skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is just the computers. The training environments and systems for learning advanced quite far without the engines. Kasparov didn't train with computers in his prime and he is still very strong by modern standards. More children were encouraged to pursue chess...in the 19th century many people (such as Paul Morphy) would consider a professional chess player in roughly the same social tier as a professional gambler. If you look at many of the games from that era it seems like only 20 people in the world even knew how to play chess.
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https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/fixing-americas-bri...
This is amazing, happy to support! I have a question: when developing an app with strong privacy guarantees, how do you handle analytics and crash reporting? E.g what if some group of users gets some weird error in a use case, or what if the app crashes? How do you figure and fix such issues? Many thanks for the app!
The copyright holder didn't delist the books, eBay did.

From wsj:

> Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled earlier this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.
I don't believe I am confused actually. I get this is just an algorithm hypothetical being answered right now. I just care about the telescopes way more than the astronomy and am thinking steps ahead about the meta game of the telescope market. Just as I personally would care far more about the real world implications of P=NP far more than the act of solving it.
New optical quantum computer looks like a winner
> Are there not times that cityfolk don't rib countryfolk about growing up in poorer conditions in almost any country?

This is exactly the problem: I did not grow up in the country or in "poorer conditions" like you assumed.

> Misconceptions are pretty universal.

Tell me about it - I actually believed the US was the greatest country on earth, and that silicon valley is meritocratic.
I think it will be a long time before AEB is mandatory in Africa or Asia, so you should be good in that case.

Personally I think this is a sort of moral hazard scenario, where exactly the people who most need AEB would be the ones who would turn it off. So even if it makes a few people unhappy, I'd probably support not allowing the user to have control over this safety feature. Of course we'd need to study the issue to establish whether this is the case.
Specialization only matters if the specialization is valued for top quality. A diner can make me a good enough burger, but there are places I’ll go to for a top quality burger.

In software development, business mostly wants good enough. The bulk of the products being developed don’t value top quality, so it’s becoming increasingly pointless to invest into a specialty.

Things can change of course.
When do the automatic emergency brakes kick in? Normally you're supposed to maintain at least 5 cars distance on the highway -- will it brake to always maintain that, eliminating those idiot tailgaters? :)
How is that your takeaway from the article?

There’s a lot of interesting anecdotes/history here.

He spent quite a lot of time just talking about Golomb and his work.
I created this randomized cellular automata generator recently and some of the outputs are beautiful: https://lockwood.dev/automata/2020/03/28/bruteforcing-beauti...
And this, of course, is why double blind clinical trials are so incredibly important.
Teams has updated their UI, it's always shown on the top right of calls now, so at least they realised their mistake.
We had a long stretch of resumes that were exaggerated, borderline lies, causing a bunch of wasted time, so we had to come up with a pre-screen. The fact that the resumes were basically false meant that trust probably wasn't something to rely on for a pre-screen. So, we came up with an easy 5 minute question, which seemed reasonable.

So far, our 5 minute test has failed spectacularly. Knowing what a good answer is requires too much interpretation of the subtleties of the answer, so it's not very useful for the managers who may not be the greatest at coding.

I think we'll tweak the question a bit, but we're kinda stuck.

How do others handle pre-screening?
If it were possible it would have happened in the last 100 years. What people lack at the age of 25 (or even 17) is the neuroplasticity required to turn their brain into an analytical chess engine.
Programer wages are very low.

I'm not sure they are even higher at SCE (Playstation), Nintendo, Bandai or Sega; but at least the people at those companies look happy and like they are having some fun. Actually, happier than the people working at the AAA houses in the USA.
This needs to happen in order to have secure, distributed/p2p computational shared overlay networks.
What will it take to convince people of a federated protocol like XMPP? Someday, maybe, we can make people care about open protocols and decentralization.
By that argument...the faster the world is changing, the bigger of an advantage generalists have. There's even a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...
Art is not about skill anymore in the (post-)modern world.
It also protects viewers from MITM attacks that can add advertisements, add malware, change your words to make you say something bad, etc.
Well this is unfortunate, i can't help but feel that many of the usecases for FHE are much less likely to have decryption oracles than traditional encryption would.

I'm also not sure if i would say "leak information" is the right word to describe a chosen ciphertext attack.
The world problems however needs all the specialists and generalists. And instead of taking generalists too far, a specialist with minimum knowledge and experience in few other contrasting domains is good enough for him to get creative, draw analogies and solve problems.
Congratulations, a huge achievement and an inspiration for me (especially the subject matter.)

One of the major advantages of LaTeX is that it will fill lines automatically, hyphenating where necessary.

Another important part of type design is flowing paragraphs so that the final line contains enough type. One does not want a paragraph to end with a single “me” by itself on the final line, and ideally you want a substantial amount of type there.

