skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In near-critical situations there tend to be disjoint optima in how the group of participants need to behave in order to avoid an incident. If the automated system is programmed to prefer the more - hm how would you call it - calm, civilized, obedient "minimum", but the participants the more agressive one, I can feel your problem. Sometimes just squeezing through resolves a situation more directly and quickly. The designers of those systems are usually not allowed to prefer that. Even if the system would recognize it properly (which needs much more processing power, because the search space is much bigger and, as mentioned, non-convex.

I don't think you should be downvoted, because that is one of the core ethical aspects we need to discuss about those systems. And how they interact with humans. SV dystopia "soon there won't be humans in the loop" doesn't help here.
I would imagine that IBM have their own private hardware for it, or at the very least wants to make it themselves. IBM still have their own chip designers and still make quite a large selection of rather custom kinds of chips and processors.
The whole woke my movement is this type of thinking all over again. What you are, where you are from, what group you identify with gives your argument weight. Not your actual thoughts. The scary thing is I'm experiencing this being accepted as normal in the work place. To challenge this type of thinking is to become a heretic. Or worse a racist. I keep my views to myself.
>As in you literally bill for hours, and the more hours you work, the more you get paid?

that's the way I do it.

>then yes the incentives are setup to encourage you to be inefficient.

I'm pretty sure if I was inefficient I would lose the job and thus not make as much money as I would otherwise.
Software project estimation is fractal.
Want to cut emissions that cause climate change? Tax carbon
A Statement from ArtStation
I did mention GDPR in another comment. Data extraction/portability is a 'thing' in GDPR.

There is a website that has the same function, but for movies. Apologies I cannot remember the name. Similar funciton. You record the titles of the movies you watched.

Thinking about this again (and this is why in my other comment I ask "who pays for this/how is that paid for"; this would be goldmine for Amazon, B&N, and other players.

We also know that "FBI checking out Americans' reading habits / Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants"
(https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame...)

No more needs for warrants!! :)
Lunatic – An Erlang inspired runtime for all programming languages
It’s only a problem because people in general are not willing to pay for it.

You and the OP have the same problem you want a solution but are not willing to pay the price. And you think that what you want is what most people want, but from what the market tells us they are pretty happy with what is being offered right now.
Being more capable in all situations can be a goal. What you are describing is a

Renaissance man, also called Universal Man, Italian Uomo Universale, an ideal that developed in Renaissance Italy from the notion expressed by one of its most-accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72), that “a man can do all things if he will.” The ideal embodied the basic tenets of Renaissance humanism, which considered man the centre of the universe, limitless in his capacities for development, and led to the notion that men should try to embrace all knowledge and develop their own capacities as fully as possible.
"Peak oil" simply means the year when the maximum amount of oil is extracted; the implication is (was) that if demand > supply when this happened, this would cause a spike in prices. As it happens, it's pretty likely we did hit peak oil in 2019, before COVID reshuffled everything and oil prices hit historic lows in 2020.

Same for "peak CO2": energy consumption is growing and will continue to do so, but if we're swapping out coal and gas for solar and wind, the amount of CO2 generated can still decline overall.
Quick Facts (About Everything) – Part 1
A Market for Papers
There is no transitive relation called success.
An obituary where the author casually drops that he was the youngest receiver of this-and-that award? That everything becomes so easy with the Wolfram Language? That he's written a new kind of science book and casts Golomb's work as essentially a precursor for his great accomplishments about cellular automata?

Wolfram is slowly transforming into the Trump of computer science. Soon he'll cast turing machines as just a small precursor of himself having solved computation.
I still don't get why Windows Phone's UI concept for this didn't catch on, it was great for touchscreen based apps. All relevant actions were on a grey bar on the bottom of the screen, in every app. And you could drag the bar up to reveal labels for each button as well as a list of options(the equivalent of the burger menu everywhere else).

But instead Android has most of these buttons on the top of the screen, which is the hardest to reach place on the whole damn thing. And every other app out there uses a completely different set and style of icons and that one curved arrow symbol in the mail app does something completely different from the same button in the note-taking app and the calendar.

It's a convoluted, insane mess.
I think that is definition of approximate algorithm, not randomized algorithm. Quicksort is a classic randomized algorithm, but it is not approximate.
We have indeed been hearing people ask for self-reporting gender and location! And indeed books are a great way to connect with others. Thanks for the feedback, we're taking note! Please feel free to share more ideas :)
Ahahah. I find this an absolutely oversimplified and laughable pop factoid.

Flirting can and should be duplicitous, for boosting the mood of others and potentially showing interest. But too many people these days take flirting and humor the wrong way or as a paranoid concern that it represents too much interest, so it's best to gauge the coolness and resilience of the other first. Most (but not all) people under 30 are offended by everything, including flirting, which is why Seinfeld and many other comics have avoided colleges for decades.

