skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is visually very impressive, of course, but what is the significance of
this work? I am not very familiar with intelligent agents research so I don't
understand to what extent learning cooperative tool use in an adversarial
environment (if I understand correctly what is shown) represents an important
advancement of the state of the art in intelligent agents research, or not.

In any case this is a simulation- so it's basically impossible to take the
learned model and use it immediately in a real-world environment with true
physics and arbitrary elements, let alone with unrestricted dimensions (the
agents in the article are for the most part restricted to a limited play
area). So if I understand this correctly the trained model is only good for
the specific simulated environment and would not work as well under even
slightly different conditions.
A Developer Learned About Racism and Sexism
Does this support uav swarms? Would you need one instance per vehicle?
If that's the case, shouldn't it look like "ascllcker"?
Unless you're consuming a lot of media, multiple GB is a lot. I have a super cheap plan with 500MB/month. It might sound impossible, but really all I have to do is turn off background mobile data for most apps, which had no business constantly sucking bytes anyway. Bonus, now my battery life is better.

If you have no WiFi access it's a somewhat different story, but WiFi is ubiquitous.
The first part means that anyone can sign up and run a program on a real quantum computer. The second part means that they're not powerful enough to be useful yet.
Maybe not to regular developers, but definitely to physicists[0], chemists[0][1], machine learning people[1], and cryptographers.

[0] - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23879

[1] - https://ai.google/research/teams/applied-science/quantum/ - see 'Near-Term Applications'
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann told employees he's 'humbled' by collapse of the IPO
A gate array iirc, but definitely not FPGA: I remember reading in the manual that there was a bug in one of the instructions (the multiply-step, I think?). With an FPGA they'd surely have just fixed it instead of shipping a batch of buggy chips.
in case of complex functions / many fields it is more logical to use a database and BI tool that displays/visualizes data from this database as a report.
That is not what Stallman said.
What's something that I can say in English that cannot be expressed in German?
Comparison of the LLVM IR generated by three binary-to-LLVM translators
I think that's the point of saying "I'd like to see ...". It's more of a wish or hope
The reflection in the water is a nice touch.
What advantages/limitations does it have compared to SHACL?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHACL
Highest-paying U.S. jobs are tech
Is GQL already used elsewhere? As long as nobody calls it graphql we should be fine, right? Nobody says structured ql or even structured query language, its just sql.
What needs to be done to fix it? Enough to rename the classes or does it go deeper than that?
Spotify also nailed it, haven’t pirated a single song in years.
Yev again -> thank you for the trust :)
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What's a good number of qubits to have in order to outperform a classical computer in a useful application of quantum computing?
Speaking as an aeronautical engineer, I disagree.

> Engineering systems requires an engineering process and discipline, and agile is just not up to the rigor.

Agile just means closing as many feedback feedback loops as you can as early as you can, and to preserve opportunities to course-correct for as long as you can.
All this to keep the destructive effects of surprises (which are sure to catch you) as low as possible.

This is good engineering practice, plain and simple.
Making this free is brilliant.

(1) maybe OP has AWS or GCP credits (very easy to get from these companies’ startup ambassadors)

(2) If there’s ever a greedy actor taking up resources, it seems like they would be relying on the system to the point where they are willing to pay for it.

This is exactly the right way to start a business... Do one thing well in a way that doesn’t scale — this gives you the opportunity to learn from customers and build better offerings.

Why do you think AWS and GCP give out free credits to begin with?
I don't think any eighties 8-bit computer has any hope rendering this.
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun Lectures on AI and Physics
You don't need a dedicate Plex server to pirate. Any bittorrent client will do and people might just be happy using a built in media client. Plus often people are happy to buy systems pre-built (remember the "Kodi Box" craze?). Piracy is a service problem not a price problem so people are willing to pay for systems like this if it's easier than managing subscriptions to multiple services (and the fact it usually works out cheaper to pirate is an added bonus).
Thanks, it didn't seem to be last time I checked. I should see how it works.
Not a KaiOS user, but I am a daily flip-phone user on a Kyocera DuraXTP running Brew MP. In my flip-phone dreams, the features I would love out of an OS would be:

* Obviously, calling/texting.
* A fast, minimal app that served as a phone book.
* GPS with voice assistant.
* An Uber or Lyft app.
* That's it.

In short, the things that are very useful in an emergency-type situation.

I can't imagine there are that may others like me, but the lack of GPS and ride-hailing are the two things that occasionally make me consider going back to having a smartphone.
The "artificially generated speech" is really interesting. There's no reason why it can't happen on the other side of of the bell curve. Global right wing movements are a good example.
Play Street Fighter with your body movements using your phone
The small town where I live in North Eastern California gets it's internet from a local co-op that provides both electrical and internet services to the local community. Part of where I chose to purchase when I moved up here was based on getting fiber. It's been rock solid, but it's about $110/mo for (recently updated) 100/20 fiber. Previously, people were stuck with line of site wifi (can be problematic with a lot of trees) or satellite.

