skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writing has been on the wall for a very [1] very [2] long [3] time. Facebook and some consumers of their ecosystem have been holding the fort, but it was inevitable something like this would happen.

1: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=babel-core&package=...

2: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

3: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/11/25/017227/micros...
Well, reimplementing an API is essentially the Oracle/Google Java case, right?
Anders (and the people he works with) has a track record of producing useful pragmatic tools/languages that help developers develop going back about 3 decades.

I've yet to find anything he's done/worked on that I don't like, one of my programming heroes actually.
APFS is also a big investment in replacing HFS+.
The problem is see is the AI is not better than the human, it's just 1000x faster at APM / macro. It could have a "shit" bo and still win because it's so much faster than a human. It's not really interesting tbh.
No, it's mid-late 20th century rhetoric pushed down from the wealthy ruling class.
Good question. What's important, I think, is to remember that this is an early iteration, and regardless of what it can do now, they will continue to improve it and in a year or two or three (probably less) it will be able to play totally unfettered in all conditions.
How the government shutdown is flushing away federal cyber-talen
ParAccel also came from Postgres, https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_database...
As much as I love brood war, great micro over a large number of units with wide awareness (things which appear to be easy to AlphaStar) would be ridiculously overpowered, even with completely average strategy. Brood War is an awesome game because it's constantly asking too much of its players at all times. I can't imagine games against an AI which has far more attention and micro to give would be too interesting.
Unfortunately, this still wouldn’t have solved my biggest pain point at the last company I worked for. You can’t use TLS termination at the load balancer when you require HIPAA Compliance.

If they had some kind of way to use ACM generated SSL certs on the VM and had a method for autorenewal that would be ideal.
Is Big Tech Merging with Big Brother? Kinda Looks Like It
“The upshot is that for a finite set of coin tosses, the sequences we intuitively feel to be less random are precisely the ones that are least likely to occur. Imagine a sliding window that can only “see” four coin tosses at a time (roughly the size of our memory capacity) while going through a series of results – say from 20 coin tosses. The mathematics show that the contents of that window will hold “HHHT” more often than “HHHH” (“H” and “T” stands for for heads and tails). That’s why we think tails will come after three heads in a row when tossing a coin – demonstrating that humans do make sensible use of the information we observe. If we had unlimited memory, however, we would think differently.”

This doesn’t make sense. You don’t need to be able to remember even one coin toss in order to understand that each coin toss is an independent event.
There's a difference between "entitled" and "self-entitled"; so many people abuse the word.
I'm sure that once the dust settles, we will have an AlphaZero version for AlphaStar as well
NCEES discontinued the software engineering exam.
Same, totally agreed. I'm a really experienced competitive AoE2 player (not pro, just a serious casual), and I think the long-term planning inherent to AoE is far more complex than SC. Not to mention the procedurally generated maps that are different every game-- it's far more nuanced in my view and requires a truly vast amount of knowledge to make good decisions. There are so many different valid approaches to any given situation.
Shame for celebrating a crunch? I'm talking 50 hours a week instead of 40 for a period of a few weeks. It is possible for a company and project to need that extra work and not turn into a sweatshop afterwards. I am 100% against the crunch that is par for the course in so many studios, but I am also disappointed by an attitude that work is always just work and god forbid it ever intrude on life outside.

I worked for five years at early and late stage startups before transitioning to games, and I cannot recall there ever being a time when extra work was not needed to get over the finish line.

If a union ends up being the only way chronic overwork can be addressed in the industry at large, so be it. Perhaps the real solution though is a legislative one, as suggested below.
Thinking about a solution, to stay within the "graphql way", I was thinking of doing this:

1. Send introspection queries[1] to get the schema.

2. Iterate over the results, building a query object with all of the non deprecated fields.

3. Store the results in a db or cache for later queries.

4. Send the request as normal with the full query.

https://graphql.org/learn/introspection/

[1] Example introspection query:

query {
__schema {
types {
name
kind
}
}

}

query {
__type(name: "YourTypeName") {
name
kind
fields {
name
type {
name
kind
ofType {
name
kind
}
}
description
isDeprecated
deprecationReason
}
}
}
^ This

I worked in the CS Dept in college and this is a big one. Everyone in the department is there to support you and is happy to help, and the chair too. It's surprising how few CS students actually take advantage of these resources.

You can also use this to get into grad classes as an undergrad even if the course scheduling system blocks you.

Signing up on a course waitlist also helps give the department more info to be able to potentially move it to a bigger room or add additional sections.
I think you've identified a point against your argument without realizing it. If we didn't put dollar value on recycling, the recycling wouldn't be performed at the rate it currently is.

