skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, but the opportunity of that control also carries the potential for ruin. Skew the algorithm for maximum profit and the result is less long-term revenue thanks to a reduction in usefulness to the user, which leads to either inattention or abandonment... no eyes, no ads.

Providing user control (even limited) over the newsfeed actually increases leverage with regards to long-term revenue, since it's an expression of user intent... which is a clear datum for targeting. What it dampens is the kind of "run of site" or "simple demographic" advertising that sites often accept because it's "found money!" Except that in the long-term it isn't, due to inattention/abandonment problem mentioned earlier.
More reliable? We are not living in a world where every roof is covered with solar panels. Our network is not a wireless mesh.

During a war power plants will get bombed. Network and power cables will get bombed. Roads, railroads and bridges will get bombed, so power plants wouldn't even get fuel.
Don't high pressure sales tactics get stock sellers in trouble?
Tariffs change the inputs to the decisions. Before the costs of robots was greater than cheap labor in China so Apple made the correct decision to not invest in them. After the tariffs Apple needs to revisit the decisions of the past to account for a new world where labor in China isn't as cheap. I cannot tell you what decisions Apple will make, only that they will reconsider the decisions of the past in light of new information. (don't forget new information also accounts for whatever advancements in robotics have been made since they last looked at this decision)
Togelius I believe you are in error in Seth Bling's case.

The Show More links under his youtube MarI/O video link directly to the Stanley Miikkulainen NEAT paper.

and he links the wikipedia page on Neuroevolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution

which cites two [1][2] of your papers among others :

yet you say :
"
it is atrocious because of the complete lack of scholarship. The guy didn't even know he was reinventing the wheel, and didn't care to look it up.
"

a bit harsh perhaps ? At least mentioning the foundational NEAT paper is not a complete lack of scholarship.

I feel you have overlooked that Seth does try and provide good citations to his audience and it would kind if you mentioned him by name in your article rather than " some guy "

He did inspire other twitch streamers to experiment with neuroevolution and neural nets and benchmark many SNES games.[3] although downstream this follow up does goes uncited by yourself.

[1] "Neuroevolution in Games: State of the Art and Open Challenges" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.7326v3.pdf

[2] "Countering poisonous inputs with memetic neuroevolution" (PDF)https://www.academia.edu/download/30945872/poison.pdf

[3] Mario Bros mari/o https://clips.twitch.tv/CourteousEmpathicTruffleCeilingCat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRxUQNFxAWc Mari/o kart winterbunny

https://clips.twitch.tv/HilariousPolishedZucchiniHassanChop - mario kart RNN mariflow
I've noticed that nearly every travel website does this--you search within a budget, find something you really like, but once you go through the checkout flows, you realize it actually costs 25-50% more than what they said it did.

It's such an annoying dark pattern that me and my wife have been working on our own weekend travel website [0] that is upfront about all pricing, e.g. we include fees in the price when possible, e.g. deposits for rentals, cleaning fees, etc. And we won't show outdated flight information (some of these sites show fares from over 24hrs ago).

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>A 15 year old kid who has "seen everything there is to see on the internet"? I mean, really.

This isn't necessarily a literal statement. There's just so much noise and nonsense to wade through as to be demoralizing. Or the excess stimulus is enough to just turn you off everything, in part why I try to minimize aimless surfing. It may take a conscious effort to stumble upon something of interest.
> I don't really like Musk but sending positive messages in Investment relations is the key to keeping the company afloat.

Let's see how the SEC will like this line of argumentation.
It would also prevent raises.
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Having a desktop computer may be useful if what you are making/trying has to be done on a computer. However, most of the things you read about on the internet can be done without it no? For example you could be looking up music sheets, or some tutorials on how to craft something.

I get your remark that the massive passive consumption leads to boredom, but I do not think that the format is the real culprit here.
Healthcare requires the time and resources of healthcare professionals, and no one has the RIGHT to the time or resources of other people. We abolished slavery in this country, I'm sick of people like you arguing to bring it back.
I would think that's ripe for abuse. For curating my personal feed, I've been fairly content to unfollow people I want to remain friends with and hide posts shared from specific accounts. I don't actually see neo-Nazi posts routinely - but they're clearly less banned from using the platform to communicate than my attempts to sell used sports equipment are. And I honestly wouldn't care if Facebook left their page in peace in the name of free speech and diversity of opinions, but then at least have the decency to tell me why I can't post on the marketplace. Like I said - it's the claim that they police content - it only inconveniences and confuses people instead of actually getting rid of bad content.
To add to this, what if the vending machine was able to dispense 1000 things? And let's say that you are diabetic? Wouldn't it be nice if the sugar-free treats were easy for you to find? And the organic stuff easier for those seeking them to find? Etc. etc.

