skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High / Low options are rarely the option people think about at the high level. That's just a simple mixup (worst case scenario, you're forced to guess in case you can't react in time).

What he was talking about is the DP, the "Dragon Punch", also known as Shoryuken, that Ryu / Ken are famous for in Street Fighter.

The mindgame is that Shoryuken is 100% invincible: no matter what your opponent is doing, the Shoryuken / Dragon Punch will have infinite "priority" so to speak, it punches through all of your opponent's options because your hurtbox completely disappears during the move. That's right, your hurtbox is not merely "shifted", its gone. You're fully invincible.

Of course, for balancing purposes, the Shoryuken has high-cooldown and high-periods of counter-hit status. Which means that although the Shoryuken "beats" all other attacks in the game, it also loses to a simple block into counter-hit.

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So the mind game becomes one of timing. You approach the opponent, making them _THINK_ you're about to throw out an attack. They dragon-punch in response to your movement. But instead of attacking, you just block, and bam. You beat a player who spams dragon punch.

Because of this extremely heavy "Dragon Punch wins vs all attacks" mindgame, there's a rich strategy / dance involved called footsies where the two players try to get each other to push the attack button first (especially if in a mirror match, Ryu vs Ryu or Ken vs Ken). The 2nd one to attack wins, because of the strange property of invincibility.

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As far as Fighting Games go, the "Shoryuken" / Dragon punch is most similar to this "hard counter" found in RTS games. Shoryuken "hard counters" all other attacks in the game.

While "simply holding the blocking button" consistently beats Shoryuken. Its a hard counter, always going to win if and only if you know exactly what the opponent will do.

Because these options require understanding your opponent's mindset (when / timing of their use of Dragon Punches and/or blocking), they lead to incredibly fun mindgames.
This is really interesting - could you share a source on how Valve/Icefrog make balancing decisions?
I would avoid the Robinhood IPO for now. The media and the roadshow promoters will attempt to hype it up 'to the moon'.

Like $COIN (even when that was a direct listing), I would expect a push higher in the initial price and then some large institutional investor has got to hit that sell button and take that profit.

Who knows, I could be easily wrong and I hope I am wrong. But in this game, you can also win by not buying into the initial hype and enter again when the hype is dead.
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> I suspect humans do behave this way

Suddenly I recall one author of SICP saying that programming today is about poking at libraries.
That sounds reasonable, and I’m more than willing to believe that. In the end, reality is more messy than a bunch of well-intended processes, and you’ll have a whole bunch of bugs in limbo, which can keep whole teams occupied without making any real progress towards the end goal that should be achieved.

Thanks a lot for your insights, they were very valuable.
Reminds me of some of the stuff in Control, which is obviously based on SCP, but still.
The answer that shuts people up real quick is to ask if you can post their banking records on facebook, or to ask them for their credit card number and the three digits on the back.

If you are feeling particularly bold, you can always ask them to remove their pants.

People who claim they have nothing to hide just don't realize how much they hide on an active basis.
> Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented.

Yes, and?
That is how a port is.

When FastAI for swift was a thing (is it still a thing?)
it was (is?) using Swift For TensorFlow, not PyTorch.
https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
It can be significant if you are using a PRNG to make sampling decisions in a large data stream for example. I don't know about "the bottleneck" but if you can make a thing handle 1% more HTTP requests per second by doubling the speed of your PRNG, why wouldn't you?
> https://bughunters.google.com/about/patch-rewards

> (Googler here, but I don't work on the VRP.)

The URL that you posted doesn't render correctly on Firefox 90 for Linux.
I see, sorry for the confusion.
Things that occur after the election, such as changing testing standards, do not affect the election

so what does correlating these events have to do with anything while ignoring verifiable causation, such as the WHO already having documents about these changes going back to September 2020
Yes. He's excellent. My favorite is Identity Crisis with Leslie Nielsen.
I think there needs to also be a concept of death—penalties from which recovery is impossible. Nonergodicity seems to be a requirement for the development of antifragility.
In RTS terms this seems more like 'supply' or 'pop' count: a measure (often ingame) of the relative power (and cost) of each unit, such that equal supply counts of different units are in theory on the same footing (often with a hard cap to avoid game-breakingly large armies), absent any specific advantages or counters. Even small differences in supply can be extremely significant in most RTS: a 2x supply advantage is almost always overwhelming. Hard counters are exactly what would be a counterexample to that.
> Everyone knows that the mean and median are different ways of summarizing a distribution, which have different purposes. But did you know there are many different kinds of means too?

Sure. More than that, the median is one of those different kinds of means. A mean is a statement about the total aggregated value of several data points. It answers the question "if all of these values were the same value, what would that value be?". And obviously, the answer depends on the details of how you aggregate the individual values.

