skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a book, called "Artificial Intelligence for 'Peanut' Brains", downloadable for free.

The motivation behind stems from my own journey on learning and programming artificial neural networks and artificial intelligence and the frustrations along the way. I believe that learning and understanding artificial intelligence, what it is capable of, and how it works, should not be strictly limited to those who are well-versed with calculus, linear algebra, or other relatively complicated math. In fact, I believe that for any complicated subject, there is an intuitive way to learn and develop a fundamental framework for it.

My original intention two years ago was to use interactive contents, interactive games, and animated contents, to illustrate these AI concepts, but the goal has proven to be too audacious. Each piece of such content was moderately time consuming to make but more importantly, they were difficult to redo whenever I wanted to restructure when I think I have a better way to explain certain concepts. In the end, I decided that writing a book with illustrated content was the better way. Even during the writing of this short book, I had to sketch and scratch the written contents and illustrated contents numerous times. To clearly convey a topic as complicated as AI, in a way that is not oversimplified, without using complex math, was not an easy task. I hope I have done a good job in this short book. And this will be just the beginning of such works.

Book is free on Gumroad, on website easylearn.ai which embeds gumroad page (also available on Amazon). Thank you for reading it and let me know what you think, either here or by the contact method on the website.
This was very common when working with teams from India. I see this merely as a cultural difference, a courtesy. You don't start talking until pleasantries have been exchanged. But I may be wrong, feel free to chime in.
I wouldn't characterize great consultants as "not worrying" about politics or history -- a large part of the job is change management, not just finding the "right" answer but helping ensure it is actually acted on and has impact.

But McKinsey does include "maintain an independent perspective" as one of our core values, and entrepreneurship (i.e. not just "staying in your box") is a common expectation across all our people whether they do strategy work or help clients build software. If you're interested in learning more, we're hiring: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/seniorsoft...
There are so many gaming companies and platforms... An Anti trust case would be very hard to make.
It is.

> Based on the wonderful nohello.com.
This can't be permanent. I bet this is to keep the markets happy in the short term while this gets absorbed, and then Kotick will "retire" at some point in the next year.
Being green here means I must ask (ask me about poetry!):

What do I actually write in the address bar?
>Enjoy it while you can. In no time at all, she'll be in her 20s asking for advice on what car insurance to buy.

I came here to judge others. Don't make me feel emotions!
The reason he's still there is because this deal has probably been in the works for a while, and they weren't going to cut him loose until it settled. I'm sure that as soon as it's possible after the acquisition that he'll suddenly decide to spend more time with his family, pursue other interests, or get sent to the farm to play with the other dogs, whatever euphemism you like.
I don't think so. Microsoft development is too entrenched to pull off something that requires so much synergy. Currently I'd say Fortnite and Roblox are serious metaverse contenders, but one that takes the cake will probably be some new viral product made by fresh blood. Microsoft might buy them, though.
Rich person with no experience in industry says something silly about industry, news at 11.

I mean, why did they even publish this?
>Governments have enough resources to do more than one thing at a time.

They have resources, but reality has show they lack the will to properly use them as those in charge are more concerned about winning these popularity contests called "elections" rather than taking radical actions to do any meaningful change. So it's a lot less riskier for their careers to sit back and kick the can down the road while starting projects that sound good on paper and wins them sympathy ("new law wants to help struggling artists") but accomplish nothing meaningful in the end (CoL, inflation and wealth inequality will keep rising, wages will stagnate). Rinse and repeat.
> The unvaccinated are routinely dehumanised and you even do so in your own comment

They can quite easily change this one by getting vaccinated, people can't with their skin colour

They're people, just very stupid people who have made their own bed and now need to lie in it

I'm not advocating executing them but I just don't give a fuck about them any more and there is a BIG difference

I forgot to finish that point - TL;DR false equivalency, reap the consequences etc.
This is so smug.
And Halo, if we're counting seminal console franchises.
I can’t easily switch contexts while waiting for something else to happen at an unknown, but likely soon time.
Microsoft to Buy 'Call of Duty' Maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7B
Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains.
Maybe I've gotten lucky with machine operators so far.

The ones I've met are intelligent, though their locus of intelligence is in their thumbs. Someone on a project needs to have it there, so that's just fine by me!
The problem with multi-player is that there is an immense amount of cheaters and trolls. It already was a problem fifteen years ago, nowadays game providers don't have another (realistic) choice.

Cheating morons ruined the fun for everyone else.
People not getting second shots is not a surprise, anyone who has a bad reaction to the first will do that. The lack of any proper tracking of such reactions means it has to be inferred from the data, but the explanation there is fairly obvious.

