skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't make much sense. Collective bargaining is just that. If you trust the company to do what is best you should have no problem because the company will bargain for what it finds important. Also you seemingly care a lot about what would happen with a union, but essentially nothing about how you are treated by the company. That isn't really a very strong position to make an argument from. If your whole idea is that you don't mind taking other opportunities, presumably it would be worth it for you to move to a company that isn't unionized in the same way you would if you didn't agree with what he company was doing.
Instant. I suspect that the form submission backend detects certain licenses/usage criteria and automatically approves it.
‘MORTAL DANGER’ OF CHINA’S PUSH INTO AI
Clearly I'm biased - no way I'll be able to convince you follow-ups are awesome, given I'm trying to show off a tool making them easier :)

I suggest you talk to someone in a position where curating relationships is key - founders, growth, agents - and see what they have to say about follow-up emails!

I'd say the advantages are: Show gratitude, reduce the hurdle for the other person to ask questions/reach out via email in the future, summarize the most important points made, stay top of mind with the person...
If you have the App Store set to allow automatic updates, you should never see anything - it will always happen in the background.
s/half/nearly every time

Then again, Apple's not immune to this. Nine times out of ten, Software Update for Windows has an urgent update for Software Update for Windows.
Take a sample of 5000 random people (an enormous sample size) attending the Republican National Convention and ask them which party they will vote for.
All of our knowledge of how to play games and so on has come from our current lifetime. We do not have a "genetic memory" that means we have learnings from cavemen or some other such nonsense. Our DNA contains instructions on how to grow a human, it's not a mega hard drive with millions of years of collective memory.

If a 19 year old is good at Starcraft, he's good at Starcraft because he spent two or three years playing a shit load of Starcraft and we are much more efficient at learning higher level strategies than AI are. These AI agents nead to try damn near every possibility to adjust their weightings for various actions. Humans understand pretty much the first time when something goes wrong, oh better not do that OR similar things again.

It's incredibly impressive that a given human can become GM level at Starcraft within a few years and to take an AI to that level takes 200 years of training, as well as an inhuman reaction time, perfect micro/clicking, etc. It shows how amazing our learning skills are.
Yeah I can't stand the forced password changes where you can't use the last X passwords, or passwords that expire every 30 days. A lot of times it's security compliance entities that push this down to companies, for instance PCI, etc all require those. I think even the new NIST standards address these practices, but the compliance entities are slow and far from pragmatic.
This is a well made website. I love the design and how fast it is. The only problem I have is that you can only seem to link to chapters but not paragraphs in the chapters. You sorta can with appending section1,section2, etc to the url as a hash but it's a bit off.
yes , wasted lot of time and $$ just to get large company like google challenge the patent - lawyers says now it will take few 100'K more - gave up
Keyword in your quote is "also". An in-app subscription billed through iTunes is explicitly written in the document as supported, so Apple will be getting a cut.
"Next we'll demonstrate AlphaStar controlling real military units in Syria..." :-/
I used to put my bottles and cans curbside. Most of the folks picking them up are, I'm sure, as honest as I am or even more so. They just need another source of income.

On the other hand, we and the neighbors have had things disappear. People have prowlers in their back yards "looking for cans". So it seemed like a good idea to stop setting them out or even having them visible.

What I do now: you can buy bags and bar code labels for about $.10/pair. When a bag is full of recyclables, you tie it off, put your label on it, and drop it off at one of the BottleDrop centers.

There's two kinds: one where they have people working there and one where they don't (the "Express" versions). At the Express places, they truck the bags to somewhere else where they're counted. They charge $.40/bag to count them.

So for $.50, or 5 bottles, I can have someone else count them instead of standing on the sticky, stinky floor to shove in bottles one at a time. It's about 8-10%, assuming you can get 50-60 bottles and cans in a bag.

There are also grocery stores where they let you drop off your empties and they count them and give the deposit to a specified charity.
They use a different bytecode and implemented the standard Java apis themselves.
Fyre Festival and the Trumpet of Amplification
Oracle also needed a hardware business. Not a great one, but one that had customers.
Netflix doesn't anymore. They stopped allowing new in-app purchases. Existing subscriptions done through iTunes, Apple still gets their cut; but from now on, Netflix subscriptions must be done through the website.
They need to do what Trump told them to do: have a fixed pool of H1B visas, and distribute them to the eligible applicants with the highest paying jobs here in the US. That's the only sensible solution that auto-regulates and stops all kinds of abuse. Moreover, to reduce abuse further, H1B workers who are already in the country should get greater mobility between companies and 1 year grace period if they leave the company that sponsored them for H1B. Currently if you get fired in retaliation (or otherwise lose employment), you're fucked and you have to leave the country in 2 weeks. There's absolutely no good reason for this to be immediate other than to foster abuse by employers. It's also non-trivial and dangerous to attempt to change employers.
Beyond a certain point I think that's true. There's an old adage that "security is inversely proportional to convenience."
Chrome or chromium?

