skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The real answer to the question is: they don't care and they don't need to explain anything
It depends. AIs can do some things much better than nearly all humans. Twiddly little micromanagement for example. Total Annihilation (and it's successors like Supreme Commander) do this. The AI will send out a constant stream of micromanaged harassers constantly order to annoy the human opponent to death.

Where the AIs tend to be very bad is in long term thinking and overall strategy.

Blizzard's AI in Starcraft generally plays like a slightly more aggressive but novice human. It's more fun than the TA AI, but not terribly strong once you understand the game mechanics.
When I got married, as part of our pre-marital counseling, we had to take a personality test. One question I got rated as a "2" (on a scale of 1-5), but I couldn't figure out what the question meant.

Turns out that in our world, it's product lifecycle. 1 is initial conception, 2 is prototype, 3 is rollout, 4 is major enhancement, and 5 is maintenance. My personality is that I find maintenance boring.

But that isn't necessarily true of all programmers...
Stan is Turing complete or you mean.. inception??
So long as what you do does not affect me directly, you should be allowed the liberty to do as you may, even if it puts your life (and only yours) at risk.
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I too hope that cooperative minority governance becomes the norm, unfortunately we've been fed for far too long that EU style cooperative governance is "weak" and undesirable.

I was referring to where In ranked voting where the paradox was cyclic preferences, Paul mentions that strawberry would win on averages, but yet the majority of voters would have preferred chocolate over strawberry.
The Echo of a Trojan Horse
Your points all touch on human nature, and no, that never changes over time.
This will be good for games moving forward due to the meta changing for players as the AI adapts to their tactics and vice versa. Lessons learned from this can then be applied to other areas. And as an added bonus it creates more interest in AI research.
Here's some research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18555116

In short, only a few religions have anything to say against being a donor at death, and a few have something against being a recipient from a dead person.

If you think your religion might affect your decision to be a donor, check with a trusted authority figure and make sure.
Customizing VMs with Cloud-Init on Nutanix AHV – Part 1
Samsung Recalling Almost 2.8M Washers Due to Impact Injuries
He's not talking about mixing styles, he's saying preference within style doesn't correlate with price, and I absolutely believe that holds with whiskey (cough whistle pig cough).

The difference between wine and whiskey is how few options you get within a style in whiskey tasting compared to wine. The options are small enough in whiskey that an amateur on a budget can memorize all of the flavor profiles relatively easily.

But that doesn't change the point that blind tasting whiskeys can give you interesting non-price correlated results.
Hackernews fetishes articles from managerial programmer types who have come down from the mountain of business mediocrity to tell all people with creativity and passion that it's getting in their way.
I might try it again, it got to the point where they were visiting the man that was a sympathiser and I switched off. It felt a bit like Starship Troopers (that isn't bad I suppose) but I just wasn't captivated at the time.
That seems to be the type of answer they too believe to be appropiate. UsIng hipster day of week infrastructure like dc/os.

And how about a normal infrastructure? Like OpenStack and Ansible or dedicated servers? We can't have a database dictate our infrastrucure like that, but more to the point: the fact that it thinks it needs to shows a worrisome lack of competence and sense of responsibility.

Its a database. It should run everywhere rather than require exotic tools and parts that likely wont be maintained or be compatible in 3 to 5 years.

To put it simply: we have more and other challenges that actually pay the bills -- for a database we should feel like we can install it into any setup.
The problem with wine is that the mass market products really do vary primarily in sweetness, spiciness, and viscosity. There are hundreds of different brands, but not really all that many variables to play with. What's worse is that wine distributors are expert marketers and cover the price spectrum, so you can pay a lot of money for something that is essentially a mass market product.

