skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come to think of it, there's Antichamber, a non Euclidean labyrinth based on Unreal Engine (4, I believe).

As for how Jon Blow did it, I suspect having his own engine let him explore gameplay ideas more readily than using a generic one. The time travelling in Braid and all its variations would be pretty hard to bolt on a generic engine: it's not just rewind, it's partial rewind, with some entities being immune to the rewind. There's even a level where time goes forward and backward depending on the position of the main character. Go right, forward. Go left, backwards.

For The Witness, it's a bit more subtle, but about a third of the game required pretty crazy 2D projective analysis of the 3D world (the "environmental puzzles", don't look them up if you don't want spoilers). While it didn't en up being central to the game, it was basically the starting point.

The engines of Jonathan Blow's games are more central to their gameplay than for most games. Still bloody impressive, but probably less unnecessary than one might originally think. Also, Jonathan Blow has pretty strong opinions about game development, and I got the feeling that he disagrees with most generic engines out there. Working with them would probably caused suffering, whose cost he didn't want to pay. (Speaking for myself, my productivity drops pretty sharply when I spot stuff I too strongly disagree with, and I can't fix it.)
Good weed, a dark cold room, and some white noise like a shower running. Best cures I've found so far.

I've never found the current drugs more helpful than a Tylenol.
“I broke^W^WIt broke on it’s own.”
Agreed, nobody said it was.
Jakob Shattering: distributed and parallel cracking passwords tool
The expression based language Haskell has indentation-based syntax.
I have the older 13" 3200x1800 screen and it is amazing. I put Ubuntu 18.04 on it since it wasn't available as a developer edition. The display scaling is my only problem but that's more a gnome thing. Running it with Windows was a almost perfect (why, Xilinx can you not do display scaling...). I thought I wouldn't notice the extra resolution due to the small screen but it both looks really nice for text and allows me to scale everything slightly smaller so that I can fit more on my screen for productivity. That being said, I use it as a laptop, on my lap. The extra resolution is pretty useless if I'm using it on a desk or table. But for that I have an XPS15 + 27" 4K setup.
Perhaps it's time for more granular Javascript blocking. Since forever it's been 'Enable Javascript yes / no'. This makes no real world sense to me anymore (if it ever did). Could there be an end-user friendly way to tell a browser to block Javascript that transmits your 'pre-submit' activity on a web site without breaking the site?
Of course if you take some kids with liberal arts degrees (or no degrees) and train them to have programming skills they will be cheaper than people with senior level skills and CS degrees. But isn't that to the benefit of those workers who now have jobs? They might make less, say $60,000/yr, while the old guard gets angry because they now aren't competitive and their wages go down. What's interesting though - as an aside - is that these bootcamp grads _still_ demand to make as much as people with CS degrees and years of experience.

But what's the answer, protectionism and railing against STEM education? Yes software developers will be bitter about lower wages, but in the long term that means more people with skills and jobs, more people of color, more people from poor backgrounds who come from families who never made more than $20,000 in their life.

Let's not be so selfish, there are plenty of ways to outshine a General Assembly bootcamp grad with no degree... You just aren't going to do be able to do it by building websites for $200,000/yr anymore.
OMG dude that's such an accurate description of my life at that time.
Czechs.
Not since Tom Wolfe, at least.
Light-Field Display Is the Real Deal
Odd they are doing this just months after securing $80M in new financing. Their web site (careers) shows they are moving their lab from SF to Portland.
It's a good comparison, but I feel the best comparison is not to a MacBook Pro or Air, but to the Thinkpad X1 Carbon or X280. I haven't used either the Dell, Thinkpad, or the MacBook Air, but I do have the MacBook Pro. I'm mostly concerned about build quality. My experience with Dell is they feel cheap while my last Thinkpad was a tank and I miss it (I ran FreeBSD on it) and loved the nub and keyboard and overall feel.
Slaves don't choose their job, work visa immigrants do. They know exactly what they are signing for and can always decline the offer.
Ok. While I don’t see them as precisely analogous, I now agree that they’re more similar than I first thought, provided you believe that all students are harmed by the presence of charter schools.

