skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record: I am a professional bassoon player. I have been working professionally for the last ten years in various orchestras in Sweden and germany.i currently hold the position as first bassoon in Norrköpings Symphony Orchestra.

Yes and no. It is true that we in orchestras "listen" and intonate in tune (with low major thirds, slightly high fifths and so on), but playing strictly in tune quickly becomes impractical.

If you play many harmonic sequences or modulations "in tune" and then return to you original key through a different path you will often end up nowhere near where you started. We all have the equal temperament as our base and even though we play one or two chords perfectly in tune we adapt tuning not to end up far from the standard equal temperament.

Then we have the problem of melodic intonation. If you play a melody with the intonation of the harmonic series you will sound _very_ low whenever you play a third.
Cowards.
Video Game Streaming Platform: Universally Accessible Games and Simulations
And what is with all the fucking downvotes?
You're right to point out that I'm in the optimistic camp on this issue. I think it's both do-able over the course of several years of refinements, and necessary given that I think we're not done yet with innovation in interaction methods. We've been on a plateau for a while with iDevices and Macs. Meanwhile, foldable screens, touch surfaces replacing keyboards, and gaze tracking are on the horizon, and those will require some fundamental UX work to be done across both iOS and MacOS, making them even more similar than before. Those techs are <10yrs out, possibly much much sooner given we see incremental progress toward them with tech like Samsung's foldable phones, the TouchBar, and FaceID.

Even without new interaction methods, this kind of work is not an endeavor I think most companies can undertake, especially not Microsoft. Their failure doesn't reflect on the opportunity or possibility, because they really lack the deep bench of skill and company culture of perfectionism to get the UX right, and they don't have the market leverage or third party developer culture to push developers toward new things (see win32, uwp, etc). Win8 was a half-hearted springboard reskin that was only surface deep, and in no way a re-think of combining touch+mouse, let alone meaningful guidance and tools for developers on how to make apps span both. Users rightly rejected it and Win10 went back to a more incremental approach that's still mired in weird reskin issues, and touch is largely an afterthought on Windows except in specific apps.

Re: Mac App Store, it isn't actually a Marzipan app, though it shares some of the questionable UX choices. I'm particularly not fond of the full page modal with 'Done' button rather than the more traditional back/forward design. Totally agree with you on this and the Marzipan quality issues.

Discord is sort of representative of an aspect of the problem a combined UIKit is looking to solve - devs are using things like Electron to get cross-platform support but creating crappy anachronistic non-native experiences in the process. If devs can build for UIKit and get some platform-specific graceful enhancements built-in (as they did going from iPhone -> iPad), that changes the calculus on building with Electron or whatever.

There's a lot of implementation details regarding Marzipan and UIKit but - saying this as a designer who's had to do a fair share of mixed mobile-desktop work - I don't see any fundamental blockers to the approach that would prevent pro apps on the Mac getting their interaction density on mouse and touch apps getting their lower interaction density touch targets. Just a lot of work and decisions to make around how to progressively enhance and offer platform-specific flexibility. But that's just my take, I can see why others might disagree.

We'll see this June. Apparently some more fundamental UX changes were delayed last year to focus on quality, so this year is likely a big year.
They mentioned that they retrained after the camera change and it was equivalent to the AIs that beat Mana 5-0 by their metrics.
(Well string addition should be associative)
We tend to think in hierarchical terms: tactics, strategy, and the like. It allows us to quickly create imperfect viable solutions. AlphaStar is probably lacking such distinction and sees the game as a sequence of actions. So it takes a lot more time for it to learn behavior patterns that we call strategy.

I think after training for maybe 20 thousand in-game years it will have decent strategy, while still lacking a real "understanding" of what a strategy is.

We probably will not see humanlike learning speed and adaptability before development of methods for learning hierarchical representations.
Any stats/articles on SQL server having an impressive query optimizer? I have personally found it almost entirely devoid of ability but maybe we just had awkward queries.
Instead of one role for hardening, I try to write my roles with secure defaults:
https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-centos
I have been working remotely for the past 8 years, here's what worked for me:

- separate space that is work only (ideally even a co-working space, but there's no decent one available where I live)

- establishing with SO that when I'm in that space, I'm "not home"

- have fixed working hours as consistently as possible (besides making your availability more predictable to others, this also helps on other fronts, like:)

- work slack and gmail notifications set to on only during work hours, _automatically_ off after

