skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re-reading this made me notice the overlap between the two posts. Most of the suggestions across both posts fall into a few common themes. I find having a shorter list of "keys to success" helps me keep them top of mind day to day. I see four main themes here across both posts:

1. Be internally driven. Gain energy by working on things you are excited about. Think independently. Don't get pushed around. Don't default to doing the same thing everyone else is doing. Don't chase status. Have almost too much self belief. You can only motivate yourself to work hard and sell your ideas to others if you genuinely believe in them and your motivation is internally driven.

2. Have clear goals. Have bold goals. Make them achievable by breaking them down by day, by week, by decade. Take advantage of compounding to make small daily accomplishments snowball to reach bold long term ambitions. Compounding works not just for financial wealth, but also for building knowledge, developing skills, relationship, and health. Taking new risks constantly will help you learn new things faster and speed up compounding in all domains. Try to create enough buffer to be able to take risks and experiment in all areas of your life.

3. Be focused and don't waste time on things that don't matter. Minimize cognitive load. Minimize personal burn rate. Being focused does not mean sacrificing exercise, eating well, and sleeping. Most people would gain by spending more time thinking about which critical priorities to focus on. Start by killing the most obvious bad uses of time like TV and twitter.

3. Work hard. Whether your goals are in business, family, fitness, or altruism, working hard at something that naturally excites you is not only easier than working half-heartedly on things you hate, but is also the only way to achieve your goals. Working hard goes beyond putting in hours - it also means being willful, pushing through rejection, being persistent to bend the world to your will. Being a doer not a talker is just the first step.

4. Surround yourself with smart ambitious people who may join your team, teach you something, energize you and give you ideas. Invest in relationships by putting others first: be quick to do favors, don't judge too quickly, be forgiving, do not burn bridges, pause to think before acting especially if you're angry, be nice to everyone including strangers.
A related tip, given to me by a Capital One rep when my card was compromised: get a second card (which has a different number) that you use just for automatic payments. Then when your “regular” card is compromised by a restaurant, skimmer, or shady online vendor, you don’t have to notify your autopay accounts, since your autopay card is unaffected.
Surprisingly not. The trick is usually to build pylons (or other cannons) such that they protect the cannons from being attacked by probes. Building them out of sight is usually too slow as a rush.

Still, he didn't do that either.
I mean, it’s Oracle, what else would you expect? Their entire purpose is to make money, they’ve never had any prestense of any higher purpose.
Shale, and higher prices leading to higher production.
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There's also this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7RZyOlq_Xnw3B5per3IU...
I wish Firefox would already implement GPU accelerated video decoding / encoding. Right now WebRTC is very CPU heavy since acceleration is missing completely.
Interesting. Manual laborer or "blue-collar" in the US is almost like a separate "tree" than professional or "white-collar" jobs. If you actually have a skilled or semi-skilled blue-collar job that hasn't been displaced by immigration or automation you are doing pretty well compared to those in the bottom part of the "white-collar" tree. Also the majority of your friends and family would probably be blue-collar and you wouldn't even be comparing yourself to doctors and lawyers.

I've heard that "actual" engineers, like people who design plants, vehicles, bridges, buildings, etc. are considered higher status in Europe than in the US. Here I think probably the top 20-30% of software developers are better regarded (and make way more money) than most of these engineers, unless these engineers are on their way to upper management or determining investments. I also think whether you're one of those people -- your social class, basically -- is pretty much determined by the day you turn 18, even in the US.
> Everyone hates their government, but that's no reason to want to disband the government.

It's not a reason to add another bureaucracy on top of the existing one we all hate either.

I've been represented by a union and their representation was wholly disadvantageous to me to a significant monetary amount as a result of their 'screw the new guy' policies and priorities. To wit, things would have been far better for me without them.
No I am not. I don't think this discussion is worth much more than this though.
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The only ones winning this are the lawyers, salivating at the idea of this blob of mess, playing on words beyond recognition and way above any common sense.

I saw a lawyer's office earlier. Big logo said "We fight for fair". Sure, per minute.
Seems to me like they are hurtling, not hurling.

But whatever it is, more power to them. It is amazing what corporations have got away with since they got the Feds to stop enforcing the anti-trust legislation still on the books. Apparently there is this dodgy economic theory that says as long as prices don't seem to be soaring, monopoly power is harmless, even where it is demonstrably suppressing alternative products, some of which would be markedly better. And, even where prices soar, people might be better off for it, somehow. Or, the monopoly might not actually last forever if they get complacent enough. And so on.
While I don't endorse the sneaky way Oracle purchased the rights only to sue Google it does highlight what happens when you become complacent and lose focus on what's important.

