skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure that program in the video has access to internal game state to know which zergling is targeted, because it splits them when the tanks are out of sight, and always picks the right zergling. A real bot wouldn’t have access to this state, and the one in the article doesn’t. Marines vs zerglings+banelings would probably be a better micro example showing theoretical bot perfect-but-fair micro.

In any case, this can be solved by capping the actions per minute near Pro human levels, somewhere in the 300-500 range.

There are still incredible strategy problems to be solved that cannot be overcome with perfect micro. Figuring out a build alone using RL (which is what I think this paper is doing) is still a huge step.
There is a cost to having the infrastructure, just like there is a cost to maintaining a tree. The tree analogy is actually very apt, well, except in that case planting the tree is cheap but keeping it watered is very expensive.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this would be a great ideal for Seattle today. But back then? Or even from what I remember in the late 70s and 80s? The system would have been very difficult to justify and might have rotted before it was actually needed. And I say this as someone who had to commute from Bothell to UW by bus in the early 90s.
> Xcode works just fine on non-root accounts

Are you sure that attaching to a process (for debugging/memory-modification) in general does on modern versions of Mac OS?

"In order to guarantee support for debugging on the Mac, you need to log in on the Developer Tools Access dialog box using the administrator or root user password" [1]

"DTrace requires admin privileges" [2]

[1] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Acquiring_...

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/10/10/top-10-dtrace-scr...
For me, the place where inbox mattered was as an email client, not a task manager. I like the task manager metaphor for an email client, and they way that it made me think about my email, but I never wanted to apply that to my other workflows. I just liked the inbox email client.
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Giordano Bruno should also be remembered as a hero of science. He was burnt at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome because he upheld the heliocentric model and cosmic pluralism, a mere 13 years before Galileo wrote this re-discovered letter.

[added in response to multiple skeptic comments about Bruno's heroic role for science]

The Inquisition jailed and tried him for 7 years before burning him; of course they had time to question him about religious, doctrinal issues so they could damn him without referring to any of the philosophical and scientific principles he held. Promoting the Inquisition's recorded accusations against him, and pretending that he was no friend of science, is not very... inspiring (to be polite). And if you are going to denounce him because of his interests in the magical, what is your opinion of Isaac Newton and his lasting interest in alchemy? scientific genius and admirable hero, or somehow a buffoon not worth a footnote in the epochal battle between science and religion?

Bruno was a proud defender of free-thought, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression -- all central keys to the development of modern science. He wrote scientific works arguing for the Copernican model, published in 1584, years before Tycho Brahe for instance. He anticipated some of the arguments of Galilei on the relativity principle, as well as using the example now known as Galileo's ship. He was the first person to grasp that stars are other suns with their own planets.
Victoria Secret model responded to critics who doubt her programming credentials
Leak what? It says so in the permission screen when a user chooses to grant access.
Maybe these count as memes, and maybe they don't...

... but they are now! I'm definitely making image macros out of these things!
The author does but as an aside. I think OpenGraph is the practical application of a more utopian semantic web and it deserves a lot more recognition.
browser have very explicit rules against this very action by apple.

in your browser, apple.com cannot access the content from jguitar.com
Sure, it dosen't make sense to build subway lines to replace all roads/highways. However, as bobthepanda's comment says, once the demand on a route exceeds a threshold, mass transit wins by a mile.
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Nope, because the expected costs were available and extremely clear. My new bill matched almost exactly to what I was expecting.
That's QM in a nutshell. Of course, it's not completely clear why two different regimes are needed and when should one or the other be used. But as John Bell wrote in his "Against 'measurement'" article (https://www.tau.ac.il/~quantum/Vaidman/IQM/BellAM.pdf): "ORDINARY QUANTUM MECHANICS (as far as I know) IS JUST FINE FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES".

Quoting Everett's dissertation (http://www.weylmann.com/relative_state.pdf):

We take the conventional or "external observation" formulation of quantum mechanics to be essentially the following [1]: A physical system is completely described by a state function ψ, which is an element of a Hilbert space, and which furthermore gives information only to the extent of specifying the probabilities of the results of various observations which can be made on the system by external observers. There are two fundamentally different ways in which the state function can change:

Process 1: The discontinuous change brought about by the observation of a quantity with eigenstates φ_1, φ_2, ... , in which the state ψ will be changed to the state φ_j, with probability |(ψ,φ_j)|^2.

Process 2: The continuous, deterministic change of state of an isolated system with time according to a wave equation dψ/dt = Aψ, where A is a linear operator.

This formulation describes a wealth of experience. No experimental evidence is known which contradicts it.

[1] We use the terminology and notation of J. von Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, translated by R.T.Beyer (Princeton University Press, Princeton, I955).
I had a neighbor that would back their car out of the garage to the mailbox to get the mail, then drive back into their garage.

