skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it'd be on the front page regardless of the author. It's always a popular discussion topic on HN, and that's predated Altman's newest thrust.
There is a simple and equitable solution, which is to transfer the debt to the universities where they studied.
That's counterintuitive into itself. Everyone living in a trust that's also a meritocracy? Meritocracies reward meritorious individuals, which is difficult to do when forcing everyone to live in communal housing. This isn't very well thought out.
A thousand strangers teamed up to make this amazing alternative surpface pro
See eg https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/11/orinoco-parallel-scav... - some JS GCs are parallel and it's not the case that the "thread is locked" for the whole duration of the GC.
I was pretty impressed by the Falcon AI earlier this year. He actually used modern reinforcement learning to train from 0 instead of the crappy built in AI. Also, his AI was limited to near-human reaction time (10 frames) which led to a more human-looking agent.

At the end of the day these papers are from master's students. I think they're both impressive in that context.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.06230.pdf
I'll venture a guess that the submitter found it interesting when reading a recent HN comment [1] and wanted to share.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919242
Because installing a tracker on someone’s car will end with lots of privacy issues? You need a tracker to properly attribute taxes to the person that owns the road, and even though you don’t need super accurate trackers, any tracking can be abused.
Not that anyone will ever change their mind about this, but here's a good justification of the correct usage.

"Two Spaces After a Period: Why You Should Never, Ever Do It": http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/...
This is not an example of dumb AI. cpus will lose to a non moving Luigi in more than one smash game. It's intentional behavior.
> you can definitely blame then collectively

There are to risks for scientists here: the risk that their work becomes locked after publishing and their increased difficulty in getting access to other papers, on the one hand.

And the risk that his/her colleague will get ahead by publishing in closed journals, while they waste their careers away with less prestigious open publications, on the other hand.

The status quo is that they are more afraid of each other than the publishers, afraid that their colleague is getting ahead, so they can't prioritize open access. This deadlock needs to be cut from above.
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If you don't have mining, or a similar way to decide between various possible forks, what you have is a cryptographically secured append-only ledger (such as what the git data-format resembles).

That's not a blockchain and that idea has existed for decades already.

I think that idea is now being called a "blockchain" since in reality the trustless/proof-of-work nature of a true blockchain is largely wasted for specific companies.
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Get ready to play Police Chase Monster Truck in City where you play as a monster truck and police are chasing you in their cars, you have to escape from the police cars. City Police will damage your monster truck and you have to survive with given time as well as you have to reach yours finishing point. Make sure you have to save your friends from the police custody and drop these friends to given destinations point.
Given that CIG has relicensed under Lumberyard, is it possible that Crytek has a case here? I guess it depends on the contract, but I can't really imagine that CGI locked themselves into a contract to only ever use CryEngine for Star Citizen - wouldn't there have to be a specific clause that gives the dollar amount due in such a case that Star Citizen is either cancelled or switched to a different engine?
Why do you even post a comment?
The GPL ship has sailed. It used to be every free license could be converted to GPL, so it became the "universal recipient" license. Then Stallman forked it and created two incompatible GPL's, effectively killing his own dream of a copyleft ecosystem. So the only sane thing now is "universal donor" licenses like MIT - or straight public domain. I'm stealing all of this from Rob Landley.

https://ia601008.us.archive.org/7/items/OhioLinuxfest2013/24...
Our rich entrepreneur friends get to take advantage of corporate bankruptcy, giving them second chances when their ideas don't work out. This is just an example of blatant hypocrisy and favoritism advantaging the rich.

If at first you don't succeed... damn well better be an entrepreneur so you get second chances. If you work for a living, no second chances for you!
Lots of corporate desktops are still running IE11 on Windows 7, and they won't upgrade until they absolutely have to.
Google's massive housing and office plan wins city approval
Set up a Flask app with gunicorn and Nginx, load balancing
I'd just use the hosted MySQL service.

It will take a lot of time configuring MySQL to be production ready with backups, etc. Layer on top of that the complexity of running it in a container... How do you patch the DB software if you run it in a container? Make a new container stop the existing container and reattach the data volume correctly and then you have to deal with downtime or a cluster of containers running the DB if you don't want downtime. You're going to have a bad time unless you really know what you are doing and I still would not run MySQL in a container instance.
Having 10 lines of code for 10 different data sources and having a explorable Intellisense API for all of them is much nicer though than having 10 code generator + command line tools in my now required build pipeline, each one with a different syntax. Don't get me wrong - I will resort to code generation for some things if there isn't a type provider available but I always find more friction with this path and still doesn't give me all the benefits of type providers (e.g the SQL static type checking aspect). It works across different IDE's, don't need to introduce more build tooling, generated code is obvious vs a code generator, is as cross-platform as the underlying language/runtime is, etc.

