skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have, they kinda suck so far. Look up DeepMind attempts at DDQN game attacks where said AI develops new strategies for an entirely new game. And attempts to solve Montezuma's Revenge and other Atari classics, both by DeepMind and OpenAI. Both of the systems are somewhat adaptable to new problems too. There also is Uber's Go-Explore and RMT's.

These are closest we came to intelligence. They deal with big unobservable state and novelty with few shot learning, few objectives and sparse reward.
They haven't quite cracked automated symbolization. (The AIs do not quite create a complete symbolic representation of the game.)

I recommend following AAAI conferences for more details.
Ask HN: Should I study CS or Law?
In high school, I was doing the International Baccalaureate Diploma. There are two Maths there - one that was really difficult, and one that was easy.

I began with the higher-level Math, but it was really difficult. I also didn't really have motivation to study it - not intrinsic ("I love and am really good at Math!") or extrinsic ("I will die to become an engineer").

The English students hardly studied, so I searched what lucrative career I could have if I took English instead.

That was Law. So I happily dropped this higher-level Maths. I have admission to Law at a prestigious London university.

Then I was conscripted in my country. This taught me the value of freedom. I swore I would never be any country's bitch ever again. Multiple citizenships became a priority. I didn't ever want to be any country's bitch ever again. From what I understand, Law is heavily regulated. If I am an English lawyer, I am stuck in England or dependent on my employer to send me (a fresh-faced college grad with no experience) abroad whenever they see fit.

My outlook on career and higher education is just sive.rs/balance + getting rich as the "do what you love [your art]". I want to become a millionaire. Everyone wants to talk about passion and whether I will "enjoy my career", but I think of it just as a head choice. I think the passion comes after you start getting good. Law, as you saw, is not my "passion". I just thought it would be fun. My real passion is acting, but I don't want to taint it by making money off it.

CS seems like the only field where I can make good money, it's a white collar job, solid future, and it will even increase my chances of getting rich. I think the clearest (but still not easy) route to riches is going to Silicon Valley with a startup.

Another key thing with the "never again a country's bitch" is, I've got a green card waiting for me as soon as I land in the USA. So the clock starts ticking the moment I land. Within five years, including university, I could become a citizen. So that's just one year of real time. I won't get such an opportunity ever again in my life (unless I get rich of course).

So CS seems ideal. Everything fits in perfectly.

But I have never in my life done anything related to CS or shown any "passion" for it. The most I've ever made is a static HTML personal website written by hand [which I enjoyed doing very much, for what it's worth].

I am also not great at math. But I can learn. I have clear extrinsic motivation (getting rich).

Right now is US application time, so I don't have the luxury of sponging around dabbling in CS to see whether I like it.

I'd really appreciate all you smart tech guys' advice on what to do with my life [I'm 20].
> for an enterprise value on a debt-free / cash-free basis of c.$46m plus unconditional deferred consideration of $32m with an interest rate of 5% per annum

In SV terms that's what? A round B series?

Sure, maybe the debts are substantial, but that seems like it was cheap.
Maybe there could be student groups where everyone had to be silent?

Seems that'd benefit most students

If each class had two rooms, one silent "library room" and one where it was ok to talk a bit. And the students could choose freely.

Just that if they made noise in the silent room, a school janitor would have them go to the other room instead

And the fast students could get an unlimited supply of more and more harder and harder study books. Regardless of in which room they were. (Note that I didn't write "gifted" -- maybe some students get lots of things done, are comparatively fast, primarily because they work a lot.)
Yup, planned obsolescence is real and a part of every megacap's strategy.
So, fraud is a set of crimes which require intent. Specifically, they require intent to either gain from dishonesty or to cause another to lose through your dishonesty.

Thus, dishonesty means you're skating on thin ice because a prosecutor only needs to show intent to gain (or for another to lose) and you're done. Much better to be honest and eliminate this whole thrust altogether. Intent to gain without dishonesty isn't a crime and would be generally seen as admirable.
Is it just me that this won't search for multiple words? Tried even in double quotes. Only single terms returns any result.
Tesla will use cheaper iron-based batteries for standard model EVs
Absolutely. Have done and will do in the future. Rejected jobs from surveillance-companies, ad-tech companies etc.

But I do not try to put myself on a higher moral horse than people who would take those jobs. I can say no because I have two things in place; a moral compass and most importantly; a privileged position in the World where I can afford to say no.
But Dan Luu isn't obviously motivated by a desire to antagonize the Apple employee, and neither is he socially or morally obligated in the slightest to explain his consumer intentions during a purchase at the Apple store.

