skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick is that even a tiny difference in ability can lead to a large difference in results as the number of decision steps involved in a task increase. The expert wastes less time in search space. This is a combination of good mental models honed from experience and attention to detail.

Something unusual about Bellard is the breadth of his knowledge. There are probably a fair few who can write a fast deterministic low level code optimized neural network library. A decent number who can write an autodiff library but few who can do both. Once that's done, I daresay that's the hard part.

Given such a library, implementing an LSTM or transformer model and combining it with Adaptive Modeling/incremental learning of data statistics using a neural network to feed an Arithmetic Coder is something that is within the reach of many more.

In summary, a 10x developer is not 10x smarter or 10x more skilled, they just waste less time investigating unproductive paths and are maybe 1% less likely to take wrong turns. This ends up making a huge difference for large complex tasks.
Check this out - https://github.com/manojVivek/medium-unlimited
The linked page has results for both enwik8 and enwik9, right?
It's definitely not as binary as my brief post made out. During my (fairly brief) stint in gamedev, we prioritized issues using an "impact factor" which tried to combine all the different aspects of how an issue could impact players into a single metric. I'm not sure what the final formula was but it would have been something like:

impact = severity_factor * frequency * age_factor

where

severity_factor = 1 (minor cosmetic/performance issue)
= 3 (major cosmetic/performance issue)
= 5 (annoying gameplay bug)
= 50 (avoidable crash/gamebreaking bug)
= 100 (unavoidable crash/gamebreaking bug)
frequency = times_occurred / hours_of_gameplay
age_factor = 1 + age_in_months
You’re forgetting that the Nazis utterly ane completely destroyed the USSR, digesting an entire generation of men in every soviet state along with all of their infrastructure and resources.

In the end it was the sacrifice USSR which enabled USA and UK (lots of Uniteds here) to claim victory. As a thank you, the west invested considerable resources into rebuilding Germany and Japan while giving the USSR and China the middle finger and immediately treating them like enemies.

We really did kick Russia and China while they were down, repeatedly, then spit on them.
The article that I'm reading claims that boy chimps like to play with toy trucks:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/101220-chi...

You're gonna therefore have to explain to me why you think this is natural behaviour. Since, as I understand, trucks were invented by humans.

Isn't it just that chimpanzees are social and have been cued by human expectations, their captors and immediate relatives?
There's more truth to this than people want to admit. I would add a nuance that it wasn't just about injecting politics, but a certain brand, with no room for others. If we have politics with tolerance, it's a completely different outcome.
Lawsuits based on what?

If employers feel employees working from home are less valuable, and employees prefer working from home, it sounds logical this will results in lower compensation for WFH employees. Not sure what laws they would be breaching here, it's just the market at work. It doesn't even matter whether they are right or wrong, the market should take care of that.
> I need to figure out a way to get them to understand the value of money

Make them get a job for their discretionary spending. Talk about your journey and your parents’ journey. Discuss society wide statistics and what percentile you’re in. Show them how much their lifestyle costs, and how much they need to earn to afford it, and how few people actually earn that much.

Showing them the data and how to interpret it to understand their odds so that they properly calibrate their expectations and goals is one of my goals for my kids.
that's really cool, congrats! it would be nice to have an UI and a package for installation.
> we have the clout to send Medium a message.

I'm not sure we do. Medium is comparatively a much bigger and more mainstream platform than HN.
> If people want to play-act as robots, I won't deny them their kink. But that's not what interests me about work, and it's not the kind of person I hire.

If you want to see how far some people have lost the plot, consider that this poster is boasting about only hiring people who agree with his politics. You can be damn sure he wouldn't hire a passionate Trump supporter.
I don't know but... I want a goddamn car that looks like it's from the future. Car companies always build the coolest looking prototypes then dress them down and make them ugly.

I have a pre-order Cybertruck and may or may not be in a position to buy one when they land in Australia (if they land at all) but man it's cool.

Think of the Lamborghini Countach [0], it was designed decades ago and it still looks like it's from outer space!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Countach

EDIT: Saying that, if this new F150 came to Australia (or say an all electric Raptor) I'd probably go for the Ford. I currently drive a 2019 Hilux and it's a very handy do everything car, but the F150 is quite a lot larger and not really suited to the (very few) Australian cities.
oh my god, it's just a joke.
meileaf.com — you can find it cheaper elsewhere but the stuff on there is curated and I’ve never had a lemon from them.
> Nobody was calling for a nonpolitical workplace when the issues at hand were sexual harassment and equal pay for equal work.