The mailbox was less than 50 feet from the frontdoor.
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Why do you limit this to US-based companies? I can't think of any country in the world where a company is sovereign and can withhold private data from the government. In most of them, a judge's approval would not be required.
Going to throw Elixir Lang into the mix.

- The tooling is excellent.

- The code is well-documented and readable.

- The core team committed to never needing to introduce breaking changes.

The Elixir community tends to produce work that is actually considered "Done". An elixir package is not stale when it hasn't seen a commit in a few months. Instead, the feeling is: "It's feature complete and only needs maintenance from here on out."

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir
Also prone to hijacking by terrorists.
Yes, but parent used an unqualified “always” without any room for additional context.
The biotech funding atmosphere is incredible right now. A few years ago, a $10M series A would be impressive. Now there was have been series A's in the $100M range.

Congrats to uBiome, but honestly, the microbiome space is so nascent, this is an incredibly risky play. I haven't seen any data so far to suggest the microbiome plays a major role in disease. It's entirely speculation at this point.
I despise EME and disable it but, I agree, they had no choice. I'm sure that 5% share would be more like 0.001%, all idealistic goofs like me. So "for no gain whatsoever" is not only unprovable, I'm pretty sure it's very wrong. Some choices at at Mozilla have annoyed me greatly but many have made me very happy. I think they've been a net positive influence for user interests.
Based on the standard definition of weapon:

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

A firearm is not a weapon it is an armament. An armament only becomes a weapon when it is used to inflict harm.
> “Say someone wants to implement a deep learning model with complex valued activations or quaternion valued activations. What then?”

This sounds like premature abstraction to me...
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The Yiffy Torrents guys have an office in Shoreditch London they used to verify their identity on their website via an EV certs. I don't know why they don't start there - the street address is/was literally inside their certificate. And yes they're there, it's a coworking space and they recieve postal mail there.
With dependent types you can. I'm not aware of whether that proof is possible in Haskell, however.

Besides, that's not what I was saying. What I was saying it that + in Haskell means more than an overloaded operator. It means the type has access to additional methods. This gives you more information.
Hiding Male-ware in windows?
Like, for example, a update functionality, that randomly flips the switch to "metered connection off" for tethered WiFi and uses up my bandwidth for a month?
Would that be considered malware?

Correct title would be- upload parasite-packages into a already installed malware system.
The formula involves a parameter c=10^10 and initially seems unbelievable because one's initial inclination is to assume that the 10^10 is particularly important, like it has to be that particular value in order for the formula to work. The "trick" is that higher values of c, like c=10^19, give even more accuracy. Obviously c=10^10 was chosen to optimize the formula's aesthetic beauty.
I'd like to see actual data for #2.

For #3, it's not that cycling is dangerous. It's that roads and car culture are dangerous. No activity exists in a vacuum.

And as for #1, the reason you wear a helmet is because the one time that you do fall headfirst onto concrete, the damage is life-long. It's not the frequency that you're protecting against, it's the inevitability of a fall and the potential lasting consequences.

And finally, I'd like to add that I'm speaking from a San Francisco point of view.
Well that's distinctly terrifying, until you realize what's more terrifying is catching malaria. Especially considering that plasmodium is becoming drug-resistant.
> Huh, without non-capitalist moves (socialist, communistic) then we'd still have mills that pay in their own currency, that you can only spend in the shop that the rich owner also owns...

The non-capitalist moves that stopped that nonsense were union moves, not socialistic or communistic.

> ... we'd still have voting as a reserved right for rich landowners. That's capitalism.

That's feudalism, not capitalism. It was democracy that undid that nonsense, not socialism or communism.

The rest of your rant shows that you are very bitter, but it does nothing to either enlighten or persuade.
(slightly OT)

It is not clear if the author is earning something out of the situation (more traffic I suppose?).

However, it seems to me if Shortcuts really takes off among the average iOS user, there could be a massive business building cloud services exposed via these low-code programming environments.

Killer App for FaaS?

At the same time Microsoft's TouchDevelop tried in the past to bootstrap the lack of apps on Windows Phone, but didn't succeed and had virtually no impact.

I am curious if (and hopeful) Apple will be different here.
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string/strcspn....

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stdio/vfprintf....

ah yes, good quality code
Players can’t do that mostly because it would be impossible to correctly determine which zergling was targeted, this bot has access to perfect game state information from the sc2 editor api and it looks like it is using it to me.

However, a bot could use just the same information a player could theoretically have access to but humans can’t pay attention to it all at once- that would be a real advantage. This one is basically cheating extra information though.
Consider that Fuller intentionally obfuscates text, inventing words and constructing labyrinthine sentence structures, to underscore his philosophy that an entirely new way if thinking is required. The act of deciphering meaning from his words forces you to read critically and deliberately, which places you in the frame if mind he wants. In Synergetics, for instance, he constructs an elaborate argument about the construction of a tetrahedron, leading up to a page containing the equation, printed in 128 pt. font, "1 + 1 = 4."

