skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the question was what's wrong with these platforms with regards to OSS.

You can't just provide software that 1000s of people use. You now have to be creating some story around it on Patreon or whatever, have a way to get people to patreon or your website in the first place, which will only take away time from your side project.

Numbers just don't add up. You can perhaps expect $50/month with those number of users if you really, really tried and spent countless hours on propagation. That's like 1-2 hours of work in a real job.

For a cli tool distributed in major linux distros you don't even have a way to get people to your website, because mostly just packagers will go there and some people with exotic preferences who build from source, which is a tiny minority.

These websites solve none of this.
Making Games Better for Gamers with Colourblindness and Low Vision
I think you are right that this blog post doesn't lay out a specific use case to justify this setup in a restaurant- that does not appear to be the goal of the post. An exploration of problems and requirements is probably what you're looking for.

They did drop a few hints, though. They are just hints, and going by what's in the blog post, a bit of imagination is required to fill in some of the gaps. However, if you do that, I can envision a few possible needs for low-latency edge computing that are interesting and forward-looking:

- Kitchen automation. Sensors that monitor food being cooked, and help implement a pipeline to ensure quality is consistent. (example here is that neural net monitoring the staleness of fries).

- Inventory automation. Monitor and automatically restock items. Track purchases and ingredient usage in real time.

- Data analytics. Collect detailed time-series data about food quality, facilities maintenance, foot traffic, noise levels, security, etc.

These aren't standard restaurant problems. However, it's an interesting approach to scaling data analysis and automation in the physical world. All of these use cases assume the need for "real-time" data, and they assume that such a thing has business value (which is where I think your critique is coming from).

I'm not affiliated with Chick Fil-A, so I don't know how correct any of my speculation is, but that's my takeaway from reading the article.
Easier maybe, cheaper no way.
200 ms is much better than 99.99% of humans though. One specific example - one of the humans playing Axe tried to cast a spell that would taunt an enemy into attacking him. It takes 400ms to cast this. That’s not enough time for all but a handful of humans to react, but OpenAI managed it with ease. He couldn’t land the spell until he purchased an item that granted him invisibility.
If you feel this way, maybe you should leave this dead nation's website.
That book actually just made it onto my Amazon wishlist (for other reasons). I know I'm unlikely to succeed in my current company, but I'm trying to increase my understanding/fluency in systems thinking in order to improve the company's understanding. Realistically, this means I'm building a skillset for my next job.

That particular model is interesting for what I described. Essentially, if someone wants to program they'll be drawn to one of the projects/people already out there which are already using some language. They'll then use the same language and become a person or produce a project that the next person may be drawn to. The original thing that drew them to the language is still there, and they're another point to draw someone else to the same language.

Thanks.
I’ve seen an Alice in Wonderland themed one and an Atlantis store (complete with giant aquariums). They have another one but I think the theme is a musty dimly lit electronics store with questionable returned merchandise restocking policies.
If it was easier to pin a web page to your home screen, I think this would catch on more. I run a website and I get requests a lot saying "you should have an app!" I ask what the app would do, and they say "what the website does, but stuck on my home screen."

It's also unfortunate that web pages have the disadvantage that they have the browser UI around them, so it reduces the space available to the page versus an app, and web pages don't have permissions that apps do like sending notifications. Some people view this as a good thing and I tend to agree, but it's still a big disconnect that my weather app can send me a notification saying there is a tornado in my area whereas a weather website needs me to actively be checking it.
So is the software being given away or are there strings attached?
Hybrid Hominid found
Why is their stance deemed as political and not humanitarian?
How would they know they are different species? They don't have their DNA. The Denisovans are just a different form and we don't find them outside one cave. And now they claim that different species can interbreed? Who determines all this?
Most of the newer games I play are Unity games. Although checking Wikipedia it sounds like the core engine is still in C++, so maybe there is more emultation than I thought even then. I guess this is why not that many games can be run directly with mono...

I found someone did a HackWeek project at Unity this year of porting the Unity engine to .net core that has more details:

http://xoofx.com/blog/2018/04/06/porting-unity-to-coreclr/
> The current hero pool isn't, by any means, random.

Some of the restrictions they've discussed - like initially they couldn't handle with illusions, summons or invisibility at all. They obviously dropped the invis restriction.

My feeling is that the AI just learned that of the given pool, 'deathball' was the best (and specific heroes like Gyrocopter/Sniper were the most effective carries).
Got clue what's up with Terry? (TempleOS Guy)
> Even in academia, where the H1B - green card process is pretty much a railroad.

