skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
imho, the AI had a better time playing as a Protoss because of blink stalkers.

you can probably perfectly micro marines + marauders + medvacs with stim, but it's a lot harder than blink.
But do these operators actually perform deterministically? Does the page actually contains a match for my terms? In my experience, this has become less and less true.

The first obvious mistake in the list is that google doesn't default to AND anymore since ages. A list of two terms will be some random combination of one of them, maybe both of them, and occasionally none (and no, this doesn't happen due to fetch/indexing lag or stemming or autocorrect).

To get true inclusive searches you need to quote the terms, individually. People keep pointing at verbatim search, but verbatim performs phrase search, which is not what you want in most of the cases.

DDG suffers from the same. I curse them both. I've used some js to quote individual terms before performing the search to get back useful searches for technical terms.

But really, the number of times I now get pages which do not contain the exact terms I'm looking for is subjectively increasing.
No story behind the build, just a link to the git repo? yay
That would be ideal. Keep SMTP as a server-to-server protocol only and IMAP as server-to-client.
> So if you feed it historical crime data, it will pick out the patterns associated with crime. But those patterns are statistical correlations—nowhere near the same as causations. If an algorithm found, for example, that low income was correlated with high recidivism, it would leave you none the wiser about whether low income actually caused crime. But this is precisely what risk assessment tools do: they turn correlative insights into causal scoring mechanisms.

My main problem with this sort or argument is that it compares an algorithm to some ideal. As though a judge has some infallible insight from carefully studying empirical results for recidivism.

In regards to correlation vs causation, they're important when trying to prescribe solutions. For instance, suppose that higher rates of recidivism are caused by growing up in an abusive household. And having a violent parent also causes a lower income. Correlation vs causation is important when trying to remedy the problem. Giving the family money will not solve the underlying problem, just a side effect. Solving the side effect may still be worth it though. But if you're determining rates of recidivism, it would be better to look at the underlying cause (did you grow up in a violent household) rather than a side effect (poverty), but they would both lead to the same final recidivism score. And you can still reject both under the premise that the past that's out of your control should not be considered.

But even if you are set on only using the cause, statistical methods are more likely to find these results. And you can easily control what input is provided. You can tell a judge to ignore certain characteristics, but her actual reasoning process is likely opaque.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but i'd take this any day over a "proper" REST api requiring DELETE and PUT.

Also i'd classify a REST api as anything that does http requests and consumes proper JSON. As long as this is true , the rest is squabbling :)
I hate false equivlancies. The left and the right are absolutely not equally illogical or resistant to logic.
Carrier Pigeons: The French Army’s Unsung Heroes Are Still on Duty
CSRS was a very different pension plan, and those under CSRS did not contribute to nor draw social security. CSRS was phased out in the 80's, I don't recall exactly the year. All new federal employees since then contribute to social security and are under the FERS system.
> after a trial realized that Gmail does many things well, except for being a good email service.

This.

I remember back when Gmail was new and hot. It was unlike any other email service out there, and ridiculing people for using inferior email-solutions could to a certain extent be justified.

While other webmails were slow, had constantly reloading pages and what not, Gmail was fast. It was amazingly fast. Gone where the 5 minutes making the webmail work for you. You just sent the email and you were done. Just like that. Back then, this was unheard of.

These days though? Everyone is still pretending like GMail is the only game in town, when I think they have one of the worst webmail-interfaces out there. And it's slow. Oh god it is slow. And god forbid you try to load it in a browser not Chrome, because then it just grinds to a complete halt.

So yeah. Happy Firefox-using FastMail-customer here. You couldn't get me back to GMail even if you paid me.
Listen on your mobile device.
Hawking said it was right but that it's "just probability". It's not clear what he really thought about all those worlds being real. He didn't seem to believe in quantum immortality, so I don't think he took it seriously.

There have been a few surveys over the years, but mostly of conference participants. The results depend heavily on which conference you attend.
I meant a formal employers' union, not a secret agreement.
> I am saying that Google has done exactly the same to the Java community as Microsoft did with J++ and should suffer the same outcome in court as Microsoft did.

As far as I can tell, Sun sued Microsoft for trademark infringement, and Microsoft settled. Which part of that applies to Google?

