skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always a good time to be a nerd. Just slowly at a continually faster pace, thanks to the work of other nerds.
I use uBlock Origin plus uMatrix but I have to say that it's probably only for people who are really serious about security. It breaks nearly every site by default.
Destiny 2's netcode may be an engineering marvel that saves them some money on dedicated servers, but it sure undermines the game experience. It was a problem in Destiny 1 also - people exploited the P2P nature of the netcode & design flaws to cheat at multiplayer content and in exclusive content like raids to harvest rewards. People would manually firewall off their PvP opponents' IP addresses to harvest free wins, and in the PvE content they'd do things like have the current host disconnect to break bosses' AI and make them easy to kill. The P2P netcode also results in enemies teleporting around and glitching in difficult content, which is INCREDIBLY frustrating.

In 2 I haven't seen as many cheats of this variety, but they remain possible. The real problem is that the multiplayer is a trainwreck: Loading into towns and open world areas can fail because the P2P host's connection is bad, and any time you travel more than a few hundred meters in the open world, all the other players vanish because you get booted to a new host. In practice this means that you don't get to interact with other players for more than a few minutes, AND you can only bring two other friends into the world with you due to the limited party sizes.

As an engineer I can totally understand these constraints but the game experience just sucks. I can swap over to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and get dropped into a 100 player match after about 10 seconds in queue, but joining a 4v4 PvP match in Destiny 2 takes upwards of a minute. The game's multiplayer aspects just feel incredibly dated. Despite this, the content is all tuned for multiplayer - the strikes and heroic public events are nearly impossible to complete solo, and the main sources of powerful gear (nightfalls, trials, the raid) require 3-6 players with good connections that can stick around for an hour+ without getting disconnected from each other.
Haaaa, YES!
You're assuming a binary extant/extinct dichotomy. That may work on the level of an individual species, but not on the colony level. The colony is simply attempting to propagate itself. So the utility at a given time could be given by something that measures the current size of the colony, the size of its descendants, and some estimate of how much each colony will further propagate.
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> Uhh, because paying several hundred people for the 2-3 years to make a AAA game costs money

i took "why am i paying" to be a question about the value proposition. in that case the "business model" isn't terribly relevant. it's open question on why one would pay more for what seems to be less value (subjectively, of course).
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yes, if all of those circumstances are true, then it would be unfair to the accused (and should be punished accordingly).

however, it seems to me that journalists are being unusually careful about reporting these abuse allegations because of the exact pitfall you point out. some of the reports cite tens of sources (some named and some unnamed), so they're trying to play it safe when it comes to the reporting.

that's not to say that journalalists are infallible, but that they are taking precautions not to potentially destroy careers based on rumors alone.
Off topic, but I'm often puzzled and peeved by the characters that get used as apostrophes. The HN submission uses a standalone acute accent character (U+00B4), which renders with way too much spacing around it. The article itself uses a right single quotation mark (U+2019) in the page title and in the article body, but uses a genuine apostrophe (U+0027) in the author's name. The quotation mark at least renders more or less the same as an apostrophe would. The accent character must have been introduced by the HN poster using a misconfigured keyboard when they manually re-typed the title.
Bing at least claims to be. Is Bing enough worse that it isn't a usable alternative?
> This is one reason why most interviewing is a subjective clusterfuck (not just software, I suspect).

This is the thing, all OTHER interviewing doesn't do this, they do it by talking to the candidates. Damn, I am going to get out of development.
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First of all, if you have been on ycombinator for any length of time, you knew this would end up top reply, not downvoted.

Secondly, will this is wrong, the main alternative seems to be years of unreported abuse. The men (and it is mostly men) have had years to take these kinds of accusations seriously, and work towards an environment where should accusations could be handled fairly. They have failed at that goal.

While I am fear a small number of people may get falsely accused, the opening of the floodgates will, I hoped be a long term good.
> Are you arguing slavery prevents industrial resolutions?

> Didn't they coexist in some parts of the world?

The American Civil War is an example of the two coexisting in the same country
Nah, they'll probably "rebrand in order to harmonize on multiple vectors of international brand awareness and leverage strategic synergy among incipient blue-ocean markets" or some such, and then hire a bunch of high-priced consultants who will come up with something inspired like:

"Inprise"[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland#The_Inprise_years.2C_a...
Sometimes it isn't just career death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sargeant
Also not a good example. Individual fund managers, financiers, etc. often make individual correct (or lucky, sometimes) decisions. It's their ability to do that continuously for decades that's very much in doubt.
This is not a new observation, but it is a worthwhile one.