Edit: the linked article references both products within the first paragraph, but the ArsTechnica article it cites explicitly mentions chrome only.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/google-planning-chan...
I would agree with that. If you take a look at the exhibition match replay, there's some cases where it makes objectively suboptimal decisions. We couldn't see this during the live stream, but the double immortal warp prism caused AlphaStar to bring back its entire army from across the map, when a few units at home would have been enough to defend. It even kept trying to blink its stalkers to a place where the warp prism couldn't be reached. Perhaps this version with the limited viewpoint hadn't been trained with enough games?
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And this is well known, yet people go into game dev anyway because they want to build games.
Pakistan: Nearly 200 cases of Christians on blasphemy charges – ICN
To your path issue... most of my own pipelines do an `npm run STEP` and I use JS scripts mostly... this covers me in window, linux and macos for the most part with Node. ymmv here though. That's just my $.02 and it's been relatively easier doing it that way.

I kind of wish $bash (git for window's bash version) was available as a shell option as that might make things easier as well.

Another issue is searching is painful... "TFS" vs "VSTS" vs "Azure DevOps" and half the time, the results are dated.
I believe it was indeed a web app. The efforts to get a shared code base began in earnest after Nadella took over as CEO at MS, and Office stopped being a means to sell copies of Windows and rather a chargeable service unto itself - I believe the shared codebase first started to surface in the apps for iOS and Android.

Well, I say that. Really, the Windows and macOS version had been sharing code for ages, but plenty of it was still bespoke for macOS. I think their rewrite to Cocoa, which I believe happened around the same time as the iOS apps started being developed, helped to bring further parity.
This is completely fair, which is why I said not to take "anything away from the author" =)
Positives and negatives. 2 sides to the coin. The tone of your post makes it sound like you disagree with me. The argument of your post agrees with me.
It was discussed on HN 2 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18973477
My comment should not be interpreted as criticism.
this is my little brother :(
Making ends meet isn't really the issue. Mentally disabled people are usually taken care of by relatives. They can't live on their own.

But they want to feel valued and do worthwhile things. By pricing them out of a job, they are denied that opportunity.
Both. It is change to whole extensions sub-system. Initiated inside Chromium, but applies to all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome.
"you don't need to grow vast quantities of grain to raise cows, just to increase their biomass enough to feed large quantities of people"
I also agree that the OP’s use case, which requires that the sender view’s capabilities be strictly limited to the current envelope, is valid. It is under consideration for our roadmap.

If this case is valid, other customers besides OP are doing the same thing. They probably have the same vulnerability. It's also not clear how document tagging can stop this hole. If there is just one user then that user's users can't have that user's creds. Rather they must be limited to specific tokens that give them access to their specific documents.
Re: the text; I think they're going for a consistent visual design language with the iOS apps - for better or worse.
What kind of evidence is going into this analogical reasoning? Do we also extrapolate similarly for other things? We went to the Moon in 1960s. Was Mars a month, or a year, or a decade away? Then we sent robots to Mars. Did we yet send any robots to Alpha Centauri?

Different problems have different difficulties. Solving simple problems quickly doesn't mean we'd also be able to just as easily solve the hard problems. Often the comparably simpler problems have the best reward/effort ratio and thus make quick progress, which doesn't need to be the case for hard problems.
And some non-tertiary (primary/elementary, secondary/high) schools, too.
> totally balanced lives, with a fair employer, earning good wages

In that case you could view union membership as insurance, in case you ever lose that great job. Keep in mind that your local pipefitters union is not the only model out there - SAG-AFTRA seems to work for actors/actresses across a broad range of income, experience, and talent levels.
>Unless you ingest it

Right. Typically painters of my acquaintance e.g. in college had paint all over their clothes and hands, and then they would smoke or eat a snack, transferring traces to their lips.

Cadmium sulfide is maybe not nearly as bad as elemental Cadmium, which is horrible.

All I am saying is please be careful, be safe.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/08/th...

“... this is one of those metals that’s best avoided for life. It has acute toxic effects, chronic toxic effects, and if there are any effects in between those it probably has them, too.
Fortunately, cadmium is not well absorbed from the gut...”
Free markets are the worst basis for an economy, except for all the others.
If they don't cap the apm at 300 or so, this means nothing. I am not impressed with super speed, only decision making matters. Deepmind, you can do better.
This multi-year legal battle seem like insanity to me.

