skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there are certainly broader insights to be made, one tidbit I think I noticed that interested me had to do with Axe.

Between the two games, we saw Axe played by both the human team and the AI team. When played by the humans, blink-calls were completely shutdown by the AI's superhuman counterinitiations. That made enough sense. When the Axe was played by the AI though, I don't recall Axe ever even attempting any blink-calls. I'm curious if this might be the result of the AI overfitting to itself -- at AI reaction speeds, blink-calls are not a very useful maneuver, and thus the AI learns not to perform them.

Against a group of humans though, Axe's blink-call initiations are arguably the hero's biggest selling point.

We didn't get to see most of the hero pool, but I wonder how much the AI overfitting to AI playstyles will hinder the bots against humans in the future.

Of course, the bots have many other issues which loom larger atm imo but I felt interested in enough in this tidbit to point it out.
I don't think the full talk for that is out yet but I think it could be brilliant. Literate bash scripts with built in metrics reporting that you can just pull out if necessary? Documentation and selective re-run? Sign me up!
How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)
Starcraft. But I think it’s far more challenging to build AI for.
I grew up with a web where labor-of-love personal websites -- often about a deep topic the author was passionate about -- were slowly crowded out in number by dynamic blogs where the engine handled all but the content, and the barrier to entry of sharing personal details was lowered. Correspondingly, the depth of the material got more shallow, but the breadth of it got wider.

This transition was happening as commercial ventures first moved beyond sites that were mere billboards, individuals began reading news portals and opening webmail accounts, and communities like phpBB and vBulletin forums flourished as pseudonymous, do-it-yourself takes on newsgroups of old. Aggressive moderation typically kept the conversation in check.

There were corners of the web where moderation was shallow, and some of these places achieved notoriety for being cesspits of depravity, and eventually, hate. The depravity was authentic. But there was an air of privileged bravado about the hate, where its expression was used as a shibboleth to an in-group more so than an authentic expression of beliefs. If you were a true hater, finding other true haters was not a trivial task.

Early social networks were pseudonymous. It wasn't until Facebook's meteoric rise that it became mainstream and commonplace to put one's real name next to one's off-the-cuff words online. Ten years of Facebook moved the Overton window quite a bit, and now there's a set of people who aren't afraid to bare their cards, or of doxxing and reprisal. And now, they too have tools to build online communities of their own and find like-minded people on the web rather than in person, regardless of the popularity and acceptance of the views they hold.

Meanwhile, e-commerce is now everywhere, and so is content and services that can be consumed with no upfront cost. Both of these are supplemented by adtech-like schemes that harvest and correlate user behavior. Despite real harm having occurred from these practices, jurisdictions have been slow to regulate them for many reasons: ineptitude, lobbying, corruption, and ineffectiveness in enforcing regulations in a global, dynamic, resilient system. Shady, underground actors and mainstream actors alike will continue these practices until widespread, debilitating user backlash, or widespread regulation puts and end to them. If they are regulated, only ruthless actors will engage in this behavior: trolls, stalkers, profiteers, and intelligence services.
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Remain a Public Company
I guess using off-the-shelf mass market hardware combined with a software stack anyone can design, setup, and implement is way easier and cheaper than a customized solution.
As Chomsky put it, in the mid 90’s, the internet was handed over to private corporations for their own use, mostly commerce. It’s now even more in the hands of private power, with net neutrality being gone.
GM:William C. Durant:Alfred P. Sloan

Tesla:Elon Musk:?
Lol, your situation doesn't sound a whole lot better. I assume for $400 more he could have graduated to a full sized room.
Have kids.
Open-core describes the business model, not the product. It's about offering (open or proprietary) products and services on top of open-source foundation and is exactly what Redis Labs does, and has always done.

This post is very confusing as open-core is not directly relevant to Redis the database, and it seems to be defending something that nobody is accusing it of in the first place.
Comment by MBCook in an earlier version of this post

>> "It wouldn’t surprise me if google did this as a sort of backhanded way of saying “see what happens when you don’t use our App Store?“

I don't disagree with Googles decision here. Epic is being incredibly reckless with their bypassing the play store.
It’s a gag car. Bloomberg should know better.
It could be with unlimited resources where those resources are millions of high res cameras everywhere. Which I am against, but it would not be unthinkable that most crimes, including the one you mentioned, would be solved fast(er) with unlmited resources.

I was robbed at knife point years ago; I got the license plate of the stolen 'getaway' car (it was at a gas station on the parking lot); there were cameras there (not in the parking lot but connected to the building), I reported it immediately, the police (later on camera) saw the car crossing a toll booth and then it went into some village. They found the car abandoned but never (at least not in time for me to be helpful) got the robbers. If everything, including the village, would be blanketed with high res cams, they would've caught them. The toll booth cams were too low res to identify anyone, just the car + numberplate.

