skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My word choice is more driven by exposure to the dataset that I'm working with.
There's been some recent successes with autoencoders trained on virtual sensory input (i.e., video games) with surprising results, e.g., neural networks that can simulate the dynamics of these environments with surprising fidelity.

Of course, learning to play video games at a high level is trivially easy, as everyone in the field now knows.
The next challenge is, naturally, to make money doing this.
But how?
After the traditional thirty seconds of research before undertaking a major project, I determined that the only way to make money from video games is to become a popular streamer.

So now I am training an agent to generate video of it playing and reacting to an imaginary game and equally fictitious Twitch viewers, with a dataset drawn from the top Fortnite streamers.
The reward function is comprised of a blend of subscribers, donations, and (logarithmically scaled) misogyny in the chat.
Thus far, I've only managed to create some sort of window into hell, where the "game" consists of unceasing violence, murder after murder after murder as towers of mismatched material swell and fall in ever transforming locations on the isle while the chat endlessly subscribes, spams, and emotes in cackling glee and the superimposed webcam video features a... thing with too many eyes and hands screaming incoherently.

At first I thought it was a problem with my dataset, so I started watching some of the streams myself.
This has not yielded insight into the whole "nightmare vision" output of my model, but it has expanded my vocabulary on the twin subjects of combustibles and comestibles, which I feel is a reasonable trade-off for the sanity battering associated with this whole endeavour.
Slightly unrelated, from what web tools did you take these screen shots [1,2] that were shared in your interview?

1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i...

2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i...
I might be wrong, but didn't they used to use gentoo to roll their own custom distro? Then why are they changing, or did change to Debian? I'm guessing a Debian base is quite different from Chrome OS requirements isn't it, with most work having gone into thousands of package integrations that aren't used on Chrome OS?
If you value your work little, expect to be paid little.

I see no reason why I should get paid less than a CEO, when most of their job is similar to that of a kindergarten teacher.
We’re discussing a Nepalese hotel, not a US hotel.
Windows is a sold product with no free tier. isn't that the profit? it was part of the price I paid for the notebook. and they still make me see ads? that's a business model publishing would die for.
I ... don't know about everyone else here, but personally I'd rather become a McAfee than an Ellison. At least John has this thing called sense of humor.
Because GCs offer the best balance between performance and productive, even when going with the reference counting algorithms path.

Except for the heroic efforts from the Rust community, linear types are far from general consumption for any kind of software development.

Plus, having GC does not preclude being able to stack allocate, keep data on manual memory segment, or even resort to manually manage memory in unsafe code blocks.

Examples of GC enabled languages with such features, Modula-3, Mesa/Cedar, Active Oberon, Nim, D, Eiffel, C#, F#, System C# (M#), Sing#, Swift, ParaSail, Chapel.

Eventually Java might get such capabilities if Panama and Valhalla actually end up being part of the official implementation.

Manual memory management is required for some critical code paths, but so is Assembly, both are niches, not something to spend 100% of our coding hours.
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>at least own it and make your comments under a pseudonym.

Looks like he's owning it and making his comments under his real name.

Also if you invest your life savings on crypto you deserve whatever may happen to you.
> sadly, much of the most innovative and interesting parts of the game are done outside the client

This is also true for the other examples (Minecraft and No Man's Sky) where the games basically become what the player base uses it for. I think this happens to most freeform games where without the multiplayer aspect, the game basically is nowhere near the same experience as with.
Paste between coins with a stacking arrangement going big-small-big-small etc so that there was a semblance of fins would be interesting.
Does it prevent stack overflows and stop-the-world delays in complex data structures?

Two common problems in most reference counting implementations.
It's true that if the MCAS software requirements weren't inadequate, the accidents would not have happened. It's also true that if the pilots had followed the runaway trim procedure, like the first Lion Air pilots did, like was reiterated to all MAX crews by Airworthiness Directive, the accidents would not have happened.

But I don't see why the shortcomings in the MCAS software design requirements were the result of cost savings.
Plotnine is a verbatim port of ggplot2. There are other ports but plotnine is the good one.

https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/
Kudos on Apple for having the courage to get rid of those keyboards and bring back what once worked. Everyone seemed to really love the old keyboard, why did they feel the need to change it I would never understand. I'm still typing this on my MBP with two keys ("E" and "R") randomly falling off right now.
Yes. I ran the removes all appx script that a kind soul shared here with a bunch of warnings and disclaimers and I love it.
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to measure per travel occasion instead? When thinking about car travel, the type of road also matters, as does the rest of the surroundings. True for airplane travel as well, but only arrival/departure seems to matter most there.
Run it online at:
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How is that lucky?
The argument wasn't that buying "sold by Amazon" would have a higher success rate, it was that returning would be more successfull than with some random pop-up account. This won't help against unnoticeable but still bad fakes of course.
That’s one way to look at it, but i think the general feeling people have regarding air travel ( aka scare) is better explained by the « death per journey » statistic (in addition to the obvious fact that a plane .. flies).