I ran across it in https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silve... in the form, "If you see a programmer trying to become indispensable, fire him." Followed by a note written 25 years later saying, "I have received more thanks for this piece of advice than anything else that I have said." (Both quotes paraphrased from memory.)
When it comes to climate science, I wish more people had at least a minimal idea of what is going on. For a simple summary of relevant data, see https://www.skepticalscience.com/ which has good summaries at a layman's level.

The thing that annoys me, and is exemplified even by this article in the title which is "World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity", is that media and many scientist themselves use a type of outrageous apocalyptic language when discussing climate change issues.

Taking what we know at its most extreme predictions does not lead to a world-ending i.e. catastrophic event by any stretch of the wildest of imaginations within the next 100 years.

We should use precise unemotional language so we can clearly communicate and effectively solve the problems in the public sphere.

Every time someone who doesn't accept climate change reads an article like this, then waits 25 years (as the article mentions) and see's the world has not ended and everything is continuing seemingly unchanged, they see it as confirmation that the whole field is a joke.

There are/will be real problems over the next century - such as costal cities needing to be evacuated, loss of biodiversity due to species extinction, and irreversible increased global temperatures which will lead to increased natural disasters such as droughts, fires, etc. And these will be greatly exacerbated in the 22nd century if we don't develop solutions now.

Finally, I think if we want to persuade the public and politicians, we need to show parameters that people care about. In this article they show metrics for ozone depletion, deforestation, and co2 emissions. But no one cares about that because it doesn't directly effect them at all, and is thus virtually meaningless to them. We need to show statistics that are relevant to human flourishing such as deaths/sickness due to climate change induced famine and disease. Homeloss due to climate change induced flooding and rising sea levels, lower rates of all types of innovation due to loss of biodiversity, etc.

It could be some organizations/individuals are taking the IMHO correct approach here, but if so, I haven't come across them yet.
What are we to do? Letting a suspected abuser remain in a position where they can abuse seems less than ideal as well.
I don't think Tesla is anywhere close to market dominance. Their problem may be more long-term survival than achieving a monopoly in my view.
I've heard Tesla and Apple actually generally don't pay that well (though my source is a few employees, so that may not be uniform across the company).

> ... but everyone has to follow their path, right?

That's the thing. I'm sure I could make more in salary from a larger company, but I'm addicted to autonomy, limited amounts of process, and having significant influence on what the company does and on its success.
> If the server doesn't broadcast the position of a player when it is impossible to see them, then the client can't hack to get their position.

It's peer2peer, there is no server. There's a server for exp, achievements, and loot, but for actual combat and player positions it's all p2p. Your client know the position of everyone else in the PVP arena. Arguably worse is it also knows the IP of everyone else in the PVP arena, so you don't even need to figure out how to crack the game just open wireshark and fire up your DOS attack of choice.
> I like new Firefox but if Firefox is removing search bar than address bar should take over all functionality from search bar and it doesn't.In search bar there is easy way to add new search engine with + sign and in address bar there isn't.

Where do you see the search bar being removed? I can't see any announcements, I don't think it's going away. Also, I don't think the combined bar is missing functionalities, at least not the one you're describing.

On Firefox Developer Edition 58, in the menu you can choose between :

Use the address bar for search and navigation

or

Add search bar in toolbar

This decides between combining the address bar and search bar into one, or having a separate address bar and search bar. You can also pick a keyword for each search engine.

Even if you decide to use the combined bar, I just tried adding "+ddg" keyword[1] on Duck Duck Go and type "+ddg test" and it searched for "test" on Duck Duck Go instead of my default search engine.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-en...
It is concerning.

I am not even sure what the attitude should be.

By default I would say that when there are serious allegations we should wait until a trial has been conducted.

But there are also cases emerging of dozen of people finally speaking out about an individual, where some kind of opportunistic fabrication seems very unlikely.

How should we balance the 2 ?
I have a half dozen microbreweries within 10 minutes of my house and I don't see IPAs going anywhere.
I think the printing press and a patent system were both rather important. Otherwise it takes to long for advances to get well known.
Depends on the license.
The Gates foundation allocates funds based on dollars per Daly (disability-adjusted year) impact. Alzheimer's is important research but it doesn't meet that criterion. Unlike metabolic syndrome (under the traditional definition), Alzheimer's is overwhelmingly late-onset, and the research is also riskier and more expensive.
That's a very simplistic (bit naive IMHO) POV.
The interview data is only ever shown anonymously to companies, even if you apply to a company with it. Only when the candidate and company agree to do an onsite are names revealed.