Michigan is different however. When you spend half the year surrounded by snow and freezing temps, even the idea of going outside is numbing.

I was living in Michigan and Illinois this last year, and they are light-years away when it comes to interest and availability of recycling process, compared to Oregon.
Points I learned:

- Work hard

- Have your sales point ( why should they do business with you and not with someone else, who does the same. The sales point doesn't have to be related to the thing you are selling / consulting on. They have to improve your overall image. Nothing else). I seem to be able to sell better in person, than anyone i ever saw ( but the work takes time...).

- Grow your network or know people who have the network

- Filter your network. Don't spend time on people who will never be in your niche. I filter it to simple: business. ( doing computers in the past, they were the most understanding clients) and no websites ( personally, i only create them for friends)

- Take risks

- Spend money when you can outsource, because your time is expensive.

- Have a long term plan, which niche are you growing into. If you have been "doing everything and nothing", than what has been the most profitable with the least amount of time spend.

- Prioritize, because your time is expensive

- A plan can take time to come together. Sometimes links ( helping someone out 2 years before, pay out later in the future). Don't be afraid to help them remember, when you helped them in the past.

- Don't be scared to drop clients. Especially if they are extremely rich/have no good business, they will consume all of your time and question every invoice you send.

- Don't partner up for doing a cloud application for "free"/"low-fee" in return of being a partner. Most cloud applications fail.

- If you are a developer, your "online-business" will probably fail in online marketing ( the chance is big). Get a plan how you would grow the business, before you have clients. Don't count on online marketing for it.

- Solve problems or iterate on solutions for existing problems

- Money earns money, if you use it
I disagree that nobody gives a shit about sound quality. However it's usually the speakers and acoustics that let down a club, rather than the mixer.

There are far too many clubs that have good quality speakers, but than have sound bouncing off the back wall or some other critical issue.
12. You get rich by owning things.
What’s the threat model for someone intercepting traffic between a load balancer and an EC2 instance?
It's amazing what they achieved so far, but I wonder how it would stack up against Serral, who draws a lot of his wins by supremely judging an engagement and continiously gains small advantages over the course of a game. This is a skill even most other professional players only have on a much lower level.
#2: Have almost too much self-belief. Self-confidence has been something I've struggled with my entire life, to the point where its crippled my career growth as a developer. I've been told that I'm a good developer, but if I only believed in myself I could go a lot further and become truly great. However, it's hard for me to believe in myself when I don't have a lot of data points to prove that I AM competent and capable. Over the past 3 years of working full-time yes I've accomplished some things, but none of them were truly difficult or ground breaking. I'm always pushing myself harder to learn more and get better, but it never feels like its having enough impact on me actually growing. So if all I have are at best average/mediocre accomplishments, how do I convince myself that no, I AM great, that I CAN do this? I feel like if I start having a lot of self-belief it'll just become a lie that will blind me from my weaknesses and cause me to stop growing.
I hope this means tPostgres or pgtsql gets some Microsoft resources!
>> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US

What does he mean by this?
It may be a ban or an errorban, but it's not a hellban, in any sense of what "hell" means in "hellban::
https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/

It also might just be a broken integration with recaptcha.
While not offering commits, I was under the impression that Amazon had contributed some funding. But I just went off searching for that, and can't find any evidence of this either.

Anybody know anything about them contributing money rather than code?
They are planning on limiting the APM of the AI anyway. With BW, you can focus on an AI learning basic strategy with incomplete information. With SC2, you mix in a hole assortment of figuring out how crazy abilities like force fields and recall. It's going to take much longer for an AI to anticipate when its opponent is going to force field the ramp and warp into the main.
I actually like the way he uses "intersubjective truth"(on a spectrum with "objective truth" and "subjective truth) to describe things that are only true because enough people agree that they're true.
> It was definitely the most innovative episode.

How so? I always hated that episode because it's a straightforward story of developing communications through a language barrier, except that Star Trek is very clear that language barriers don't exist. So it just ends up being an incoherent plot hole.

But the concept of a language barrier isn't exactly new.
A lot of the viz styles seem close to ggplot2 which is why I though it was made using ggridges (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggridges/vignettes/i...) but I'm not sure if you can do a perceptual skew in ggplot2.
> I know a bit or two about big advertisers, and I can absolutely guarantee that they have no clue what to do with said data anyway.

