skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be cool to see a project like this for an open source game, such as OpenTransportTycoonDeluxe (http://www.openttd.org/). The AI developed by interacting with the OpenTTD economy might even prove useful for urban planning of real geographic regions.
>If two "experts" can look at the same evidence and come to entirely different conclusions, how is this science?

Scientism is a mental disease perpetuated by people who seek social persuasion through whatever means convinces a person/the public rather than objective epidemiologically derived truth. It's easier to appear smart by accepting dubious "science" than rebuking it with skepticism.
What is the latest in video compression technology after H264 and H265?

The article discusses lossy compression in broad terms, but have we reaped all the low hanging fruit? Can we expect some sort of saturation just like we have with Moore's law where it gets harder and harder to optimize videos?
> MJPEG which is essentially every frame independently encoded as a JPEG.

"essentially" makes it sound like it isn't precisely true. MJPEG is literally just a stream of JPEG images. The framing of the stream varies a bit, but many implementations are just literal JPEG images bundled one after the other into a MIME "multipart/x-mixed-replace" message.
Scientists have detected a crack in Earth's magnetic shield
Does anyone have experience building mobile backends in Lambda? I was looking at an API Gateway / Lambda / Amazon RDS stack for building a central data store and was wondering what people's experience with that setup is?
You should give Adventure Land [1] a try. Its a browser MMO where you can code a bot to play for you. Its still in alpha but it has been pretty stable for the past few days that I have been playing it.

[1] http://adventure.land/
Nicotine itself is a stimulant with few health risks, the main problem with tobacco is the burning plant matter. Nicotine itself occurs naturally in many foods, such as tomatoes.
Well, except that blending is a big part of what a winemaker does and, basically, it should be left to professionals. All else is monkeys and typewriters. If you can't tell the diff between a Barefoot and a Silver Oak, what do you think home blending is going to accomplish?

Wine snobbery may be bullshit, just like jazz snobbery. But that's not the same as 'appreciation,' which requires some education and experience, maybe even some aptitude.

Or think instead of sex: Wow, that sure was great! Why would I want to try anything different? tl;dr: You don't know what you're missing, or you're doing it wrong--or, more likely, both.

https://winemakermag.com/95-blending-batches-tips-from-the-p...
To me the article shows more about issues with the OPs organization and approach than Docker.

And that while I think Docker does a really crappy job and I went through so much pain myself. But the whole article shows lack of understanding and approach. I wish we should discuss more constructive about all the issues Docker indeed has..
I have no bearing on the "hardcore" vaping community. It's a tool, I am using it to quit. If vaping was outlawed due to legislation I'm worried I'd have to rely on will alone (which has so far failed me). Irrespective of practice or belief, there are people who take things too far. The words of one nut are not representative of the entire community.

"We get it, you vape" is a logical fallacy. Why? It is so trivial to draw a corollary from that incredibly naive statement: you are implicitly voicing support for people acquiring cancer - althought I certainly don't believe that is what you meant to say. This falls under the logical fallacy of "black and white." Things are not so simple, especially so far as the behavior of one vocal minority is concerned.

By pure autonomous volition, I vape away from other people (generally in the company of other smokers in the allocated areas) because I know that the vapor generally clings to skin. It makes you clammy in warm weather. It's not sociable. So you're going to throw someone who is trying their level best to use this quitting aid in a respectable manner into the same bag as Norquist?

150 mutations per year in my lungs[1] x 7 years of smoking = 1050 mutations. I hope to God that I stopped soon enough. I'm so fortunate to have such an easy route out - it's not 1200 or 1350 mutations.

The inability to downvote responses on HN forces me to contemplate a correct response. This is the extremely rare occasion, maybe the first, that I wish it was possible.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12870712
55 million euros for a fire station? I'd fire the architect for the cost alone, never mind what it looks like.
Why do people need 32gb of ram? I can have 15 tabs in chrome, a music player, 3 windows of my IDE, and a word processor on my current 8gb laptop just fine.
That's the unfortunate part - it seems like most places you have to take your own personal time to learn a language enough to transition between careers.

Unless you're a developer with 10+ years of experience or something, and the company/job you are applying for overlooks your lack of knowledge in a subject area.
This was an example of extreme micro that a very simple AI can do that changes the game entirely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs
You run the risk of the exact same outcome running every body again.
I liked this explanation of DEFLATE here on HN a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12334270
A question that comes to mind: What is the future of "meaningful work" If technology is poised to render sustenance-based work obsolete? The utopian idea is societies where education, arts and entertainment are what we consider to be "work." It's something that's been talked about since the industrial revolution, but assuming it's a multi-generational shift how do we set course to ensure a sense of well being in the human species?
The shame is on the whole system, not just on former Gov. Perry.