"Involuntary singlehood" is multifaceted including not making an effort to socialize, waiting for others to do it for them, distractions, life stresses, catastrophising unlikely concerns, low self-esteem, low confidence, depression, lack of wit, humorlessness, failure to grasp sarcasm, lack of perspective taking, lack of trust, lack of nuanced thinking, lack of manners/etiquette, psychological immodesty, unoriginality, lack of creativity, unreasonableness, inexperience, or unpleasant attitude.
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
IMO, The best UX ever made is the book. It invented bookmarks first over 1500 years ago. The cover contains the topic, the author. The first page tells you when and where it was published and who inspired it. The contents page tells you the all contents. The index states the topics. The page numbers illustrates where one is and how far they have to go before it's over. Finally, it's UX is so good it hasn't that many updates since Pliny the Elder. https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/02/page-numbers-where-...
Neat! Real-world pixel art.
Awesome to see some Seiken Densetsu 3 love
Ha, got me as well. I mean, literally:

> Michelle ultimately served 3½ months in jail for her part in the other company’s stock option practice

So this is just a lie?
It’s that way because it benefits politicians - more loopholes to hand out favors.
Vue3 Timeline
The reason is way simpler: since no project can be completed in negative time, probability distribution of completion time will be skewed to the right (with edge cases of positive infinity)
THE HEART of the rulers is sick, and the high-priest covers his head:
For this is the song of the quick that is heard in the ears of the dead.
The poor and the halt and the blind are keen and mighty and fleet:
Like the noise of the blowing of wind is the sound of the noise of their feet.
The wind has the sound of a laugh in the clamour of days and of deeds:
The priests are scattered like chaff, and the rulers broken like reeds.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
It is interesting thought, especially as few days back someone in HN wrote completely opposite view, that everything should be controlled and spied on (and for the love of universe I cannot find it again, it was on first page of HN I would appreciate link ...), because with progress we are becoming more powerful and more destructive - so any human in future with enough knowledge, would have ability to destroying entire humanity.

Where is the middle ground between those two ends?

Maybe it is similar to what we have now?
The machines are from mediocristan while the lawyers are from extremistan[1][2]

So yeah, your professor compared apples and oranges.

1. https://people.wou.edu/~shawd/mediocristan--extremistan.html

2. https://kmci.org/alllifeisproblemsolving/archives/black-swan...
Redundancy is often times a feature. Certainly in natural language as it allows for seemless error correction if there is some word you didn't hear or some letter you can't see. Or in computer communications too, like with CRC or similar codes (mentioned in the article).
Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
You're saying the right thing but drawing the wrong conclusion from it, I think. If you can estimate the happy path and generate some corner cases until your 95 % estimate is right 19 out of 20 times -- that's really fucking valuable to your co-workers, your customers, and your end users.

You're not asked to be prescient -- just estimate an interval that is actually statistically useful.

The 5 % worst case events that blow up and take months when you said days, those need to be handled separately, differently.
Writing python code to do that is a special skill. It just seems like it isn't because that's the bread and butter for a large part of the HN readership.

Is sculpting art? All it takes is pushing clay around.
A balloon full of hot air
Why can't Pine64 make $400 pinebook pros? I'd happily purchase a device that does something in 21st century standards.
This is interesting. Have you benchmarked it against e.g. a linear regression model built on your own subjective estimations?
Ah... I am talking about who gets to determine the cost of the coins.. So I assumed it's majority of the people who use it as a currency or exchange. But then that's my default assumption about crypto currencies in general and not sure that applies to NFTs..
So affirming to see my portrait in the paper!
Isn’t this the whole problem in homomorphic encryption? We already have cryptographic systems for which encryption is a homomorphism, such as RSA. I thought that the whole problem was finding ways to do it that don’t leak any data, basically.
These look really nice, are you using blender for that?
You pay for it with your money, the loss of privacy is the scam that is enabled by the mass consumer's apathy and lack of knowledge.

I also want to own my device, not rent it from a manufacturer.
Extract meaning from data in 3D building instructions – SUV Box Robot review
Icons are a bad idea. Words for short commands work better. In the olden days some UIs let you hide icon images and display the alt text instead. Those were very good UIs.
I completely agree WITH you. I think rapsey I locked in his own mind and is not tolerable enough to accept that there are countries with different characteristics and culture than the US.
What Is Numerology?
Numerology is the science of finding mystical relationship between numbers and life events happening in one's life.
This looks like it's just a capacitive touch strip in a ready-to-integrate form. Did I miss something / is there more to it?
Of course they were a small percentage. That just means they imprisoned a lot of people, though. The absolute number of political prisoners was extremely large, in the millions.
Well I have completely degoogled mine [1], but it comes with problems like reversing banking application as it uses safetynet. Luckily I am quite profound at that.

