skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe governments can and do outlaw using mobile phones or taking hands off the wheel while driving. 24 hour shifts at the hospital may be justified AFAIK by potentially saving more lives than they risk losing — I would hope there are precautions in place to minimize those risks (such as housing immediately adjacent to the hospital — IIRC this was the case for Ben Carson when he worked long shifts at Johns Hopkins). Similarly, I’m not opposed to medical marijuana use, which I think may alleviate more pain and suffering than it causes — but I don’t think the same is true for recreational use, I think that may trade human lives for shallow fleeting pleasure, and cannot be practically risk-mitigated by outlawing exclusively before driving, only completely or not all, for the testing reasons I mentioned in my first post.
I see a decent number of openings in the City of London quite regularly for finance and insurance positions. Also OCaml and sometimes Haskell. Even Rust has started popping up recently.

I find this a bit intriguing because the library support for linear algebra, probability and statistics is pretty slim both in .NET and OCaml. The latter has OWL, which is very cool, but it's mostly a 1-person project.

Do they develop all this support in house? For example, in insurance you may need things like Gumbel or Fréchet maximum likelihood estimators. That's not so easy to implement on your own, especially not without some linear algebra and optimization primitives available.

On the other hand, I love these languages, and I wish there was a strongly typed contender to Python, R or Julia. Whenever I develop a data-oriented application, it feels like I need to prototype in one language and in order to scale or develop the whole infrastructure, I need to switch to another language.

Julia has solved some of these problems, but I don't see a team implementing tons of business logic in a medium sized application using Julia.
It seems like this protein folding problem is something like the binary decision "guesses the winning lotto numbers" vs. "does not guess the winning lotto numbers".

If it got answer right 1 time in 100, that would be amazing and you'd be foolish not to use it!
I'm not sure what you mean by "unprofessional" here. In my eyes, a vague statement that they had some irreconcilable differences but she's still a great researcher is nearly the archetype of professionalism. It would be extremely unprofessional for him to publicly criticize an email Timnit sent privately to the Women in Google Brain group.
That's in court, or whatever, not academic or industrial anonymous peer review.
In the context of peer review it’s common, or at least not uncommon, for reviewers to be anonymous. Personally I think it should be completely blind both directions to promote maximum objectivity.

Whether that applies at all in this case is a separate matter.
Will say Three.js is amazing as far as simplicity compared to straight up WebGL. Also would hope they can do the reverse(move a 3D model and get coordinates of joints, etc). Then idk random thought about use is a store front/clothing pattern can go over the figures.
US and Australia to develop shared cyberattack training platform
Yes. Winning in a game with two players/teams and one winner is by definition zero sum. You can't have some players win more without other players winning less. Asking for the difficulty of the game to be reduced for oneself fundamentally implies that you want the difficulty of the game to be increased for someone else. There is no other possibility.

The most hilarious thing is when people ask that there be a ranked playlist with sbmm and an unranked playlist without. The one without, they assume, would be more favorable to them, since they would experience a random distribution of players (and they assume they are above average, naturally). But for players in the bottom decile of skill, unranked would have a dramatically worse experience than ranked! So they would leave for the ranked playlist. Now the new bottom decile of skill would be having a terrible experience in unranked, so they would leave, etc. By induction, unranked would quickly become depopulated.

It is really tough to be a below-average player in a game without any matchmaking. You lose all the time and almost never have an impact. You can kiiinda get away with this as a developer in games that have very large teams. For example, World of Warships has no skill based matchmaking (although tier level is somewhat a proxy for skill and performs a bit of a weed-out of the lowest skill players in the higher tiers). There are people who play that game who have only a 30% winrate over a large number of games. This is in a 12v12 game where presumably things tend to average out in the mix of skills on each team, so having that negative of an impact on team performance is in some sense pretty impressive.

The only thing difficult for me to understand is the resilience of the mentality involved in continuing to play that game if you are one of the way below average players. I would not have fun if I never had a positive impact on my team's performance.