You see, here in the US, being "tough on crime" improves your odds of getting elected, or of keeping your position, if you're already elected.
In the context of the analogy, it's probably better to read it as saving time to human-parse rather than the space required to send. (And it definitely takes less time to verbally state, even if the sentence is clearly longer; caching) The general idea is the same through; compression by describing patterns rather than explicitly stating the event
Many people think the third episode of the first season is the best of the series. It is the one I recommend people view first.
Is this a parody? Prescriptivism in law is completely unthinkable to UK/US native English speakers.
I've been in contact with a number of Swiss companies and saw that live already - the PostFinance in Berne did the same stuff. You have a locker for your private stuff/jacket and a tiny container with your 'work stuff' that you just push to a random desk (Not sure if they still do this, last saw this a year ago or so).

You plugin your laptop in a docking station and start working.

I .. hate the idea and felt uncomfortable the couple days I stayed. This is definitely not new or UBS specific though.
> On the other side of the spectrum, a pilot who flies a Boeing 777 will not be able to easily switch to flying an Airbus 330.

This sounds super dubious, I feel like you fell down on this analogy. I mean, they probably have some different controls and systems, but you can probably just run co-pilot for a few flights to get acquainted and then be good to go (leaving out the fact that most commercial planes essentially fly themselves for most of the trip these days anyhow)
I mean, why not just buy/build a smaller, more normal house and leave more land for gardens and lawns?
> Docker Issue: Can’t clean old images

The worst part of this problem is when you do run out of disk space docker's image/container database often gets corrupted resulting in the great cryptic 'could not find container entity id' error. The only fix I'm aware of is rebuilding all your images or mucking around with the docker sql database. The lack of basic features to manage the problem creates a worse and harder to troubleshoot problem.

It's an easy enough problem to avoid in the first place so it's really not big of a deal. It hurts docker as a company more than the users in the long run because it makes them look bad. There are a lot of other small things like this with the docker cli tools especially. They aren't deal breakers but they are definitely eyebrow raisers. For example if you mess up your docker run command it usually just fails in strange ways instead of telling you what's wrong with your command.

I'm actually pretty happy with docker overall but they really need to fix some of these basic usability problems.
Seems like we are getting in the weeds over silly semantics.

When you hear "serverless", just think of it as a service where you don't have to worry about running or maintaining your own OS on a server weather that is virtual or bare metal. That's it, it's as simple as that.
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Great! Since programming is so boring all that's left is to start understanding system administration concepts as well and making things easier for your ops team. Right? Right????????
Being an employee at this company I can tell you it has nothing to do with mitigating risk associated with data loss prevention, and everything to do with cost of infrastructure. This particular roll out is due to Citrix' A3 being deployed in favor of HP physical desktops, as well as Microsoft Lync (Now Skype for Business) in place of physical Avaya phones. Its a long term play for cost cutting with some argument for latency as well, as the A3's when they work right are super fast.
Do you really think that it is that simple?
There is a replay analyzer that attempts to figure this out, generally the effective APM will go up during a fight, but the players will keep the APM fairly high even when the eAPM is not high just because it is easier to go from many useless actions to many useful actions than few useful actions to many useful actions.
Worse than that, doesn't appear for me at all until I use Readability Mode.
It appears as early as 1923 but is not cited.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/he_w...
Have you read the book?

The whole point of the chapter is that if you want to work for the feds, you don't want to get noticed. Ever. Later in that chapter she mentions how you're just supposed to sit in the first unoccupied desk closest to the door. That also serves as a visual indication of when you got in to your coworkers.
These days we call them ChromeBoxes.

And they can be great. My work issue laptop is a Pixel 2 ChromeBook, and I love it. But that's mine, which I alone use (except when I lend it to someone), and the grease on the keyboard comes from my fingers.
They can only reuse the same tropes so many times. Season 3 takes most of the "mind blowing" ideas from the first series and repackages them in a weaker presentation. The first episode was a weaker repackaging of Fifteen Million Merits (intrusion of social media rankings). I think there were two rehashes of White Christmas (protagonist being in an alternate universe where time moves slowly, which is always revealed a the end of the episode). White Chrismas did this much more effectively. Season 3 is just a thin shell around the same tropes.
I've only watched episodes 2, 3, and 6, and I agree, not particularly compelling compared to even the 3 worst episodes of the previous seasons. It's still good, but not uniquely interesting or provoking in the way that past seasons have been.
Finally people are starting to understand the value of an apprenticeship system. The student loan fiasco is something that doesn't need to exist.
You just "point it out" to convince me to casually accept regulating other peoples or other companies freedom to advertise away because you suppose that people are just sheep who can't help being controlled by it.

On top of that you probably do not even realise that you are arguing here for limiting freedom of speech.

> Where you see people shouting "freedom" the loudest, I see fear, distrust, and anger.

