skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm gonna definitely buy this. The library looks good also it comes with 2 controllers!
Higher minimum wage means the robotics revolution happens faster.
Work on projects that you are passionate about. Work together with peers, get help when you are stuck and help when they are stuck. Be playful, do not be afraid of making mistakes and do not focus on perfection.

I warmly recommend Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt and Alex Martelli’s lecture “Good Enough is Good Enough!” from EuroPython 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHG9FRSlPxw

More notes on learning: https://www.simongriffee.com/what/learning/
Slow relative to that quarter of a second it takes to swipe a magstripe.
ETOPS originally meant "Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards". Just a way to get approval to fly planes with only two engines over large bodies of water, with rules specifying how far they can be from the nearest airport where they could land in case of an emergency.
It's not only the technical size that's the problem. It's the phycological complexity of the software that strays people away from it, and the filesize is an indicator for that. It tells me that the developers aren't opposed to add any feature they feel like, creating overengineered and bloated software.
Google is known to be against new and safe technologies. Google Finance still uses Flash, and Android has the worst IPv6 support despite it being based on Linux. What's your point?
I've been using tmux for years and I have no idea what "control center mode" even means :D
The medium changes, the message stays the same.

* One should be careful to avoid the trap of using fiction as an escape from reality.

* One's behavior can be influenced by the stories.

* Stories allow one to experience another's life vicariously. Make sure they are equipped to understand and handle the experiences and pains of that life.
AWS will give each VPC a /56, and each subnet a /64

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ipv6-support-for-ec2-in...

Again, the thing I would like to see is being able to either peer only ipv6 for VPCs, or have a VPC that is ipv6 only. That to me will greatly increase flexibility and simplicity if I'm ok with an ipv6-only deployment
You have to remember that the guy's other option in this example is not working at all, and getting no money. He demonstrably prefers the working situation, by doing it. It's of no risk to him and he can back out at any time.

Edit: I also think your expectations of relative difficulty in finding new work and doing it might be the result of minimum wage and other legally imposed on boarding costs. There would, for example, be a much more fluid market of sign spinning jobs with no minimum wage or employment regulations which for some reason want to designate people "employees" with "rights."
Totally agree. Would love to see something like this.
When I was in grad school I (briefly) worked on a rendering engine based on this concept. It was trying to do ray tracing for an entire scene in real-time (original work would've been circa 2003, mine around 2006). With dynamic content.

The algorithm was, roughly, to render 16x16 pixels at random in the scene. If the variance in colors was low, you're done. If it's high, you cut it in half (kd-tree). Pick a region at random and a random 16x16 pixels and render them. If it's low variance you're good, otherwise split. Eventually things like a wall would have maybe 4 regions describing it, though taking up a large portion of the final image. You repeat this random selection and rendering continuously. There was also a way to merge regions should the scene change and they have a similar color though I've forgotten the details.

It was quite fast on commodity hardware from 2004/2005.
Exploitative employment can be defined as one being paid much less than one's time is worth. So the 'slightly less bad' assessment of the exploitative employment is incorrect because having all of the time at full value is better than selling some for lesser value.
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I know one person who creates as complex solutions as possible to any kind of programming problems. And it has bad impact on business and projects. So, I want to know if someone knows any kind of questions or tests or code examples which I can show to that person and see what decisions he will take.
Well Haswell is 168 integer + 168 FP.
This. What's unfortunate is that depending on what narrative you subscribe to around minimum wage, it can sound like an obviously good thing, or an obviously bad thing. It sounds great that you want to increase the wages of workers by increasing the minimum wage. It sounds awful when you want to exclude certain individuals from the job market by increasing minimum wages and making it against the law for low skilled workers to get jobs. The cold hard fact is that is that no matter your intention, you can't get one without the unintended consequences of the other. So yes you'll get an increase in wage for certain individuals, but you'll also exclude out of the market those who cannot yet produce at that rate. It's sad but true.
Good. Wish I could have been there to see the faces of the scammers as their phone lines blow up.
You need to document it better. Right now this just looks like a side project that is forgotten.

Nothing against you, but good documentation is necessary for acknowledgement and adoption.
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This project doesn't change that. The agents still only get screenshots of the game as far as I understand.

However I think this approach is bad. Machine vision is a separate problem from reinforcement learning. You shouldn't need to be able to do both well. Machine vision consumes a ton of processing power and researcher time in figuring out the hyperparameters. And all it's doing is figuring out information that's already in memory like the location of various objects and the score. It really limits what can be done. E.g. the famous atari playing AIs by deepmind were limited to no memory and only knowing the last few frames, because backpropagating through thousands of frames was too expensive.