What does Oracle, who practically prints money, expect to get out of this other than exercising a fleet of expensive lawyers? At best the case was always iffy and even if they "win" it's unclear what that really means for them given the inevitable subsequent legal maneuvers. Even more puzzling is how are they making the argument that Google has, in any way, harmed their business?

It's just mind boggling. A slip-and-fall insurance scam makes more rational sense to me.
Does it also check the quality of the OSS being imported (e.g., how many issues are open, how many active users, etc.)?
My two cents as I've been a generalist for 10 years now. I actually see a lot of hybrid areas where sales and programming meet and they practically beg for those who can walk that line.

Possibly a technical project manager at a startup? Since you have knowledge of the technical scope, you would be very valuable to speak to everyone on the team, set realistic expectations, etc, especially for clients that your company would take on.

Also, if you're looking for a bit more of a step down from the technical side, there's an interesting ad in the side of "evangelism" that is looking for a generalist as well for a pretty cool company. https://keybase.io/jobs#evangelist

I think something within the realm of those two, and you'll likely evolve within the company to whichever role comes most naturally.
The more I learn about interpreters and compilers, the more everything looks the same.

Snigl [0] is designed as a VM interpreter. But it has a separate compile stage where code may be evaluated using the same interpreter and the results reused at runtime.

And it traces code before running it, evaluating as much as possible statically.

Finally, it supports emitting C code for an interpreter preloaded with the current, traced program. Which is where compile time evaluation really shines, as the results are embedded in the executable.

[0] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
Interesting. The discussion on the other thread clears up quite a lot. Thanks
Just supporting this. I remember the uproar when 800x600 resolution was removed as an option in SC2 around 2012[1].

[1] https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/6201040181
You'll likely be happy to hear that this has been (is being) addressed.

I watched the live broadcast of this announcement where they did a recap of all 10 previous matches (against TLO and Mana) and they talked about this concern. During today's announcement they presented a new model that could not see the whole map and had to use the camera movement to focus properly. The deepmind team said it took somewhat longer to train but they were able to achieve the same levels of performance according to their metrics and play-testing against previous version.

However...

They did a live match vs LiquidMana (6th match against Mana) against the latest version (with camera movement) and LiquidMana won! LiquidMana was able to repeatedly do hit-and-run immortal drop harassment in AlphaStar's base, forcing it to bring troops back to defend its base, causing it to fall behind in production and supply over time and ultimately lose a major battle.
Objective-C was about 25 years old when the first iPhone was released. Swift is a new language and was intentionally released early to allow users to influence its development.

By the way don’t forget that Objective-C gained and lost garbage collection, gained automatic memory management and changed quite a bit in the last 10 years.
I'll appreciate links to previous discussions about the subject but let's say I create the next big thing in the JVM world(the next Kotlin compiler or something like that), it targets the JVM and I happen to replace the implementation of `String.getBytes` at linking time while keeping the same method signature. How big do I have to be for Oracle come after me and ask for royalties of any Enterprise services I could be selling on top of my product?
Usability is a component of security because of human factors; if your “secure” process or system is not convenient for use, people will in practice find ways to work around it instead of using it as intended, which will defeat security.
Not to mention that that 10 million count includes many tribes/societies based around fishing, and an entire civilization based around farming sustainably:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
The funny thing is that once we're talking about the real world, which will come, that incentive actually reverses.

At that point the name of the game will be maximizing the advantage the body/infrastructure provides the AI, not minimizing it.

Weird.
> a repetitive strain injury waiting to happen.

Yes, I have one from it and wasn't even playing that high (I averaged less than 100 apm). I understand that it's a common problem.
I kind of wish they'd promote whoever is the UX lead for MS teams to cover other products... it's by far my favorite windows app, second to VS Code.
In practice, how is a "speedy trial" defined?
> I just can't help but feel that nothing AI does will ever be good enough

It can be good enough in a certain problem space, such as chess. But unlike chess or go, which are purely mental games, Starcraft has large physical component (vision, APM, reaction time). It can make it hard to determine when it has “mastered” this RTS. Like you said, it may be a few more months (years?) before AlphaStar can master Starcraft on “mental” level. The physical component is trivial for a computer, so mastering that is not much of a milestone.
Doomsday clock stays at two minutes to midnight as crisis now 'new abnormal'
Also, the App Store version is going to be a bit more sandboxed.

I just replaced the regular with the App Store version and it went without a hitch. Just needed keychain access to Microsoft identity, and a login to Live.
You can actually turn this on (for classic ELBs), but it locks to a specific cert (rather than a CA). So yeah no one cares about expiry but the backend does have to present that cert. The thing to look for is "Enable backend authentication".

