against an infrastructure tax levy in my income tax.

Part of my enthusiasm for that is so that the absurd spend on car infrastructure is actually pitted against other options such as public transport projects and my hope is thst more public infrastructure would be built because of that.

But I am spitballing policy here, I haven't thought particularly deeply about a restructuring like that and it depends on where you live too.
Native Texan, here. Can confirm, southerners step on their words. Darn=dern. Can't=cain't. Pedernales=Perdenales.
I was never very good at chess because while playing most of my attention was on designing a program to play the game for me so I could be lazy.
Also again I've lost fat (not any weight) and kept it, I don't want to be skinny I wanted to lose excess fat. The goal is not lose weight, it is to lose fat. I lost fat and gained muscle and kept those numbers, so where is the issue?
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Emirates clinches three gongs at the World Travel Awards
China did, it's (was) called Red Flag Linux. It's shut down now. I believe this product was mainly a tactic to get the Chinese gov't a better position in negotiating deal with MS (probably regarding both cost and access to backdoors).
It might be a genuine inquiry but it comes from a uninformed point of view. Hence the downvotes.
F Droid works on free version of Germany's Corona tracing app
Most of the world can't tell Kiwi and Aussie accents apart. Australians can, though, and any spotted Kiwis overseas will be subjected to ribbing about fush and chups and teen dollars, some of it courtesy of taxpayer dollars: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc

Also, I've heard that the Southland rolled R comes from Scottish, since there was a significant Scot presence there as exemplified by Dunedin (the Scottish name for Edinburgh).
Scaleform was just far more feature-complete and can run apps of almost any complexity. Still not 100% feature complete since you don't need many thing for game UI.
I changed the capitalization, thanks.
A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
40%* of America lives on the coast.

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html
I'm an engineer, I can't help but solve problems. For example, while the Iraq war was going on and soldiers were getting killed by IEDs, I kept designing a vehicle in my head to be resistant to such infernal devices. The armored vehicle designers likely know how to do this far better than me, but I couldn't help it.

But maybe not. I bought a Generac generator the other day, and the controls on it are so horribly designed I want to scream. It isn't horrible because they saved money, it is pointlessly, stupidly bad, and Generac has been making generators forever. It baffles me.
The MD file is just for information, and I want to consume this information in different forms. The MD file is just to highlight the code correctly on VS Code on a single file. The PHP script interprets each section and processes it accordingly. This way I am not limited to markdown.

For example, for documentation, I use markdown, but for the website, that I want to control the layout better, I use JSON only, and when I need to create complex operation (as a consult to an external database), I use PHP. The markdown is very limiting, this was the motivation to create my own.
Using all the browser functionality feels like cheating. There is a good YouTube video, where a person made a snake game that fits inside a QR Code (albeit a larger version that we're used to, which can hold up to 2953 bytes). You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwqNreocpg

Quite an interesting watch.
> And even then, violence in Indonesia is nowhere near that in India in recent years.

Crime stats indicate a very different picture of Indonesia, even with a disproportionate population ratio of India[0]

>I don't see anything, apart from it being draft legislation. AFAIK, Aceh is the only place (shithole tbh) which actively promulgates Sharia Law.

AFAIK there are legal provisions for a parallel legal system to adjudicate,override dutch-roman legal system across all regions of Indonesia.
[1][2]

[0]: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_Sharia_by_count...

[2]: http://factsanddetails.com/indonesia/Government_Military_Cri...
> between good players, a one-piece advantage is enough to cause the disadvantaged party to resign.

Is this accurate? I would have assumed that, say, positioning is equally important and a naive "count the pieces" assessment wouldn't hold much value.
Probably the old trope that Norway has achieved the goal of white unity or something. I wish I had a dime for every time...
I doubt a guy running ship-building is 'bound by dogma'. The consumers are the ones who need to be brainwashed into buying new stuff every 20 minutes; the producers don't need to be convinced into some grand story in order to comply- acting along is in their best interests, it's exactly what they want to do! They can do it, knowing exactly what's going on, with their eyes open.
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I - like many other - gained some weight during lockdown last winter. Now round 2 of lockdown I figured something needed to be done, So I have invested in a walkingpad (treadmill for walking speed - it folds up and tugs under the bed when I am not using it.) I have been walking for 2 hours WHILE WORKING FROM HOME now and its perfect ! - loosing around 1 kg/week while eating pretty normal (though I am trying to only have 1 big meal a day and just snack the rest of the time). The walking is not hard and I can walk 10km/day without really thinking about it, because time flies by while working. When work time is over I have all my time free and don't need to spend time on excersise. I would highly recommend this. Walking is a low effort thing that burn more calories than you would think. Its also good on general well being to not sit down all the time.
It didn't work that well for everyone (except the established vendors), otherwise it wouldn't have taken the market by storm. Modularity is a good thing to have for innovation. If we're returning to "fixed sets", that probably signals the exploratory period is dying.