W.R.T. taking it down, if public health statistics is open to misinterpretation they should explain why and how to correctly interpret it. Doing that sort of work is the reason we have statistical agencies in the first place.

W.R.T. survivorship bias, you seem to be implying that the shape of the graph is expected for any such plot for any vaccine? I don't quite understand what argument you're getting at, sorry. Could you be more explicit? If we zoom in then there's a clear wave shape in which after immunization cases quickly peak at 1000/day about a week after the first shot, then declines again. This is very different to the same data plotted from date of second immunization, where we see a small wave that subsides (same pattern) but then the much bigger one as immunity wears off after about 180 days.
Yeah, it would have to take over my phone excepting the two CALLS windows a day.

Otherwise I'll find it very easy to BURN away.

And the most noticeable thing it did to my well being is a drastic reduction in ambient anxiety and proclivity to negative emotion. It is like what SSRI are supposed to be, but for real.
Do you seriously allow users to configure which logging framework is used through a UI? Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying.
This is a megaton deal for Microsoft. Some of the biggest franchises, exclusive to their console/gamepass.

I wonder what will Sony do now?
Git's CLI is it's greatest weakness. Someone should really just scrap that part and rebuild it from scratch on sane ground.
well, maybe once they're in the extinguish phase, it will make room for other gaming companies?
The answer to this is "charge more". You should be pulling in _at least_ 2 hours worth of payroll costs (note: not 2 hours of pay) for each worked hour. This give you a buffer for lulls.
I can think of a world without free will too. And I can imagine a large amount of things that don't exist.
I wonder how much of this was driven by Nadella. MS has made some brilliant purchases recently.
I guess since there are so many competitors in the gaming market, the US government doesn't care. Not like this acquisition with make Microsoft have a majority share in the entire gaming industry.
Hey what’s up?
I think the core problem here is the layperson perception of peer review. People often say "it is a peer-reviewed paper!" when trying to claim that a paper is definitive and powerful. But when you speak to scientists they have a much more muted understanding of peer review. And I think that is okay. The amount of effort it would take to do a very thorough analysis of a paper is large, sometimes even approaching the cost to do the research in the first place.

In fact, peer review is often more about novelty and importance rather than rigor. Very well structured research will get rejected if it isn't seen as contributing to the field in a nontrivial way.

A few fields (psych is the big one) are funding replication grants. That'd be the true mark of quality.
"Look at it this way: the sun to that system barely emits enough energy to make that planet visible to our technology.

So, if that planet wanted to send us data, they would have to send as much energy as gets reflected by that planet in our direction.

Since you said "as advanced as ours": We're not capable of producing that much power. Not even remotely. So they're not capable of doing that, either. A star is amazingly powerful.

Let's look at this way. The estimated power of the sun is something like 1026 W."

Thread on SO here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/22617/can-we-commu...
Nothing will happen as we live in the post-Disney/Fox merger.
Who exactly do you think the CEO of Microsoft Gaming reports to? This is a pretty common corporate structure. I've worked under a total of 4 CEOs in a hierarchy before (CEO of an investment firm reports to CEO of the owning bank's European investment division reports to CEO of Europe reports to actual CEO).
gone already
Times change. Communication got so much quicker than it used to be. As the chatosphere is much more crowded than it used to be, you message has to go through quickly.

It used to be rude to greet and immediately start demanding.
While we're at it, let's also drop greetings and sign-offs from emails.

Not just for wasted time, but also because they're pointless, awkward, and anachronistic.
> Take the case of two people on Earth, one stationary and one travelling past in a car. They each have a different reference frame, and a different set events which make up their present. Now imagine that there is an alien government in Andromeda debating a possible invasion of Earth. In the reference frame of the person on Earth who is moving, the debate is still going on. But, in the reference frame of the stationary person, it is a day or so later in Andromeda, and the invasion fleet is already on it's way!

I’m pretty sure this is wrong (or misleading) on multiple levels:

1) An event in Andromeda occurs at single moment, it’s our observation of the event that is warped. So there aren’t two realities, one where they’re still debating and one where they aren’t. In both realities the debate has concluded, it’s just our observation of the event takes place at different reference times.

2) The car would need to be moving at a non-insignificant fraction of the speed of light to have an observation dilution of a day or more. It’s physically impossible for humans to move that fast with our current technology.

https://www.quora.com/Does-time-slow-down-in-a-moving-vehicl...!

You’d have to be traveling at 0.86c for an entire day to be observing 1 day slower than a stationary person.
Show HN: Polls for WhatsApp Groups
I think for gaming this is pretty negative that everything is consolidated under large developers. I also don't think that the atmosphere under Microsoft will be better than under Activision.