If your function takes a set of values and returns a value that is at least the minimum of the set and at most the maximum, it's a mean.
Noise generation in audio applications. At a sample rate of 44.1 kHz, a single noise generator has to produce 44100 random numbers per second. Now imagine you have dozens or hundreds of them. Luckily, you can get away with very cheap and simple algorithms.
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Don't worry about it. We can already do far worse using either humans or land mines or nuclear bombs or whatever. People are the real danger.
You're actually conflating two different things, in case it wasn't clear.
She'd dress up for christmas and halloween, nothing that bad.

Other than that she sat in the corner (nearish the pool table) being inoffensive.

The second edge: there is the risk that healthy aspects of a prevailing culture will be eroded for the sake of an overly vocal regressive minority.
The distribution probably has a relatively small amount of people reporting a disproportionately large amount of the bugs.
I also think it's problematic (and, granted this might be more on users than slack) - that a thread off an @here comment pings everyone in existence on every reply. Maybe I just wish our admins would turn off @here for general usage though ;P
I once gave a lunch talk at Docker, inc, which included several slides of suggestions of features to add to Docker. Prominently featured was the request for a native command to clean old images. An engineer in attendance remarked incredulously that he could not believe that users would not know how to pipe docker ls into xargs docker rmi.
A statically typed scripting language – Umka
I believe on a Mac laptop keyboard, home/end are fn-left/fn-right or cmd-up/cmd-down.

Terminal is a bit different for me since they keyboard can be customized; with my configuration, fn-left/fn-right are sent to the terminal session while cmd-up/cmd-down affect the scroll bars for the window.
I bought some woodstain the other week. I chose to seals quick drying woodstain because it’s woodstain that’s quick drying and from ronseals. It does exactly what it says on the tin

The only reason I chose this was because of the pervasive tv adverts in the 1990s when I was a teenager. Back then I had no need for woodstain, and very limited idea on what I would want it for, I didn’t buy any until 15 years after I stopped watching live tv (and thus tv adverts).

First place I’m going to look for a new sofa would be DFS, again because of the adverts, again from the 90s.

How do studies catch the roi over decades?
Follow up with an email (or message or whatever the medium is) confirming the agreed-upon outcome of the offline discussion? This is good practice anyway, summarising what was said over an hour long discussion can often reveal people came away with very different interpretation of what was agreed upon
It's in the process of being rolled out. I own like 5 servers, 2 of them normal, non-community ones and none of them have gotten the feature yet while I'm in at least 4 servers which have already gotten the feature
150‐ Year Wait for Indian Immigrants with Advanced Degrees (2018)
It is semantic debate and what you are talking is certainly marketing, but it isn't really advertising. Advertising usually requires paying someone else to communicate the message.
Supreme Commander's gameplay is nothing but hard counters[1], especially with the reclaim system (you can harvest a dead unit to reclaim 80% of the mass used in creating it).

The gameplay is deep and revolves around scouting and predicting what the enemy will do and when they'll do it. It's still very active today, through to a mod called FAF.

[1]The exception to this is the Cybran SACU, which I believe has no true counter once you take into account the gun, EMP and SAM upgrades.

Mass for mass, they beat just about every land unit including Percivals, GCs, Monkeylords and Ilshavohs.

They hard counter all air units, even T3 bombers, as their SAML can fire while (rapidly) constructing and/or fortifying an ED4 which they can then reclaim afterwards.

I just wish I had the skill to deploy them in a real setting!
This comment makes me proud to be a curmudgeon without any of those things :)
Albrecht Durer's Rinocerous: nice. I never saw it before. Looks like someone said it was armoured so Durer went to the local armoury for inspiration. Puts me in mind of a Deep Dream image.

https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

A good story about the duck-billed platypus, which was believed apocrophal for a long time.

https://gizmodo.com/legendary-cryptids-that-turned-out-to-be...
I’m not the main dev on FastAI.jl, but I work on the Julia ML community team that supported this project.

> Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented.

We are looking to offer a high level API for ML in Julia similar to fastai for PyTorch. The goal is to enrich the Flux ecosystem, so just calling into Python fastai wouldn’t be appropriate. FastAI.jl is built on top of several lower level packages that can be used separately from FastAI.jl. These packages help build out the ecosystem not just for FastAI.jl, but any ML framework or workflow in Julia.

> What does this mean for the development of fastai?

FastAI.jl is “unofficial” in that Jeremy and the fastai team did not develop it. But Jeremy knows about the project, and we have kept in touch with the fastai team for feedback. FastAI.jl doesn’t affect the development of Python fastai in any way.

> FastAI.jl has vision support but no text support yet.

> What is the timeline for FastAI.jl to achieve parity?

We’re working to add more out-of-the-box support for other learning tasks. Currently, we have tabular support on the way, but the timeline for text is not decided.

