skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The game is still starcraft, it's just there's an obvious issue that needs to be worked on within the game (immortal blasts would disable special abilities from being toggled/used in a tiny aoe, is the obvious fix).

Starcraft II wasn't designed to play at this level. The 4 vs 2 trick is cute, but no human can perform blink-stalker micro on a mass scale like Match4 AlphaStar.

https://youtu.be/L0FvTQ3W-wQ?t=633

No human would be able to perform the Blink-stalker strategy between 3 groups of Stalkers across the map, like what goes on over there.

Mana's Immortal + Zealot army base is clearly superior from a composition perspective. Against any human, Mana's Immortals+Zealots would have won. Period.

Its not just the "Blink-Stalkers", but notice how AlphaStar's Stalkers explicitly avoid attacking Zealots and focus fire on Immortals instead. That entire section is clearly super-human levels of micro.

Yeah, humans can perform these feats at like 4 vs 2 situations, or small scale experiments. But no pro can do it at the scale or accuracy that AlphaStar did. Seriously, watch the match. Its super-human micro to a degree I've never seen before.

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Look, I'm not saying it was a complete failure. I recognize that the AlphaStar team went to great lengths to implement APM-caps and reaction-speed caps (iirc: the entire game was being played at 350ms of latency from AlphaStar's perspective, so it wouldn't have super-human reaction speeds).

But these caps were insufficient. The AlphaStar team needs to develop new metrics to make the AI play more "strategic" rather than brute-forcing micro like it does here.

I dunno, maybe AlphaStar needs to be capped at 100apm and have 500ms of latency instead. Or maybe new metrics ("effective APM") or APM-burst metrics need to be developed. Its an issue the AlphaStar team needs to work around for sure.

As it is, AlphaStar is playing with superhuman micro, even with the APM and Latency caps.
That's a ridiculous straw man. None of the cases cited above or the referenced article refer to any techniques even bordering on that.

I suspect those techniques are rarely used because when they are exposed as being fraudulent they are massively counterproductive to voter apathy.
Awesome, I'm glad someone is solving this problem. Micropayments are an ideal route to solving surveillance capitalism and breaking the ad-supported internet.

This looks like it aggregates credit card payments. [1] Charging you on a biweekly basis or when your balance hits 10$. Since it is built off of credit card infrastructure that means it is saving money on the fixed per-transaction fee. Unfortunately, this model can never get below a credit card fee (2.9%).

If you instead made a wallet based app (funded via ACH) you could start pushing 1% transaction fees.

1. https://how.quid.works/buying-with-quid/how-do-i-get-billed
They had a say. There was a recall election because of all the bullshit he had pulled before the Foxconn deal. Once it became clear he would keep his position he opened the spigot all the way up. In his mind he had the full support of Wisconsin voters.
Instead of using "she" and "her", may I recommend you use "they" and "them". This is more inclusive and does not ignore approx 50% of the world's population one way or another.

(that said, ...ignoring your sexism I agree with your sentiment)
Javascript also has the overhead of parsing the source code in addition to network transfer, which can easily take multiple seconds with a multi-megabyte bundle and that's a penalty even when the js is served from the browser cache
Buzz was around in 1999 (I think - I first used it in 2000/2001) but circa 2001 the coder had a hard disk crash and lost his code, and finally resumed work on it in 2008 from a much older codebase or possibly from scratch. I assume that's part of why the changelog starts in 2008.

I miss the 1998-era softsynth with built-in tracker Analogic, later called AXS (or was it the other way round?).
http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=11012&page=1
Man, this is interesting and complicated.

I'll submit this for consideration: you're right, it's 100% fine from an individual standpoint. But there's an aggregate effect of some sort that is a concern. Every move like this changes people's standards and expectations. Call it a "cultural shift", and call us "conservatives" along this particular axis. If we don't want to live in a world where companies pull this sort of shit on _every_ user to the point that the privacy-conscious among us have no choice, we want fewer people around us to be okay with it.

So what does that imply we should do? I'm not sure. Maybe simply push back as we are. Maybe try to impress onto opters-in just what they're selling, and maybe they'll reconsider. Maybe ask Google to simply brand this differently. Call it the "Truman Show Package". So at least everyone is aware that, while the data being collected is valuable, and while everything is 100% a-ok so long as everyone consents, this is NOT NORMAL and nobody should accept it as such.
Confirmation bias is a relentless, subtle force that shapes all of our perceptions...
With "keyboard" you mean, a musicians keyboard, right? I assume you need a midi interface to the software but I don't know of any tracker that supports midi.