I do believe we know how to solve most (traditional; financial / online crime can probably be similarly solved with enough resources and invasion of privacy) crime with unlimited resources; we don't have unlimited resources AND, at least in my country (where the robbery took place), we (still) have strict privacy laws and they are not allowed to hang cams on the streets of these places. Which I find a good thing by the way, but it doesn't help solve unobserved crimes like violence in off the beaten path alleyways and stuff like this.
Laska (UI Builder for React Native) now supports third-party components
I have found it interesting that I cannot mix paints (subtractive color) to get black. It always seems to be brown. Is it possible to find a combination of paints that blocks all light? BTW, this is not considering the possible "combination" of just one color black.
> The entire patent system needs to be redesigned.

That doesn't necessarily mean removing it altogether. Making more thing unpatentable (ex algorithms, discoveries, etc.) and shortening the lifetimes of patents could go a long way.
Here are a few of the articles, in order. Bloomberg restricts you to 10 links a month, but you should be able to access them:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-08/elon-musk...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-09/musk-s-mo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-13/funding-f...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-17/elon-musk...

Again, these are highly recommended and give you a glimpse of this entire farce from the finance perspective.
Epic is reckless for bypassing the play store, I'd be on the side of Google if this was their stance.
I won't comment on better/worse since I have no idea what op meant and it also makes no sense to compare. Having children is a fundamental human right. It's a shame that people who are capable of doing so, and want to do so, defer this goal until it requires medical intervention or becomes impossible, just to have a good career or fit in with their peers.

I don't think being versed in family life matters. The older I get, the more I realize that the folks in charge are just as confused as I am half the time. Everyone learns as they go. Nobody is born knowing how to raise a kid and every kid is different. If you give them a safe & nurturing place, spend time with them, and try your best, you'll do just fine.
At the very least, they should be able to determine if the documentation is good and articulate why not.
There are no secrets (James Mickens) [video]
Why do you compare my A2Z project with RISC-V? Have you read the pages and the blog posts on hackaday? Have you understood what A2Z is? A2Z is (only) a DIDACTIC project. The goal is learning by doing, and therefore the goal is to reinvent the wheel, just for fun.
The "learning by doing" method is the best method I know.
The principle is absolutely NOT to take an existing CPU or OS and assembling existing parts.
And of course, I have learned a lot of things with this method. That's why I'm sharing this project. I hope some people will begin such project on their own, and learn as much as I did.
This is definitely one of my concerns too. Ad hoc code inside these notebooks is almost completely unmanageable from any reasonable software maintenance perspective, and refactoring code out of them is prohibitively difficult as well. I really want something to emerge that combines the best of both worlds of an IDE and notebook development, but there isn't anything close currently.
Danish muniplacities are installing IoT devices in a long range of things, from monitoring when a trash can is full, keeping track of parking, creating rfid tours with bits of historic-info showing up in an app as you travel around the city to monitoring high-pressure wells for leaks.

Most devices have batteries that last 5-10 years though, and often it’s the device that needs to get changed, not the battery. Like the trash can IoT devices, they’ll never actually outlive their battery. Even if a devices manages to survive its battery, 10 years is a long time, so you’d probably want to replace it regardless.

This is still a really cool article though, and it’d be silly for me to say that we’d never use it, but battery life isn’t actually a problem for us. Maybe it is in other places? And there is also the enviromental angle to consider, especially in political organizations.
Can you explain what the difference between /4 and /8 are?
like for example, what is the difference between 9/8 and 9/4?
I've made something up that has an 11 time signature, 2-3-3-3(or 3-3-2-3), but how do I know if it's 11/8 or 11/4?
You do know that most group supervisors have graduate degrees right? (At least at JPL, not sure about other NASA centers). Seniority tends to be based on your highest level of education (obviously there are exceptions - but exceptions are exceptions because they're rare, not the norm).

There's no "single PhDless engineer" who engineers a whole spacecraft.
When NT4's kernel was released and Linux was on 2.2, there was a good reason to choose Windows for stability - or at least, there were trade-offs that were acceptable up to Windows 2000. After that, it became a battle for libraries. If you're using C# or other dotNet, then you're on Windows (or Mono?!?), otherwise your platform is Linux.

Both are reasonably capable of high service uptimes and solid performance. With Server Core and PowerShell, there's a lot more parity than my fellow Linux admins want to admit, but either is a viable choice for general IT services at this point.

Note - I'm excluding licensing entirely from this, as well as infrastructure maintenance and control surfaces. Nobody likes DSC, and there are several superior config management solutions for Linux that don't have meaningful analogs on Windows.
Most comments here express disbelief and disappointment in Jupyter from the software engineering point of view.

