skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prognosis from the article is:

When people get used to a comfortable life, a predictable job, and a reputation of succeeding at whatever they do, it gets very hard to leave that behind

I think that there's a sampling bias here; in fact, that bias is even pointed out in the paragraph: > At YC, we’ve often noticed a problem with founders.... I.e., this is an observation about FAANG employees who become YC founders.

But the fact is, very few of those drive/motivated Google/Facebook employees leave and become YC founders. So this observation is an observation about a very small subset of the people who choose to stay at GoogleFacebook.

I know a lot of people at the FAANGs who are there because they are primarily motivated by technical and scientific problems. The FAANGs -- and esp their research divisions -- are exceptionally good places to work for people who get meaning and fulfillment from technical excellence.
Google should just copy the iOS APIs! This will make app development much much easier for all developers and will instantly get all the high quality iOS apps onto Android. Apple will only thank them for it.
> Fake news refers to...

That might be how you use the term, but that might more correctly called "false news". In common parlance, "fake news" refers to an overall pattern of filtering and narrative-pushing such that consuming lots of these stories (possibly each of them factual) will leave the reader with gross misapprehensions about the world.
> everyone making your games is there because they love it

That's simply not true. I'm sure most of them entered the industry for the love of it, but that doesn't mean they love their current job or being expected to work long hours.

> These are talented individuals who could easily go work in other industries.

There's a lot of shovelware in the games industry and I doubt many people love working on it. Do you really think the people working at studios churning out hanah montana games love their jobs? At best their hoping to work on something better in future, at worst the probably can't move elsewhere.

It can be a lot harder to break out than you think, the type of skills a game developer would have aren't in high demand in a lot of places and they could be missing some important skills used in the the more general industry, like SQL. This is an industry that loves to type cast, even something like getting a c# job as a java developer can be tough.

And then you've got the non-developer jobs. Graphic artists, writers and music composers don't have nearly as many options available.
On a legal level, no, that's not a mistaken belief. Prior to this case, that was in fact the legal consensus. Given this case, it's only a mistaken belief if the Supreme Court decides for Oracle (or declines to take the case).
In ruby, this is most easily achieved with:

result = input.each_cons(3).map do |left, _, right|
left + right
end

This maps over consecutive three-tuples in `input` and returns empty array for `len(input) < 3`.

Edit: nevermind, boundary conditions are still special cases.
1. I am not on FB. I think i made it clear that I do not support their company or product.

2. I do NOT want FB to rank the newsfeed. It should be deleted or ranked by time. The more parts of a social media product handed over to a ranking or search or algorithmic feed, the more chance they have for anti-user patterns: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/08/social-me...

3. How would a fraudulent account show up on a feed? I'm actually curious. Do they need to be friended first?
PSA: iTunes gift cards can usually be had for a discount (generally 15%, maybe more) so you can save some $ with this move.
You are rather misinformed.

For instance,the Exxon refinery in Baytown can refine darn near anything.

The EIA has a page to track it and he different types of crude oil here: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=1292755
In particular I have in mind issues of law. Things like whether a business should be allowed to withhold deferred compensation from an ex-employee who takes them to an arbitrator. Or whether a bonus for the previous year, already announced, is deferred compensation or future compensation, and therefore cannot be withheld after a layoff early the next year. Obviously some of these things are policy issues to be settled statutorily, but some also are exactly the sorts of issues to be settled by courts in the absence of statutory law, and some may involve invalidating unconstitutional statutes or parts of them.

Appeals of procedural matters also should be allowed, naturally. And procedural errors in ascertaining the facts of the case should cause de novo arbitration (or removal from arbitration and into a jury trial, if the arbitrators insist on making the sort of procedural errors that call their fact finding into question). Otherwise, fact-finding by arbitrators should not be subject to appeal, as allowing them to so be would greatly diminish the utility of arbitration.

Another thing to appeal would be the method of selection of arbitrators, the validity of their credentials, etc. But there should be fairly high bars to these (not sure how to construct them).
The interesting part to me is that, as far as I understand, the AI figured out this strategy by itself, basically deciding that it would be a good way for it to win games, rather than being specifically programmed to do it. That's actually pretty cool!

Other than that, I agree, and am also much more interested in what happens when you have a more level playing field (using camera movement rather than API, limiting reaction times and CPM, etc). I look forward to future matches where this happens.
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Yes but it seems impossible to manually assign a score to all those different situations? There are too many situations like that

Is the outcome prediction score, itself, also produced by AI training?