Thank you for taking the time to explain it again so it landed.
On the contrary, it won’t change anything for me, because I always form the whole sentence in my mind before writing into a chat or text box (like this comment).

So, it seems there are different types of writers. That’s a small moment of enlightenment for me. :)
Yep, and narcissism.
The "Beyond Deep Learning" section of the article talks about this approach:

> A more radical possibility is to give up trying to tackle the problem at hand by training just one big network and instead have multiple networks work in tandem. In June 2018, the DeepMind team published an example they call the Generative Query Network architecture (7, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6394/1204?ijkey=01...), which harnesses two different networks to learn its way around complex virtual environments with no human input. One, dubbed the representation network, essentially uses standard image-recognition learning to identify what’s visible to the AI at any given instant. The generation network, meanwhile, learns to take the first network’s output and produce a kind of 3D model of the entire environment—in effect, making predictions about the objects and features the AI doesn’t see. For example, if a table only has three legs visible, the model will include a fourth leg with the same size, shape, and color.
If you think that's bad you should try going into politics :)
This. When evaluating someone's claims, always take into consideration their background, career to evaluate for bias. This is the reason if, for eg, Spain plays against France in soccer finals, they won't put a world-class Spanish judge, however good he/she may be.
> should run at the exact specs of your average consumer.

Kinda expensive, having a set of multiple dedicated servers (or VMs) running on God knows how many dozen cores and hundreds of gb of ram just to run the tests that my laptop runs fine by itself, all in the name of running the "exact specs" that my stuff is going to be run on.

You're describing system testing, which takes place extremely late in the product cycle.
It's very telling that claims that Facebook's newsfeed algorithm under-samples conservative publications do not receive nearly as much criticism as claims that algorithms propagate racialized bias receive.
BLS (which is what most employers use as supporting wage data. Some employers provide their own sources which is a whole other can of worms) allows you to search by "metropolitan statistical area."

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/faq.aspx

For instance a level 1 "programmer" in SF makes about 70k. A level 4 "Software Developers, Systems Software" makes about 158k...

My point is that the argument that h1b employers must and therefore do pay the prevailing wage is incomplete with out knowing the employees skills and the wage data the employer chose to set as the prevailing wage.
IIRC the unix metadata is not part of the canonical zip format, but rather an extension introduced by (?) infozip, an implementation of zip for Unix systems (if you use the zip/unzip cli tools on a Unix style system, it's most likely infozip).
Posts like this are generally accepted by the community, especially when they make it clear that the commentator has a relationship with the company.

What is technically against the guidelines is complaining about the appropriateness of a comment. It is preferred that you downvote or flag inappropriate comments. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
This is not a problem
I never believed I'd ever pick a Microsoft product over anything else.

And yet, here we are... Azure Pipelines

Edit: VS Code too
When the law requires that you get a "certificate of need" in order to build a hospital, that is very much a protectionist measure. Requiring that medical student careers be approximately a decade long is another protectionist requirement. The FDA often functions to protect large players. There is a ton of protectionism in the U.S. healthcare "market".
It's a sign of being a know-it-all.
No, I think the people that know what's good for them and ram that down your throat are worse.
In 2005 during the birth of "ajax" I got paid ($100 or something: it was great when I was a youngster!) to write an article warning of the spooky dangers of xmlhttprequest - keylogging everything you type. http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/28861

There was a demo (dead now - I'll fix it) that was a text adventure, that keylogged. And it was interesting to see typos and changes of wording. It did provide some insight that wasn't always apparent in the final submitted text commands.