In an open market Google also had the change to buy those intellectual properties but at the time, they thought they are too smart for everyone with silly bids like the Pi bid https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/02/google-pi...

If you're serious about an industry, you work to reinvent it like apple has done with their operating system and hardware. If you take shortcuts then you need to face the music and in this instance Google has been out smarted by another industry competitor.

If we support open competition and we believe in Darwin's theory of evolution then Google is the inferior because they took shortcuts & didn't make serious investments in owning the mobile landscape.
Depends. One extremely popular tool with an open source license took 1.5 years.
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It actually goes deeper than just the channel number, FOX News is much easier for those of us without cable to stream. I personally feel that the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of the media on both sides. It concerns me that the press, owned and controlled by unelected billionaires get to hire talking heads to promote their political agendas without even the requirement to register as lobbyists. I make a concerted effort to watch both CNN and FOX news and when they get to be too much for me I take a break from both and let my blood pressure return to a healthy level.
Paywall bypass: https://outline.com/tM3TCU
copy and paste the link in google and load it from the search results
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Exactly. Kent Walker's post oozes unearned righteousness. Does anyone believe Google will not be doing the exact same thing with its (moribund) technologies in, say, 5-10 years?
Do you know why TLO's APM is sometimes so large? Did he actually peak at 2000, or is he using a repeater or something like that?
I don't even use VS if I can avoid it... web dev is so much smoother in VS Code, and the laginess of VS is unbearable to me. I do have a couple .Net Core projects I mostly use in VS Code and one MS SQL DB project that I have to use VS for.

May want to checkout GitLab as an option as well.
I will keep in mind the security tip "Use ssh not telnet" and I will stop using it on my servers though. I hope I won't get hacked so wish me luck fellows.
"When I started Facebook, I wasn’t trying to build a global company."

Why is he still saying this? No one is buying the dorm startup story anymore. You control world media, act accordingly.
That's basically all this is. It's the GUID of a Shell Object root that is the parent or grandparent of a lot of things like the old Control Panel applets, many of the MMC snap-ins, and related other junk.

It's also why this million year old "trick" (you'll find mentions of "GodMode folder" going back decades across nearly every Windows Version) is increasingly obsolete and useless. Windows 10 even helpfully labels a bunch of that stuff as "Windows 7" as a reminder it is the old/obsolete way to do a thing.

The modern Setting app isn't hacked into the Shell Object space so doesn't let you do hacks with folders named with Shell Object GUIDs. Though if you do want to deep link into the Windows 10 Settings, it does allow deep linking through ms-settings URLs, and those are actually easier to memorize if you wanted than random GUIDs, and should work most places you can launch web URLs on Windows. For instance: ms-settings:colors
Given Google's level of internal transparency, many employees (as said in the article) use internal forums to organize action like "walkouts". As you'd imagine having 60,000+ global employees trying to coordinate stuff over their personal email would not be possible.
"The secret of success is knowing something no one else knows."—Aristotle Onassis. AKA insider trading.
The thing is running a marathon isn't that hard and there's little to no luck involved. By following a rigid plan most people can do it in about a year. Millions of people do it every year.

However if you followed all of Sam's advice to the letter you could remain relatively unsuccessful despite all that advice. That's what survivorship bias is about: there's a significant luck component to success.
Well, Google had the opportunity to bid for Sun. The price was peanuts for Google. But they didn't pursue it, despite the risk. They brought this to temselves. And yes, Oracle behaves as a sleazy bag, but that was also common knowledge at the time...
I said "deep net" for a reason. A DNN model almost always turns out to be far, far smaller than the training data that was used to create it.

For one example: any smartphone's face-recognition feature. Each such feature is a DNN which took millions of hours of face data to train... but the resultant model fits on an ASIC.

Our DNA doesn't directly encode such a model, but it encodes a particular morphogenic chemical gradient, and set of proteins, that go together to make specialized neural "organs" (like your substantia nigra, or your basal ganglia, or your superchiasmatic nucleus, etc.) which manage to serve the same function to your brain that access to a pre-trained "black box" DNN model would serve an untrained NN in achieving transfer learning.
And we only have a decade left to save the planet. Time to stop extracting fossil fuels and emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere.
TFS, VSTS, "Azure DevOps" and often the results are outdated... "ADO" won't work either. They probably should have stuck with VSTS and just kept the abbreviation or made it "Azure VSTS" where vsts would at least continue to be searchable.

Another nicety would be to pay StackExchange to add an Azure DevOps subsite, assuming there isn't already one.
> For secure rooms make sure that the walls go beyond the false ceiling, and below the raised floor, large vents should also be covered with bars if possible.