Basically it's a good chance to practice and get feedback in the worst case, and a way to save some time and get your foot in the door in the best case.

disclaimer: I work for refdash
My values are consistent regardless of who is involved. More information is always better. I also don’t think it’s worth speculating on what information WL may have. That they exist at all is a huge service, that they’re not releasing the kind of information you imagine exists (and happens to help your political goals) doesn’t make the info they do release any less valuable.
One guy building a steam engine isn’t a revolution. One guy building a steam engine and publishing a book on steam engines and having a university to train steam engine builders is.
Presumably high speed train.
In brief, AI uses existing knowledge and/or heuristics (to solve problems that lack a closed-form solution), while ML acquires knowledge and heuristics toward the same end, with the added goal of improving performance as it learns and adapting to changing conditions.

Traditionally, AI has been divided into distinct subfields (e.g. search, planning, natural language and speech processing, game playing, computer vision, robotics, knowledge representation, expert systems, logic, and ML). Today, ML is employed in all AI subfields, but until recently, most subject matter in each AI subfield had been unrelated to ML. In the past decade especially, that's changed as deep learning and probabilistic methods have gained mindshare and now are largely unavoidable when tackling AI-related problems.

In general, AI's subfields have focused on identifying fundamental obstacles and important features in their own problem domain and developing appropriate techniques that operate on those features when solving problems (like using object recognition and localization to solve vision problems like autonomous driving). I suspect AI's past emphasis on feature engineering has faded as NN-based ML has risen.
One of the biggest problems with hoppy beers is that they have a short shelf life (less than 90 days even when packaged well, much less when dissolved oxygen is present) but distribution issues and lack of education means that most IPAs are consumed past their prime.
It's already here. In Colorado founders are being bought out, and consolidation is quietly happening among the major licensees.
Prefilled vape cartridges, especially the ones that are more diluted, are almost exactly "session pot". Each hit is a tiny microdose that even a novice could handle a few of.
My favorite micro-brewery has started flavor-infusing most of their IPAs. They always are iteratively improving upon a standard double IPA as their flagship, but usually have 2-4 options for IPAs brewed with fruits, coffee, lactose, vanilla,, etc. They've done a great job of balancing popular appeal with making really good, really unique beers.
I was thinking this too. I do believe there are a lot of victims of sexual abuse and sexual harassment. However, what concerns me is that their truths are being overshadowed by those who seek to use these accusations as a way to screw over somebody they didn't like or for attention or even for money. It is quite frightening and it could happen to anyone.
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Look at the post that stared the thread. It has a picture.
I don't see anything in the currently-linked piece that speaks to an ulterior motive? Surely you're not just suspicious because he's a Missourian?

Having served in public office for about ten months, Hawley has very little record as a public official. He was a law professor before running for this office. Trying to read the fact that he's a Republican as some sort of secret clue to his motives is foolish.

I, for one, was delighted to be able to vote for an AG candidate who isn't a former prosecutor. Locking up hundreds or thousands of people for victimless fake crimes is toxic to one's soul, and usually we get a "choice" between two such corrupted sociopaths for this office. Time will tell if Hawley will be tempted down that awful path, but the fact that his first "big" initiative has nothing to do with taking revenge on pitiful unfortunates as a proxy for old people's frustration with the general direction of societal change is a good thing.
I once hung out for half a day at a hospital in Bakersfield, CA to watch a surgery and they had several gunshot victims come in. So in the US it seems they are highly experienced with this kind of injury unfortunately.
Tab Groups is the reason I won't be upgrading :(
Hopefully someone will take on the task of upgrading/rewriting it.
I'm not sure how one evaluates that they do good OpSec? Even firstlook failed and accidentally got Reality Winner arrested. So how does one know? Personally the question of OpSec gets more intense when A) I learn they let in a reporter from the New Yorker in to do, well, basically it's a Cribbs episode. And 2) when I learn that the group managing critical leaks is on the same floor as everyone else. Could you please protect your sources at least as well as Apple protects the Animoji release?
I recall seeing a comparison of DX7 vs dexed patches on Youtube that mostly found audible differences in envelope lengths, not timbre. That seems like something more straightforward to fix, though there's always the potential for a caveat like it being tied to the original hardware sample rate.
I remember hearing that about Sam Adams, that they didn't really like the idea of making an IPA, but there was no choice.
I am sitting in the same boat. Being a web developer for a couple of years, I wanted to try out a different domain. So I started to take Andrew Ng's course on Coursera [0]. Highly recommended. I supplement the course with audio and text by listening to the Machine Learning Guide Podcast [1] and by reading The Master Algorithm [2].

In addition, I started to apply my learnings in JavaScript [3]. Even though it's not the best language for ML, it makes it simpler to learn only one new thing and stick to known technologies for the rest. I have lined up ~7 articles about ML in JavaScript, so if you are interested, you can keep an eye on it :)

- [0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/

- [1] http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning

- [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612233-the-master-algo...

