skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. A Chinese takeover of Taiwan would not directly threaten Japan or Korea as China has never had any claim or interest there, furthermore, it would massively increase Asian-US/EU ties. It would rock the world and everyone would be setting up new military ties to ensure border integrity.

It doesn't matter how popular Chinese reunification is today, because the mainland is getting ever more powerful and can orchestrate outcomes they desire. Did you think that Crimeans were pinning to rejoin Russia before the stealth-takeover? Not really.

"You are ignorant" - get off of HN if you're going rip like that.
I assume people fall into doing it without realising.

Unit tests are supposed to hermetically test individual components of a system. In object-orient environments, those components are often classes. But classes are typically quite small, very often a particular class exists to some implementation detail of your overall system -- this is especially true of the various Vistors, Factories, Adaptors etc. promoted by OOP theory.

When you combine "unit test every class" and "express your code structure through classes" you accidentally end up with "unit test your structure".
I know GDPR isn't very popular with some users of this site, but the rights related to automated decision making are a wonderful thing.
Some of them do, there are geosynchronous spy satellites.

https://www.popsci.com/gaofen-4-worlds-most-powerful-geo-spy...

"It may also have a lower resolution video streaming capacity."
"Their fear is that the US would use Taiwan as a base of operation to refuel and attack China."

Nobody is thinking that the US is going to attack the Chinese mainland.
My buddy who is a pro is going to ask this during the Q&A
Nice inclusive term, individual road transport can only mean bicycle since that is the only way you can get enough parking close for everyone.
Ok, so you are trolling. Sometimes is hard to tell.

Good movie indeed, I will make some room for the book.
I spoke at the conference this week, it was mind blowing to meet all these people. :)

The article seemed well done, the problem (from a information theory / network graph) though seemed weighted towards blockchain-like assumptions. This is fine, as more information needs to be seeded on this.

For those interested in the title's question:

Coordination might seem like the hard problem, but it is only hard because the majority of us in this community made it hard by using immutable data structures. If we use mutable data structures (you know my bias, but it is possible with https://github.com/amark/gun , proof: Mitra at Internet Archive integrated it in 1 week, now decentralized IA runs on GUN), we get some other problems but they are less than O(log N) in complexity.

Here is why coordination on immutability is hard:

O(N^2)

Just sit and think about it.

Intuitively it makes sense:

If I have an index to make something fast, and if it is immutable.

When I "update" the index, I have to create a new index.

Now the old index can't find the new index.

Therefore, I need to index the index, etc.

Repeat.

Therefore, as long as the web never changes, a decentralized immutable web will eventually be fast, but it must be true that if while the decentralized web changes, it will be hard.

This is not true if you can do decentralized mutable data. Check out our work! I hope this comment added novel insight to your day. :) If it did, let me buy you coffee next time you are in town. Cheers!
I don't think you're using "fiction" in the same way that Harari is. He absolutely does _not_ mean that human "are free to un-invent if we so chose." Many of our myths / fictions / metaphors are deeply embedded, to the extent that we simply aren't free to un-invent them because they're so fundamentally human. At the same time, though, because they are fictions they can be changed over time.

It took several thousand years for a significant number of humans to free themselves from religion.

The analytical value he has is that fictions change, and his point in the second book is that the pace of that change is accelerating rapidly. Fifty years from now may not look anything like the present, in very serious ways.
And anyway, its not really about the outliers. The trend seems clear: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Tempera...
Scala: understanding types and type system
Teleport: certificate-based SSH server
What I have trouble with is even gauging the quality of existing tests.
And it is why mechanical shutters are still a thing in dedicated cameras. It is still much faster to move two pieces of metal or carbon fiber over the sensor than it is to read out a multi-megapixel CMOS sensor. When shooting video mechanical shutters cannot be used so the rolling shutter effect can cause artifacts such as fast-moving subjects appear slanted.
some left-baiter making a video doesn't count as drama.
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Not really. Moderation is a local matter, something you sort out with the moderators of the instance you're on. Instances that don't moderate well are blacklisted. It's not like there haven't been trolls before. In practice the system works fine.
> I don't fault the guy for the arbitrage

Well, it's entrepreneurial, but he's almost certainly also violating all kinds of employment stipulations and policies he's formally agreed to (security, privacy, etc.)
Is there anywhere on earth where the weather can be considered normal or not changing much from the norm? Just curious where the best or last habitable areas would be? Perhaps New Zealand?
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My fingers are closer to 1cm than 1in. You already chose the metre as a good length, and the speed of ploughing a field (with an ox?) could not be less relevant to me.

Your volume measure has no convenient relation to a length³ measure. I can tell you the volume of this room in litres very easily given the dimensions, but "​1 cubic foot = 576/77 US fluid gallons".