Not to mention the fact that once you remove obviously dangerous car behaviors ( such as dui or driving with a wreck), chances of accident probably decline a lot.
There is a Wikipedia tangent article called Micromorts which is "unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death." from a particular activity.

Travel section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
Is this related to that disaster game that people complained about it at launch so much that Valve changed their return policy for this game alone to allow people get their refunds back after a longer than usual period? Why would anyone play this game anyway? Also I think Nixon was the best US president in modern history, his "A sucker is born every minute" was way ahead of its time.
Downvotes and no response.

I don't know why HN wants to hide behind this strawman so bad. Noone is getting fired for posting about geometric shapes, unless you're trying to say something insensitive or disparaging.

The line of what is acceptable to stay has changed, but turns out if you wern't being an asshole in the first place, people are very forgiving.

Also, Twitter is not an example. People are constantly unforgiving assholes on Twitter for short-term Internet fame; your workplace isn't Twitter.
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I wrote PCCL for a use case like this: mostly config but with dynamic behavior. I've also used Lua in the same way. My favorite memory of this approach was when some vendor switched from a static configuration to a daily XML config on their FTP site. I modified our config file so instead of hard coding the vendor's old parameters, it would download their XML file and populate our config params such that the C++ host program did not know anything had changed.

Some people say a Turing complete config language is a step too far. With great power....

https://github.com/jzwinck/pccl
What do they feel? What about being thankful for being a revenue stream, it allows us to work on more free (as in beer) and open source developer tools
I think per travel time would be better. "Trips" in air and automobiles tend to be of very different average durations.
If you have oped out, as in your case and mine, the answer is none of your information will be used in this way. It's one setting, it's a complete opt out and you get prominently asked at install time. I've really not got any problem with that.
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No.
Every time I try, I quickly fall out of the habit.
I do write high-level first and then implement code after establishing API/what I need these days (I end up re-writing that a few times) which seems ideal for TDD but just doesn't seem to work that way.

What I do do is add a unit test for (almost) every formal bug I come across, (to prove the bug, and fix it) so that but never happens again. Which over the years seems to have given the best results for backwards compatibility, stability etc
oops, I just mirrored the OP's spelling without thinking.
I could imagine people have a small background process thinking « i’m taking my car to go to the office, how much chances do i have to make it safe to the end » every time they take their car. And same goes for air trips: « i’m taking the plane to SF, am i going to die ? »

Distance travelled probably is a second thought compared to the concept of actually having a trip.
Linux is not the only OS you can control.
This game is such a train wreck. It’s got everything I should want and nothing that compels me to play it. Every update is a false promise. I wish it were good.
They're not changing to Debian to build ChromeOS itself - ChromeOS now ships with a Linux container to run Linux apps, and that is currently Debian 9, will soon be Debian 10.
Google scales back culture of transparency, as all-hands meetings become monthly
My mechanic says he can not service my car because the nut to open the hood latch has a copyrighted shape and the owner of the copyright on that shape advised me not to use my adjustable wrench or he would sue, but I could rent his crescent wrench each time I want to service may car, or I could keep the creascent wrench at home and the installed counter on the wrench would talk to his billing software and he would send an invoice every month...

In 3 words or less, compare and contrast this to the Google-Oracle copyright fiasco...
The developers made claims about the game that turned out to be false. Eventually those features made it to the game. The current version is pretty good.
It kinda bothers me how much safer cars are than walking and cycling, given that most of these deaths are probably caused by cars. ('Caused' not necessarily meaning the accident was the drivers fault, but the death being due to the car being big and made from metal vs. humans being soft and squishy.)
Do you think most people know that Brewer's yeast is alive?
To me, your examples are not about "using information against" someone.

> Want a new job? Nope! We don't want someone with your condition on our team.

There are laws in some countries that could forbid such discrimination. Even if the employer lies about the true reasons, lies don't go unpunished forever. The parent is right about it, they are cultural biases.

> Want to buy a house? Nope! An AI bot says may not live long enough to pay the loan.

As said by another reply, your example is purely fictional. Even if it was true, there could be a culture change and new laws to support those people in need.

> Want to get some ice cream? Can't haz. When you swipe your electronic payment method the database says you're at a risk for diabetes.

Again, fictional example.

> There are thousands of other scenarios.