Academic H1Bs are not transferable to commercial employers, so you're even more trapped than you'd otherwise be. The department I worked for at Stanford had a blanket policy not to sponsor green cards for staff. Ironically this policy made me leave earlier than I would have otherwise as I did not want to be left in limbo as I approached the 5 year H1B limit.
Many ISPs and telecom providers certainly do. Some were even selling geolocation data. So arguably you must use VPNs and/or Tor for privacy.
Tim has lots of experience in business and tech. From scratch he built a self driving car company valued at $3.2 billion, whose autonomous OS is outperforming efforts from major automakers and tech companies and with a fraction of the resources. Zoox has gotten to where they are now on about $300 million. Others have spent far more and have a lot less to show for it.
This sends a horrible message to young people that are already over-entitled (I mean really, tweeting like that??).

Young people learn from this: You should be offensive, insulting, and disrespectful. Then when it blows up on you, reach out and apologize, and you'll end up with an even better position.
A clean implementation based on AlphaZero for any game in any framework
The US will be minority American in 25 years as virtually every news source will gleefully tell you. The foreign migration into the USA is massive and unprecedented in history, except for the original colonization.

What you say about housing costs is not wrong, but it’s also very incomplete. Many other factors drive housing inflation, just one example is that mortgages expand the total money supply, resulting in textbook inflation. Rent seeking behavior is definitely unfortunate for the non rentier classes though.

I’m generally inclined to agree about taxing income vs assets. However it’s just as important to not punish savers as it is to not punish labor.
At the current state, openai five stands no chance against stronger teams (eg liquid lgd) of TI8.
This is news of the day not a hacker news topic. Someone please flag this.
Paid my way through college working for Best.

It was minimum wage. $3.05/hr at the time, unloading 60 ft trailers in 100 degree heat in the late summer. That notwithstanding we actually had medical/dental and paid vacation time.

Often thought if they'd made it longer, it was a pretty close approximation to online shopping. Look at an example on the floor and then order from the warehouse upstairs.
The story that came out earlier this summer in Bloomberg was pure HBO Silicon Valley-esque hyperbole -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-tax...

The degree I take a company seriously is inversely related to the hype spewed by these articles (see pre 10/2015 Theranos press)
What is wrong with ethno-nationalist? What is wrong with a people caring for their own? Or are you worried the rest of the world looks at disgust at your giant homosexual orgy in the West?
Reaction time seems to be a lot more complicated than just 200ms flat. There were a lot of superhuman reactions that game which really made it difficult for humans to start a fight. At the same time though, increasing much more than 200ms might give a big advantage to humans in other situations. It will be interesting to see if they can find a better way to model it.

All in all I am very impressed by the AI. So many complex strategies that it is employing(grouping for towers, lane swaps, etc...). But at the same time, it really does look at the moment like this is only close because the AI has vast advantages from mechanics and teamfighting.
The sentence is a bit unusually phrased; I parsed it several times as prospective mining sites being visited by depressed whales and became rather puzzled.
OK, how about this idea then? "Global warming over the recent past [reference favorite timeline here] may be largely due to the extensive regrowth of previously deforested areas."
I hope you are exaggerating a little for fun. Asking if everything is fine isn't really small talk and definitely doesn't deserve contempt.
My wealth is mine to do what I want with, including to give it to someone else (unless you're proposing that wealth be somehow nontransferable?)

Inheritance isn't about the receiver getting something for nothing, it's about the right of the deceased to have their possessions disposed of as they see fit.
Makes one wonder if an OS should be built using LISP these days to make available that kind of hackability. Or port Genera OS [1] to x86 or arm. The languages used by the VPRI project were bootstrapped on lisp if I recall correctly [2]. It would be great if that projects code was released as open source too.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?GeneraOs
[2] http://www.vpri.org/writings.php
I hope open source does not become a feel good buzzword for vote tallying security efforts. Nothing precludes open source based voting firmware from being modified before deployment on the machines (and perhaps with less effort as the source code is easily studied). Without end-to-end documentation of the entire build process for the final image, and secure hashing of the binary, open source means nothing. And even then...

> The ballot-counting equipment is part of a broader redesign of Los Angeles County’s voting system, which will include new equipment while relying on a traditional paper ballot

Article is light on details, and it's difficult to tell exactly what this sentence means, but if it means the new software will produce paper ballots that can be verified and observed by humans, that's a good thing at least.
First start writing automated tests, for example Selenium & unit tests. You'll learn what all the code does, you'll learn a new skill, you'll have a safety net of regression tests for rewriting the code, and you'll be adding value to the company. If you have good test coverage, you'll be able to rewrite the code very quickly. There are a ton of resources for how and why to do testing. One that stands out in my mind is SQLite. They've talked about being able to refactor the core of their engine in a weekend, only because they had the test coverage to know they did it right. https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WslnuNZ3T5w https://youtu.be/giAMt8Tj-84?t=32m35s
Adding that line as a kicker to the article seems like a pretty transparent attempt to drum up outrage.