It's also worth noting that if WoWS had the playerbase to support it, they'd probably build SBMM too. But it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. The issue is that their monetization system requires what is effectively forty or fifty different queues (5 tier-based matching bands * 4 ship classes * 2-2.2 game modes, depending on whether ranked is active). Queue times can already be quite extended in some tiers and for some ship ship classes. Developing a system that continues with this alignment of tiers and classes and also substantially reduces skill gaps is probably unsolvable without a much large player base or a more complicated role selection system.
Show HN: Scramble game, put the numbers in order
For internal approval, which has a 2 week process, at the paper deadline. From Jeff Dean's email:

JD> Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.
If she submitted, does that mean we are going to be able to read it? Is it on preprint?
CUPS admin console, SharePoint admin console for example.

Same can be done with web widgets, or a couple of utility daemons.

Well, at the end of the day don't complain about Google owning the Web.
That sounds nice...

So if someone reports e.g. diarrhea and headaches, how do you do that?
I think it is "Earth Potential Rise"
The problem I see is, will they support it? Or will they send it to the graveyard?
I made this game a while back and I play it almost everyday. Here's the link if you don't want to go to GitHub and look at the source code:

https://victorribeiro.com/scramble/
The Metro is world class? Dark corridors stinking piss, covered with graffitis, overcrowded cars when it is not on strike.
Right -- he once again talks about "accepting" her resignation, when it reeeeeally just looks like they fired her. At the very least, she certainly feels like she was fired; why is that not mentioned at all? Even just, I don't know, "sorry we were abrupt?"
Lots of republicans think it should be left up to the state. Their major issue with the last bill was tons of "social justice" riders. Democrats couldn't risk Republicans passing the bill and looking good before the presidential election, so instead they added a ton of stuff that was guaranteed to sink the bill. They then pushed the "republicans hate pot" narrative on news and social media.

This seems likely to be so much more politicking.
Are you me? Every article of clothing that has persisted is still in pretty good shape, maybe a little faded at the worst. If anything, over the years I've started to pay more attention to what materials my clothes are made of so they do last. For example I stopped buying any kind of stretchy t-shirt as all of the necks become ribbons within a few months. I have cotton shirts that are 8 years old that look great. Everything wool looks just as good, too; if anything they're more comfortable.
> Curious what percentage of the clothes you buy actually sell

I mean, I guess if it doesn’t sell, they just bale it up again and off it goes to its original destination.

Their only cost is the initial sifting and warehousing.

And even then, they might be able to sell their pre-sifted inventory at higher prices baled-up for export.

Books aren’t too different:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23shortcuts.html
That's part of the fun
My favourite kind of dumpling, Momos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food)) are missing from here, wonder when they came about.
> this breaks the identity `arr[idx] == (arr + idx)`. as a c++ (and sometimes c) dev, I tend to consider "index" and "offset" to be functionally equivalent. hard pass.

And I think that's the problem. Programmers have collectively conflated the concept of "offset from the address" and "position in the list" as the same concept, and they're not the same thing. Both concepts have their uses but they're separate distinct concepts. C and C++ don't index* a list, they simply offset it, and too many other languages that don't care about in-memory addresses or offsets have carried the concept from offset over to index erroneously.
If you are interested in experimenting with non-fixed width fonts for programming, you could try Source Insight. I was at a company that used it for a while and surprisingly, I didn't miss using fixed width fonts at all.
Meanwhile, many multiplayer games have neither skill-based matchmaking, nor a ban on premade groups playing against solo queue players.

I just can't grasp how any developer can seriously think a game can be enjoyable when you're on a team of arbitrary players but being matched against a premade team of players all of whom have 2,000+ hours logged in that game and are coordinating flawlessly.
PHP8, from a Security Point of View
Using the builder pattern to define test scenarios
"Do X or I'll quit" is a childish way to negotiate, its akin to a child throwing a tantrum if they don't get their way. It's extremely unprofessional and not something a team player would do. I think its clear why they took her up on her offer.
Some people don't have time for an bluff game, person choose the tone in negations with in power opponent without considering full extent of bluffing consequences.
> Yeah, put more simply, they pushed out someone in their Ethical AI department because they did not soften critiques against AI enough.

I didn't read that. I read the person _demanded_ who said a particular critical feedback, or questioned the approaches instead of addressing them. The person gave the ultimatum to resign if details were not shared.
As far as I can tell the personal chats, where most of the spam comes from, are still there.
Gebru complained about not being told what the criticisms were. That implies she was willing to consider feedback.
This is a common hard-libertarian talking point.