Their roll out has been interesting. In some areas, they have taken advantage of legacy cable feeds (cable companies pulled out awhile ago). Sometimes they were successful, some needed repair, and some just flat out didn't work.

The service got kick started with grants for rural internet service.
What does it matter if it's "state-of-the-art" when we're asking whether the database is correct?
I don't disagree with anything in this article, but at the same time, I feel like maybe the core issue is just that we don't really know how to do "architecture" well yet. I don't think the "standard software architecture planning tools" mentioned at the beginning are really THAT widely known, so there's a large and scary built in learning curve there that's definitely going to put people off. But, similarly, source control used to be scary and put people off to the point where it was included as #1 on the old "Joel Test". That seems ridiculous today.
> Did you have an upstream filter installed on your line by any chance? I too had a similar issue but a tech visit to disconnect a noise filter fixed it.

Could you explain more about this?

I've never heard of a noise filter on a cable line, and I can't really imagine why you'd have one - unless it's something ISPs do to cripple upload speeds on otherwise symmetric connections?
Yes. Line marks are amazing.
Well, the concept of an independent city - that is, one that isn't contained within any county - does exist in the U.S.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_city_(United_State...

Of course, Washington DC could be considered one example, although the above Wikipedia link begs to differ because DC isn't a state. However, there are a few dozen more, most of which are in Virginia.
Anyone that has been granted a security clearance in the United States government has signed a SF-312. I can't think of any exceptions off the top of my head...
Well. Even reg.ru / nic.ru (budget unfriendly Russian registrars) charge less than 10$ per year.

Personally I use Naunet (yet another NIC) re-seller (former nn.gdmd.ru which was acquired by ru.gogolev.net).
A miner wouldn’t be able to do that. Only the private key owner of Google could do that. At most a miner could do a double spend attack (would cost a lot more than $2000), but that wouldn’t change the DNS record for Google.
What's a word or phrase to describe this idea/principle?

It feels like the Bruce Lee idea of "take what is useful and leave the rest" but either the opposite or a bastardized version. Like, take what is easy and leave the nuance

I see, whatever this idea/principle would be called, all over.
I'm not sure about the next 20 years, but quantum computers are really good at running calculations in parallel and finding a result. I'm not 100% sure I'm accurate, but I believe if an algorithm is a good candidate to run on, say, a Spark cluster, a quantum computer would be much better at it.

I think the biggest change will be that quantum computing can really kill at machine learning, upping the numbers of nodes in neural networks with an exponential relationship to the number of qubits.

It might turn neural nets into a neat toy that Facebook uses to show us sort-of good ad predictions to something that really cuts into a wide range of things that only humans are capable of doing.
Sound Analysis: Can We Tell the Truth About Programs?
Yeah, we did Waterscrumban. We're in our third sprint. The first sprint, we moved "requirements" from backlog to doing. Second spring, we moved "requirements" to done, and moved "design" to doing. Third sprint, we moved "design" to done, and "implementation" to doing. Verification and maintenance are still in the backlog.

It works great! Just three more iterations, and we'll be done with maintenance!
Where you in Google's abandoned list of chosen city/metro areas? About 6 months after that list came out, AT&Ts fiber list came out and there was a lot of overlap, and then Google was like hmm, maybe wireless?
There's nothing essentially, inherently slower about recursive CTEs in SQL databases compared to graph database queries, it depends how they're implemented, particularly whether they take advantage of indexing and caching. They're both going to be doing fundamentally the same type of algorithm under the hood.

I've gotten recursive CTEs in SQL Server to perform quite well just by indexing the join key columns.
The difference if the network loses money, or few people use the network in 10 years time it wont leave the residents with big bills.
As I remember it they claimed much faster interrupt handling too -- I don't remember the details. Something like only having to save a couple of hardware registers.
Because you're evaluating the effectiveness of one control in isolation, whereas the pension fund has a lot of controls, including e.g. an operational team which knows that wiring money to the Caymans is intrinsically high risk, a written procedure that they'll follow for high risk transfers specifically to papertrail up evidence in the event it is contested, a legal environment which will put the burden of proof on them rather than you if they did something that self-evidently stupid, the medallion guarantee program and associated regulation, etc etc.

Fraud happens. Financial institutions spend a lot of money defanging it; they also, when push comes to shove, have budgets for it.
I think this is a cool art project to raise awareness for the worrisome side of classifications like that.