Ah, the 'Aliens' threat model.
This lawsuit is nonsense. Do you think that APIs can be copyrighted? This will kill innovation and competition.
Unions virtually always benefit the worker, the biggest losers if there are some are the community/everyone else.
Do you have a link / reference about this you can post?
I mean, the AI in that last match couldn't see the whole map at once.

Fog of War was enabled in all cases, but the last match was them enabling the "Scrolling window" that humans are forced to look at the game with.

The AI in all of the other games could see and control all of its own units on the map simultaneously. No human has this ability due to the limitation of the screen.
Hmm, I agree building everything entirely on your own may have less legal risk. However shouldn't we encourage the use of public standard and compatible technologies, instead of going into the antique UNIX world where everything's proprietary and fragmented?

In my impression that when Google chose Java for the purpose, SUN really wanted Java to be a public interface like thing. Things happened afterwards may be unfortunate.
"People consistently tell us that if they’re going to see ads, they want them to be relevant."

I am assuming the "people" he is referencing are the advertisers, not the users.
I don't agree with a lot of the recent anti-Facebook narrative (much of it is prompted by the 2016 election), but I have always been a bit uncomfortable with the 'connecting people' thing he talks about here. Although I like when someone I haven't talked to since high school 'likes' a status update of mine, I don't actually want to be connected to everyone. If I go to a party I don't need my Uncle to see the pics. I think that is what is prompting declining FB usage among young people anyway, the fact that your Mom and your neighborhood grocery store owner is on there makes it different than what FB was ten years ago.

I also believe him when he says that Facebook doesn't purposefully host unseemly material that drives up engagement. Their newsfeed has always changed to reduce that kinda thing (app notifications circa 2008, clickbait titles circa 2011, infographics, quizzes, etc... they all have their run and then get tuned out.) Although Facebook has always been fanatical about growth so I guess it's more about long-term vs short-term engagement vs. not caring about engagement at all.
There's several well-known ones that work, and additional projects like Streisand[1] which exist to allow a roll-your-own solution. In all cases, VPNs that work are ones that obfuscate that they're VPNs via varying methods.

Otherwise, as others have said, mobile roaming data is functionally identical in that the data appears to the internet as having come from your home country. Hong Kong offer a few plans that are (relatively) affordable and roam into the mainland.

[1]: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
yes but the rule does enhance security.

the password rules force you to choose [heuristically] guessable passwords, therefore they must be changed every 90 days. simple!
They use the same signatures in the header files, e.g.

int add(int, int); //adds two numbers

Oracle is claiming copyright on a similar bit of text. If Oracle wins, any developer writing a method with that signature is violating Oracle's copyright. It's insanity.
Hmm, your post made me think of machine learning somehow, because a life does seem like finding a good place in a maze/forest/mountain to me. Do you want to reach the absolute highest (i.e. global maxima)? I can tell you that it might be impossible, because you might have landed at a bad starting point! Some people try that anyway, but I found that's not really my style. Instead, I try to reach some local maxima and be happy about it (depending on your situation or upbringing). It's quite doable. Every day you nudge yourself to a slightly better point that is reachable. Sometimes you want to choose a steeper slope which is harder but also gains a lot. Rinse and repeat. It won't get you to some remote place like Mt. Everest, but hey, a nearby hill can be still pretty good! What's important is that you get an actionable plan instead of a vague and seemingly unachievable goal. Here's my favorite quote which put it quite nicely:

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
.. those who do not learn history, are doomed to repeat <the same ask without results>

Seriously, how much "positive" spin can be tolerated at this point? We are in a tsunami of consumer-product waste.. some of it with notable components.. the markets are failing to balance the industrial life cycles.. This is exactly part of a giant fail by humans in geologic time, to adapt to sustainable patterns.

"It remains to be seen if we have poisoned the nest"
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Human pro gamers have sevaral advantages that mean they should need slightly (but probably not that much) less game time.

Transfer learning from the rest of life, games are designed to be understandable to humans with familiar concepts, that AIs don't start knowing.

Discussion with other players. Mana benefits immensely from every else's 20k hours of SC2 as well.

Selection bias, there are many many people who try SC2, only the people who are naturally good at it succeed. So in some sense we need to be counting the rejects training hours as well.

I would like to see advances on training AI using less data. I just wanted to comment that the comparison in number of hours isn't quite fair.
I haven’t researched recently, but Excel used to run on a single core on the Mac. So any decent sized file would cause tremendous issues. I used to run Windows via Parallels just to use the Windows version of Excel.

Edit: it looks like multi threads were introduced in January 2018 [0].

[0] https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304933-excel-for-mac/sugg...
This doesn't nullify the observations that people are making here.

