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> As you know, the term has been in use for decades and no one was confused. It's ok to say you find it offensive.

I don't think that's a powerful argument _against_ the change antirez has chosen to make. There are a lot of other terms that were in common use for decades, that confused no-one, that reasonable people have stopped using because they're offensive to other groups of people.
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It sounds like you have a lot of operation issues due to the technologies that you used. I mean, at least you aren't doing your backend in node, but running an actor system on top of an actor system is going to be brutal to properly analyze once you actually have scale.

What sort of process do you have for picking trendy technologies vs tested ones, and how much do you talk to people who have built large scale systems before implementing things like scala?
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The iPhone 8 is still available in a 4.7" screen, right?

That's only marginally larger than the iPhone SE's 4.0" screen.

I use an iPhone SE, but only because it was ~AU$400 cheaper than the 4.7" iPhone 8.

Edit: I'd like to be on the record as having said I think these large screen size phones are, for my use case anyway, ridiculous. I work in a metal fabrication workshop and have to have my phone on me. There's no way a 5.8" phone is going to last more than a month in my pocket.
The small responsive unit of Delaware has an outsized effect on how corporations are run in all 50 states, and it cuts out the legislature of my state on certain aspects that were traditionally reserved to the states.

The framers never imagined that kind of commercial reach.

The federal gov't was designed to address such issues when they were proven to be significant, by those very framers, even if the framers themselves did not anticipate the specifics. That is what the commerce clause is about, among other things.
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Lolol. The old any and the grasshopper fallacy.

Well, the grasshopper's parents couldn't get a bank loan because they were PoC so they had poor investment options, missed out on promotions for similar reasons. Grasshopper got arrested for standing on the street while black and spent 2 months in jail because he didn't have a spare $10k for bond, and lost his job, even though charges were dropped. Ms grasshopper got sick while pregnant and had to pay $30k in hospital fees with an expensive loan. Loss of income meant they couldn't service the loan and they declared bankruptcy. Now they can't get credit for decades. Meanwhile the ant went to college and gets a good job, maximum access to tax breaks, social mobility etc.

So yeah, the poor choice to be born disadvantaged. Seriously, go back to your troll hole.
If you want Walmart to pay its workers more, force an increase of the minimum wage for all employers to whatever level you decide is proper and has appropriate support.

I don't believe in singling out Amazon, Walmart, or <pick a company> as being "too profitable" and thus justifying that they, and not all companies, must pay a higher minimum wage.
That image seems to be somewhat misleading though, as the scale isn’t preserved across pictures. If you look at the bone size, the middle pic mostly has more fat.
Kudos to your clinic! I wish more physicians thought about cost when making prescribing decisions.

The doctors I’ve talked to said “it’s too hard to figure out what a patient’s insurance pays for”.

I can’t count the number of times a doctor has prescribed me a costly branded drug without even trying a generic drug first. The difference even with insurance is often significant.
> This is just not true. Do you know the game? Are you speaking as a player? Or are you telling us what's written in the OpenAI blog post? There is nothing a player couldn't figure out. The caster team lost because of the broken game and because few of them were rusted (Merlini hadn't played for months). The bots were garbage at the TI, and got beaten without any problem by the pro teams.

A former player. I'm not regurgitating the blog post, I'm regurgitating what the players themselves said. The AI got beaten by pro teams (top <<1%), but the matches were competitive in the early game, and only later did the bots run into trouble. To give a couple of specific examples of novel behavior, the AI figured out a solid deathball strategy and was able to exploit that to beat a lot of teams, it liberally used fortify to protect creeps and sustain pushes, and it was way more aggressive in rotating its supports to critical lanes in the early game. Now, no single one of those things is entirely novel, but the combination of all of them (especially by a machine that learned it on its own) is what is novel, and what allowed the strategy to be successful.

> The hero pool is still 18 heroes. Dota 2 has over 110 heroes. Can you please try to think what makes you say something so wrong with so much confidence?

Admittedly this was a mistake, the language they used in their blog post was "Removed our last major restriction from what most pros consider 'Real Dota” gameplay'", which is poorly explained and made me think the hero pool was entirely open.

DotA is basically 2 games, the drafting part and the gameplay part. The bots made huge progress in figuring out the gameplay part, which is super impressive.

>> Casters don't count as serious players.

