skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know we users cannot see how many sales a game has from steam, so I very much appreciate the creator telling us. I often try to judge from the number of reviews if a game has made at least a few thousand bucks. This game here has 19 reviews with 420 sales, which means that 4,5% of all people have reviewed the game, which is more than I expected (I expected a ratio of about 1%). But this means that probably other games that have only a few dozen reviews have sold comparably (poorly).

As an aside, me personally, I don't like early access games; I'd rather wait till the game is finished. I'm probably not the only one thinking like that. So I find it difficult to guess how different the sales projectory would be if it didn't have the "early access" status, but with any luck the creator will tell us once he has released V1.0 :)
When you are working on domestic manufacturing, what automation you have? How much of that is programmed by human (in house and from vendor?)

This is definitely far from mass adoption. But somewhere certain expensive product might benefit from this. Guess: mechanical watch assembly, given the amount of manual labor, and the claimed learning ability, it seems possible for a robot to assemble a 1milions worth of Swiss watch.
I’m thankful for the diverse group of people that I studied with at the University of Missouri. Different backgrounds, point of views, and experiences added so much to the college experience. Diversity is such a great thing. We should do everything we can to promote it. My life is better, more enriched because of affirmative actions over the years.
It does seem like Cloudflare are not the only ones upset about how AWS handles traffic
Assuming 8hr work days and a 250 day working year for humans. No such constraints for robots. That's 2,000 hrs/yr for a human vs 8,760 (assuming 24/7) hours for a robot. Obviously there will be other costs for robots (downtime, electricity, repair etc) so no telling whether it will be worth it in the long run but the hour calculation there does seem a little off.
Most of the rich who had the ability to flee to private islands took the opportunity.
Twitter Can Be Liberated – Here's How (2008)
There's an interesting GDC talk about this for folks who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycVOCbeKqQ
Thanks for your feedback and the link, it's indeed a very nice open source profiler. The complexity of initial analysis of the data in search for anomalies was one of the main drivers for us. Our approach is based on providing interactive experience through which you can see the impact of various statistical distributions, ML suggestions, narrow down the important criteria and explore actual data associated with it. All this helps in building much more accurate models of data correctness to be applied for the new data. And do it much less time. However as of now we don't do data classification, it's one of the future topics of interest
> If you want to ensure that all previous instructions are done executing, you need lfence, and if you want to prevent future instructions from filling in the pipelines you'll need an mfence.

LFENCE does not serialize, nor MFENCE. CPUID, however, is documented to as a serializing instruction and is the recommended way to serialize, particularly with RDTSC.

> I don't recall the details, but these different clock states could vary as much as 2.2GHz to 4GHz on my processor (P1? Turbo? I forget the exact name...)

Oh heck, it's way more than that. I've measured ~5x difference in clock cycle count for short loops using RDTSC. Supposedly RDTSC returns "nominal" cycles that advance at the same rate relative to the wall clock, but TBH that doesn't smell right. OSes also try to synchronize the absolute values of the various processors, so jumping between CPUs isn't that bad.
What I find very odd about this is the assumption that kids in challenging circumstances would have more problem with test prep than with keeping up their GPA. Poor people can afford test prep. Stuyvesant, NYC’s selective admission high school, has 50% of students living in poverty, and a 1300+ average SAT score. A couple of thousand dollars one time is something most Americans can scrape together.

Gaming GPA is much easier for privileged kids. My wife and I carefully manage her younger step siblings’ course schedules to maximize GPA. We schedule meetings with professors, counselors, schedule retakes and extra credit, etc. I can’t imagine how it would be easier for a kid with an unstable home life, who is moving around, maybe has parents getting divorced, etc., to keep up their GPA over several years than to do well on one test.
GCP has the worst UI, except for all the others
Man up. Admit everyone who applies. Let the ones that can't meet the standard fail out and the ones that can stay. Everyone gets what they want.
Same Issue for me. Using Firefox beta.
Pros and Cons of PHP and Classic Asp
PHP and Classic ASP are server-side scripting languages. What is wrong with having a website written in this instead of the trendy JavaScript Frameworks like React, Angular etc.? If memory serves me correctly, there is an issue with security where you can post in a text box some script and hack into a system.

Can we please discuss some pitfalls or drawbacks to having a website written entirely in PHP or ASP? What does a JavaScript framework or Node.js bring to the table that would otherwise be lacking?

I am just now venturing into a contract where I am tasked with updating and maintaining existing code. All I know right now is that it is written in PHP and Classic ASP. I am in the process of investigating these scripting languages and I want to know what the opinion of other developers are.
So is your position that, while the SAT is still the best choice for admissions, UC should stop using it for some years in the hopes that this will motivate College Board to improve it more quickly, after which UC should resume using the SAT? That the impact (on future applicants and everyone else involved) of using a worse admissions process for some years is less than the bargaining-chip value?
There is literally just one short paragraph of personal intro by the CEO, before getting the “plot”.
"He thinks this is just blind luck, because he had no idea what anything did in the diagram. I think it’s more likely that his genius subconscious saw something."