Because of the way NNs work, it's trivial to separate out the machine vision into a separate module. So if you have a good RNN reinforcement learning system, you can easily add a machine vision learning system to it later if you need.
There already is an excellent re-release of Chrono Trigger that is almost as good as playing it the original way: the version for the DS. The version of FF6 released on the GBA is heavily compromised (lower resolution, music and sound not nearly the same). I'm not sure if that's the actual reason, but it's why I'm glad they did it.
Where on the site because I searched the site and found none ?
Yeah but IQ are notoriously inaccurate and in no way a similar trait as height.

Measuring height is an objective biological measurement.
IQ is a measure of a state of consciousness with so many different confounding factors.

This is a Nature vs Nurture question and you're going 100% all in on the Nature side of the argument....some sort of inherent genetic IQ predisposition.

Saying one has a permanant IQ is equivalent to saying mexicans inherently like to steal hubcabs.

When it comes to measures of IQ and other states of consciousness environment plays a massive role.

Google "labeling theory" and "Motivation theory".

IQ tests are proven to have so many counfounding factors that they're not taken seriously.

For example:
1> Groups exposed to abstract reasoning problems during school or prep courses do way better on IQ tests...

2> IQ is also shown to increase as people get older....

3>Not to mention going to university is shown to INCREASE one's score on IQ tests....

So how accurate of a test is that?

The reason it's outlawed is because it's essentially stereotyping.

It's a bullshit oversimplified view of how the brain works, and factually incorrect and Nazi-ish.

We can have an oversimplified filtering system, a single test that determines peoples futures.......or we can put people in an environment like university where education and learning is encouraged...and see if they meet their genetic potential.

I think the second way is less insane.
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I am almost positive I saw IPv6 in the release notes for the latest Google Wifi app update, am I crazy?
honest question, how interested is the academia/industry in deep learning libraries & game engines integrations? I've worked on unreal and tensorflow the last semester, and I found out that there aren't any existing integrations. I will probably work on a plugin, but I wanted to know if there is any interest?

The way I see it, having hooks into the engines themselves helps with what the article talks about - not needing to go through VNCs or other _glue_ to get realtime data. It could potentially send the framebuffers themselves directly from the game/simulation and tie in the actions back to the game/simulation. And using framebuffers is just one direction, we could instead stream the co-ords/the current payoff/etc.

Also, having such plugins would help with the adoption in both directions - games now have an always updating/learning AI (might need a network connection + cloud backend), and researchers can have training/testing environments.
I worked under Marissa at Yahoo, and am happy to state (with my real name attached to this comment) that

1. She was a good person, and went out of the way at times to make employees feel good.

2. She was a terrible boss, who would pass edicts like "our cubicle walls will be cut to 50% of their tomorrow", and pass it off as "because natural light is better for you".

3. I believed as an employee that she cherry-picked data to support pet beliefs like hiring at selected schools, banning remote work and closing satellite offices.

4. She had a preference for ex-Googlers/ex-Google APMs

She would definitely bring positive change in terms of the scandals, but any competent HR department that has the company's long term interests in mind can do that, no?
Thank you, that is what i am talking about. I don't mind trying my chance by investing a few K in a good idea, that can get me astronomical return.
For programming languages.

1) Read the documentation
2) Sometimes, do a tutorial.
3) Build a small project and ask questions via Twitter/IRC/Slack along the way.
nVidia are actively investing in RISC-V, which gives them a fairly good entry point into this market. Its a decent start.
There's a lot of interest I would have if the controllers used the same connectors as the original OEM SNES controllers. I have no need for a Mini as I still have my SNES and nearly every game being re-released here, but I would love to get my hands on some brand new SNES controllers without having to continually refurbish my near 25-year old original ones, or refurbishing used ones.
It's not about what innovate service a university can provide: it is about what kind of innovation the university can help empower its students to make.
I'm an iOS developer and I mostly love iOS design and user experience but one OS that, imo, is better is MeeGo.

I used the N9 briefly for 3 months back in '12 or '13 and other than the ecosystem issue, the OS was intuitive and simple to use.

That being said, I'm slowly moving onwards to React Native projects so hopefully in the near future, my paths will re-intertwine again.
Oh, sorry: I meant 16-bit software (which does not run flawlessly on 64-bit Windows but does run on 32-bit Window).
Once you're in the club, you have to work really really hard to get kicked out of it.
They're doing this to the Switch too. Nintendo is requiring GameStop retail locations to display empty Switch cartons as if they represented in-store stock, when there is no such stock to be found.
2 or 3 seconds feels like an eternity compared to the old "swipe and done" you used to have with credit cards.
You support, and vote for, universal healthcare and advanced and subsidized public transportation systems, right?
I wouldn't call Google free either.
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That's precisely the point.
Yes. I like to game sitting on my couch, and not having to fuss with technology to make it all work.
Independent living communities controlled this process using an automated registration system. In my living group I was elected to the position democratically, attended a training seminar, and passed down the knowledge to my successor. I hope they continue to give the students the same autonomy.