Am I supposed to feel bad now? I don't, I still want to keep freedom of speech.

> I'm just pointing out that no one is as free as you think you are because you always have influences.

Ominous and sometimes invisible influencers everywhere. Best way to deal with it: Censorship.
" And everyone here is suffering from an unofficial economic embargo enforced by the US on us ever since."

Lol. USA is pumping up every year more than 1 billion USD into Egypt.
I don't think this comment should be downvoted. While I did enjoy this episode, it does stand out in the series. While there is certainly some dark humor throughout the series, this one is straight out dark comedy, from beginning to end. AFAIK it is also the only one not written by Charlie Brooker, thus the fanfiction feel that soneca talks about.
The machines have already stolen your right to vote, and you did not notice. They determine the outcome of the most influential elections. Do you really think they want your job?
at the beginning it's all about potential. If you can manage to work together for 5 years you deserve half. If not, how long did you stick it out. Also, 5%-20% swing of a really large number is still a very large number and 50% of shit is still shit.
In the past we would have formed a standards group, called all interested vendors, and each one would defend their turf, ultimately arriving to a compromise that almost no one used. This has evolved to offering flexibility to experiment and through real usage we may start seeing adoption of certain extensions and at some point it may make sense to adopt them, that makes more sense!
> Are we happier and more fulfilled than ever before? I don't know, but I doubt it.

I'd say large swaths of the population definitely are not, but we're all responsible for making our own happiness. No one owes us anything. We definitely have the platform and infrastructure to be happy. They're just easy to take for granted because they're so good they support us even when we do.

> They had servants to do all the menial chores most of is still have to do today, so in that respect we haven't totally surpassed them.

That's a myopic view. What do you call robots and computers that operate at orders of magnitudes of efficiency?
Right, the whole argument doesn't make sense. What should Docker do instead? Removing containers after they stopped so you have no idea what happened when it crashed? "Reuse" the container?
Apparently somebody didn't grasp the concepts* and therefor considers all this BS.

*) Docker could maybe do better here, but tbh - I think documentation and getting the word out about how things work is one of the things Docker Inc does pretty ok.
Everyone knows that we're eating up our resources and dump the rest into the seas all the while doing so. The result is that a lot of things available today will be luxury super rich items in the not too distant future.

Not sure how old you are, i.e. did you live through the '70s "Limits to Growth" Zeitgeist era? If not try, say, watching the 1973 movie Soylent Green, where the two protagonists just marvel at a jar of strawberry preserves they found in the dwelling of a rich person, and then go to your favorite grocery store's jams and jellies section....

Maybe someday we'll see that future you envision, but having already lived through at least one cycle of this, not to mention the ongoing global cooling -> global warming -> climate change one, I don't worry quite so much (and by now have a lot more than just these surface level observations to base that on).

ADDED: And this was a major theme of Heinlein in his '50s juveniles, most directly his 4th, published in 1950, Farmer in the Sky, but also see his last really good book, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress in 1966, where it was plot significant that the moon colony (or was it colonies?) grew wheat and shot it back to the Earth using a mass driver.
Not this again
If you don't hear it, doesn't that mean the cilia aren't activated?
I still maintain one of the best voting systems has you vote successively for a majority winner.

- Many candidates run
- If someone has a majority (more than 50% of vote), that person wins
- Otherwise, top x number of candidates move on to next round
- repeat

This way, changes in availability are addressed, so people can make fair choices between one item and the next.
My mostly-uneducated o/u on the time to beat the best human players is 8 years.
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And let's not forget that the analogy for the jigsaw puzzle falls apart when you consider that you may not know what pieces are available, pieces you think might fit end up not fitting, or that you may end up with massive holes that you have to paint pieces for yourself or you solve for a picture of the Amazon rain forest but now the client/customer wants Antarctica with half the time and budget, so you have to recycle and rearrange the pieces as much as possible. Or that once you've solved the puzzle, pieces start to melt because your room is too hot or change color because there is too much light.

Yes programing is boring indeed.
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Competitive AI in broodwar already can destroy the best humans. AI can use strategies and tactics that human can't effectively do. Most notable is perfect splitting which changes the game quite a bit.
Just because the average has improved, doesn't mean there can't still be people with serious problems.
Is a ten-member jury a normal size for this kind of case?
Australia is dumber than NZ. So the "dumb" NZers are leaving, and leaving makes them dumb, but their presence in Australia makes Australia smarter.
I'm 34 years old and have been programming since I was 14. I loved it from day one. I still love it. Even after tens of thousands of hours, two CS degrees, and hundreds of projects, I still am still amazed that I get to get up every day, go to my office in the basement, and can literally type into existence complex systems. I love it. I love the problem solving and making stuff work. I get frustrated with people from time to time, but on balance I want to continue to be a programmer as long as I live.
Is it better we have full agency and can potentially abuse things (sugar/fat, guns, drugs) or have limited agency that protects us from ourselves in the interest of public welfare?
It's actually discussed in TFA.
Personally I would be very happy if Canada's parliament realizes that cooperative minority governance should be the norm and is the healthiest option.

