skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is easily the most vacuous of all the comments here. You just take statements and call them disingenuous or obvious lies with not even a shred of backup
I wonder how useful ai will be in balancing games in the future. Games with more than one race and multiple upgrade paths seems like a nightmare to ensure that things are even for players that are equally skilled.

It would be interesting to have a game that would auto-balance itself, especially if you wanted to add extra content without having to worry about throwing everything off.
Yes, pretty much. I don’t want to bikeshed elementary parts of the developer experience, never mind vetting all the teeny components or find replacements if dependency hell strikes, quality regresses or maintainers disappear.

Given all the constraints, it’s highly unlikely that you find something consistent.
Would you rather pay FB for providing you a service?
Apple software does the same on Windows..
The reason the correlation between spending and winning is high is because people donate to politicians they think can win. If advertising spend could buy elections Mitt Romney or Michael Bloomberg would be president and politicians would usually be rich before they got elected, not as a consequence of getting elected.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3042867

> the best estimate of the effects of campaign contact and advertising on Americans’ candidates choices in general elections is zero.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-012-9193-1

> Because campaign spending correlates strongly with election results, observers of American politics frequently lament that money seems to buy votes. However, the apparent effect of spending on votes is severely inflated by omitted variable bias: The best candidates also happen to be the best fundraisers. Acting strategically, campaign donors direct their funds toward the “best” candidates, who would be more likely to win even in a moneyless world. These donor behaviors spuriously amplify the correlation between spending and votes. As evidence for this argument, I show that (non-strategic) self-financed spending has no statistical effect on election results, whereas (strategic) externally-financed spending does.
The firewall isn't immune to exploitable bugs: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18017

Likewise for VPN stacks: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7521

If you're not prepared to expose a service to the world, you probably should run it at all. Ad hoc, non-standard configurations add substantial complexity and maintenance burdens. Complexity is the enemy of security, and having less time to manage more complex configurations is not a good recipe.

If you really need a service, then choose the best one and move on. The rule of thumb is that if you can reach a service, you should assume anybody else can, as well. This is especially true regarding SSH. I've seen plenty of servers p0wned via SSH, but never by breaking SSH. Instead the vector was always through an SSH user's computer infected by malware.

You want secure SSH? Disable password authentication and force everybody to use smartcard authentication like a Yubikey. I do rate limit SSH access using OpenBSD PF, but only because the authentication failures fill up and pollute the logs.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18991101
Bingo. It comes down to facts and truth being two different things and the news is almost never truthful anymore.
Data Breach: Over 1M Students and Alumni Personal Details Leaked
WaPo, for one example, might not wish to alienate the government of the country which sources much of its owner's economic activity.
result = [0] * len(xs)
for i in range(0, len(xs) - 1):
result[i] += xs[i + 1]
result[i + 1] += xs[i]
return result
It's worth considering the industry factors that contributed to this. Sub-editors and fact-checkers have been the first to go in the cataclysmic waves of layoffs journalism has been weathering for the past decade.
My brother was born a week or so after his due date; they induced labor for him for exactly this reason. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his head circumference was literally off the charts.
Wow, I used to go there 4 years ago and liked the place. Never had trouble getting my prescription.

So sad to see how that place changed.
While that argument is valid, it doesn’t touch on the true nefariousness of ‘nothing to hide’. Which is how a secretive bureaucracy can interpret isolated facts any way they please, and place the burden of proof onto the accused. A real life example would be the no fly list. How do you get on it? How do you get off it? The best example in fiction would be Kafka’s The Trial, imo.
You can survive in extreme heat with low humidity. Once the 'wet bulb' temperature exceeds 35 degrees C, sweating is no longer effective, core temperature rises, and you die.

Extremes of cold must be a different story, about how much insulation can protect core temperature. There's probably a minimum temp at which something like respiration just ceases to work. This article has some good info: https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/scie...
Didn't President Trump also say he wanted to mandate paying H1B's the same you would an American? Seems like that would get rid of a lot of the abuse.

The current system causes trouble for a lot of people in many fields not limited to tech. Some friends have had trouble getting a residency while Indian nationals who come in on H1B are favored by the Indian doctors who deal with hiring at the hospitals they did their clinicals at in NY.
Fiendishly clever!
I browsed HN [dead] comments to see Terry’s comments. Sometimes, in between the random quotes and other things, he would write something brilliant.
Oh, I was wrongly thinking that the VM was still not opensourced. Thanks.

Now I am likewise confused: how can it be copyrighted if it's been open sourced?
This is gross.
I really enjoy paying small content creators too! It’s a strength of the internet.
Well I think slanted news becomes easier as economic models get leaner. Broke? sell to a person wanting to hide behind earned past reputation.
Furthermore, outrage is the most addicting emotion (according to post on HN apologizing for creating the internet) so news that draws a person in, tends to outrage.

being reasonable, means some audience will leave to go to the more addicting outrage.