Maybe we're using different language. The casters are definitely in the top 1% of players, or more, which I consider "serious", but not "the best". But no one was arguing that the bots are "the best", which is self-evident from their loss at the International.

Anyways, this is all beside the point. What OpenAI was able to do was really impressive and is only helping to advance the state of reinforcement learning. You argued that there's nothing impressive about what they've done, but I'd love to see you point me to an example of an ML algorithm that learned to play a team game as complex as DotA at a competent level.
As we have just found out... "cookies" have evolved exactly the same way that malware has.

Persistence is maintained without writing to disk, using a variety of methods.

Three of those which I now know about include
a) all google pages have javascript which polls or gets an event when cookies change, and this script fires to rejuvenate the cookies using an ID stored inside the page HTML.
b) some google pages store an ID inside the browser URL, so the next page you visit tells google who you were again via the referrer
c) Chrome itself tracks you if you don't switch off that obscure setting mentioned above.

Probably the more-likely method of solving this problem is to poison the cookies, instead of remove them. Google will be tracking billions of devices, so it seems probable that their client side code will not know the difference between a "real" and a "fake" cookie - so long as your code produces cookies that their JS etc thinks is "real", it's not going to trigger the rejuvenation step.
>it's pretty damn fast all things consitered

This is my favourite part of PHP. It really is fast. There's no server running all the time like a node or python website, on each web request it has to start up again and rebuild its entire state.
I grew up near Perpignan, and never knew some people around there would speak Occitan. A lot speak catalan, though.
San Francisco has already found "ways" to deal with many of those issues. They can't afford wait staff anymore, so restaurants are switching to counter service[1]. A law firm started housing their lawyers in Texas and flying them in because it was cheaper than housing there [2]. Delivery drivers can't afford to work there, so they experimented with having robots do it instead [3].

It's been tremendously clear that San Francisco has become an experiment in seeing if you can still run a city while pushing out all the poor people. Its been worker infrastructure has been coming apart at the seams for years now and the city's leadership has made little attempt towards fixing it -- instead entrepreneurs are just trying to find ways to work around it. I have little confidence that threatening to pull federal housing funding will dissuade the city from their path.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394551

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874565

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15880100
Fraud is one thing. Continued experiments to learn are another.. even if applied in different domains. Take applied math. It can be written is a math journal, biology, chemistry, physics etc.. I would be suspect of clinical trials specifically but any preclinical work should be replicated. CS work is easy to replicate. So I think the specific threat of fraud is limited. Me too publications suggest learning but probably lack originality. The challenges are the inductive leaps which are usually counter intuitive and outside of the mainstream. Funding agendcies need to promotes those.
Gatekeeper alert
Why not just use a label for a trip and then delete it later (or keep)?
I think you can some of that by copying the two git log -p outputs to separate files and then running vimdiff on both of them. At least in my experience, one can see commit re-ordering, commit addition, or commit removal. You could also get some of that by using the -y parameter to diff instead of -u.

I'll definitely try it out and see how it compares to what we're doing now.
Rebooting Becky's brain
CDNs cost money. The whole point of most businesses lately seems to be externalizing costs while providing the least amount of service that they can get paid gobs of money for. I understand that's a sound business model in a race to the bottom, but eventually you hit the bottom and the whole market losses.
I think because laptop chips tend to prioritise performance over battery life, at least compared to mobile chips.
That's my argument against saying the term master/slave is confusing. Like you said, some people found it offensive, there's no credible argument that says it was confusing (although people are trying to make it).

My argument against making the change is that it's high risk for a functional NOOP.
Why do that when Inbox did it automatically for me with no effort on my part?

It's not that I can't organize things myself, it's that it is nice when Inbox does it for me.
> So if USA is producing so much oil why is it not able to pay for things like Healthcare?

We have 'better' things to spend money on, like 'defense' (/s).

> Presumably oil coming out of the ground is free.

It's not free, it costs money to discover, extract, transport, process into anything usable, transport again, etc.

> Where is that money going?

Probably the companie(s) that discover, extract, transport, process, transport, etc. And their shareholders. And politician friends.
Yes. Well, a hashtable.

It's not public, but it wouldn't be hard to approximate from public data.
E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking
Selector Bias? 2 out of the 3 are Indian Immigrants. Does that mean Most CEO's are going to be Indians too?

