skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redshift isn’t just a custom storage tier atop an older version of Postgres. It has an entirely different execution engine that compiles commands to an executable and farms them out to multiple data nodes.
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I get what you're saying, but BSD-licenses are specifically designed to facilitate things not being sent upstream. I don't understand why people moan about companies complying with the license agreement.
Am I the only one actually NOT impressed by this? I mean they all claim its so great that the AI is maybe challenging some wisdom and that overproducing probes might be a way to go. I do not know, I am not that deep into SC but if someone attack you who put those resources into units instead of probs, that can decide between win and lose or not?

What the AI did in this game to win is NOT the overproduction of drones, it was simply and purely and to me not impressive at all the micro. Of course a AI can micro those stalkers like crazy in a inhuman way all across the map. I think you can even bookmark map locations with shortcuts in SC right? Still the AI does not think like a human this means it can manage all this units in parallel and again, THAT is what won the game.

I never played Go but that was way more impressive to me then this. A human automatically has a huge handycap again a AI in SC. Of course they picked some nice guy who is all positive and good sports about it, exited about "new strategies" when in fact he just got wrecked because of superhuman micro. Not saw the other games but my guess is that micro always plays a huge part.

And I just read in another comment that the AI was actually slower in build order ...
And yet, Silicon Valley seems to be currently focused less on tech itself than using tech to reshape many long-running social conventions. Why would labor relationships be any different?
I think you may be over analyzing this. I think his point is simply that the GPL has no loophole in terms of being intentionally designed to be worked around with for SaaS providers, it just was designed at a time and primarily for desktop software/software where this was not a common concern, but it was found to be a problem hence the Affero GPL. He specifically says v3 is more compatible with Affero GPL.
Genuinely curious as to what you consider "unnecessary cruft."
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I can't think of a game that is shorter than its predecessors and requires a season pass purchase, or really any 'essential' DLC for a single player game at all. With regard to multiplayer games, they don't have a cap on playtime and traditionally sold expansions (for example Battlefield 1942 Road to Rome).
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From the example images of original and obfuscated assembly, there's seems to be about a sixfold increase in the number of instructions (for that example, at least), so I imagine you'll see a similar binary size increase.
At first look, the code produced by Movfuscator is mind boggling. But despite its perceived entanglement there exist some deobfuscators that bring the code back to Harvard (e.g. human readable) model.

TL/DR obfuscation by translating a program to "mov" instructions is susceptible to static analysis and thus fully reversible.
I care about quality play time over just about any other metric. How long is a game actually enjoyable - maximizing that seems like it should be the clear goal, no?
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Very impressive... but it seems like the AI relies entirely on abusing blink stalkers which with perfect micro is basically impossible to counter. It is no surprise it can crush pros when it has perfect timing and zero mistakes in using these units.

I think the coolest thing is how the play of AI mirrors a similar style to how pros have developed (Micro harrasing early, early expansions, a very good understanding of when to attack/retreat). It looks just like your average pro..until you see its god tier micro.

Well, after seeing Mana crush it in the live game it seems the AI had zero clue as to what to do... it seems like it calculated it couldn't win a fight so let Mana destroy its entire base. So, just like with the Dota AI we see pros can exploit and win easily once they play around the micro advantages.
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The article keepper posted was written in 2010, while the interview you linked to happened in 2007. Like any of us, RMS's beliefs and opinions evolve over time.
in a similar vein, here is an exmple program that runs using only x86 CPU faults.

https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc
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Thanks, good to know!
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Here is a somewhat modified situation. Say you use a machine learning algorithm to recommend if a person currently accused of a crime should be allowed bail. The fitness function should be to maximize the number of people who are allowed bail and minimize the number of people who miss their court date.

Say that the model allows X% of people to have bail and makes sure only Y% fail to show up.

The model then adds race as an input to the model. This improves the model so that it allows X+5% of people to have bail and makes sure that only Y/2% fail to show up. It also has the effect that it increases the chance that a black person is denied bail and increases the chance that a white person is allowed bail.

Do you think the inclusion of race is bias? Should race be removed from the input to the model?
This is a defense against spectre type attacks, but this cannot be a "good" defense because it sacrifices too much. The programs written this way are assuredly quite slow.
Worthwhile to note that Greeplum is being moved forward. While it initially seemed, from the outside, fairly slow-going, it seems that later versions were done more quickly. Apparently largely because of fixing some technical debt. They're catching up to 9.4 in their development branch, I believe. For years they were on 8.2...
> I just wish there was some kind of standard library movement to coincide with it,

I keep hearing this complaint, and at the same time I'm wondering why it's a big problem. So you can't find 3rd party libraries that are good enough to fill in the void from the lack of a good standard library?
Battlefield games no longer have a season pass.
> These people are only being mistreated because they allow it.