My personal favourite tracker is Fast Tracker II, but it also don't support midi. However, it has some really good documentation that might help you get into working with trackers:

https://milkytracker.titandemo.org/docs/FT2.pdf
Good luck even opening it far enough if you're going at 60 ...
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
How is that a scam? are you saying participants didn't receive their gift cards? are the terms agreed to false?
We couldn't agree more: worldbrain.io/manifesto
I am not sure the proposal is solving the right problem:

> The situation I'm envisioning is that a site can show me any advertising they want as long as they keep the overall size under a fixed amount, say one megabyte per page.

With minification/compression, I don't see how 1MB could work...
There is consent and then there is informed consent.
No, not REST + oData. oData is an http protocol which conforms to all of the REST best practices (url is identifier of a resource, use of http operations, use of http error codes, providing links to other resource, payload contains a representation of state).
Aha! I will counter that you never actually want or need to break the type comprehension of your executable but the static analysis of the compiler or dynamic analysis at runtime may be inaccurate with regards to the truth and motivate you to try and subvert it. This may be about what you were thinking when you wrote your comment but I wanted to highlight a small but important difference. I may find a useful bitwise function that takes arguments of type int and really want to execute the same bitwise function on a pair of doubles, in this case the actual type of data I want the function to operate on is "a series of bytes" but the compiler/whatever's typing system may force me to declare the function as taking an IEEE 754 or two's complement integer instead.

In these cases the typing system is constraining you from declaring a type safe operation the right way by forcing you to play within a subset of the universe of valid types.
Nintendo is one of the worst game companies when it comes to dealing with online / their fans. The YouTube / Twitch streaming controversy was just ridiculous... They will also aggressively chase down people who run sites that preserve old games that aren't even produced anymore even if they don't intend to allow people any access to them in the future.

As far as they're concerned people shouldn't be allowed access to these historic works, no matter the circumstances.

It's pretty sad behavior from a company beloved by so many.

By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that's not really monetary. We want to keep them alive and enjoy them so long after their time has passed. It's so much different than, say, a copy of Photoshop 2.11 or Winamp 3.
FWIW, OpenBSD doesn't bundle Apache. OpenBSD has shipped with a homegrown HTTP daemon for several years, now--https://www.openbsd.org/papers/httpd-asiabsdcon2015.pdf

Apache is available as a port/package, but not many people use it. Even when installing a port/package like PHP it's more common to run it through httpd using PHP-FPM (i.e. FastCGI).
I am looking forward to a fully decentralized internet. I know that carries a bit of “hype” right now but I’ve been playing with it lately and I think it’s exacty what a lot of people are thirsting for. The original feeling of geocities, bbs, forums. Actual sense of community and discovery without worry.

It’s definitely too early / the projects I’ve played with have a lot of progress to go on.

Things that need to be improved for a real Dapp to exist:

1. Storage layer with encryption / p2p / access control. Allows “back-end” logic to be distributed amongst peers.

2. UX tooling that makes it extremely easy to sign in with identities and manage encryption.

3. Developer tooling to easily package app code and deploy to users.

4. Absolutely no 3rd party dependencies outside of the app itself. It must be self sustaining.

5. Open source for a true Dapp. If value is being provided at a cost of a company/dev team then monetize it by selling access to a client or data within the app. This can be done easier with wallet integrations and crypto.
Not really a worry because they cant get what ddg doesn't have.
Long, long time ago I wrote down my set of rules for acceptable ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521930

Really, we block ads because they are intrusive, disruptive, invasive and bloated pieces of malware. Simple as that.
Shrugs, as the old maxim has it "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes" - I'm not a massive fan of Apple UI's on the ipad (and my house owns three, two are mine for testing and one is the boys), they are serviceable enough but they put everyone in the same slot, if you happen to fit that, great but if not then not so great.

That said I'm not the target market and I accept that.
Unfortunately, using they/them excludes people who identify as a singular person, rather than as multiple people.
Curious what data you have to suggest Google will (or has) broken this assurance ever?
I think Flattr now has a system that is close to what you describe for YouTube. Micropayments are hard and Patreon is the 1st company to produce serious results experiments like Steem are interesting but siloed in the cryptosphere.
The pincer movement is about 2500 years old. ;)
I personally love interactive data visualizations. It's easy to pile on dimensions to a plot; it's much harder to make it fun, interesting and usable. It's nice mix of the artistic side of my brain and the analytic side, too.
> I don't know offhand if this was a buffer overflow or something else

It was an issue when the device's local was set incorrectly and would return NULL, leading to a crash in CFStringCompare.
> But it feels kinda wrong to have that mouse cursor and have it not move perfectly smooth.