It really seems that you've decided you want Google to lose regardless of the legal basis used by Oracle. Whereas I think Google should win because of the legal basis Oracle is attempting to use. I don't actually care whether Google ends up having to pay Oracle some money; I just don't want the entire legal foundations of the software industry to be retconned by this case.
The obvious thing to me seems to be BYOD e.g. smartphone or tablet you can stash in a drawer or keep in your pocket while using it for Spotify. I guess you've already thought about that and it's ruled out for some reason.
Haven't used it, but perhaps Tizonia?
Ex-Sears CEO Eddie Lampert orchestrated scheme to steal Sears, creditors allege
So Objective-C -> Swift, Java -> Go?
I've actually come to the conclusion that we have people come to our website just to get the popup to subscribe to our newsletter. I blows my mind. However, I've known for a while that it is a mistake to think that my views are representative of normal people ;-)
I've heard from those who have that it was worth the money. The only caution is that for some reason people still use those 70s olan mills background which connote a sort of tone deafness or cluelessness of the subject.
Backup to DVD. Get a wood stove.
They would need to make some tie between sasl authentication and what FROM: headers you're allowed to use. I don't know what MTA they use, but there are MTAs that have that feature. It's controlled_envelope_senders in postfix. I assume other MTAs have similar features.

It sounds kind of lazy to me. Though I'm sure they would get lots of complaints if they turned it on...some mailing list software depends on spoofing, for example. Or web based "contact us" forms. So perhaps it's just to avoid lots of support tickets.
Yes, this is true.

But there was also a business model in providing facts, when facts were hard to get. Now that they are a commodity, the business model seems to be in providing opinions.
49.6 is the highest..oh my god!!
> How they did that is irrelevant.

Emphatically not.

If they beat human performance in this (non-AI-building) field by humans painstakingly coding rules for specific situations, then that's cool I guess but not groundbreaking, because the solution doesn't generalise.

If they beat human performance in a field heretofore intractable by software by throwing the basic rules and a ton of compute at an algorithm and then waiting for six weeks while the algorithm figures the rest out by itself, then that absolutely is qualitatively different.

The reason being, of course, that if they can find an algorithm that works like this across a wide enough problem space then eventually they'll find an algorithm which will work on the question of "build a better algorithm." After which, as we know, all bets are off.
( out of topic ) similar to material design, metro design, what is this website using?
I’m not a fan of Gmail either, mostly because it lacks push vis iOS Mail (which Fastmail supports, so it is possible), and its non-standard tagging system doesn’t not play well with any third-party client that does not take extraordinary steps to accommodate it. Folders are better. Its proprietary apps are terrible and its web interface is weird, unintuitive, ugly, and slow.
How do you know the woman on the splash page isn't a mother of three who hates kale?

I'm serious. What does that look like to you?
I just saw a piece that the number of cs enrollees doubled in the past x years and that they can't find professors. That made me reconsider my thoughts on this. Perhaps a doubling in supply will reduce wages but I still think there is a shortage. I also think silicon valley is an irrational place to do a start-up and the rest of the country still needs developers.
It’s truly incredible how elaborate a cell is
Google may kill Chrome ad blockers
It can still makes sense to translate the rules into a parseable format instead of hard-coding them, to allow for code generation (or dynamic evaluation) and programmatic analysis of the rules.
that thermostat is working pretty well, keeping the temperature stable like that
Unrelated to the project, but your CO2 levels are far to high. The maximum should be around 600ppm.
Here's a few things:

- constantly changing things around. UI gets less intuitive for every release.

- slower for every release

- violates IMAP standard by re-using IDs across tags/IMAP folders, risking actual data loss. Example: if you in a real email-client try to delete a email from a single folder, you will also delete this email from all other folders it has been "tagged" in.

- similar IMAP issues with sent emails. Hard to track sent emails from email-client, unless you allow the email-client to explicitly save a copy to sent-emails folder. But then you suddenly have duplicate emails in the web-UI.

- Makes an open standard (internet email) proprietary.

- Hell to integrate with: See above.

I'm sure I could go on, but really. If you still consider GMail best in class, the only possible explanation is that you haven't seen anything else.
I know it's being taken sufficiently seriously that understanding/handling geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) in power transformers has become a focus of R&D activity.
Email spoofing by design: our SPF records allow arbitrary hosts to send email
Is it still 12% then?
Whats wrong with this one? (it works with the same device)
https://github.com/larsp/co2monitor
If this happens it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and makes me switch to Firefox. There is no way I'm giving up uBlock Origin.
iPhone not working in the cold
I'm pro self driving car, just saying it's absurd to give taxpayer money to Google (Amazon, etc.)
Basic income solves the problem of how to get spending money to consumers. This is an important problem. If consumers don't have spending money, then the economy won't function properly.

It is true that, in today's economy, we try to get spending money to consumers in other ways. Are these alternatives somehow more effective than basic income?

For example, should we be making up unnecessary work for people to do as an excuse to give them spending money? Should we be distorting the labor market by "creating jobs" or artificially boosting wages?

A big part of what a properly calibrated basic income does is that it allows the labor market to be efficient.

You're certainly right that we don't want people to become miserable blobs. That's not a happy life. But what's the best way to prevent this? Is it to withhold money from them and force them to work at unnecessary jobs? Or can we do better?
suggesting a webcam in the shower is not about "hiding a wrong".
Amazon Prime Video's Weird Unicode Problems
Maybe they didn’t know of it? Maybe they liked building their own regardless?
Maybe I'm naive, but the key takeaway from this for me was:

> the owner of the ISBN controls where the book can be printed.