"There is not a single agreed-upon upper limit for normal temperature with sources using values between 37.5 and 38.3 °C (99.5 and 100.9 °F)" (Wikipedia.)

You've made a false equivalence of your recipe. We can write "2dL flour" and so on, although flour in particular can have varying densities, so results are much more consistent when weighing. My British grandmother's recipes say things like "8oz flour" and were always weighed.

I can do halving and so on with metric or arbitrary tools (this glass/stick) when necessary, and can expect to have appropriate measuring tools available when I need them. So, since I'm not living in the 16th century, I don't see any benefit to the old units.
I made software 15 years ago to automatically buy concert and sports tickets from Ticketmaster and other websites. At the moment tickets went on sale we used hundreds of computers to buy up the good tickets.

I'm sorry your daughter didn't get Nsync tickets.
> the phenomena of interest can be formally described in terms of math/physics

The theoretical parts of computer science that do not get broken out academically into separate engineering disciplines (wherein physics is quite relevant) are really just branches of mathematics, without any physics involved.

> I think the distinction is that unlike neuroscience, psychology often seeks to explain things by correlating data/observations rather than describing the underlying physiology.

I don't know a huge amount about psychology but that sounds fair. Psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience all inform one another. I don't think it's quite accurate (or perhaps it's just needlessly pejorative) to suggest, as the OP does, that psychology has hit a "dead end" when the phenomenon under study requires the application of psychiatry or neuroscience in order to be more fully understood. On the contrary, it sounds like an indication that the psychologists might have discovered something interesting.
Me and a friend setup a fake electronics store on the dark web and ended up making a lot of money when bitcoin spiked in value.
It wasn't a bot, it was an observer. A bot would have it's name appear.
cool story incoming: I'm new here, and i was wondering if there would be climate change denier accounts here, just like the shitty news aggregation\commenting site that i left behind. sure enough they are here! commenting as they will on how the Titanic is doing 'just fine' and insisting we 'wait and see' how it turns out.

i suppose I'm not surprised, but i had hoped things would be different.
Not a programmer at the time, but a system administrator. I won't mention the company. This was 2011-2012 -ish.

We hosted dedicated servers and most of the time, they were mostly Plesk or cPanel servers run by people selling email and or web hosting to hundreds of clients from a single server.

This one time a client joins the network, buys a server from us, and migrates from Rackspace. We wondered why he'd move from Rackspace given they were better than us, and it turns he was kicked off of their network because he basically submitted tens of support tickets daily asking for all kinds of optimisations, improvements, and silly stuff not covered by the support contract. Rackspace had decided he wasn't worth it and booted him.

We ended up with him and boy was he a pain in the backside. Anyway...

Long story short, he cost us more in engineering time than he paid us and this irritated the owner of our business. The owner had my team leader find someone on his team willing to do the following: dump the guy's Plesk database containing all of his customers and make a copy of it on our network. I took on the task and was told it was simply a backup. I was young and didn't really think things through. I feel bad about it now because...

The customer was booted from the network a month later and all of his customers were offered free email and or web hosting for the year, including migrating them over to our network... the owner absolutely annihilated the guy. He contacted all his customers and simply wiped him out.

That same owner is now a highly respected business man and an MBE.

You might be able to do some digging and find out who this company and owner is, if you look hard enough.
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I love using Uber and am willing to look past their previous corporate offences since their new CEO seems focused on righting the wrongs. Uber's key problem is that their core business is illegal in most countries, since most countries have laws and regulations to protect passengers in taxis. Whether or not those laws and regulations should be changed is up for debate, but I think we need to refer to Uber as a taxi company instead of a ride-share company.
Considering they think Waymo might get prices down to 65-95 cents per mile with fully matured tech that seems like good number.
Car mechanics do this all the time, so what if an experienced mechanic can do a task in 1/10 the time, they always charge for the book time.
Ethereum Mainnet: https://etherscan.io/address/0x37a857e007ba6ae7862bc5ab1104d...

Smart Contract: https://github.com/1Address/1Address

Mining script: https://github.com/1Address/1AddressMiner
Yes. We can realistically capture and store permanently many Gigatonnes of CO2 per year. It involves capture of CO2 from concentrated point sources (power plants, chemical plants, metal and cement factories etc) and transport to permanent geological storage. We have all the tech and know how to scale up. The only problem is that it's pure cost, no short-term benefit, so no company will do it voluntarily.
I think voters don’t like taxi cartels or abusive tech companies.

Regulated markets are great. Unregulated markets are a terrible thing, and what Uber and Lyft are shooting for.
This account has no karma and appears to comment largely on climate change or environmental posts.
You can opt for the breathalyzer in most states, or they'll take you back to the office for a blood test.

If they take you to the office though they'll probably tow your car as a little extra bit of "fuck you" for exerting your rights
I'd speculate it's the element of surprise.