Yep. And they are allowing it by not unionizing.
>Only the most bare-bones version of a AAA quality title will cost you $60; the absolute minimum of content which could still be called a game

That's fairly disingenuous - the last game I bought at full price was Spiderman. A quick Google says the the average user on the default difficulty clears the story in about 20 hours.

Sper metroid came out in 1994 (25 years ago), and the same quick search says that most people will clear it in 8 hours or so.

Single player games today are also regularly putting out free balance patches (nioh), large free content updates(Gran Turismo) and smaller chunks of paid content that rival the size of other games for very reasonable amounts (Witcher 3).
America doesn't have a justice system. It has a has system that enforces laws created by those in power. Those laws have nothing to do with justice most of the time.
Multiplayer games are often particularly brutal about this though - if you want to be able to play with the largest population you need to buy the latest content expansion - this didn't used to be the case, compare Call of Duty 4 with the newer Black Ops series for example.
Uh TF is quite hated nowadays as people get access to better alternative frameworks
OpenCL with SVM Extensions on Linux for Modern APUs?
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They're streaming a single live game right now! They explained that the research build of the game being used doesn't have an "observer" mode so it's not quite suitable for streaming live games — and, in fact, the games that they were showing were played over a month ago. (The current live game is being shown from the human player's point of view, and as such is a bit… dizzying.)
I can imagine some timing-specific attacks for memory accesses, but they're not likely as robust as attacks against the branch-predictor:

1. This is the simplest one - if the memory being accessed is in a cache (L1/L2, or page in TLB), the function will take a significantly shorter time to execute. If movfuscator achieves conditional execution by manipulating index registers to perform idempotent operations, this will be very easy to detect.

2. Prefetching - if movfuscator reads memory sequentially with a detectable stride, prefetching will shorten the execution time.

3. Write combining - if the code writes to nearby addresses (same cache line), the CPU will combine them to a single write. This will cause a measurable timing difference.

EDIT: One more: Store forwarding - if the code writes to a memory address and reads it soon, the CPU may bypass the memory access (and even cache access) completely.
It's far from certain that your interests get traded for someone else's; just as likely the opposite. Further, on some things you are in a much weaker position individually than you are collectively.

It's not objectively better to negotiate by yourself, stop pretending like it is.
Two facebooks that need to talk with each other (and new implementations) via open and documented protocol.
Certification sounds good until a major "certified" site goes rogue (or gets hacked) and hosts malware. Then everyone who trusted the "adblock except certified sites" premise gets burned, and reverts to regular adblock.
A question for you -- are unions mandatory or it's just a normal way of life there. Also do small startups have unions? What's the tipping point for having a union at a tech company.
That's true, but I wasn't trying to contradict, only explain why some Google's products feel so polished since early access. Also explains why some designs may feel awkward: they were assuming the user to be Google products, with all the ballast of building for a billion users.
That's just bull, it's on Arizona, on a closed circuit test track.

> And starting very soon, the company plans to invite regular people for rides in these fully self-driving vehicles.

What happened since 2017?
The IAM stuff requires using a few hooks, at most adding minor modifications that could be upstreamed. Storage is obviously harder, but I and others are working on making that pluggable in core. Amazon's core contribution, from a few smaller things like commandline tools: 0.

Sorry, not buying it.
Twitch.tv chat is full of shit-posting no doubt, but I did find some of the comments amusing:

- "You only have 50 GPUs in 2019, LuL"
- "AlphaStar is a cyberbully"
- Many were claiming the AI had "1500 APM", not sure where that idea came from
- and lots more
> Serve and image and/or some text along with a link and call it done.

I'm amazed too. But I'm also fairly certain publishers would love to do that. It's just not as practical as you make it sound. (And frankly, if you do come up with a solution for this, by all means reach out and let's bring it to the ad tech market; we'll rapidly make a fortune.)

For starters, how do you deal with ad fraud? What do you do with fraudulent sites that e.g. stack dozens of ads on top of each other so they all count as views? Or those that have zombie devices replay actual site visits and ad clicks? Or those that have toolbars replace ads with something else? Picture an EasyJet special offer popping up in the middle of your screen as you're pulling out your CC to book a ticket on RyanAir. This type of stuff happens; many times without the offending company even knowing how its ads got served to a zombie device. Companies lose billions per year to ad fraud. It's an enormous problem. Whether it's PPV (ad stacking), PPC (click bots), or PPA (CC fraud), you need some sort of tracking to weed out fraud.

