skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take it from someone that walked the path of becoming a professional Go player, being a professional and an amateur are completely different attitudes towards the game.
Tic Tac Toe is solved, but can be fun to play when you are a kid. Amateur Go playing can still exist, but the goal of strength is more instilled in the path to pro-ship.

This really suggests that going the path of being the strongest is no longer sensical. Why would a human try to be the best calculator in the world, knowing it will never beat any calculator ever? Just to prove itself to other human caculator wannabes? Senseless.

This is a real paradigm shift and we still need to understand what to do. But obliviously ignore AlphaGo is akin should be unfathomable for a professional aspiring player.

As a professional, the first question to ask is what will AlphaGo bring to Go Theory. We still dont know how much stronger it is than Lee Sedol (or how far it is from "God"). Pushing it to its limits will show us insights we havent found yet and we will update ourselves as players to the most current theory.

The second step is answering the following question: Can human + AlphaGo beat Alpha Go?
A human potentiated with AlphaGo's reading power can intuitively pick variations that would give it an edge? If so, we have found that Go still harbors a human secret that is jsut overly compensated by reading.

The last step would be, even if human participation gives negligible results, can human + Alpha Go create better games than Alpha Go?
Well, I think what I'm describing (general awareness) is a little different from your examples there, but I acknowledge my choice of words implied I'm not impressed, which I completely am because this is obviously utterly amazing. It's just not AS big a deal as a lot of people are making it out to be with proclamations of apocalypse.
5 years ago we could easily differentiate between thin content(I.E. MAHALO) and quality content...but now there is so much "not quite spam, but overly redundant" content, regurgitated listicles and other keyword targeted content spawned by content writers instead of subject matter experts that I can't seem to find the really good content from search anymore.

Carefully Curated content is how I find the good information. Search used to be a convenience, now it adds layers of complexity to my search needs.
I know the concept very well. Of course their are advantages to using a service that everyone else is using, but it comes down to what you value more your privacy or the inconvenience of a smaller user group/paying a fee. I think the majority of people don't care about their privacy and would rather make that trade off right now. My core argument is that you still have a choice with free markets but with goverment if your views aren't the majority you are at the whims of group think.
Yes, to use any component you will need that component's dependencies. That's just true of any software component. The Polymer() call has nothing to do with it, as in the end it just calls document.registerElement(). Raw elements that call into a template library in attachedCallback() will depend on that template library.
They already are allocated that way, just not in a nice, organized manner. Humans take up much less space on planet earth than you'd initially expect.
This is pretty cool. Being able to manipulate your window system is something I dearly miss from Plan 9 when I'm forced to use a unix. Making some weird utility with some miserable api to relabel a window sucks compared to echo -n 'label' > /dev/wsys/2/label or so.
What about good old px? I recently came across this article [0] which argues that after all the "best practices" of rem vs em maybe px is actually the best way to go, in order to accommodate high density displays and zooming.

[0] https://mindtheshift.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva...
I really don't understand this. What's a reasonable amount? I withdrew $2500 in cash from my bank last week. No questions other than "how would you like that?" and "would you like an envelope?"
Next I need someone to do orthopedic shoe inserts. Mine cost $600 and only fit my running shoes.
I upgraded my laptop, and the display looked horrible in low resolution afterwards. There was an accelerated video driver for my video card in windows7, but not for windows10, so it falls back to vga. So i had to revert back.
My desktop is often used to watch live TV from my cable-card device in WindowsMediaCenter. There is no WindowsMediaCenter for windows10, so I guess that machine is staying on windows7 also.
Just because you could upgrade to windows 10, does not mean everyone can.
Every day i get a popup, telling me to upgrade. I say no thanks, i cant. Why does it keep asking me? That's what the fuss is about.
Anything that Go has to go through as a result of AlphaGo, Chess has already gone through with Stockfish and its predecessors (such as Deep Blue, though I realize it's not exactly the same).

Is there a particular reason why a chess computer would be any more undefeatable than a Go computer? Even though Kasparov lost, Nakamura destroyed Rybka 10 years later. Now that we have a competitive Go AI, isn't it likely the game of Go will shift and be even more competitive since now more players can get world-class practice and suggestions on their own?
Hmm... on [1], how can it be that they tested 10 banknotes, and "92%" tested positive?
I don't agree with you, but upvoted for not owning skinny jeans.
Signed and shared. Regardless of its efficacy, at least 100,000 people will declare their opposition.
But new jobs appeared right?

