skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poker analogy seems like the right one to use, although Pokemon is made messier by the level of variance. (Meaning both "semi-random effects" and also "far more than 52 possibilities for mon and moves".) I'd imagine the completely-hidden playstyles would be incredibly hard for an AI to learn, but the popular Showdown style that has team preview might be workable. The poker analogy seems like a good one, at least for studying the sorts of things an agent would need to do.

There's definitely a recognizable 'tempo' to pokemon, where A picks a move that threatens B, B switches to something that can take it and threaten back, then A in turn switches to take the hit and threaten back. Which, much like just accurately betting your hand strength in poker, is enough to beat a lot of amateurs. The metaphor goes from there - though I might use 'raise' for leaving a threatened pokemon exposed, which lets us differentiate a strong hand ("I'll use a coverage move with higher speed") from a bluff ("I can hit his switch if I call it.") As an example, opening Koko v Landorus. The fold is switching Koko to Skarmory, the honest raise is HP Ice, and the bluff is Thunderbolt.

The basic ebb and flow of the game seems like it's that and one more layer - double switches and attempts to predict them. Above that, there's just not enough probability mass left to benefit from trying to triple switch, counter-counter-switch, and so on.

Of course, it's all made vastly more complicated by trying to trap, set hazards or status, and make space for setup moves. I'm not sure what it would take to get an unsupervised learner to value e.g. Rocks appropriately. My experience has been that neural nets struggle badly on assessing that sort of long term state change, though of course I'm not working at OpenAI or DeepMind levels.
Sure, PhD in cognitive neuroscience is OK, but Demis' most impressive feat is winning the Mind Sport Olympiad a record 5 times.
Good question. We are based on Chromium, the open-source Web browser project started by Google that powers Google Chrome. Therefore on that part the same security model as Chrome applies. On the data side, most information is stored locally on your computer. Very few information is actually stored in our database therefore reducing the risk. For instance we do not store any username, passwords or token you use to login into your app in our database.

Now we haven't yet worked directly with infosec departments so we are well aware that there is still work to be done for us to be fully vetted.

As for adding an internal Jira instance, you can do that directly from the app store in the Station app. Click on the "+" button at the bottom right of the screen and you can request a custom app (visible either just to you or your entire team).
It was a software limit, inasmuch as the software wanted to run in real mode even though by 1989 you had a modern 32 bit cpu that had all the features to run Windows 10 today.
I downloaded this app, and really like it. Its a simple concept, but it would be really useful for me. That said, in order for it to be useful I need to be able to add an internal administrative app which I use frequently (its just a website). If I could just do that, it would be really useful as-is.

Ideally, I'd also like to add an internal electron-based web app that runs only on my machine as well, though that is lower priority than the standard web app.
I streamed on Twitch for a while [1], the change they made with the categories now officially kills off programming streams and show that they don't really care about it.

Curating streams this way is very useful and looks good.

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/kensodev
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Wow... in a post denying that the comment never happened a lot of people here still take it as a fact.

Now, what do you guy think about the "Al Gore said he invented the internet"?

Ah, the wonders of a post-truth world...
I'm curious why you don't count Detroit as a "tech hub"? Or NY? Or LA? Does you definition of technology not extend beyond software development?

There are myriad industries, like car manufacturing, energy, finance, filmmaking, aerospace, health, etc. that involve huge amounts of technology, and whose leading players are based nowhere near Silicon Valley. But instead of going out and working in these industries to build something revolutionary, tens of thousands of world class programmers cluster in Silicon Valley, all talking to each other about how amazing and disruptive they are, while wasting their prime years blowing through VC money in startups chasing the latest ecommerce/chatbot/messaging/AI/blockchain fad, or as a cog in some tech giant's machine to turn customer data into advertising dollars.
Could use some help testing our Python Packaging solution
Hi all -- I'm having a hard time finding people to help test our CI/CD's Python Packaging solution (for which I'm a new PM here @ Microsoft).

Basically - we have CI/CD capabilities as part of our offerings, and (being a Python fanatic) I've helped define what we're going to do to help Python devs included packages in their pipelines. We launched in a private preview a few weeks back, but haven't seen a lot of uptick in usage.

