skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The growth rate of trees slows down over time.

No, it is accelerating - according to this study in Nature [2].

"reviewed records from forest studies on six continents, involving 673,046 individual trees and more than 400 species...97% of the species surveyed, the mass growth rate—literally, the amount of tree in the tree—kept increasing even as the individual tree got older and taller" [1]

"for most species mass growth rate increases continuously with tree size. Thus, large, old trees do not act simply as senescent carbon reservoirs but actively fix large amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees; at the extreme, a single big tree can add the same amount of carbon to the forest within a year as is contained in an entire mid-sized tree" [2]

[1] http://science.time.com/2014/01/15/study-shows-older-trees-a...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12914
What other function do you think they are providing for the average developer?
If you think of the covariance matrix, entry i,j for i ≠ j will be

floor(n / (p[i]*p[j])) / n - floor(n / p[i]) * floor(n/p[j]) / n^2

and the ith diagonal entry will be

floor(n / p[i]) / n - ( floor(n / p[i]) / n )^2

for n large, you approximately get a diagonal matrix with diagonal entries / eigenvalues 1/p[i] - 1/p[i]^2.
Are you directly or indirectly hurting others? Are you preventing others from exercising inalienable rights, regardless of your feelings?

It would seem to me that asking the question is the answer. The "well if it is not me, it will be someone else is the answer George Soros gave when collecting the only personal valuables held by jews before they were gassed.

Sounds harsh and way out there , without a connection and conviction to what you want, this is how far it can go.

(Man I have been up too late )
But CPU+FPGA will forever be a tiny niche, right? I don't see any path where mainstream programs get a boost from FPGA.
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Yes, wash trading is bad. But crypto was created to escape regulation, which comes with the good and the bad. "Go back to fiat if you want regulation" is a common mindset, though the idealists are being displaced by new entrants into the sphere, who mostly support regulation.
Can't they "just" add a cost to each API call ? Wanna know the position of an enemy on the map: 50ms. Target a hero/creep/tower: 75ms.
If you are the maintainer of a popular project which is potentially used by businesses and you are interested in monetizing it, please email me (email in profile). I have something to talk to you about which is in the works.
So three major differences between this and the last big match for OpenAI Five which explain the different result in favour of the Humans:

1) The Humans, Pain Gaming, is a professional team with players that regularly play and practice together and attend major tournaments. While they are the weakest team at this event and are arguably there only because of a regional qualifier system (they are from South America and the strongest team in an up and coming region), they are capable of taking games off some of the strongest teams due to their unpredictable and dynamic play. They are substantially better than the team of ex-pros and commentators that last played against the AI.

2) They removed an important limitation in the game, which was the 5 invincible couriers, and replaced it with a single killable courier that the five agents have to share (just like in a normal game of dota). The AI was able to use the single courier effectively, but did occasionally let it die a bit too often. What is important about this change is that it invalidated a strategy of the AI which was to continuously ferry consumable healing items to enable relentless aggression after gaining a slight edge in the early game. The AI adapted to this change by playing more cautiously in light of this standard resource/logistics constraint. It adds strength to the argument that as the OpenAI team introduces more complexity and resource constraints back into the game that the AI's weaknesses start to become more apparent and exploitable by better players.

3) The heroes composition was drafted in advance to be as even a match as possible, and a coin flip was made to decide which team got which draft. This is important as the version of the game is a subset of the game, and the humans evidently didn't understand the meta game in this weird subset during the last event. From the AI's perspective this was as even a draft as possible given the very small hero pool. In the last event the AI predicted 70-95% win confidence before the game even started due humans not understanding the drafting meta with a pool of 18/115 heroes and no bans.

Still, really impressive performance by OpenAI as at least for the early game and some of the mid game it was a close game with lots of good plays by both sides. The fact that OpenAI can be comparable to a pro team in what is nearly a full game of dota is really impressive.
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Maybe, like me, he follows the pro scene.

People complain a lot that Europe is stacked (meaning stronger teams) compared to regions like NA, and they get the same amount of slots a TI. South America is probably the weakest region.

I think a lot of people following the competitive scene would agree with what he was saying - that Pain is not top 20 in the world.
> Adam's calendar which was discovered in 2003 in South Africa and predates Stonehenge by 10s of thousands of years.