- set working hours in google calendar (others get a warning if they schedule outside those hours)

- mark lunch in google calendar

- when "at work", focus only on work, but when work is done, close everything asap -- even if in the middle of something (it might feel like a waste if you're in the zone, but you pay it the next day if you stay late) -- this was hard to get into, especially the guilt part, but going outside immediately e.g. for a walk/cycling, or something that needs some focus from your part, helped with that

- although my workstation runs 24/7, I open/close all work related programs (IDE, slack, etc) when "arriving" and "leaving" work, it seems to help the mind cope better with the lack of a physical commute

And as a side-note, choosing a company that is 100% remote makes all that at least an order of magnitude easier because people can relate to what you're going through (bonus points if they also have a life outside work)
Weak scientific result put in the media as a new truth. It does not take a genius to see any picture of Europe in '70s where there are people, to see that with very rare exceptions everybody was slim. The same happened in France, Italy, Germany, ... and now despite that we are genetically the same people are fat. Maybe there are people genetically more inclined to stay lean despite the terrible lifestyle, but that would be another story and another message: you still have control on your weight most of the times.
Perfect information is a bit of a stretch. There was still fog of war. The AI just played as if the portion of the map visible and actionable at any point in time was the whole map. They retrained with a restriction to a given locus of attention that can change, akin to a screen the player is looking at and acting on.
Yeah that stalker micro really showcases a particular advantage leveraged by the AI.

I'd love to watch the results of constraining the AI so instead of seeing the whole map at once it has to pan around the same way a human would to get updated information on each battle. Counting those "info-gathering" window pans against the actions tally might yield slightly fairer APM metrics.
(EDIT: Turns out they built a new agent for game 11 to do just that)

One of my biggest beefs with strategy games of this genre occurred around the time sprites went 3D and the player viewports got smaller (presumably to showcase all the cosmetic detail, and since it became harder to distinguish between visuals when zoomed out farther). I always feel too constrained on the modern games - like I can't see enough of the map at once. In my opinion that "full size viewport" gives a multi-tasking edge to the engine that the player doesn't share (beyond the human cognitive overhead from context switching you already pointed out).

On the other hand I find it fascinating our AI's have become strong enough at our games that we're having to handicap them to avoid players crying foul that they're not fair.
Have you seen yubikey/smartcard being used for sshin a large team? Would love to hear about your setup and learnings.
It will be during our time that we apologize to the younger generation for the world we created
You just change the way they are handled; the knowledge about the special case is now hidden in the setup code, which might be better in some cases and worse in other cases.
Conditional Structures in PHP
This doesn't look credible at all. If this isn't a straight up scam, it's a bucket shop at best.
APM is a really really misleading metric to use here. Most starcraft pros spam keys to keep themselves loose and ready when the time comes. Even at the start of a game, you'd often see players with 500 apm warming up the fingers.

Here, there is the laughable graph of the computer apm over time. The key points here is that when there were the mass battles that won the game, the apm spiked to >1000. And if you look closely in slow motion, there was perfect split targeting. A human player wouldn't be able to perfectly select the exact number of stalkers to hit the enemy without wasting a surplus shot. They can, but not when it's mass stalkers. This efficiency is just beyond humans. The APM here indicates much more effective use of an action than a typical human.

This is super impressive as an achievement, but this is clearly not a smarter ai, but moreso an ai like the video a while ago where zerglings could perfectly micro against siege tanks to avoid splash damage. It is clearly better than humans in certain ways, but not smarter.
That's odd, the article I read did contain specific instances of parents retracting the steps of their spendthrifty offspring which confirmed there was no indication of actual money being spent, e.g.:

“I saw all these $19 charges from Facebook,” she said. “It added up to nearly $1,000.”

She asked her son why he would do that. But he was flabbergasted by the charges too. So Bohannon asked her son to play the game so she could watch what he was doing wrong.

As he played, he occasionally clicked on a corner of the screen that gave him more abilities, such as magical items, or new ninja attacks for his character. It didn’t ask if he wanted to pay for it, or let him know that his mom’s credit card was being charged.

“There was no indication he was spending money,” Bohannon said. “So, 20 minutes later, I rechecked my credit card statement online. And sure enough, there was another $19.99 charge from Facebook.”
Have you ever lived or worked in a third world country and seen people struggle to make ends meet? I mean really struggle. I have. It makes me wish I could drop my kids off in Afghanistan or a Syrian refugee camp for two weeks so that they can see just how good they actually have it when they curiously find things to bitch about.

