skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DoTA has come such a long way from being just a warcraft 3 mod. All those random pub matches I used to play with w33, analyzing all the patchnotes and .w3g replays before youtube was a thing, to shitty garena pubmatches, to a full fledge esports remake, to going to my first Dota TI2 international 2 years back, and now AI is being thrown in the mix. I wonder what the future of DoTA will look like now
It's not obvious at all. They haven't cracked down on external software sources and I doubt they are stupid enough to believe they could get away with such a thing if they tried. It would be a dealbreaker for business users in particular.

I think the more plausible explanation is that Microsoft wrote the store because users expect to have one on mobile devices (i.e. Surface) and Windows 8 was an attempt at tablet-PC convergence.
"Kentley-Klay, 43, is an improbable entrant into the crowded race to develop self-driving cars. He has no engineering degree, no background in computer science. Through his early 30s, he was a successful artist and designer—creating music videos and ads for major companies like McDonald’s and Birds Eye frozen vegetables."

https://www.forbes.com/feature/zoox-autonomous-cars-taxis/#1...

"In a move that some will call devious and others will call ingenious, Kentley-Klay reached out to some of the biggest names in the field and told them he was making a documentary on the rise of self-driving cars. The plan was to mine these people for information and feel out potential partners."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-tax...

The whole thing seems insane to me. I don't understand why you would fund someone with no tech or business background... I'm sure he hired some good people, but it still doesn't make sense.

As to why the investors booted him? Investors generally don't kick out the CEO unless they did something crazy. It doesn't look good for the investor, and it makes it investment look bad (and follow on investment less likely).
Bob owns a company Bobsoft employing 50 people and can't use the software.

He renames it Alphabob with two daughter companies Bobsoft and Bobworks each employing 25 people. He now can use the software.

"Fair source" is proprietary freeware with pseudo-opensource flavor.
VW's Mexican neighbours say its weather-altering tech caused drought
See the case study of Nidan. They setup unions in India for informal workers. A union of unions so to speak.the centre that did the case study is one of the best to understand Systems change

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_SF17_Case_Studies_02_Nidan_...
That explanation doesn’t fly, because most of these figures were imprisoned on completely trumped up charges, for example, they were accused of being members of counterrevolutionary organizations that did not even exist. The state arrested them for their cultural prominence, not because they had any inclinations towards active separatism that the Soviet Union could have known of.
This 200ms restriction seems really slow, but it isn’t. It feels extremely fast, to the point where some heroes and tactics used by humans are useless or impossible. For example, one of the humans played a hero called Axe. It was literally impossible to land one of his skills because it takes 400ms to use it. I’ve seen a lot of professional Dota but I’ve never seen Axe calls being dodged so perfectly and consistently.

If this game was balanced around AI rather than humans, this game would look very different.
Is OpenAI's expected win chance available anywhere? Only the bot reaction time against initiations was keeping them in the game for the last 20 minutes, so it might have been the desperate flailing typical of bots when they are losing.
I think this statement is false by nature. If one have secured visa, assuming following law, is something like saying that Cisco have engineers on H1b. Taha, whole world knows that, it's in public domain. This is like saying Google or some other firm is using H1B employee.
Discount Dick-Counter
(Sung with the Mattress Discounters jingle[1])

[1] https://youtu.be/G_2l0XWxP-w
I don't think it is, but—as usual with EC—if you don't want it there's a performance cost. The way you'd avoid it in a model where writes go into one queue/connection and reads come out somewhere else is when you'd do a write you'd have to block and wait on that write being acknowledged on the reader side (or you build in some sort of side channel to whatever your write handler is so it can tell you when a write has been accepted, if you're doing conflict resolution on the write side (some systems don't and push it off to read-time)).

But at that point you're just simulating something you probably already had before going to CQRS/ES, so you would only want to do that in very select cases. Otherwise there's really no point to the architecture...
Totally agree. I was very hopeful after seeing the benchmark match, but openai definitely looked a lot more naked today. Long term (5-10 mins) looked really weak when it really mattered. It just wanted toget team fights and capitalize on it to take down objectives later.

I think I saw somewhere that they are training to consider a time frame of a minute or so, so it makes sense. But it's also slightly disappointing since these games have long term strategy when teams are evenly matched.

Mechanics and positioning looks really strong still. Decisions less so.
...and then the person she "fought" with said he was going to do everything in his power to get her a position as good as or better than the one she lost. [0]

0. https://mobile.twitter.com/realgamer07/status/10319975097853...

Edit: p.s. I know this is in the article, but that headline is a bit sensational.
The twitter post[0] announcing the Commons Clause doesn't help make it clear by saying:

> Redis has adopted a new license I've been working on w/ a talented team.

