skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to do that, the 'test' for each iteration needs to be relatively quick/cheap. To see how good a bow design is you need to do some computationally expensive CFD, making iteration incredibly computationally expensive.

I've read some papers about generative design for wind turbines and antennas and in most cases the special sauce is an approximation of the simulation that can be run more quickly.
The yellow fever vaccine works though. The covid vaccines are all somewhere on the level of very ineffective down to snake-oil. Yellow fever also is actually a serious disease while covid is for the absolute huge majority nothing more than a cold.
This specifically is focused around machine learning, more specifically reinforcement learning. It’s more significant as work done on the ML/RL front can be applied more broadly than just algorithms hard coded to play a specific game like Minecraft.
Even ag-grid isn’t accessible by default. You have to turn on their accessibility mode for it to play nice with screen readers which obviously has negative implications elsewhere or it wouldn’t be an option.
Wealth concentration also leads to geographic concentration of jobs. So people cannot choose to live in Detroit, global investors decide where your job is going to be and where you are going to live.
It is the most common way of trying to cope with novelty: by means of metaphors
and analogies we try to link the new to the old, the novel to the familiar.
Under sufficiently slow and gradual change, it works reasonably well; in the case
of a sharp discontinuity, however, the method breaks down: though we may glorify
it with the name "common sense", our past experience is no longer relevant, the
analogies become too shallow, and the metaphors become more misleading than illuminating.
This is the situation that is characteristic for the "radical" novelty.

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science Edsger Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...
An airline pilot who is unable to work because they refuse to have the required vaccines is of no use to their employer.
Look at this guy [0], he is the rank one monk in PvP and PvE and spent 0 dollars.

I played a wee bit and it didn't seem that bad. You can pay to upgrade your gear, but that seems entirely pointless in an ARPG. The whole game is a grind to get better gear! Once you actually have perfect gear, why keep playing?

My issue with the game is that it lacks depth after having spent far too much time playing Path of Exile. There aren't that many possible builds, and the game basically tells you exactly how to build if you want to do PvP or PvE. As far as I can tell, those builds are the meta ones, so the designers are forcing the meta.

But as a game to run in and kill some monsters without thinking too much, it seems fine. Which makes sense since it's a mobile game.

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/wudijo
Or just a hashset and return when about to insert an existing element.
Always remember teachers pensions and nurses pensions and librarian pensions are tied up in realestate. Saying "someone" like it's a single person is not how investing works.
My mother's pension lost heaps. And now yes.. she could use a handout.
> so the question becomes whether people should be allowed to spend money any way they see fit, even if that spending isn't great for themselves.

This is an incredibly simplistic view of the problem, on multiple dimensions.

On one dimension, a question of to what length should we give companies the right to harm people. Because if something is knowingly designed to take advantage of the study of psychology to hurt people then that’s what this is.

On another dimension, the person spending the money is typically hurting others (spouse, kids... business partners) at least as much, but frequently more, than they hurt themselves.

Giving companies the freedom to do things like this takes away our freedom to live without others harming us. Its really hard to understand why this is even debatable.
But Go still doesn't have enuns with data like in Rust.
Tell that to the oil shiek's family...
Singapore has heavily subsidized healthcare, but they've announced that if you're medically eligible for the vaccine, choose not to get it, and end up in the hospital due to COVID, you'll pay the full unsubsidized rates.
Because I believe you have not thought this through and are using incredibly vague hand waving to justify a policy which can't be afforded. A ubi would be required such that it would fulfill the entirety of the persons need thus eliminating other benefits such as housing costs.(that being the main argument put forth in its favour)

Do some basic arithmetic and tell me how you come up with that money please.
We're going commercial
Desert Island Discs is a stalwart of BBC Radio 4 that has seeped into wider UK culture beyond its core audience: the time pips, the shipping forecast, a show I went to the 50th anniversary recording of at the Royal Albert Hall recently "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue" and it's faux rival "Just a Minute", have all got cultural resonance to almost everyone who grew up here in the UK even if they don't regularly listen to Radio 4.

Desert Island Discs is particularly interesting because it really pulls at the British class system. As the article points out, classical music appears more on this show than it does in actual British music sales because there is a tendency for people to want to look more cultured.

The article also talks about the political classes in particular seeing it as part of establishing "legacy", and interviewer styles changing over time reflecting the shift in British culture.

In a lot of the World people think of "getting on", as being about building status through wealth. That exists in the UK, but we seem to put a higher prize on being seen as cultured by others as part of our status. People who enjoy celebrity and popular music are slightly sneered at unless that genre is elevated into a realm of some intellectual "greatness", and cultural value: Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, and so on.