Wikipedia wildly disagrees with you [1], it's few hundred years old

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaauboschkraal_stone_ruins
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17814386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818647
> when I hit my limit (which is 15GB in mifi...22GB is for phones), I get 600kpbs or less at all times, not just during "congestion“

The plans clearly say that for Mifi (i.e. hotspots), the limit is 15GB with 600kbps thereafter, not unlimited...
Just to be clear: you do not endorse copyright infringement for the sake of being cool, do you?
No.

Technically a year is the limit IIRC but I have heard of issues with even six months away. It's at the discretion of the immigration official as to what constitutes abandonment of your permanent residence.
Facebook or Google doesn't have the ability to crush or buy any competition that arises, that provide a more open platform? Which world are you living in?
Please don't try to make this into Reddit.
This is slightly tangential, but it details my first real professional screw-up on a VMS system.

My first serious job was working as a Junior Sysadmin on a large VAXCluster. I literally had NO idea what I was doing. On my first day my boss said to me, "Here's your account details, it's got the same rights as SYSTEM, if you screw up, we'll fire you. Good Luck.". The senior admin showed me the ropes, and especially the HELP command, and basically spent the next week typing HELP followed by every command I encountered.

Fast forward three months, and I'm fairly comfortable with VMS, writing scripts and improving some of the daily housekeeping tasks to make them faster and more efficient. I'm working on the startup script that boots the cluster, stepping through the existing one to understand what it does and I encounter a command I've never seen before, so I duly flip terminal screens (VT420 dumb terminal with dual inputs), and type HELP followed by the command.

Except I didn't actually type HELP. I just typed the command.

As I watched the terminal fill up with output, I realised what it did. Basically it flushed all core processes out of memory. Including the one that allowed people to logon.

Normally this would be a fairly embarrassing screw up requiring a simple reboot, except that this VAXCluster belonged to the MoD, and it was running military combat scenarios (wargames), and had been running a large war scenario for several weeks, non-stop. Somewhere on the site where I was working, there were two large rooms each filled with soldiers and each day they'd been planning out their campaign tactics against each other and these decisions were being plumbed into the running scenario in real time by an operator.

I'd basically broken everything, and potentially destroyed the whole scenario. The scenario was still running in memory, but no-one could talk to it anymore. Rebooting the cluster was not an option.

Immediately, white faced, I admitted to what I'd done. One of the 'real' VMS coders on my team also went ashen. After lots of head scratching, he set to work. I don't know in detail what he did, but from what I understood at the time, he effectively manually restarted the 100s of processes that the Cluster needed to operate, as if it was rebooting but without actually flipping the switch.

Several hours later, the Cluster was fixed and running normally. I'd also not been fired.

This event, left me with a massive appreciation of multi-user systems and how one small error can affect 100s of people. A year or so later, I transitioned into PC support, as Desktop PCs were slowly replacing the dumb terminals across the site, and later on I started working for an international bank where again networked PCs were new. I found that having cut my teeth and been burned on a large multi-user system gave me an impact perspective that most people working in the fledgling PC support industry didn't yet have.

Because of this, VAX/VMS systems will always be special to me.
Ask HN: Are you (work) available during your holidays?
When you take PTO/holidays, are you expected to be contactable via email, phone or IM? I'm just wondering what the norm is in your area and sector. I was at a programming meet-up last night and this topic arose. It was nice to hear the variety of opinions of it from people from different countries.

I'm currently UK based, working on desktop applications for industry/scientific applications and you've got to be kidding if you think I'm gonna check in on webmail. In previous companies I've worked a lot with Americans and being contactable on holiday seems far more normal there.
1. You don't do this (plagiarism) on your main site.

2. DMCA is a US law. It may or may not apply, depending on the company I referred to. Also, going to court depends on a lot of factors.

3. You don't necessarily need to clone verbatim. You could generate content automatically (or with manual help) targeting the same keywords, but based on parsed content.

4. This is not trying to be in organic search results. Promoted solely via ads.

Sorry, my experience has been that a SEO and content generation (as it happens today in Google and FB) ranks high among shady and manipulative practices. Add: Of course, there are many good companies too.
• Updates are not served to me at regular, known intervals. Perhaps it's due to a progressive rollout policy of some kind.

• Certain days come up that I, the paying user, do not want to patch on. Microsoft wins this disagreement and I lose. This occurs in a glib fashion with a message like "Hey, just a heads up, we are going to restart your computer" (whether I like it or not). It is my computer, there is no "we!"

It will absolutely close programs with unsaved work if I am not there.

• Maybe I don't want the performance hit on my gaming PC. This is another element of surprise: who knows how bad it'll be? Certainly not the users if Intel and Microsoft have their way.

