skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

Legends trace the origin of the game to the mythical Chinese emperor Yao (2337–2258 BC), who was said to have had his counselor Shun design it for his unruly son, Danzhu, to favorably influence him.[64] Other theories suggest that the game was derived from Chinese tribal warlords and generals, who used pieces of stone to map out attacking positions.[65][66]
A lot of this is comes down to preference.

I mean sure, I would prefer to be in the back of my private car, but given the choice between the stress of driving, and the stress of reading somewhere crowded? I will pay extra to get the time reading, and I will deal with the crowds for a discount.

The monetary equation won't balance, if you are neutral on driving vs reading preferences, until we start requiring reasonable liability insurance minimums, and until I can get housing and my employer can get office space without paying for parking.

The true costs of driving in silicon valley are dominated by parking and by the unfunded liability inherent to the activity.
To me, the third episode (Shut up and dance) is the outstanding episode, at the end I was mentally exhausted and incredibly saddened. San Junipero is different, without ruining things, it's the only episode where at the end, I wasn't considering the "where" that we're heading towards as a society (though on further thinking, it's a question of whether something good is also something moral.) – It's just very different in overall tone.

The first episode I found really difficult to watch because it felt too much like real-life (Uber, especially.) – there's one episode which I didn't finish as it just didn't interest me, it was the army-type episode, I got bored incredibly quickly. The last episode (which is set on Twitter, I suppose) is incredible.

I think there were maybe too many episodes, the VR episode, whilst good, just felt like filler to me, though it made me phone my mother. I'll watch the fourth season, it's still one of the better shows on television.
Great Write-up, thank you for your time and effort!
What is "Fiber"?
"Medium: Growth hacking your way into SF gentrification."
How RimWorld’s Code Defines Strict Gender Roles
I work at a company where this was implemented at one point. The kicker? Everyone picked a desk and stuck with it, setting up family pictures, monitor setups, and so forth. When someone did change desks, it was a major pain to track them down for in person conversations, and it incurred ill will with the coworker (and their colleagues) they displaced.

We're back to normal seating arrangements.
One week with the Google Pixel
The people of Turkey stood by him, just like people in Phillipines standby Duterte and Russians with Putin. It's not an insult, more like a statement of fact. If on Nov 8th the USA elects Trump as president then so be it. That's what they want too.
By comparison (since I was curious), 70 hours on an m3.medium spot instance will run around $0.70. On an on-demand, it's about $5.39. EMR will cost you about $7.00 on top of the EC2 costs.

If you can peg the CPU and don't mind getting interrupted, spot instances are still a fair bit cheaper. But Lambda looks pretty attractive for any other use-case where the statelessness of Lambda doesn't bite you.
Yahoo tracked their remote worker's activity by their VPN traffic (to access email). So yes, it is being done.
That the blog post is indeed very interesting reading.
I really wish they would have gone into more voting methods (and counting methods) than they did. The video as-is seems to be very incomplete.

I thought the same thing about party rankings in the US. If we had ranked voting, and the Green and Libertarian Parties ran serious campaigns, it seems that the vast majority would rank G/D and L/R together. I suppose if we had many parties, though, we could see a 'paradoxical' choice.
Yes, absolutely. They did something like this at the Sun Microsystems field office outside of Chicago while I worked there. You would log into a sunray with your smartcard and pick up whatever you had left behind in your session, with no permanent desk assignment.

It was unpopular, to say the least. Your personal belongings went into a pedestal on wheels that you could take to whichever workspace you wound up at that day. This was in 2000/2001 or so.
Give it a few years for those disgusting coworkers to dirty up all the chairs, keyboards, and mice. Maybe add a bunch of fingerprints to the monitors.
> "Uncertainty about the future has always been the same.

Don't listen to those devils."

You can call me a devil if you wish, but to me this is a classic example of a half truth. If you are already inclined to believe it, then you'll see it as the truth. If you're not inclined to believe it, then you won't see it as the truth.

To give some examples of people who are less likely to see it as the truth, go and tell Yemenis and Iraqis and Syrians that life has never been better. I'd imagine you'd be seen as a little bit kooky.

Would you do that, would you tell people who are facing famine that life has never been better? I'd suggest you wouldn't, because deep down you know what you're saying is only half true.
yeah i mean usually thats a fixed cost right? like is that actually a cost of AAA titles? do they make a new engine for every game? i dont think they do.
Swagger extensions for your API anyone?
OpenAI vs DeepMind?
The first episode is the very worst of the whole serious. "Fan-fiction" level of writing. Everything so obvious with tired tropes. A critique to social media that could be done by an imaginative high school kid.

The other ones are good, interesting and worth watching. Although only San Junipero is great.