Part of the difficulty here is describing what a 'fair' match might be. Specifically, I think fairness has to do with a goal many people have for AI: to improve human play. The strategies in Chess or Go that were employed could conceivably be used by human players. There aren't any hard restrictions preventing humans from learning from that play, even if the AI is entirely superior.

It would follow that a 'fair' SCII match would employ strategies that humans could implement. Making extra workers, for instance, might be a real lesson from AlphaStar play. The insane stalker micro, however, could never be done by a human.

From this perspective, I think the important takeaways were:

* The AI leaned heavily on super-human stalker micro.

* The AI had some strategic blind-spots, namely the immortal harass.

* The APM comparison isn't terribly meaningful; a lot of human APM is spammy/twitchy button presses that doesn't do all that much, whereas the AI can presumably make each action count. There were also AlphaStar APM spikes that likely go along with the stalker-micro issue.
Rust is an interesting one to compare to: it has been public for about 8 years, I think, and the first 5 years was a lot of experimentation. It started to have stability as a deliverable in 2015.

Swift became public in 2014 and, when it was unveiled, we were explicitly told that there would be flux for a few years. It’s pretty much stabilized now.
That's like saying that you could have gone to the gun store and bought the gun that I am pointing at your head before I did. It wasn't very expensive and you could easily afford it. You really brought this robbery on yourself.
True. Humans are pretty unique in that regard, though; pretty much no other animal is like that. It's easier to understand human neonatal development if you just considering all humans to be born premature. (It'd be really interesting to know whether that's literally true—whether keeping a human baby in the womb for an extra few months would actually result in the same stages of mental development being passed that occur in a regular baby of that age who has been sensing and interacting with the world.)
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This really does feel like a false choice.

Do you want to see ads?

> No

You have to. Now would you prefer those ads are relevant or irrelevant?
Would you prefer to see irrelevant ads instead?
Appealed to the Supreme Court? That's good news. They've shown more sanity than many other courts on intellectual property issues. Maybe we can get the idea of copyrighting APIs finally shot down...
The organized labor movement began in the 19th century.
I told myself I was done, but you've committed a foul here. By cutting off the quote at 'USA' rather than including the full 'USA Wars On X, where X is "Communism" or "Terror" or "Drugs" or "Oil Pipelines" or whatever', you make it seem that I don't value this country and its citizens. What I don't value are the stupid wars those citizens are tricked into feeding with their sons and their taxes.

Also, Noam Chomsky is twice the man and twice the American that anyone in this thread can claim to be. You don't know that, not because it isn't true, but because you are ignorant.
Looks like outline disabled WSJ links, or at least this one. You can get full text by following the link from Mark's fb post: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10106257635829431
Sure, if it involves less data collection.
Yes, I understood that.

I was essentially asking if the techniques used by DeepMind could be leveraged to create a much more powerful version of AI's like Libratus, or to become very strong at games too big to solve for GTO solutions, such as full ring.

> For "Full Ring", the game of Poker as you've probably seen it played, which has more than half a dozen independent players, AI would be very challenging

This has already been done. There was an AI called Sonia which played both HU and full ring at expert human level or beyond, and was not based on GTO solutions. It created a model of every player which updated in real time, and exploited them the way expert humans do.

I'm just curious if DeepMind would be able to achieve similar or better results.
AoE maps are not flat and units have an attack bonus when uphill (and defense penalty when downhill). Top players will place castles on hills for example and micro their units so that they are more elevated than their opponents.

AoE has monks which can take control of enemy units.

The fact that Starcraft has more micro potential should make AI development easier, not harder. Micro management is a relatively mechanic task that is time consuming for humans but which a computer should excel at.
You might want to check this out: https://github.com/alicemaz/website

Pretty nifty.
> Does anyone believe Google will not be doing the exact same thing with its (moribund) technologies in, say, 5-10 years?

I expect that they won't, if they win at the Supreme Court in this case, since there will be unambiguous controlling precedent that they can't.
I agree there are pros and cons to the physical mechanic. For example misclicks become a part of the game, whereas the RNG would be fair to each player about errors in preprogrammed walk/attack patterns.
Those are really good points.
Everyone has a different definition of what success is- and I sure have a different one than the OP.
I'd rather try to be sold something I don't care about, so I can walk away from that ad.
We may not have "genetic memory" but a ton of human capabilities are baked in at the DNA level. Sure, we need to practice in order to specialise those abilities for particular tasks, but that's more of a calibration phase on a fantastically capable machine, rather than a construction phase.

Totally agree with how impressive humans are, though. In fact, one of the most amazing things to me about robotics is finding out how close to global optimal some humans can actually get.