I have worked immediately next to a former South African military officer that now works as a senior software engineer at one of the most profitable companies in the world. This person has also seen and experienced unimaginable poverty first hand and its amazing how quickly these experiences bring people into a common understanding or appreciation.

I think the world entitled is completely appropriate in this context. To reaffirm that when employees walk out of Google for a protest it isn't the contractors or employees in the various support jobs who walk out. It is the entitled software engineers whose jobs are more mobile and face less income insecurity. Ask any Googler that walked out about that stratification.
I found many results on ebay for "silicon wafer" that may scratch your itch.
I believe that is a good thing. I used to work at Microsoft and many of their own employees hate Access and wish Microsoft would have replaced it with Foxpro when they bought that back in the 90s.
Probably if you only use the React/Redux libraries and nothing else. It seems the project doesn't use any Javascript, and uses the OCaml compiler to produce native binaries for each platform.
That is quite far fetched. You made it sound like they specifically identify and monitor sci-hub usage somehow.
How would this work?
This has been a big issue in accounting, specifically public accounting. You are basically paid a salary and then you basically become a slave to the firm. You put up with lots of BS because you don't want to get fired or passed up for a promotion. The reason it is like that is because the partners of the firm get a cut of everything you produce...so the more you produce...the more they get. They quickly realize they need to figure out ways to keep you working more and more.
You can find the motivations for the license change here: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/blob/master/docs/MOTIVATION.m...

Basically a large part of the motivations is that OSS is not sustainable with funding alone. It's a good point that it might need further clarification about what "non commercial" means.
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
Might as well call it the data leak jackpot. You can change your password, but you can't change your DNA.

> Unlike DNA labs, Rapid DNA machines do not have rigorous protocols governing the handling of samples.

> “There really are no actual rules written anywhere,” Detective Vandegrift said.

> With a few clicks, Detective Vandegrift uploaded it to the county database.

> In contrast, county DNA databases are unregulated. In Bucks County, the DNA database has begun to include genetic material from people whom police consider “even just a suspicious subject,” Detective Vandegrift said. Mr. Harran called such cases “one of the greatest uses of this instrument.”

Instead of a movie about changing your grades, now it will be changing a DNA file and getting them convicted of a crime.
That’s a pretty big claim. Got a source for it?
It's not too bad if you have already read about Feynman's life and death. I liked the bits about telling and teaching.
A policy adhered to is better than a policy not.
> they keep cherry picking standard Java APIs, forcing Java library developers to write two versions of their libraries

Can you give some examples of what Android is missing? I know it doesn't implement various packages like awt, swing, javafx, etc., and of course sun.misc.Unsafe. But I wouldn't consider any of that "core Java", and a lot of it doesn't exist in Java ME either.

Are there any disparities in "core Java" libraries, like java.util?
>> a) the data wasn't breached through the credential stuffing attack, it was breached at an earlier time on another site.

Remember GDPR is specifically concerned with "A personal data breach"
The original breach that led to the password being leaked was likely also a personal data breach (unless the only thing the hackers managed to access was the username/password database - and even then email address can constitute personal data in some cases), but there is definitely a personal data breach as a result of the credential stuffing attack (in the Deliveroo case, more than likely full home address, possibly other addresses too like work, possibly name, some level of credit card data, order history, etc.).

>> b) the credential stuffing attack itself is authorized access (because from the site's perspective, the user provided the correct username and password), not unauthorized access.

It's certainly authenticated access, but I think you'll struggle to convince a lawyer that it was authorised.
About abstractions, not about what CS calls an "abstract type". Don't mix these.
Not at all! All that does is redirect you to Google.
From the license itself: “NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.”

This is a dangerous clause, “commercial advantage” could encompass a lot. I would not use this editor as a result of that clause.

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpre...
So where are the charts showing the difference between AngularJS and Angular adoption?

https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/angular/
Myth of Meaning: How the System Inoculates Itself Against Being and Doing
My thoughts as well..

Changes in genes very certainly are epigenetic to some degree.
I find I can often get away with throwing in a wrong answer or two.
The amortized cost of prepend (unshift in ruby) is O(1) (since Ruby 2). Of course that means at some point you'll get O(n) prepend.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8353026/what-is-the-run-...
Are you saying you can buy $100 iTunes gift cards for $85 dollars? That's kinda sketchy....
Hey! Here's a fun trick I learned from Knuth's TAOCP, the one with the tape drive algorithms.