It has to be, right? Because it's clearly not just calculating the outcome based on Army Size of the AI and the human. There must be some non-direct way it's calculating the outcome prediction.

I mean, the hard part is accurate outcome prediction. Once you have that, it's easy to train an AI by just throwing CPU's at the problem and making the AI play a crazy lots of games
A thread from a few years back about TLO’s APM: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/4pnbv8/tlo_somet...
The media do not issue corrections unless they are forced to do so and they publish dishonest hit pieces all the time, like the one on David Reich[1]. They run with their prejudices and then write articles about how awful it is that other people can contradict their prejudices with facts[2]. They decide they’re going to write a hit piece and solicit material for it, publicly, when their lack of good faith is obvious and wonder why trust in the media is at an all time low and dropping[3]. Good journalists exist. Whether good journalistic institutions do or not is an open question, but the idea that the NYT is one of them is a joke.

[1]https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/letter-response-jan-17-article...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/23/how-conserva...

[3]https://twitter.com/globaldan/status/1088570101283110915?s=2...
It's probably this one:

https://8th-dev.com/
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I think it depends on the situation. For example, under a functional paradigm the first problem is solvable as a special form of fold. The functional paradigm has tons of concepts backing it that make solving it in a ‘foldlike’ manner clear (which would involve the sort of padding the author suggests). In fact, the elimination of the special case is just a utilization of a monoidal operation and identity. In a lot of contexts “monoid” is a bunch of Mumbo jumbo, but in some functional languages it’s an incredibly clear way to go about resolving the issue. It’d also be perceived as more elegant than pattern matching against the first and last element of a list using some kind of predicate (aka a guard).

I think a suggestion to think about your reader foremost resides at the core of your comment, and I think that’s what’s most important. In a context that’s predominantly iterative or object oriented you’re completely right—the special case pattern is far more pervasive and you’d be doing your readers no favors by abandoning it. However if you could expect your readers to come equipped with a host of functional idioms, the elimination suggestion isn’t so bad (at least from a semantic/comprehension standpoint, ignoring performance).
No, but it is non-standard. Why do things you don't need to?
> I've just stopped consuming news and felt a lot better.

Your experience is consistent with this article: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

> So I'm planning on stopping reading the social networks also

Yeah, you and me both. Isn't it interesting, though, how much more addicting the scrolling feeds are?
Your answer surprised me and I went to do a bit of reading. Found this quote:

> Since this article was first published, Sun (now part of Oracle) has relicensed most of its Java platform reference implementation under the GNU General Public License, and there is now a free development environment for Java. Thus, the Java language as such is no longer a trap.

From: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html

So it looks like at least older versions of Java were under the GPL. Apparently you can't use the name "Java" without passing a conformation testing suite, but you should be okay as long as you didn't call it Java, (say calling it Android).

Or is this outdated/incorrect information?
Human beings are special cases.
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I would do my best to not learn it, but rather anything else more open and cross platform by design.
Uh OpenJDK which is the reference implementation is GPL w/ Classpath exception.

https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html
As I was reading point 1 of Sam's article, Compound yourself, I was thinking, ah ok, teachers are in the wrong field evidently, for Success. They can never be exponentially increasing their force and effect in the way suggested.

Although there are people like Gilbert Strang, making his excellent courses (e.g. Linear Algebra) available online, which over a million people around the world have watched and benefited from, and helping to create a world with an amazing variety of free online course videos available in all subjects. That is success for a teacher, I suppose. And we're asked to believe (in this culture) that making a lot of money is or could be in any worthy sense a greater success..
I'm not sure. I have always interpreted the "Nothing to hide" line as being past tense. Mr. Harran's statement is arguably future tense.
Heard the saying: http://paykstrt.com/6581/22671

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime".
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Do I really have to subscribe or sign in to read this article? No, thanks.
This is not a productive argument, but it may be worth nothing that Science [0], Wikipedia [1], and NPR [2] are using it to refer to fabrication, not bias.

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/majority-americans-we...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...
Yep Recaptcha bans work like that, they don't actually tell you they are never going to let you proceed, they just let waste your time thinking that they will, while profiting off you.

Its a perfect example of passive aggressive dysfunctionality when it comes to big tech.
And npm had 2166 at the time they archived their old GitHub repo, moved over to npm-cli (with issues disabled), and have all their issues in a Discourse forum, so you can't get an overall count, nor any connection to PRs and commits.