I don't know what to do with someone else's social security number, are you comfortable giving me yours?
It's also very successful, if you have built a stable business and a way of supporting yourself and a few others around you. Being successful doesn't always mean having a 1BN valuation. But sure, it's nice to think that one day, it could happen. I'm just grateful every day that what I've got now - stability and plenty of resources - was a result of pretty much what Sam said. Believing in ourselves and not giving up, and building something meaningful to others that isn't easily duplicated. Sometimes I feel that's not enough, here on this site, but it is. The business I have right now: it just can't get that big, the wider market doesn't need what I make. But I love what I do and I have insane amounts of freedom and to my friends, I'm wildly successful. I'm reminded by that each time I know I'm doing well enough to live the life I wanted, and can support my family. That's success, too.
Wrong. Did you watch the presentation? Its APM was less than half that of its human opponent. If you aren't going to watch the presentation first, don't try to get involved in the discussion in such a derisive and dismissive way. "It's not really that interesting tbh"....wow. It's something that's never been algorithmically done before, no matter who tried. How can you write that off as "not interesting" as if it's totally insignificant?
I may be wrong, having just heard of self-organizing maps...

But they do seem related, in that it’s arguing the data can always be (mostly) accurately represented by a map projecting onto a lower-dimension manifold. The recent paper on topological covers along with the self-organizing maps wiki seem to indicate that nothing should be harmed by doing this in a discrete setting.

Essentially, a self-organizing map projecting to the R^n slices, and then learning the shape of the manifold generated by that atlas of projections.
It's neo-liberalism coupled with the idea that you can still get rich at your startup.

Makes sense considering this site is part of ycombinator.
But then what’s the purpose of terminating at the LB? The two advantages are that it takes the load off of your web server having to decrypt traffic and autorenwal of SSL certs. Once you have to manage your own certs and decrypt at your server, both of those advantages are removed.
1. Be born to a wealthy middle class family and go to an elite school.
Filling Holes: Adobe Proposes Foreground-Aware Image Inpainting
That's not the question.

The question is of game theory. MongoDB Inc. invested a lot into developing MongoDB, they figured out the right semantics for a lot of things, trade offs, UX/DX (user and dev experience), and so on. (Recently Mongo4 added transactions. Which is a very very very handy thing in any DB.) But MongoDB calculated that they will recoup their investment because they are in the best position to provide support and even to operate Mongo, all while keeping Mongo sufficiently open source (you can run it yourself on as big a cluster as you please, you can modify it for yourself and don't have to tell anyone - unless you're selling it as a service, pretty standard AGPL).

Now AWS took the API and some of that knowhow, and invested into creating something that's not open source at all. You can't learn anything from it, you are not vendor locked in, because the API is standardized, but other than that it takes away a revenue stream from MongoDB Inc. (Sure, competition is good. DocumentDB-Mongo is probably cheaper than MongoDB Inc.'s Atlas.)

But the question is, will this result in less/slower/lower-quailtiy development of MongoDB itself?

Usually big MongoDB clusters at enterprise companies are not likely to upgrade and evolve, they usually get replaced wholesale, but they would have provided the revenue for MongoDB Inc to continue R&D, and to allow them to provide that next gen replacement. Now ... it'll be likely AWS something-something. Which will be probably closed source (like DocumentDB) and at best it'll have an open API (like DocDB Mongo).

Is it fair? Is it Good for the People? Who knows, these are hard questions, but a lot of people feel that AWS doing this somehow robs the greater open source community, and it cements APIs, concentrates even more economic power, and so on.
Reading the article the following quote got my attention "you should always keep things simple even if your tools allow for more complex patterns".

I follow the "it is perfect when you don't need to remove anything else" rule in most systems/processes/functions/tasks in life (not only IT systems). I am happy to see in this cluttered space called IT there are many more like-minded people who see that too much is TOO much.
What's going to be uninteresting is when their AI can never get past bronze league because the AI can't figure out that his bunker is going to get force-fielded or that observer is going to be used for a blink all-in.
They've provided AWS credits, yes.
I was just living in Michigan and I have to say, recycling was always an afterthought to people I met. Likewise, your state is covered in snow and freezing for half the year. This are big challenges for anyone.
> Facebook content
> Facebook advertising
> Facebook messenger

Those are all inextricable from the Facebook platform. If there is no Facebook platform there is no place for ads or content, if there is no Facebook user database there is no way to route messages. I suppose for messages you could clone the database and give it to each company but that seems strictly worse since now you have two companies with your Facebook PII.

> Instagram... whatever other apps Facebook owns

Sure, but like I said, that that doesn't really change anything. Can you please elaborate on how the consumer would benefit from this?

> probably a whole bunch of others that will require thinking about it more than four seconds.

No need for sarcastic quips.
Does anyone know if this opens the door to using these techniques for poker (given that they've now show success on games of imperfect information)?