Reading your comments gives me a better understanding of how cults of personalities are a thing.
Horizon is a terrible experience and won't be the MVP of the metaverse even when it's launched publicly out of beta.

Try vrland.io instead, it's a web-based social 3D/VR platform that runs everywhere with a browser which includes WebXR.

Link: https://vrland.io/lobby
I advise creating a dummy account and buying the oculus quest 2 instead. Worth it :)
Deciding whether or not the SAT is equitable, fair, or valuable shouldn't have any anecdotal component. For every one person with a story like yours, there is someone who had a bad experience with it for reasons outside of their control. I did exceptionally well in take home or book assignments because I understand the subject matter, but never was a good test taker. I took the ACT and did 'fine' but I could have done much better in an untimed, open book environment. What are we trying to measure with these tests? Your memory? Your ability to devote time to studying?

At the end of the day, tests like the ACT/SAT will always privilege people who can afford to spend more time on it. Lots of kids do better because their parents spend thousands on tutoring. Other kids of the same skill level do worse because they work 25 hours a week to help their family make rent. No amount of change in 'access' can overcome that.

Knowledge and skill is complicated and trying to boil it down to a timed test isn't a particularly useful measure.
Some interesting historical context: Two weeks after this was posted, the first submission was made to the Fediverse:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130615111045/http://identi.ca/...
> In fact I'd say a large amount of 20th century industrial history has been discovering the long list of things that shave bits and pieces off the lives of people in aggregate and banning them - in the face of opposition saying they have a right to emit this and denying the harm.

Serious movie spoiler alert: this is literally what Soderbergh's latest film is about
Try vrland instead!

https://vrland.io/lobby
Black, Latino, and Asian people all oppose racial preferences in admission: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ.... For example Latinos say that race and ethnicity shouldn’t be even a “minor factor” in college admissions by a margin of 2:1.

Like many things, this is in large part about liberal white people wanting to engage in social engineering on behalf of minorities who mostly don’t support their policy. Like “defund the police.”
Apple case is not exactly abandoning design for assembly. The advancement of electronic and metal machining allows smaller and more integrated parts, which allows cheap labor to beat the machine. If the electronics and metal machining did not advance, I am guessing the resultant production cost would not be this low.
Im still confused. Isnt this deceptive a little bit? Isnt a 50% drop in a month, only a 50% drop in a month. Which I agree has happened to BTC a few times. But what is the point to extrapolate to a year? Bitcoin has never dropped 50% consistently every month for a year.
All that says is which side is losing.
Why not just put down Black? If I can identify as an opposite sex, I can certainly identify as another race.
No but their community or local government can and will. Internet access has monumental positive impacts for an economy and $1500/$100month is such a small amount of money for a city or communtiy resource for the expected return. No, it's not going to be on every mud hut in the world. But starlink will definitely provide internet to millions who didn't have it before, and do a great deal of service for lifting some of those people out of poverty.
So racism is fundamentally good and the tool to use, but it just needs to be carefully guarded to be safe - sort of like nuclear power?
> Avatars have no legs; nothing below the waistline

This is the biggest mistake a lot of VR developers made and are still making. People want to look cool in VR. They don't want to look like flying blobs (unless that's their actual chosen aesthetic). This affects their platform and purchase choices to a degree that many don't seem to fully comprehend.
> I have personally never set foot in a 747

Ok. Do you know how many people it carries? Is it about 10, 300, or 10,000?

And how many spheres of diameter 1 can you pack into a cube of length 1? About 0.13, 1.3, or 13?

