skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice and concise paper. All that changed was outputting a vector of predicted game values, as we go from having a zero-sum game with two players (which can be summarized with a single value) to a game with n players. Makes sense.

The comparison against MCTS shows strong performance from AlphaZero. Would be curious to see the performance of AlphaZero vs. number of its own rollouts - ie is the probability head output alone already encoding enough information to play well, and how deep does it have to look ahead to determine good play. Finally, for tic-tac-mo and connect 3x3, it should be possible to determine the optimal move. How much training / lookahead is required to achieve that? Does AlphaZero achieve perfect play for these games?

The paper's first listed contribution is "an independent reimplementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm". Maybe I missed it, but I don't see a link to a repo with the implementation.
not really. what you're doing is using an external energy source to locally order things at the expense of increasing global disorder (ultimately contributing to the heat death of the universe). some people will use a term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negentropy to refer to this process.
What would a truly modern human look like?
Just because the outcome of the code (i.e. obfuscated code) is "clever" doesn't mean that the code that does the obfuscation is clever
Hah! Take my upvote. Also: s/2019/2006/

https://gcemetery.co/2006/
I constantly, like multiple times a week, get connection requests on LinkedIn that all lead to the same conversation of "hey! let me use your name and profile on Toptal/Upwork, I'll do all the work, and you can keep 15-30%". I'm not surprised by any of this.
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In Pascal, the braces are simply larger:
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Interesting article. I thought everything was good until I hit that part

The only thing its scientists got wrong was that what they called “potentially serious climate problems” wouldn’t emerge until the late 21st century. So much for that.

The linked article refers to the loss in biodiversity, which is in my opinion not really related to climate change. It’s related to the fact that we humans leave less and less physical space for other species. I think it’s wrong to combine the two effects.
That still looks extremely confusing.. if I didn't know who those people were, I would have a really hard time even noticing that there is a hierarchy in what you presented.

And even still, that just doesn't look intuitive to me. Probably because there is no distinction between an employee and a list of employees linked to a parent employee?
lol, I keep seeing this excuse in every HN thread about this. The fatal flaw is that with all the tinder, the ONLY thing starting the fires IS the transmission lines. So even if we had some wack job going around with a gas can and a match, he's not doing as well as PG&E is doing.

Beyond just that - I think it's kinda crazy with all the technology we have - no one has suggested adding a FLIR and non-FLIR camera to both directions on each transmission tower - and then add some machine learning (to push reports up).
Most of the rest of the developed world has the national tax agency compute the tax filing for you based your family ages, employer-filed work income and financial institution income. Then its merely a choice to accept or modify, taking as little as a few minutes. 3/4ths US tax returns would be that simple.
Spain, unlike the UK, has a written constitution, in which the indivisibility of the state is stated.

This means that the first step for any region to legally have any chance of leaving Spain is to change the constitution, which needs bigger than simple majorities (3/5 or 2/3 depending on the procedure), so it's unlikely that this will happen any time soon.

The people that organised the referendum knew this and still went ahead and then things took a turn for the worse.
Again, they are of course free to do so and I agree that it makes sense for GitHub to honor lawful requests. I was simply observing that I haven't seen GitHub apply take downs geographically before. The cases I've seen before have been global, even if the request came from Russia/China.
I'll also add "silly." A not-too-serious attitude from day one helps protect a community (IMO). When your language is named after a surrealist comedy troupe it kinda takes the wind out of the sails of moral outrage. Whimsy is surprisingly powerful.
If we judge leadership by the quality of followers, python's ecosystem says it all.
> Well, it's like you're saying volunteer work should never exist.

You're missing "at a for-profit company". Once you'd add that, I (and NY) would say "Yes". (But I'm not the GP).
My friend, my comrade in arms, please note what my entire post said.

I repeatedly emphasized that there wouldn’t be no change in lifestyle or quality of life for the duration of an outage, but it would be doable and will likely become less burdensome in the long term.

Allow me to re-emphasize: people are creative and adaptable. Given the necessity to adapt, people will find ways. People are or have been without power for a couple of days now, they’re angry about it. Very angry, and justifiably so, and I feel confident in saying that the market response to this state of affairs will not be zero.
Congrats Guido. But don't bulshit me about retirement - you will probably find something else to keep your mind busy :)
This product seems to be out of Serbia and has zero references or background info on who is running it, I'd be wary of handing any data over to this app.
The key is to not hire fungible resources based on a set of TLAs but actual people instead.

Unfortunately, the software industry by and large still seems to insist on continuing this backward model rooted in scientific management because it creates a semblance of an industrialised process that can easily be scaled by throwing more resources with the same TLAs at the problem (see "The Mythical Man-Month").