I hope PC gaming can detach from Microsoft as soon as possible to be honest.
I think it’d be problematic for a buyer to take public actions in devaluing its target amid takeover talks. Not just for Activision — but it’d be impossible to see Microsoft’s denunciations as principled rather than profit-motivated
Don't become a Consultant before reading Weinberg:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/174075.Gerald_M_Weinbe...

For example the "Orange Juice Test" is a classic, I have used multiple times. Either as Consultant or a customer of services as many of us are daily.
20 employees out of 9500 employees is not significant.

You are reading too much from too little.
There actually are a ton of gaming companies right now. The indie game space seems to be much healthier and accessible than say, the indie movie business. I hardly buy AAA titles anymore because you can get so many good games for under $20 dollars made by independent studios. Of course, this is based on mostly staying on PC and Steam. I would suspect consoles are not as indie friendly, but it does seem like they have some market access
Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity [pdf]
You have enough to support 6 people, but, because you donate enough to support 0.6 to a beneficiary of your choice, a revolution would be required if you only had enough to support 3? Where do you want the money for UBI come from, or do you just not want it full stop?
Yeah it kind of makes sense why so many on HN hate it. Most of them are heavily entrenched in existing structures where friction for finance or regulatory capture are "working" well for them.
Can you imagine Call of Duty becoming an Xbox exclusive? Big hit to Sony!
I built Polls for WhatsApp over a weekend in September 2020 out of my need to make quick decisions in WhatsApp groups. I had posted about it on HN then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532998 but didn’t get much engagement here

However, the product got amazing traction getting 10k-20k DAU every day throughout the past year! No penny was spent on development or marketing. That’s wild, right? :)

I kept getting many requests for additional features throughout this time. In December 2021, I decided to build and launch a Pro version in public in 5 days. However, It took 10 days to launch on 1st January. I posted my journey live here https://twitter.com/singhamardeep/status/1472879855456829441...

The free version, as before, allows you to make unlimited anonymous polls. No login is needed for poll creators or voters.

Among many, the most prominent new feature in the pro version is the ability to collect voter names and emails.

Check it out, and let me know what you think. Happy to answer any questions - technical or otherwise.
Great idea, but why the need to sign in!?
Even after this purchase, Microsoft's gaming division is still smaller than Sony by revenue..

There are still lots of other large publishers out there.. EA, Take Two, Embracer, Tencent, Epic, etc... I'm sure I'm forgetting some big obvious ones even.

They are definitely not "buying all their competitors" as you put it.
.net has way better UI, IMO
Their IP and player base just got bought for 70b.
They will make new 'blizzard' games,
the way Disney makes StarWars movies.

But I actually welcome it. Kotick has run blizzard into the ground,
on the formula 'maximize profits instead of player satisfaction',
which is the opposite of the formula that made the blizzard name.
At least MS will, presumably, milk the IP long-term-responsibly.
CEO within CEO is for separate Business Units or divisions, which is clearly not the case here.
For plaintext messages? Existing chat programs use formatted messages with quotes, bold text, smilies and whatnot.
Why would we get it thanks to blockchains?
Ericsson sues Apple again over 5G patent licensing
Travel killed it for me. I worked on a niche product and that meant I had to go where the work was. My kids were young so I took a financial hit and switched to selling my own products.
THANK YOU!!! I re-read that so many times :-)
I think you're onto something, there has been a trend from protestantism to apostolic Christianity among some. For instance, various conservative mainline protestants have become Catholic, and the Orthodox have a western branch for protestants who want to come over. Then again, this trend would seem to be pretty old news.

I think the comparison between the old and new forms of Christianity you're making is a bit ... mistaken. It's hard to say the older forms require less from their believers than the protestant sects do.
https://dontasktoask.com/

Don't ask to ask, just ask

Every now and then, in online chat rooms I hang around in, someone pops in and says something in the lines of,

Foobar123:

Any Java experts around?

This is bad form, for several reasons. What the person is actually asking here is,

Foobar123:

Any Java experts around who are willing to commit into looking into my problem, whatever that may turn out to be, even if it's not actually related to Java or if someone who doesn't know anything about Java could actually answer my question?
Why was the title changed? It now seems like a general article about query performance, while it's really just about 5 specific cases.
If your definition of free will existed, how would you prove it?
I looked around for a while, a d I can't actually find a list of any mergers that antitrust regulations actually prevented.