It's a cognitive leap for the reader in which some fundamental preconceptions are made mutable. I dig it.
I don't have a problem with this. From the sounds of it, these 'operators' are distributing copyrighted content, which is illegal in many jurisdictions. IOW, they are party to the violation, not merely indices or what-not.

The fact that CF itself is not considered party to these violations (under DMCA) is a good thing.
The operating subsidy for rail is slightly less than for the bus, but that's dwarfed by the difference in annual capital expenditures (about $1 billion for rail versus $200 million for bus). Metro's fare recovery is a bit misleading, because most of its "capital budget" is actually for maintenance and repair, which is an operating cost.

Also, the bus serves much lower income people than rail--I'm okay with it receiving subsidies.
They do wear out eventually. Most sidewalks that I've seen destroyed were from tree root upheave though.
Sub-millisecond flaws in GPS would make the transportation system collapse? Why?
I’ve played since the release date thru now with gaps of time not playing... from my experience it’s unequivocally clear that the skill level is much much higher than when the game first came out. Like not even close.
People started listening to Ronald Reagan's nonsense early, I guess.
>All you have to do is be behind the "new releases" by a month or two and wait a few minutes for the downloads to complete, but that's a minor issue.

Well, even that can be a non-issue if you have access to the better indexers, be it P2P or Usenet.
This is essentially what I do. While I do note some obvious "bad things" I'm usually trying to understand the code and the thought process behind it. The result is usually a) me learning something b) better documented code and c) the occasional code change resulting from the aforementioned "missed that" or "that makes sense" moments.
Seems like the formula is simply a fine enough Riemann sum for calculating Gaussian integral int_-inf^inf e^(-x^2) dx = sqrt(pi). It makes it much less surprising, though the exact estimation of error is still quite ingenious and worth following.
This is especially true at work with your manager because he/she they placed a bet on you (by hiring you)
Old APIs won't be the only problems, it's easy to introduce bugs like this new API or not (it's much easier to say use monotonic timers these days, but it's still easy for devs not to use th=em)
There isn’t a lot of density, and how many people would be willing to pay $100 to commute daily from Bellingham to Seattle? HSR isn’t cheap to run, many can’t afford it for daily commutes even in Japan.
The difference is, how much private customer data a company can reveal without a judge's approval. In many European countries it's limited only to meta-data (i.e., basic account information).
The grapevine says this place is a dog and pony show.
According to Seattle.gov, most of the projects are on track with spending and the ones that aren't are the projects that are now uncertain about federal funding to offset costs, higher construction costs, and due to that a few went over budget [1].

You can't blanket apply this to all projects, even the ones in Move Seattle, therefore it's nothing but propaganda from people who don't want to spend anything on public infrastructure or public transit. Jenny Durkan is also quite the liar when it comes to the missing street car link [2].

[1] http://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2018/04/23/the-latest-on-move-se...

[2] https://www.theurbanist.org/2018/07/26/mayor-durkan-claims-s...
It's becoming harder to evaluate the guarantees of the most recent so called "cloud-scale" databases, Spanner or CockroachDB for instance.

Is there anything out there like a standard benchmark to compare these offerings more accurately?
That "wrong formula" approximates pi by an integral: more precisely, exp(-x^2) integrated over the real line integrates to sqrt(pi). So the question is, in some sense, why is that such a good approximation? (My Fourier analysis is rusty, so I can't answer that question.)
Remember: "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." ~ Richard Feynman

Edit: Degenerate means that the measurement doesn't completely determine the state of the system. In that case the state before the measurement is projected onto the subspace of states compatible with the measurement, I think this may be more or less what you meant by "narrowing down the possibilities".
This happens to me too, having dabbled with ML for theorem proving.

Thing is, ML is an obscure language for most people. The association with machine learning probably dominates in 95% of people.
Am I the only one who is not surprised at all that this exists?
Unless I'm woefully off base here, if the satellites were incorrect, you would basically be permanently 300m off, not just temporarily.

There's not so many GPS satellites out there that you're going to be bouncing around them all the time - even if only one is affected, it would be very noticeable for extended periods of time.
It's sort of amazing that Netscape/Mozilla has had two real shots at being the best, most dominant browser in the arena, and squandered both opportunities horribly.
The obesity rate in Germany (and many other countries) has been steadily increasing. They're on the same track as the USA, just lagging several years behind.
Alva: create living prototypes with code components
>Because each tire transmits a unique identifier

Suddenly glad my car uses the old style, tire rotational speed based system. Sure it's not as accurate and feature rich, but my tires can't be picked out of a blind lineup
Is it just me or did the article not offer much in the way of how or why said robots would take our jobs?

