skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His films always had silly stuff, but my favorite pieces of his films were the 'slice of life' looks into various people's lives surrounding the ski industry, for example following ski patrol's day-to-day, or even going to foreign countries to document ski culture in, say, Almaty, Kazakstan. I particularly loved this scene from Snowriders II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq7Meb_pmMM

Important to recall that this was released in 1997, so probably filmed in 1996, and initiated in 1994-5, so its a look into a post-USSR culture a mere 5 yrs after the dissolution of the USSR.
Can someone share some intuition of the tradeoffs between monte-carlo tree search compared to vanilla policy gradient reinforcement learning?

MCTS has gotten really popular as of AlphaZero, but it's not clear to me how this compares to more simple reinforcement learning techniques that just have a softmax output of the possible moves the agent can make. My intuition is that MCTS is better for planning, but takes longer to train/evaluate. Is that true? Is there some games one will work better than the other?
I occasionally create random WordPress sites just to post stuff that's on my mind but which I don't want to openly admit.
> By Evelyn Lamb on April 1, 2014
The issue that emerged with the Damore memo is that this seems to be a topic of conversation promoted at a google as part of their pro-diversity efforts.

Normally I’d say “they’re ALL idiots for talking about this at the workplace, and ALL deserve to be fired,” but when your employer is making you attend discussions on this topic... well, it’s fair game, isn’t it?
A major barrier is the hassle of maintaining and updating your own server, or alternately the restrictions and awful UX of most shared hosting. Shared hosting is generally overpriced too.
Nah, those use RSS but put just an excerpt of the post so that you're forced to visit their site.
Does anyone have a different link to this? It's insecure and Cisco keeps blocking it, so I can't just proceed from Chrome.
I think that’s a good idea. :) I’ve considered doing the same thing, although I currently don’t even have a blog under my REAL name. It’s very easy to self-censor, especially if you’re not famous or powerful enough not to have to care.
> One thing you'll never really get, in my experience, is good spam handling.

Not in my experience. I'm in general very happy with the results of SpamAssassin. Occasionally sth. slips through but when I compare it to my gmail account it's not worse, maybe even better. The only thing I use in addition is postscreen [1] (pregreet test only) to stop the dumbest category of spam bots.

[1] http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html
Maybe theres more money in guaranteed advertising than can be realized by subscriptions.
Having a good headshot probably helps, too. I guess it would count as a key component of one's marketing package. I'm reminded of this Adam Gopnik article on a discovered Shakespeare portrait:

And that Shakespeare was good-looking as a young man, before he lost his hair and puffed out from home-cooking, seems at least likely, on the fixed general principle that writers who become very celebrated in their youth, as he did, are, to a first approximation, almost always good-looking. Byron and Shelley, Mailer and Updike and Salinger, Fitzgerald, Dickens, Tennyson, Lowell, Ted Hughes—all celebrated in their youth, all not just O.K.-looking but an oil painting, each and every one. There are many good funny-looking writers, but it’s hard to think of good funny-looking writers who get famous young. Funny-looking writers, at least funny-looking male writers, get famous late—Samuel Johnson and Sinclair Lewis and John Milton and Philip Larkin all come instantly to mind—or else they don’t get famous. They get read, but they don’t get celebrated.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/adam-gopnik-look...
Interestingly it does not seem to be a new concept:
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/37ko5v/introducing_...
https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/meet-tox-ran...

They used to take 20% 'commission'.
Ok, so it doesn't lazy load CSS and images, just js?

If so, what does this improve? Time to first paint? Time to first interaction? Time to DOM ready? I looked at their page, and it doesn't seem to answer questions like this simply. It just says when a user requires the code it loads it.... huh?

How much code are people putting into their apps that this would ever be needed? (serious question)

When I do site analyzing, 99/100 the images/css are the biggest contributors to site size, have JS libraries gone nuts?
Redundancy requirement was one of the reasons I started building WildDuck mail server. It can be set up with no-spof components, everything can be replicated. https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck#no-spof-architecture
Try this - https://medium.com/applied-data-science/how-to-build-your-ow...
You pretty much will always need a bundler, unless you write everything from scratch, and don't support legacy browsers. Webpack actually does do things like code splitting for you, so no, not everything goes into one file.
> 1. Don't use wordpress, you'll catch a virus.