And then there's the logistics of the whole thing. In theory there are more user-friendly ways to market and serve ads than real time bidding platforms. In practice, not so much. Apple tried to sell vetted ads at one point with a direct sales force to interact with relevant brands; it miserably failed. Similarly, there used to be a rather high quality ad network that ran image/text-only ads on Daring Fireball and a bunch of other sites; it eventually shut down. Selling your own ads is a non-starter unless you've a large audience already. So the truth is, and for better or worse, the simpler and cheaper way to buy and sell ads may very well be RTB for the foreseeable future.
Just another example of proprietary software betraying its users.
Fallout 4 on release had a $60 season pass - last one I ever paid for. But many games are still doing it, I see black ops 4 has one of similar price, as does Civ 6.
It may be harder as a host/driver, but you're right that they may have fixed that dependency. Back in 2008, it was one of the main ways you could trust the car or house that you're about to step into.
Well according to the reasoning here, no purely functional quicksort will ever be "true quicksort" due to the apparent requirement that the sort be done in-place (mutably). Haskell may have well-thought-out mechanisms in place to do mutation "purely" (which are quite admirable IMHO) but this won't be the case with something like Elixir (Erlang).

This code is also considerably more complex/less beautiful.

I don't know what to call non-in-place Quicksort, but it deserves a name; in the meantime I will simply put it in quotes.

It does seem possible to write an Elixir "quicksort" that does not consume gobs more space than "proper" quicksort, based on the comments there.
Because the advertisers want to be able to load it with scripts to track stuff like viewability, fraud etc., and since they have the money they ultimately have the power.
On that which I call Semantic Logic
Last year, I went to a JINS store in Tokyo Japan.

They gave me an eye exam and, in less than an hour, had made my prescription reading glasses (with AR coating). Total cost was less than $90 USD.

And I don't speak Japanese - I know less than a dozen words.

JINS has stores in California.
As the commentators mentioned, it's no use building units to counter your enemy's army (Immortals over Stalkers) when the enemy can control their army so much more effectively.

I have to wonder if future competitive games will need to take into account the abilities of reinforcement learning algorithms when releasing balance patches.
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According to a site [1] Mana is 19th. While that is probably overly high, I would say he is easily in the top 200 Starcraft 2 players in the world. I would also say that to get from beating a top 200 human to beating all humans is much smaller than from scratch to beating a top 200 human.

[1] https://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/rankings
This is wrong because you assume that content from the season pass is already ready when the game releases. Season pass is a different term for expansions that you used to pay in the past.

I've seen that on Reddit as well, you think companies have a year worth of content and holding onto it ... The content is just not ready / created.
As I’ve mentioned before, software engineers will embrace unions once they accidentally reinvent the concept from first principles under a different name.
LOVED Kimonify, especially how it (somehow!) figured out the pattern of data after clicking on a few different items. This is very close to that, minus the pattern recognition.
Tell that to the folks who invented agriculture. We were shaping the planet long before corporations existed. It's amazing how some people can turn any discussion into some version of a discussion on /r/LateStageCapitalism.
Why? Why does this have to be the way that college works? Seems highly ineffective.
This is mad impressive, for sure. With most AI problems, I can at least comprehend the approach, and the necessary combination of models. Not so much here.

My first question is what is the input to the AI? Is it the raw pixel array of the display? Or does it get API-level readouts of what’s happening? Because implementing the CV just to segment the display output in real time is crazy enough. I would assume the latter.

I think this basically proves that any problem that can be exhaustively simulated is solvable now. This may mark a tipping point, as every problem for which simulations exist (essentially infinite labels) is solved - then the balance will tip back toward making faster and more accurate sims (think multi-scale first principles physics stuff).
Portland borders Washington, but not California. It makes no sense for any there to be spillover from California and with the large homeless population who can regularly be seen scavanging public dumpsters, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't also check Vancouver, WA which is part of the Portland metro area.
But the sector is already doing a good job of being non-shitty without a union. And what about the case where you're in a non-shitty sector, but end up with a shitty union, resulting in a net negative for the employees? Do you just say "Oh well, it was for the greater good. Someone else somewhere has a union which is non-shitty, just in case some day the sector becomes antagonistic with employees"?
I think most people would find dc, the original command line RPN calculator, quite useful if they gave it a try.
I don't think you're wrong, but I'd just add that social media platforms like Facebook are doing everything they can to keep a user's attention at the cost of closer IRL relationships or anything else in their lives. To them, the more time you spend on their platform, the more money they make.