Consider point 13.6 of Scott Alexander's (Slate Star Codex) Non-Libertarian FAQ:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...

If you assume that "individual property earned through voluntary exchange" is the ultimate value to be upheld, you may end up having to defend a hellscape world. You need at least to temper it with something along the lines of the Lockean proviso.
Wonder if we will look at this like climate change that the oil companies knew about decades ago.
In Timnit's account, she said she asked for specific feedback so it could be addressed and the paper published; this was denied to her and is part of her complaint over which she resigned.
Well, no. The 7nm part is specifically meant for desktop computers. The part meant for laptop computers, that has graphics, uses a different memory controller, has different I/O characteristics, and uses very different cache structures, was always meant for 5nm only.

They both, however, share almost the exact same CPU logic, which is why we know that performance characteristics will be essentially identical.

You could ship a laptop with the 7nm chip, and it was done with Zen 1, but then you will have very high RAM power usage, you will need dedicated graphics with Non-unified memory, you will miss out on some accelerators, and you will some I/O issues

Because of all these problems, no one thinks it worth it to design a laptop against the 7nm parts, and it's not possible to build a 7nm version of the laptop part without very high investment.
More like interpreted rather than compiled. (I'm pretty sure a google search on "interpreted versus compiled" will get you up to speed with the basics on this point.) This is generally seen as one of the main differences between "scripting" and "serious" languages.

The twist is that the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is also a kind of interpreter, but can do on-the-spot ("just-in-time") compilation of parts of the code as well.
Controversial opinion of my own: not being able to solve fizzbuzz doesn't necessarily indicate lack of programming ability. The "trick" there is the modulus operator, and I can easily imagine somebody who was otherwise a good, experienced, effective developer never having come across the modulus operator.
Yes. A lot of billionaires do choose to share, currently that's up to them. I think we can should make laws to put higher taxes on the rich, but in practice it's tough to do that well. Often they just move themselves or their money to get around that.

One has to balance harvesting eggs com the golden goose with not killing it or driving it away.

Taxing just billionaires specifically wouldn't do much as there aren't many of them. It would have to be a broader tax of some variety.
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There's been work in that area. Uneven blade spacing helps.[1] One of the US "stealth helicopters" sounds more like wind noise than the distinctive "thud thud thud" of most helicopters, according to one of those books by ex-special forces types.

Drones might benefit from that trick. But you pay a penalty in performance and energy consumption.

[1] https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/mh-...
a) it's similar for avoiding collisions, and depends more on your hash algo than the display format.

b) the benefit, as stated above, is human readability and shareability and typeinability and writedownability
The implementation of SBMM in Call of Duty is particularly bad. Usually, you would expect such a system to match you with players of similar skill. But, that's NOT how it works in CoD.

Instead, the SBMM in CoD matches you with a bunch of players who are far worse than you for a game or two. Then, it matches you with a bunch of players who are far better than you for a game or two, and this cycle continues over and over again. This means that you will do really well for a game or two, and then get destroyed for a game or two. Eventually, this averages out to the target of every player having around a 1.0 kill/death ratio.

In theory, SBMM is supposed to help lower-skilled players, but the implementation in CoD is so bad it is more of a roller coaster than a bunch of matches against similarly-skilled players.
This is an unfair take.

If an employee is adversary toward the company, the trade off needs to be made no matter how much valuable the employee's work is.

This is a non-issue tbh. She wants to leave. Company wants her to leave. They both agree to part way because the premises are fulfilled (i.e. company can't meet her requirements).

If you want to get technical, I'd bet her employee's status is still in tact for 2 weeks; she just doesn't have access to laptop and etc.
Yes, they tested everyone else in the restaurant and no one else was infected. If you are going to make specific critiques like this, you really need to read the article first.
It's important to keep in mind that it's not as clear as many of these headlines make it sound.

By the numbers in the links you provided, those supporting legalization for medical use only (which I do) represent a significant portion (> 1/3) of those lumped into the broader "support legalization" category. At the same time, many people interpret that broader category as supporting legalization of recreational use, which nationwide, has just 59% support.

Also important to note that public support is much lower in some states, and as a federal republic, those individual states have (and should continue to have) the power to decide for the citizens who live there.
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I don't know Jeff Dean. I have read some of his work, watched some of his presentations. He seems a credible bloke.