I would love some feedback and to hear your thoughts on what we've done so far.

You can find the preview instructions at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/python-packages?view=vsts

(You'll need an Azure DevOps account (initially free) @ r/http://dev.azure.com), and then to create a Project before you follow those instructions.

Appreciate your help and thoughts.
>It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area

Nobody blinks twice if you dye your hair blue, wear flip flops to the office, commute on a unicycle and microdose LSD.

God help you if you put a mossy oak patterned lunch box in the break room fridge because from then on you're redneck white trash.
Yeah even as an American I've noticed "decadent" used this way. Not just chocolate, you see it with many sweets or other calorie dense foods. Hell Starbucks has become one of the most ubiquitous companies in the world largely due to the popularity/markup of its breakfast milkshakes.

I guess the idea with "decadent" is something like "this is your rare and entirely sinful reward for your hard work maintaining your overall health with your generally sensible choices in what you eat." Kindof like a dietary lent.

Meanwhile 40% of the US adult population is obese. 40%. That is absolutely staggering.

There's nothing "decadent" about eating food that is nutritionally poor here...it's entirely normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
Actually, it's not yet another language :) The syntax is taken from ArangoDB - AQL
https://docs.arangodb.com/3.3/Manual/
That progress was set in motion by decisions we took years ago. I think all of us understand at some level, that we are failing to keep making good decisions. Books like "Better angels of our nature" and "factfulness" try to convince you that world is only going to get better, but I don't think it's obvious at all.

Re: enlightenment values, liberal democracy, trade etc. I believe governments and public institutions played a major role in the past that contributed to our success now.

We have moved from public institutions to private companies now. More capital is being invested now in selling us ads, selling you the next version of iphone etc. The companies with the most capital are tech companies. They are not solving the problem of healthcare, climate change, sustainability, mass inequality or any meaningful thing in any way. People are more excited for VR games. I feel right now, humanity is like a rich spoiled brat.
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The AOT compilers misses NGEN, which is part of .NET Framework since v1.0, although it only does dynamic linking with very little optimizations.

And the cloud compiler created for Windows Phone 8.x, based on Bartok from Singularity.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

.NET Native is an improvement of this work.
ARM64 uses regular loads and stores to access the stack, I believe. It also is one of the architectures with branch-and-link. https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/using-the-...
Kinda a cool idea in a Stargate-y, Ancient Astronauts kinda way.

It could easily be the origin of a story of the first interstellar star-ship from Earth traveling across the cosmos, only to reach a planet already inhabited by a human civilisation. (This would presume that knowledge of the traveler world was lost at some point)
You know, that most popular machine learning frameworks are in Python, which is similar to, or actually even slower than JS.
Yes true, even this third-party site has given credit to the original link.
The editors didn’t think she was notable enough. This is an editing problem not a submission problem.
The quote frames it as class warfare, then points out that 40% of Italy is evading taxes. So...40% of Italy is upper class? Sounds like something we should move to so we can have 40 times more people than the current 1%.
How about storing entire realistic maps of worlds that you can walk around in?
How does motive relate to means here? I think an "ends vs means" argument would be around whether it was ok to cull half their workforce to pay for this wage increase.
Actually she had a page, but it was deleted. And then someone recreated the page, and it was rejected in review. QED
> So I think that probably syphilis is only one example of an infection that leads to an altered mental state, and there's no reason to assume that because something is treatable with penicillin, that is is necessarily syphilis.

I don't doubt this at all however:

> I've also seen a cancer patient on chemo with symptoms that resemble some forms of psychosis, and of course that is someone who is immuno-compromised and susceptible to opportunistic infections.

this might simply be due to the stress of a life changing, life threatening event. Couldn't it be?
That's like going to a town meeting in 1630 and saying "ok, everyone who's a witch raise your hand." A few people will admit to being from cities in the south. Nobody is going to admit to being from the rural south.
So bandwidth is actually very cheap. It certainly costs nowhere as much as AWS/GCP charge. Some reports peg their margins on bandwidth at >90%.