$71,760 would be insufficient to pay for a one-bedroom apartment in SF (median in SF and surrounding $3,340 a month = $40,080 a year, and that pay is gross not net). It is $20,000 below the median wage in SF.

The number with the "mandated benefits" is a joke; yes, employers pay SS payroll tax on top of wages, and yes, it is a moral imperative that people have healthcare and the United States is the only OECD country without a viable universal healthcare solution. Even custodial or sanitation workers should get vacation. Sick leave should be a part of any wage paying job. And since not everyone can retire off selling their startup or buying bitcoin, blue collar workers also need pension / retirement support.

My reaction to these numbers is that "poop patrolers" (an insulting label, by the way) should be paid enough to live with dignity in the city they work for.

Finally, homelessness is an outrage and more should be done to secure basic housing, mental health care, and drug addiction services for all.
Those ratings shouldn't be averaged together though, because the weighting would be different for everyone. Each category would have its own average, and when I'm searching for a place, I would specify what I care about.
The article clearly describes this as being the result of genetic testing, so how do they not have DNA?
And why do you think they acquired them?
That's great, I don't know we can do that, because I always use Ubuntu with my Thinkpad.
Ours soon enough

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics/chinas-xi-...
When OpenAI played caster team, there was 5 invulnerable couriers that further increase their strength using death ball strategy.
It's a well known fact that abiogenesis works if you raise salaries. Raise them enough and poof, one wild network engineer appears. All companies are able to fill their positions and there will be no shortage.
Exactly, this is path dependency in a case where value comes from network effects. I have occasion to apply this material in thinking about my work and I'm hoping to get to apply more of it as time goes.

Sterman's is the best all-round book on systems thinking I've read. Not too hand-wavy, not swimming in calculus, plenty of interesting case studies and practical advice that show deep experience. It's in a sweet spot for me.

Edit: as a note, it always seems to be substantially cheaper on Book Depository than on Amazon. I suspect that bots are, hilariously, in a feedback loop bidding up a book about feedback loops.
You want to make it illegal for someone to make a piece of hardware that can only run binaries signed by the manufacturer?

I can’t understand this at all. If I go through the trouble to create a product and I want to control the user experience for that product, that’s my right and privilege. The market will decide if they want to purchase my product or not.

Consumers have spoken, and spoken extremely loudly, that they like Apple’s approach. Why would you want to deny the right for this product to exist?

It’s an amazing product, and what Apple has accomplished with their App Store is nothing short of incredible. I love their approach and I think they are 100% entitled to charge what they want on their own marketplace.
The ballot-counting
equipment is part of a
broader redesign of Los
Angeles County’s voting
system, which will include
new equipment while relying
on a traditional paper ballot.

So they’re paper ballots but the machine to count them is open source?
AGPL would do nothing to stop cloud providers having hosted versions.

What it would do is mean that a lot less people would be able to use the software as it's a license that is not allowed at most companies. You can argue that this is for the wrong reasons, or it's due to fearmongering, but that doesn't change the fact.

I think you have it backwards: a less popular project could be viable with BSD and wouldn't survive as AGPL.
Seems pretty fair, but they need more public toilets and maybe it wouldn't happen so much.
for a bot, they sure are doing pretty well versus the top 5% of the skilled dota players, assuming that only the top players around the world can enter the main international event.
Genuinely surprised that someone applying for an internship at NASA does not know who Homer Hickam is.
That's a great list. Let's put it to the test:

Find a Chinese person over the age of 40. Ask them if they've experienced 2 economic systems in their life, then ask them if the first one was communist, and the second one was capitalist. They'll answer yes on all 3, with maybe some elaboration about transitions, legacy effects, and the peculiarities of China.

Then break out the list and try to change their mind. Let me know your results.
That's a good point. Make the process hard enough and they will do just that. Now, not only you have (potentially) lost a US position, but now the workers are not even there to pay taxes and consume local goods and services.
Not OP, but I spent 5 years at Cisco. It wouldn't be terribly hard to hide opex in a company that size.. there's a good deal of discretion given to middle management with their budgets and non-existent oversight.
I'm sure others already asked: "y u no sha3?" on the git dev lists. Assuming quantum computers with many qubits land, aren't prime factorization, EC and matrix math crypto basically DOA?
Are you aware of the research which suggests that much of what we consider wetlands today may only exist because of prior deforestation in those areas? And that reforestation may naturally then lead to these wetlands shrinking dramatically in size?
Huawei, ZTE to be excluded from Australia's 5G network
She probably got a lot of responses, and wasn't really looking at the names anymore.
Your comment history suggests that you have some relationship with Zoox that you're not disclosing.

