skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Title is misleading. Traditional AI with subroutines for each subtask would have no problem with this.

The easiest way to code this with traditional methods would be to still use deep learning for the image recognition part of it. The input to the agent at each step includes an array of numbers representing the pixels on the screen. So it doesn't get to see the 3d terrain directly; it sees a projection into 2d, and needs to recognize the 3d terrain and objects. And from there it needs to synthesize that into a map of the situation-- for example, the presence of lava, water, cliffs, and hostile monsters.

Doing that kind of object recognition without deep learning would be pretty onerous. The strategy and planning parts of this, though, I agree would be comparatively straightforward. Further, even if it started with a representation of the actual terrain blocks in a 3d model, the synthesis step into a representation of what the overall situation is-- that also is much more easily done with deep learning than with traditional methods.

Back in the day I wrote a highly effective bot for playing Star Wars Galaxies which would run missions unattended. It was created exclusively with hand-coded routines and a big nested state machine. It included a hand-written OCR library for reading the compass coordinates and accepting missions from the mission terminal in a particular direction. It knew a pre-recorded path for navigating in and out of town to and from the mission terminal. It used the little red dots on the radar scanner to determine the presence of nearby hostile creatures and mission targets. I ended up selling this system to a gold farming outfit in China; it was only available for sale to the public for a handful of days.

I bring this up because this bot for SWG didn't contain any modern machine learning or deep learning techniques, and it worked great. But if it weren't for the coordinates displayed on the radar (used for navigating through the maze of town back to the mission terminal), along with easily discernible red dots on the radar indicating enemy presence (used for knowing which direction to face during combat), I'd have been at a loss for the complex object recognition / situation recognition necessary to turn this into a task solvable by a straightforward nested state machine.
Because it puts out of business other legitimate businesses which can’t access cheap money but that would otherwise be profitable. It can lead to a situation where a company becomes a monopoly, and at that point it can take advantage of the consumer.
"It's not society's job to be fair to you," said the employer to the Irish immigrant in 19th century America. The Irishman needed to learn how to be an adult and stop whining about hiring discrimination - it was his responsibility alone to find a job and be happy, not some imagined monolith of "all employers."
Thank you for saying that. There's a huge taboo around admitting (even privately!) any regrets around having children, but I imagine there are quite a few people who'd say so if only they weren't too afraid to.
HackerNews is open source, right? We share our ideas free of charge here. I'm not even aware of the copyright if any that applies to postings here. And we do it for fun, not for profit. But does it a great book make? Does it even make a magazine?

So I think the point of the article is that while Open Source has its uses, it is not and as far as we can see never will be a wholesale replacement for commercial software.
Since others are sharing their VR productivity apps, I will do the same:

I wrote the first WebVR framework in the world. With it, I built a very simple live-programming environment: https://primrosevr.com/demos/editorVR.html

That was 2, almost 3 years ago now. I'm no longer working in WebXR, but I am still working in VR productivity. I'm currently working on an app for language and cultural learning in VR.

Unfortunately, there is nothing public to see, yet. Though we did just give our first semi-public demo last week: https://dlsdc.com/blog/dls-hosts-tenth-annual-open-house/
I apologize for the incivility, it was uncalled for. By successful I mean people who are really good at programming. The overall point I was trying to make was that good programmers are drawn to the machine at young age, out of love not out of the desire to make money. So, no, I do not think men started to be drawn into the field when they " started to notice that you could hit the jackpot and become a billionaire,". There is a certain kind of mind that is drawn to tinkering with computers and typically, but not always, that mind lives in a male body.
You're an ecological catastrophe though. We should be shaming people away from your choices not pushing people towards them.
The logical extension of this belief is to just turn the computer off. That way it's not running any code and is 100% secure.
Bourbaki were certainly made up of a collection of leading mathematicians, but the works of Bourbaki are not innovations themselves. As much as I love the books, they do not contain major new results, rather they are an excellent organisation of pre-existing knowledge, perhaps with some novel proofs.
If there are all these ways to verify that the answers to questionnaires are accurate you'd think those ways would have been used instead of questionnaires as proof in this highly controversial and inflammatory subject. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, don't they?
Isn’t the title wrong? The audio is sent to the server so it’s not “on my phone.”