Even though in 2005 it was known you could do this (long before ajax), still today I'm a little taken-aback about being keylogged on a random website: despite having written a bloody article about it 15 years ago!
They are going from self test kits to pharmaceuticals? That’s a major pivot!
The eye very much does care what's in front of it. Look up "emmetropization".
Intel RealSense tracking camera helps robots navigate without GPS
The right[2] looks at intent because that's what matters in a hierarchical view of society. This division is from a fundamental difference in what societies are. This can be observed din how they use language; from one of the most enlightening articles[1] I've ever read:

> One of the biggest problems of the entire Culture Wars is that people like us [the left[2]] use language impart information. We usually are not aware that a nice big chunk of population does not use language in that way at all. Their use of language is that of Phatic Language [...] In a hierarchical society [the right[2]], language is [often] not used for exchange of information [...] It is used to establish social hierarchy.

For a good explanation of how this works, George Lakoff's lecture[3] "Moral Politics".

[1] https://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/05/31/more-than-just-res...

[2] The "left"/"right" labels are being use in a general psychological sense, which doesn't always match the political groups with the same names.

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM
Thank you for your work.

I will try your software soon. What I really like so far is the reading progress, which is actually very, very important for me. So far, I have to do this with manual tags in Zotero.

By the way, since this is a work tool, I (and I imagine others) are fully willing and able to pay you for support or storage or other features.

But since Mendeley, me and people I know have become very sensitive about lock-in, encryption and collaboration barriers associated with pro/non-pro accounts. It seems you are determined to take the right steps, I just want to emphasize the importance for your business.

The backlash against Mendeley isn't random. If I build my pipeline on your product, my lifelihood and hours upon hours of crucial work depend on it. This is not a casual software, where switching is inconvenient but not a big deal. Mendeley has f'ed me in a crucial deadline situation, even though I was paying them lots of money. That company is dead to me, and I will badmouth and try to destroy their business any chance I get.
It cost nothing in Canada, at most $700 CAD.
Bitcoin exchange Cryptopia hack
I hope you're not asking me, because I don't understand the social justice people at all.

My guess is a combination of social media obsession and limited life experience cause them to optimize for 'sounding woke' over 'things that help real people'.
>Buffett Strategy #6: Avoid the technology bandwagon

That's not true. Buffett bought a lot of Apple stock in 2016.
CoreRT is working towards that, but it is still pretty much WIP.
Somehow I doubt they're really that ignorant about Fortnite and other games, unless you're severely restricting their time/contact with other kids.
I work on knapsack gem to split tests across parallel CI nodes. To do optimal balancing I developed a dynamic test suite split with Queue approach.

Here is example for Travis CI
https://docs.knapsackpro.com/2018/how-to-run-travis-ci-paral...

And this is the graph showing the difference if you compare knapsack_pro dynamic tests split with what CircleCI does which is basically only time-based split.
https://docs.knapsackpro.com/2018/improve-circleci-paralleli...
I started messing around with Julia again recently after reading about Flux.

So far, it has been amazing, and this article further proves to me that Julia is an amazing platform for ML, among other things.
> CPython is 100 to 1000 times slower than C

That's very context dependant. With annotations, typical calculations compile to C code roughly equivalent to native. The more of the actual runtime you use, the more you call into cpython which can't be sped up this way. Cython compiled code will be somewhere between C and cpython in terms of speed, but putting a single number to it will be always misleading.
Dallas ridesharing startup Alto raises $14.5M to disrupt Uber, Lyft
This is old news.
It's fairly easy to implement and most often done with simple google sheets.
the whole book as a ZIP.

I like the ZIP export format, I don't like not being able to get it without logging into the cloud.
This just seems like a very strange and restrictive way to model real-life problems, and it just seems to export the meat of the problem (taking into account priors, what exactly is bias, and if it's possible to be aware of it); for instance, I imagine that many people who subscribe to LW thought are probably uncritical of the ideological function of liberal democracy, for instance - or rationality being used to justify the status quo. These sort of things were taken up by critical theory, so there seems to be some overlap between critical theory and what it is to be rational.