What else do you need, seriously?
Interesting I was 150 points of Stanford.. should’ve prepped.
Can we blame that on the-most-important-job-of-a-leader-is-to-tell-an-inspiring-story narrative prevalent in the tech world? https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nh3ubp0nRaw
It’s his calling. He believes he is changing the world for the better and connecting people.
What is the benefit from those sanctions? Don't they just keep North Korea insular?
What you posted is right, but I wouldn't classify indirect branch prediction as value prediction, because it doesn't supply a value to any other part of the processor (e.g. substitute a predicted value into a register). It just steers the frontend to where instructions should be fetched from, so it is just branch prediction.
That's what I hear
You want him to stay in his ivory tower instead?
I find it pointless to convince someone who doesn't see the value of thinking about solutions to problems they've never seen before. They will never be pioneers and that's okay, an organization needs both.
Members of certain minorities aren't underrepresented because of their skin colour, but because they are more likely to be poor and lack access to quality education at childhood and youth. Racial discrimination against whites and Asians in higher education is not the best way to fix any of this. Progressive taxation, better childhood/youth education for everyone on the other hand could make a big difference.
In Sweden there is a university exam you can take which functions similarly. You get a curved score between 0.0 and 2.0 with which you can apply to unis with. You can take it however many times you want at a cost of about 80 USD (I think).
That would just benefit big businesses that can absorb the cost. Small businesses wouldn't be able to compete as their margins get crushed. I don't think people realize how cut throat the restaurant business is. It is possibly the most probable business model to go under with. I am not sure I want to live in a world where it's all mega corporations that I can eat at without spending a lot of money. Also as many have pointed out, this doesn't really address the problem since this is on a global scale including in places with much higher wages and no tipping.
I remember the ending. I remember you had to make a sort of moral decision on behalf of one of the other characters. It was an interesting question posed to the player, but I remember watching a clip of what happens if you do the "bad" thing and found it played out a little goofy. (Sorry, no spoilers here, but you can look it up.)
As do these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsLJdpjSJcM&t=15s
And I always thought they will drop the price of their EC2 some day to balance things out. But nope.

I am wondering if Amazon could introduce a bandwidth cost rebate, where the bandwidth cost would be subtracted from your final bill at a maximum of 30% of your total VM bill.

But it is like Apple, once you have a monopoly like market they just dont need to. Amazon is buying as many TSMC capacity as they could as demand for Graviton 2 is way above their projected expectation. It seems they are still growing at such a pace despite their size.
The kind of pressure (and hate) you get at that level is not for everyone…
The embeds don't actually "work", per se. When the browser tries to load the embed into an <iframe>, it gets redirected to the home page of the porn site, and ends up displaying the upper left corner of that page in the space where the video embed was supposed to go. It all looks rather more accidental than purposeful.
> I think the money variant is actually one of the worst, as it evokes no imagery

Plus money is obviously discrete, while water is conceptually nice and continuous.
Check out our social 3D/VR web metaverse platform here:

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Same. I switched from iPhone/Mac to Android/Windows and sometimes refer to that period as my "rumspringa," as I eventually returned to Apple for all things "daily life" tech.

I've put all that customization energy into my Linux VM, i.e. my programming environment. Time spent dicking around there always teaches me something and results in a somewhat more efficient setup. Time spent playing with an Android shell or launcher or icon theme or whatever was just...sunk time.
In some parts of the country - dunno about Houston specifically - a high percentage of the housing stock is governed by HOAs which make zoning boards look like anarchists by comparison.
It's hard for me to compare precisely, especially since the Intrinsic videos are sped up, but the one you linked looks very shaky and hesitant, and also the "Ikea challenge" seems like it requires more fine-tuned force-feedback than putting metal pieces together. If I anthropomorphize, the Stanford robot looks like an inept/hungover employee, whereas the Intrinsic robot seems convincing that it's actually accurately aware of what's going on.

Another possible difference -- how much programming time did it take to teach the Stanford robot to assemble the water pump? Sounds like Intrinsic trained the robots to do this with little supervision.

It seems to me that this might represent pretty solid progress, although not exponential/paradigm-shift scale like we've seen in some other industries in that period, and nothing in the Intrinsic videos seemed like it was above par for other automation companies I've seen recently. But since you seem to be in the industry, what's your take on whether they seem to be ahead of the game, or even just realistic, with claims like:

> In one instance, we trained a robot in two hours to complete a USB connection task that would take hundreds of hours to program. In other tests, we orchestrated multiple robot arms to assemble an architectural installation and a simple piece of furniture. None of this is realistic or affordable to automate today — and there are millions of other examples like this in businesses around the world.
I think you're referring to DDR3L DIMMs, which are just a down-volted version of DDR3. LPDDR has never had DIMMs because of signal integrity issues. They take power to resolve.
You should have been like me and...

1. Take the test the year before they added the essay, so you'd have the "non-essay" exam grade recorded. Even if you were in 9th or 10th grade, that's still useful.

2. Take the test again with the essay. But when you do so, have AP classes worth of "knowing how to write against a graded rubric" experience so that you beat everyone else's writing score. (Thank you AP World History teacher that I've forgotten... I'm pretty sure she taught me how to beat an essay portion on any test)
Looks rather small number of investment

There were hundreds of copycats startups in China following the trendy business ideas at the moments.

The Groupon era
Streaming
Short video
Gif sharing
Etc...

It just looks like not enough money in robotics, not that robotics are wasting them
Elon Musk doesn't have a PhD and he didn't build any rockets.
I recall hearing in casual conversation "ohh this guy is Asian and went to X so you know he's good". I was shocked.

It must create a weird dynamic to have two identifiable groups where you know one got there on merit alone, while the other one maybe benefited from a quota.
That exact news article appears in the video.
Tom Barrack is not arrested under FARA.
> But when we propose raising the standards, we get complaints from conservatives that "the free market will take care of it" (even though it obviously doesn't).