Are these parameterised in LaTeX? Did you turn hyphenation off?
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India nation-wide OTP troubles due to blockchain adoption
Nothing wrong with writing simple side-projects and moving on, that's an excellent way to learn. Not everyone can afford to donate a bunch of their time in maintaining a project for free, especially considering it's often such a thankless task.

The fact that the code is available means someone can fork it and make their own changes and improvements.
I think you understate the level of IP vetting RISC-V has undergone. All but 6 instructions in the RV32G instruction set could be found in implementations that were at least 20 years old; the remaining six were novel [1].

RISC-V owes MIPS about as much as MIPS owes Patterson. MIPS-V was already ~15 years old when RISC-V was first used in the classroom. RISC-V purposefully paired back the layers of marketing cruft and failed experiments that had grown over Patterson et al.'s original RISC architecture.

There is less confidence in the extensions, but as RISC-V turns 10 ... patent trolls had better hurry if they want to extort anyone based on the ISA alone.

[1]: https://live-risc-v.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
> Eighty-seven percent of the time, the individual selected the new faces as being AMONGST the most attractive

Anyone read the actual study to see what this means. Seems like an opening for some fudging.
That's partially what random filler values are for.

Also, aren't there FHE algorithms or potential constructs for encrypting blocks of data using the index as part of a shared secret?
I don’t think it’s actually correct that all GMs were child prodigies.
What part is inaccurate and where did I say anything contradicting what you're saying? I've studied Russian history for many years. We know much more about the gulags since Glasnost and the opening of the archives. We can now compare actual numbers against Solzhenitsyn's. I've studied this quite a bit and could go on forever, but here's a link to one post on AskHistorians: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3j2un8/is_so...

The biggest specialist in this subject, Viktor Zemskov, who worked in the Soviet archives in the period of 'Perestroika' gives the following facts1 "In 1937 there were 1,196,369 prisoners and 87% of them were ordinary non-political criminals like thieves, cons, etc. In 1938 in GULAG were 1,881,570 prisoners and 81% of them were ordinary criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zemskov
(I'd be interested to see an average-case running-time analysis of Simplex that yields O(n^2.332) additions/multiplications, where n is the number of variables. Or even O(n^3). Because that's what's claimed here.)

That's mostly correct. You end up with a system of equalities for _a subset_ of your points, which yields a single vertex.

Ultimately with a linear program, you're trying to optimize an objective function,

max w'x s.t. Ax <= b, x >= 0 (in canonical form).

The x >= 0 constraint makes this nontrivial to translate from a linear equation Ax = b. If you magically knew the sign of each component of the solution, you'd be able to perform a simple variable substitution, but you generally don't, at least not without solving the system of equations.

(And yes, you need that constraint, or else your LP is unbounded, and your solution ends up with a negative infinity in it.)
I find that a certain level of redundant language in a sentence or paragraph can allow me to sink different hooks for a reader and thus reduce the likelihood of having to repeat myself.

The hook-euphemism is similar in nature but different in application to Feynman's self-labelled "chaotic" approach to teaching
I doubt, there's such a thing as a real generalist, that knows SW development, negotiation, history of Italy, international politics, engine design, ... to the same level of depth.

When we speak about successful generalists, they are still quite specialized. They might know some data analysis (maybe limited by Excel and VB macros), some teamwork skills, some marketing/sales/product ownership knowledge, some competitive intelligence, some understanding of work laws and how to form a company.

Such a person would be considered a generalist, but as I see it, such a person still ignores 99% of fields of study.
How and when to hire your first product manager
Firing the accountants and all the admin staff would be a good start to save money. No need to save these jobs...
I believe public toilets that are "overrun by homeless" would be an improvement over pavements used by homeless because they don't have access to toilets. Perhaps we should add some showers to public toilets as well?
For a startup - probably not.

But getting funding through finances for 'a few hundred EUR' in a largish company could be nearly impossible. It's not a thing that can go into your yearly budget and it's not attached to any project. You'll have to pay out of your own pocket for that.
That's a potential issue in every job in every field. Somehow, it's only tech interviews that assign candidates unpaid homework. How are bridges not collapsing left and right from all the incompetent civil engineers they've been hiring with no whiteboard interviews?? Because you don't need to assign homework to probe whether or not a candidate knows the stuff they put on their resume. You can just talk to them about there experience and their approaches, like is done in any other discipline. You can call up references. Yes, you can fire the truly incompetent ones like is done in other fields, since California is an at-will state.
Gitlab.com is experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API
I'm not sure i see the relavance. I would consider Zk-Snark's much more relavant to that domain. And well, doing something about targeted DoS attacks somehow.
> Even if every car on the road had the ability to respond instantly to the car ahead, being forced to brake hard still risks loss of control especially in bad conditions