What exactly is wrong with it? I use Jupyter daily and find no other Python environment more productive, be it scripts or IPython or IDEs. Granted, I work in scientific computing and use Python for data wrangling and stats. I find immense value in interactivity and iteration speed.
The current is even able to pass through the tires?
Why? These same people who download Fortnkte use desktops and download applications from the internet all the time.
What part of the country do you work in? I think this is specific to the bay area. It could be different in Austin or Chicago or even NY. If you haven't experienced the startup life in the bay area you shouldn't knock his experience.
Just had a look. Still only in Japanese: https://www.cyberagent.co.jp/careers/professional/jobs3/cont...

Culture info (English):
https://www.cyberagent.co.jp/en/way/culture/
I'll bite. Why are absentee ballots the biggest problem?
Remember Geocities? Friendster? MySpace? Facebook is just another point in the curve. And we’ll get there. Don’t panic.

The optimists are still right. These are all just growing pains while everyone competes to find the right formula.
Not if they are creating such a big hole in the company's revenue(30%, source : https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/fortnite-on-android-m...) without bringing in something substantial. Epic already has a user base who would go to extra length by downloading the game's installer by visiting their website. So, it totally makes sense for Epic to bypass the playstore.

From the article linked above:

> Avoiding the 30 percent "store tax" is a part of Epic's motivation. It's a high cost in a world where game developers' 70 percent must cover all the cost of developing, operating, and supporting their games. And it's disproportionate to the cost of the services these stores perform, such as payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service. We're intimately familiar with these costs from our experience operating Fortnite as a direct-to-customer service on PC and Mac.
You'd think it ideal for them to be served static.
You write, I'm not sure why, as if you are an imposing genius addressing someone with grave intellectual disabilities. It's unfathomable to me by what process you decided our drummer friend is in denial of, has no intellectual understanding of, the bleeding obvious. What you say is mostly the exceedingly basic needlessly expressed in a long-winded way. But perhaps I don't 'intellectually understand' it either.
Thankfully, the critical reactive components of the Tesla vehicles do seem to be run by an RTOS -- spesifically FreeRTOS [0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/KX_0c9R4Fng?t=8m47s
How do you find it compares to Spyder?
> Eh, it wasn’t the best, but it was still better than any other language’s equivalent except for Rust’s.

I disagree. Gopath was the most brain-dead idea being implemented in a current programming language. It handled the problem in a far worse manner than any other programming language in current use. This problem was then made far worse by the way the language developers insisted in forcing it upon go users in spite of all the repeated compains.
I am not saying rich people are more credible. What I am saying is that people who were “selected” by voting have also an agenda to get rich and get power. At least rich people are already rich and are can not be easily influenced by somebody else, like young politicians are.
The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was
While I suspect you're right, anecdotal evidence must be fairly weak here. Not many people would admit to themselves that they weren't up to the intellectual challenge -- let alone admit it to other people.
Thank you very much for this encouraging comment! I ended my studies 15 years ago, I made this project as an "autodidact".
I don't know if I will work again on such projects, because I have tons of other electronic topics I want to work on (mainly radio). But if I pick it up again, it will be with a brand new CPU project.
While it'd be good for Android to have an option to trust a certain source once rather than leaving "unknown sources" open all the time, I'm glad companies are bypassing the Play Store. One company shouldn't be able to dictate the terms for all software distribution on a certain OS. That's not the way it's ever been on the desktop, and I don't want it to become the new norm in computing.
This isn't a very serious bug, this cannot be exploited unless your phone already has malware on it.
> I say no two words on Twitter can jail a man. Fine him a million dollars a word if you have to.

By convention, with two words you're 1/3 of the way to a hanging.
I started this project with only standard electronic knowledges. I had no experience of FPGAs, of writing compiler and assemblers. I learned these topics as an autodidact. It is a "learning by doing" project. And of course, I have learned tons of new things, this is a very rewarding project.
Sorry, but I have a hard time praising a writer for throwing shade at the most prolific maker in our lifetime.
What? What are you using Jupyter notebooks for where you want maintenance? They should be records of data analysis/ procedures, not code that runs in production or something.
And why wouldn't they dare to face it?
You don't think some of the Model S sales have just gone on high end Model 3s?
> People like pager duty because they get to spend extra time with their families, because they like to go camping, or because they want the extra cash.

Adequately compensating on-call is, of course, the right way to do it. All sorts of considerations that were, otherwise, problems, such as how to ensure a "fair" rotation, magically go away [1].

Unfortunately, it's vanishingly rare, at least among "silicon valley" startups (and maybe all tech companies). I suspect it's one of those pieces of Ops wisdom that's vanished from the startup ecosystem because Ops, in general, is viewed as obsolete, especially by CTOs who are really Chief Software Development Officers.

Insofar as it's a prerequisite to all your other suggestions, it makes them non-starters in such companies.