?!?
First, you're talking about a self installed wordpress, not wordpress.com.
Second: just keep it updated.
The link looks https to me, but this is where it redirects if that's of any use: https://medium.com/applied-data-science/how-to-build-your-ow...
I cannot vote this comment up enough. There needs to be a clear view of the obstruction in order for a person or an autopilot to see it in time. This is why you get a huge long string of cones easing people out of a lane before a road work obstruction. Similarly, warning signs should be placed before a stopped vehicle obstruction - there are quite a few countries in the world where not carrying warning signs for this purpose all the time is illegal.
I gave my first ever talk last night for the Toronto Elixir meetup (Introduction to Actors in Elixir). It was a lot of fun! The author here is correct about the time, my talk was around ~20 minutes, but I probably spent close to 10 hours working on it.

I also like this part:

> The slides are in a sensible order because they arose from your natural thought process

at the beginning of my preparation everything felt awkward because I was trying hit different points I had thought of ahead of time. I threw all of that away and started from scratch. The second time I thought more about the "story" I was trying to tell, and found that things flowed more naturally after that.
Liu and Laylands Rate-monotonic scheduling algorithm
I have seminar next week I my OS class. We're supposed to summarize the article below. However it is quite technical & abstract for me and my classmates. I would love if someone could shed some light into the theorems and how they are deducted.

It is suppose to be a really famous article in hard real-time systems, but I would say it's slightly overkill for Bs students to read though.

Article: Liu, C. L.; Layland, J. (1973), "Scheduling algorithms for multiprogramming in a hard real-time environment", Journal of the ACM, 20
They're all bad guys, brent.
I'm ok with calling them both bad guys.
Says the guy who bankrupt 3rd world country central banks just because he could.
Sure, the mail storage currently takes up 1.01TB, using dovecot's mdbox. This mail store started in January 2016, after the service got raided twice by german authorities[0] (at request of u.s. gov), otherwise it would be larger.

I'm not going to run like per-user stats but I know historically there's been about 11kb per E-mail on average, so that's about 90 million mails stored. The MTA itself sends and receives a bit over 20 million E-mails annually, so the extra from that is probably from the mailing list I run on the same server (where each message only counts as 1 for statistical purposes)

How I prevent outgoing abuse is a black box, but I do it well enough that mail from my server almost never ends up in spam. But given that it's a free service I definitely don't have the budget to warm up and dynamically scatter mail across IP space to maximize deliverability. Cool technique, though!

[0] https://archive.is/etfDM

[0] https://archive.is/etfDM
Same could be said for programming regarding prose. You can write beautiful code (modularized, great exception handling, proper form, etc.) that doesn't solve the problem properly or write ugly code (huge monolith, repeated code, meh error handling) that solves a large business problem.

An ugly monolith that solves pain is going to be worth more than a beautiful piece of software that doesn't solve the pain. I'm not saying you can't have both, just that writing beautiful code by itself doesn't help, much like very good prose in novel writing.
Miniflux 1.0 (the one that used SQLite)

https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux-legacy
When low intelligence becomes a protected trait all Linus's rants about morons and idiots will be seen in a much harsher light.
Pi-hole is a DNS resolver: it takes questions from clients, such as "what's the IP address for google.com"? And takes care of contacting an authoritative server (or passes it to downstream resolver, which does the work) to get the answer.

An authoritative server is responsible for answering that same question, but it's been labeled as authoritative for a domain, via the domain registrar system. To see what servers are authoritative for a domain, you can use commands like dig or host; here's an example host command (I'm running OSX, but this should work on any *nix that has it installed):

$ host -t ns ycombinator.com
ycombinator.com name server ns-1411.awsdns-48.org.
ycombinator.com name server ns-1914.awsdns-47.co.uk.
ycombinator.com name server ns-225.awsdns-28.com.
ycombinator.com name server ns-556.awsdns-05.net.
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> k(1) = TREE(1), K(2) = TREE(TREE(2)), K(3) = TREE(TREE( <(repeats (TREE(3) time (TREE(3)))

What you've made here is what's known in googology circles as a 'salad number'. It doesn't make a conceptual leap above what the TREE function can do anyway and is kind of similar to saying TREE(3) + 1.

SCG(13) is much bigger than your K(3) and Loader's number is much bigger than SCG(13). There are (computable) numbers bigger than Loader's number which are mentioned in the googology link in my previous post (Greedy clicque sequences and finite promise games).
Mapping a range of numbers onto another
"So to run something that doesn't require 24/7 support I now have to run a cluster of servers."

My two most recent uptimes for my personal FreeBSD mail+web server were each over 1200 days.