So you get the full immersive experience. :)
gerrymandering is obviously a huge problem. What i wonder is why wouldn't voters put an initiative on a ballot to fight the gerrymandering. I mean for example some simple party-agnostic algorithm along the lines of maximizing clustering and convexity of districts (a mix of something like Voronoy and K-means).
There's plenty of weirdness to be found. The *chan websites, for a start- the more obscure, the more idiosyncratic and possibly pure.
Trawling through IRC channels is mysterious experience for me.
> they declared it blighted/contaminated

Wtf? They could have just used eminent domain. Probably wouldn't have had to pay as much too.
> Things were so much harder that when you finally got something decent it just made you feel like you were king of the nerd hill.

I first started making music using a tracker (PlayerPRO on the Mac) before later moving to Pro Tools and Reason, and I actually found it much easier to finish songs using a tracker. The quality wasn't as good, but the limitations and structure helped me get a song done. With Reason, I find myself just twiddling knobs for hours and at the end of the day all I have is a few bars of something.
This is why the internet isn't fun. Because assholes write useless press releases for yet another product that's not new or interesting and disguise it as someone putting their thoughts out there.
I wonder if there is a way to combine the weird fun that was geocities/tripod/etc with the connections of a social network and modern ease of updating. Like how you use twitter, but for following webpages about butterflies or a shrine to the 6502 processor.
Minimally Sufficient Pandas
>...for the highest brackets.

The US has a more progressive tax system than just about any OECD country. Those northern European countries no longer have the close to 100% confiscatory tax rates they sometimes had because they end up hurting the country - what they do have are high effective rates that much of the country pays.
I came to these comments to see if it was mostly webshit programmers complaining about the horror that would be unleashed if JS had limits, and I was not disappointed.

A lot of people use their phones to access the Internet and have hard data caps, and webpages don't need to load several MB of JS to display 55k of text. There's certainly use cases for JS that justify that amount of script to load, but shoving ads, trackers, and widgets aren't those uses.
Not just arbitrary code, but arbitrary code with kernel privileges!
FB soars after hours after beating top and bottom line for Q4 earnings
The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map
This one answers my question better: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

> Why does Google let Startpage access their search results?

> Startpage.com has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed, so we have to pay them to get those results.

So what is their own business model? Do they show ads? (I disabled adblock but didn't see any.)
There are different ways to do it depending on if the client is online or if it has to be offline, and using a dongle or not (Uncommon today).

If the client will be online you can just do an API call and check on start, if there's no key show a splash screen with the option of entering a key.

If there IS a key, send it (securely) to the API and do something depending on the result.

Here's a good article for how you could do it for offline keys: https://www.brandonstaggs.com/2007/07/26/implementing-a-part...

It's written for Delphi/Object Pascal but the principles can be implemented in any language.
Yes, Consciousness is the result of the fundamental laws of the universe.

It's also an abstraction, a way to understand complex arrangements of matter, in the same way that a table is an abstraction: the matter in a table isn't made of table molecules, it's just that the way in which those molecules are arranged and stuck together makes them a table.
Copyright law needs to be amended to remove copyrights from media which is no longer readily available. If a company stops distributing their copyrighted materials, then it is safe to assume that it is no longer economically viable to do so, thus, they aren't losing money if it is put into public domain.
The hardware guarantees forward progress at the very least and possibly some amount t of fairness. So the underlying hardware is at least lock free and possibly wait free. Usually a CPU cannot hold a cache line indefinitely, another CPU can always sneak in and steal it.
...or just maybe, some people have different value judgements than you do. Those people also probably think statements like yours are paternalistic and condescending.
I think he meant that consciousness is currently irreducible. Consider this:

1. Someone figures out in a lab all possible causes of fear via the surveying method. Fear seems solved.

2. New people appear that claim to experience fear when someone taps their left feet.

3. You have to redo 1. Therefore fear wasn't solved in the first place.

Replace "tapping left feet" with something more obscure, or fear with pain, to continue.

Underlying problem: you cannot compute the "preimage" of fear.
Reddit rolls out CPC bidding
"letting children make purchases and not reimbursing the parents?" - yes those recent stories. I think it was more than 'letting them make purchases' in what docs came out, it was more 'knowing that they racked up huge bills and often without the knowledge or consent of adults paying the bills' - yet purposely not doing anything about it.. but I did not read the documents only the headlines (admittedly from media companies that have a financial interest in pushing info to be detrimental to time spent getting news there on fbk instead of elsewhere - and just headline scanning - so guilty of that in this instance.

wedding ring sale - yes it led to separation, as it made a backup plan avenue for travel money more of a reality, and the constant reminder seemed to come at a time when reaching out to others for comfort / strength? help in making a decision?

in some ways it could be said that this is great! better to get an ad that is relevant! I know some close, for lack of a better understood description 'mutual feminist friends' - that think this ad is great, and they encouraged leaving, pawning the ring for a good lawyer and travel on the guy's dime - etc.