> the efficiencies of farming made their plots generate too little crop to support a family

That makes no sense
Gandhi operated in an era before governments and businesses really had the "soft power" thing figured out.
I had braces at a young age and, like most people, have to wear a retainer at night to prevent our teeth from returning to their natural position. Did you?
And yet in chess the Carlsens, Nakamuras, Caruanas, Svidlers etc of the world still compete while knowing they have no chance of beating StockFish running on a modern desktop.

The super GMs of the world - and basically all of the chess loving public with them - seem to have acknowledged it and moved on; why would such a transition be impossible in Go?
Versailles in the Valley
Maintenance and management of these so called AI systems.
Eventually everything we do will be done better by technology. Why should anyone do anything? I think the experience is worthwhile in and of itself and I look forward to what AI can teach us about the game.
The New Way Is the Free Way – NetLicensing
Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time
> Personally, the idea of going into dept for private consumption is completely foreign to me and most people I know, so the idea of a credit card is very unappealing.

Though I know many don't follow this rule, I never purchase anything on a credit card I don't have cash for. It's purely for the convenience factor (and the 1-3% discount on all purchases).

I wouldn't pay for one though.
That is a standard scam. My wife accidentally went to a random dental office and went through the same thing. Luckily she had the common sense to not sign anything. Then we went on the web and found dozens of people saying the place did that to everyone. She went to a recommended dentist and had it repaired with caps for a tenth the asking amount.
> the questions themselves are misstated

This proposition accounts for about half of the history of western philosophy. The other half unsurprisingly concerns itself with the relationship between humans and '[g|G]od[s]?'. Vide Wittgenstein for a modern(ish) view of both.

> so many brilliant thinkers can not agree on the definite answers to the ethical questions

They can, and do. The really big (academic/philosophical) problem isn't ethical, it's meta-ethical: they agree that, e.g., murder, rape, discrimination and fraud are wrong, but the arguments they find sufficiently sound to undergird those conclusions are mutually exclusive. More worryingly, the premises and inferential rules these arguments rest on undermine each other: Murder is bad because if you generalized the actions of murderers, no humans would be left; Wrong, murder is bad because the Right to Life is given by a Natural Law; Wrong, murder is bad because it is moral to maximize happiness/fulfilment over a population and the dead form a local minimum; etc, etc...

Some of this stuff seriously reads like an OO-evangelist trying to convince a lisp-er of the benefits of encapsulation. The OO'er says "separate concerns to manage state" and the lisp-er replies "immutability", and neither realizes that actually, they're operating in different domains, because enough vocabulary is shared by them that they can each rationally argue that "that other guy is nuts". Their arguments are incommensurable, but neither one is outrageously wrong.

That's kind of what modern meta-ethics is like, except with about 2,000 extra years of potential divergence, and a few dozen Turings, Knuths and Dijkstras on each different side of the debate.
Related question: how do you manage service auth credentials for your code? E.g. client secrets for OAuth. I've never found a good solution.
> You don't pay annual fees for your credit cards?

Nope. Actually, they pay me at a rate of 1-5% cash back on all purchases made on the card.
Do you imagine people in countries east of Austria as ugly bunch with crooked teeth, because we're developing and never heard of cosmetic dentistry?
Will this compile to web assembly?
I forgot to mention that one obviously doesn't use Gmail or Facebook. Or at least, one only uses them for superficial stuff. And one has multiple personas, with non-overlapping social networks. Most of those are online-only. But some can be LARP, if you like.

It may be possible to use iOS anonymously. I have an anonymous Apple online account, and could presumably use it with used devices purchased for cash. Anyone know if that's doable?
While I can understand the benefits of basic income, it still bugs me that this might massively undermine democracy and turn out to be a point of no return for a society. Once every single voter has an incentive to vote for politicians that promise increases of their basic income, each election will turn into a competition on increasing that type of spending. It's basically a massive redistribution scheme. This is different from welfare systems, which only support a small number of people who actually need it.
Have you tried empathy? Most people are just, y'know, doing their things. They have likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses.

Some of them are actually pretty terrible, but I don't think that's a universal quality of humanity.
Two previous discussions with lots of comments.

(109 points, 331 days ago, 107 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9388751

(379 points, 999 days ago, 152 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5895672
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People were making the economic interdependence argument at the beginning of the 20th century too. We all know how that played out.
Nhạc Lính VNCH – Những Ca Khúc Về Đời Lính VNCH Hay Nhất
Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Repealed
Apple Should Own the Term “Warrant Proof”
Yeah, it's absolutely terrible that something which benefits the majority of people might actually become an election issue.
Perhaps the statement was meant as a positive exclamation?
I have. I have. I do.
Agreed. Ancient Grecian bards once memorized the Oddessey forwards, backwards, and skipping every third word to ensure integrity. At that time, writing was thought of as dulling the mind.