I didn't realise this - that's the crucial "why" behind the "when".
Maybe you didn't hear about it, but I've just started using VSCode and I was quite surprised by its "file open" widget, I wanted to paste a file path and didn't know where to click to do it.
Will I still keep using VSCode? Yes!! It seems to be a very good C++ IDE (for me better than clion, gvim, eclipse..).
Do I like its widgets? Not very much, no, but I can still use them.
Amazon Scout robots take to pavements in Washington State
Darknet Hacker Provides Evidence of KYC Data Stolen from Crypto Exchanges
El Helicoide: From an icon to an infamous Venezuelan jail
I guess REST became catch phrase for all JSON over HTTP protocols.
I'd improve the ticks on the x-Axis a bit. Otherwise looks fine to me.
Installed a CO2 monitor in my home two days ago. Already changed my life. It warns me when I need additional ventilation and even beeps if CO2 levels raise too high.

It sounds silly but it's scary how quickly levels rise when the windows are closed.
Hangouts makes for a nice alternative to whatsapp, but that's about it. I don't think it's a good choice for any serious teamwork, as it just doesn't have any significant features other than standard text chat and video calls.
I think there are some web services which open up a web page in a specific browser version and stream that back to you. Perhaps you can try and have them run it in a newer browser.

I can't name a site off the top of my head, but googling will probably work.
The statement regarding lead pollution is exactly true. If the usage of lead is reduced and stopped(which is not possible though) then everything will fall in its place.
Vectorial Proof of the Aronhold-Kennedy Theorem
Exactly: In the first example, they take an array, copy it and add extraneous data for the sole purpose of eliminating a couple if statements?

I'm not perfect either, but that deficiency for the sake of elegance is technical debt. A year later, when that piece of code is running thousands of times over thousands of numbers, nobody is going to know why it does what it does. Just that the system throws random out of memory errors or something.
Well, but media also lies in both ways. I've been indirecly object of media pieces and I was surpised of the little connection of what really happenned and what they told the public. I was involved in the issue and I know who they talked to and what they talked about. At least two newspapers and one TV station lied, and the left ones cherry picked the info they liked.

IDK if that is fake news, propaganda or whatever. Its certainly a symptom of something bad that is happening there.
Robinhood Gets BitLicensed
wrong link missing www in url.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612775/algorithms-crimina...
Homeostasis is real. It's not a religion. And its not blame, it's a social observation that people seek validation or feel ashamed about something that is mostly not in their control. It takes more exercise for a genetically fat person to be thin and more food for a genetically thin person to be fat than their genetic counter parts. Proud genetically thin people who congratulate themselves is as annoying as ashamed genetically fat people beating themselves up is sad.
Something similar happens to me on YouTube 2-3 times per month.

I’ll go to my subscriptions and there will be videos in there from channels that I never subscribed to, but I’m now subscribed.
Look at the B2 integrations, several support linux.
Perahaps not directly, but it does add to cognitive overhead and makes securing the system as a whole more difficult.

If your environment contains multiple ssh servers running on non-standard ports you would not notice when something out of the ordinary happens.

Something listening to an unexpected port should be something you must look into, not shrug at.
Has Fox News ever led a national media lynching of a high school student?

(That's a serious question, I don't watch them and I'd like to know if they really are as bad as people say or if people just hate them because they don't agree.)
Jai will go even more in this direction allowing even to do system calls, Jon Blow demoed a compile-time HW accelerated game..
Database “sharding” came from UO?
Founders Talk 61: Isaac Schlueter on Building Npm and Hiring a CEO
Not if you read about 25 a day, could take you less than a year, there's at least 8393 RFC's as of May 2018[0]. I'd probably focus on the major RFC's if anything.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RFCs
I said so before, but is it really a big difference from controlling a unit that can also only do one thing at a time? The agent controls itself just like another unit, with a constraint on APM available to control other units. On the one hand, these APMs add a new parameter, if the constraint is implemented naively. On the other hand, if there are viable strategies against ultrahigh APM opponents, then the constrained is really rather limiting the dimensions of the decision space and to good effect, finding viable strategies that take less effort. Hence such things are called "hyperparameters" (I think that's something different, but you know what I mean). Likewise, the game isn't as fast as to need 100 screen switches per second, if good planning allows batching and bursting actions.
Using your interpretation, the inability to waive a right means nothing.
> In case it's not obvious, here's an example of where it matters. Alice damages Bob's car. Bob offers to settle for £100. Alice says, no, I want £500. Bob says, don't be silly, you can have £150, though that's too much, in my opinion. Alice sues Bob. The court decides that Alice should be compensated, so Alice "wins", and damages should be £80. Who should pay the court costs of £500? (And what if the damages were £300?)