I know some, for lack of a better term, 'religiously conservative mutual friends" - who would of preferred the "relevant ads" to be marriage counseling services of clergy of local clergy or other similar pro-family things.

This is just one data point, but certainly there are many other, what I would consider abuses of these systems that many of us will never know about.

I for one would like to know more about ads and posts / pages and how they get into the feeds of people with info about alcohol and gambling, even non-money gambling - I think more transparency should be out there for things like this,

and people should be able to publicly report interesting intersections of things like these controversial mind influence images / ads / text - so public debate can occur -

not that I think things should be censored by govs, but certainly people should be more aware of these things, how they could be used to influence less mentally strong people, and people should have options to set settings to avoid some of these things easier.

Its hard to judge these systems when our view of the systems is not very controversial. We have no idea how millions of others see their feeds though.

I applauded fbks decision to make available a list of all ads run by 'whatever group' in light of the election interference investigations. I think we need more tools like this, more transparency.

To see what others or having pushed in front of their eyeballs, it could be shocking.
Ask HN: What open source mailing list software do you use?
I'm looking to set up a private mailing list. I would like it to support invites, access requests, moderation, simple automation, and archive searching.

What do you use/recommend?
Yeah, we see what they did with Trump, yo...https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-wer...
i agree with you but you have to keep in mind that pages which load fast on a fiber connection and render and respond quickly on the latest macbook don't guarantee the same for the average user.

giving devs 4 year old laptops would help but when shiny startup is offering new macbooks how can you compete?
I think it is much easier for a non-technical person to put up a website today than in the 90s. Today you need absolutely zero coding knowledge, not even HTML.
"The Verdi villa was never widely open, but scholars complained that under the family’s stewardship, it was far too difficult to access documents ... The culture ministry took the trunk from the villa in January 2017, partly in response to the complaints."

Mama mia.
I also agree with these observations. The AI essentially uncovered a bug is Starcraft. Mass rushing Stalkers with carefully calculated blinks can beat any opponent strategy up to a certain time in the game. I think a patch that removes Stalker blink would fix this bug and force the AI to try something else.
What does any of that mean? my point is against imposing one's POV on others and that people are free to consent to stuff you might not like.
Does it?

My understanding is that using "they"/"them" for purposes of gender equality/neutrality is well understood by many people.

EDIT: if sarcasm, we can't have perfection, but not excluding ~50% seems like better...
>Free speech is a good thing even when [...] it's illegal.

...well, that's a new one for me.
Yes. Whatever gets built is a good thing on the whole. But the politics will be a mess.
Don't work 12 hour days especially when it seems you are wasting a lot of your time.

You just need better planning. I posted the method that I use and I am really productive [0].

Since March 2016 I do 9 hours a day, 7 days a week. That's 63 hours a week.

Of course, I would love to do more but I end up being frazzled.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17479099
I tried. No maps.
"The Art of multiprocessor programming" by Herilhy and Shavit is also great.
In Philadelphia: Stealing from the Dead
That’s Flattr’s model maybe they can make a comeback...
I really like the feeling when you are learning a new language and you build something and it works.

On the other hand, I find programming cool, when you are building your own stuff. You design it, you put constraints on it and then you develop it and it works! Not only it works in terms of 200 status, but also it does fix your problem.
>If a company is hiring people who can't write code then their hiring process has huge problems.

There's a difference between "can write code" and "will write code" which is what I was more intending to express in my post.

Everyone that gets a Dev job in Amazon has to be able to pass multiple loops where development skills will be tested.
Hold public audits by a trusted 3rd party to show you are not keeping any data - on a repeating basis (6 months?)
I use Pocket also, but: For most web sites, Pocket makes a text-only copy that you can read offline without hitting the website again. But Pocket doesn't do that for Medium articles; it will only take you to medium.com to see the original (or offer to view it with the Medium app), so either way you have the login requirement, 3-article limit, etc.

I suspect that Pocket and Medium have some kind of agreement; Medium may have stepped in to say "you can't make that text-only offline copy; that's our content" and Pocket, not wanting to get sued, went with the linked strategy instead.
Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach
Because of clickbait fake news...like this.
My experience has mirrored yours. Today i found, a little bit surprisingly, that when i went to !G to get a different selection of results, what i got was considerably worse than DDG.

my guess as to the reasons for this particular failure of !G is that, because i have been gradually shifting to fastmail for the past 1.2years and the chain of messages between myself and the company i was looking up never managed to make it from linkedin --> gmail.