The article only seemed to say that it would happen eventually and, as a result, the labor force of the future will require more software engineering skills.
I see a lot of news stories and anecdotes about automation via robots. Are there any statistics that describe this trend?
Even c = 2 works.

> n = seq(-1000, 1000); #assume 1000 is big enough to be infinity
> sum(exp(-n^2/2))^2 / 2
[1] 3.141593
> bullshit political correctness ideas

> empty virtue signaling

I wish you would be a little more open minded, and I'm sorry that since you're not it seems we can't have a productive discussion.

> You are free to fork the projects, that use "insensitive" terms, run sed on them, then test the result, and send pull requests. Other people then are free to reject your changes if they want, and you will be wrong to attack them for their choice.

This is more than a little disingenuous. Would this really work for something like Redis, or is it that you know it wouldn't and you're advancing it as a non-solution because you think this is all, in your words, "bullshit political correctness"?
Yeah, yeah. Just venting. The products I work on aren't the most important, but they certainly are quite important and most of the testing infrastructure that has been built thus far has a lot of goofy sh@t in it.

I just don't have a high tolerance for needless complexity and gee-whiz-look-what-I-can-do while the clock is running.
The user may give permission to an app to access to their inbox, but not to share their emails with others or even let the app's developers read it.

What's given to the app should stay within the app.
Because the browser would tell them.

And if this became a trend, it'd be really obvious in their ROI and they would stop funding the content provider.
You have to type a key to bring-up the address bar :)
Each person riding on the metro is one less car. It serves everybody.
PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond
I was unemployed. They were hiring.
In that case you get the same information on any usable C++ IDE.
Go Gin server generator is the 96th generator to OpenAPI Generator project (OSS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral
Just to follow on here, there are some much more evocative pictures of the TWA building in this Wired article:

https://www.wired.com/2015/08/max-touhey-twa-flight-center/

And also on this blog, from a guy who snuck in during a layover:

https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2018/01/25/twa-fligh...
These mountains are part of a craton that split when Australia cleaved off Africa. Barberton Gold Mines have a mineralization that is unique in South Africa - they actually use bacteria to cleave the gold from sulphates, if I recall. Turns out the Australian section also has gold, and the chemistry to process the gold is the same.

The Barberton gold deposits were formed in an interesting process where gold saturated fluids burst into underground fissures, and the resulting rapid cooling led to crystallization. The layout of the deposits a highly unpredictable. You can mine nothing for hundreds of meters (which takes years) before hitting a chamber that will sustain you for a decade. Super interesting. And hard to run a business like that.
Taken as presented, on the terms the writer gives us, I'm curious if this is a de facto 'movement', or if it is a natural (and IMO welcomed) evolution of the workplace?
Maybe I’m missing something, but the way this reads seems to attribute Spanner’s concurrency control entirely to TrueTime. Spanner still uses partitioned Paxos to establish consensus and 2PC for multi-partition write transactions.
Come on, in urban traffic a 300m error will easily place one in a parallel street.
Using Early Data in HTTP
An interesting move into therapeutics, from their previous main business in diagnostics. I wonder how much due diligence the new investors did.
> I'm still orders of magnitude beyond a weeklong cooking bootcamp

As am I.

Perhaps the problem is due to the assumption that cooking with salt, fat, and sugar is unheathly. Used within reason, it's not. You also don't have to add salt, fat, and sugar to everything to make it taste good. Learning to use herbs and spices helps a lot with that. It's important to start with good ingredients too.

Take your tomatoes example. Sure, if you start with standard store bought tomatoes, you'll have to fix them. But get some nice heirloom tomatoes from someones backyard, cut thick with olive oil, a little salt and pepper, and basalmic? Fantastic. And theres a reason tomato sauce recipes start with onion... sweetness. No need for sugar.

I LOVE microwaved/steamed/boiled corn on the cob with or without salt or butter.

I will admit that I have one health related problem with all this food... portion control. Cause it's all SO good.
I'm familiar with the integral. But why is that sum a particularly good approximation to the integral? It seems better than one has a right to expect, although it's been a while since I did any numerical analysis.
If you hire a coach they'll actually stand in the waves and give you a big push at the right moment the first few times, ha. It's popular in Hawaii for tourists to get started that way. Even I was able to stand up the first outing that way.
Oh yes, but it sounded horrible to me for many many many months. Once you're fat adapted, food is often just for energy and nothing else. It took me maybe 6 months to even consider not nasty and after a year it became a regular occurrence.
Tx. Are there any clear benefits comparing it to es2016 + Flow ?
Hopefully, they will start with the job of writing "robots will take your job" articles because they seem to be exactly the kind of boring task best suited for robots. Rewording McKinsey's content marketing should be possible even today.