This is my hypothesis only.
pretty much anything that goes against the silicon valley consensus on political and ethical matters.
Building the best INDEX for a given SELECT
I agree with the principle. Often when you run into a lot of special cases it can be a sign you have modeled something incorrectly. But I don't really agree with these examples. In these cases the "naive" approaches all feel perfectly adequate.

Write it out as straightforwardly as possible. Add some unit tests for the special cases. And then move on to something more worthy of your time than trying eliminate a few if statements.
Yea it's this one. The main developer wrote an open source Forth called Reva-Forth awhile back. I think he does a lot of paid development a across various fields from phone app development to embedded work, and machine learning stuff. When he was trying to do phone apps he realized (like most of us) that it is a pain to need to know Java for Android (+ API) and Objective C or Swift for iOS and then there is WinForms or Gtk or WxWidjets for desktop development, so you have to learn a lot of different technologies if you want to write software to run on all major platforms and 8th helps solve most of that problem. 8th is also a Forth, but he has added some features like using JSON as a generic data structure (not generally done in Forth), bundled the C++ JUCE GUI framework and associated licenses, added ODBC/SQLITE/MYSQL support, sound, cross-compilation to many platforms...etc.

Most of my coding needs fall into either general scripting (Python, Powershell, Bash, Perl...etc) or numerical work (Python + Numpy or Julia). 8th seems to be pretty speedy, but Forths in general usually aren't lightning fast due to their stack usage and emphasis and you need really fast code for numeric work. He has made it a priority to work on performance though and continuously adds scientific features like adjacency graphs, so he is on the right track and I'll keep my eyes on it. For general scripting work and utility apps it should work pretty nicely for my needs and distributing a tiny .exe to users with a GUI is nice. I'm not sure how good the file I/O & filesystem support is though (need to look at the doc), because I use those common features a lot. I also need to check if he wrote functions (called words in Forth speech) for web scraping as there is a project I'd like to do where 8th would be ideal.

If you've never seen Forth before, try to keep an open mind with the syntax as it can look alien at first. There are a lot of 8th examples on Rosetta Code and although they are short, it might look like gobblygook if you're not used to thinking about the stack where parameters are popped off and used in functions which then return data to the stack so functions can be chained (kind of like Unix pipes). Leo Brodie's books on Forth (classics and free online) are called "Learning Forth" and "Thinking Forth" and are recommended on HN sometimes.
Is the joke that the programmer interprets it as the drink waiting to pour out? Or?
Home Bulletin Board Takes a New Tack (1992)
Bitcoin Price Rally in May, Trader Says
*peoplekind
Mitt Romney or Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg's net worth is 300X Romney's.

John Kerry's net worth far exceeds Romney, too.
A slice of a non-ZST element cannot have `usize::MAX` elements, by definition of `usize`.
Alaska is screwed
Also these wins are not using same inputs that human receive (ie on screen image) and outputs that humans are allowed. They instead use PySC APIs which has much more flexibility, perfect information and no constraints of limited screen real estate and pixels. There is a claim in that article that they have another version being trained that uses on screen only information but I still don’t know if AI is allowed to bypass the physical constraints of controller. So if AI has access to super human controller you will see AI performing super human actions like many commentators have described here.
Can a lawyer here explain how these arbitration clauses aren't unconscionable?
My husband and I had two state tax liens in New York that were listed as Joint Responsibility. We both did a lot of to get this off our credit but all effort doesn't yield result. so we decided it was best to go online in search of a reliable Credit agency who understands the credit system to come to our rescue and just after a deep search i came across Cyber Hack and emailed him at cyberhack005@gmail .com. I told him about withdrawing our tax liens from my credit report and he explain to me the whole process to help me solve this. After some days we both got an agreement tax liens were completely gone after running his hack and my credit scores being raised to golden scores I. He sent me verification of good work he had done on my credit he sent and I checked my credit report to confirmed and it's exactly what he sent me I found on 3 credit bureaus.. I couldn't have imagined my life so good so fast
non zero-sum games seems like a logical next step.
China’s might is forcing Taiwan to rethink its military strategy
I have a great many friends that do not have the kind of money and opportunities I have simply due to my choice in a software career path.

Even a boring thankless job for me is where many of my peers dream they could be.
6502 / 6510 / 8502 Opcode List
Well, maybe two different things have gotten conflated here. What I'm calling ridiculous is the fact that Microsoft is charging a subscription for Office. The flexibility to install on multiple devices is something that shouldn't be tied to a subscription license in the first place. And neither is more OneDrive space (why you'd want OneDrive space in the first place is a separate issue) or Skype airtime. It also doesn't make sense to me why you think it's a good thing that your Office account is the same as for AD and SharePoint and Teams... this is an offline desktop office suite - what does a Microsoft account have to do with it anyway?