Slightly more convenient for one source becomes very convenient as the amount of data your analyzing increases. It's not the be-all-end-all it was promised to be as a feature but it is easier than code generation IMO. If you can get rid of the disadvantages by keeping reference schema locally in its native form (e.g no flakiness you mention) then why not use it?
How do you manage to create a product in one week and begin making ~3k a week? What is that process like?
Those of you worried about housing affordability and "income inequality" ought to cheer: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/23/12586132/palo-alto-housing-cos...
The only expectation was an escalation.
It's a blockchain if you have a directed linked list of blocks. Even git is to some extent blockchain.
Nope, liberal arts majors earn as much as professional and pre-professional majors.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Liberal-Arts-Majors-Fa...
This all doesn't explain why so many people pile up massive debt for a degree that doesn't pay well, if at all, in the current (and foreseeable future) job market - and they'd have to be very clueless to not know it in advance.
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https://github.com/altf4/SmashBot

Here is an AI that beat a ton of pro melee players. Video here
https://youtu.be/o1bfQWy8o08
Everyone living in a trust that's also a meritocracy?

Sure. An artist commune shouldn't be letting you in unless you actually have some skill and artistic talent.

Meritocracies reward meritorious individuals, which is difficult to do when forcing everyone to live in communal housing. This isn't very well thought out.

You didn't try and prove the null hypothesis very hard, did you? There already exist intentional communities and artist colonies, where some degree of skill (merit) is a requirement. This is analogous to the German trust cited above, except the Catholicism requirement is replaced by some sort of merit-based interest.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2ZHmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg...

You have an argumentative style which implies that you are more interested in winning than seeking the truth. As such I am dissinclined to take you too seriously.
They certainly can't say they didn't have time to think this over.. so yeah..

On the other hand, it's possible that most of thevø revenue does come from 1$ donations, and they didn't understand how much creators desired having many pateons vs. few high paying patreons.
> “80% fat-free” and the other one says “20% fat added”, which one will you pick?

The 2nd framing is awkward. I am no marketing expert but it seems the non-awkward one will be only 20% Fat

> Hack #4: Watch out if you are happy about a decision

The advice here is - if you are giddy about the idea, google a contrarian view. So, how does someone actually become happy or excited about his/her idea?
... and functools/itertools for completeness?
It’s an old site, looks like an old site, and only recently (last 5 years or so) started running ads. It has been 15 years since the lawsuit was first filed.
Do you hate the liberal arts?

Their importance in college was really emphasized after World War II, as many of the leading Nazis were seen as non-intellectuals without moral restraints developed by the study of history, philosophy, theology, etc.

Liberal Arts should be cheap you’re right, but it also should be required.
Tuition, especially at private colleges, is totally out of control. But class sizes are up, not down. And the number of full professors is not growing. So where is the money going?

To an explosive growth of administrative staff. My alma mater has almost one employee per student. There are many dozens of administrative departments, each with multiple deans and assistant deans and staff, and sometimes subdivisions each with their own layer of bureaucracy. OPAL, for example, has a subdivision for each kind of minority on campus, each with its own assistant dean and staff. You can look at the list of departments: http://home.dartmouth.edu/administrative-offices . Keep in mind that this is a very small college, with about 4000 undergrads and 2000 grad students.

This monstrous growth is entirely a product of the last 30 to 40 years and is almost entirely responsible for the astronomic increases in tuition, currently $60,000. Even worse, the college claims that its actual cost per student is double that, with the shortfall made up from the endowment. There is NO legitimate reason that a college education should cost over $100,000 per year.

The government needs to stop writing a blank check to these colleges in the form of unlimited loans for their students. The government needs to set a much lower cap on the number of loans it will give to each student per year. The colleges will accuse the party in power of trying to deny students the right to an education, but they will eventually surrender and start cutting the bloat.
Because IQueryable's don't always translate to working SQL. I've broken EF's IQueryable a few times in the past; NHibernate's one was really bad if I recall. The expression inside the IQueryable operator is checked for type safety but the ability to generate SQL from it isn't which happens at runtime when the LINQ is evaluated. The F# approach bypasses the expression -> SQL translation and directly checks the SQL at compile time if it valid against a database schema rather than the expression AST that C# LINQ does.
But if the idea is that I want `foo6()` etc to always be executed, wouldn't I just handle the rebase from master by resolving the conflict as follows, instead?

foo():
foo1()
foo2()
foo4()
foo5()
foo6()
if (!foo3()): return 0
Leagoo S9: an iPhone X clone that is much cheaper
Why does it matter if Google is a telecommunications service or not? Anticompetitive business practices are illegal, are they not? What makes telecommunications services special in your book?