Sure, if you use all the words in the English dictionary, you can create billions of sentences, but very few will be actually close to the truth...
I think the “buy into” aspect is possibly buying into the importance of it all.
In the current climate, it’s a charged issue, because for one side it’s a matter of respect, dignity, and honoring a persons agency, and for the other it’s about coercive speech and toeing closer to coercive thought.

And then there’s the the third side that can perhaps see that both sides have valid points, except that none of it matters in the long run.
If words are so empty that they can be bent to call a woman a man, a man a woman, blue as red, 50 as 1,000, depending on a person’s internal emotional state, then whatever we choose to say is as valid as anything else.

And if one person refuses to comply with social niceties, it doesn’t necessarily indicate anything other than, at worst, said person is a dick.

So I think right now, it’s a social crusade for both parties, and not everyone wants to get sucked into feeling passionate about everyone else's fights. And that doesn’t mean you’re choosing sides.

But somehow, less than 100% virtue signaling in either direction means you’re implicitly supporting “them”.

But, my approach is, when dealing with people, I’m not going to be a dick, and I’ll happily call them a preferred pronoun, within reason, even though it’s really not that important to me. But I’m also not going to go out of my way to try to fix everyone who is a dick either, even when it is something important to me.
The new reality of bushfires in Australia – “fireballs” flying 10 kms
Not in my half of the world. O.o
Because the training deviates enough from old 737 that you couldn’t grandfather the new into the same rating? Am I missing something obvious here?
That’s because when a car crashes it’s not typically travelling at 500mph with 250 people on board.
Woahhhh there, don't fall off that horse! You might hurt yourself from a height so high.

Your qualification of what makes a company's problems more interesting or beneficial to humanity is certainly debatable, but if you think people at Google are "taking it easy" talentless slobs you are quite objectively wrong
Oxford professor on implications and deficiencies of climate change models
The hard part is getting users to visit.
greetings, may i piggyback on this as I'd love to learn as well. can't say I have much experience with a pgp key though, i just generated one though and can post it.
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> Unpopular opinion but, is opt-outtable telemetry that bad?

In its current incarnation, yes.

From what I've seen, telemetry has simply replaced quality assurance and proper design, and I don't like it.

It's hard to put it into words, exactly, but I'm old enough now to realise that using primarily statistics to drive high-level decisions inevitably leads to a general crapification of everything. It naturally leads to dark patterns, to gamification, to making things addictive... sorry... "engaging". It sneaks in prejudices, and ossifies the status quo. Worst of all, it tends to drag everything down to the lowest common denominator, to the left side of the bell curve. Mass appeal is appeal to the average and below-average person.

This type of viewer-feedback design is why every Hollywood movie is now so formulaic. Must have orange-blue contrast poster. Must have a love story. Must have uplifting moment. Must have plucky ethnic characters. It has become revolting slop for the masses to consume in bulk.

Software design is no different. I want quality, I want inspired software that is cohesive, fit for purpose, and will teach me something. Instead it is being purposefully lowered to the level of the average, computer-illiterate person in order to be more "accessible".

As a random example, I was infuriated when Microsoft announced that they're deprecating the Windows 7 version of the backup tool from a future Windows 10 release because their telemetry shows that most home users don't use it much.

Who. Gives. A. Fuck. what some grandma does or doesn't do with their worthless PC and its virus-riddled hard drive with no valuable data on it?

Do you? I don't. Microsoft shouldn't.

But oh no, their telemetry says Grandpa and Grandma don't use VHDX-based image backup enough, so it's go to go.

I use it regularly because it can back create disk-image backups of a running machine at a button press. It reads the source disk linearly block-by-block, and hence I can use it to back up -- or restore -- the 450 GB of tiny source code files on my work laptop in just 15 minutes! If my laptop dies, I can just attach the backup disk to another computer with Hyper-V and directly boot the latest image file. No need to even restore.

This is amazing engineering! It reuses the built-in Volume Shadow Service (VSS) engine to take the backup, so it's practically free code for Microsoft, but... nope. Sorry. The "people" have spoken. Less than 0.1% of the user base clicked this icon in the last 12 months, so clearly I'm wrong and the masses are right.
I think to be fair to Apple, their stance on this has two huge benefits even if you don't use Apple products.

First Apple has significantly raised the profile of privacy concerns. Their resistance to illegal demands to compromise customer privacy has been widely reported, and their advertising on this issue is a constant reminder to consumers.

Apple has also showed that it is not inevitable that big corporations must sell out customer privacy in order to succeed. Without Apple the narrative is that Google, facebook, etc have no choice, because this is just the way the modern world is and freemium is too powerful to resist. No it isn't, the stance Apple has taken and their success proves this.