The Redis mentioned here. I believe, actually means Redis Labs, not Redis the project.

[0]: https://twitter.com/kevinverse/status/1032068995979956224
Perhaps old ratings should be removed or down-weighted in the system as time passes. This would make the ratings better reflect current levels of quality, (a) helping people learn and recover from mistakes and (b) keeping people from coasting on past success while reducing quality.

Not sure how to get general users to rate with 1-star = bad, 3-stars = ok, and 5-stars = great. Sounds like a social engineering problem. It may be more reliable to use trained evaluators, like the system used by Consumer Reports or the Michelin Guide.
> Eager to cash in, companies have begun the process of sending machinery down to the bottom of the sea to set up mining operations.

What regulatory body would or does oversee that? That makes me really sad... so much of the earth destroyed, and now one of the last (if not the last?) untouched part of nature.
The United States is not currently experiencing mass immigration. Its total annual population growth rate including immigration is lower than 1% and has not been this low since the Great Depression. The United States is a relatively lightly populated country per unit of total land area, and many cities in the interior of the country are declining in population despite immigration.

Housing prices are inversely correlated with the property tax rate on real estate and the income tax rate on capital gains. A decline in either real estate property taxes or capital gain income taxes increases housing prices, by making land more attractive as an investment. This effect is independent of the population of the country. If it becomes more attractive to put money into land rather than in businesses which employ workers, and changes to the tax code cause an increase in land banking, then the price of land increases faster than wages and salaries used to buy it regardless of the level of population of the country.

Taxing earned income of younger families via payroll taxes at a much higher rate than unearned increment of land via property taxes and capital gains taxes is basically a very slow moving form of national suicide.
The saddest part is that they largely suck. Various degrees of suck but it’s mind blowing what people some firms are willing to inflict on their clients and who some companies are willing to employ. People that are a net-drain on the company with no end in sight, You can’t help feeling bad for the situation they’re in. Totally lost and no one signed on to mentor someone who’s greener than a fresh intern but ostensibly was supposed to “hit the ground running”.

The other part of this insanity that I have much less sympathy for is cheating. When I heard about Amazon’s remote interview process that involved taking over your computer and requiring specific camera angles I thought it was outrageous however I started to see why they did that after a few interviews where the person that showed up wasn’t the person we interviewed. They were of course the same people but upon arrival they had a completely different mind and (much less) knowledge. It was eerie. The only theory I can come up is that they had others listening in and either typing or speaking answers to them. While I don’t approve of that the reality is that exploitive companies put up with it, something they’d never do with market rate employees.

There are some that know their shit but in my experience the ones that do don’t usually take a lower salary because they don’t need to. They’re not really part of this terrible equation.
Looking historically at team ELO and how squads have gone on 27-series win streaks, this is probably right. Though I think the gap between "low-tier" TI teams and TI winners is getting much tighter. Group B at TI8 was so close the difference between upper-bracket and lower-bracket was 1 game for most of the teams.
Oops, I thought it said Robot Insurance raises $100M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXnL7sdElno
Net Worth Difference is the best single indicator, but there are additional factors like tower difference, item purchasing decisions, hero composition, hero aliveness & buyback status, aegis, etc. Some specific heroes also wildly differ from the norm for each one of these factors. The game is very complex :()
Stamps are going away. Lots of countries no longer stamp passports, at least in some situations. Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, South Korea. The US will generally not stamp their own passports.

Frankly, I'm fine with it now that the US no longer lets you add pages to an existing passport.
You're thinking of Volkswagon's VPN app.
That's what OpenAI claims, but there have been too many insta-hex/euls moments for me to believe that. Players are shift-queing blink+AoE spells and getting hexed in between the two abilities. That's way faster than a 200 ms reaction time.

I think OpenAI might have a bug with how they're adding reaction time.
So drive slow for 1-3 weeks every time you want a new discount and then drive normal. If this literally dropped my insurance by $600+/yr (I pay over $1200/yr for one car) then I'm totally down... I wonder how they determine your risk. Mainly speed and g-forces I'd guess. So just use typical efficient driving techniques (large buffer in front of you to avoid using the brakes, accelerate slowly, prefer constant speed vs varying) and then go slow through turns while observing all speed limits.

Kind of doubt they do this discount for certain cars or demographics tho. Young men, basically.