• Yet another element of surprise: I've had hardware stop working after updates.

I cannot wait until it becomes viable to escape the toxicity of companies such as Intel and Microsoft.
It's five different instances:

https://openai.com/five/#how-openai-five-works
> functionally correct.

It is often true that someone with very strong domain knowledge may have had this project in their head for a long time, and one day, all-of-a-sudden, has to code it all in a rush. I have had this, where external factors shifted the companies priorities.

In this case you can 'brain dump' a lot of code very quickly, get it functionally correct and make intelligent judgement calls about the threats of edge cases... especially if it is internal company software.

However, coming at the problem from cold, without the benefit of this knowledge requires significant analysis and engineering effort to get equivalent results. So tread very carefully.

But yes, add tests
Just make them drop the API and require use of computer vision on the same UI human players have to use.
There's one there that's a parking lot that ripples and the store is under the ripples, and it's only shown as a model. I'm guessing that one was never built, because it looks really dangerous and confusing for drivers.
> Are you directly or indirectly hurting others? Are you preventing others from exercising inalienable rights, regardless of your feelings?

That's a pretty low bar to set. I'm not just trying to avoid hurting other people. I wish to feel useful, to improve other peoples' lives.
Intel are the experts in their own products. If they don’t have confidence in them, why should we?
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> after I've covered everything I need (including housing, clothing, food and taxes) that I could set on fire and not change my current condition.

Housing and taxes make sense because they're generally inflexible costs, but how does clothing fit into this? Unless you're sewing smocks out of burlap, the majority of most people's clothing expenses is fully discretionary in every sense of the word (even including work clothes, for those unfortunate enough to have their employer force them to dress a certain way). That isn't to say it's a waste of money, but it's discretionary in the same way that eating at nice restaurants or going to concerts is: something you spend not to survive, but to improve your quality of life in some way.
The site seems to be down, but confusion about the difference arises in C# too.

C# does not have a mod operator, the % operator is a remainder operator.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2011/12/05/what...
As discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17801474 .
Don't let the hacker die.
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I sometimes wonder who do company operate that backdoor? I assume many engineers will know about it. What is there to keep them shut their months? Special Visit from Intel agency? What is there to prevent these people speak out?

One of the good thing coming about SDN, is that hopefully everything will be open sourced. Since we cant trust no one, then we open it and at least allow many to look through it.

I sometimes wonder why China hasn't taken this business model.
at SC and CUG this year the main focus was that in less than 10 years IPC improvement is going to go away (I am not sure where IPC improvement was in the last three years). Anyway, the next step is to make CPUs as much heterogeneous as possible like a SOC. Both Intel and AMD are going there but we need to sit and see which direction is going get the momentom like what nVidia has done.
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I think there are many people calling this into question.

It's obviously only possible because so many western powers rely on their "stable" allies / oil buddies in the middle east.

Yemen alone should be enough reason for every UN nation to sanction SA into submission.

Instead we sell them weapons -.-
That's a substantial achievement, I look forward to reading the details. A little searching around suggests that it was a run of CADO-NFS[0] and it's likely that they simply ran it for long enough on a large enough cluster, but we'll wait for the details.

Congratulations to the team.

[0] http://cado-nfs.gforge.inria.fr/
"duplicate content" is a problem for both, the original site and the copycat. But the copycat doesn't rely on SEO in this example. It just buys traffic in AdWords. So the duplicate content penalty would harm only the original site.
Seq2seq translator (which trains to translate from one human language to another) is not a good architecture to learn computer code.
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Or another way to think about it is it’s the home row moving around. Each hand has a dynamic <x,y> offset, units being keys.

It’s like JIT compilation for your typing… Instead of having AOT plan how to hit each key, with what finger, etc., the brain just figures out which finger is best positioned to hit the key at any given time, which varies depending on context.
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Isn't the the license used for OEM that prevents Debian to upload the update? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906158
It might be disingenuous but not entirely false. The integration you describe is not mandatory to be accepted as a member of many societies, and the seeming inability to integrate was historically used as a legitimate reason to discriminate them even after considerable efforts.

There are so many ongoing discriminations specific to Japan [1], including aforementioned pre-1945 Korean immigrants (and by extension their descendants or all Koreans), Ainu peoples, Ryukyuan peoples and Burakumin. Sometimes they result in criminal or problematic acts; for example, Korean immigrants are a major force behind the notorious pachinko industry. Still such phenomena do not mask the underlying problem.