So increased social media use is definitely a symptom of broader disconnection in our societies, but it's also helping that disconnection along quite happily.
> typical mumbo-jumbo of ominous sounding buzzwords that hinge on nothing but a laughable DHS report and the same intelligence agencies that have repeatedly lied to the american public to further their global agenda inherited from the cold war.

Independent researchers, journalists and the social networks themselves are all contributors in the ongoing effort to understanding the scope and nature of social media manipulation, so no - this all doesn't hinge on any single report.

But even so, the big bad intelligence agencies actually do work in the national interest, at least some of the time - so there's nothing particularly wrong or stupid with considering information sourced from them. As tempting as it is to mainline the kind of hardcore conspiratorial cynicism that would make one believe otherwise, it can result in a distorted, simplistic view of the world.

> unless you were referring to the bots that systematically post toxic nonsense within seconds of every single one of trump's tweet?

I don't read Trumps tweets or their comments, but possibly yes.

Unfortunately the wider issue here of state-sponsored social media manipulation has been co-mingled wrongly with the various politicized Russia/Trump collusion narratives. But these strategies were being deployed before Trump and will continue after Trump, and are aimed at causing civil unrest via tribalism - the kind of tribalism on display in the whole Convington protest video controversy, and possibly in comments on Trump's tweets - everyone is a target.
They are not mandatory.

There is a minimal amount of employees, I think around 30, where there is legal support for the workers to organize and request the presence of the union in the company.

Usually it requires a voting process for everyone to decide if they are willing to adopt one or not.

One of the unions that represents IT is IG Metal.
Why? A tech union need not operate in the same way previous unions have.
Not to be pedantic, but this headline is not accurate. There’s nothing that makes me confident that respondents to the game dev conference survey are representative enough to say “nearly half of game developers.”

This is a really important point as trying to represent a bunch of people’s opinion based on a single, limited survey is not productive.
An addition to "Linux 2.2 (1999)" is: introduced meltdown vulnerability. That was the then-unknown cost of software context switching.

Later, with Red Hat's 4g4g kernels that Linus rejected, the problem would go away for people who installed Red Hat's version of the OS on systems with many gigabytes of memory.
You could create keyword that points to a site that takes a regular query and redirects you to a Google search with every provided word quoted. Though someone would have to create that site.
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I was just daydreaming the other day about an RTS where the UI controls and inputs are fully customizable by the users, for this exact reason. There could be even a community repository where the best known custom UIs are available.
Some? Hah.

In my ~6 years in the industry I don't know of a single coworker in the entire Seattle area who didn't run into a project that underwent serious crunch. Sample size of ~400 people or so.

I've also got longtime friends who broke in separately from me(and worked on some high profile stuff) in the SF/Bay area that say the exact same thing.
Reassigned.

Of course it's Apple, so they are going to make it as much fake as they can without getting sued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

or

"It couldn't be that hard. I could make a Twitter clone in a week by hiring some people from UpWork"

Did I mention point in time recovery or the architecture behind Serverless Aurora?
A counter perspective to this: what is a company? Is it not a group of people organized with a central purpose? So to discourage or ban other forms of organizing that may overlap this organization is actually the compromise of principles in this case. A union is just another group of people making an agreement together. The difference is, the company is organized by, and empowers, the person at the top. The union is organized by, and empowers, the workers. I don't see how they're different or how it can be legal or ethical to silence one type of group. As to what particular actions either group can legally or ethically demand of its members, that's where the real discussion begins.

Edit to elaborate:

I'd go so far as to say that companies getting larger or merging is a form of collusion. Say you have 10 small companies that each need one programmer. They are in competition. They each have to pay a fair wage in hopes of snagging you. Say they all merge. Sure, there's a global marketplace for the hotshot programmers still, but they have drastically reduced the local competition. If they're still hiring 10 programmers, they have much more power now because there are 9 fewer alternatives to consider, both for bargaining power and for information about the market.

The solution to this, as companies get to, say, Amazon or Google size, is one of two things. You can have government regulation, like the antitrust suits or minimum wage laws, or you can have the workers do their own form of collusion by forming unions for collective bargaining. Of the two, the latter is much more libertarian in spirit.
Long ago I sent away for some information from Intel, they sent me back a lot of brochures and a few manuals but the biggest treasure was a bare 486 die complete with a little magnifying glass. I'd look at this thing constantly. It sounds sort of like what you had for a keychain.

I'd love to having something like that again. Do you know if it is possible to acquire these? I tried googling but I'm coming up short, I can't find the right search terms.
What? No where did I suggest that content was ready to go - I'm simply stating that a finished game now has less quality content for the same price than it used to.