Edit: Shut up and dance is great too.
What do you mean? I've always found it telling that only one side of the argument wants to research it.
But even for humans the quality of air/water/etc. has been going down for some time in many places.
AI is terrible in games because it's literally such a hard problem. Thinking like a human, working in a group, overcoming obstacles and reacting to dynamic behaviour from the human player. This is far harder that Go which has 100x simpler rules. Additionally they had a mega ton of training data to feed into the Go model to begin with, which a game won't have as the data structures will all be different under the hood.
It takes a lot of effort for humans to pick a seat at random, though. School desks fit this description exactly -- they have no features and there is no reason to sit in one over another. The natural result is a fixed seating arrangement. The only way the Fed offices in Snow Crash wouldn't also end up with entrenched seating arrangements is if employees were subject to penalties for favoring a particular seat. You can't "notice" that one of your employees is behaving exactly the same as every other employee.
I will.

Every large company in the UK has a significant union. Not every large company has failed. Some company failures have been exacerbated by unions, british leyland being one example.

The really toxic thing is financial short termism. It used to be results in a year, which was very bad. Now they want results in under a quarter which is to value generation as acid to chalk.
I enjoyed this for the most part and even learned a little. But it started out very simple terms and really appealing to the common folk. But then about halfway through the tone changed completely and was a real turn off to me. It's silly but this "If you paid attention in your information theory class" was the spark for me. I didn't take any information theory classes, why would I have paid attention? I don't necessarily think it was condescending, but maybe, it's just that the consistency of the writing changed dramatically.

Anyway super interesting subject.
This. Also a lot of debt issues are government caused like the crippling and non-dischargable student loans the USG gives teenagers to the tune of six figures. Or all the incentives and propaganda for those who can't afford to buy homes or other large purchases. Or government waste and corruption and war. Or out of control entitlement programs and other welfare abuse. And anti-investment, anti-prosperity, high tax, and high regulatory environments that guarantee places like the south side of Chicago will never, ever recover.

The blame pie for economic issues and social issues is pretty big and 'hedge fund managers' are going to be a very tiny piece. The institutions you may hold dear may be the ones with the largest piece. That should be sobering realization on top of the realization that we tried not-capitalism in the early to late 20th century in some countries and it was responsible for nearly causing WWIII, 100m+ dead, and a legacy of human right abuses that humanity has not seen since or before. Be careful what you wish fore. The society hanging investment managers, business owners, and guys trying to make a few bucks so their kids can goto disneyworld is not a compassionate society leading to utopia, in fact, its the opposite. History has proven this over and over.
An enjoyable, short and to the point article with many examples and analogies. But my favorite part was this:

"Okay, but what the freq are freqX and freqY?"
I don't think so. Many of the fun things AIs do in games is attack at different stages of the game. They send a small force at the beginning, and then a little larger force a few minutes later, and then a big attack at the end. No AI trying to win would end up at this strategy. You would have to define the fun goals and have the AI train on that for it's success criteria.
I think the OP was referring to people being born into wealth. ie. trust-fund babies.

Also, WTF did I just read
Look, if Bostonians can seriously commute by bike, basically anyone can.
Fiber is React's new core algorithm.

https://github.com/acdlite/react-fiber-architecture
Women's self-reported happiness has dropped over the last 50 years [1], so possibly add "women" too.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/opinion/26douthat.html
How is this secure? You yourself (or somebody who works for you – a rogue employee) could access your database and decrypt all of your customers passwords and sensitive data for their accounts. This adds a single point of failure for everything you store/send with it. You get hacked, and now they have access to everything.
Re: programming languages, it's worth mentioning that a Sanskrit grammarian invented something like context-free grammars around 2500 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#Histo...
Well, starcraft AIs aren't particularly good. Any player who has completed the single player campaign could beat all the AIs that came with the game that didn't cheat.

And a player in the top 20 percent could beat any AI that has ever been created.

AIs are really in an abysmal state for RTSes.
I've been having difficulty rating my uber drivers lately, given that I feel like I'm being pushed into participating much like the characters in the show. Seeing the "I can't drive if my rating is below 4.7" signs doesn't help either.

"Shut up and dance" was definitely my favorite episode of the seasons for the emotions you listed.
You mean like MASA, who've been around for at least 15 years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkbNzzZEU9g
That such a bad article ends up here shows the biggest problem with Docker: It's irrational hype. Whether it leads you to hate it or want to dockerize all the things, it's unhealthy.
Anecdotally, I've been thinking about this. "Being needed" is can also be looked at as "having a sense of purpose".