Thus far the solutions to poker have involved solving the game tree through raw computational power and clever methods of information collapsing:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145

But it seems the techniques used here might be both far more efficient, as well as able to better exploit human players (as opposed to playing a pure game theoretically optimal strategy, which is what they do now).
> over 100 people die every day in traditional vehicle accidents.

The real figure is around 3.2k [1]

[1]https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/
Isn't ChromeOS based on Linux, and, therefore, all Chromebooks affected by this?
Those were not one and the same agent. If you look at the figure they released on their website the given agent would probably always have gone for a lot of blink stalkers.
There's often the ability for professors to accept more than the limit on a case-by-case basis, at their discretion. If you approach a professor and come across as a motivated and serious student, there's a good chance you'll be able to get in. Contrary to popular belief, most professors care about undergraduate education and want to help motivated students.
Seems fine to me, the state should write off the cost of any """fraud""" as combating the negative externalities of plastic bottle production.
An unofficial CLI for webpack
Very exciting results. However, I'm a bit confused by this graph [0], could anyone explain how I'm supposed to interpret it?

0: https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-stra...
Two Years of Elixir at  Podium (YC W16)
Burned by the same problem. A while ago I switched to never doing any DL without using a conda environment.
The usual explanation is that handoffs are even more dangerous.
Yes, exactly; just like breaking up Bell in the 80s.
The live game that was just played was against this version of AlphaStar. Mana did win, but it was by exploiting some poor defense against drops and hard countering the stalkers he knew AlphaStar favours. The AI still looked very good and the developers claimed that this version of AlphaStar wasn't significantly weaker than the versions which didn't have to use the camera.
Yes, we already covered that. :-)
This looks good. I like that they have explanations / reasoning included, rather than just "do this". If all the planned topics get filled, that will be something to recommend.

Also, first time I hear about polyinstantiated directories, so TIL.
Great way for Google to IP advanced users, SEOs, devs.
It's just how I understand what I've been "told". From the news we get, were made to believe that certain EU states are being "hard", harder than necessary for these negotiations. Or at least that was the case a year or two ago, I've lost track of how long this debacle had been ongoing. It doesn't help that we have a government that is incapable of negotiating their way out of a paper bag.

My frustrations are very little about other EU states, who I don't blame, but since our government doesn't have our best interests at heart, it'd be nice if they remembered that 50% of us didn't agree on a vote 0% of us called for in the first place.

I can't see our MPs coming to an agreement, they're divided, they want May out, but there is no suitable replacement. Corbyn couldn't do a better job, his heart is in the right place but he's equally incapable of sorting this out.

At this point I'm jaded by the whole thing and I see no positive outcome, every day we read about major business leeching the country, that's jobs and money leaving with them, and frankly, I don't believe 2019 Britian has a lot to offer in trade.

Next our NHS will be privatised, and the best thing we'll have to offer is our lovely weather.
> Unions traditionally are there to defend the interests of its members, not to address consumer related unethical behaviors.

Many unions and guilds have codes of professional ethics. A quick google finds this example:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...
Can you even activate a copy of XP these days?
Oh, that we might ever take such care when starting wars rather than when ending them...

After we abandon our misguided efforts in e.g. Libya and chaos reigns, it might be tempting to ask ourselves how the abandonment might have been more methodical or whatever. Well, it would be tempting for BHL or HRC. Wiser, less bloodthirsty observers wonder more about whether the entire conflict could have been avoided.

Actually, now that I'm reminded of Libya (easy to forget if you're just watching MSNBCNNFox...), I'm also reminded of the decidedly non-methodical way that abandonment went down. Essentially, every military vehicle was confirmed to have a full tank of gas, and all our soldiers booked the fuck out. They didn't stop for souvenirs, they didn't worry about what would happen the next day, they just left. Sure, Libya is a smoking hole, but it already was by the time Qaddafi had his intimate encounter with HRC's bayonet. Nothing additionally terrible happened because we left in a hurry. Syria still has a functioning state! Surely they'll be able to handle a quick withdrawal, whenever DJT distracts the Pentagon long enough to get it done.
I was amused to see on their website that one of the top-rated agents we didn't get to see built almost nothing but Void Rays.
Possibly you are unaware that some Internet users do not reside in the US?
Why is an acquisition a win for the company? Seems to me like the big company is killing the small one and absorbing its soul(brand).

Shouldn't sustainability be the primary goal instead of making big bucks temporarily?
so i should just own a lot of things and then I'll be rich. Works for rich people.
No - chromeos is the whole operating system with specific components turned off and optimized for specific vendor architectures. There are ton more differences but that's what jumps out to me at the moment.