I feel like Microsoft noticed how Adobe was making money hand over fist by moving Creative Suite to a subscription model and wanted in on the action. Of course everyone hates Adobe's awful subscription model, but it doesn't matter- if you have to have Photoshop then you're going to pay whatever they ask. But this is not a good thing.

Basically what I'm saying is that rushing to defend Microsoft's licensing model doesn't make any sense. This is a step back in every way from the world where you buy a license and don't have to keep paying the vendor month after month for them to do little more than refrain from shutting down access to software already on your computer. If you want Skype and OneDrive (again, why?) then fine, but the fact that that's bundled is not a good thing.
Your initial argument in the post I was replying to seemed to be based on the assumption that Google forbade non-work use of work email; I was simply saying they don't, so the nuances around those bans don't apply. That's all I was addressing.
No, special cases are what happens when nice neat abstractions meet dirty, messy reality.

Get used to it, kid.
This is a good attempt to kickstart the discussion of
some quantitative metric about bugs and the time one needs to deal with it, but I wonder if there wasn't any software engineering theories or practices to address this.

If anyone know other related topics, please share them, thanks!
Yes, I believe the goal is to kill the low density housing with 2 parking spaces per unit. For mass transit to truly work, we need more density.
Sometimes People Assume Facebook Does Things It Doesn't Do
Just use HelloSign. Their developer support is the best I've had from an API company - you email them and you get support from an actual developer - and they smartly do things to save everyone trouble like creating an API debug console so you can see what they receive on their end. I wish all of our API partners followed their lead.

The best thing I can say about Docusign is that it is way, way better than Adobe Sign's absolute garbage support. The Adobe software may work but if you have the slightest problem with the API you will be in support hell.
Evolution theory is the foundation but in business & technology it's even sighted as porters 5 forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s_five_forces_analysi...

While it may seem unfair & I'm getting down votes for stating the obvious, weather we like it or not that's how the world operates.
If microsoft invests significantly in plsql support and oracle compatibility they can bleed Oracle bug time.
Is there a link to his profile/are his posts browse-able?
Think about what you're arguing about. Do you really think any evidence you can cite here will change this person's mind?
Simply living a stable family life is father along than most people ever achieve.
Julia v1.1 released
This is somewhat similar to the concept of “Cyclomatic Complexity”, which is the number of independent paths though a piece of code, and can be statically analyzed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
I’ve tried that as well but often ran into driver issues. Conda has seemed to work better for me.
Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election
look up at that thing whizzing over your head; convenience doesn't rhyme with security. ;-)
It can be API for Oracle or it can be how electronic components are assembled on a ford windscreen wiper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns The reality is that one person did the hard work (trail and error) while another party commercially benefited with minimal effort.

We need a system that rewards those who experiment & innovate, if anything by Oracle winning this case it further highlights the value in Oracle's IP (promoting innovation and competition).
It consists of transactions among freely consenting adults that do not use force or fraud.
I assume you’re joking, but just in case you aren’t, Scrabble bots have outperformed top humans for 20 years with little more than a basic Monte Carlo tree search.
I've found TDD to be a good (but not perfect, as some people complain) way to keep complexity down - when you force yourself to test every state you very quickly start focussing on how to keep the number of possible states down.
Hm... I feel like that's not quite the full picture. On the backend, for instance, there are options - if you like typed languages, use them! And if not, use something else!

But there appears to be a particularly strong movement towards TypeScript. I just can't tell if it's just yet another JS hypetrain, or if there is something else besides types that's a big win.
The real issue is the pervasive attitude in this thread, which you've also exhibited, that news is "basically free to produce." It isn't, and it's absolutely incredible to me how many otherwise intelligent people can't track just how much of what they read online traces back to original reporting. If this cost was passed to the reader, it would be absurd, and so it was historically majorly subsidised by wealthy families and the advertising business. The incentives have since changed; those media owners now see it's more profitable not to report the news but increasingly use these channels disingenuously.

Here's the great joke: if we would hold them to account for this, we could do something about it. But nobody does. Nobody thinks to blame the ownership (unless they're an established boogeyman like Murdoch.) Instead, as you can see everywhere in this thread, the blame is put on journalists, who now have to pick battles against corporate interest to get ANYTHING of value over the line, under ridiculous deadlines, with zero job security. What's being lost here isn't "good writing" or the ability to "monetize opinions" -- it's the institutional protection and resources required to hold power accountable, examine and reflect on trends, and uncover essential facts about our world.