People were most certainly calling for nonpolitical workplaces when it was about sexual harassment and gender/race discrimination. Which people are still struggling with, by the way!
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Power and PowerPC are essentially the same ISA, I don’t know what that post has a problem with.
But it is your choice.
Cooking can be relaxing and recreational activity too where you can escape into. I don't see it nowhere near being an overhead.
I question the claim that the poor in the US lack the ability to cook for themselves. Central American immigrants in the US are often even poorer than the native poor (and have longer working hours), but they manage precisely by cooking for themselves: they eat lots of beans and rice, which can be bought in big bulk bags to last many weeks, and the vegetables for which (onions, red peppers) can easily last a couple of weeks in a fridge.
Because it decreases self-confidence and initiative. It makes you think of the things that the "hero" does as exceptional and out of your reach, instead of something you could do as well if you put your mind to it properly.
That is not the source code, it is XCode IDE project file, you don't need it.

This application calls the native macOS libraries to do the OCR so I don't think you'd find anything useful here to do a Linux port - you can certainly use the idea and combine it with a linux compatible OCR library though.
That is one way to see it, aka a political opinion.
OCRmyPDF does that. Given the name I assume it's only for PDFs given the name, but theoretically it should work for any image without the need to extract it from the PDF.

https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
Explanation from website:

"This simple programming language with built-in graphical functions and an easy to use and offline usable browser IDE is well suited as a teaching and learning language. You can also use it to write graphical applications that you can embed in a web page."

Well done, thanks for sharing!
The average household electricity consumption per day is 28.9 kWh. For comparison, the Tesla Model X long range has a battery capacity of 100 kWh.

So in theory, a fully charged Model X could power the average home for 3 days. Really puts into perspective how much energy is needed to move a car at highway speeds.
No. People are pushing the envelope for these algorithms constantly, as part of the various competitions in data compression, and they don't get anywhere close.
It flies in the face of the idea that if you're educated and smart, you'll be well off.

Looking at how the lifes of my school classmates went I believe there's a positive correlation, but its influence is minor comparing to things like career choices and having connections or not.
"Statistically, we expect a big chunk of research to be wrong no matter what level of integrity the scientists have" - that's the actual problem under discussion here.

Research is heavily funded because people believe it's something more than a random claim making machine. You say governments should assume research is wrong and then try to replicate any claim before acting on it. But you end up in a catch 22: if the research community is constantly producing wrong claims there's no reason to believe your replication attempt is correct, as it will presumably be done by researchers or people who are closely aligned.

Additionally inability to replicate is only one of many possible problems with a paper. Many badly designed studies that cannot tell you anything will easily replicate. A lot of papers are of the form "Wet pavements cause umbrella usage". That'll replicate every single time, but it's not telling you anything useful about the world. Merely trying to fix things with lots of replication studies thus won't really solve the problem.
> Now C is considered low level and compilers can optimize much better than you can in almost all cases so more programmers are only vaugly aware of assembly.

This is not true, compilers don’t generate super-optimized asm output from C. It’s actually not that optimizable because eg the memory access is too low level so there are aliasing issues.

But optimizing doesn’t actually help most programs on modern CPUs so it’s not worth improving this.
Why are groceries so much more expensive in the US than in Europe?
Zig Makes Rust Cross-Compilation Just Work
Some keyboards tailored for office applications do have copy/paste/help/browse the internet/launch spreadsheet keys.
Why are so afraid to reveal the name and institution?
Literally the first sentence: “I am very familiar with anti abortionist activists views due to my family.”

That seems like a very broad claim.
Are we allowed to discuss the fact that, nine times out of ten, it's women, not men, bringing politics to work? I've noticed this pattern in every place I've worked.
I do commercial FOSS work without an NDA just fine. Seems it might just be a problem on your side...
Who is going to decide whether professor is smart?
> All these "simple" text editors like to show how easy it is to use "multiple cursors" to edit several spots at once

IDEs aside, I use this feature a lot to reformat badly indented SQL, to work on multiple "columns" in CSVs at once, to unroll loops... The possibilites are numerous.
> I already have a solid opinion. If you choose to try to disagree with that with solid evidence, feel free, but I'm not asking you to.

So I guess you see Hacker News as your platform to share your opinions without wanting to discuss them at all? You might want to refine how you use Hacker News then, as when commenting, it seems that you want to discuss. But since it's clear you do not, maybe it's more appropriate you create a blog and then submit the posts here?

In these days of misinformation, it sucks that people feel like it's fine to write "Exchanges frontrunning you and manipulating the market" without any sort of evidence and when challenged for the evidence, the rebut is "you don't have to believe me and I already believe in what I believe". In particular, it's not the kind of content I hope to see on HN, where many people are open to both providing evidence of their claims and also open to listen to others.
I feel obligated to add a link to the space-cadet keyboard with its many, many modifier and command keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
Talking Tech and AI with Google CEO Sundar Pichai
No I literally mean food and housing insecurity are traumatic for children, both of which are common in poverty. This is well studied.
This sounds like the start of an episode of Black Mirror
How to align table in center using CSS
> I would just consider it part of the price of the service.
reply

Which would make the service too expensive for me.