And was the encounter really antagonistic? Dan Luu is the one who left looking stupid.
Ok, my memory failed me completely.

The surveyor was 'David Thompson', the episode is episode 5 of 6 of the 'Northern Wilderness' series.

The episode is named 'Koo Koo Sint' which was the name the indigenous people called 'David Thompson' which translates to 'the star gazer'.
>Its not a comparison, prostitution literally is physical labor...

>...whereas selling organs is not prostitution and vice versa.

Alright.

> Much wage labor, both physical and otherwise, involves sacrifice of psychological and/or physical health.

And the goal was to reduce those sacrifices overtime. Or so I thought.

> We have, in fact, a massive labor regulatory and enforcement bureaucracy that exists not to prevent that, but to try to limit it to what is deemed reasonable for each specific job. (Including, where it is legal, for prostitution.)

Help me out then. Where is the limit? I mean, at what point we can say:"no, this is unacceptable to decriminalize doing that, even though it can perfectly be classified as labor definition on wikipedia". Why governments prevent trading some stuff, if trading, whatever you trade, is the same labor like everything else and shouldn't be prevented?

Are you a libertarian? I'm asking because discussing all that with people who believe in stuff has no purpose
I learnt a long time ago by a director (CEO) of a large UK company on how to assess people, their technical abilities and personality

and that is to act stupid/ daft - not just one question, but for periods of time. and see how they respond to you

a very effective technique when dealing or interacting with so called Subject Matter Experts. If they're an expert they should be able to explain complex stuff at a High/ medium/ low levels or just say they do not know.

If they're not really an expert then they cover up their lack of knowledge
go as in Golang and hotwire to have simple server side rendering that feels like SPA for the user
I just don't see the synergies but lets see what they will do with the company ( assuming the deal goes through)
But why can't you just ask for what you want without people automatically assuming you're stupid? If you care that strangers think you're dumb you have to adjust your behavior a lot and some people would rather just be genuine. Besides, the easiest way to not look stupid is to make up a reason that sounds reasonable (i.e. lying) to get what you want. This is what many (most?) people do. If they want the Apple computer that comes in the smallest package they'll make up a BS reason (i.e. flight luggage restrictions) in order to seem reasonable to the stranger who works at Apple.

The question is really what kind of person do you want to be? Do you want a person who habitually lies about unimportant stuff in order to accomplish goals? Do you want to be a person who is genuine but gets unfairly judged by strangers? Or do you want to be a person who justifies themselves to strangers in order to avoid getting judged?

If you think lying is wrong and seeking the approval of strangers is a bad habit only one option remains.
3-4 days. I really just need an extended weekend where I don't think about work. Maybe I need so little time because I sense when I am getting burned out and I just take 3 days off as a precaution and this happens quite often - multiple times a year.

If I take a year off I forget how to think and work I think.
Note that unlike some of the other tools mentioned here, pngquant does lossy compression. Might still be the right tool in many cases, but it means you should check the output while e.g. optipng is a no-brainer to add to whatever your publishing pipeline is.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/punct...
Do Cs
The name of what project?
That’s a fair point - I think that it works both ways too - they know a lot about optimising CPU design for iOS / MacOS especially in low power environments.
sometimes their stuff just sounds too good to be true. I mean every other company is having issues. I wonder if they're just pushing the bad news into the future
My experience is the opposite. I love Linux, but my MacOS work laptop is just so much better.

For as long as I've used Linux it freezes randomly. This happens on all hardware configurations I've ever owned. If I don't regularly save my work, I will end up losing it.

These days I also can't leave my desktop PC suspended for too long. At some point the fans start spinning at max. No reason why.

As for my 13 inch M1 laptop, I don't even know if it has fans. I've never heard them even if I'm in a zoom meeting, sharing my screen, while compiling half the world.

Also in Linux I can't really use Zoom screen sharing. Seems to leek memory and after a while it crashes. Of course that's not Linux fault.

On my Linux machine it takes significant effort to use my AirPod's microphone.

And that's not even talking about battery life on Linux laptops.

It's always interesting how we all have such completely different experiences with our hardware and software.
Fix everything?
> In this scenario, would you render things in a cafe? Why not?

honestly, as a traveler and sometimes digital nomad, the real question is "why yes?"

There is no real reason to work in a cafe, except because it looks cool to some social audience.

Cafes are usually very uncomfortable work places, especially if you have to sit for hours looking at the tiniest of the details as one often does when rendering.
As of 2 hours before me writing this comment, JetBrains claims to have fixed the underlying issue [0]. Maybe they saw this post? :D

[0]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-264563
Yeah but if that is true, why cause so much trouble and just said why you want the smallest box.
Yeah, the "smallest box" story comes to me very wrong. It basically shows him as really stupid -- as he is simply failing the "describe the goal, not the step" rule in most "how to ask questions" guides -- e.g., http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal .

Not only that, but he is also implying that people "who design processors" must also know our way around shopping for computers. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

So this story does not come off as an example of "I don't mind being seen as stupid", it comes off as a very strong example of "I'm holier than you"-attitude which is the entire opposite than the article author's is trying to make.
You should split classes! But only where it makes logical sense, where there is a clear logical boundary.

Splitting code as a way to visually organize code can lead to tight coupling, which tends to be worse than large classes.

If you split a class but there’s still multiple “points of contact” between both, it wasn’t a good split at all.
Child support is not legally required to be used on the child.
> - humanoid robots

They literally started work on this a few months ago and didn't announce a product. Are they not allowed to do research? Seems pretty clear that one of the reason for this is recruitment, they explicitly said so.

As an investor I don't expect any profit from this anytime soon.

> - profitable tunnels/loop

The literally just signed a huge deal to expand the Loop in Las Vegas.

They successfully bid on a number of other projects as well. They are testing their next generation tunneling machine.

That is not Tesla btw. different company.

> - rocket propelled cars

Its really just air-pressure release valve. Its not as crazy as it sound. It will happen eventually but only for a maybe a few 100 cars. Again, not really all that relevant, just like most Hypercar products by big car companies.

I think it will happen in a couple year but its basically just a 'look we are better then you' project.

- a semi

Why is that crazy? They haven't done it because they are limited on battery and chips. They can currently grow without inducing more products. Each Semi would mean 4 less Model Y.

They are working on the Semi and related Mega chargers. They have multible test vehicles on the roads. They just recently set up a bunch of Mega chargers in Nevada.

- a truck

Again, they are setting up a factory and battery factory next to it. This is clearly going to happen and when it does it will be at large volume. A vehicle program being a few month delayed isn't really special.

> - cars that drive themselves

I don't think it will happen anytime soon but Tesla is at the forefront of making it happen in the general case that is enough for me.

This doesn't really seem crazy, other car companies have cars, trucks and semi in their lineup as well.
Seems like this would be a bit confusing though? `fmap` (flatMap) corresponds to `bind` or `chain` (Monad) rather than `map` (Functor) right?
So, essentially a site generated with Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages with Utterances [0] for comments and updated with GitHub Actions.

I don’t know if https://github.dev version of Visual Studio Code supports extensions/plugins, but if so, then there is also a rich text editor for markdown ready.

All that’s left would be an instant refresh for editing.

[0]: https://utteranc.es
I have to say this part (and quite a few other parts of the post) come across as quite arrogant. I mean if he really wants the computer with the smallest box, why can't he explain why.

I agree with the general gist of the post: don't be afraid to ask stupid questions. However, the post has an underlying "feeling" of "my questions are not really stupid, I'm just so smart that others don't realise". I know that I ask plenty of stupid questions when I ask questions, I often realise how stupid they were just after the answer.
We Should Not Back to the Offices Now
? My Firefox browser always try to open "find" if i press a any key?
Do CS. I also did the IB program, and now am studying a double Major in Math + CS while only having Standard level Math. Im 22. I have worked internships and it's mad fun too. Law seems so boring to me, just paperwork if you ask me. I know it's more than that but it's difficult to become a Barrister.

I must add, try not to focus on the money aspect. It is important but try to study CS out of enjoyment of the material rather than the prize. It's about the journey not the destination.
I figure DNA works a bit like makefiles. A particular target is only built if it is required somewhere. (And requirements can chain and branch, of course).

So most people realize that height is correlated to diet [given: a functioning gene set; your height is then determined by diet] , strength correlated to exercise [given a fairly broad spectrum that your genes support, exercise will update your strength) , visual accommodation ability to how much you need to accomodate.

But people somehow assume that something as complex and intertwined as an IQ score magically appears, stays constant throughout life, cannot be practiced, and isn't linked to some sort of exercise.
Why do people make such mistakes in 2021? Who thought it's going to look OK?
DCA is a good strategy when the asset is very volatile, and you want to minimize the timing risk. If you're buying a low volatility index fund, then it doesn't make sense. This applies only when you have a large amount of money to begin with, because you basically have to DCA if you're investing from your monthly earnings.