I'm assuming some survivor bias is involved here and we don't hear about the ones that stopped early, but it seems that what I and most folks assume antitrust regulations do is different than what actually happens.

I remember the Sirius/XM merge and how those were the only two players in the market, and it was wild to me how that was allowed to happen.
Pre-fab, although loosely so - about 1000 me-hours to make it into a functional home. I unfortunately can’t recommend the outfit I bought it from, as they screwed up and shipped only part of the order, sent me defective parts (bad and/or incorrectly machined timbers), and had the worst post-sales service I’ve encountered in anything - but there are plenty of companies out there that make decent kit cabins.
> Another major problem is the quality of building in the UK, mainly driven by a lack of tradespeople, and simply not having the skills to install to the quality levels required by thermally efficient houses like installing a membrane with zero holes in it, using the correct tapes, designing, installing and maintaining heat pumpes and various other things.

It's an incentive and delegation problem. I'm in the US, and have been through three large renovations to family homes, and the trades I've worked were (nearly) all HIGHLY skilled, but had zero incentive to exceed energy efficiency goals required by code. The small business contractor needs to complete your project, get paid, and move on to the next. The best ones don't have any extra time - they're prospecting clients and building estimates for the next big project.
Neat! Congrats again Klange, and good luck on your next projects :)
Everything under Blizzard's portfolio feels like it has been left to rot. The only thing they seem to put effort into is their Pay-To-Win card game, Hearthstone.

Unfortunately even under new management I don't see Starcraft getting much love, the focus is now on cross-platform games and RTS games are PC only (which is a small niche compared to the overall market).
Err, more more then?
Look up wildcat banking. Being "subject to the control of free market forces" is not a good thing for working class folks who only hold onto currency.
Valve/Steam would be the biggest competitor on desktop, with nearly 30 million active users.
Wrong, money velocity and demand (both probably go up under this scheme) can increase inflation. So can shortages caused by a big demand spike.
Could have saved me a click by naming the domain donotsayhelloinchatitwastestime.com. But no, the site owner didn't care about wasting my time.

(Who cares? Just adapt to who you're talking to and stop whining about their preferred salutations)
The Kurzgezagt shop also has some nice "Calendar of your life" posters[0] based on the
"What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End" animation they did last year, which is again based on the Wait But Why article "Your Life in Weeks"[2].

[0] https://shop-eu.kurzgesagt.org/collections/existential-dread...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeJANDKwDc

[2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
And Diablo. I'm worried for this.
I do not see that saying that at all.
Disney's IP lawyers are notoriously trigger happy, how different would a work based on Winnie the Pooh need to be from the Disney version to keep the dogs of war at bay?
Same experience. I always reply with Mr. Burns Ahoy Hoy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8UUrL0C4so.
The Nintendo Switch has a pretty healthy indie offering.

Though there is the switch tax where games that are 10$ on steam are 30 on switch.
They aren't weakly held, as evidenced by the large number of people who refuse to take them even when they are being fired, prevented from leaving their country or excluded from all public events.

The analogy is actually flawed for a different reason: it simply sets up a one way bias. If you want to force people to put a price on their beliefs, get rid of all the subsidies for vaccines and all the liability for the manufacturers. Make people pay for their own shots and then allow those who get injured to sue the manufacturers for damages.

Well, we could do that but actually we don't have to. We already know what the outcome is: the outcome is there are no COVID vaccine manufacturers at all, because complete legal immunity to damage claims was a mandatory criteria for them to sign contracts with governments. Liability allowed = no vaccines.

So the market spoke already, and it seems to suggest the opposite of what's being implied above.
Similarly, https://dontasktoask.com/
> Modern codes have moved back to 2x4, then they put continuous foam on the outside

Codes do allow for only external insulation, but it it also possible to have some exterior "continuous insulation" with the remainder being in the wall cavity.

The thicker the exterior insulation, the trickier it can be to attach it to the wall and then also have mechanical fasteners for your external cladding.

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/building-science-i...

However, AIUI, using 2x6s reduces the number of studs needed and so would generally reduce the cost on average from both a material and labour perspective (even if 2x6s are slightly higher each).

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-030-a...

* https://buildability.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/M400-Adva...

* https://www.energystar.gov/ia/home_improvement/home_solution...

* https://www.protradecraft.com/article/advanced-framing-dos-a...

And it's not like it's a new technique: it's been around for (at least) forty years.
I strongly disagree. Long, unbroken chains of "hi" have been a fixture of my IRC experience for as long as I can remember.
PING Hi ... wait two minutes... PING How ya doing? ... wait two minutes PING Hey do you have a minute?

How much attention do you have to be reading brain farts all day?