That said, I've frequently seen parallels between razor + razor blades pricing and how AWS/GCP price compute vs bandwidth. Computing is cheap, by some measures, but almost all customers will egress that data somewhere and once you've done your computation, you'll pony up whatever prices they demand for letting that data "egress"
Though note that at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#Nobel_Prizes it took Pierre Curie objecting Marie being excluded from the nomination to get the Nobel committee of the time to acknowledge Marie Curie's work...
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18118434
Would it be fair to say that it will teach you how to dictate the memory layout of your program, which is key to taking proper advantage of "cache locality, cache lines, prefetching, etc..."?
For quite a long time now, the smart advice has been to avoid startups if you are only there for the payoff. You, as an employee, are not a VC who can gamble across many investments. Where 10% success is great because of the power law.

I'm continually surprised that this needs to be repeated, almost biweekly here on HN.

As someone advanced in my career, I enjoy startup life for the startup life. As a noob out of college, I very, very highly recommend startup life as you will never be so risk tolerant again in your life, and you can't get the experience any other way. You can afford to fail and then move on to a bigco if you want stability. Also, you will form bonds and make friends that won't happen at a bigco.

Someone should put together a spreadsheet showing the value of a 1% equity stake at seed and series A for YC companies that have had an exit. (It's not hard.) I guess airbnb hasn't had an exit yet, but we can just use $40bn as a reasonable number.

All the online dilution calculators are targeted to founders, so they can model and make raise decisions at each round. For us, it's a very easy depreciation calculation. Anyway 1% post-A results in .52% post-E using a calculator I found easily that has reasonable defaults for each round. That $200MM of airbnb, really astounding. Do consider it took 13 years to get there. OTOH your 1% would have been good after only 4 years.

Let's say you limit your startup job search to just YC companies. Now you just need to factor in the number of YC companies, the number of employees at Series A and earlier, your likelihood to get 1% (unlikely to impossible), and your likelihood of landing in a successful startup.

YC could make this type of calculator online for anyone but that would discourage employment. Someone here can easily produce it.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking you can pick the winner and therefore your likelihood of success is multiplied. You can't. Even YC (and all other incubators) can't, that's why they spray the money around.
I just have so many problems working with the former C programmers on my team as a Python dev. They're constantly worried about memory management, they're not very concerned about architecture and don't make full use of the Python language, they're of the "if it works, ship it" mentality, and they're constantly writing code that violates my tastes.

I can write a C program, but I am not in any way a C ninja. I sometimes wonder if having to write C to pay for the food on your table teaches you bad habits when trying to bring that experience up a layer (or three). Maybe not, I don't know. Am I alone in this thinking?
The personal communication stored in Messenger is materially different. Affairs, criminal activity, talking about the boss... This has the potential to actually destroy lives.
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Proxy support is not in place yet. I will add it in future releases.
You are welcome to do a PR :)
I like this article a lot. There are two ways you can think of looking at the field of programming:

* As a continuum from "low level" to "high level".

* As a giant bag of topics: strings, heap, hash tables, machine learning, garbage collection, function, instruction set, etc.

If your goal is to have a broad understanding of CS, you want to explore the whole continuum and many topics. C is great for that because it exists at a sweet spot that's lower-level than most languages but not so low level that you have to jump into the deep end of modern CPU architectures which are fantastically complex.

Because C has been so successful, there are few other successful languages that sit near it on that line. Those that are (C++, Rust) are much more complex. So if your goal is just to get familiar with that region of the continuum and not become an expert in a new language, C has a good price/performance ratio.

Also, it's a good language for getting exposure to many topics other languages hide. If all you know is JS or Ruby, C will teach manual memory management, static types, heap versus stack allocation, pointers versus values, primitive fixed-sized arrays, structs, and bit manipulation. Its sparse standard library means you'll end up implementing many common data structures yourself from scratch, so you'll get a better understanding of growable arrays, linked lists, trees, strings, hash tables, etc.

"Portable assembly" is a nice slogan for C. But it's worth remembering that back when it was coined, the emphasis was on "portable", not "assembly". At the time, C was an alternative to assembly languages, not higher-level languages.