My current months sent-mail folder stretched back for years - which is to say, my (al)pine process itself was 3+ years old.

No, you don't need a cluster of servers for your personal mail server.
It always makes me happy when a blog serves me less than 40kB to read an article!
If you've been around for long enough you'll notice a full circle.

This is how geocities used to be.
I should add that as men get older a HUGE incentive against marriage is the perception of mistreatment by family courts.

Stories about owing a woman a paycheck for years make people think twice. This is in glaring contrast to the line everyone hears about the amount of employment opportunities women have.

The way I see it, the law fails to protect women from abusive men in the physical sense men from women in the financial and custody sense.
I used SpamAssassin, greylisting, SPF, a variety of RBLs, and hashcash, but never got anywhere near what my gmail experience has been. I literally almost never get spam to my main mailbox in gmail, I would get a dozen or more a day on my own server.
Track your request in Spring boot with this simple lib
> Let’s say you work on the design and implementation of a novel scientific instrument for a satellite for over ten years. That’s a job that, relatively, isn’t paid well, but if launched, the instrument will get you papers and recognition.

That's true, but building two of everything causes other problems. For a principal investigator (PI), they spend years drumming up support for a concept then hope that it continues to get funded, built, launched, and becomes operational. If we build 2 of everything, let's say it adds 2/3 to the cost. That means less money for other missions overall. That would make many scientists unhappy.
Sure, but I'm saying even something that is beautiful and does offer a decent amount of emotional impact still isn't guaranteed success, either from simply not being found or not hitting the right emotion that impacts a wide swath of people. And trying to do that is mostly guesswork, since it is a regularly moving line.
Curation for discovery has been the most difficult problem for information since access exploded with the internet. Netflix had prize money behind algorithmic improvement here. Public libraries and physical bookstores use experts and physical placement. Most digital content services use humans to curate new content. The last chapter in James Gleick's book "The Information" identifies this as the next problem in information - now that access is no longer a barrier, how do we decide what's useful? The combination of wikipedia and Google has largely solved search for most internet-available content, but not discovery or trust of what you don't yet know to search for.

This curation problem isn't only about blog content - it also contributes to the proliferation of fake news and conspiracy theories. Comment curated by many people's networks has become limited to their tribal connections, and some tribes exclude information sources that value scientific or journalistic standards.

What we already know about and read daily is what we trust, and helps define our tribe. Our tribe uses HN. Other tribes (which may intersect with ours) use Reddit, Digg, 4Chan, forums, newspapers, blogrolls, and many other systems. When we get content from our tribe - the concept of 'social media' - someone else is sharing their trust in content with us, in ways we can categorize.

Each content system on the internet is rooted in a point source, the owner, who shares their trust with varying levels of directness: Newspapers don't have a pattern of trust sharing, though some experiment. Blogrolls' owners share trust directly - 'direct owner trust sharing'. Small forums (where content is only ranked by time, not votes) use 'direct user trust sharing' because users are treated equally; Reddit posts use 'indirect user trust sharing' through voting. Facebook and Twitter use both 'direct user trust sharing' (what your friends post) and 'indirect owner trust sharing', (the owner algorithms).

It seems clear that there are serious manipulation problems with indirect trust sharing systems open across tribes - Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter all struggle with this. Innovation in social media seems to focus on curating direct user trust sharing to guide indirect user trust sharing. To fix trust sharing, we'll have to curate new direct relationships. I believe this will be much along the lines of blogrolls - direct trust sharing from identified tribal members, rather than only from your direct network.

Work has been done to map the internet through linking. Some of this, such as Jonathan Albright's coverage of the 2016 US Presidential election, has begun to identify tribes in those maps. I believe the next major algorithmic innovation will triangulate your tribe, using content you've already trusted yourself (by sharing with others), and curate discovery of new tribal members based on the nodes in and near that tribe. A network-wide blogroll, across content types, which links you to new direct trust sharing relationships. This would help democratize curation, and could result in a clearer understanding of tribal boundaries and how disinformation spreads.
I don’t know the tech well, but the article doesn’t explain why it can’t differentiate between say, a sign post on the side of the road and a large object in the direct path of the vehicle, and slow down in the latter case.
in the context of having to leave the building due to a fire alarm, no, you're not meeting them back inside the building at the phone re-collection point (or in this case one of the phone unlock mechanisms). At least not immediately.