I would question whether this is a problem though; basically if someone is in a position to MITM traffic in your AWS VPC this would indicate a compromise of AWS at a fundamental level (or loss of your AWS control plane).
I assume due to fracking?
Clarifying the Future of Firefox Screenshots
My game making tool attracts more girls than boys
Yep. I can tell you that currently, leading practice involves such measures. I don't agree, but CIS, which is essentially the current gold standard, says so. People who get paid to do this often don't bother griping about it, because they are being paid to harden to a standard and that standard is what it is.

This unfortunately leaves a disconnect between the people who harden (who might actually hear about issues), and the people who write. Even if the writers do hear, it won't be implemented until the next revision.
Not defending Oracle here, but the fact that the decision in Google's favor has been overturned twice suggests Oracle's not 100% crazy to pursue this. And the upside is mandatory licensing fees for every Android device.
But with the crackdowns happening on VPN there still needs to be legitimate options. In my case I was an English teacher, and often we'd need to find resources from the internet for supplementary teaching materials. Can't have VPN on the school computers
The danger of AI isn't that it's suddenly becoming evil and taking over the world. That's an antropomorphization. The danger is that AI might give tremendous amounts of power to individuals, and I mean unchecked power. Trump is the most powerful person in the world and he has the nuclear codes but if he's freaking out and yelling "NUKE WASHINGTON DC AND ALL THE FAKE NEWS REPORTERS IN IT" at the top of his voice then there is a likely chance that officers will refuse orders. If an AI gave a "mad scientist" this amount of power, it might not refuse the orders but execute them.
No. That's a decision for the team/user. I assumed the question was about legal approval.
Physics Control Tasks with Deep Reinforcement Learning
I was tempted to lecture you about life choices, but I didn't. I said nothing about the morality, ethics, or wisdom of the choices you have made.

I simply said it is clear that you have determined that other things in your life are of greater priority for you.

I'm not sure what you mean by "stupidest". It isn't wrong. For me it is a trivially obvious observation, and thus kind of lame, but I'm a disinterested observer. Making the correct observation would be more difficult if I were deeply invested in the situation.

FYI, my 11 kids are supported on a single income, and I'm just an experienced software hacker. I don't even manage people or work overtime. Granted, I don't get to live anywhere near my childhood home of the Bay Area, but such is life. Just as you have done, I made choices according to my priorities, but my priorities are different.
It's a worthy topic, and a solid complement to Piketty's work.

Investigating and articulating the "apparatus of justification" is helpful.
Links broken.

> But I figured out that if all you have is a title and it's a one-line string, you can just use the `head` and `tail` command line utils to extract either the title string or the markdown body depending on which operation you're in the middle of, and you can still just use bash

I took a similar approach with mine (http://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html) but it get's messy pretty quickly. In a future iteration I'm planning on using M4 templates instead, M4 is actually pretty nice outside of autoconf.
Impressive, but there's a couple of things I'd like to see them try one day.

Plug AlphaStar into a robot that physically interacts with a keyboard and mouse to control the game. This "robot" should only have what's relevant for playing the game and emulates a human i.e. a camera that looks at a screen (this is the only knowledge it has of the game), and two arms & hands with five digits that control the mouse and keyboard. Then limit its APM to the best a human can realistically do.

The other thing I want to see them address is the virtual training time. 200 years of StarCraft is insane. LiquidMana has been playing for ~20 years and of course he hasn't played the game 24/7. Lets pretend he has played StarCraft like it's a full-time job since he was 5; 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 20 years. That's ~42,000 hours of playing StarCraft.

Develop an A.I. that is only trained for that many hours of virtual game time.

If they can create an A.I. with those requirements, that can defeat top-level players, I will be completely blown away.
This is the third entry in the blog. Author just had some stuff to get off his chest. He might want to split this into two entries...
I'm blocked behind a paywall.
U.S. Patent Operations May Shut Down in Second Week of February
I'd be cool with that story, if Oracle didn't go and sue Google like pretty much immediately after they finished acquiring Sun. They were 100% eyeing Android right from the start in my opinion.
Eight and a half years of lawsuits? Yeah.
This is a peculiarly US phenomenon. Much of the UK, EU, Aus etc are much more willing to adopt new payment technology. (Can't speak for the non English speaking world but obviously China is way ahead)

Surprisingly the US is much harder to convince. Ask people under 30yo in Aus or the UK when they last wrote a cheque, and the answer "what's a cheque?" is likely the response. Signing for a payment, magstripe, even using a PIN is mostly a distant memory.