I'd be interested to see how it is set up at the exhibition at the moment.
my understanding is a qubit is roughly the equivalent of a transistor, so we've got a long way to go. That said, "53-qubit" seemed like a weird number and strayed from my understanding, so take my comment as a starting point for more investigation.
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think about sprint as a 9-5 daily running event, rest at nights and weekends, that should be sustainable.

what is not sustainable is keeping working day and night for long period of time I feel.
That makes sense. The js object syntax is much more complex than json.
I posted a paragraph describing the hotel, room and restaurant as being nice and clean and that the food was good.

THen another paragraph starting with "You should be aware of the strange deposit requirement.." and then going into the detail of what happened and ending with me saying that I found the experience soured my opinion of what was otherwise a good stay.
This article is pretty naive in completely ignoring the role of propaganda and advertising.
Let's see:
- judged by angry mob -- yes,
- no ability to defend oneself -- yes,
- killed -- no (though seeing polarization and level of anger here it's possible that he'll be eventually physically assulted),
- person demolished, life ruined -- yes (Stallman got removed from the org he created, got fired from his work. Another poster here written that his friend got accused, defended in court with hard evidence, life is still ruined).

Comparison with lynching seems fair to me.

All of this got me thinking about creating, you know, accepting tech community where everyone is free to express their own opinions. I'm personally fine with my code being called shit and me being called dumbass for a good measure, just tell me what you really think and we'll sort things out faster instead sugar-coating stuff to not hurt my ego.
I mean, seriously, it sounds like the opposite. The events in Saudi Arabia have shown how much more vulnerable oil is, with the production pipeline going through much smaller (in terms of m^2) bottlenecks.

You could wipe out millions of gallons/day of production with a well-placed strike, affecting the entire global market, while solar farms are much bigger (a hit will wipe out a smaller percentage) and the effects are more localized.
I once wrote a blog article ranting about how we shouldn't use the word "sprint", because it focuses on speed. Rather, we should say "iteration", which focuses on change.

Pushing agile as faster rather than better is the biggest problem agile ever had.
React Is Changing How We Think, Again
Technology is usually just a means to an end. Unless IP is what you are selling, boring is great. I’ve seen so many teams burn so much energy on complicated stacks just to drink kool-aid. It’s mind bogglingly frustrating, especially as a contractor. At the end of the day it’s great for me: I get brought into shit shows to clean up the mess. But deep down, I want projects to succeed and clean/sound systems architecture is how you do that. Doesn’t matter if it’s PHP, Python or Java.
Are you saying that if someone wrote 'cick my balls' you're not going to think for a brief moment they said something else?
It appears to be some sort of wrapper for your shell that includes some extra info (like is there a background process, what version of node is a project running).
Much of an architect's role won't be visible to developers beneath them and -- like a manager -- involves coordinating with other projects or other business units. That a specific project exists at all to work on or is otherwise a discussion topic is often the result of an architect's work.
Demonstrating symbol of ex "country" in which there was dictatorship, occupation, annexation and genocide is act of glorification/act of paying respect of/to that "country" and its behavior.
biggest issue with agile is the intentional ignorance of document, so any newcomer had to spend countless time to just get up to speed
$50 is not $50 when it also requires Windows or Mac to even function.
Commenting the security issue from the end of explainer for visibility.

I’m having flashbacks to the Java serialize vulnerabilities from a couple years ago.

ECMAScript and JSON do not have the same set of escape characters:

```
Note: It’s crucially important to post-process user-controlled input to escape any special character sequences, depending on the context. In this particular case, we’re injecting into a <script> tag, so we must (also) escape </script, <script, and <!- -.
```
> That very first tweet touched on the first reason why it doesn't matter: banks aggressively lock out accounts being brute forced.

Until a hacker steals the salted password database and brute forces it as much as they like. A truly strong password is secure even when the attacker has the salted version.

(Anyone who tells you that it's completely impossible for a hacker to ever get their password file is lying either to you or to themselves.)
Well, I bet that if you are able to show in a small damages court that unsubscription was made unreasonably hard, you'll get them not only to throw away your debt, but also get some nice amount from the company as image damage reparation.

It's a hassle, but this makes companies not willing to go after the debt.
Made me dig up this old note from 2010 http://www.ultratechnology.com/chips.htm
No, absolutely not.

If quantum computers happen (which is still a big if) then mostly two things will happen:

1. Cryptographers will have to switch many of their algorithms and things like TLS will get a bit slower and will need a bit more data transmitted.

2. It's interesting for science, e.g. for simulations.

For the regular dev I'm pretty sure it won't have any meaningful impact.