Today, the only "Sense of purpose" is wealth accumulation and debt reduction. There is very little we can do with:

- Family (marriages, divorces are way too high)..not permanent

- Community (everyone lives in distant houses and neighbors change frequently)..not permanent

- Kids (nobody can afford one), parents (either divorced, separated or in an old-age home)--not permanent

- Friends (too little time to socialize, too much competition, competing with the Joneses, too much changing locations, hard to make new ones)...not permanent

There is very little satisfaction in fighting for the above because NO effort to above leads to PERMANENT satisfaction (except maybe wealth). Therefore, demotivating any real sense of purpose for anything besides digits on your online accounts...which really isn't the same as "being needed".
>The system is rapidly growing out of control and no one seems to be able to stop or halt the insanity. It's like we're all marching towards oblivion and everyone knows it but no one has the will to turn the ship around because the system incentivizes short term greed.

Except for those of us shoving all the rest of you towards safety and being called crazy for our troubles, yeah.
No paper trail? I'm pretty certain they already use email and digital documents. Allowing them to hotdesk (as this is essentially what it is) is hardly a way to prevent employees establishing a paper trail.
Well, the US economic boom (the longest recorded expansion in US history), for example. And the drop in violent crime in the second half of the 1990s variously attributed to Bill Clinton's crime bill, the eventual indirect benefits of either legalizing abortion, or banning leaded gas. Limiting the window to the West avoids the whole issue of civil wars in Eastern Europe making anything seem better in comparison.
> Maybe add a bunch of fingerprints to the monitors.

And yet, somehow, the new thing in laptops is touch screens.

:(
How is it meaningless? The purpose of a production system isn't to run experiments. It is to stick to what is currently known to be reliable and stable. If that means sticking to old technology then so be it.
The consistent technology theme I see across almost all episodes is that Augmented Reality is ubiquitous, and regarded as either neutral (Nosedive) or bad (Playtest, Men Against Fire).
Some of the doublespeak in large financial corporations is astonishing.

> UBS executives insist the shift is not all about costs.
“I would be wrong to sit here and say there isn’t an economic efficiency dimension,” Mr. Owen said. “In and of itself, that’s not the reason to do it. It would fail on that basis. It has to be of value to our staff and our structure in the way we operate. There has to be a value there.”

Translation: It's all about costs and making employees absolutely replacable, only we're calling it "value addition" or some such nonsense. And what the fuck is an "economic efficiency dimension"?
This setup wouldn't work for "computer people". My OS' tend to be adjusted to the extent that I have a hard time using the default installations.
I only browse in (incognito|private) windows. My browsers are configured to startup that way automatically.

It "works for me" and it'd probably work for a lot of (perhaps even most) other users so maybe it would be an acceptable default. I don't know.

I think there's a happy medium somewhere between these two extremes that absolutely would be an acceptable default, though. Firefox could certainly come with better defaults if Mozilla truly valued privacy that high.

(FWIW, my mozilla.cfg -- pointed to by general.config.filename -- currently has 127 settings in it. It's been added to over the years, though, so some of those are certainly deprecated by now.)
What is boring is having to spend eight hours a day among people who think that programming is boring.
To the point of using thin clients:

One interesting angle to this is arguably better security for the corporation as there are no USB ports on employee machines.

This prevents employees from making copies of corporate data or bringing malware on their USB flash drives.

I know that there's software that disables USB ports, but there are always exceptions or workarounds that are enough to cause an incident.

This also eliminates potential of data loss in case of hard drive failure/damage or theft of employee's computer as everything is on corporate servers where enforcement of backups is much easier than on actual computers.
This is dangerous. Overmind will come to life.
Also, that episode was written by Rashida Jones and Michael Schur, both from The Office and Parks and Recreation.
Your example is not completely relevant. Facebook has been known to track people who are not actually Facebook users, meaning they never opted in.
Errr, it's a lot more complicated than that. People in the US have been buying up ammo at > 10 billion (thousand million) rounds/year rates for more than a decade now (US civilian production is > 12 billion/year, which doesn't count imports and not, I think, surplus and seconds from Lake City production), and I haven't noticed big movements before elections (after, for sure).
It's always worth it to learn more languages. Every developer should learn C imho (it's a very widely used, influential language and it's pretty small). Seeing how C++ is essentially a superset of C, you might as well check it out after you learn C.

Also, don't focus on your "market value", focus on becoming a better developer. You're a craftsman, not a piece of merchandise - have some pride in your craft.
(not meaning to say you don't, I just liked the sound of that)
... Except GraphQL in arangodb is based on `graphql-sync` which hasn't been updated in more than 6 months...

https://github.com/arangodb/graphql-sync
Scientists can publish their best work at any age
Do you think that we need to standardize on extensions? The blog post makes it clear that there is room to add additional information to the OAS document ... the question would be where to draw the line? Maybe there could be "groupings" of vendor extensions that would qualify as some additional class of information?