Somewhere there must be an intelligent balance.
That's why they really need to eliminate on board pilots.

How much of the hardware is devoted to keeping the pilot alive? Once you remove that, the hardware might be a whole lot simpler and cheaper.
> plus a runway that's actually angled with regards to the carrier's direction of travel, it's pretty challenging

I hadn't really considered that before. Say the carrier is doing 20 knots then even on a one minute final approach the carrier will have moved by getting on for half a mile. ( very much fag-packet estimated maths but enough to show you can't just point at the carrier and land in a straight line)
The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's “2001: A Space Odyssey”
I stopped using Reddit a while ago when it became clear that they had a pretty adversarial relationship with their users. Their moderation is terrible, the community ranges from unpleasant and repetitive to downright toxic, the content is better found elsewhere, and the administration is incompetent and amoral at best.

I’ve never once felt like I missed out on something by eschewing Reddit, and every time I check to see if it’s changed for the better it is markedly worse. Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, Facebook, are just bad places to be. There are a couple of good subreddits to read occasionally, like askhistorians, but you don’t need an account to read it. Actually participating gets old, fast.
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You need to do both.

Large distributed jobs at Google can literally take several times the expected lifetime of an average server to run. When you run such a job, you must expect that it will wind up running on computers of all stages of repair, and some of the computers that it runs on will come out of commission during your job and will have to be replaced by others.

This scale requires defense in depth. Health checks are necessary, but not sufficient. You also need to minimize the problems if the machine you're on is not yet known to be bad. And deal with double checking results because at that scale you can't trust the hardware. And so on.
But there WERE more than two points; surely you know that. Q4 was not the first quarter that Model 3s were produced. Q3 of 2017 is. So that's three points.

To use your example:

T-1: 2 vehicles

T0: 10 vehicles

T1: 40 vehicles

That is exponential. If it was only a linear ramp-up, that'd imply negative 20 Model 3s were produced in Quarter 3 of 2017.

You might think this is being pedantic, or that "exponential" is just a buzzword, but it's not: the point about exponential ramp-up is that if you're off by a factor of, say, 4x in production, that may mean you're only behind a few months. A relatively small time change corresponds to a very large difference in production.

Exponentials don't last forever; eventually a plateau is reached. But as you're bringing automation/production up, you're still in the exponential phase (as the data shows), and so small delays can make a big difference in production without telling you much about how many you'll produce once production is fully up and running.
Similarly, a few years ago I swas developing a path-finding algorithm for time-varying 3D vector fields and I found myself knee-deep in various research papers. Some were better than others, and I did find a few web/blog resources helpful, but it was mainly research papers.
Those rankings are pretty fishy. Acura is just a rebadged Honda and they rate completely different. Also Kia and Hyundai rate higher than Mercedes, Porsche and Volkswagen, which is completely against my experience with those brands.

FWIW it has Tesla scoring near the bottom of the pack with 37 points out of a possible 100, with the lowest entrant scoring 26 points.

Volvo is surprisingly low on that ranking, I know they are now owned by Geely but their brand still has 'super reliable' as an image here in Europe which again contradicts the ratings.

I'm not sure what the inputs were and what definition of reliability they have but I'm definitely interested in finding out more.

The FAQ is here:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

And I suspect that one reason more expensive vehicles drop like a stone on the report is because they are more complex and so there is simply more that can break, on top of that a person that pays $100K for their car is more likely to be dissatisfied when something isn't working perfectly.

You'll never hear a Kia owner complain about some detailing, but if you paid $85K for a Tesla then you would expect a certain level of quality and you'd be more likely to go back to the dealer for that reason alone if what was delivered wasn't perfect. So this report is as much about expectations and brands as it is about actual reliability.

My own - super simple - method of determining vehicle reliability is to look at second hand car website and to sort by descending mileage in yearly cohorts. That very quickly shows which cars are solid and which aren't. Yes, it is 'survivorship bias', but you can discount for that by weighing by the original number of vehicles sold of a particular model.
>A vending machine doesn't make notes of who buys its products. A vending machine doesn't keep logs of its transactions or of the payment methods used.