Ideally the pause would do nothing to the game. (It could be that the game has some glitches but let's assume it's solid.) Then one could assume that the pause does nothing regarding the AI players. But that is not true because the AI itself is not paused (I assume) and it has to handle this unusual input. This might throw off some versions of it and it probably learns how to handle the pause and how to use it to gain a small advantage. So it's all part of the game. Similar to when a human team uses the pause for tactical purposes.
I was charged with a DWI a year ago. The case is still going through the court system.

I was pulled over for speeding, going 36 in 35. Yes I am serious, one mile over. But this wasn't surprising to me, I am a young Hispanic man so this is a normal occurrence for me.

First thing the officer said was "boy you look nervous". As most adults pulled over by police feel. I handed my license and insurance over. The license had my old address the insurance had my most recent. He asked? "Is this your address", "yes", "why is the address different?", "because I moved a couple of months ago and have not had time to drop by the DMV", "Step out of the car sir"

I refused the field sobriety test but offered a breathalyzer. I blew a .034, that's less than half the legal limit.

He asked more questions, I answered but was short and untalkative.

He ended up arresting me. I asked him, why if I blew half the legal. He gave me three reasons. One; I was speeding and that I must be intoxicated to not notice the speed signs, two; I was uncooperative and nervous and that's a sign of drug or alcohol use, and lastly I forgot my address so I was obviously impaired.

The latest offer from the prosecutor was moving my charge down to reckless driving with 1 year of probation. My lawyer says I can probably get it dismissed.

It has been the worst experience of my life. Thank god I have enough money to hire one of the best lawyers in town, for $7k btw.
An awful lot of surprisingly diverse research comes out of Disney. I've seen some interesting stuff on haptic interfaces, for instance.
For me it works like this: Before reading this HN item, my understanding was that 'Loss aversion' was very likely to be correct - let's say 98%. After reading the headline and a few comments I lower the 'chance of correctness' a little to say 93%.

Two points on this approach: 1. My assessment lies on a gradient rather than a simple true/false. 2. I rarely read the source evidence - my assessment relies mostly on the assessment of others.
Thank you!!!

I need to fix the organization of the documentation (and update the docs, oye!). I'm impressed you found Awesome-GUN.

https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/examples/game/space... is probably what you were searching for.

What would be better is if I made a blog/tutorial for ^ link. Not a priority for me, sadly, but maybe it is for somebody out there, that they could help?

Thanks again!
Chat deciding heroes can be so cool! We may see new strategy, AI out of the safe lane confidence!!
As a frequent victim of this, perhaps you can satisfy my curiosity: What is the logic behind auto-starting videos at MAX VOLUME?

That just sends me stampeding for the [X] on the tab button all the faster.
Failure to control a vehicle is a violation in the places I've lived. It applies regardless of circumstances. Ice patch, animal runs in front, screaming toddler, whatever the cause, you can still be arrested for it.
Well it's certainly thought provoking, thanks for the link.
This would slow the rate of emissions, but not eliminate them or suck any extant CO2 from the atmosphere, correct?
>the US was upholding a fledgling government in the South, in that context it's pretty hard to label the US as 'aggressor'.

The fledgling government was only “fledgling” because the CIA installed and then helped destabilize an unpopular, anti-democratic government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_South_Vietnamese_coup

>And I also agree that 'Imperialism' is a stretch because US actions in Japan, South Korea etc. aren't even remotely related to classical Imperialism. Heck, the US gave Japan a constitution, democracy, and even made sure that women had the right to vote, despite Japanese objection!

Japan was a democracy prior to the war, with universal male suffrage beginning in the late 1920s. It devolved into fascism through a series of internal coups.

It’s great that suffrage was extended to women post war. What wasn’t so great was when the US government absolved, rehabilitated, and financed the former fascists and more or less handed the country back over to them to stop talking the rise of any legitimate, democratic left-wing rule of the country. And this was despite the fact that many leftists in Japan had fought, been imprisoned, and died trying to stop the war and atrocities by the fascists. Amazingly, this effort was led by the CIA-backed war criminal, Nobusuke Kishii under the guise of stopping the “socialist threat” to Japan (quite rich since he and his pals dragged the country into a war that caused untold devastation and destruction).

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi

In South Korea, the US backed Syngman Rhee, another fascist who killed tens of thousands of people he perceived to be his left-wing opponents. This unchecked political violence legitimized the cause of Kim Il-Sung and threw the country into a devastating civil war that has been terrible for everyone on the peninsula for the past 70 years. And in spite of all of this, the US continued to back right-wing dictators in South Korea until they were pushed out by a popular uprising in the 1980s (the true origin of South Korean democracy, not the sham the US installed).