Note that the framework itself could already support a text learning method, but you’d have to implement the high level interface functions for it yourself. We just don’t have built-in defaults like vision. You can check out https://fluxml.ai/FastAI.jl/dev/docs/learning_methods.md.htm... for a bit more on what I mean.

> When should I choose FastAI.jl vs fastai?

It depends on what you need. PyTorch and fastai are more mature, but Julia and Flux tend to be more flexible to non-standard problems in my experience. If you’re interested, then give Julia/Flux/FastAI.jl a try. If we’re missing a mission critical feature for you, then please let us know so we can prioritize it.
Docker pushes developers to think about deployment, not just getting it running on their laptop. And responding to your question: yes - the Docker build process is inherently incremental.
> The link you provide shows a coefficient of .47 for actual similarity, and .39 for perceived similarity. I'm not good at statistics, but that seems like a far cry from "the reason why people like other people is that they are like them." which is the line I was replying to. If I'm understanding it correctly it would be more accurate to say "people are somewhat more likely to like someone who is like them." If that's what was originally written, then I probably wouldn't have replied.

r, or Pearson's Correlation Coefficient [1], is a value from -1 to 1. for r < 0, the variables are negatively correlated, for r > 0 the variables are positively correlated, and for |r| ~= 0, the variables are uncorrelated. 0.47 and 0.39 are high values of correlation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_correlation_coefficien...
There's a few machines like this in Spokane Valley, WA. Not that that the machine's operator is secret, but they have mystery buttons. It's been around for years and it's right outside a Coke distribution center(?). My siblings and I used to refer to it as, "The Mystery Magic Coke Machine"

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6787458,-117.2733456,3a,49.5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNN12D4W7k
"An exoskeleton wouldn't let her do any of those things and would significantly reduce her quality of life."

I do not want to talk down on the wheelchair, but what about an exoskeleton as simply another way to get around and do other things, you cannot do in a wheelchair, because not every way is level? That would probably be a further improvement, if the tech would be ready and affordable?

If I ever loose my ability to walk, I really hope walking "wheel"chairs or something like a exoskeleton will be avaiable.
This is precisely why alternatives to traditional education are accelerating now and will eventually replace all but the boys club institutions and capital intensive science programs.
thanks and thanks for the headsup!
valve collects statistics, yes. Are they used? Who knows, there's hardly any transparency in the balancing process. I will say that Icefrog has (supposedly) been in charge since WC3, back when there was no conceivable way they could have collected meaningful statistics..

I also haven't seen definitive sources about consultations with top players. I've heard about bouncing ideas off pros in the distant past, but not with any regularity, and not recently.

"Better balanced continuously with time" is pretty subjective..
> I agree. Early 2000's were the glory years of the internet.

You know how every generation thinks that the music they grew up with was the best and its all gone downhill from there? Well, lemme tell you little shits a story about Usenet and Eternal September...
> The problem with iMessage wouldn't be solved by liability. It is a security flaw that cannot be removed by law.

If they had financial incentives to not get hacked, it would make more financial sense to port non-memory safe c and c++ code to swift and rust. (Currently way too much effort to be worth it.) It would also incentivize better security layers like sand boxing.
I had a couple of complaints about HR in the past; they were investigated by the people I complained about and found they are perfect.

As someone else wrote, HR works to protect the company, not for you.
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The cake thing was in response to you wanting Apple Watch and iMessage…on Android.

This is the definition of wanting it both ways.

I don’t think anyone would argue that it’s technically impossible, but that should not be mistaken with “practically impossible” given Apple’s business model.
Great question.

One thing to imagine might be a pain or cost curve that has multiple minima and maxima. Pain can be either a demotivator or motivator in different contexts. Pain qua fatique might indicate that a reward slope exists for more conditioning. (Edit: that is on a static or realist view; the terrain of reward and pain is probably constantly changing.)

Random tangential data point: Some animals (chickens?) can learn superstitious behavior; the first action of theirs that happens to correlate with a reward can result in one-shot learning or something.
In many EU countries those light bulbs are being sold as space heaters. I know that chicken coups definitely use them as such.
(author here)

As I said in the article, I was hoping to find more data sets from around the world (five different ones would have been nice), but I really couldn't find anything else comparable to the Japanese cherry blossom records.

Yes, of course, we have plenty more evidence of a different variety: paleohistorical records, temperature models, and very comprehensive modern-era measurements. But nothing else "that has been consistently recorded, in writing, more-or-less annually, for the past 1,000+ years".

I'm not trying to prove or disprove global warming either, think of my article as just the icing on the cake.
I don't think the article suggests anything be banned. Just that denying biological sex and insisting that transgender persons are no different can have dire consequences. Especially regarding doctors treating patients. The article details a transgender man who was sick, but because no one wanted to call him transgender and everyone kept insisting he was a man, they were a bit surprised to find out it was due to pregnancy. It was a possibility they had not considered. It might have been diagnosed much sooner.