Well technically the vending machine itself doesn't note this, but I've increasingly seen vending machines which accept credit cards. Thus your CC issuer knows where you were, when you were there, and can even make some inferences about what was bought based on the price.

Personally, I keep an "entertainment" budget which I withdraw in cash, both for privacy reasons AND budget reasons. (Staring down into your wallet at cold hard cash makes you hesitate before buying that cup of coffee or other sundry)
"Mobile computing" is almost always "mobile consuming," and trying to fit the requirements of computing into the design of a consumption platform is necessarily compromising, if not failing outright.
Do you have any links to docs or blog posts about how you'd go about doing that with Conda and ${PREFIX} managing compilers and libs? I'd love to see what a fully worked example looks like.
The average person won't spend that much on a mobile device.
Wow, I never realized that. [Quick lookup]... indeed, the etymology is from Old English via Old French going back to Latin "recreare" and seems to have had that meaning all along.

This comes at the perfect time for me as I've been reflecting on my hobbies and how to make the most of them for my life.
A good manager is expected to give an easier schedule to someone who is caring for a sick family member, why would it be horrible to give an easier schedule to someone who has to spend a lot of time taking care of a new baby?

Biology has already discriminated and made her life hard, should we make it worse? Should we make having children as difficult as possible for our fellow citizens?

Paternal leave is important too.
I agree investors are not stupid. But, I never said it was about investors being stupid. It is simply not saying stuff which casts doubt about Tesla's ability to deliver.

People are going to arrive at the conclusion irrespective. Take the GP for example, he/she correctly pointed out that Tesla is behind schedule. There is nothing wrong with that conclusion.
> In Germany almost every cafe, restaurant, or bar requires you pay with cash.

We must be living in very different Germanys.
Waymo CEO Says Self-Driving Tech Isn't to Blame for Tesla Death
They would still have to develop their own custom thunderbolt controller, an emulator, etc.

The only thing changing as far as cost would be the processor. Let's say they save $100 on the processor (not likely). They sell about 14 million Macs a year. That's only $1.4 Billion - pocket change to Apple.
A few days with a software consultant
> If you take a random sample of studies you can make a statistical analysis. You don't need to examine every cow to make an argument that there are no pink cows, but you do need to do a random sample. And that's if you only want to meet the highest standards of evidence. Much lower standards can be far easier to meet.

Your comparison of this problem with pink cows shows that you haven't given it two seconds thought. Estimating the number of pink cows in the world is a very simple problem. Determining pay gap is a very very complex problem that starts with defining what the question really is and associated fights between different interest groups which might prefer one or another definition, then goes on to the (social, privacy, and rights) problem of obtaining the data, and moving on into with the data analysis itself which is just hellish if you want to have any semblance of rigour, and finally policy take aways from the analysis which hinges crucially on how you defined the question initially.

Stop adding to the noise please.
Do you mean Roman or Roma? I know nothing of Roma folklore.
I just hope the do extensive testing on cooling these machines.

As a former user of laptop workstations, there is nothing worse than having to always lug around a bulky UPC as well as worry about overheating.

The other reason I could see them doing this is maybe related to wanting to push people to use more graphic related applications (3D rendering), but even that is slowly going to cloud.
> Basically your argument boils down

It does not, in fact. My insinuation is that perhaps some people have a preference against going cashless which has nothing to do with speed.
How are they headed for hard times? I'm genuinely uneducated on the matter and want to know more.
I love RMS but I'm not holding my breath waiting for any government laws to protect me.

For what it's worth, neither is RMS, if you've read about how he uses the Internet.

Let's keep building the free software tools so anyone can easily get the level of privacy they want for whatever they're trying to do. We've made so much progress but there's still so far to go.

Do not to look UP to authority for hope - look AROUND at your fellow citizens working hard to bring free privacy software to everyone - that's who's going to fix this, because no one else will.
The pre-orders are such a silly point.

Ford builds more pickups than that a year, with basically 0 pre-orders. They simply don't bother with pre-orders, they don't need the money, they don't need the promotion, etc.

Is the lack of pre-orders for the F-150 a sign of weakness? NO!, even though the thing is super popular they are able to produce enough to meet ongoing demand.
The hoop of "absolutely" including a euphemism for "taking a shit" with an application seems like a narcissist's negging.
This is so 100% not what I want.

I want Unreal Engine, running full time. When I go into a World, it starts downloading the neighboring worlds. When I touch a Portkey or walk through a Portal or answer a ringing phone in a phonebooth, I'm now in the next world.