Speaking of Greek stories, Paris shooting Achilles is another classic one of technology defeating technique.

This has been a bittersweet human story for a very long time.
we're slowly moving towards anticipation in continuous strategy games, and life. progressively better decisions/anticipation in progressively much much larger decision space is how this is relevant
Cryptographic signatures are not the same as encryption.
Beyond the State Machine
The implication of my post wasn't "therefore encryption is worthless". It was more of "therefore I would like more relevant historical analogs".
Why was Trump in my mind the whole time I was reading this?

One thing that I learned was that fascism comes from the masses, not just a dictator. In other words Hitler didn't create the situation, he just took advantage of it.
A basic income will never and should never happen if its supporters are unwilling to face up to its challenges. Play this offense-taking politics with it and you won't convince anyone. And you'll lose the trust of any libertarians and conservatives who are already in favor of it.
Interesting. I dislike Windows in general because it is too complicated, but I like Microsoft in general for things like C#.
And since the latest commit was on 22 Dec 2014, the project seems to be frozen. Sad but true.
Is it common for people to have hardware issues with a new version of Windows? I can't see Microsoft ignoring a large issue with hardware compatibility and nonetheless nagging people to upgrade. I feel like an effort to convince people to stay on the latest software has good intentions overall, and for the most part, maybe people would benefit from it.
Android Launcher for geeks
All I could hear in my head while reading this was the theme song for Narcos
Actually, the usual place to stereotype as having crooked teeth is the UK, which is firmly in the "developed" group of countries.

To answer your question, no, "crooked teeth" isn't in the usual list of stereotypes people have about Eastern Europeans.
What makes Windows 10 unstable in your view? I'm no Windows fan, but I've been using it on my work laptop for a few months and have had no issues. I'm actually surprised by how much I'm not hating it.
Don't you like rabbit holes? Chasing the weird or subtle or ill-defined phenomena that no one else cares about and will probably lead nowhere but just smells so damn good?
Agreed, hence all the hard work to find the good ones!
Interview with Radim Rehurek, creator of gensim(2012)
I thought yet another JS/CSS asset manager for Node.js already existed, and it was called Grunt. Then Gulp. Then Brunch. And still not enough...

Just kidding, nice small project. I'll stick to Grunt though.
It's too long because he likes to write, lives to write, and writes to live.
I still can't find an official statement by WhatsApp that they are using his tech. Can you or anyone else?
I'm wondering what the name - gensim - means.
High assurance prevents that by full specs of all success and failure states, modular code, avoidance of dangerous constructs, covert channel analysis, testing of execution paths, pentesting with source, and so on.

You could conceivably slip a backdoor in with extra cleverness sure. Yet, whether OSS or closed, you depend on talent of reviewers to find it for you. High-assurance closed has most labor put into that. That's why it was more secure. Aside from activities described above that were mandatory for high assurance security but optional or ignored for the rest.
It might happen, but I hope it doesn't.

I cannot speak for Chess's mindset but as a Devoted Go Player, we are collectively trying to solve it, and so we have for centuries. We play Go to explore its universe and reach utmost understanding of the game(and a glimpse of ourselves). If we ever find(which eventually we shuold) the exact single pattern that is best for both players, and we solve the game, it becomes something different. Maybe it becomes something senseless, or something artful(I can explain the 'art' part if someone asks) but trying to be competitive is silly.

If I devoted my life to Go today, I would not aim at becoming better competing, I'd have to aim at a more effective way to solve the game. Competing was the only thing we had to figure out what was best, but now we can have a companion that will prevent us from faulty variations and logic, and give us instant validation. We can discover more fuseki with a focus group and AlphaGo in a month than in a decade of tournaments.

Competing for the sake of competing is a petty goal.
- Core is in Java

- License - not sure?

- OpenTSDB used for storing time series, HBase 0.98.8

- Stores extended schema (entities, alerts, state) in another database (derby, postgres, not sure?). Why not Phoenix.