This type of translation was already available “on my phone” completely offline (written, with Google Translate)

I use translation often and I was hoping to finally have an easy way to have a written conversation, but this still doesn’t show the right keyboard when picking the language in “Keyboard” mode.
Great notebooks! While looking at the "cornell_box_pt_numpy.ipynb" one I noticed a few things odd:

- The input colours to the walls are scaled by somehow arbitrary values and they don't seem to match the spectral reflectance distributions converted to, for example, sRGB:

White
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Jupyter Notebook : [255, 239, 196] / 255
sRGB (Scene-Referred Linear) : [ 0.73825082 0.73601591 0.73883266]
sRGB (Output-Referred) : [ 0.87468844 0.87351472 0.87499367]

Green
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Jupyter Notebook : [.117, .4125, .115] * 1.5
sRGB (Scene-Referred Linear) : [ 0.06816358 0.39867395 0.08645648]
sRGB (Output-Referred) : [ 0.28953442 0.66418933 0.32540958]

Red
---
Jupyter Notebook : [.611, .0555, .062] * 1.5
sRGB (Scene-Referred Linear) : [ 0.49389675 0.04880702 0.05120209]
sRGB (Output-Referred) : [ 0.73132279 0.24476901 0.2508128 ]

The correct values, assuming a sRGB working space, would be the middle rows, i.e. sRGB (Scene-Referred Linear).

- The final image does not seem to be encoded for Output/Display, i.e. there is no gamma correction thus it is not displayed correctly.
The Bible has something like 40 authors. It would probably be classified as a "work of art of importance", even if you don't classify it as anything more than that.
You are right, of course. My work is already quite rewarding so I do need to work on tempering my expectations.

Thank you. I will try to enjoy these moments as a parent more.
Raise your hand if just running your web browser has pegged your top-end, multiprocessor, high-mem system in the last month. Both Firefox and Chrome have for me.
Even given that, He chose to create this world, with these people. Choosing between 2 evils doesn't mean you chose evil, but it does mean you chose an evil.
Thank you for sharing your opinion that I can't bring up fascism until there's a full on fucking genocide.

It takes a special kind of stupid to blame rising fascism on people who warn about fascism. You are that stupid.

In every country that had an authoritarian takeover (and there are a LOT!), there were people noting the problem early, and there were worthless pieces of shit like you who didn't want to hear it.

Go fuck yourself.
The gender relations point is any random woman is much much much less likely to have loneliness and finding dates as a problem so it doesn't come up in this scenario as much.
Servo: a petrol station, service station

"In Australian English, diminutives are usually formed by taking the first part of a word, and adding an a, o, ie, or y. Alternatively in some cases no ending may be added. While the form of a diminutive is arbitrary, their use follows strict rules. Diminutives are not used creatively.

For example, an ambulance paramedic is called an ambo, and is never pronounced ambie or amba. The use of the -ie ending, for example in bikie (a motorcycle club member), does not carry a connotation of smallness or cuteness as it does in other English dialects."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutives_in_Australian_Engl...
A point to make is mid 20th century psychiatry and philosophy were hot garbage.
The truth of the matter is that us felons do work for less – at least I did – mostly because we have no choice. We are also less likely to be promoted. Three times I had job offers withdrawn because of my criminal past. Having much more to lose than someone without a criminal record I never considered doing anything illegal, or anything that would cast a shadow of doubt to my integrity. “Once a criminal always a criminal” is just not true. Unfortunately, too many people subscribe to the false cliché.
I think he covers that a bit discussing Red Hat and other OS successes, and goes on to say "There's a larger group of not-so-harmless people than the givers who are driven by greed for free stuff and a sense of entitlement"
An extremely rare zugzwang with 10 pieces +kings and pawns on the board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Zugzwang_Game
> 94.2% of trains have reached their final destination within six minutes of the scheduled time

That's a terrible statistic. First off, connections are designed to be just a few minutes, so 5 minutes delay (not included in this stat) makes you miss an average connection.

Secondly, that statistic is about trains, not people: one could manage to have 50% of people be delayed by 30-60 minutes every day and still have 94.2% of trains run on time just by having only the busiest trains between 8-9h and 16-18h delayed enough to miss people's local connection.

Finally, the final destination says nothing about intermediate stops (why not just look at every stop?). Things like switching drivers, refueling, or just introducing some slack in the schedule is most often done at endpoints. Heck, if I know this is the statistic being used, I would be sure to design my schedules to have even more leeway at the endpoints than I otherwise already would.

I'm curious to see how this statistic changes when it includes intermediate stops and counts delayed passengers rather than empty trains running on time. Optionally, counting the full delay (missed connection / actual frustration) instead of the technical train delay would also be interesting.

As one datapoint, my girlfriend takes a train from Cologne in rush hour that is 4-20 minutes late more than half the time, with a connecting bus that goes once an hour that is always on time or even early. She usually misses it.
In typical HN fashion, this just sounds like an excuse to jaw about your resume projects.