But go to an extremely nice restaurant sometime --- my revelation happened at Alinea in Chicago --- and get a tasting menu with a wine pairing. Clearly it is not the case that all wine falls within the parameters of mass market wine. You'll get glasses of wine that blow your head off. Frustratingly: they will probably be "conventional" wines: I still remember the Pinot Noir they served me, but I've had no luck reproducing any of that experience by shopping for Pinot Noirs at any part of the price spectrum at wine stores. The wines a place like Alinea sells are very difficult to source.

You're starting to see some of the same effect in American whiskey: the so-called "craft" distiller movement is really just an excuse for branding firms to stake out different points on the whiskey product price spectrum, and all of them taste either like Makers, VOB, or something in between.
everyone has a hobby -- i trade stocks and have done pretty good for myself. They both picked up a few percentage points from their after-earnings lows. Either they get bought, go kaput, or soar again a-la AMD in their most recent restructuring (selling HQ and leasing it back, paying down debt,etc.); either way I win: I win because this is fun, and I win if the shares rise.
Nice to see more balanced sites like oneangrygamer on here.
Well, ostensibly, given enough time, we'd end up with a single code base, where the modular add-ons are really just about user interface, similar to how every county in the U.S. does their own ballot layout. In the old days, pen and paper could be considered to be a single code base. If you get the basic thing to do right, it's a choice, not a necessity, to have different code bases that do the same damn thing.

So eventually it would be less expensive than closed source, to implement and maintain. Basically wealthier and more ideologically committed states would subsidize that reference implementation, and the rest of the country, should they adopt that open source reference, would get to use the code more cheaply.

From a global perspective, there's a pretty decent chance a huge chunk of the code is already done - i.e. it could use the Linux kernel with a bunch of its more extraneous modules disabled. A handful of math libraries. A handful of UI libraries. And then a code signing mechanism from stem to stern. There's a lot more to it than that, but code wise, a bunch of it might already be written, the work is not innovating ducks but getting them in rows, and documenting it in a way that it's reproducible and ideally only boots up when it's exactly conforming to the spec.

Closed source with multiple competing companies nationally by definition means many different code bases all in different maintenance states. It really is wheel reinvention over and over again.
All of the stuff that comes before, after and in-between the programming part is what's exciting imo. The idea phase is exciting. The planning phase is exciting. The thrill of seeing users use what you have programmed is exciting. Being able to iterate upon user feedback is exciting. Watching something that you programmed grow into a useful and productive app is exiting.

I would be bored to death if my days only involved programming.
I prefer freedom, but freedom comes with responsibility for your choices. That means no subsidized or free health care when you make poor choices.

Conversely, that is why socialism inherently limits freedom. As soon as I am responsible for your "needs" (health, food, childcare), I will start demanding that you make choices I feel are good ones (good diet, productive career so you can provide for yourself, good family planning choices, etc.).
I mean it was a demo of a product they created using Lambda and the IOT framework. It was a working game, it just wasn't very fun. :)

The code was on GitHub but I can't seem to find it.
The quote from C. S. Lewis about a "tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims" is the worst kind of tyranny is very appropriate. There is a strong difference between being told what we should eat vs what we can eat.
Whoa cool but the build is failing tisk tisk.

A big issue I ran into with stan even with advi was scaling to large datasets since it (and Eigen) are single threaded. Would Edward answer all my prayers?

When is Riemannian HMC going to arrive?
So what this proves is that diet soda is not nearly as good as "sugar" soda and that Universities like experimenting on their staff and students...
I don't much care for soda, but if my throat needed it I'd like to be able to buy it. Diet soda only yields benefit for people with diabetes/pre... Other than those people, it's worse thanks to all the extra additives. I really don't enjoy people telling other people that they're not being healthy (:so we'll force you to be:)
Interesting project...seems like the main competitor here is Ionic? Not sure how to go about identifying and comparing the strengths/weaknesses, but that should come with some time.

Hope this is captured somewhere else, and not just buried in this article...