- [3] https://www.robinwieruch.de/linear-regression-gradient-desce...
They are leading in the niche, but that's besides the point: market power refers to the ability to raise prices above what is truly competitive, which they certainly have to some extent while not being a monopoly.
> since it's effects on developing minds is even more pronounced.

I've never heard that before.
As a gamer - I bought it used for $40 and find it a great entertainment value. I don't even have xbox live gold, so I don't play Crucible matches or other online PVP stuff. It's provided dozens of hours of entertainment for two people, both of whom have gone through the whole campaign. It's easy to spend $40 going out to see a movie in theatre. We have two characters in the power level 230-240 range and are nowhere near done exhausting the additional post-campaign quests and adventure missions.
Great links, thanks.
I mean, people keep telling me if I try this or that IPA I'll like it better but they all pretty much taste the same to me.
Yes, the method of action is very very different between depressants and hallucinogenics. Booze is HARD on your liver and effects most people pretty similarly as we all have similar blood/liver chemistry. With THC and the like, the methods of action are neuro-genic and the habituation/potentiation will change rapidly in individuals. Those receptors are trafficked in and out of the synapses pretty quickly.

Maybe a series of bags would be better. Like with coffee, you have espressos and shots and the like. You can adjust your tolerance fairly knowably and overdoing isn't a catastrophe. But I think the american palette is such that you need a serious foodstuff/snack in size. One gummy bear isn't 'enough' food, you need a bag of them. You can use a rookie-cookie, but sell them in 3 packs or really big discus-like sizes. People want some heft/size and they don't want to leave a half bag to go stale. Then up the dosages in a series. Red packaging is rookie, Orange is a long movie, Yellow is a half day, Lime is enough for a day'trip', Green is a 3-day weekend, etc. Price them all the same so that way it's about the dosage, not the costs.

Find a way to get a stressed out soccer-mom to eat these weed bon-bons like drinking a Cosmo, something instagram-able and dose-able.
Just for some context about this document, this is a fake interview with fake interview feedback.

It is meant to highlight some of the criteria which Refdash uses to evaluate candidates and how companies and candidates can expect to receive that feedback.

disclaimer: I work for Refdash
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Google has done a few things in the antitrust area that are noteworthy.
http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/
As a Rust programmer, I’ll be happy to use something what has Rust code inside. In Rust I trust.
Planetside 2 (and maybe the original planetside) is a 1000 player per continent, ~250 player per `battle' shooter. It does it pretty well.

By 1000 players per continent, I mean they all share a physical space, can walk to eachother etc. By 250 players per battle I mean 250 player fighting inside a structure. All of those players are interacting (gunshots, grenades, vision).
At 250 player you start noticing some loading issues that seems to start somewhere around 100 players, but it certainly remains playable.
Adwords used to run really, really, really, really slow in Firefox.

It now runs pretty good in FF 57. About as good as Chrome.
Bring it on. That lawsuit would be open-and-shut. Also VPNs.
It's not in Google's interest to allow you to see a site without their ads.
IPAs keep getting better. The current New England IPA craze is a delicious thing.
And if you're part of the 99% of us who AREN'T working at a university but still funding their research with taxes, we have to pay both the taxes AND the direct fees to access the papers.
I think there where enough signs of enron being doddgy
Yes, I too can Google. But "contacting the site owner" for a decent percentage of the major sites on the internet isn't exactly a good recourse.

And btw I have tried that with one site that was actually critical to me, quickenloans.com, and it gets lost in an IT support black hole where they mostly don't know what I'm talking about.
If the allegation is false then Mr. Jurvetson could seek significant civil and in certain cases even criminal penalties. Making a serious false accusation against someone that damages their career is not something one does lightly, especially someone with significant financial resources at their disposal. If the accusation is actual rape then it would be making a false criminal charge, which is a felony.

It sounds as if lawsuits are going to be filed, which means these claims may get examined in a court of law.

For these reasons I'm inclined to think there's likely something to this. If there isn't then the accuser(s) must have either nothing to lose, a serious axe to grind, or are being paid by someone to do this. These seem unlikely.
I don't.

Why do we want or even trust government to decide for us that a company is too big and needs to be smaller or that a company should conducts it business in the way that the government wants it to. As long as a company isn't somehow forcing me to use it services, I'm free to go elsewhere.

If you don't like Google don't use it. The fact that you desire something from Google that it isn't giving you (searching with more privacy, better free email service, whatever) doesn't give you some sort of moral claim against the company.

The public can vote for other companies by buying from or using them. As a last resort, start a new company and run it the way you want.
Are you saying that you know this is happening, or that you are concerned by the possibility of it happening?