Bottom line, it is doable, but I want a working linux phone, where camera and calls/sms/mms work and I dont use any newage communication software, so I dont care. Again, this is completely my use case as I practically consider the phone applications as mostly useless, dont play games and prefer paying in cash.

I hoped Cosmo Communicator[2] would be it but they didn't support the camera and since I am using it for taking notes, it is vital for me. Actually I even went into making degoogled rom for CC but I got stuck at selinux blatantly abused to prevent modifications and maybe some day I will recompile the kernel to kick it out or find time to reverse and binary patch the selinux checking.

Actually PinePhone is becoming more and more interesting option but they should really pump up the specs, again, at least for camera. The second possibility would be sailfish os [3] but again it has some closed source blobs.

[1] https://microg.org/

[2] https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator

[3] https://sailfishos.org/
The critical thing many people miss about this rule is that it applies recursively. So of the 20 % that takes 80 % of the time, in turn 20 % takes 80 % of that time.

Go further and you get a 50-1 rule: 1 % of the work takes 50 % of the time. (Or, equivalently, 50 % of the time gets you 99 % of the way there.)

This is a strong argument for clever scope reduction.

Edit: To be clear, this is the Pareto distribution with α=1.16 -- and I don't think this applies to software implementation. The tail isn't quite that fat, in the data I've had access to. But the general idea still applies, except with less aggressive percentages!
PCSX2 – The Playstation 2 emulator – Q4 2020 Progress Report
Disabling Intel Me Subsystem
I've used openpyxl[1] to access excel cells directly while using python

[1] https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Plot twist: the whole blog post is fake and they logged out the users just to show them how awesome the globle is
What exactly was done because of pressure? More solar cells and wind mills? Have those even crossed the point where they produced more energy than what was used in their production yet? In my country, they are shutting down nuclear power plants, relying on coal instead. Electric cars are still a rarity, and global car use seems to be rising still.

I find your line of reasoning maddening. While it is possible that pressure had an effect, it can be used to prove almost everything. It rained after rain dances, so rain dances work!
Oh, fuck... the point wasn't in $200... I mentioned my rate ONLY because I assumed it's harder to find a client (an individual who works with contractors) for $200, rather than $20/h. That's all.

Imagine that your task is find your ideal client and be first he sees. That's the problem I'm solving.

Here is my profile, but It had literally nothing to do with an idea I was pitching. If you charge $60/h or whatever amount you are charging you still need clients...

https://www.codementor.io/@kulikalov
Its the Sugar, Folks (2013)
Took another pass and made some fixes -- thanks for pointing this out!
computer graphics is doing a lot of very small (4x4 matrices) linear algebra

GPGPU is often about doing few (or one) very big (10^9 x 10^9) matrix op.

You can split big matrix op into smaller ones, but with a big matrix you need to combine the results; with independent smaller matrices you don't.
You probably can get the GitHub Enterprise version, "decompile" it and diff the sources
Your needs.
I wonder how this will impact startup scene, most projects start with few people having a discussion over a beer about an interesting topic.
> It’s still not clear to me a person of this cadre need a PhD in a technical field in this day and age; they might contribute just as much faster if they chose any other route.

They might be able to contribute technically but they might not be given the opportunity to do so if they don't have a PhD.
Dub Techno :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfNnl6z2Dw
Point 1 and 2 shows why hiring based on gender instead of merit is a bad idea. It would have been way better for the author of this post to have been turned down by the diversity seekers and found a company that was looking for someone with her skillset and personality instead.

Point 3 is such a stupid thing to say. I don't know about reporting him for it, how about just telling him that he is stupid and condescending? That would work in Sweden at least, maybe there is a different work culture in USA.

Point 4 is actually true, proved scienctifically, and has nothing to do with discrimination. Due to differences in the brain that we are born with, men are on average more interested in technology than women. That does not mean that you can point to a specific women and draw the conclusion that because she is a women she is less suited to work in tech than a man. It does however explain why more men than female study computer science for example. Yes, I'm sure phenomens like computer games biased towards male might enhance this, but even without it you would see the differences.

Before you downvote me because I'm a sexist, please have a look here:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mens-brains-a...

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...
generalist maximizes the number of successes and specialist maximizes the benefit of one success.
That's better performance than most humans. Look at 16th and Market.[1] It's a 6-way intersection. Visibility to the left is very poor. The stop line is half a block back from Market Street. It's not even visible that there's a second street coming in from the left.

The Waymo planner is very aware of where its scanning is blocked, and makes worst-case assumptions about what it can't see. The mapping system knows there are 6 streets here, one of which is totally hidden at intersection entry.