So I'm not sure you can glean too much from just looking at an issue count in isolation.
I once worked at a company that dealt with DS. Rumors where that we paid more than double that amount. The integration never really took off, so in the end, it was a huge waste of money.
Thank you for documenting the fine print.
Certainly important for people to understand/be aware of the process someone such as Robert Moir (one scientist mentioned in the article) must navigate

https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/29/alzheimers-research-outs...
Storing the Nazi gold was very bad, I agree. But many things that you are refering to as money laundering are just individual privacy rights strongly protected by the constitution that take priority over government needs (which I view as a great thing).

Tax heaven: as I see taxes as generally not that well used, I'm happy that Switzerland's goal is not just simply to maximize taxes that it take from other people.
There are 2 forms of range in ruby: inclusive 2 dots - 1..5 => 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and exclusive 3 dots 1...5 => 1, 2, 3, 4

It's always felt deeply counter-intuitive to me because .. feels like it represents less than ... but that's a separate discussion.
You are willfully missing the point. Animals have instincts. The complexity of humans does not make them an exception to this rule. There are in fact large amounts of brain function that are baked in at birth (or developed in a predictable timeline after birth -- humans are basically born premature). Humans are able to instinctively perform behaviors which are not taught, although the majority of critical behaviors in humans are socially learned. Feral children (like Genie) are functioning organisms with complex behaviors. They're just defective humans because humans rely on a distributed learning system called culture in order to do the work that biology cannot.

You are insisting that because humans do not have instincts at a certain level of abstraction (playing video games) that no part of these instinctive brain functions play a role in the development of skill at Starcraft. This is wrong. Abstract reasoning is not simply learned, but it is HONED by experience and neural development. An AI has to do an enormous amount of work in order to replicate functions that humans can already do. This is the basic visual problem in AI that stumped researchers in the 60s who thought that tasks like visual recognition, spatial rotation, etc would be trivial because they are trivial to evolved organisms.

You're relying on some kind of mental model where brains are just masses of neurons that form all of their connections and complexity after birth. This is ultimately a political idea, and it's wrong. No neuroscientist believes this. Brains have pre-defined areas (with fuzzy borders) and many behaviors do come baked into the template. Complex behaviors like language do not, perhaps, although even there, the underlying functionality that permits language is an evolved trait (which is why other animals can't learn language). Research the FOXP2 gene, as just an obvious example.

Edit: Your post contains "structures of the brain". What exactly do you think the structures of the brain are, if not evolved modular solutions to complex problems? Your visual center is somewhat trained after birth, but it already exists. The same goes for speech, motor control, and all of the other unconscious or semi-conscious processes that all humans (and other animals as appropriate) share.
I can believe they don't target "particular groups", just "every group".
Same as it's been for the last two (at least): everything is an embedded system. Every physical object has (or soon will have) a computer chip in it.

(Yes, "every" is an exaggeration. But that's the direction of the trend.)
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There's a lot of shortsightedness here and I'm compelled to react to it (why didn't the article cover the origin and nuances of yellow journalism and draw some parallels?) But I'll pose a question to illustrate all these opinions in hopes of adding something useful to the discussion.

How does a story get written?

- Someone reads a story from a legitimate news source and paraphrases it (very often)

- Someone reads a story from a legitimate news source and opines on it (often)

- Someone reads a press release written by someone else and paraphrases it (often, esp in science)

- Someone documents crowd behavior (trending reddit) and reports on it (very very often since it's an easy kill with assurance of results)

- Citizen or a whistleblower calls a newsroom and provides a tip to be investigated (rare)

- Agency reporter digs through a dataset (provided by a gubmit agency) and derives a story out of it (rare)

- Agency reporter compiles a dataset (scrapes, etc) and derives a story out of it (rarer)

- Gumshoe reporter, on their regular beat, catches a story and reports on it (takes time)

Of all of those methods, only the last two have elements of first-hand fact collecting and checking, and that kind of original reporting costs a boatload of money to sustain. Like to the tune of $20 a story by some meter, which a reasonable reader would never pay for to read a single story.

That mind-blowing cost was traditionally covered by print advertising - online advertising never became a significant fraction before brick and mortar news agencies started crumbling. If you consider what I have said, I think you'll find that tons of popular stories are cheaply produced but not cheaply broken.

In other words, traditional news agencies and new-age ad-infested freelance cabbage leaf sites both regurgitate stories and story ideas from others. Sometimes a regurgitated story has supplemental reporting, but it's never that significant.