If you want to understand the reality of US imperialism, I suggest you not blindly accept popular narratives about what the US did postwar, especially in SE Asia. There are plenty of history texts written on the subject.
Pascal's wager is mainly faulty because it relies on a complete lack of information, unlike climate change where we have some information. If we had any clues at all that any existing gods are benevolent, it would most definitely be the right choice from a pragmatic perspective. If we circle back to climate change as an example, it's hard to be certain but that's still a lot of clues telling us we should do something.

I assume you're not headed into religious debate territory but I don't imagine pragmatists focus much on metaphysical matters (I know I don't).
May was unusually hot here in Sweden, and actually broke all previous measured records. But here's the interesting part: The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) concluded that statistically a May this hot only occurs three times in a million years. [0]

But according to your reasoning I guess we're just really lucky?

https://www.smhi.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/varmebolja-i...
You got an extra day for an out of memory exception? I wish I was that lucky
I helped build Grindr, which of course I don't think was unethical. But I've been surprised by some people's reaction to it. It generally comes up in some conversation where someone asks "what have you worked on that I might have heard of?" Occasionally they follow up with (paraphrasing) "how do you sleep at night?"
Napster was by far the best way to share music, just like how popcorn time is the easiest way to get a movie right here right now. However nowadays people ditched their desktop computer/node for an iphone, and ISP upload speeds are in most places pretty bad. I think this has crippled p2p services and made centralization more convenient (while it isn't). Unfortunately we 're not gonna see decentralized web unless the general public gets back control of the compute and traffic.
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My thoughts on the AI's performance so far knowing a bit about both DOTA and machine learning:

- Item-usage for things such as smoke and wards (which were recently added to their reportoire) are not well captured by the bots yet. And the buying of wards were confirmed as a scripted event. It seems hard for them to capture the long term sparse reward of these. Smoke might not be needed by a perfect agent, but wards should be. The developer interview noted that it's not very clear what the reward for an agent warding even should be.

- Some of the big advantages OpenAI gains are in team fights, where it's 200ms reaction time (upped from 80ms to resemble human reaction time more) still strikes me as something that tilts it into a solid mechanical advantage. On several occasions OpenAI's Lion managed to disable a human player performing (what I assume to be) a move which shouldn't be interruptable. (blink-->shift+ctrl ultimate ability on earthshaker) This could have tilted teamfights in the human team's favor a few times if it wasn't stopped by the "machine-like" reflexes of OpenAI.

- Positioning before team fights by OpenAI are scary. There are very few openings, and every individual agent is protected by its team.

- Likewise is the map movement scary most of the time. Being able to recall just enough agents back to defend while simultaneously taking out strategic objectives of the human team. Also Blitz(caster) has noted earlier OpenAI's ability to focus on the winnable lanes and sacrifice the others, prioritizing well. (and exploiting map mechanics unknown to most pros until a few years ago)

- When the AI takes down a tier 1 tower, they seem to be very quick to take down the remaining tier 1 towers, instantly capitalizing on their map control advantage, and expanding it.

Some interesting things / bugs:

- Sniper bot throwing multiple spells on the same location right away (even though the damage doesn't stack) effectively simply wasting his mana and cooldowns, for no gain.

- Sniper using his ultimate ability to pressure the lower hp characters of the human team continously. Usually it's more often used more as a finisher, and might be an artifact that appears from the AI having access to an unkillable courier that ferries a lot of healing/mana regenerating items.

Some additional info learned from the interview of some of the devs:

- Incentivizing killing Roshan (a boss character in the middle of the map, which yields a one-time ressurection item for one player, after being killed) is done by varying roshan's HP down to a really low amount, making sure the AI experiences the upside to this. Otherwise it would require all 5 agents gathering there, expending their magical abilities and investing a lot before actually seeing a reward. (which is unlikely to happen)

- Game length in self-play sessions are above 60 minutes around 1% of the time.
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I bet Sahara is pretty constant all the time :)

EDIT: Spoke too soon:

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/videos/sno...
Out of curiosity - was this because of their homophobia or something else? I’ve read they’ve been terrible about data security.
A circular argument might be worth engaging more than an argument whose central point is an equivalence between dedicated climate scientists and religion.

Hell, even an actual religion is worth more of people's time.
Expecting 3-0 slam dunk here. Consistently surprised at the ability of tried and true basic reinforcement learning at completing challenging tasks. I totally expected some kind of neccessary breakthrough in the RL field before a real time game like Dota 2 could be beaten.
Even worse because refactoring and bug fixing will always break unit tests coders will get in the habit of reflexively updating unit tests when they fail.
A few years back at my last job, I was approached by a senior guy on a product team asking me to game some tests so we could get our Windows certification.

I just kind of brushed him off at the time. I'm still sorry I didn't collect evidence and then report him. He was a real dirt bag.