Desert Island Discs gives air to these weird little cultural nudges. Look at Tony Blair's selection: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093n5f - given what he has said in other interviews it's more likely he'd choose Stones or some Paul Simon than this lot, and I seriously doubt that he listens to any of that music on a regular basis. So why did he make these choices? He was giving nudges to those around him: "I'm cultured", "I'm educated", "I'm one of the cultural elite as well, you know". Deep, deep cultural insecurity.

Thatcher's choices - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mz07 - are even more telling. Beethoven's 5th, "Emperor"? Well, that's subtle given it was 1978 and she was very much "on the make", politically.

Let's take a working class lad from Liverpool who has every right to name his own songs, Sir Paul McCartney - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009ml01 - and we see the nods to cultural legacy. Many of these artists no doubt inspired him and his early musical career, but he still had to squeeze Britten in there.

It's genuinely fascinating. As a self-aware Briton who sees the good and the bad of what this country represents (Empire bad, Commonwealth good, Oxbridge good, lack of access to better eduction for all bad, and so on), I love the eclectic list of guests - most of them unknown outside of their fields - and the predictable nods to cultural elitism that defines so much of who we are as a nation.

The article takes a little jab at the current presenter - Lauren Laverne - that I think is a little cruel. It's not an original comment on her differing style, and she is not as "under the skin" as Kirsty Young, but she has her own warmth and she's more likely to land some of the prey they've struggled to get over the years like Mick Jagger.
We all know the big dreams of every 16 year old is to run away and move to the country ;)

Just mention this as it is not all economics.
That is true, but the difference between these "drive-by PRs" that change one line and useful PRs that do, is the latter probably has a lot more description and other accompanying detail.
That took me a while to find out. Also, I had to read the entire about page to understand Radiopaper, but I like this idea a lot!
I think there is a very blurry line between non-chemical addiction and just liking something very much. Say a person spends thousands on audiophile equipment where the layman couldn’t hear the difference, and often even a double blind of audiophiles can’t, is that spending an addiction? Or do they just enjoy chasing that dragon?
Stremio is actually shady as fuck: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/g4g50x/comment/fo0...

There were also multiple claims of them doing cryptomining on your device.
The value of buggy-whip stocks was certainly destroyed with the advent of the motorcar.
Used to work on Alexa. I interpret the response you are getting from Alexa as “The song isn’t available on Amazon Music Free Tier” (or whatever) and not “The song isn’t available on Spotify”.

Your query gets routed to different backend services based on “intent”, and I’ve noticed that sometimes I have to append “on Spotify” to get my request routed to what I imagine to be the Spotify-interfacing backend rather than the Amazon music one.

If you get routed to the Amazon music one, it just checks if the song is eligible for free tier play but doesn’t check Spotify at all. That’s my theory at least, and it kind of maps with the state of Alexa when I left it a couple of years ago. The service that routes based on intent should probably call both music services when the user has not specified a preference and pick the most useful response to send to the customer, and probably does, but for whatever reason I notice this behavior sometimes from Alexa.

Tl;dr say “on Spotify” to fix the issue. literally 5 years after I joined Alexa the same bugs and bad ux still happens and is apparently not being prioritized to be fixed despite Alexa being basically useless for anything besides timers, weather, music, and maybe the occasional fact lookup..
Awesome. In these cases, bots are not really cheating, they're legitimate self-defense against shitty repetitive addictive games. They are addiction prophylaxis and treatment.
They do because they enrich themselves, but not because of any 'duty' whatsoever.
Why are all the other comments so negative and stuck up whether it constituted “cheating” or not? That wasn’t the point of this story.

It was a beautifully well written account on luck and how sometimes the things align. The interviewee at the time was receptive towards the kind of questions that are asked at Microsoft and got the right one. Good luck. And then he passed a 6 hr on-site interview as well! No luck at all!

The story resonated with me.
That is why I disapprove of all the fear-mongering. I lived through that as a teen, and it was very depressing. I honestly thought I would never see my 30ieth birthday, either because of nukes or because of the hole in the ozone layer.
> If it were up to me, I would have fired them immediately.

That sounds a bit harsh. As a user of FOSS mailing lists I don't even think it is strange to send a mail to everyone.

It is a process issue where mailing lists are used for one way coms but still are writable for all.
I’m wondering the best way to invest in NYC property more without directly buying it. I seriously doubt the prices will stay depressed for long. Is finding the right REIT my best bet here?
The interesting thing is that you would think Blizzard would have known this. Literally the last game in the same Diablo series launched with a much-hated Real Money Auction House, which was eventually removed.
IMO, there is very high chance that someday, some record label will create "new" songs or remaster existing songs for bands that are unable to perform themselves anymore, be it due to illness, age or death, using some kind of artifical (ML) voice generation. It would probably never be sold to the public like Cryptons products, though, to protect the brand.