It's permitted to turn right on red from northbound Noe to Market, but not from northeast-bound Market to 16th. So traffic from Noe gets stuck in its dedicated turn lane within the intersection. That traffic is supposed to wait and turn right, but it's quite possible that Waymo's system doesn't trust it to do so. This intersection also has dedicated bike lanes and a streetcar track. It had 7 accidents with 4 injuries in 2018.

It's hard to fault Waymo's system for cautious driving in that intersection.

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/@37.76429991,-122.43305656,39.4...
I think that's overstating it. For long-form, linear reading of text books are great, but there's a lot of places where I much prefer hypertext or other media. Anything with copious footnotes, references, and appendices is just so much easier to immediately click to the highlighted reference link, quickly scan the reference, and then jump back. Flipping through pages to find the right reference and then flipping back is a rather large context switch in comparison.

A bookmark still isn't quite robust enough because I still need to scan to find the exact reference when jumping out from the text.

This is why e.g. I read modern hyperlinked PDFs and Wikipedia articles faster and absorb more than their dead-tree equivalents (although I find I read dead-tree equivalents faster for longer linear reads).

And that's just non-interactive, text-based media. Video tutorials for quick how-tos are way way more effective for me than the equivalent book. I haven't had quite as much luck with interactive articles, but there have been a few gems that simply wouldn't be possible with a book (e.g. https://ciechanow.ski/gears/).
We used to try and present estimates as a range ("between 5 and 10 weeks"), but we've settled for trying to provide a single number rather than a full span.

For our time and materials estimates, we try to provide an ~85% confidence estimate, while for fixed bid projects we try to aim for a ~95% confidence estimate (and there's usually a pretty big gap between those two numbers, for the reasons pointed out in the article).

So, in this scenario, we'd probably say to the client that it'll be done in about 8 weeks (making clear that's an estimate, and not a promise). One number, rather than a range, seems a lot easier to explain to a client and if you end up low (say it takes 3 weeks), then you have a pleasantly surprised client.
I’m a church organist. During lockdown last year I recorded a set of hymns and voluntaries each week: here’s a typical one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KCz11fwRFB0

(skip to 20m15 or so for the Howells piece at the end, which is the best of the lot)
What an incredibly weird niche account
It's indeed a lovely work this artist creates. Should be quite satisfying to work with bubble wrap like that, and earn a living.

Good News Network in general has content that elicits good feelings. Not such good news and good feeling are the 11 trackers on the page. But I guess they also have to earn a living.
Your comment reads like propaganda, trying to hand-wave away one of the greatest works of journalism in the 20th century. Of course it reads like a novel and not an exposé - he had to memorize a huge portion of it. But it's an accurate indictment nonetheless.
The constants are galactic: any 'fast matrix multiplication' algorithm outside of Strassen's algorithm has some incredible constants that are somewhat intrinsic to the recursive framework. The algorithm is primarily of theoretical importance (prior to this no one knew whether sparsity significantly helped methods of this type for solving linear systems), but it is not implementable.

However the block Krylov algorithm itself presented in this paper has a little bit more of a chance of being implementable than fast matrix multiplication (the matrix multipliciation is only used to solve small linear systems to deal with small eigendirections in the Krylov subspace). I am still skeptical that this is a truly practical algorithm due to its complexity, but unlike the case of generic FMM there is no obvious bottleneck.

On the other hand, in recent years Dan Spielman and collaborators have been working on fast implementations of Laplacian solvers: https://github.com/danspielman/Laplacians.jl I believe a lot of the fixed constants and combinatorial routines are changed from what is theoretically provable, but from screwing around with the code in the past it seems very fast in practice.
Most interesting bit is right at the end of the article

> Disclosure: Upon hearing of the all-time high today, I sold my final bitcoin at a price of $32.50.
Google's UI sucks almost as much as its branding.

Then there's the fact that they managed to create an OS in the late 2000s that lacks a proper hardware-abstraction layer and driver model... living millions of devices orphaned year after year.

And they're admitted jagoffs, from their interviewing practices to their workplace.

Google should just abolish human employees and settle into being a search engine.
Unlikely.

> The underlying bug existed on GitHub.com for a cumulative period of less than two weeks at various times between February 8, 2021 and March 5, 2021.

> There is no indication that other GitHub.com properties or products were affected by this issue, including GitHub Enterprise Server

Github enterprise does not include commit history, and the above two things together make it sound like this bug was in a change that was being slowly rolled out or a/b tested, and that never made it into a github enterprise release.

It's unlikely anyone outside of github can shed light on this one.
We know how to generate essentially limitless amounts of energy without producing CO2. There is no need to turn off switches, we just need to build enough solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, power-to-gas reactors, and, if we like, nuclear power plants.