- Namespace concept used for grouping metrics

Joins a lineup of internal time series database projects, some of which are OSS now: Netflix Atlas, StackExchange Bosun, Facebook Gorilla.
Don't you see the problem here? Few politicians would dare campaign to reduce an established benefit. At what point would reason step in declare the scheme unsustainable? Probably when it's too late and all the productive talent has left the country.
Drupal 7 vs. Drupal 8 benchmarks
Dingbat is an ancient slang term for a crazy person (someone with "bats in their belfry, striking the bell")

In the context of type, ornamentations were thus called dingbats because they were essentially pointless, of no substance.
>"I mean, that's like asking whether marathon runners have a future now that we've got cars."

I don't think they are the same things.
Marathon is about the physical limit of human beings, while Go is about mental limit.

Before there are cars, or trains, we all know we are not the fastest in the world. A rabbit can easily overrun an adult human.

However, we never thought that a dog or a bird will beat us in a game like GO. Thinking a machine beating the human champion in the game of GO, is like admitting that we are intelligently inferior to machines.
To a philosopher like Parfait, our inborn desires and instincts are beside the point, though. If we do something "altruistic" because it gives us a nice warm fuzzy feeling, it isn't really an altruistic act. One could ask, would you still do it if you didn't get the fuzzy feeling, and if the answer is no, you were clearly just acting out of hidden self interest. Only if someone else's suffering is in and of itself reason to alleviate it was such a bona-fide altruistic act.

You also, of course, have the problem that you might find ways of giving yourself that warm fuzzy feeling without doing something good, and there's sort of the innate problem with desire-based morality. Parfit's absolute morality has the practical advantage that it's tied to the "real" concept of good by definition (we think), rather than by the happy accident of some genetic wiring.
Has Your Boss Ever Pooped in Your Lunchbox?
I don't think the question of free will was even touched upon in the actual article.
Alexis De Tocqueville had some thoughts relevant to this: https://youtu.be/Rzr3AOtFA8o
This reminds me of the 1947 story "With Folded Hands" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands - where a post apocalyptic future is the consequence of full automation and robotics . people have no purpose left.
If I understand AlphaGo correctly, I don't think that any human in the future will be able to beat the AlphaGo today. AlphaGo didn't beat Lee Sedol because it played new and marvelous moves we need to understand.

It played better because it knew the exact consequences of the options it was presented, and could calculate it and make better decisions than human intuition. No human can develop that reading power, and its not reasonable to think a human in the future will have intuition that beats the calculation of AlphaGo.

Since reading, the core ability of Go can now be completely replaced by a computer, the question is what others decisions can a player make. Can he make strategic decisions better than AlphaGo? Can intuition still best AlphaGo calculating capacity?

Eventually, we can think that we will have computational power to actually solve Go, and if there is any sense at all to play Go after that, its about finding those beautiful games, from beginning to end, that provoke emotions and turn Go purely into art.
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Well, arguably we are machines.
Not really, speaking specifically about marathon, humans should rank pretty high in the list of the best marathon species. We're up there with horses and I guess wolves.
I agree, this seems to be more politically easy to swallow. But i get the sense that basic income just a way to distract the people from the real political fight for a social safety net(and the work needed to get done to make the world ready for something like basic income) , while selling them fantasies that makes their day nicer(money for free, small government, etc).
Did Jeopardy ever really have a purpose?
Diablo II released over 15 years ago gets a new patch
Hm, It's not really being too heavily "interfaced" with the body. I wouldn't stick it under your skin, but this would probably be fine I think. I'd also think that most things are unsafe in molten form, heh.
Since obsolete unterbrowser users must suffer, rem FTW.

What's REALLY missing in modern CSS3 standard is the ability to reassign CSS root to any other element than <html>, according to font properties of which all nested rems would be calculated. So, for now, we have to stick to assigning base font sizes to <html>, not even to <body>.

My microframework (999.css - http://999.surge.sh) uses pixels to assign base font size to <html>, rem for <body>, ems for headings and rems for all other nested typography.
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You can get it with doctor's consent. It's true that it's not effective if you already have HPV, but it's also relatively side-effect free, so many doctors have started becoming willing to prescribe (if you ask) on the theory that if you don't have HPV, it could be lifesaving for you or your future partners, while if you do have HPV, it has no effect.
So I guess your profile hasn't been updated in a while?

And what is it that you're are doing now? Must be really awesome if it's still enjoyable after 80 hours.
We have a secrets.json in the codebase which is gitignored and we ony commit a fake secrets_sample.json.

(The actual secrets are then ridiculously insecurely transferred between colleagues via whatever communication medium the people involved think of first. Open to suggestions there :-) )
Yeah, you have the "choice"... of cutting off most of your friends, your employers and customers, and be "Google free".