Why not just let the FTC go after companies (telecommunications or otherwise) when they misbehave?
Good slides, got me back in to the fever of wanting to learn; although a lot of the credit goes to the linked 3Blue1Brown videos (whose Linear Calculus series is excellent) which were a lot more technical but no less approachable.

Question to those versed in ML: I want to work on an AI that plays a video game (aspirations of playing something like Rocket League, but I know I need to start smaller with something like an old NES game). I understand these are usually done with Recurrent Neural Networks, but I'm a little lost as to how to get data in to the RNN -- will I need to make another AI or CNN to read the screen and interpret (including the score?) My 30k ft view is that if I can define a 'score', give it a 'reset' button, and define 'inputs (decision targets)', then I just need to give it the screen and let it do its thing. But getting the 'score' is the part I can't figure out short of adding another layer to the classifier.
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But schools realize how flexible the terms are and increase the price of tuition to max out the level of debt students can tolerate even with income based repayment

Dental students in high cost of living areas routinely graduate with half a million in debt
The fact that there is no HTTPs on a brand's landing page is no reason to annoy PR dudes on twitter though.

I think the attitude here is kind of douche.
It's unfortunate that kids aren't taught this during high-school years, and the lie that you must go to college to "make something of yourself" is still perpetuated.
I appreciate your post.

For those wondering, China is the place where companies across the world are going to hide slave labor and incredible environmental devastation.

That is why their prices are so cheap and 6 million manufacturing jobs have been lost. Slave labor and the greatest destruction of environment the world has ever seen.
USA checking in. I declared chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2010. Chapter 7 bankruptcy eliminates 100% of your dischargable debt. When the bankruptcy process had completed, I still owed ~200,000 USD, which was 140,000 USD in student loans and 60,000 USD in back taxes that were less than 3 years old, neither of which were dischargable.
I thought college was an outstanding and irreplaceable experience. I still have student debt (pushing 40) and if that debt were tripled today I'd still think it was the deal of a lifetime.

Other than some international trips, going to a university was probably the best money I've ever spent.
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the farcical aspect of the obsession with prestige in academia is that it is within such a small community, for less money, and for a narrower set of opportunities... prestige at the major tech companies comes with more pay, more opportunities, and brand name recognition
I became really good (or really bad) at them, that once I had to go through >8< rounds of reCAPTCHA to get through....I seriously was thinking it was never going to end!
There is speculation that those are still in the prototype stage and the current ones are running on Russian Saturns. China is still catching up in turbofans that have sufficient power and reliability (they can get one or the other, but not both ATM).
Only if they get graduate degrees. Otherwise they start at the lowest end of college degree holders. And the "high" 'professional and pre-professional degree' salaries are dwarfed by every STEM degree out of the gate.

And like the OP said, there is now a glut of humanities degrees higher than the demand for positions.
> China is especially dependent on control and communication, since their pilots are trained to follow orders from the ground.

Not sure where this idea comes from. Air combat cannot be commanded. Or you mean something else.

> The article claims jets like the J-11 are 3rd gen equivalent and J-20 are 4th gen equivalent.

US has 4-gen division, Russia uses 5 gen division. China uses the same categorization as US, so J20 is 4th-gen, j-11 is gen 3.

Russian and India likes to use the 5-gen categorization, to some extent, that makes Russian fighters looks nicer.

[edit] The article actually use 5-gen categorization but list j-11 as gen 3... I have no idea how these people still have their jobs...
The reason a bunch of extremely wealthy people are huge proponents of UBI is because it is a way to create apathy in the general population. They hype up the great UBI enabled artist or entrepreneur trope while knowing full well the vast majority of UBI recipients will just buy more opioids and another pack of smokes. As the wealth gap continues to grow around the world, the UBI scenario is much more palatable to the ultra-wealthy than another French Revolution (nobody wants to end up as the Tech Titan equivalent of Louis and Marie).
From the article, about the supposed expert who is skeptical:

> For all that she has learned, Radia is first to confess that she is by no means an expert in the technology — admitting that she cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain technology

The article is right about one thing though - a lot of people are talking blockchains up without having any idea about what they are or how they work.