Ok, you lost me on the part where the at-fault party (Alice) is owed compensation by the not-at-fault party (Bob). This makes absolutely no sense.
Is there a way to build character and the grit to succeed without forcing people into extreme poverty?

Or a broader question is what do we want out of people? What values do we want them to have? What's the most efficient way to teach them those values? Poverty is pretty expensive. Is poverty so important to our society that it's worth paying the price?

This is a recent blog post I wrote:

http://www.greshm.org/blog/life-is-just-a-game/

"For example, sugar tastes sweet because we evolved in a world where calories were extremely scarce. Sex feels good because children are the continuation of humanity. Work seems important because, throughout much of history, we benefited from having more labor. But in modern times, we have artificial sweeteners, birth control, and hobbies."

How can we hack human society to take advantage of what we evolved to feel good about?
Twitter is not just an odd choice, but a horrible one. TheReaderApp makes the experience bad instead of horrible, which in all fairness, is a step up.
[Ebook] Data Structures from Scratch (Free Until Next Tuesday (Jan/29/2019))
Which one did you get? I'm interested in getting one as well.
There hasn't been a time when the media haven't been biased and often knowingly dishonest.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter

...Which was 95 years ago.

The difference now that is the rhetoric is often more obviously slanted and more likely to be nakedly inflammatory.

The 50s/60s/70s had more of a tradition of restrained debate. But the politeness was always superficial. Politics was at least as murderous and corrupt as it is now. But the more measured tone, and the superficial respect for critique and analysis, made it appear more civilised.

Now the tone is more likely to be extreme, which creates the illusion that obviously manipulative "fake news" is more the rule than the exception - and that this is historically different, when in fact it isn't at all.
He's saying someone who is very overweight, I assume. I felt he was saying it in a diplomatic fashion?
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Why are there steps in the CO2 levels?
Not sure what it even means, obviously if you put 100 sensors in the hottest place in the past day it'll be the top 100 hottest places recorded.

All these sensors could be grouped closely together.

If they are not... What does that mean? Australia is huge.

ATM it's a safe bet the Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are in the Southern Hemisphere. Would that mean anything?
Yet we have scores more journalists deleting their tweets going after the kids because it reinforced their biases: https://www.mediaite.com/online/journalists-and-celebs-rush-...
Isn't C++ a bit overkill for a web app?
Cryptocurrency Trades Witness a Spike in Crisis-Ridden Iran
The supreme court can send it back to a lower court with instructions, they can also decide on the case but note that their decision would not cover particular arguments if they were made.
I see, thank you so much for providing inside information. Looks like it'll be a while before I can ditch CalDav...
I did it for my personal website hosted at https://www.milanmotavar.com/.

I think it came out well.
> I want my applications to feel like they belong to the platform and not identical on every platform

As does everybody sane except every product manager in existence.
Are you dancer?
Anyone know other, possibly cheaper, devices besides https://www.co2meter.com/products/co2mini-co2-indoor-air-qua... that can display current CO2?

I hoped there would be cheaper versions on Aliexpress, but no luck :(
Java -> Kotlin, surely?
Of course, we would be better off repairing it instead of throwing it out, but I’ll take this over the same old!

The same goes for the rest of our government as well, and let’s hope this shutdown can spur a more critical appreciation for the society we live in.
Transmitting more than 10 bit with a single photon
I can't find the SVG files?
James Gleick's biography of Feynman, Genius, is a good read and complements the books Feynman wrote himself.

> first time I've seen his...extremely ugly sexist behaviour displayed

Not to excuse it, but he was the product of a different time.
Not necessarily. You see web servers running on microcontrollers all the time and they are mostly written in C.
South Australia has rainfall and temperature records that go back 120 years or so, so there's a bit of data to compare to.
As a blue-skinned ginger of Scottish descent, I'm unsure why his observation has to be 'interesting' - if by 'interesting' you mean to imply racist?
There's a third alternative, which I've heard of as "virtual head", that removes the extra indirections in the loop and removal:

while(p->next != entry)
p = p->next;
p->next = entry->next;

I've deliberately not shown the initialisation of p, because it's a bit tricky in C (but trivial in Asm); p is not initialised to the head, nor the address of the head, but to a "virtual" node centered around the head, such that p->next will initially access the head. If the next field is at the beginning of the structure, p does point to the head; else p points to a location before the head. It would be something like (char*)&head - offsetof(Node, next);
I like that you said fast food illustration. That flatness is becoming draining. I assume it's a product of the tool Illustrator, which is very shape based.
It’s great as long as you don’t invent something innovative that you would like to make public, while at the same time protecting your right to a protected period where you get first-dibs on exploiting it.

Just because the current system can be abused doesn’t mean the idea is a bad one.