God I'd love this for motorcycle insurance. S1000RR goes from $4k+/yr to insure to 2k. Woo!
On HN the idea is to value quality above quantity.
Trump Lied about Stormy Daniels, from the Fact Checker
Please do not use HN for nationalistic flamewar, no matter how right you are or feel you are. It destroys this place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> reading the commit messages, to understand why it was done that way.

that's assuming the original authors used version control, committed often enough to leave meaningful commit messages, and bothered to explain their decisions.

pretty much every code base i've taken over in my current role have consisted of a single posting commit with zero documentation.
Hmm that report is confusing. I thought the fact it said sponsoring meant money donated to the linux foundation. But page 14 of that report seems to imply it’s changes contributed to the kernel. Not money.
If I've mistaken your question for pedantry, please forgive me.

You can narrowly define malware by a quick dictionary definition[1]:

> software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems.

However, malware also has a much looser definition[2] if we don't restrict ourselves to a one sentence Google result:

> Programs officially supplied by companies can be considered malware if they secretly act against the interests of the computer user. For example, Sony sold the Sony rootkit, which contained a Trojan horse embedded into CDs that silently installed and concealed itself on purchasers' computers with the intention of preventing illicit copying. It also reported on users' listening habits, and unintentionally created vulnerabilities that were then exploited by unrelated malware.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Amalware

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
Loved the strategy used by Pain. They recognised that fighting OpenAI wasn’t working so they actively avoided fights. They recognised strategic shortcomings, like the AI’s reluctance to pressure lanes and exploited it. What disappointed me a bit is that the AI didn’t make a concerted effort to win the game when it was strongest.
I really think that once self driving proves itself on interstate highways in sunny weather areas, that the transition to other places will have to include additional technology such as beacons that get installed along the roads. Then self driving will only be turned on when those beacons are available.
Once, when returning to the US, I was asked why I was wearing a coat. Because it's December and I just flew in from Frankfurt, you dunderhead...

Weirder were the two times an agent suggested that with my background I should join an intelligence agency. I was working on dual CS and international relations degrees at the time, which I did not mention to the agent. I should really file a FOIA request on myself to find out what was in my file that prompted those questions.
Zero to JupyterHub with Kubernetes
Chick-fil-a does not run the iPad software but it does integrate with their systems. The same company who sells their POS software runs the iPad software and I believe the Chick-fil-a One app.
They didn't have the invincible carriers and had more heros this time around.
We'd just legalize whaling if that happened.
No story about nuclear weapons nerds is complete without at least one reference to

http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/

especially the physics lessons in http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq0.html
Is there an up-to-date/maintained comparison of python-in-the-browser systems? As well as this, there's brython and skulpt, and it would be nice to be able to compare various implemented features, quirks and speed.
There is a market when you factor in connecting flights. If, say, Delta wants to pay for better staffing at their international hubs they could market that to prospective customers in their non-hub markets.

"Fly home from Europe through DTW where passport lines are under 10 minutes!"
That's quite an insinuation. Fortunately I have a long history of posts to HN, and anyone bored enough to search through them will easily see that it's not true. To me the weird thing is running across a smear like this at all; it's surreal when someone is sure they know what you're thinking.

YC doesn't cross my mind while posting these. What has changed on HN over the last year or two is an uptick in nationalistic flamewar. That's happening because of larger social conditions we're all familiar with, but it has never been welcome on HN, and won't be as long as I'm moderating. That, btw, has nothing to do with which countries people are flaming about. It has to do with the purpose of this site—intellectual curiosity—being incompatible with tribalism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What is your experience?
Real noxville?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-...

Mind your business and we'll mind ours, smug hypocrites
I've cut my leisure plane travel for the same reason. I used to fly ~10 trips a year, but in the past few years I've cut back to 2-3, and that's mostly to visit family.
You definitely can bring your own food — except I guess maybe not something yogurt that's a "gel"? That's what I do and it's always better than what they're serving, as long as you don't mind it not being hot.
As a dedicated Swiftie, I feel obliged to point out that 1989 is not her most recent album, that would be Reputation, which she is performing on tour currently.

Interestingly, she performed (4 I think) concerts in China for 1989, but none are scheduled in the country this time around.
Read this story in December when it happened and was absolutely shocked but it makes so much sense.

https://www.eater.com/2017/12/27/16821648/chef-returns-miche...
Not exactly an architectural masterpiece but Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati is home to whole lot of second hand amusement park kitsch.

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/960...

http://www.musicbyencore.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/20...
There are "human rights" and Chinese rights, which do you think will be enforced in not even 10 years?
Someone did an analysis on this because it seemed like insta hex the last time they played, but they were all pre-queued and the 200ms turned out to be accurate.
"The Cold War was over and according to a 2016 survey of American fears by Chapman University, more people feared The Affordable Care Act than the threat of nuclear war."

Every single day my belief that people are amazingly stupid is reinforced.

---

Somewhat related:

The Russians are looking for their nuclear-propelled cruise missile that they reportedly recently lost.