Okay, we can point to examples where institutions have gotten it wrong, and they deserve holding to account for those instances too. But there are just as many and more where journalists have put their health, families, jobs, and lives at risk to ensure people aren't so easily hoodwinked by money and authority. If all someone wants to read is Medium blogs for the rest of their lives, fine, crack a beer and enjoy the end of journalism. But especially for a community that prides itself on values like intellectualism, open communication, and bettering the world, it's incredibly disheartening every time a thread like this appears on HN and the response is "maybe newspapers shouldn't be so bad then!" This is an information crisis that is being celebrated by the people who should be fighting it the hardest.
Yes, it’s true. A special PySC interface was created for AI. Also, it’s not only that AI doesn’t need to parse information available on much limited screen real estate but also that AI doesn’t have to use controller that have physical constraints. So AI has access to this super human controller and it can decide to click on one screen extreme and then another within 200ms.
It's shocking how damaging Gore has been to the climate change image to deniers.
Performance Metrics for Modern Apps
For those driving through San Jose: you can still see the old railway warehouse for Hart's downtown SJ department store as you drive south on Coleman Avenue and climb the overpass just before it becomes Market street. Look down to your right and look for the ruddy red building with the faded white heart.
Omea: The Integrated Information Environment
Created by Sergey Dmitriev, the co-founder of JetBrains.

"I've started Omea project (the personal integrated information environment) at March-June 2003 and manage it now as product manager)"[1]

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?SergeyDmitriev
Why put /boot on a separate partition? It becomes a pain on Ubuntu if the size is too small, if you forget to run apt autoremove (or whatever the exact command is) that thing fills up with old kernals. Updates can fall because of this and your system breaks in weird ways.

I know this because the original developer of our system used a /boot partition of 500 MB. That's right, 500 MB. I noped out of that. Don't even get me start on 2 GB total disk space for everything else on our API server. This was built in 2013 mind you, plenty of disk space by then...
Straightforward regulation?? Binding arbitration goes against logic, which is presumably more fundamental than even common law.

In a way, unionization is really just one step up from that "vote with your dollars" tripe, and we know how well that works. I'm not categorically rejecting it, just highlighting that it's more of a stopgap than a solution.

For instance, why wouldn't a union's management adopt the same kind of disenfranchisement clauses in case you try to sue them? You know, to keep dues down and all that.
I’ve known other schizophrenic people who do seem to have brief periods of lucidity. Sometimes on and off throughout a day. Really sad.
Extreme cold is easier to deal with. Consider, for example, how many different kinds of heaters there are: wood stoves, gas stoves, gas or oil furnaces, heat pumps, steam radiators, etc. And some of them are centuries old technology. In contrast there isn't nearly the same diversity in cooling equipment of equivalent effectiveness.
This feels very much to me like architecture astronaut behavior. This overwhelming drive to pull "elegance" out of everything mundane or tediously complicated.

Yes, you can sometimes rewrite your algorithm to eliminate "special cases", but if you do it at the cost of comprehensibility, it's not a net gain. In the case of these examples, we're not really even talking about "special cases", but edge cases, where you literally need to deal with an edge in the data. In the case of the neighbor sums, edge cases were masked by padding. In the case of the staircase, the edge is just obfuscated by the doubled labels and then hidden in a modulo operation. These are totally fine except that they seem to provide no value except "elegance", and they come at a high cost in terms of understandability. (The first step is literally "transform to a different problem", so now you need to understand the original problem as well as the new problem, and how they relate.)

I'm all for elegance when it comes bundled with understandability or legibility or performance or even simplicity. But often it actually means "clever" and it's an extremely subjective measure that delivers little to no value and is prone to causing problems later.
This whole post smacks of a half-hearted attempt to memorialize Terry, while slyly smearing him.

n.b. I am not defending Terry’s outlook nor besmirching his efforts, simply calling out this post as a not great eulogy.
I don't think taxing oil consumption is the answer. I think what happens is that any taxes on carbon / fossil fuels just get passed down to the consumer, who are basically forced to pay it and can do very little to change their energy consumption. Sure, they can buy an electric car, but they still need to power and heat their home. Energy companies make the same profits, families are left holding the tax bill.
How to Automate Code Reviews on GitHub [freeCodeCamp]
That's a cool idea but many games already struggle to find a fair balance point at all ranges of human skill, so expanding that range to include AI could just make things more difficult. Maybe there's a way to force the AI to replicate bad players, but I'm not sure what learning objective you would give it to achieve that.
PUBG Lite Open Beta Launched for PC with Low Configuration
Just last week I got another fake ad in my feed using the same fake-photo-tagging injection method that was supposedly shut down ages ago.
>it's all but inevitable that the next one will be at least some improvement.

That same thought was what kept me going through the long Howard years...How wrong I was!