If people are treated as a commodity it's no wonder they start acting like one.

There certainly are largely commoditised areas of software development. However, especially for those it shouldn't matter where the person doing the job is located or in fact which person it is that does the job.

All that matters is results. Only settle an invoice once the agreed upon results have been delivered.
Also applies to content uploads from creators. If instead of only uploading to youtube they automatically did so for a variety of platforms, youtube's monopolistic position would be reduced somewhat. Also reduces the likelihood of your content being stolen and profited from on another platform.
Yeah in reality it's the Spanish Military Police where complaints should be submitted
It's certainly not a distinction users care about. And apparently it's not the distinction the law cares about either since it's clearly much more complex than that.

My forum is for-profit and users will line up around the block to be a moderator. Why is it that the only compensation we can wrap our heads around is money?
Right, but this offers two benefits: (1) semantic naming, and (2) composed functionality. So for example, if you wanted an element that exposes label behavior and list-item behavior, you could do that. With html, you have to use 2 elements:

<li>
<label>
</li>
I'm sure you know this, but just to explain "optionally typed" a bit more, Python objects are always strongly typed (can't add a string and an int together like in JS, etc.), by default Python variables are not typed - a variable can refer to objects of different types at different times.

Python 3 has introduced syntax to optionally declare types in the source (type annotations). This does not affect the runtime. Mypy is a program that does static analysis to tell you where your code is inconsistent with your type annotations, so:

a: int = "foo"

Will compile to bytecode and run fine, but if you run mypy it will warn you that you're not supposed to assign a string to a.
Every radio has a signature that it's turned on by listening to its Local Oscillator. [0]

We weren't testing the presence of the LO, but instead characterizing the phone's radiated and conducted emissions from it's non-phone radio functions like its processors, displays, BMS, etc. There were discrete frequencies which were certainly from oscillators, but we didn't determine whether or not that was the receiver(s') LO(s) when airplane mode was on. There's probably a dozen other oscillators within phones for memory, CPU, displays, etc. So, you might be right, but this can be tested in the right lab.

However, that might be complicated with software defined receivers that don't have a typical receiver architecture, very low level signals, and very tiny PCB traces.

[0] http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/1996
Whenever a free CAD software exists, AutoCAD or similar buys them out.

I'm not sure the solution.
The issue is the ramifications which come with a referendum.

Let's imagine secession wins with a 52%, and everybody decide to divide Spain. This means 48% of the people are going to be taken their Spanish passports and citizenship off, and they become just Catalans. This opens a can of worms in terms of stability of the region, which may very easily end up in another civil war, like the one that happened few decades ago.

Another solution would be to split Catalonia in two regions. This definitely will end up badly, taking in consideration how resentful Spaniards have been through their history.

I do not know if this quote is originally from Bismarck as some people claim, but he rightly said:

"I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success’"
The vast majority of power lines in France are overhead.

RTE overhead lines: 100000 km

RTE underground lines: 5400 km

https://www.rte-france.com/fr/document/statistiques-reseaux-...

If you are intending to distinguish between distribution and transmission, the lines in question in California are transmission lines, not distribution lines.
Wouldn't doing right be having a proper referendum, ideally with international oversight, to get the real answer to the question? Everyone likes to think they are on the side of a majority, but its talking out of your ass til you actually do the democracy.
Thank you for voting me down on this - it was intended as a joke and not to upset you. I think you need some vacation.
That's the beauty of git. You just need to:

git add remote plan-b one-of-dozens-of-git-hosts-or-your-own-server

git push plan-b master

And then let people know of your new repo(s).
OpenStreetmap is improving, and the maps themselves are good.

Its search leaves an extreme amount to be desired. Recently, looking at the path of Typhoon Hagibis, I'd entered "tokyo japan". I was returned a restaurant in downtown Moscow, Russia.

Even direct latitude/longitude searches often fail completely (I've reported this as a bug), apparently if there's no reasonably local specific place record.

Where Google Maps will deal with a vague street + city or business-name + city reference, OSM is completely lost. Even comma-delimited "<city>, <state>, <country>" specifications often fail.

You can report these, and the reports do get attention. But there's a lot of work required of the team.
When you said make money, do you mean generate revenue? Because turning off the power does not generate revenue (but of course, i understand what you are trying to say). I don't know what PG&E does or their relationship with the CPUC, but typically the best way to get that rate increase is to do actual grid improvements. I would presume that would be getting out in front of their current situation.