I am not sure which part of the video you were looking at where Strawberry would have won, but it seemed by my quick averaging, that the 'right' choice always wins under simple averaging (unless there is a tie which is fine in Canada, not so much in the US).
quite the reverse actually. most houses in akl sell by auction and not a quoted price (gotta let the market decide). the numbers you see referenced are almost certainly the average of actual selling prices.
Suppose that I live in an apartment with a wood stove, second-hand smoke from a room mate, and radon. If I get lung cancer, which one is to blame? How do you know?
plug: https://medium.com/new-game/comp-stomp-b8fe687fbeb6
Day 1 Vive owner. It really isn't a big deal. Immersion gets overplayed a lot in the click-baity tech press. Sure it feels 'real' but about 3-4 steps removed from reality and where traditional 2D gaming is 5-6 steps away from reality. We are nowhere near anything that be can considered 0-2 steps from reality. There will always be an uncanny valley effect here and a sense of falseness. Humans aren't that easily fooled, unfortunately.

My Vive had performance issues where my background environment would randomly pop-up during games. It was kinda annoying the first time, but is no big deal. Sharp cuts are pretty meaningless. This stuff isn't exactly the Matrix. You're not going to be in constant amazement or think you're in some new reality with a new body. It still a screen pasted to your face and your mind knows this the whole time.
Come on. No, it isn't. Nobody in the world is going to confuse Laphroiag with Glenlivet, let alone with Buffalo Trace. They're fundamentally different products: they have different mash bills (so comparing them can be like comparing a Barolo to an Oregon Raspberry wine), they're produced differently (the Laphroaig is peat smoked), and they're aged differently (the Buffalo Trace in new oak for a short time, the Glenlivet in sherry butts for up to two decades).

I hear people make this comparison between wine tasting and whiskey tasting and drives me a little batty.

It's especially unfortunate that this comparison brings vodka into the mix, because vodka is a neutral spirit --- it's not supposed to be distinctive (Dave Arnold, when he was at the French Culinary, used to "make his own" by ordering potable ethyl lab alcohol and diluting it). But try to say the same thing for rum or gin: different brands are wildly different.
Yeah, I got that you meant to be saying that. But you gave a specific instance, and in that specific instance, the problem didn't exist.

So: Could you give, say, ten more instances, and see in how many of them the problem exists? That way, we can all get some idea of how general the problem is.

But if you merely claim that "the problem is likely more general", with nothing behind that but your belief that your statement is probably true, well, don't expect to persuade many people that way...
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That's why I'm moving back to my rural home town. The lifestyle is better, too.
Sorry to comment again, but you mentioned "six home runs in a row" – there's also a Christmas special called "White Christmas" – if you haven't seen it already, is also one of the better episodes, starring the main guy from Mad Men (Jo(h?)n Hamm?)
I am inclined to not look for the zebras here. No photo offered by UBS, nothing they can get easily from a getty images (a clip photo) so hey it's not like they are going to use any leverage they have and demand it. "Photo or we don't run the story". As always this article was floated by someone for PR purposes. And a UBS employee is quoted. So it's not like they couldn't have said "ok we will print but send us a photo to make it more interesting". And the photo is of UBS offices in Zurich to boot. Lazy.

Back in the day when we were featured in a news story I actually took the time to setup the scene (in advance) for the photographer that was sent over from the local big city paper. As a result he was able to get a great shot and the article was syndicated in 20 newspapers across the country. Was well worth the effort. Even had a ladder for him so he could get the shot from the top easily.
Note also that capital gains are seldom if ever indexed for inflation, certainly not in the US. So you're frequently paying a big tax on purely paper gains.
I really enjoyed this season. Maybe the fact that is 6 episodes long (I spaced them out throughout a couple of weeks) made me spend more time thinking about it, than the first seasons.

I don't think that the quality has slipped. Maybe you are being too critical because it has lost its initial shock factor?
They are not "banning" in the sense of disallowing or prohibiting. They just slow it down to the point where it is no more usable. Media is only as good as they serve to the needs of the government.

As for the justification, nowadays they don't really justify anything, they just do, and it doesn't matter if it is unlawful or not. Especially after the coup attempt, there's this state of emergency situation which allows the government to bypass the parliament which pretty much translates to no justification for anything, capability is enough and it is not difficult to find stuff to use as pretext. Many of the government's recent actions are gross violations of constitution and several other laws, all possible due to the emergency status.
Yeah it is just a VDI setup. I just wondered what the overall look and feel was. Is it little clusters of desks or a giant open plan nightmare?