It's never been very close to an assembly language. C has types while assembly is untyped. C has function calls that abstract the calling convention while assembly languages make that explicit. C implicitly converts between types, assembly doesn't.
Thanks for the affirmation, the software community can be an isolating place for people living outside the main stream.
You still need ansible to setup the hosts and the databases.
Or undefined behavior in the program, which happens to manifest differently under different compile options.
I have to ask, because I've wondered for a couple years now, is your name a One Piece reference?
I made something similar on a smaller budget, see jonatron.me . It's nowhere near as nice looking though. And you'd have to use a different emulator to make it do more than a couple of basic blinking light test programs
The reason QE “didn’t work” is because it was a trick meant for the Federal Reserve’s cronies to steal (“buy”) a ton of our property and rent it back to us. QE worked perfectly.
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I suspect the Razor engine/language is a case of vendorization. (Razor is a markup templating language which is part of MS Visual Studio.) I suspect MS promoted it because it complicates IDE design (parsing) so as to keep other IDE's out of their turf.

The prior templating syntax ("<%...%>") was simple to learn, simple to use, easy to read, easy to debug, and easy to parse (per IDE vendor). Razor didn't add much in practical features to justify the huge leap in complexity it caused.

It may save 2% of key-strokes but complicated syntax and parsing by a factor of roughly 30. It would have to save at least 25% of keystrokes to justify 30x complexity in my opinion. Let alone debugging and parsing error headaches. Bad deal.
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Well I signed up for it. However, I am not really sure what I am supposed to do with it.
You would imagine correctly.

Then you'll understand the value of a fast charging network like Tesla has.

I understand the value just fine. And for me, it's not very high; certainly not high enough to pay more than double for the car (had Model S's even existed when the Leaf was purchased).
I actually have an Altairduino kit sitting in my closet, waiting for me to get around to building it. :-)

So far, these are the only three kits I'm aware of.

At VCF-West for the past year or two, the Computer History Museum (in Mountain View, CA) has been showing off a similar project they've been working on with an IBM 1620 Jr front panel. However, that's definitely not something you'd make a kit out of. But, as part of it, they've figured out how to convert a modern'ish electronic typewriter into a teletype.
> It isn’t a conservative republican monoculture.

"Conservative Republican" describes like dozens of belief systems in 2018.

Does a conservative Republican support free trade or tariffs?

Does a conservative Republican believe "I earn what I get" or "companies must be forced to provide equal time for me"?

Does a conservative Republican support "work toward citizenship" or "kick Muslims and Mexicans out"?

Does a conservative Republican believe business owners should be free to pursue profit, or business owners should be forced to deliver the President's policy goals?

Does a conservative Republican believe in "leader of the free world" or "America first"?

Does a conservative Republican believe in "pax Americana" or "the U.S. is not the world's policeman"?

Who does a conservative Republican like more: Justin Trudeau or Vladimir Putin? Angela Merkel or Kim Jong Un?

The crazy thing is, right now you can find people who believe either side of one of those dichotomies above, and both of them might call themselves a conservative Republican!

Likewise: it's equally silly to say that "The monoculture in Silicon Valley is that of hyper liberal people." Because it's possible to do the same exercise with conflicting liberal beliefs.

The key thing to consider is that there is more to thought than where it lies on a political spectrum. A liberal millionaire and a conservative millionaire are going to share modes of thought that are orthogonal to which party they prefer to vote for.
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may I add your channel to the list? :)
Per marxist theory (so take this how you will), modern societies can either be dictatorships of the proletariat or of the bourgeoisie. Capitalism as an economic system is inherently a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where laws will always be created to favor the interests of those with capital rather than workers. A market driven economy isn't inherently capitalism, as markets existed before capitalism and certainly played a factor in the central planning organizations of many socialist governments.

Any concessions to this only come from fear that the bourgeoisie would lose further power, which explains why the rich historically supported the expansion of the middle class as it created a buffer between their interests and the interests of laborers, and would explain why Jeff Bezos would support a living wage now as without it there is an increased risk of having to make further concessions down the line.