Driving on the road is not some kind of high speed car chase. If one had left enough space to the car in front based on the current road conditions and speed one wouldn't have to brake hard. Anyone can adjust their speed to increase the distance to the car on front. Often arguments sound like driving too close or too fast are inevitable facts of life.
Great example of how difficult statistical concepts are to understand for the layperson, even if that person happens to be a judge or a lawyer.
I’ve heard speculation that such poetic formulas act as a sort of data integrity system. It’s a form of error correction because what comes next in the poem has to fit certain rules. It’s not just useful for memorization, it actively helps structure the information so it gets passed with fewer errors.
John Lewis Gaddis dicusses this in his "On Grand Strategy" book.

He borrows Hedgehog vs Fox from Isiah Berlin
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I wonder why anabolic steroids are illicit substances in most developed countries. Is it due to 'roid rage' and other side effects? I thought development of SARMs were bypassing most of these issues.
I can independently attest all of your comment from my own internal research. Well summarised.

I also think fitting the exact distribution is unimportant and uninteresting. The important thing is that you have roughly the right distribution and that it has the fat-tailed property of only slowly converging to normal.

Why the distribution doesn't matter beyond that is that, I think, finding the exact 95 % upper bound is probably impossible to do with any statistical significance, because of its rarity and how contributing factors change over time. Getting in the right ballpark matters a great deal.

Verifying that you get in the right ballpark (only 1 in 20 blow their committed date, and they do so independently in time, etc, the usual value-at-risk stuff) is fortunately also trivial, no matter the underlying distribution and it's parametrisation at the time.
It's probably very difficult to be 100% sure, even if we create the hardware and software on our own. Therefore, be mindful of your actions and always assume it's being monitored. Running linux on raspberry pi might be a good start though.
> What problem did MIPS solve in a unique way that others didn't?

The MIPS R2000 was debatably the first commercial RISC chip. It solved whatever problem you needed a really fast CPU for in 1985. The alternatives on the market were the Intel 386 and the Motorola 68000. The Intel 386 at 16 MHz did about 2 MIPS (heh - millions of instructions per second) with 32 bit integer math. At 16 MHz, the R2000 did about 10 MIPS. Even accounting for RISC code bloat, that's 3 - 4x faster.

Note how there were only two competitors selling 32-bit designs in the market they entered. I think that's probably the biggest impact of MIPS. They actually sold the chip! They wanted companies to design their own computer systems around it. Use it in an embedded device. Whatever. That was not the norm c. 1985 - 1988 for high-end silicon.

There were machines faster than the 386 or 68020 at that time. You could buy one of the fast microprocessor-based VAXes recently introduced. Or if not too squeezed for office space and with a blank cheque, one of the super-minis like a real VAX or IBM's new "mini-mainframe". After '86, maybe you'd buy one of the other RISC options, like SPARC or PA-RISC.

Whatever you bought, it would be the whole system. Take it or leave it. DEC would not sell you something like a CVAX processor all by itself just so you can build it into a product that will compete against them. (Well, they would sell you one, just not at a price you could afford if you aren't a defence contractor.)

Both DEC and SGI would use MIPS processors in their workstations of the late 80s, as did some less well-known names. The embarrassment of having to use a competitor's processor to sell a decently fast and affordable UNIX workstation would inspire DEC to create the Alpha. In this vein of "we'll sell it to whoever wants to buy it!" MIPS was also doing ARM-style core IP licensing, before ARM did. That's probably part of why MIPS was so prominent as an embedded architecture in the late 90s and early 2000s, in everything from handhelds to routers to satellites.
Do you mean the same IETF who standardize a technology covered by Cisco patents ? These guys are a joke... Heck, there is even a song about it... https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35
(Comment adapted from one I made under the post itself)

Whether or not the server-side code is visible isn't very important. There are two reasons why:

1. (Anti-Signal) Signal is a closed platform; users can't self-host a Signal server and expect to be able to talk to other Signal users. Users must accept whatever code the server runs, no modifications. This is an example of the difference between "free software" and "open-source"; this type of SaaS is open-source but not necessarily free.

2. (Pro-Signal) All three Signal apps (at the time of writing this comment) use E2EE with minimal metadata leakage. The server is unaware of the contents of the messages and cannot connect a sender to a recipient. As long as the apps don't get an update that changes this situation, users don't need to trust a Signal server to protect their privacy.

I wrote about the first reason in a bit more detail in a blog post, posted here previously [0].