When you run into a story ask yourself what the sources are and how they came to be written by those reporters and try to classify it in the crude pantheon I've constructed. I think you'll find that many stories that reach you weren't broken by the place you read them on.
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yes but the ultimate goal, is to make an AI as "smart", or "smarter" than a human. That's why they keep making AI's play against human players in Chess, Go etc. It's not to prove computers are faster than humans. It's to prove computers can be smart like humans.

They want to make an AI that can teach new ideas to humans. New strategies that human bodies are physically capable of executing, but no human was "smart enough" to think of yet. An example is when the AI built a high number of probes at the start. That's "smart".

The only way to train an AI to be able to come up with new ideas, is to force it to be "slow". Otherwise, it will just always do the easiest way to win, which is out-micro. There is nothing interesting about a game like that. That only shows the AI is fast, but it won't be clear that it's "smart"
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Ah, the standard “people in miserable jobs can always just leave” canard.
TLO seems to have a longer tail than AlphaStar in that graph though, so doesn't that imply that TLO peaked at an even higher APM, presumably during battles?

Fair point about humans needing minor adjustments though. Another comment also mentioned a bug in the APM measurement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18994350
Would you mind naming them? I'm in the market for new appliances and don't want to support scumbags.
To me the main readability problem of the first example is that it does the head check as the last step rather then first step. Meaning we have to consider "wait, when is this null again".

The main problem with the last one is that it's not immediately obvious what the "indirect" represents. When it clicks that it is "the pointer to potentially update", it's pretty easy to understand.
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asp.net is open source and runs on pretty much everything. What more do you want?
https://www.asp.net/open-source
You're right, in theory, but that's not how things work in reality at scale. Remember that every search query propagates through at least a thousand machines.
Every GUI library should have some screenshots..
I don't think this article captures the main advantage – when you have layers of logic, eliminating special cases lets you have O(n) pieces of code instead of O(n^2). And even if each portion is less readable, 100 functions beats 10,000 functions any day.

A good example of this is making values non-nullable by default, with Optional types, and eliminating a huge swath of special case handling.

But the benefit doesn't show up without significant scale, and isn't worth it for functions that are just used once or twice.
heat waves kill more people than cold snaps, for what it's worth.
> I think social control of the means of production still has a similar problem to not having price signals: resource allocation becomes motivated by political considerations, rather than by a profit motive.

Resource allocation via the profit motive is a political consideration; it's not some neutral thing that's somehow above politics.
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There’s evidence to suggest that DocumentDB is actually running Aurora Postgres under the hood. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870397
>So either interfaces are copyrightable, or code isn't copyrightable.

Needs citation?

I don't know where to start, but no, this case ruling in Google's favor would not make code uncopyrightable. The general idea is that there is only one way to copy a method's signature. There are many ways to implement the actual logic. It's hard to find a direct source since no one else is jumping to this extreme conclusion. So the test is, could you have done it another way? And since you can not have a function with the signature System.out without having a function with the signature System.out, it would be considered fair game.
That's not fair. Humans are incredibly fallible. Humans tire, demand food, need to sleep, get bored. An AI just needs a graphics card and electricity.
Repair is included in reuse.
If you look at the roadmap section there's really nothing to screenshot yet. Widgets available: View, Image, Text. Widgets not available: Input, Button, Slider, Checkbox, ScrollView and everything else not on their list.
Anyone who parrots 'nothing to hide' should have a public webcam in their shower.
The developers behind Oni (a text editor inspired by Vim and VSCode) are rewriting it in this framework:

https://github.com/onivim/oni2
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At the end of the day you will always want to go home more than follow the law. Americas weapon laws put everyone postcall in a defacto civil war zone. In war zones the law, civil conventions and concepts collapse. Its your tribe vs the others. Quite frankly for this situation americas swats are remarkable civil.

Ps: the military has its own track record on fire first and then sort them out later. They blew up whole towns in Iraq for one sniper-with everyone on it. So bad example. The watch and wait often only happens in spy movies. In reality it's protect our boys preemptive at all costs. If one dies you have alot more to answer for then 40-50 locals die. Those can be labeled asymmetric after exitus. And quite frankly theire surviving relatives thirsty for revenge will cover your war crime up. One week later that sleepy town ruin is a Hotspot.
The crux of re-implementing an API is that the name and structure of the replacement has to be the same otherwise it won't work as a drop in replacement. If I reverse engineer a file format I don't have to name any of my code the same as the original or structure it in the same way.
That is rather unfortunate. I have had zero of these problems you describe with my XPS15 laptop and I have had it around 5-6 months now. I hope it will stay that way.
I've often wondered how much of the backlog was self-imposed. As in, the patsy might actually go free if the tests were completed.