>> Unfortunately, we won't be able to continue our work on AI (Aurelia Interface). After careful consideration and review, we realized that AI was going in the wrong direction and didn't have the versatility or the proper architecture to handle our vision of a UX Framework. With Aurelia UX, we're rebooting our efforts.
FWIW, it's better to look at the original article (and the dev's extensive comments), rather than the submitted blog post:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/11/02/rimworld-code-an...

-- I say this in the interested of focusing on the technical detail that RPS brought up, rather than the gender-politics-flame-war that has arisen. Not that I agree with RPS's judgment, but I appreciate that a game journalism site actually looked at source code to make an argument -- even if I don't agree with the argument.

Though I'm a bit biased. I love RimWorld -- it's like a vastly simplified, more accessible Dwarf Fortress, which sounds like faint praise but is meant as a compliment to both DF and to RW.
A librarian is on trial in Moscow for lending “extremist” Ukrainian books
The Cognitive Upside to an Extended Adolescence
If you slow it down, it would be apparent to you too. High-level human players do this kind of thing to, just not this fast. But effectively, it's watching where the attacking unit is facing and it knows when the next attack is coming, so it knows what the viable targets are and can react when it becomes obvious.

(it's also possible the system is receiving information directly from the game engine, but it's definitely possible to figure this out from nothing but the information on screen)
There's nothing wrong with a 2-disk vdev. Mirrored instead of RAIDZ is probably the best choice for "smaller servers."
I don't. There is a whole booming industry right now in relabelling mass produced spirits and marking them up.

Now older whiskey for instance is going to always cost more than younger, and its usually going to be better, but you can get similarly aged whiskeys produced with the same or similar mash bills from the exact same facility that vary dramatically in price.
I'm with you 100%, just 2 years older. It's fun, and it's a huge privilege, especially when you take the historical view of human work. I don't want to move up a management ladder. I want to program until I retire.
Technology in the sense that it was a hard coded variable, but it was picked arbitrarily.
Oh: strong agree, especially for American whiskey, where there's an extremely drinkable "well whiskey" price range, and an extremely memorable and excellent "boutique" price range (taken up mostly by Buffalo antiques), and virtually nothing worth paying for in the middle, where everyone shops.

(What's worse is that a lot of brands want to claim a price in the boutique price range --- like WhistlePig --- and so you really have to know what you're shopping for if you want to pay extra for it).

Sorry, Ron! I'm knee-jerk about people comparing wine tasting to beer and whiskey tasting. :)
How to Build an MVP for Your Consumer Focused Mobile App in 3 Steps
Here's your monitor announcement: https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/28/apple-standalone-displays/

It has been written about many times (about Apple's TV business and a rumored Apple TV with an actual screen) that screens, whether monitor or TV are actually very dumb, it makes no sense whatsoever for today's Apple to be in the business of making dumb screens, while their main business is value-added products.

So, they passed on the opportunity to make the 'Apple monitor' to their main supplier of LCD screens, LG. Fair enough.
> If prescription anti-depressants worked, wouldn't Americans be the happiest people ever?

Just like depression is more complicated than "not happy enough", anti-depressants are more complicated than "drugs that make people happier".
See also https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/21/fbi-jail-hai...

One woman falsified 34,000 drug tests: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174269211/mass-crime-lab-scand...
I see it just as an acknowledgement that I might not want there to be any possible cross-purposes of incentives in my own health.

Doctor's don't need to consciously change their behavior for there to be a difference in care. It's just that incentives are like really awesomely powerful things.
Do you accept it as a compromise for a state subsidised healthcare system?

"I want free/subsidised healthcare" and "I want to gradually erode my health without realising it OR incredibly cheaply OR because in helpless to not do so" are normally incompatible.
Hm, like he wrote it, it seems to be the other way around

"The Pedantic Code Construction Contract (PC3) is an evolution of the GitHub Fork + Pull Model, and the ZeroMQ C4 process..."
Absolutely, I thought the same thing – it was the longest of the episodes, and although you see that text message at the end, it's still open-ended – it might be the first episode that could be revisited at some point?
I wonder how many people there agree with such blocks, etc.