Lots of people have a fear of investing and don't enter the market at all. DCA is a fool-proof strategy which can minimize the fear and is easy to follow for beginners. In the case of Bitcoin, most people simply don't enter at all, because they're too afraid of the short-term movements in the price.
Why would the regular Joe use MoonPay to pay for stuff online? Why not the regular way?
> it feels weird to call values of type (Maybe a) functors as well.

Yes, that is bogus. If you're tolerant of math jargon, I found this article demystified the topic more than anything else did:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory

And this explains where the monad laws come from:

https://www.haskellforall.com/2012/08/the-category-design-pa...
This is a false dichotomy in my opinion. DRYing some code doesn't prevent one seeing how it is used in many places. To the contrary, I would say that DRYing makes it easier to see repetitions, because what you thought was a repetition could be slightly different otherwise.

Code should be kept alive. It is fine to DRY wrong. You can make it better when you discover a better way.
Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs
Option 3. Improve the hospital system to have greater capacity.
I've seen so much code being messed up by dogmatically trying to follow "best practice". The worst offender is exchanging state variables for storing the state in the code path.
Regarding your last point,there's syndicalism, a political theory in which the main organizational unit of society is the union and there's little to no government, everything is negotiated between the different unions representing the various workers. It was somewhat popular around and after WWI, but is pretty much dead now.
I don’t know what the problem is. Seems top notch to me.
The Day I *Almost* Rage-Quit Amazon
Hacking the UEFI to add Thunderbolt support to an unsupported PC
The funny thing is that "I design CPUs" has nothing to do with being able to pick the best possible laptop for one's needs.

It's like saying "I know exactly which car I would like to drive every day because I designed the engine of a Ferrari".
More here at https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
Chrome is open source (well, except few proprietary parts nobody cares about). And not just formally open source, there are plenty of browsers built on chrome engine. That's its main difference from IE.
There's a beautiful illustration from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon on this topic:

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They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back?

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. If that didn’t prove his intelligence, what would?

Then the time bell rang and the papers were collected. Lawrence managed to hang onto his scratch paper. He took it back to his dorm, typed it up, and mailed it to one of the more approachable math professors at Princeton, who promptly arranged for it to be published in a Parisian mathematics journal.

Lawrence received two free, freshly printed copies of the journal a few months later, in San Diego, California, during mail call on board a large ship called the U.S.S. Nevada. The ship had a band, and the Navy had given Lawrence the job of playing the glockenspiel in it, because their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else.
This post seems like some sort of humble-brag about not really being stupid, but being "willing to look stupid" to people who are actually stupid.

To be honest, this entire post make him look stupid, but we all know now that he doesn't care what we think. I'm probably stupid for falling for another one of his clever schemes where he's just pretending to be stupid.
A logic analyser (Saleae Logic, etc.), a HW debugger (J-Link for Arm/RISC-V), a good quality multimeter (spend the extra money here, don't get the $10-20 crap DMM off Amazon), and an entry level 200 MHz oscilloscope (Rigol, etc.) should set you back somewhere from $1-1.5K I guess, but that will give you 90% of what you'll need to debug most embedded MCUs (Arm Cortex M, etc., not Embedded Linux or Arm Cortex A which is a WHOLE other world).

That may or may not be a large amount of money for someone, but those tools can last you a good part of your career for the price of a low/mid range development laptop.
More like the bus version of Uber, they don't own the buses (well, since they've just bought Greyhound, maybe they do now) but instead rely on "partner" companies to own, maintain and drive the buses.
Thanks you said this much better than I did a bit further up. The whole post smacks a bit of arrogance to me, even though the advice is good.
Yes! "AHA" (Avoid Hasty Abstractions) beats DRY.
Create and ship interactive animations to any platform
Personally I am hopeing for nano-tech and neovictorians, but that is just me.

We can make marriage attractive again, if we make divoce very, very hard or very, very easy. What we have now is in between and that helps nobody.
That article cites a 100,000 sq. ft. data-center as the source for that $8 million savings estimate, along with roughly a 30% power savings figure. No mention on the period, so presumably it would be a TCO for the servers going into the initial buildout.

100,000 sq. ft. is roughly enough space for about 250,000 1U servers. Say conservatively the servers are in the ballpark of $2,000 each. That's $500 million just in server hardware costs. If the total electric cost is around 3*$8 = ~$24 million over their lifetime, then we're talking about <5% of just the server expenses. Never mind the facility and staff costs (and, as you've said, connectivity).

So maybe not a rounding error, but way down the priorities list.
The fact that the author withheld information from the Apple clerk suggests to me that the author thought the Apple clerk would not understand the “real” reason why he wanted the smallest box.

I believe the author thought the clerk was too stupid to understand the real reason and it would be a waste of time to explain to the clerk why.