But I have my doubts.
http://pilot2021.com/index.html
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> Forcing people to use anything is never a good way to promote innovation.

Of course it is. That's how innovation happens. They are focused on overcoming a constraint of the system they operate within. In this case, it will be to get around the limitations of the private IPv4 network, or to make the upcoming IPv6 network easier and more appealing to use.

Most innovations are to overcome some sort of limitation, whether that is with a man-made system or just the laws of nature as we currently understand them. Unbounded innovation hardly ever occurs and usually results in some shitty mobile game.

Now that's not to say MIT IS&T isn't behaving extraordinarily shitty here. But this won't stifle innovation, just refocus it. Whether that's towards a more worthy goal is certainly up for debate.
I think the quote comes from a particular perspective: non-technical managers buy "solutions." These are the only "people" that matter, because they're the only "people" usually allowed to spend "real money." (Engineering teams might get a corporate credit card, but these are for the <$5000 purchases that corporations don't bother caring about.)
Ahahahahhaha.. Oh wait, you're serious. AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA ahhahahha ha.

Seriously though, "government" is the attempt to manage human wickedness. It's a "not quite possible solution to a not quite solvable problem."

Gandhi said (I'm paraphrasing) that we cannot make a system so good that it relieves the people in it from the effort and duty to be good. Good neighbors, good citizens, good people.

In the Tao Te Ching we read that laws only arise once the people have turned away from "the Way" (goodness, virtue).

I agree that we must constrain our worst behaviour in these historical times, but the urge to control others is a symptom of the very illness it seeks to treat.
I learned bash primarily for practical reasons (ie. navigating in Linux, parsing files, searching for text) and nothing more. Definitely not from a DevOps or SysAdmin point of view as I'm sure fits the background of many commenters in this thread.

If your use case is pragmatic in nature, I would recommend my post on the topic: http://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-...
45 seconds is a ridiculous amount of time. I wouldn't use it either. It would put a big bite in a cashiers items per minute figure too, so they would hate it.
You can also hire someone from anywhere in the world to transcribe songs for you and learn your heart out. As a yuppie with a heavy interest in indie music living in a city still filling to the brim with music this is literally the best time to be a musician.
If they just changed "Free" to "Ad Supported" I think most people here would be happy.
Well, an average student isn't going to do anything interesting. The MIT I know works to enable its most resourceful and enterprising students, and is not satisfied with just enabling "being average".
I wrote a thing for this! People should read it! Focus is on usage, not scripting.

What Kai Thinks Every Developer Should Know About the Shell

https://github.com/tenebrousedge/shell_guide
ET dev here.

ET is primarily made for IP changes and also because the
kernel/router will sometimes kill stale connections, and it's not possible to send keep-alives if your laptop is asleep.

There is no lag compensation because ET is not a terminal emulator, it's only a remote shell. I cannot create predictive letters and undo them reliably (passing backspace commands to the terminal sometimes does not undo the last letter). Lag compensation would need to be implemented by a terminal emulator such as hyper.js.
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All my reading suggested SE was considering an FF6 remake after the FF7 one.
To expand on this point, it is absolutely not the norm that even very serious vulnerabilities in web browsers, operating systems and very widely used libraries have published exploits.

There are qualified security research teams that develop targeted exploit implementations for exotic and very impactful vulnerabilities. They do not need (or want) to publish the exploits because a) that's a valuable product and intellectual property and b) turnkey weaponization reduces the half life of the vulnerabilities (and therefore income potential).

The people who publish exploit implementations generally do so because they have no interest in seeing the vulnerability flourish and because they would rather have industry fame than a short term payday. If you want to improve your credibility in the security industry, identifying high-impact security vulnerabilities (i.e. CVE worthy) is enough. If you want to earn money by dealing in vulnerabilities, you generally want to develop exploits for them (or give them away for relative pennies on the dollar).

This is a roundabout way of saying that the absence of easily available exploits does not mean that software is secure. On the contrary, it could be an extremely high value target. There are different incentives at play - on one hand, merely releasing details of a vulnerability is enough for recognition, while the most lucrative payments go to weaponized vulnerabilities.