[With business school grads increasingly shifting toward tech]
They are Engineers who also went to business school.
With respect (and to downvoters as well) I did not take dominotw’s reply as uncivil, and they has my upvote even if I disagree and wish they’d expanded with their own thoughts rather then merely linked a previous thread. It was not an adhom or personal attack of any kind, and expressing serious irritation over a very serious issue should not itself requiring flagging if it’s a real response.
It's fallacious to equate an individual making a personal judgment with a company imposing a decision on a large scale. While this fallacy runs deep in US culture (cf Steinbeck's quote about "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"), it is still a grave mistake.

In general, it's nonsensical to treat rights as axiomatic primitives that can be unquestioningly layered upon. For example, if we assert that the owner of private property has an unrestrained right to force someone residing on that property to enter into a contract (or GTFO), then we can describe even North Korea as a perfect libertopia where Dear Leader holds title to all real estate. Clearly, the overarching qualitative situation is what's important.

A mechanical conduit bears very little burden for tolerating speech. Which is why we expect ISPs to pass packets without policing their content. Reddit set itself up as a similar general conduit (with subreddit administrators controlling communities), and so yes we should expect the same.

But really, the problem is that an environment of censorship will just not end well. Back to your example - rather than kicking someone out of your home, maybe you should try talking to them. I guarantee that kicking them out won't change their mind. Wonder why we're seeing such extreme polarization these days? It starts with this idea of giving people the social death penalty for having views we disagree with.
Cheating and fraud are endemic to Chinese culture, getting one over on a sucker is just an expected part of daily life there.

I would not downplay this.
Not OP, but I compile everything other than my Steam games from source - I run Gentoo.
People are so incredibly desperate to attribute things to people who haven't really done anything. I hate Cuomo too, but I'm not going to descend into nonsense peddling in order to fight him. It only serves to undermine any actual effort of resistance to the man.
Article says 'world trade in live camels'.

I assume it's mostly meat but have read elsewhere Australia camels are often used for breeding vigour.

On the training. I know more about horses. Where I live in Australia a typical untrained horse will go for about $2-4k and trained it will go from $3k to $10k. Obviously add zeros for special breeds or quality genetics. I cant see camels being too different in ratio of untrained to trained value, even a lower ratio given cheaper labour costs in ME.
> This makes any purchase on Steam basically as safe as a physical purchase, resulting in Steam basically replacing physical game purchases on the PC.

Not entirely, since there's still some dependency on their client to put the game in 'offline mode', which requires phoning home to Valve.

A better example would be gog.com, which gives you the game binary/installer to download and no requirements for phoning home or any other shenanigans for being able to install/play it.
In theory, you are paying for the future dividends.

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

In reality...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
It is fairly stable in terms of syntax. Just that features like Unicode support etc. tend to be difficult to implement without deep changes. For OS dev, look into Node9 and
https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Cormack.pdf

There have been quite a few attempts at building OSes with Lua as main system/userland language. There are very few Lua implementations that can bootstrap so you still need a bit of non-Lua code as glue for the interpreter bits if not for juggling pointers.
I totally agree. I code because it's fun for me and I find it inherently interesting (and yes, whimsical). That I can make a good living doing what I love is great. That businesses can derive value from my code doesn't really concern me either way.

It does irk me to see people be so demanding with antirez. They are in many cases benefiting financially from Redis, all for free. It's ridiculous to get on a high horse and start shaming/bullying someone who created something that you benefit from, even if your benefit wasn't the author's intention but merely a byproduct of them making something awesome.
Are you asserting Cuomo had some influence on the Manhattan DA's decision? Can you point to a reference?
Incredible fear from America: https://i.imgur.com/bOqjzCs.jpg
He left in 2014 right? I guess only the last few years it started going up
You've repeatedly created accounts with a propaganda agenda for Google. You've been doing it for years. We've banned you before, and I've banned this account. Doing this is abusive regardless of what company you're promoting or what your motive is.

Would you please stop? HN is for curious humans to exchange thoughts in community. Few things undermine curiosity or community more. We frequently ask users not to accuse each other of astroturfing or shilling without evidence, but when we do find evidence—and there's a lot of it in this case—we go from tolerant to severe pretty quickly.