> Facebook

I don't use Facebook for the same reason.

But as I mentioned in the top level comment, this is a concern for me because I'm probably more privacy-conscious then an average user so I might not be exactly the type of user they're building for.
After upgrading my MacBook Pro 13" (2017) to Big Sur in Dec 2020 I had a similar experience. I use a 4k monitor and everything got super slow, fans started spinning, processes got throttled, and I could barely get any work done. I later did a fresh install of Catalina and everything was fast again.

I never did proper benchmarking, but my feeling was that resolution played a role. When using 1080p things were fast, but the resolution is unusable on a 27" 4k display. When using 2160p things were fast, but too small for my eyes. Any resolution in between (this implies things are being scaled?) was sluggish.

Note that this is a 13" model, so the problem does not seem to be restricted to the 16" model that the author is talking about.
>Your scenario is basically describing a guy demanding that his coworker be fired because 90% of the content on her social media channels consist of some variation of "men are trash".

But that's an approved opinion, totally narrative safe! She should suffer no consequences, and should actually be put on a pedestal for being so brave!
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive

No one wants to put more people in jail.

I think poster is saying instead, policy should not encourage more criminals.

If you have X pool of existing law breakers, policy goal is to keep a % subset of X out of the prison system.

However, policy is increasing the size of X, to X+1.
To be fair they have kidnapped quite a few British/Iranian citizens including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, they are effectively a religious dictatorship and a majority of their own people hate their government who I think have banned dancing in public and have arrested people for making TikTok videos, amongst more serious crimes. I’m not exactly sure the Iranian government are particularly nice people.
There's also an unfortunate path, when someone grows up okay not having to worry about anything and then the family goes bankrupt (without recovery) when his life is about to start after high school.

Being poor from the start sucks, but it at least teaches you things how to navigate in life with what you have.
I’m not adding anything particular of value but just to say - I agree.

The current environment - at least online - is you have to be for something, picking a side.

Against you however, people may say - we can’t turn off that part of who we are and be different at work. People have forgotten that saying nothing is an option. Stop talking - especially the people which shout opinions loudly and add no value.
Corruption in developed countries is much smoother.

It is largely confined to the extreme upper classes, and wholly legal. We see it in long-running public-works projects, particularly tunnels and nukes (when we still built those), and in capital procurement, particularly military. The effect is a 4x-20x cost increase borne by big govenment, thus taxpayers, funneled into myriad pockets, skimmed off at each stage by contractual arrangements.

A typical feature of this style of corruption is that so many separate power centers benefit, it becomes politically impossible to stop it. For example, the F-35 project, originally approved as a "low-cost" fighter, is built in 48 different US states, and is now the most expensive fighter plane ever built; yet still has over 600 potentially fatal design flaws.

Another current example is NASA's SLS rocket, which if actually used is expected to cost fully 200x as much as a SpaceX Starship launch, for about the same cargo load. It is possible that only test launches will ever happen, at $2B each, using extra-expensive engines designed for re-use, but dropped in the ocean after one use.

Other current or recent examples include Boston's Big Dig, New York City's 2nd Ave subway, and California's high-speed rail to nowhere.
There were actually plenty of concerns about the PIA involvement and logo at the time, but they were largely dismissed by others with the usual "what are you complaining about, it's just business" rhetoric.

And that's how we ended up here.
There was a comment I read somewhere (not sure where exactly) but they stated that the modern peer review process would never let someone like Einstein who was a patent clerk ever get the limelight.
Ask HN: Are VPCs the Same as Subnets?
I've been using DigitalOcean's VPC feature which is quite handy. Now, I have to setup my infrastructure using Hetzner... but they do not offer VPCs, although they offer subnets. The setup is very similar in both cases: one has to define some ip range for the subnet which is private (e.g., 10.0.0.0/16).

I don't understand the difference. In both cases, machines belonging to the VPC (or to the subnet) are assigned public ip addresses as well. When using DO VPCs, one must setup firewall rules nevertheless to avoid unwanted traffic.

Are Hetzner's subnets the same as DO's VPCs?
Not when you're goddamn hungry after a long day at a shit job. Source: experience.
I think you'd have a difficult time finding a for-profit organization where "can we profit" is not the more important question.
This is more of a sales pitch for the general concept of programming rather than R in particular. R is as good a choice as any...
I suspect this sounds like a bit of a blow-off

It is

But it's probably also true

Or at least substantially if not wholly and completely true

Which no statement ever is

My advice

Based on my EXPERT opinion

Is

Do what this person said

If you actually want to get hired at some point, then tell your interviewers what they actually want to hear

Be a bit of a salesperson

A lot of the times, imo, what I think interviewers are hoping for is someone to be alpha -- "I don't know shit about the stupid specific esoteric shit you're talking about but I can tie my gd shoelaces so I'll figure it out, ffs, wtf is wrong with you, did you bump your head as a baby?"