From what I understand this situation might be a complex mix of mismanagement at every level, state to utility.
I guess it's onfortunate that Oberon the OS and the Oberon the language share the same name.

To me it read like someone posting about Xv6 (Operating System) and a comment mentioning Objective-C and how to get its toolchain working ;-)
I'm having trouble visualizing how this would be stable - from their reference frame (orbiting a Lagrange point), the pressure is coming unidirectionally. They'd be accelerated in one direction constantly, which seems like it couldn't possibly be stable.
I imagine people would like PG&E to have a functioning website that shows where power is going to be turned off, to have a more predictable warning system so people can have more than a few hours notice of impending blackouts, to have better managed community centers so people can access essential resources during blackouts, etc.

This is relatively basic stuff that a large corporation should be able to figure out with a ~year of notice. Instead there first few blackouts have been very poorly managed despite the fact that PG&E knew this was coming.
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It’s competition and consumers gets scammed as well. Packaging&Brand increase the price. If a consumer want quality he has to do some research as well.
> What state allows for-profit organizations to solicit unpaid volunteer labor from people outside of prison?

I'm not aware of a state that allows that for people inside prison, either. Well, not technically. They get paid, it's just a lot less than someone on the outside would make.
I'm fond of the jocular statement that NeXT acquired Apple for -$429 million dollars.

Steve Jobs went from CEO of NeXT to CEO of Apple, and promptly started a project to scrap the existing "System" series of Macintosh operating systems in favor of a Unix derived from NeXTSTEP.
It's not about the poem but the vibes you're flowing
walk into the room and sometimes I'm all-knowin'
energy needs a direction to go in
construct lightning ladders for electric types
casually known to destroy on the mics
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I’d like to see Mozilla developing something special, reaching out to the maker community and creating something that Google doesn’t have.

Be Evil and get the top designers and engineers in the world to develop something that only works on Firefox.

Dream on.
Some of these encounters can be genuinely painful. People avoiding video chat is the most obvious sign often. Then you get on a call with someone and they are as terse as they possibly can be so that their accent will be "masked". On one occasion I was talking to a TTS.

Ultimately for everything we do, communication is the number one requirement. We have to be able to communicate fluently in a high level of detail and have what we say not just understood, but even anticipated and interpreted.

So no matter how good someone is in some other aspect, it's a non-starter if I can't have a chat with them - and I think vice-versa too ... how can they enjoy the work and do a reasonable job if I can't really explain to them what I want easily?

I don't know if I'll ever use Upwork for programmers again. Most of my experiences have been bad, even when I was quite willing to pay premium rates.*

* Big motivation for many using Upwork is bypassing conventional corporate finance and the way they pay (or fail to pay) freelancers.
Hi GitLab employee, we used the same mailing list as the one we used for the first email, so that's why you still received it. If you deleted your account you won't get any future emails.
You're describing https://www.muckrock.com/
You don't just.. stop field measurements. They take months to years in preparation, are usually a group effort and very expensive, and if there is a gap in the data you will never be able to get that back.

I mean.. automate the thing and then go sit in the shade and write poetry while you supervise, sure. But stop? Whut?
Those sports teams wouldn't be making any money without the talents of the students that play on those teams. The TV contracts the larger teams are negotiating are worth billions of dollars. The subsidies to all players are two digit millions at best. The manner in which these universities are profiting off of these largely minority athletes is obscene. To deny those kids the right to profit from their own labor because of some trivial tax implication while those same universities continue to make billions of dollars is an absurd argument to make. Perhaps if the universities turned down the TV contracts then maybe the scholarship argument might have some merit.

How do you think it would be received if Harvard tried to seize ownership of Facebook because it gave Mark Zuckerberg a scholarship? Or that Harvard should take ownership of Facebook because some kids that didn't goto Harvard won't have the luxury of starting a billion dollar corporation.
Method 1 is the simplest and involves running an extension cord to the appliance(s) you want powered; or a power bar if you want multiple.

Should one take this route, and you want to run some high-wattage stuff like a refrigerator, microwave, or space heater, remember to use the thickest cord you can find if it runs any length. Harbor Freight will sell you 50' of 12 gauge extension cord for cheap. Use that thin little thing you use to plug the shop light into, and it'll get warm fast.
From the perspective of a few Galego and Catalan friends, I don't think they would be surprised.
At some point, no more users should leave. For example after registration week 1, retain 60%, week 2 30%, week 3 10%, week 4 1%, week 5 0.1%. In that case, you don't have PMF. Unfortunately my numbers look a lot like this :,(

But assume week 4 has 10% and week 5 has 10%, that curve flattened out at 10%, and so you have product market fit.
At least for now, power transmission is so efficient and cheap (and already built) that you're better off taking advantage of the utility's economies of scale.