As I mentioned in another comment, it's possible you've never taken someone with a disability or social dysfunction to their first-ever concert, knowing that it's partly enabled by the fact that you can easily reconnect if you get separated (by the crowd, bathroom lines, a fire alarm, etc.) Take away that extra measure of safety and security, and the majority of people can "just deal with it", but people with certain disabilities or vulnerabilities are going to have to opt out.

Personally, I'd rather work to be inclusive. Use social norms, not technological lockouts, to get people to put their phones away.
> One thing you'll never really get, in my experience, is good spam handling. The big providers just have so much more data to work with to prevent spam.

I've found the exact opposite. Big providers have to run more lenient rules than I'm willing to use. I can use SORBS and Spamhaus to bounce mail. Sure, both SORBS and SH suggest never ever doing this, but when you self-host you can check your logs, and over the course of a few years I've never had a false positive.

Now that I'm reliant on my ISP for inbound mail I don't have that low pass filter and the amount of spam I get is staggering.

Google is the worst offender in my experience. They don't take spam reports and they don't do a good job of filtering users' inboxes. Sure, there's a SORBS list to bounce mail from hosts that have bogus WHOIS info... but then you block Google... and everyone uses Google... so you just get to put up with all the spam they send out. From the other end, my gmail inbox is nothing but spam these days (the report spam link is generally useless).
The "thing" referred to here was enforcing "your personal desires." In a functioning democracy, it's never one individual's personal desires that are enforced. The question of whether various democracies are functioning is an interesting one but not my intention to discuss here.
> He's been a video game developer for decades. Is that considered to be "outside tech" now?

Isn't it the opposite - he hasn't been a video game developer for decades? I think the last project he was involved with was The War in Heaven in 1999, which I can only find negative reviews about, both in terms of storyline and technical quality.

And even if he were still involved, I think an indie video game studio is still in a relevant sense outside the tech industry - I don't believe he's e.g. interviewing at Google or any other tech company. I take voice lessons and sing at churches and so forth, but I'm certainly an outsider to the music industry, even though I can sing pretty well. If I were trying to push my politics on the music industry, that would be pretty different from someone who has a recording contract doing the same.

> How is that any different from Saul Alinky's Rules for Radicals?

As far as I know, nobody is saying "I'm following Alinsky's playbook to disrupt this tech company I don't work at." (There might be conspiracy theories that people are doing that, but that's rather different from someone outright saying as much, which is what we have here.)

I do agree that if someone were doing that, it would be equally worth criticizing.
Maybe, but you're still using a platform, they'll pull your SEO towards them every way they can. I kept my wife's wordpress site updated all the time... when the virus hit it was a PAID FOR Theme that was targeted. Seriously the surface area of Wordpress self-install is crazy bad, not to mention many of the themes you select install scroll-jackers and email-signup cover the page crap that I'm talking about.
Censys seems to be HTTP-focused, along with elements that go with it such as TLS certificates (Not to imply they focus exclusively on HTTP content of course).

Shodan is more generalized and scans many different ports.
Note: based on the actually achieved apogee and perigee and inclination, it seems that the performance shortfall may be closer to 300 to 400m/s, which would make rescue much harder, except if you used electric propulsion. Luckily, the spacecraft have electric propulsion (but JWST doesn't...).
Correct on the versioning. We internally treat protos as an immutable descriptions of our API interfaces. That means whenever we need to change anything (outside of bugs), be it adding a new field, or changing the order, renaming fields, changing types, ... we start a new version.

We also use a lot of inheritance of non-default types (timestamps, errors, ...) so it's important to make sure that we don't break anything for others.
Shameless self plug. I spent a Saturday morning doing a similar (no monte-carlo, no AI library) thing recently with tic-tac-toe. I based this mostly on intuition, would love any feedback.

https://github.com/frenchie4111/genetic-algorithm-playground...
> Just not sure why anyone would run an email server other than extreme paranoia.

Compliance.

NDA's.
Besides the PR, even the purported goal is less than worthless. Clearly what photography needs is more banal snapshooting, now with editorializing AI enforcing utter conformity.
Can you explain if Webpack would help with Wordpress sites? Or is Webpack really only for webapps?

What is the benefit gained from "code splitting"? Would it make a blog run faster? What if the largest amount of JS on your site is 5k? Why would there be a need to code split this?
Don't know about you, but I like this explanation of Graham's number:

https://youtu.be/1N6cOC2P8fQ
This is probably referring to the danger of viral myocarditis, which is not the same thing as myocardial infarction (heart attack).
We don't use Webpack to build websites.
leave us alone google