I am a crypto-fascist myself, and I can understand and respect this kind of stuff when we are talking about maintaining order of the law, and I also imagine that a big % of Turkey (maybe even double digit) want this.

We simply have a different culture here, where freedom > *. They are very very different there, and making judgements (such as "nobody would ever want twitter to be blocked") can be very wrong.
Wait, what the what? Michael Schur wrote that Black Mirror episode?

I wonder if they were literally inspired by MeowMeowBeenz.
Should minors be able to purchase alcohol unfettered and untaxed?
Integrity for sale.
Cool. I knew about Panini as a grammarian, but don't think I knew the part you mention about context-free grammars.
You're welcome! I live "near" Austin in that I live in Red Rock (no no not Round Rock).

Vaping is something I do A LOT of while post-processing photos! Do you perhaps have a photographic interest?
For those who can't use the "web" workaround to see the submitted wsj.com article, here's the WaPo version (and FWIW, the WaPo deserves huge credit for being the first big media outlet to scrutinize the Rolling Stone article -- they even found the 3 friends of the purported victim that the Rolling Stone didn't even bother to identify or contact):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/jury-finds-re...
Programming is beautiful!

I'm writing an authorization expression parser that generates a Validation applicative functor (whose errors form a semi-group, so cool!). The users will only notice that the error messages when they fail authorization will be descriptive of what they're missing. The developers love it because they get a rich, descriptive language. And it makes me happy because it's actually not a lot of code.

If I had written it the boring way there would probably be more code, be less useful, and I would've tried to find some way to punt the work onto someone else.

Beautiful code is not just a way to check of your *-ility's. It's also inspirational. And being inspired leads to creative solutions which amplify the value you can generate. Sometimes the boring solutions lead to byzantine, institutional code whose intent, purpose, and function remains a mystery.

For me clarity and utility stem not from documentation and mountains of tests. It comes from being succinct, clear, and precise. At least the author and I agree on one point: simplicity is key.
Yes, it is called Railroading. The prosecutors have a prewritten story and bus you through the system.
Well when you consider the student loan you're technically not paying for it, the government is loaning you the money to do it, with no expectation that you will pay them back.
Keep in mind that with EC2 you're billed hourly so the fastest a 70 cpu-hour job could finish on m3.medium for $0.70 is 1 hour, and that's ignoring setup time, etc.

Meanwhile, on Lambda, you can actually run 1600 60s jobs (or 27 CPU-hours) in 3 minutes. This is inclusive of setup time, job submission, stragglers, etc. [1]

Of course, if you've got sustained load, it's cheaper to go with spot instances, but the "occasionally I need a buttload of compute," model is well-served by Lambda.

[1] http://ericjonas.com/pywren.html
Indeed, I worked for a financial company that had a 90-day default purge on all e-mails and chat. You could drag some e-mails to a retention folder ( limited in overall size ) but as far as I recall that only protected them for another finite span of time.

Anything that needed a longer persistence had to be typed-up into a document and stored in Sharepoint, which was more manageable in terms of legal discovery than individual e-mails.
If You Don't Vote, Why Should Anyone Take You Seriously?
No, not pissed, incredulous. Their luck is theirs, mine is mine. That didn't stop me observing the situation though, observing that the policy settings pursued by western govts have lead to a crazy asset price bubble while wages - even for people as privileged as my partner and I - have stayed relatively stagnant.

I'm not an idiot, I know that I'm doing well, but that almost makes me point for me: if a household like mine can't afford to buy a basic asset like housing, what happens to everyone beneath our household in the income scale? (Rhetorical question btw, we all know what happens. Also before anyone says it, yes we could reallocate spending, that is 100% not my point)
Think about the headache of remaking the VPS from scratch, rehosting everything on it and having to reset any password that is shared with another environment.