I fear that a faith in mathematical reasoning for all problems can easily make you come out the other end thinking your opinions are mathematically correct, with minimal reflection on core issues such as the applicability of classical logical models or a mechanistic view of how people do (or ought to) behave - this kind of uncritical historically divorced reflection has not fared well in the past, with even economists admitting their model of the economic man is as much fiction as their worldwide Robinson Crusoe from a century earlier.
Changelog 331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing
As far as I know, physics doesn't allow eVTOL noise to be solved. You need something different than eVTOL.
I'm using Flask-Dance, it works rather nicely.
This is one of the targets of the CoreRT project, and a very limited version of it works today.
I think they could expand by taking over Craigslist's marketshare. In some areas, Craigslist is super popular, in others it's virtually nonexistent. If they can find a way to connect local sellers with local buyers and make money doing it, they could make a killing.
Note that there are 'xivs available for many scientific disciplines (it's a publisher restriction that a single repo can't accept work from disparate fields). If you have any preprints, published or not, please upload them to one of these services. If people can't read your work, then you did it for nothing.

A list of repositories can be found here:

https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/learning/sharing-preprints/...
It isn’t, but it can easily appear to be the case because you do spend more time in slower queues (simple example: 2 queues with waiting times of one minute and five minutes give an expected waiting time of three minutes, of which you are expected to spend 2.5 (83% of waiting time) in the slower queue), and almost no time in queues that move so fast that you’re out of them before the waiting starts to annoy you.
German prices are (512GB SSD, 16GB Ram, i7, UDH):

* XPS13 - Ubuntu: 1599€ / 1819$

* XPS13 - Windows: 1729€ / 1967$

* MBA - i5 - 2089€ / 2377$

* MBP - i5 - 2489€ / 2832$

* MBP - i7 - 2849€ / 3242$

Entry models (256GB, 8GB, i5):
* XPS13 - Ubuntu - HD : 1289€ / 1467$, has a i7 instead of an i5 !?!

* XPS13 - Windows - HD: 1309€ / 1490$

* XPS13 - Windows - UHD: 1479€ / 1683$

* MBA - i5 - 1599€ / 1820$

* MBP - i5 - 1999€ / 2275$

* MBP - i7 - 2359€ / 2685$

I noticed that dell doesn't offer customization. They have many different configurations but some combinations are missing e.g. no 256-16-UHD option.

That being said I find it difficult to rationalize Apple's prices. I'd like to replace my ancient MBA but I'm not willing to pay 400€ for their new MBA, just to get an inferior CPU.
Not to mention the huge price difference for higher-end configurations.

I'd be very interested how well dell notebooks last - do they have similar 'design flaws' as the current gen Apple notebooks (keyboard, display cable)?
Agree. Both parties should be able to see the other typing, or neither should. I feel deceived and foolish that I never knew about this. It's creepy like a one-way mirror.
NetBSD hits 100% reproducibility on builds
Kind of, Uno allows for UWP on WebAssembly.

https://platform.uno/

Yes I know it isn't the same XAML.
Django doesn't work nicely with OAuth, but Flask has Flask-Dance which works rather well.
That's not my view, so that seems a straw man.
Even well reviewed devices aren't guaranteed to work. At work I had a TB3 dock from Belkin, that was one of the top sellers on Amazon. Everything worked on the MBP, but when I tried connecting my ThinkPad (T470s) all the peripherals and displays worked, however it wouldn't deliver any power. On the other hand the cheap Chinese TB3 dock (UGREEN branded) I have at home works fine with the ThinkPad.
You will have to configure this behavior, as by default that would require pressing the power button instead of using the Hall effect sensors and the magnets from the cover.