> At this point in time they have managed to obtain a special status that is the opposite of being oppressed and is actually a source of irritation among Japanese I know.

They have managed to obtain a special status because they have been oppressed! You are swapping the cause and the effect. Also you can't use irritation among Japanese as a rationale or whatever because they are naturally biased---it's just that, they feel so and there might or might not be a good reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan
> I don't understand why you would fund someone with no tech or business background...

Maybe that was the board's plan for the initial rocky phase of the company, without telling Tim?
>> My advice is don't complain and don't attempt any significant rewrites for the first 6 months or so.

I would agree with this, you need to be careful. I've seen a friend start at a new company with a horrendous code base, bring up the issues and be let go because they hurt / offended the existing developers.

SOme people are really precious about their shitty code and can't take criticism, esepcially in small companies.

So get through your probation period then you can maybe start making noises.
Capturing and analyzing data with the crowd
PYBOSSA now can be used as a tool for gathering data from volunteers: i.e. filling surveys, answering questions regarding specific studies, and most importantly saving as a task run files of any type: PDFs, images, videos, audios, etc.

This new feature allows you to create your own specific data capturing tool for your next citizen science or crowdsourcing project! For example, you can create a project where users can send you geololized photos taken with their phones. Or you could record the signing of birds in the wild saving as well the latitude and longitude so other volunteers could help you to identify them.

The documentation as usual in https://docs.pybossa.com
> Not really. Mutual aid happens often enough that that's not really a bet you want to make.

Well in that case it could fall back to Internet access, I guess. Just keep the map of the local area as cache.
Find some people. Listen to them talk about their problems. Find what ails them. Use your skills to help.
5 separate bots.
This is really a good example why it is so difficult for security experts to do research and experiments where real users are involved.

What Mr. Petrovic did is illegal in most developed countries: copyright violation (copying web pages) and monitoring and storing user behavior without their consent (and, even worse, by phishing). It doesn't matter that he did it for a "very brief period of time (for ethical reasons)". LOL. If I tried this kind of stuff where I work, I would have a long unpleasant talk with our legal/ethics department afterwards. I cannot even do a network scan in the Internet without first notifying God and a couple of lesser gods.

I am also wondering whether that's good publicity for the author's company. The author is basically saying: "We are doing things without being fully aware (or without caring) of the legal consequences. Are you sure you want to be our customer?".
Just want to say that I can totally understand this as well. If you can't get a normal salaryman job, it can really be hand to mouth. I haven't even tried to get an IT job here and I'm pretty worried if I end up without a remote contract after my current gig is up.

Also, super +1 on the bored old guy thing :-) Best part of my day (although I'm rapidly becoming the bored old guy...)
It's Intel's policy and silliness that is at the expense of this person's users. Making those users aware of it is absolutely defensible on the grounds of it being the right thing to do. Intel are relying on customers ignorance, in fact they're trying to contractually ensure it! The Streisand effect is exactly what they deserve.
ok, so... no data then, just a series of quotes and observations about individuals.

I'd honestly be interested in learning about racism in Japan, and if it is different/worse than other countries. But all that's been presented is anecdotes.
Redis remains open-source. RedisLabs is using a “hybrid” license for its enterprise add-one, with some properties of open-source but not all. So you can use the source, modify it for yourself or for others. But if you want to make money from it, you have to fork.

The goal for RedisLabs is to make more money from the enterprise add-ons they’re developing. A lot of that money (perhaps most of it) goes right back into maintaining Redis, which remains open-source.

So it absolutely is a matter of funding more open-source gifts, and not taking back gifts.
Person A says prosperity not increased for the middle-class since the 1970's, person B says it has.

Do they have to rely on historical data, or is there some experiment they could perform to determine who is right? For example, suppose I offered 10 people the opportunity to live like people lived in the 1970's. I would subsidise their housing and education costs, but they would pay more for clothes and food and air travel and phone calls. They would not have the internet and would only have a black-and-white TV with 4 stations and a gramophone record player for entertainment. If nobody accepted such an offer, would that settle the argument?
It's remarkable how little we've seen from that acquisition. It's perfectly possible that Intel has butchered the acquisition the same way they have with many others.
Tie my kangaroo down sport, that's good news. Now we just need the sleepy EU to wake up so we get their spyware removed from our Mobile Operators infrastructure here!
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It's also a big trademark violation, right?
A small library I made for fun.
It's very early stage and I wanted to keep things simple, so it does not use any other established libraries (yet).