If I were to, say, identify a series of two or three vulnerabilities that can be theoretically chained to achieve remote code execution on an iOS device, I could do one of two things with that. I could report it to Apple and receive up to $200k, per their recently developed disclosure program. I could also sell this for 2 - 5 times that much with a complete exploit. The first option is a great payday and comes with (effectively) never needing to interview again. The second option results in a much better payday (life-changing, perhaps) with essentially no recognition.

If you can consistently churn those out, the second option is probably better if you're optimizing for wealth. But realistically speaking neither party is exceptionally incentivized to publish an exploit that you could just find and download.
Totally. Both things happen.
I made a tool to help making notes while studying.
Aim was to make something which allows you to:

Add text and images quickly, so you can type along with a lecture, or by copying and pasting text, html or pdf from documents you are reading. At the same time it must be easy to add and scale images.

Tidy up and restructure your note. Just typing your notes is not enough. You also need to think about it, and restructuring or tidying up your notes is a great way to do that. The tool you use should not make you redo or rewrite the notes completely. It should just be click and dragging without messing up the formatting.

Show structure in multiple ways (colors, sizes, shapes, connections etc). Making notes in a text editor is limited. You need something that does not just scroll up and down, but also left and right. Something that looks more like a diagram or a mindmap, to which you can also add connections, labels, arrows, and colors. Having notes that look more like infographics helps me alot to remember or retrieve what is in them.

Have overview and detail in the same map without to much clutter. I myself like having notes on a topic in one document, but it must still be easy to show the structure and the details.

I am pretty pleased about how all this works in Breakdown Notes (my project). If you would like to check it out I suggest you take a look at an example map about english grammar:
https://www.breakdown-notes.com/makemap/load/grammar
I think that, first you have to learn how to take courses on how to learn on how to learn, then you may progress to taking course on how to learn how to learn.
I almost always only learn things that I can immediately apply afterwards, because otherwise I find I don't retain enough useful knowledge that I have to go through the same learning resources again by the time I need the knowledge.

I have two learning modes. When I first come across a new topic, e.g. hadoop, I will go broad and skim as many learning materials as I can to get an idea of the lay of the land. Once I feel confident I have a handle on the major parts and technologies involved, I'll switch to the second learning mode and work through the subjects / technologies one by one by searching online for "best way to learn X", figuring out what the common denominator is, and then working my way through that while taking notes in onenote.

The note-taking is crucial for retention as well as keeping track of salient points (it's all in a onenote notebook, so I can find something relevant again even if I don't recall the particular book it was in).

What I wish existed was a sort of wikipedia for learning, keeping track of every subject / technology and giving a reference to the best learning materials in a crowd-sourced way. Right now learning sites focus on their own content, but it's not always the best, and it is not crowd-sourced. The best hits for learning resources are usually stackoverflow or quora links, but neither are the right format for such a thing.
I think FOSS had the most early success with older hardware that was relatively inexpensive and still fit for its purpose. They often made excellent developer machines for people who wanted to try a Unix-like system for the first time.

Tablets, OTOH, have been becoming obsolete within a year or so of use and don't seem to have much value after that. This might change now that the pace of change has started to stabilize and there are more tablet Chromebooks starting to make it onto the market. I wouldn't be surprised if a good FOSS solution starts to emerge once tablet-like Chromebooks start to gain momentum.

For an alternative way of thinking, maybe there already are some decent FOSS solutions for tablets. There are a lot of actively developed third party Android distributions for tablets and ChromiumOS is pretty powerful.
You can continue to use screen with ET and not have to worry about disconnecting/reconnecting.
That's a pretty good Fermi calculation!
Why would they? The internet is the grid. There is no such thing as a "internet generation" device, like there is for electric power.
The term "monopoly on violence" refers specifically to legitimate violence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
A long time ago someone from Google Maps told me they did something like this with their tiles when everything was a pre-rendered image.
This has worked on flights to/from particularly religious countries. I got the whole exit row on one flight from Poland, the guys already seated actually asked to move.

1. Wear a black metal band t-shirt

This has only worked once:

1. Teach the toddler in the middle seat on the first flight to speak a little English
2. Her father will be so happy and relaxed, he will let her eat the overly sweet BA dessert
3. She will be sick all over both adults
4. No-one wants to sit next to the sick-smelling guy on the next flight.
Does iOS support VPNs? I've never used an iDevice before.
Yes, but the 'why' of his preference is important here. Preferring something to avoid pain or death doesn't lead to net positive transactions, in general.

If I ask you whether you want your leg or your left hand cut off (and I have the power to make either happen) you can have a preference and still lose.