And then we have come full circle. Imagine four ABBA Vocaloid, milking out one song after the other for Universal, for the rest of our lives. It would be kinda funny, IMO. :D
Like the (sadly) usual "Hey, just calling you up to let you know that I just send you an email! Have you read it yet? What do you think?"
Recruitment agents are always pumping failed interviewees for the questions they were asked. They then make sure their next candidates are better prepared with this knowledge.

This guy really shouldn't feel so bad. It's Microsoft's fault for not rotating the questions better. That, or they did rotate the questions, and it really was absolute pot luck.
I've had similar experience - in an interview for my current job I got asked same question that I've already encountered in a previous job interview. It must be pretty popular in the area :)

It wasn't hard, and I solved it first time without help so it didn't feel like cheating, but I told the guy afterwards anyway. I did tech interviews from the other side before and from my experience having the perfect answer doesn't matter that much - what matters is showing how you solve problems and that you're familiar with common solutions and trade-offs.
My first thought was github had been hacked and came here to check what was going on,thanks adamnemecek for clearing the matter up for me.
yeah tied in BS contracts with unrealistic rental values in NY expecting a CVS and a Chase bank on the same building. In every Manhattan building
To be fair, many such games do disclose the odds.

The difference to older tech like mechanical slot machines is that the game records everything the player does, and can then drop a "discounted" special offer at the right time to maximize the likelihood of keeping the player hooked.
Original research articles:

Reeping; Hemenway, The association between weather and the number of daily shootings in Chicago (2012–2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310019/

> This finding is in-line with studies that have linked crime to higher temperature and also suggests that shootings may be related to when individuals are outside and more likely to encounter violence

> [Past] studies were predictive rather than causal and it is not appropriate to interpret the coefficients as stand-alone factors. For example, do thunderstorms predict shootings? Or do shootings occur more often when it is warm, and high temperature increases the probability of a thunderstorm? To be able to interpret each coefficient, the complex causal structure of each variable must be considered Graphics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310019/bin/406...

So the authors suggest two tracks, both that heat increases violence and that heat increases outside activity which exposes to violence, but suggest that the commonsensical note about outside activity should correct overreliance on the weight of sheer heat.

> These results are generally supportive of the robust field of literature that has hypothesized that warmer weather is predictive of aggression and violence behavior. [...] However, two unique findings suggest that heat induced aggression is likely not the only explanation for these results. While warmer weather resulted in more shootings, this was more pronounced when there was a weekend or holiday, supporting our hypothesis that people being outside their home might also be a driver of shootings. Furthermore, there were more shootings on days that were warmer than average, including in the colder months. Because some of these “warmer” than average days were relatively mild, and in some cases would be considered cold, this is also not fully explained by the aggression hypothesis and gives credence to the “outdoors” hypothesis
Makes me wonder how abundant basalt lava glass is on planets in the goldilocks zone.
> A hobby […] doesn't push you to do [it] every day

Look at organized sports, if you don’t show up enough times, you don’t get to play anymore.
You mean about the relentless propaganda, or the kids living in fear? Not sure how you could not notice it so far? I have also seen articles citing a significant number of kids being psychologically impacted by it.

Not sure how active for example "Fridays For Future" is in your country?

Relentless propaganda: if you have kids in school, odds are any event they plan will be littered with climate change stuff, for example. My kids school decided cakes for the next event will have to be vegan because it is better for the climate, for example. Science projects will be about climate something. And that is just school, media is on a whole other level.

The only thing more popular atm is the transgender craze.
The real question, imho, is: Why did we think that technology would deliver more democracy?
Unions aren’t really something which is polarizing in the Netherlands.
Tell HN: EAP versions of IntelliJ apps now default to a JDK17-based JBR
"a dockerfile seems so useful for having an easily readable declaration of what exactly is inside the container"

I wish this was the case, but unfortunately it doesn't tell you what's in the base/parent image.

It also doesn't ensure you get bit-exact reproduceable builds. You need something like Guix/Nix for that.
I’m referring to the easy looking, tricky to solve problems. I’ve heard them referred to by that term because they have been used at Moscow University to discriminate against Jewish students but I don’t know if they have other names.