But yes, you are correct: it will consume very little power while suspended if you use s2ram (resuming immediately) or hibernate (slower ersume, but consumes nothing)

Only s2idle consumes a lot of power.
People give off all kinds of messages they don’t realise; from facial expressions and other forms of body language to the tone and volume of their speech. We are forever communicating far more information then we ever intend to and people who deal with customers are trained how to read those tells so they can better handle customers temperament as well as their spoken requirements.

You lose so much with typed text which makes good customer services a lot harder. Thus as long as any pre-posted text isn’t stored anywhere (I fully expect posted chat logs would) then I don’t see an issue with support operators using real time text as a glimpse into the customers mood.

[edit]

To the people who voted me down: I get that you disagree with me but I have been on courses regarding just this (which is weird because I couldn't be in a less customer facing job....) so what I'm talking about here isn't just some random junk I've invented off the cuff. It's what I was taught how customer services (the good ones anyway) work.
Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics
No customer protection and irreversible transactions = "This is a feature not a bug of bitcoin."

Shapeshift is not an atomic swap, it's an exchange and they charge a large fee on top of the current spot price determined by other major exchanges.

Bitcoin hacks are related to Bitcoin because Bitcoin/Ethereum is software.

See:
https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/cve-2018-17144-the-aftermath...

When was the SWIFT protocol hacked? I'm guessing you're confusing stolen credentials with "hack" in that case which is indeed similar to the many cases where cryptocoin exchanges get hacked though stolen credentials and user funds are taken - except if that happens to your account at a normal bank you're protected with FDIC insurance or something similar depending on your bank.

You're confused. Regular banks fail, and customer funds are protected. When a regular bank fails, that has absolutely nothing to do with debasing currency, nor does it affect the inflation rate.

When you use Bitcoin there's a lot of trust needed that can't be guaranteed or verified, and while problems exist with traditional payment systems at least customers have protections and criminals or bad businesses can be held accountable.

I'm not sure why you think avoiding a legal system, or avoiding financial regulations would help solve any of the problems with malicious scams and abuse?

It sounds more like you're attempting to sell a product that does not fix any of those things, hoping to convince an audience to buy into an oligarchical penny stock

ala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
> It highlights a lack of user education

Education in what? That they shouldn't trust companies because they eavesdrop on them? Please don't blame deceitful practices on the victims.

> if they expect their typed input to a website to be private.

Most chat apps work that way. Others only see what you typed once you send it. Just because the now obscure `talk` worked differently is no excuse.

The deception starts where the agents' responses are not relayed as they type! I don't see how you could explain this asymmetry in innocent terms. It clearly benefits the shop without them being open about it.
It's not a "car" - it's a flying car, and therefore doesn't need neither wheels nor roads. It can indeed also be type of an airplane or a helicopter - those descriptions aren't conflicting. I don't really understand the source of your confusion - are you equally perplexed that pineapples aren't actually apples, and sweet potatoes aren't real potatoes?
They bilindly copy Apple's decisions, without realizing that Apple is in the long term death spiral without Jobs. That's a big mistake.
I believe there was a whole year of announcements from Tesla about making cheaper vehicles. They chose to make the more expensive models (better business) but it means I won't buy one (budget).
Before rolling out this exact feature in our own chat product we resisted doing so because of the concerns being echoed here. However, it was becoming obvious from the demands from our users that this was make-or-break feature in a modern chat system.

After rolling it out and enjoying this for ourselves as we handle our own customer support using our own software, it's become a "why didn't we do this earlier?" type of thing.

Overall, there's already a ton of asymmetry of information when a customer contacts a support team (e.g. our product pulls in order history, subscription details, stripe transactions, etc) that streaming a text preview is really just a drop in the bucket, and it's actually a win-win for both sides since it leads to faster answers.

Also keep in mind that any questions you ask may be used to feed machine-learning systems, like chatbots, which is true for our product as well. Just something to be aware of, that I think is a fair tradeoff for better customer experiences long-term.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of https://reamaze.com
How are "synthetic" financial instruments different from illegal bucket shops?
"just figure out what OP meant"