Conversely, a lot of people, like Radia in the article, are talking blockchains down, without understanding them.
The age curve in the United States is actually doing pretty good thanks to the massive amounts of immigrants we attract. Japan and Germany wish they had our population growth rates.
If adding one law is not a slippery slope argument, then removing [or not adding] one law is not a slippery slope argument either...

Very convenient to support civil penalties against speech that you disagree with. What if some people find BLM "bigoted speech". What if some people think that pro-choice argumentation is "incitement to murder". How about we fight together to preserve our freedom of speech?
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Not myself (well one of the below applied to me at a brief point in my career), but here are cases I know of.

Google, Facebook, and many others use mechanism design (which roughly counts as game theory) to design ad auctions which automatically run as users run searches and load pages. That must be the biggest application of game theory in running code. Auctions are popular applications of game theory in other places, particularly the FCC spectrum auction which involves running code.

Game theory, of a kind, underlies "match" code that assigns medical residents to hospitals, and students to highschools in some school districts in the USA.

Game theory has actually been used to design security schedules for 'national security' in places like airports and the Coast Guard -- this research was led by an effort at USC.

Game theory is used in the design of prediction markets, which are often deployed within companies (though probably they don't need to do additional theory to deploy the markets to their application).

There is a lot of crowdsourcing at scale going on in semi-automated systems, and a lot of research on game theory in crowdsourcing, but I don't know how much that research gets implemented.

If Uber and Lyft aren't using a bit of game theory to set prices, and hopefully also think about incentives when assigning routes, then they're crazy. But perhaps they're using more "economics" than game theory.

Game theory has been used to study social voting sites and "contests" like reddit, hackernews, stackoverflow, quora. However, I don't know if any of the designers of these sites are explicitly using game theory.
The USAF (air force) is the biggest air force in the world, the USN (navy) is second, the Army is in the top ten but number three is Russia.
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> a) Just because you show a video of an airframe in the air, does not remotely mean that the Jet specified, with all it's gear, is flying and operable.

So it acutally cannot fly, that's what you are saying.

> What 'tech' does China make that surpasses most of the world? Almost none.

China tech is among the world's most advanced. Let's not confuse being the absolute #1 with just being advanced.

> c) The Chinese have no experience whatsoever operating in the kinds of systems that the US has.

"had"
They used to have a despicable internet economy, look at what they are doing now.
You're most definitely purchasing something. It's just not a tangible good or service.
Ask HN: What engineering practices do best teams follow to excel?
I am very interested in productivity, efficiency and well-being of a tech team. What are some macro and micro practices/thumb rules/casual habits that you and your team follow to excel at what you do.

Sorry if a repost, and links to articles etc. welcome.
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Lumberyard is a fork by Amazon of CryEngine that they licensed in 2015 that Star Citizen switched to. If developers start with that engine they are ok but looks like there were deals with Crytek on games/content before that date.

Legal challenges from a game engine is something that can scare away new projects in that engine. This wouldn't affect most developers as Star Citizen signed with CryEngine but it won't be attracting people to use CryEngine over others anytime soon.

Crytek is one of those companies that has great game engine tech but got high-centered when Unreal and Unity went free in 2015. Crytek is from the age of game development where licensing per game could run up above 300k for licenses and/or percentages that were much higher than today (Today Unreal is free but 5% royalties of gross over 3k quarterly -- but previously was 300k for the license -- Unity free up to 100k revs and $35/$125 Pro with no royalties, previously it was $1500 a year minimum). Crytek has been in a reactionary mode since 2015 when they also had to significantly change their model due to Unity/Unreal competitive moves.

Unreal at 5% royalties over 3k a quarter, Unity at free to 100k annually and $35/$125 Pro after that and even Crytek at $50/mo, all are very helpful for game development skills. Previously when engines were hundreds of thousands for a license it was hard to even gain skills beyond modding tools for engines and game companies had to shoulder all the training costs of even good game devs. Today, Unity/Unreal skills are much easier to find because of the low cost of entry. Ultimately the change to subscriptions and low cost (relatively) of the licenses allows a good market for developers investing in skills that will immediately translate at the game company they are working at, much easier to hit the ground running. Ultimately access to the engines is more valuable than the up-front costs of the past. Crytek is still dealing with that competitive pressure most likely.
> Debt relief has to come. Every great civilization throughout history has had to forgive debts.

Usually great news and desirable outcome for anyone carrying such debt, but not so great news for someone hoping to borrow for college at that exact time when the turbulent debt markets are trying to price in and overcompensate for high default rates. It’s like being a prospective home buyer in late 2008 - no one is returning your calls and if they do, you get the privilege to pay a premium for the other people’s mistakes.