Also consider the cost of dealing with the data falling into the wrong hands. Even data that is not personal can hurt you financially in the long-term.

The cost of running security tools is minimal when you take it all into account.
> I'd say large swaths of the populace definitely are not, but we're all responsible for making our own happiness. No one owes each of us anything.

That may be the case, but the way society functions in general, social norms, trust, community, and the like have a massive impact on individual happiness. We "make" our happiness within that framework. Individual choices and failings are part of, say, the misery associated with opiate epidemics, but the conditions for them don't occur in healthy societies.

> We definitely have the platform and infrastructure to be happy.

But do we, to a greater extent than ever before in human history? Does social media make people happier? Cellphones? Modern family law and norms? An economy that encourages people to move across the country in search of new jobs? Are industrial societies more or less happy than agricultural societies? Postindustrial societies? Is our 'infrastructure' for 'better' lives really that which promotes happiness more than any other in human history?

> What do you call robots and computers that operate at orders of magnitudes of efficiency?

Incredible achievements based on the hard work and genius that have revolutionized the modern economy and made many things possible that were once impossible.

That doesn't mean they make life better (depending on your definition of better) or people happier (relative to what?)

A 'robber baron' was rich enough to do whatever they wanted. They never had to do a single menial chore in their lives, if they did not want to. No dishwashing, no food preparation, no clothes folding, no babysitting, no grass cutting. They didn't have a boss who could tell them what to do and threaten them with the loss of their livelihood. They could work as little or as much as they wanted, with no effect on their lifestyle unless it was truly extravagant. They had unlimited, truly free time.

I don't know that I'd be happier in that case, but sitting here now I feel pretty confident I could exchange Netflix, Hacker News, my cell phone, and transcontinental flights for that in a heartbeat. Maybe even advanced medical care.

I don't want to hold robber barons up as living a lifestyle we should aspire to. I'm simply saying that yes, in many ways, their lives were better in simply material terms than the way the average person lives today; it is nice to have a dishwasher, but it is even better to not have to wash dishes. It is nice to not be a chimney-sweep, but unlimited free time is better than 40-80 hours a week devoted to keeping yourself employed.
> Through the end of the year

better than nothing I guess.
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The boring stuff should be automated away, leaving only the fun parts.

I try to make the compiler do the boring stuff.
You didn't even get into the meat of the episode.

Edit Note: It is a very front-heavy(not sure what word to use there) episode.
Sometimes the government needs to step in. (in no particular order:) lead paint, DDT, opioids, microbeads, antibacterial soaps, ...

Sometimes the government gets it wrong, of course: prohibition, pot, ...

I don't know where sugary drinks fall on this scale, but they're definitely on it.
It is an interesting dilemma, isn't it? One I think about quite a bit. One way to view this dilemma is that we recognize that we have tendencies as part of our human psychology to do things that are not in our long term best interests. We're not perfectly rational actors. But since we can discover these tendencies, we have the opportunity to put into practice habits and conventions that prevent us from falling for our own foibles.

I think your phrase "protects us from ourselves" is apt. I struggle a bit with the "limited agency" aspect of it as it sounds like it could have negative connotations, though it's accurate in a strict sense.

I think this is related to us looking out for each other. Where's the line between limiting someone's agency in some malicious sense and honestly trying to be a good person? Can we look out for people we don't know personally? How does this work when we're looking out for the community as a whole?

I think this is a good question. If you choose to down vote, I'd appreciate it if you'd also take the time to reply in a comment.
The part I like the most is refactoring -- once the problem is solved, the requirements are all completely defined -- going back and making it as clean and organized as possible.
I agree that an even split seems really attractive on an interpersonal level, but I've heard/read enough horror stories about splitting evenly and having one founder exit after being partially vested, or stay in the game but never fully commit, etc that I'm pretty interested in ways to take the split seriously.