That's what a "VR browser" is, to me.

A loadable Unreal Engine level is the new "HTTP / CSS / JS." And in those levels, there need to be "Hyperlinks" that let me navigate to a new level. Give me some kind of Back button, and some way to enter a new "URL." URLs probably need # anchors with 6-degree-of-freedom starting positions embedded in them.

Some worlds are single-user instances, some are multi-user (party rooms with your friends), some are like MMOs.

All of our current VR technology feels like the equivalent of downloading a PostScript file over FTP. The Web kicked ass, because it had embedded Images, and Hyperlinks - you never left it, and it felt beautifully immersive.

I want to never leave VR, and for it to be beautifully immersive.

What's "Reddit" look like? It's a museum. There are images hanging on the wall. Under them is a cute plaque with the Title, and an Up and Down button, and a Comments. You can record a VR video comment. You can record an Audio comment. You can type a comment. You can be in a live VR / or maybe Video / or maybe Audio / or maybe IRC chat room, discussing that image. The items in the museum are sorted by Popular / Best / Hot / New / Controversial, and you can change it. There are also VR Objects that we're voting on. (Websites like this exist, but they aren't IN VR.) There are Videos. There are Portals to Worlds that you can hop into, and then hop back out.

I also don't just want a "VR Browser," I want a "VR OS." The same way different Window Managers were all the rage on X, I want there to be lively debate about the best Application Managers in VR. Do they act like a HUD? How does Copy and Paste work? Is there Object Linking and Embedding? How do you get interrupted by Facebook Messenger? What is it like to have two VR apps at the same time?

INNOVATE, PEOPLE. We don't know the answers to these questions, but they are for sure OPERATING SYSTEM questions. We keep screwing around within each game. But that's like putting a floppy in your PC and BOOTING FROM THAT DISK (no OS). DOS and later Windows were COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from how we used to boot, and required lots of changes in behavior. We need that, for VR, now.
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Meta: Some other projects that also build on top of who is hiring:

- https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/
- http://gaganpreet.github.io/hn-hiring-mapped/src/web/
- http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/
- https://www.hackernewsjobs.com/
- https://www.hntrends.com/
The problem is that they're making assumptions on how people use the site and then break years and years of conventions that are used on mostly every website.
Swiss Army Knife HTTP Client
> The X people looking at this is something hotels.com and such do as well

This site was telling me that "54 people are currently looking at the same route" when I was looking at Perth to Singapore. That felt unlikely to me, were there really 54 people from Perth all viewing that page at once?

That was one reason I left the site, but the other was that the search results were taking forever to complete.
Thanks for the heads-up. Removed it.
Why 'extinct animal' zoos are close
> 4K gaming is no problem at the refresh rates that 4K offers (usually 60Hz)

Subjective. Depends entirely on the settings you are using and the resulting frame rate at that resolution.
And the inevitable rise in wireless card skimming that would ensue?

OK maybe not inevitable but it's made a lot easier with wireless cards etc. And I do expect 'thugs' to catch on.

Plus, you can only do that on lower sums. If I pay a higher sum than allowed for wireless pay where I live (Sweden) I'd still need chip and pin, and often in restaurants I am told to enter the total sum plus whatever tip I want to give, then confirm, then enter pin.

So I'd say cash can be quicker in some cases, slower in other, but my main concern is in the area of privacy and security both of my cash, and my ability to pay in force majura-cases.
Could this be a scheme to sell customer data?

I assumed for some time that installing backdoors is a good way to sell customer data you otherwise wouldn't be allowed to share.
Martin Luther King's Radical Anticapitalism
Stock price is mostly controlled by the sort of investor for whom figuring out a company's prospects is a full-time job for multiple days. PR spin matters, but you should expect the stock price to mainly reflect the numbers, not the spin.
Working on this, the subscribe bar already takes into account (that a job can have multiple open positions listed in it) but I want to split post into multiple entries too so it represents the data better.
A walk through the Magit interface
That sounds about right. Reddit just isn’t a fun place to be, and hasn’t been for years. I’m not sure what the value proposition is for Reddit anymore, other than for the owners of Reddit.
> Plus the deletion of the SpaceX and Tesla facebook pages, when told over Twitter they existed was pretty funny.

Wait, did Elon not know about them and then just got them deleted upon finding out?
Out of curiosity, what are the killer features of the full IDE over Code?
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