This, though, looks and feels like thinly-veiled retroactive and pretty unconvincing PR. It's short on detail and appears somewhat at odds with several points from Timnit Gebru's resignation note [0]:

- Dean says the paper was reviewed by a "cross-functional team". Gebru says she received the feedback through a "privileged and confidential document to HR"

- Dean says the paper was submitted for review on the day it was due to be published; Gebru says they had notified "PR & Policy 2 months before".

- Dean suggests the feedback was due to the paper not highlighting mitigating work for some of the limitations the paper was exposing. That seems like a very normal part of the research process. Why, then, does Gebru claim that she was told that a "manager can read you a privileged and confidential document" and that no other recourse or exploration of the feedback was permissible?

The only thing we know from the outside is that reality will be far more nuanced and complicated than the tidbits that leak out. Even allowing for that though - and reading some of the related comments here - Google isn't coming out of this well at the moment.

[0]: https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

EDIT: Fixed spelling of Timnit Gebru's name.
What if the language weren’t so direct? For example,

> If I can’t know who is providing reviews to my work, it’s difficult for me to imagine continuing to work as a part of this group.

Many people would still describe this (erroneously) as an ultimatum even though it could be bleakly summarized in the same vein as a true ultimatum.
Definitely, I miss Amiga, Atari, Acorn and friends, which Apple is the only surviving one.

I was the only PC guy on my gang, and that was just due to other factors not commodity.
Increased scrutiny on minorites speaking up is a common historical occurance.
The same people will vote for politicians who will allow them to win at the expense of others, just consider that.
They really really wan you to use he app. SO they've made he mobile site garbage.
“We should follow Japan’s lead and discourage talking”

As an introvert, I like this conclusion regardless of how it was arrived at.
Had a BoyScout leader who was wheelchair bound with a car modified to be driven with only hands. It was a pretty fun learning experience when he let us take it around the parking lot a few times.

I'm lucky enough to have a decent job in a fairly rural area and a cheap car that I can easily maintain. At one point I was even a car enthusiast that liked doing modifications. I still think society as a whole should be progressing towards a carless future. Although I'd appreciate it if VR tech was advanced enough to let me drive around in virtual classic cars by that point with feel and smell.
You are comparing 20 vs 10 + 10 if you're sick. In most of Europe it would however have been 20 + whatever you need if sick. Or probably more than 20.
Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and touts martial law
> If someone says "Do X or I'll quit" when you're not going to do X, it is a resigination

I mean, whether or not this stands up legally isn't worth discussing but I don't think this is typically how an ultimatum goes. Rather it's more along the lines of "this or I'll quit", "okay, we're not doing this", "right, I quit". It's not called calling your bluff for nothing.

I agree that her email to the Brain group makes her position at google almost untenable, but that's a separate question. However, it might make her choose not to fight them on the resignation.
The great "script vs programming language debate". The difference is clear to you because you have a clear definition in your mind. The problem is that the definition changes depending on who you talk to, which invites endless debate.
> The problem with "outdoor" dining was all the tents restaurants were setting up in fall/winter.

But not in LA, which was what the GP was asking about. LA's climate is fine for regular outdoor dining all year.

> no airflow

From the paper this thread is discussing, it appears that no airflow is actually lower risk; the higher risk is having directed airflow, from indoor ventilation systems, and being in the path of that airflow from an infected person (and also facing them).
Could be related to this story from earlier this year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725556
Yes.

Also, why would a "pro" want to sandbag like this? I've been an amateur athlete most of my life and my goal was never to compete against known weaker athletes - there's no fun in that.

Or, do these games lack the ability to spin up "practice" sessions fully under the control of the player? That seems like the real answer, and would mirror what athletes in meat-space do - train for weeks/months, then compete at well-timed intervals against the best (or, at least relatively equal, if you're doing age group amateur competitions).
And Flash... I think a lot of the commercial use cases that Java was supposed to enable were actually filled by Flash.
Why don't we see more chips on Samsung's silicon?

Samsung doesn't even ship their own phones to the US with Samsung silicon. Is this a patent issue with the modems?
It’s not just about copying Apple or reducing costs. It’s about the benefit of SoC integration, and Chrome/Android is unique enough in this regard to get a lot of benefit versus discrete components.