Also even if quantum computers happen they won't be on our desks any time soon. It'll probably more like "you can rent a QC for specialized tasks in the cloud, but it will be relatively expensive and if you don't really need one you'll use something else".
https://www.justwatch.com/us at least lets you search across lots of services. Also if you haven't cut the cord, your cable company's portal page might let you search streaming content that's included with your subscription, e.g. https://portal.metrocast.net/video/details/category/episode/... shows "Food Network - Subscription" and links me right to it.
The Denver tech job scene is pretty strong. A lot of startups and a growing corporate outpost presence, as well as all of the "old tech" around the Tech Center.

Northern Colorado (Longmont, Ft. Collins) has traditionally been a center for hardware design and test equipment, but unfortunately most of these companies have shrunk overall and have reduced their Colorado presence.

I would say that in recent years the epicenter of startup software jobs in Colorado has shifted back from the brief Boulder startup run and moved into downtown Denver, while Boulder has become a center for corporate outposts (Google, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, Workday, NetApp, Splunk).
Wouldn't the size different help with CPU density?

I don't really know much about the topic but my understanding is that it could potentially be more dense then the theoretic limit of current transistor sizes.
It's an architecture that's almost completely mute on how business-level functionality should be organized.
Can someone validate my thinking here, please? I’ve been watching this saga for a while and there is something that doesn’t seem to be said that really bothers me about this whole situation: the failure mode is negative, not neutral. Here is what I mean.

An aircraft has a flight envelop that defines its flight characteristics. Not only does it define in how fast or slow or high it can operate, but how that operation changes if something changes in performance. For instance, engines under the wing and on the tail cause differences as power is gained or lost. Under the wing, an increase in power will push the nose up, and a loss in power will cause the nose to drop. This is the opposite of tail mounted engines. The whole point of training a pilot is make it instinctive to expect what the plane will do when things go wrong, ie. if you are in a tail engine plane and loose suddenly power, expect that you are moving closer to a stall. The plane will both be raising the nose and losing speed. Again, vice versa for wing mounted engine. There is also another important point. If the pilot kills/loses the engine, is a neutral failure: the flight envelope does not change. The engine is no longer providing thrust so the plane orients merely to a new position in its flight envelope. But, failure in the flight system for the Max does something totally different.

The whole point of the MCAS flight computer is make the plane appear as though it has a different flight envelope. The computer automagically adjusts the flight services, notably by moving the trim. What really bothers me about the idea of using software to alter the flight characteristics is that any failure results in the plane not only falling back on a fight envelope that isn’t what the pilot trained on, but also to a point in the flight envelope that the pilot didn’t even choose (ie. trim being in some arbitrary position). Worse than that, an MCAS failure is negative. The very point of the computer system is “out guess” and compensate for the pilot’s expectations of his or her trained flight envelop; thus, if the computer believes it is operating correctly but is not, it is actively making an arbitrary flight envelope that could be constantly changing. The pilot must deduce the MCAS software is at fault while the MCAS software is deducing the pilot is at fault.

Everything I have ever seen is that the whole point of airplane design and pilot training is to reduce flight problems to known solutions as to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. The very design of MCAS is failure must put the pilot into an unknown position and likely be actively combating the pilot’s understand of the situation. If this logic is correct, I cannot fathom how any of this is acceptable.
There's this thing I say a lot... in large organizations, it's more important do appear safe (even if it's risky) than to appear risky (even if it's safe).
New Zealand, Ireland, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago add another 13.5 million.

On the flip side, English is only the first language of 9.6% of South Africans.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa#L...
> Let’s say 10% per hardcover sale, or 25% of an e-book.

Are those percentages of the MSRP or of the actual sale price?

I use a price tracker for ebooks where I add every book I want and set an alert for $5. When it hits that price, I buy it. If I do that for Wanderers, will the author get 25% of the $13.99 list price or of the $5 sale price?
Good. Let's just hope that Firefox won't become like PUBG. Quick-release, bad optimization.
I pay $60 aud for 8-9mbps. I'm in Sydney, 3km from the city and I cannot connect to our 100mpbs if you're super lucky NBN which has been "running" for 8+years - $90aud from a cheaper ISP. Malcom Turnbull messed up our internet infra, became Prime Minister, didn't do anything to fix it and walked out on the job last year.
I can't connect to the NBN because it hasn't rolled out in my area, I've lived in or near the city cbd the whole time the NBN has been going on and I have never lived on a street that was connected.
When you are trying to build a friendship with someone, do you only pay for coffee if they did it for you before? Or do you out out a good faith effort and buy them coffee or lunch a couple of times? Companies and employees are the same way. Companies will sometimes overpay someone in the hope for extra effort, or an employee may put in extra time in the hope for future rewards.

A win win approach is much better than a zero sum mindset to relationships and employment.

My employees who have a win win approach have been massively rewarded over time, those with zero sum mindsets don't last long here or anywhere else and never get beyond entry level.