You want to search an array for an element:

int i;
for (i=0; i < array.length; i++) {
if (array[i] == value) break;
}
return i;

This is bad because we have two comparisons every loop iteration. But simply append our search term:

array.push(value);
int i;
for (i=0; ; i++) {
if (array[i] == value) break;
}
array.pop();
return i;

and we've cut our comparisons in half!
It was not programmed to do the thing, but all these tactics were in seed replays, from which the agent started its learning. So, it actually not figured the move _by itself_, only found it useful.
I interviewed with DWave as they were looking for someone
with deep common lisp roots (aka me). Apparently I didn't
make the cut. I am not a particle physics major (I'm math
and cs) but I've been reading deeply on the subject for
many years. I ran experiments on IBM's quantum playground
(http://www.quantumplayground.net/#/home)

I'm not sure what could be required to qualify as "talent"
in quantum computing. I suppose, like everything else in
computer science these days, you need at least 10 years
of "quantum computing experience" on your resume :-)

I suppose they could put all the resumes into a quantum
computer and use Grover's algorithm to find the top talent.
The job description is probably for a "Super Position" :-)
Eating too much food the 'secret to becoming fat'

The secret to staying slim is to not eat more calories than your body uses. Excuses like this will only make obesity even more common and accepted than it is today.
I thought exactly the same. In my country, and I believe many others, that is not possible, no matter how many times I sign.
There are a lot of deals like that from time to time and it's not sketchy.

https://www.imore.com/thrifter-deal-score-50-itunes-gift-car...
your moral assertion isn’t an argument, because it contradicts the license chosen by the relevant people
It's nice that you want everything for free but people have to eat too.
This is important: this shows that AMD and Intel agree that these instruction sets are indeed protected and should be licensed.
You're right. Guaidó was very carefully chosen[1] to not give that impression.

1. https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1088704085375795200
In the US we have all this as well, we just are secretive about it and people don't know the rules. China is more transparent and open about it.

Both systems are dystopian big brother to some, yet utopian to many others.
This article felt like a pretty normal guy talking about how he's sort of thinking about how computers are creepy.

I personally have been playing with U2F hosted on my home network and integrating it throughout my life. It's not that hard and definitely worth it when you get it going. I have been working with some YubiKeys to secure my house and my girlfriend and I's internet accounts. Recently I got a couple Solo[0] Keys. Really excited about open hardware that's not platform locked. You can seed your keys yourself and give one a massive offset then say put it in a bank box, if you lose your keys or are compromised, get key from bank and seed a new set. The Yubi and google U2F offerings are cool, but they are definitely designed to lock you in to their tooling. Buying into a single point of failure for this feels dumb.

[0] https://www.solokeys.com
Do they exhibit the risk-taking trait?

Also, such companies offer alternative roads to personal success, like climbing up the corporate ladder and getting wealthy with stock options. Probably not all bad, especially if you can identify with the corporation's vision and feel you're doing something useful.
I thought it's a good illustration of how fractured and fragile the JS "library" situation is. It's a bit like the previous PHP standard library, combined with the worst of Perl's Tim Toady.
> Didn't Cedar's FS support having local files too? Obviously I've never used Cedar, just read papers about it.

It may have but I only farted around in it bc my real job was in interlisp (plus it was strongly typed iirc which i was allergic to in those days). Yeah, all the D machines booted into an Also mode (which itself was a kind of NOVA).

Even the KL-10 clone (MAXC) had an Alto as its front end processor (real dec ones used a PDP-11!)
> It's absurd that you can actually waive any of your legal rights... Seriously, this is bonkers.

I see this claim all the time in comments about mandatory arbitration clauses, but it doesn’t make sense as stated. You need to narrow it down or at least clarify it somehow.

Being able to waive legal rights is necessary for society to function. For example, I have the legal right to not give McDonald’s $1. I waive that right in exchange for them giving me a soda. I have the legal right not to go to work every day, which I waive in exchange for a paycheck. And so on.
Mystery tracks being 'forced' on your Spotify
It's obviously because they make a lot of money with a nebulous amount of work. In SF, tech is seen as the same.
>The secret to staying slim is to not eat more calories than your body uses

This. There are too many people who do not understand that conservation of mass applies to the human body too. Nobody gains 1 kg by eating a single peanut, yet some people claim it's all genes.
As the comment above states, it was based on Apache Harmony not written from scratch.
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