[1] Although I suppose if the compensation is too generous, there may still end up being complaining about unfairness in allocation
I guess the answer to this is "who knows". You can't really trust the hardware on your phone.
Not praise, just a noticable difference in investment. If you are climbing out of poverty you focus on yourself and your family rather than integrating yourself in your community. For example, representing your school by being on a sports team is not something Asian families promote.
That's the most interesting, thought-provoking comment I've read on here for a long while. (I bother saying that, because it's been, amazingly, downvoted and accused of being closer to saying nothing than anything.)
Horrible in what sense? What browser/OS? Monospace fonts were in use by the entire world 30 years ago, it’s definitely readable.
My hunch is the same disdain you probably have towards scientists using excel is how many software engineers feel about your using jupyter.

It isn't that you aren't getting good results and doing good work. It is that there are many practices that were hammered out in software development that were completely tossed out the window. 4GL comes to mind as a comparison. Makes great demos. Is not likely to lead to good engineering.
At least Switzerland/Germany/Austria. I think most of Europe actually. The domain is .ch, so that will be the Swiss locale.

In my opinion there are two date formats that make sense: DMY (decreasing granularity) or YMD (increasing granularity). I tend to favor the latter because of ISO. MDY definitely doesn't make any sense at all.
Interactive Digital Filter Design (1999)
exactly. I use it for quick data exploration and experimentation but it remains at that level.
This is `mkfilter` referenced from Trevor Blackwell's XAnalogTV project: https://github.com/GalliumOS/xscreensaver/blob/634aa34553f96...

The way that new software was released in 1999 was so interesting that I decided to submit it for contrast.
His prolificity as a maker is orthogonal to the practicality of his proposal and the legality of his statements, the things Matt Levine talks about
Meanwhile Brian Krzanich is wandering around as free as a coconut on open water after selling as much as he legally could right before the spectre/meltdown announcement.
None of that is what people use bash for, however.
Be fair, though. Individual animals are likely terrible at predicting stuff like this. In aggregate, they are probably ok. Not perfect, mind. Just ok.

It isn't like animals don't have a history of also getting killed in earthquakes or other natural disasters.
Spyder is too clunky. I work with a number of remote compute clusters, and like the ability to fire up a jupyter server through ssh, enable port forwarding, and work with the notebook in my browser.

If I need a file browser or I want to quickly view two notebooks side-by-side, Jupyter Lab is still more convenient than Spyder. Although it doesn't support all the features of the notebook, and you end up installing additional extensions managed through yarn and webpack (jeez).
Yes, but I think lightsail egress is more expensive than s3 egress. On my phone, but isn’t lightsail 9 cents a GB to S3 being 8 cents? Think regular ec2 is 8 cents as well, or is that 12?
That is almost certainly the end goal. But, if we already knew the signal, there wouldn't be a story here.
That is a valid concern! But trying (if needed) can't hurt. Anyways good luck with everything! :)
Inspite of being an Elon fanboy I found this turn of events quite unnecessary. Seems like Elon tweeted under some influence; stress, duress or something else, then Tesla PR had to swallow it and back it up. On due diligence the decision may have been found non pragmatic. Now they had to release this statement.
> Like a super basic one being what is to stop commodity prices inflating proportionately to the new lowest possible income set by UBI. Say UBI is 20k for every human on Earth. Great, but what's to stop the rise in prices of commodities to essentially UBI adjusted income + original price of commodity? Im genuinely curious what you think.

So this is always the argument people make against a UBI because it sounds plausible and the answer is complicated.

The first thing to notice is that the same concern is present for any method of reducing poverty/inequality whatsoever. If the poor have more money then they'll want to buy more stuff and by supply and demand the higher demand raises the price of certain products. It's a thing that happens.

But the only way it eats 100% of the money is if everything has zero price elasticity of supply. Which it doesn't. For example, if people want more land, well, sorry, the supply is pretty much fixed. But if people want more housing, that we know how to construct, so if more people could afford it then we could just build more. (If we have asinine laws against building more housing, well, that is an independent problem with an independent solution.)

And most of the things people want are not practically limited in supply. If more people could afford a sailboat then businesses would make more sailboats. If more people could afford new clothes then businesses would make more clothes. It's not as if there is an insufficient supply of wood or cotton -- for many products the dominant cost is the R&D or some other fixed cost and having more buyers could make the unit price come down.
Came here to say this too! So obnoxious reading a line of text only to see it jump below an ad.
I use Jupyter for two things:

1. Interactive computation and plotting, run data through a pipeline.

2. Quick prototyping and testing. Once a function/class is ready, it goes into a module, together with some unit tests.

Nothing beats Jupyter for that second use case, 90% of the bugs are squashed through interaction and inspection in the notebook cells, not through unit tests.
People do that in Excel too and the next thing you know a spreadsheet is managing a portfolio or being used as the basis for published science!