Now Apple aren't immune to compromise, their folding to Chinese government demands for access to user data in China shows that they aren't invulnerable. If laws are passed that demand they surrender user data, they have no choice but to comply. However their persistent messaging on this is a helpful reminder to voters in the free world to care about this issue.
Dunno - I just tried it in Chrome on a Mac, same site and didn't get a warning. Computers eh?
Uber's paradox: Gig work app traps and frees its drivers
> I purposefully avoid Chrome because of its awful auto-updater tactics on MacOS which basically took pages from malware authors on how to ensure the service is always alive and present on your OS. When I explained this decision to colleagues, the response was confusion more than anything, and wondering why I even wanted to stop this.

I've noticed that on Windows as soon as Chrome appeared: they implemented a lot of malware-like concepts for the installation and updates even then. It never seemed right to me. And I still avoid Chrome as much as I can.

> the question just becomes "why would any of the mythical 'average consumer' even want to consider Linux in the first place?" As depressing as this may sound (and defeatist), as long as it gets them to Facebook and Youtube (and Instagram/whatever other social media they want), why would they care what does it and/or what that OS is doing?

My own issues: as much as I like Linux for programming, whenever I try to use Linux "just" to play videos on some non-gaming machine (and I've never bought gaming-only computers, and I'm sure an "average" user doesn't too), I still see significant problems compared with using Windows for the same task on the same machine. For various reasons it seems this joke still holds, even when removing "flash":

https://xkcd.com/619/

And my experience was even that those windowing environments promoted as "less demanding" aren't showing the videos better: they re maybe less demanding in some other aspects... but the videos which play smoothly on cheaper hardware is still a goal that is somehow hard to reach. My experience is similar to those I've had with music playing on Linuxes some decades ago, where every peace of the setup then worked against me simply being able to play (yes I've even tried modifying and rebuilding the drivers at these times...)
Just use LTSC. No Cortana, no Store, no Edge, and obviously no Candy Crush--in fact, no Metro apps to speak which, not even the Calculator (instead you get the one from Windows 7)
How on Earth is that a criticism?
Pilots are already supposed to be trained in runaway trim procedure. That's a reasonable evaluation to make, and the FAA agreed with it.

One of the crews followed it, the other two didn't. Crews aren't always trained properly, that isn't on Boeing.

Note that each of the three crews used the column trim switches to restore normal trim, why two did not think to then use the cutoff switches is something for the NTSB to determine.

If you watch "Air Disasters" on the Smithsonian Channel, many many crashes have an inadequate pilot training component, and/or pilots who did not do what they were trained to do.
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Those companies were mostly C#, with a bit of Ruby and JavaScript. The C# type checker generally made refactoring a non issue. In the case of JavaScript and Ruby, it was not much harder. Mostly find and replace. Sometimes a bit more work, depending on the complexity of the change. In general, the code bases were pretty well designed and modular enough that refactoring was pretty simple.

I tend to be a repl-driven developer, and I also use the product as I code. If you've ever watched Jonathan Blow programming on YouTube, that's similar to my process.

I find the majority of issues as I go. The bugs that slip through tend to be the surprising edge cases where I think I'm just modifying a single vertical, but there's some bleeding over into other verticals which I'm not using while developing. These sorts of bugs can usually caught by a handful of basic integration tests.
I think the author didn't elaborate further because while this is non-intuitive and tends to rail up the internet armchair economists, it actually is a well researched phenomenon.

One pointer would be the term "liquidity trap", e.g. this here as a starter: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquiditytrap.asp

Japan in particular had this problem for decades.

And I have to point out "printing money does not cause inflation" is exactly what happened in the US and Europe after 2007/8. There was massive QE but no increase in inflation (inflation was actually reduced).
It's not that simple. Car crashes are much more common than plane crashes, and per kilometre, car travel is much more deadly than air.
I think this is basically par for the course as a company becomes massive. A small percentage of employees will abuse perks, and once the absolute number hits some threshold the financial cost of that abuse requires revision. Same thing happened at a company I watched from from about 100 to 5000, albeit on a smaller scale.
Phrased another way, given the figures of 40 for cars and 117 for planes, unless everyone on a flight all travelled to the airport together in no more than 3 cars there’s a higher risk of death on the way to the airport than on the flight itself.
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Which houseplants should you buy to purify air? None of them
For people interested in a high-performance Python asyncio web server, sanic (https://github.com/huge-success/sanic) is also worth evaluating.
That sounds like a great start up idea. Cloudflare of payment fraud.
But gains in asset prices are not inflation. Inflation is per definition the rise of prices in consumer goods.