IIRC that is the same one Putin mentioned in his "state of the union" speech, shortly before his "re-election".
Totally read the headline the same way. I thought sea life were fighting 'the man' for a moment.

Alternative [more responsible?] headline:
Newly Conjectured Whale Habitat May Thwart Deep Sea Mining Prospects
I love Chinese service. I hate feeling obligated to make small talk with the waiters. "Is everything fine?" Fuck off, I'm trying to talk to my friend here.
Watching the match there seemed to be a crazy amount of instant Euls and what not.

I doubt a player is about to react to a blink initiation and click Euls/Hex in the same amount of time. It'd be a lot more fair for them to calibrate against the reaction time of pro-players across the same scenarios. (I doubt pros can hit 200ms consistently)
Indeed, I am O+ myself

Rhesus negative had the problem of birth issues when their mothers had born rhesus positive elder siblings sadly.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolytic_disease_of_the_new...
Thanks. I hadn't realized it started with a different initial value. That small difference really cuts down on availability of implementations.
Shared Libraries: Understanding Dynamic Loading (2016)
Thanks. As an aging techie, I have trouble keeping up on the music scene.
The Best showrooms that were in Northern VA operated in that the store was arranged similar to a WalMart or Target today (rows of shelves), but instead of taking your item from that shelf, you wrote down its catalog number on a slip (an 'order form' as it were). You'd then go up front to stand in line and pay for the items on your slip at a cashier, whereupon the catalog numbers were entered into their system. This resulted in your products arriving up from a basement (or down from a 2nd floor depending on which store) warehouse on a conveyor belt to a 'pickup area' (reminiscent of an airport luggage carousel, only with employees working the conveyor belt). Those employees would then hand your items to you and you would leave with them.
When I was new at programming, it was so exciting, and exercised all my brainpower, to figure out solutions. But after 30 years, as I got better at it, even if I couldn’t come up with a solution right away I was sure I could soon enough. No more thrill than doing a daily crossword.
It was frustrating to see it do so many things well but make strange decisions otherwise

- poor warding. Some wards were simply wasted. (Wards are small, invisible, immovable units that grant vision)
- using powerful long cool down spells to earn gold instead of keeping it in reserve for fights
- not recognising that one of the lanes needed to be pushed out. Eventually this bit them in the ass.
- using buybacks where none were required
San Francisco “Poop Patrollers” Make $185,000
Article light on details, to save me the searching, can anyone link to the source code?
"Raspi cannot be used for a semi serious server application due to microsd card write wear issues."

As an end user, I run a personal authoritative DNS server that has small RAM requirements. The RPi (or other SBC) boots to a mfs mounted root, then mounts all directories as tmpfs. Then I remove the SD card.1 As such, the logs for this server, which are automatically rotated and do not exceed 5M in total, are written to RAM.

1 I only use the SD card to boot. The only files on the card are a bootloader, a bootloader config and two kernels, each with an embedded filesystem. If updates are necessary, I make them to one of the kernels at a time. The other is the backup. The bootloader and bootloader config lets me specify which kernel to boot.
human rights + freedom + democracy = pornography + homosexuality + heroin overdoses

The rest of the world is sick of your filth! You couldn't do anything even if you tried! WE ARE THE FUTURE AND WE STOMP ON YOUR DEAD NATION
Ex employee of 5 years here. It was open secret that the system was being abused.

What they would do is post a notice of intent to hire an H1B by posting the job listing in break rooms along with requirements that were clearly senior level and included a salary range for the job drastically below market average. No self respecting local would even bother applying. That's how they got away with claiming they couldn't find good local talent. They have no interest in competing in the local market.
> Take it as an opportunity, dealing with legacy is a challenge but you can grow a lot as a developer!

I agree, but it's fraught with risk, and could also turn into an opportunity to spend several months or even years being miserable, and thought a mediocre to poor developer because you aren't able to deliver fast enough. This becomes especially true when the original developer is there and can probably do things 10x faster (which will make you look bad).

You'll need to make sure you're having regular one on ones and keeping your team lead/manager up to date on the work you're doing. Perception is more important than anything. If you save the world but do it quietly, nobody will know, and they'll decide you aren't productive enough.
Creative agency launch Hassl – free project management web app
Aussie Startup Hassl to Exhibit at Forbes Under 30 Summit
That's some pretty whimsical architecture. It's be nice if a future retailer looking for some initial buzz picked up the habit. Their "distressed" facade, looked even more distressed after it was undressed[1].

On a side note, it reminds me of (at least) houses in Greece not getting technically completed on purpose to avoid taxation of some form[2].

Also, they are whimsical, even avant guarde designs, but I wouldn't call it apocalyptic.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20060827012947/http://www.texasc...

[2]https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27662/do-greeks...