You've commented on Zoox several times before in an overly enthusiastic manner. You've also commented several times before on autonomy and your comments have been called out for astroturfing in a couple of instances.

Readers please beware and take this comment with a grain of salt.
Yeah my guess is that perfect timing-awareness and 200ms reaction time looks a lot like 0ms reaction time. Just start the action 200ms earlier - that'll work in enough cases that you'll look like you have perfect timing.
> I don’t believe Americans benefit from a level of migration that makes them a political minority in their own homeland though

Non sequitur. Is anyone even arguing that this should be the case?
As I walk around my Los Angeles neighborhood, I see about a dozen houses that appear to be completely unoccupied.
Real goods -- like pieces of companies (stocks) or tangible assets (housing, etc).

In my layman opinion -- the western central banks are in cahoots continually "soft landing" (optimistic) or manipulating (pessimistic) and at an accelerated rate since 2008.

The marketing isn't booming up. The nominal metric is falling rapidly.
Hi Tim!
Please don't break the site guideline against editorializing in titles. Accounts that do this eventually lose submission rights on HN.

Cherry-picking the detail you consider important and making that the title is editorializing, so please don't do that. If you think something is important, you're welcome to tell us what that is in the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you want to play with nukes, work at Pantex.
Ya that's kind of my view on things. I've even seen people abuse exercising to the point of breaking their bodies, know of people who abused porn and masturbation until it wrecked their lives and couldn't form proper relationships or maintain ones they had, workaholics who neglect their lives and families, people who have lost themselves in MMO's and alienated their friends and put their jobs at risk.

On the complete opposite spectrum i've read stories of people maintaining heroin addictions for decades while holding down respectable jobs and and families, respected scientists or business owners who spark up a joint the moment they get home, people who spent much of their young lives doing ridiculous amounts of drugs but ended up pretty alright in the end.

Anything can become an addiction if you let it and even without addictions life itself requires concious effort to make good positive choices every day. Whatever you do in life I feel like as long as you're striving to better yourself, have a positive impact in the world and just generally contribute positively to existence and much as you can, you're probably doing alright.

The world's a hard, fucked.up place. Everybody's different and everybody's situation's different. Things that are serious life hampering problems for some are that little something that takes away the harshness of life for others.

That guy sitting drunk on the street asking you to listen to him may have been sober for years and less than a half hour ago he watched his whole life unravel before him and for the first time in years turned to a bottle of whiskey. A dude on the street approached me recently and asked.me to listen to him, so I sat for a bit while he talked to me....that's what had just happened to him. We talked for a bit, I told him about some of the thing's I'd gone through in the year before that and by the end of talking with me, he'd decided that what was happening to him wasn't worth waking up tomorrow and turning to whiskey. Apparently i was the first person to even acknowledge him let alone listen.

I dunno you can't judge other people's lives. You don't understand the things they've gone through or what they've.experienced. There's reasons for everything, sometimes they're hard to understand but there is.
I own some beautiful Mexican pottery with uranium glaze.
May I ask why you feel the need to act so hostile on this thread?
Censorship and privacy concerns have ironically created a market for malware-laden and snooping VPNs to prey on unsuspecting users. the cure is worse than the disease
I think of the biggest issues was they expected to get a far higher market cap then they got.
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> Some people are comfortable working around fragile and wonky code

Yep, because I have worked with very bad codebases over the past 25 years, I actually enjoy the challenge. For me it is more rewarding than working with pristine and well managed code bases.
A preprint of the paper can be found on ArXiv here https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02047
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I would agree that OP's comment did not seem likely to engender thoughtful discussion. Taking a lot at some other comments, I also understand where you're coming from as a moderator. Keep fighting the good fight; I appreciate the work you're doing.
Thanks! URLs are often sources of more neutral titles. We didn't see that one.
Those buildings are so cool! Sad that there isn't any will to preserve them. And those pictures are awesome too, I'm going to be wasting a lot of time now Googling Best and SITE buildings now...
I'm having trouble following my own thoughts on this one.

- Posts about an exciting thing to online friends with the word Fuck - This is ok.

- Random person inserts themselves into the conversation trying to be a moral compass - Good intentions, but not ok.

- tells person to suck dick and balls - Not ok.

So, while the offer was rescinded due to the mob mentality of Twitter following up on this exchange, I would definitely have second thoughts on hiring someone if that's their go-to attitude.

In the end, I'm glad one stupid tweet didn't ruin this person's life, but I hope it's a wake up call that there is no wall between online and offline.