(All: this is not about the thread topic, politics, or Google in general—only a malignant kind of forum abuse. I hesitate to post it in an already-controversial thread, but the data are so clear that I decided not to wait.)
> When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.

probably less than half of them are engineers, and about 20% of them are capable to build complex systems. And now Google has quite long list of technologically complex products: search, ads, youtube, android. I think density of complex projects per capita may be much higher at Google than in other companies.
I like Python for the aesthetic reasons pg summarized so well in The Python Paradox essay.

Despite it has great libraries, I think it's the wrong language for scientific computing. In a nutshell, it's much harder than it should be to write concise and performant code. There's a huge stack of things used to achieve this, which often makes it complex to reason about performance and obscures the underlying mathematics: cpython, NumPy, pandas, Cython, Numba, PyTorch...

Julia is really appealing because it's very close to executable mathematics. And thanks to a few language design decisions, it's very easy to write performant code and reason about it.

For example, Julia ML libraries like Flux have full composability with Julia code. That's a game changer in terms of simplicity. Tensorflow is getting ported to Swift to mimic that feature.
Is there a limitation on how far back in time you can chargeback? I feel like if I was wronged by Valve and needed to chargeback to make things right, if they closed my accuont, I'd chargeback every purchase (or as many possible) that I made through them.
Awesome, I have been waiting for this since seeing the @scale talk about it.
https://atscaleconference.com/videos/logdevice-a-file-struct...
FFS! I finally managed to get into using Inbox, and Google is being google again and killing the project.

I guess there’s something to the adage that you shouldn’t use anything google if you want it to last.
GLYD
> AMD promised open drivers. We're still waiting.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

There you go.
Wild-assed kazinator guess: probably be a substring/regex match on "analytics". Must be a tracking domain!
So can I ask, how would I as a website developer do that? If I don't want you blocking my ads, costing me money for servers and hosting, and removing my income stream, how do is signal to you or enforce that I will only send you content on the stipulation that you make a few promises on what you will display?

Because in my experience, offering paid options to remove all ads and tracking if you want doesn't stop or even put a dent in the adblocking crouds. Trying to not send content to those blocking ads only increases anger and often reduces the performance of the page for everyone, and gating all content behind paywalls is not only opposite to how I feel information should flow and impacts some users more than others (someone making minimum wage has to give up a lot more for a $1/month subscription than someone making $150k/yr), but also destroys the ability for many to discover my content, and makes discussion and interaction significantly harder.

And other approaches like closed off apps or alternate formats like video can be a much worse experience for the user, and can hurt those who need accessibility considerations.

So I genuinely want to know if there is a better way that I'm missing, because if I can't, then my options are to "sell my soul" and just try and for you to be tracked as much as I can, or just close down my service entirely (which if you ask my users, would be a bad thing and would negatively impact them)
> Windows itself keeps changing my default media player and image viewer back to the Microsoft defaults

Same here, and it's maddening. That kind of bullshit, along with OneDrive ads in the freaking file browser, and now the subject of this article, have pushed me completely off of Windows.

Now that Steam Play exists and works with every Windows-only game I've thrown at it, I have absolutely nothing holding me to Windows on my gaming PC and workstations at home. I still have to deal with WSE 2016 and Windows 7 Pro at work, but that decision is not up to me and even if it were, we'd still have to stay with Windows for some of our software. The owner would absolutely love to make us a Mac house all the way but she understands why we can't make that move.
They bought Youtube and it served Ads. Calendar is part of Gmail. Groups is pretty much dead and hasn't been upgraded in years. Android and Chrome are part of Ads. Docs is probably the only new feature that they've developed, but people pay a good amount of money for it.
Exactly, as long as the Gemfile isn't changed.

Bumping the patch version on your CSS library resulting in a full redownload and recompile of every gem sucks.
Corporations seem like they have a comical level of hypocrisy, until you realize that corporations are in it for the money, and will almost always take the most profitable position for them in any given debate.

For instance, you will see strong calls to regulate businesses they have to interact with, while actively fighting against regulation of themselves, even on the same issues.
This is what my strength coach recommends.
> Some investors are still cutting the CEO slack because of his previous success with Paypal, but automobile manufacturing is a different beast.

There's a lot more to it than that though. Telsa is a huge achievement already. They've not only created cars that a lot of people love, they disrupted and accelerated an entire industry.

Not to mention SpaceX.
When the EU tried to regulate cucumber shapes and tea kettles, that’s when they lost me.
Does this mean that antihistamines could have an effect on brain development?
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