I mean, keep it light, but your confidence will go a long way.

If you're not a white male, pretend you are -- it's that kind of "I _deserve_ to be here, Fuckers" confidence that can get your hired.
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. I think this is a valid criticism that should be discussed and not ignored. I find elixir to be quite elegant to work with but that’s just like my opinion. I guess my question is what about it gives it the steep learning curve?
> The answer is that I would like to do without return statements if and as much as I can. We will see how much that is. In general, I am in favor of expression-orientation in programming languages.

Rust is as expression-oriented as they get, and it does feature return statements (well, expressions: they have the empty type, implicitly convertible to any other type). I don’t see how those two are supposed to be exclusive. In fact, they very much go hand in hand: ‘expression-oriented’ is just another name for functional programming, and a return statement is just a limited (non-reified) form of continuations, a well-known concept under this paradigm. I don’t know what’s to write about here, really.

Also, it’s pretty ironic to see the article support its claims by a quote from Guy Steele disparaging functional programming, immediately followed by an example like

#Blinker{ #seconds: 1, #active: true} → ref:gpio:17.

which looks like mapping over a generator in all but name.
Battlefield 1 has a rather excellent one as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2QxpSoYF18
> And imo, it has been far easier for many folks to pick up Flutter over ReactNative, especially those coming from JS backgrounds.

Would love more context around this statement because I would have assumed the exact opposite, especially when you have to use a completely different language.
Three FUD posts from you but no solutions. You got an agenda? Sound jealous.

Bitcoin is an open source project, bro. If you see a bug fix it, don't complain like a bitch.

Wtf?

There are so many solutions to what you're talking about....
xUbuntu really is one of the better polished distros. When I had a spare laptop, I tried some distrohopping on it. Little quirks existed in most distros but it just felt like xUbuntu was the most (for the lack of better words) sane overall. Everything I'd change in XFCE on another distro was essentially what xUbuntu had configured by default.

The only thing I've had to do after installation, aside from installing my apps from repos, is to add the Mainline PPA and update the kernel to newest just to take advantage of newer kernel drivers for some of my hardware. Other than that, everything is there and everything works.
Negative citations are extremely rare.

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with...

"You might hypothesize that the citations of non-replicating papers are negative, but negative citations are extremely rare.5 One study puts the rate at 2.4%. Astonishingly, even after retraction the vast majority of citations are positive, and those positive citations continue for decades after retraction.6"
Notepad++ won this race didn't it?
>Because in the real world if Bob wrote a paperback titled "Women are Bad for Democracy and They Shouldn't Be Able to Vote", did press junkets about this book, and actively encouraged people to buy it, then yes, he'd get fired by pretty much every company in this country and very few people would have an issue with that.

You misspelled "Muhammad" as "Bob"! We agree! Let's fire every Muslim we can!
>See every time interfaith community leaders collaborate on a food drive, charity event, etc.

I'm guessing they tend to focus their discussions on the food drive, charity event, or other task at hand. Not whether Jesus is the messiah or whether Isaac or Ishmael is the rightful heir to Abraham.
It's still largely a game of chance
Westerner: "Did you see that drug bust in Shanghai China yesterday? Two pounds of marijuana!".

Chinese National: "Yes. I hear they received 2 days."

Westerner: "2 days! That isn't that bad. You can do a lot more time in the states -- well at least in Texas. It's legal now on the entire west coast."

Chinese National: "No. No. 2 days to live."
Why the hell would you think just "reissuing" some random bank balance to random people is valid logic???

What are you, a thief?

"I wouldn't be surprised if I could just take that for myself."

Wtf
I would say you could replace R with Python or Julia and do just fine. Anything must be better than SPSS.

That said, R had come a long way in recent years and is enjoyable to use. It is very complete as far as statistics go.
> It seems like they're basically saying that mined blocks should be accepted based on the location of the one submitting it.

That's silly. Mining doesn't use a lot of bandwidth, so setting up a tunnel to mask the origin of the block would be trivial. The moment Iran's blocked, why wouldn't miners do that?
I've always wanted to understand the geopolitics of oil and gas. Despite much interested reading, I can never quite figure out what's going on.

One of the more interesting quote's I've encountered along the way, "The foreign tax rates of U.S. oil multinationals fell significantly after the first Gulf War, during which the United States intervened to protect Kuwait, a major oil producer. Although it is not possible to know for sure what caused this decline, a possible interpretation of the fall in taxes collected by oil-producing countries is that they reflect a return on military protection granted by the United States to oil-producing States."

Figure 2 on page 20 has the discontinuity.

https://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/WrightZucman2018.pdf