Vendor extensions are flexible / powerful but how to consolidate such that services consuming API specifications can depend on their existence and understand their semantics?
I'd love to hear more about your workflow! It sounds like you've been able to take a thing people consider tedious, and find joy in it.
How often do other programmers make use of third party libraries?

I use them fairly often to parse things or make things more seamless, but is that the general way people go about solving problems? Is that wrong?

Implementing a OSS library yourself seems overkill, but at what point is it worth writing something yourself?
Yes, the poorest among us are materially well-off, by any historical comparison. Yet the article speaks to how we're doing psychologically and spiritually. It's a little glib to tell people they'd better get happy and appreciate how much better we have it than ye olde folks of yore.

Trump has gotten this far by stirring up rust belt fears of human obsolescence. Less-educated white males are seeing their place in society disappear. If you don't think "the rest of us" have to care about that, wait and see the response as autonomous vehicles take out the trucking industry.

Even if Trump loses this time, the same underlying sentiments will produce more Trump-y candidates in the future, unless something can be done to create real change and ways for all sorts of people to be active and valued participants in our society. It's important to recognize the pain and suffering behind the fear of being unneeded.

Interesting questions abound:

If prescription anti-depressants worked, wouldn't Americans be the happiest people ever?

We already know behavioral advertising changes one's perception of oneself -- does that shift affect well being?

What's the psychological cost of commodifying one's special moments as social media posts?

How do we engage undocumented kids who feel sidelined by the lack of paths toward rewarding careers?

How do our attitudes toward birth, death, and caring for the very young and very old work against well-being?

Why do we measure economic health of our country without reference to the distribution of ownership of capital? (We carefully measure the number of wage slaves, but who's measuring the number of people who own productive enterprises? Stocks are too far removed from "productivity" and shouldn't count.)
I don't think this is meant to be an apprenticeship. This is more a tertiary education. There is a similar system in Germany which is called "Berufsfachschule", which could be translated with	"university of cooperative education".
An apm limit is needed because impossibly high APM results in stupid strategies that the game wasn't designed for.

The point is to build ai that compete with humans using human strategies. Not to cheese with borked game mechanic exploits.
New MacBook ports incompatible with old Thunderbolt 3
The fact that vaccines have their own court specifically specified by law suggests that the legal system is not designed for that type of case, and special provisions needed to be added to handle the more common instances.
Sorta not really, I get where you're going with it, but for me it's finishing the feature and getting it to work properly. This can involve wiring up some stuff for CRUD operations. But hey it works well and someone appreciates it, therefore I enjoy doing it.

Meticulous to me is when I have to pour over some very badly written code, carefully stepping over all the frayed knots and ducking under wires, trying to make that one fix without introducing another bug. Hoping to leave behind my little corner of the room in a slightly better state than I found it. It's a thankless job and always takes longer than expected. :(
Right, but in the parliamentary system you also end up with parties like the Greens. They are not fiscally liberal, even though socially they are. Many people would rank them differently depending on their own values. Given the possibility of votes "counting" more in Canada, other Green-like parties may evolve, since now people may actually vote for them and have it matter.

Also, interesting point about averages and ranked voting. By the values, Strawberry would have won out, however as stated in the video, a majority does prefer chocolate to strawberry—so how would that be dealt with?

I look forward to the discussions around our [Canada's] new electoral/voting system this December.
I made it run in a cluster over docker swarm 7 days ago and it was fine ! Actually really nice experience !
I agree with this, so I feel for the millions who are largely excluded from meaningful relationships because they have issues or are otherwise difficult or imperfect socially. And to be honest, who doesn't have issues or sometimes feel excluded? Or, more importantly, fear exclusion?

Social exclusion no longer means death for humans, but our brains are wired to feel that it does, and so there is an epidemic of loneliness, disconnection, and fear.

I'm not saying that the old days of completely depending on one's tribe of family and friends for survival was better in objective terms, but it was harmonious with our evolved instincts to be part of a small, mutually-connected group. Economic and social forces in a globalized society tend to act against the sustainability of such groups. So even those who are well-connected aren't as deeply connected, and are always threatened with potential loss of connection for unpredictable, uncontrollable economic or social reasons.
God what a nightmare that would be. As if open office spaces weren't bad enough.
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-No...
Apparently 9 in 10 smartphones today are Android and that lets you do whatever you want in the background.
If you have your own personal laptop, sure.
I spend almost 40% of my post-tax pay on rent each week in Auckland. It's mad.
You must admit that there is an underlying aggressive theme in games like StarCraft. The visuals show clear resemblance of people being killed by projectiles and by other war technology. The AI will be rewarded for skillfully decimating the enemy, for protecting the units it has control over and for coming up with strategies like ambush, raids, patrolling etc. I am more convinced by the idea that an AI will be able generalize to the real world from playing StarCraft than from playing Monopoly. However, I think it will be quite a leap to the real world either way.