> kick the hydrocarbon habit

Then build solar in the desert and offshore wind. The power company can do these cheaper than you on the individual scale. In the past decade, coal use has actually dropped 50% (mostly replaced by natural gas), so there's progress on the hydrocarbon front.
checkout the steemit platform for an example of an online community where all forms of contributing, as long as people believe it added value, can be rewarded. The content is mostly crypto related, but I think its an interesting alternative to our current reputation based models because it means you can transfer the value you contributed to that site into real money whereas reputation is non transferable accross different platoforms.
Plugging a side project: if you want to be reading more poetry but don't know where to start, sign up at https://verse.press/ to get a weekly poetry "playlist" in your inbox. Sometimes it's a set of poems on single theme by different authors, sometimes it's a sampler of poems from a recently published book.
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Don't worry. New York only selectively enforces these types of things.
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Maybe because it still requires a human to be occupied during the task, and they also don't have physical safety stake in the activity. I don't think I'd feel quite at ease if a driver over the Internet had my fate in their hands. Also that brings up the fact that latency and failure of wireless communications could mean death.
I guess you could say I’m an Apple Fan Boy, and have been since around 1980. I have owned many, many Apple products over the years. I have not researched the AirPods Pro yet. But, even I have to say that $249 for headphones seems insane!
Actually the shutdown is asked by the Guardia Civil, which is a police, not a judicial authority
This is not about finding cheap labor. It is more so about the cheap labor competing to look more desirable than the competing cheap labor.
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Here's a summary of the paper I gave before when a NYT piece covered it yesterday.

For USA and Australia, high-resolution/precision lidar-based maps are available of coastal areas. For other regions of the world it is not the case (or severely limited). However, gaining an insight into the elevation of land is crucial to determine a region's vulnerability to sea-level rise. NASA’s SRTM has almost global coverage of elevation levels, but is known to be too low resolution to be meaningful for this application (esp. in urban areas). A neural network was trained on the USA lidar data to augment the SRTM data (i.e. make the resolution higher). The network was verified on the Australian lidar dataset (and they got a good match; the model was already published elsewhere before [1]). The point of this paper was to then have the newly-derived elevation maps be exposed to sea-level change. This is where the maps with flooded cities come from [which were in the NYT article].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00344...
"IP core" can mean "soft IP", which is just RTL, or "hard IP", which is a full layout (set of mask layers), ready to put on silicon. I haven't read the SiFive announcement closely, but if they're quoting area/frequency/power numbers, it would most likely be the latter.
Indeed, new joiners in investment banks these days are increasingly expected to know Python at least -- and not just for technology roles, but junior traders and managers as well. For financial services it's the new VBA, but better.
The idea of exploring and possibly colonizing other worlds has nothing to do with our ecology and everything to do with the fact that a comet could hit earth and destroy our entire species at any moment and we wouldn't really have enough time to react properly. Add planets to your species and you reduce the chances that your entire civilization could be gone in an instance.
You want to be able to continue selling trademarked items no matter what the trademark holder says or does?

You realize how unreasonable this position is, right?
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> eye opener

I've never gotten around to being comfortable with mouse chording, which makes me think that it was a rather odd idea.
I do not see any use case with it. If I have to remote control it, I would rather control directly. Isn't the whole purpose to make use of your time on other works instead of driving?
Right now, I'd say it's the opposite. We need to stop giving financial incentives to recycle plastic. Going into the landfill ought to be the cheapest disposal methods, in most cases.
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Totally agreed, there is a degree of hubris in geo-engineering that is breathtaking. There is of course geo-engineering going on right now, climate change itself is the product of unintended consequences, but to submit that all we need to do is have intentional geo-engineering as a solution is the worst kind of myopathy.
Tunnels? Overpasses? Trees. Thinking about how many times my satellite radio fades out.
Thanks for the explanation, you seem to know your stuff. In that case it doesn't make much sense indeed.
Such a sad thing to see the sunshade comment at the top.
Sure, but... that's what I asked. I wanted someone to expand on the requirements that had to be met.

Would anyone be willing to explain in more detail on how the criteria differ and why this doesn't apply to Open Source companies like Gitlab/Wikipedia/etc?

I brought up for-profit companies like Gitlab only to clarify why I thought drawing a bright line based on purely nonprofit status as the only distinction would have negative consequences.

> This is literally the distinction discussed in the posted question and is pretty standard law in the US. What negative consequences do you see as a result of this?
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