Anyway, "general computing" doesn't necessarily mean mixing and mashing hardware. But it definitely means executing arbitrary software with full control over installed hardware. The trend line here is definitely from "more" to "less" of "general computing". We've started with raw metal and hardware diagrams being included in the instruction manuals; then diagrams disappeared, CPUs gained abstraction layers - but it was still fine, computing-wise. But now we're in era of OSes and even CPUs limiting what users can do with them, and multiple parties owning various pieces of a computer, with nothing left to own for the user who actually buys the machine.
Practice. Practice. Practice.

What helps me to actually sit down and write something for my blog[0] is writing about something related to work. I make a structure first, paste links, comments, whatever. Then do a second or third pass to fill in the sections and make it presentable.

For grammar, I use Grammarly to stay in check.

[0] https://nts.strzibny.name/
Never been good either but I was occasionally playing when I was younger and The Queen's Gambit did get me back into Chess.

On Chess.com the post game report gives you the move accuracy which is, I guess, some kind of standard deviation compared to what a chess engine would play. Never seen someone having a very high suspicious score, at least at my level.
> aspiration

That's pretty much what it is, and it cannot be realized in our lifetimes to say the least.

>I shouldn't be any more concerned with skin color than hair color or eye color.

And yet, there are others who will never get to hold those aspirations.

>divisive and racist at worst

Sad, yet unsurprising.
The thing is that governments are generally influenced more by the commercial interests of large corporations and capital-owners, than by popular interests. There needs to be a very strong "pull", with a lot of organizing and pressure on politicians and agencies, to counteract corporate influence - and it's not enough that the reality is obvious.

Also, in most world states, large corporations are able to threaten leaving - stopping activity in the country - which can be quite a hit to the local economy for smaller states and larger corporations.

Another point which hinders your suggestions is the imbalance between world powers, especially the US (and to some extent the EU and China) - so that if one or several of those are beholden to corporate interests, then the others, or world-wide bodies, will find it very difficult to mandate things, apply taxation etc.
They DO sell desktop chips with AVX-512. I'm writing this from one: i9-9900X.
Oh yeah the logs of Windows are great:

Exception Code 0xc0156734 ...Thanks Microsoft, now i need bing to find google, just to find 1000's of "registry cleaners" and "Antivirus" sites to find out whats wrong or what that error even means.
The bias elimination idea is coming from financial industry where I worked for years. Investment decisions on various time horizons are mostly algorithmic these days, in the best firms.

The odds of successful startup are pretty low and there is a good reason to believe that if you throw darts at the wall the success rate will be about the same.

YC success has to do with large numbers of founders funded, with most of them , successful and unsuccessful, coming from particular cluster of population. Attracting the attention of that cluster is the second big reason for their success.

I'm all for scientific approach, so random forest of octopi classifiers doesn't sound so bad. The difficult part is being a founder magnet like pg in the early days.
- Normally is attached to very good-looking and sturdy machines

- You can have (..)nix like terminal in half of the screen and Office, Photoshop, and most of the shiny SW ("except games") running flawlessly in the other half without some kind of VM

- The battery of this very nice machines that it comes attached to may last a day

- Customization is a bit more restricted than its (..)nix cousins so most of the time it runs flawlessly even if you don't know
what you're doing

- It connects very well with the other device that a lot of people carry in their pockets

- There are not a lot of combinations of HW + MacOs that you can run so online support tends to be very good
Probably he was installing the dev dependencies.
Why the holy fuck is this hacker fucking news?
The Implementation of Inversion of Control Based on TypeScript
The funny thing is that many English as second language courses/programs, maybe majority of them, teach RP accent as standard English pronunciation, i.e. they teach students to speak like the (mostly) hated minority in the British cultural context.
In the inner expectation there’s only one choice: you’re conditioning on Y so it’s clear that X is the random variable whose expectation is being taken.

In the outer expectation, there’s only one choice: X no longer exists as a potential random variable (as if it were a local variable in the inner expectation) so the outer expectation must be over Y.

I’m not saying that you’re wrong that those subscripts could be used (they often are) but the meaning of the expression is clear after a little while working with expectations.
Thats just the biggest single-piece concrete pour. Any random highway bridge has a similar total volume of concrete, just not in a single pour.
Those were also the days when you could run your own mailserver without being subject to Google and Microsoft's arbitrary blacklisting. Days when embedding a url in an email didn't risk it being treated as junk. Days when every barely-more-than-static website wasn't an SPA carved up into components. Days when PHP was gloriously procedural. Days when Perl was still cool.
When I put two text windows next to one another on my work monitor it allows lines of 94 characters. Therefore, that is my favorite maximum line length.