[Somebody was offended by this article, but apparently deleted the comment.]
I live in the neighborhood and have bought a few sodas from the machine. I always assumed it was locksmith, they are powering the machine and I've never seen nor heard a reason to believe it was anyone else.

It was a cute novelty, and if you're not picky it's a fast soda, but honestly it was just stocked with cheap, off-brand gross soda. Would have been genius if occasionally it gave you something interesting (or at least good).
True; but it seems like they might be natural complements, at least in the context of personal use. I guess you’re more focused on use cases like journalism (where a requirement like perkeep might practically become an extra hurdle), but I wonder whether the tools you’re building could be used more generally. Maybe one could create structured SQL tables for metadata of specific types (on perkeep content) to be able to (re)use any analysis tools in dogsheep :-?

Either ways, cool project! :-)
This is the story of much of the electronics business at the moment. I also had to spend some time porting software to another chip because of supply issues.
What Makes a Great Product?
A great product delights your customers and has them pay you, but that's only the outcome of a great product.

What are some things you believe is necessary for building a great product?
Yep. To me (an Autistic person) they are synonymous and I find neither problematic.

I prefer "Autistic person" because I'm into the whole brevity thing.
Though I was misattributed the subject of the controversy, I'd like to use this comment to say that TLOU2 is the greatest game I've ever played.
The price of Coca-Cola from the 1880's to today:

https://imgur.com/a/uOJqee1
The registration is cut off for now. The point I was making was that this probably doesn’t have much impact on the usage. If you didn’t have it before, you’re probably reliant on someone else with it and that’s just getting extended by a few weeks.
Counterpoint: In those times, children often spent time around their parents' work, and sometimes pitched in with (hopefully age appropriate) tasks. So instead of the parent watching the child in ballet practice, the two would, e.g. pick apples together.
My guess was their study came about more because of the chip shortage...
As the book says "It takes a village to armchair quarterback you raising your child".
They fixed your second problem with the thread tab, which shows all threads you are part of. I find that pretty convenient since it sorts threads by the latest message added, not sorted chronologically by the first message like it is in the normal view.
This made me go back and read about cloud seeding. I'm surprised at how controversial its efficacy is.

It seems it would be simple to set up in a lab conditions that would be favorable for a cloud seeding mission in the real world (conditions where the air is moist but not precipitating). Insert the silver iodide and see how much of the water in the air condenses. Multiply it out to see how much silver iodide you would need to substantially increase rain. Test in different conditions to see the operating window for cloud seeding is.

It should be noted that the benefit of cloud seeding is not necessarily increasing total rainfall in a region, but controlling where that rainfall occurs.
I think there is a much more valid reason if people were being absolutely honest. Powerful and privileged people have spent generations spilling blood and other less violent measures to get on top and stay on top. Being on top only happens through threat of force and excercise of power. The people at the bottom will replace the people at the top if presented with the opportunity. Even if most people are content to live in equality, some will seek advantage and pull up their group. Otherwise kind and cooperative people rarely have any interest in lowering their status. Identity politics seek to treat symptoms but don't touch the root cause. The root cause is probably in our DNA and no social technology has yet proven able to tame the will to power.

And just to make it clear, I don't believe any group has any natural advantage over another, just historical and geopolitical advantage.
Same on desktop lmao, neat site though
Notice on page 7 the author briefly alludes to weighted means. That part is very useful to programmers & data scientists. If you build up good intuition about how to choose those weights, you can use them for all sorts of programming/networking/graphics problems.

For example - suppose you host some data on 3 cloud providers - GCP, AWS & Azure. You believe, on average, the latency is the same for each provider. However, the variance is different - say 2,3 and 4.
So, how much traffic should you route to each provider ?

"What does the mean really mean" is the same as the above question. If you believe average latency is the same, then how should it matter what the variance is ? Just route 1/3 of your traffic to each provider & be done. But that's exactly the wrong answer!

Because the arithmetic mean is not what you want here. You want to make your own mean. You really want a weighted mean, but you can't just pick the weights willy-nilly. The sample mean has its own variance! So if you say you don't give a rat's ass about statistics, you will just route 1/3 traffic to each provider - what you are really doing is picking weights of 1/3, in turn giving your sample mean xbar a sample variance of exactly 1 ( easy to show ).

But if you pick the right weights, the sample variance drops to 12/13, which is smaller than 1. So by picking your own weighted mean, you get to fiddle with the sample variance - you can dial it up or down! The smallest you can get it down to is 12/13, in which case the weights will have to be 6/13 to GCP, 4/13 to AWS & 3/13 to Azure.

Fun stuff.