There is some discussions and examples of such problems at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.1556.pdf and http://3038.org/press/shen.pdf.
While I can absolutely see why people would view this as cheating, I'm also not sure what he was suppose to do. It's a case of: "Hey, look, I really want this job so I took the time to prepare and studied the kind of question you might ask. I happen to know the answer to this question, could you ask a new one that I don't know the answer to?" If I where the interviewer, I'd just stop the interview at this point and move the candidate along to the next interview anyway. He's clearly smart enough and has already invested time.

Personally I don't put a ton of value in question like this, so I'm less inclined to view it as cheating, and more like proper preparation... and a bit of luck.
No, I'm saying that we're all the "baddies", and that we should either sanction every country that is occupying any other sovereing country (and that includes most of the nato countries, including mine), or, (preferably by me), we should pull our armies out of those countries, stop being the agressors, and then point the finger at putin. Why the hell does slovenia (my country) have soldiers in fucking Syria? Who asked us to go there? We even have to pay a lot of money to have them there.. for what? What effort have we, the EU, the americans, the "friendly west countries" invested into stopping ourselves from occupying all those countries?
When I interviewed at my current company, I was pretty stressed about the interview and watched some Numberphile videos the night before to take my mind off things.

Weirdly enough one of the problems discussed in the interview was about the Josephus problem which has a neat solution in binary [0]. I don’t recall if I ever asked the interviewer whether they also watched the video recently or how they came to think of it.

[0]: https://youtu.be/uCsD3ZGzMgE
The out-of-box performance is now much better out of the box on Linux -- the difference is like night and day. This is great news!
why is styled components required? seems like concerns arent well separated in this one
Any time you interact with a third party API you're creating a distributed system. The principles of distributed systems are useful for many more things than "microservices".
It's not even a trick, though. The sum of zero and n is n. The sum of 1 and n-1 is also n. So is the sum of 2 and n-2, and so on. There are n+1 numbers when counting from zero to n, and they can be paired so that each pair adds up to n.

It's a pretty obvious thing that anyone who spent much time thinking about math as a kid or teenager would have encountered, and maybe that's who MS wanted to hire! Especially back then when more of their programming needs dealt with algorithms and mathematical thinking, as opposed to gluing libraries together, I think it makes some sense.
You could just cap the maximum spend of any one player in any game (or group of players). Even if it was some stupid high number like $1,000, it would limit the blast radius. Also, banning loot boxes of course. Totally can be done.
Even if you thought that being addicted to gaming or gambling is no different for the creature than any other hobby, like kayaking, it might help you to look at the other side of the question:

How much should we allow others to enrich themselves off the addictions/compulsions of others?

I always thought that was a compelling point even when I was a libertarian for one year as a uni freshman. That people should be able to consume what they want doesn't finish answering the question.
This is what happens when companies use riddles that have nothing to do with the job you’ll do and do not remotely relate to the skills that will be required on the ground.
I've been in Istanbul this week and have seen at least 50 places with Bitcoin signs. Seems like every currency exchange point had them.
This is no longer legal in many jurisdictions. Family members often have a minimum allocation of the inheritance (e.g. 25% must be equally split among all children)
It was very surprising how bad reforged was when brood war remake was excellent. Even Diablo 2 remake was great.
Less densely populated areas rarely pay for their road maintenance costs. It's actually quite unsustainable. That 10 mile road leading to just a few houses costs way more than is brought in by taxes from those houses.

Public transit helps not having a car. That helps the environment and those that can't or don't want to drive.

Most US cities have pathetic public transit to the point it is impractical (eg: buses running once every 2 hours and stopping at 6pm is not useful)

Bottom line, I think this gets to the debate of car centric society. How do you do less densely populated areas in the american model without cars? I don't think you can. The problem with less dense and car centric is the 100 year upkeep cost is unsustainable
Fully agree. Add to that that the question was super standard, it was quite likely that the candidate would have heard about it one way or another before the interview.
The author prepared with the info he had and was "lucky" that he got a question he knew and had situational awareness to sell it.

It's all positive traits in my book. The discussion about the ways to interview to smooth this out is great but I don't think he should self flagellate or consider that his entire career was predated on this.

If you have the right attitude, prepare and work for it, you find any number of paths to get to the next level.

It's unfortunate that interviews sometimes feel so badly fit to achieve the goal and we should actively challenge whatever practice we have an iterate to make things better for everyone.
While some games do, the few that do those odds are not predominantly displayed nor they are externally validated as being accurate.

There is also no disclosure as to if the odds are manipulated on a per player basis, which I believe there are a few patents related to changing the "drop" rate based on player behavior, this is similar and can be combined with your comment about monitoring to drop a discount at the right time

In the context of Diablo, I can not find the Odds of their loot boxes anywhere published.
End result is you still have a society run by sociopaths then.