A follow-up article [1] covered alternative asynchronous messaging platforms: email, XMPP and Matrix. None of the three is a perfect replacement of Signal due to metadata leakage, but all offer a greater degree of freedom. My main thesis is that when choosing a messaging platform to adopt, it's important to consider implementation and provider diversity to prevent lock-in.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25982860

[1]: https://seirdy.one/2021/02/23/keeping-platforms-open.html
My question is why did GPGPU stuff take so long to take off then? Computer graphics is basically applied linear algebra aka matrix math
the slides are very clear and concise
I guess it’s perspective, I’m a career long generalist and I feel confident that I can be put on any team and preform at or better than the average specialist in the same position. I’ve backed this up with every position I’ve had and have built a network of people that know and trust when I say I can do something. I think that’s more important than any specialist because if I don’t know an answer or how to solve something I will study and learn the material until I do.
I see! Thx for clarifying.
Oh I love this
>The problem women have today is that they are programmed to see everything as sexism, when in fact such things happen regardless of sex.

Case in point why women feel uncomfortable in the tech industry. Men holding opinions like this lurk there.
You only have to do that if you're trying to make a substitute document. That's miles away from just discussing.
When and where did you do your travels? Living in the former USSR I can absolutely confirm the history is way more complicated, than it is commonly presented. Changes over time, changes depending on people you speak to. In my country we have had read army, Finnish army and Waffen SS veterans living out their lives quite peacefully together but they would no doubt give you a very different perspective on how the GULAG felt. And it’s not that you can tell from the outside.

As to the ideology, I agree with you about fundamentalism leading to death and destruction. Marxism, however, contains the premise, that one particular class must be liquidated. Also, it requires people to behave in a very particular and unnatural way leading easily to a conclusion that these should be eliminated too. So maybe it lends itself better as a tool for madmen raising to power, than some others. Maybe it’s not that people trying to implement Marxism have ended up in chaos but that people seeking absolute power have tended to use it as an ideological cover and to rally a support?
> It is the fundamental reason why ietf beat iso

Like by making a patent covered tech a "standard" ? https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35
> protecting customer privacy

Does "privacy" mean Amazon will spy on their customers, but won't share that data further?
Using 80:20 rules, and assume only 20% of those are active. We could be down to 120 user?
They proved that any dense algorithm of n^w where w>2 can be made more efficient. Note that 2 is a trivial lower bound for w.
> gas station bathrooms in the US

Gas station bathrooms in the US are also not usually free. As a non-white male I've been told frequently they are for customers only, and have had to on many occasions point to a car actively filling up gas so they can see that I am a customer.

That said, I hate this culture though because when bathrooms aren't free, we end up with shit and urine on the sidewalks. Everyone has to poop and if you don't give them a place to do it that poop is still going to come out anyway.
Looks like you have decided to jump into programming as career. Upside is fun, if you like it. Downside depends on your nature. If you are quick to think and think outside thebox with logical bent of mind, I think you should be good. Programming is like digital plumbing- one may end up using 3/7 screw when 4/9 is more suitable but the world does not care as long as the product is sturdy. Word of caution - some fields like medical appliance programming etc could be risky with so much scrutiny. Just my 2cents.
Biotech firms probably. A few buildings in that area that were originally tech offices are converting into labs so they can be used right away.
On my Android keyboard the backspace key is directly above and adjacent to the enter key.
Oh my. Who in their right mind would install that?!

I just setup pihole today because it's so difficult to avoid being spied on wherever you go.
>a race condition in a backend request handling process .

I wish they could give more detail on this bit.
> right now every citation is an endoresement

This is a valid point, but it's important to note that it only applies when using aggregate citation counts as a rough proxy for importance within a field. That's useful for prioritizing what to read but not for assessing the validity of any given result (of which there are often quite a few, at least in the life sciences).

Within a given paper, it's not at all uncommon for the authors to explicitly call out some detail from another study as being incorrect in their view. That doesn't mean that they necessarily agree or disagree with the rest of the cited work though.

What I'm getting at here is that negative citations would likely be far too coarse to be useful in practice. It's relatively rare that a paper outright disagrees with an entire work.
> He rejected accounts of forced labor as “pure fiction,” saying the Japanese army “did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels.”

Historical revisionist claims like these are quite popular in Japan, and supported by the nationalist government.
Yeah, agree that 45-day refund policy is a great option for readers and thus increases the likelyhood of a purchase.

Regarding the questions:

1. I thought courses were video, similar to Udemy. I just went through FAQ and found that video is optional. Courses has quiz, certificates, etc. Personally, I'm more interested in an interactive programming environment where users can execute code snippets and exercises can be solved from the website itself. I've also thought about creating a desktop application as an alternative.

2. Thanks a lot for the offer, I would like to think about it. I'll let you know if I'm interested.
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