The free market approach would rely on drastically looser zoning and other land use restrictions so that tons more housing gets built resulting landlords actually have to compete and thus start caring about a wider range of issues.
Pretty exciting!

A few questions:

Why are the higher end cpu options so much more when the price difference is only about $100 according to intel and they all have the same core count? Do you plan to offer 6 core or more versions? AMD zen 3 or 4? Im guessing you will release a version with 12th cpus in the future?

Will you have a version with two m.2 storage slots and maybe a bigger battery? A version with lpddr5 in the board?

Are the usbc slots also thunderbolt 3 or 4 slots like a macbook pro? How is egpu support?
Yes, in the 1980s people were told they'd lose their manufacturing jobs to Japanese robots but the robots turned out to be Chinese workers.
Regardless of the probability distribution of the random button, it does not change the optimal strategy. By pressing the Pepsi button, you are either going to get Coke (you "win") or Pepsi (so you know the button is random and you "win" by pressing random on the next go which you now know is Coke).
That kid working 25 hours a week to help their family make rent is going to have an easier time buckling down for one test than keeping up their GPA over four years. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/03/23/sta...
The comment in question was:

"Hell, eventually somebody might decide that it’s cheaper to pay a hitman to just cut a brake line or something than go through discovery in that judge’s court."

It was in reply to a story about the founder of Silk Road being arrested for, among other things, hiring a hitman. In the Ulbrecht case, the hitman was a FED and was paid by Ulbrecht after giving staged photographic evidence of a murder.

It looks like they were investigating whether this person was doing anything in furtherance of such a plot beyond just angry comments and wanted them to keep quiet while they investigated.
Wasn't the Christchurch shooter known for ranting online in advance of his murders?

Did he not say exactly what he was going to do, then do it?

I don't see what scale has to do with it.

I also don't see how an absolute statement like "The person who is going to rob you is the one person who is definitely not going to tell you in advance that you're going to be robbed." can be believed. It only takes one counter example.

This is a thread about anticipating crimes based on online commentary, something that could absolutely have flagged the Christchurch massacre.
Did you watch the video? Clearly the car doesn't care too much for what the vision detects.
They will keep the first few seconds or minutes of the original video, bit-exact, and then switch to porn. The player needs to validate every section.
I can understand when someone says they opted for macOS or Windows as they didn't want to struggle with Linux. But making the same argument for Android vs ios, doesn't hold. In fact, you actually struggle and waste more time on ios - e.g. transferring a file from an iDevice to a non-Apple device. Stock Android is just as mature and capable as ios. It's all the bundled adware / spyware crap that the phone manufacturers add to Android that often makes it lousy and gives it a bad name. (Google shares the blame for making it a spyware).
It’s been that way for years and has nothing to do with the touchbar, it’s in the menu. Agree it’s hardly discoverable.
Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)
Here you go: https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/M...

Still bigger than a smartphone (it occupies the entire width of the laptop (when counting the heatsink, 2/3 of the width otherwise), and around one quarter of the whole area).

Also, your original sentence was

> Modern laptop motherboards can easily be about the size of a cell phone.

Here we see that the one and only best laptop in this regard comes close to the cell-phone-sized motherboard. That's far from what “modern laptop can easily be” means. Most laptops sold today have a much bigger motherboard than this.

(BTW, as much as I'd like to see non x86 laptops going mainstream, software compatibility is huge issue for an ecosystem as diverse as the Windows one (and Roseta 2 being too much of a coinflip isn't encouraging…), we might get there at some point, put it's gonna be slow and painful.)
> So is your position that [...] the SAT is [...] the best choice for admissions

No
Not sure what data you're talking about. What I've seen so far: SAT <-> Income are correlated => let's not rely on SAT? That's such a BS argument.

Anything related to income will be (statistically speaking) associated with intelligence and other personal traits (perseverance etc). Any of this will be obviously correlated with your kid's SAT --- it's called genetics.

Any other, more sensible data to look at?
Ethereum’s vs. FB

The enemy of your enemy is your friend. (Bitcoiner, here)
Machining is more or less in the same spot it's been since late 1970s.
Here is the abstract of a 2008 paper "Option trading and individual investor performance", finding that retail options traders lose money. I doubt things have changed.

This paper examines the impact of option trading on individual investor performance. The results show
that most investors incur substantial losses on their option investments, which are much larger than the
losses from equity trading. We attribute the detrimental impact of option trading on investor performance to poor market timing that results from overreaction to past stock market returns. High trading
costs further contribute to the poor returns on option investments. Gambling and entertainment appear
to be the most important motivations for trading options while hedging motives only play a minor role.
We also provide strong evidence of performance persistence among option traders.