How would these clearly niche projects be something "every programmer" should try? When in enterprise engineering is 2MB a normal amount of memory for something to need? I'ved worked in videogames, fintech, e-commerce and worked on many kinds of systems and not run into anything with such requirements.

Not to mention, the sorts of "lessons learned" on such projects could actually hurt an engineer when working on more realistic enterprise systems. At my current job (where I manage many teams of engineers), if I saw engineers micro-optimizing to save 2 MB of memory instead of getting features shipped I would ask their tech-lead wtf was going on.

I've seen far more damage done by premature optimization in my career than I've seen it actually help matters. Engineers trying to be "extra smart" and show of their extreme memory/cpu optimization skills so often leads to wasted time, hard to debug code, or worse, annoying bugs which are much more difficult to diagnose later.
The Massachusetts car economy is costing us $64B a year, and we ba (cont)
Am coming to this discussion a bit late, but having raised two kids, now adults, the advice I would give myself 20 years ago would be this:

1. Your children are not mini-me's. They are independent little munchkins that transition through confused, pained and painful teens into eventual adulthood. Don't expect them to behave or respond like you.

2. Be present. This isn't about quantity of time spent or kinds of activities shared. It's about quality = anytime your kid knows you care and enjoy being with them.

3. Focus on the journey not the outcomes. Read anything you can about "stoic parenting".

4. Don't be a hypocrite. Every lesson you give your kid must be applicable to you. If not, then shut up. There's no faster way to parenting failure than hypocrisy.

I'm not sure if this advice would have changed things too much. But it would have made all our journeys easier.
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Well, we've been married for 17 and were together 6 years before, but thanks! :-)
Do you just mean that mentioning his viewpoint was overly harsh in this discussion? I've only heard him mentioned in a positive light until now.
The preface is also available in the preview. It goes in further detail about the scope of the book. There's also the table of contents.

I haven't seen the book you mentioned, so I can't comment on that.
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What does balanced mean? IMO, balanced internal power distribution would be a system where you have a certain power budget, and whichever execution unit is active can scale up as fast as it can to use that power. A system where the clocks are fixed and the power usage varies widely sounds unbalanced in comparison.
"well he was warning that there was a wolf, but in fact it was just a few wolf cubs. Nobody ever could've foreseen that they'd grow into wolves!
Hmm... I thought the 9-5, office work, working for other people/businesses are the modern inventions and for tens of thousands of years mankind spent 80%+ of the day with their offsprings/families/villages.

It's interesting to think that "quality time" which in this context simply means "2 hours per day together" should be enough. This is not how humans evolved.

As harsh as it sounds, the philosophical question above is quite legit: why have kids in the first place if they are then put into daycare until they are grown enough to not to have to care about them anymore at all...
In my experience, having some apps physically out of view (like OP's IRC and music videos) actually help with focus sometimes compared to a traditional monitor setup, where you always have a visual reminder in your taskbar or when you alt+tab to check in on IRC, Slack, HN, etc.

I guess you could mimic that experience by e.g. hiding your taskbar, but "out of sight, out of mind" definitely applies here w.r.t. focus, and it seems like a 360-degree space offers unique ways to keep things fully out of sight while still readily available.
Can you tell us more about what you learned from point one and two?
> In 1990 when you said a program was 'open source', you meant that you could read the source code; the actual code the person had written to create the program.

Citation needed. I don't think people were saying "open source" in 1990. FSF/GNU had the term "free software" for longer but they had to explain it on every first use. (Probably still do to an extent.)
A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
Yes, I know how blessed I am to have what I have. Thank you for the reminder.
> Studies consistently show childless people are happiest irrespective of age.

Funny, another poster somewhere here suggested that studies show people with young children are less happy, but after about 5 years old or so, happiness is roughly the same, and after the parents turn 60, happiness and health tends to be higher than for older people without kids.

No one seems to be posting sources, so it's hard to verify these claims.
But cookies are automatically sent with every request to your server. So you would need to take special care to ensure they aren’t sent until you have permission.
You can always compare two samples without controlling for confounding differences. However, you need to controlling for confounding differences when you want to explain the differences. When we say there is a difference in IQ between two groups, we are not saying the difference is genetic. The raw difference in IQ does have a meaning by itself.

I do agree with you that there are questions regarding to measurement issues and confounding issues. But it is hard to believe all the group differences can be explained away by solving these issues.
Which makes the faith in Apple's recent pivot to privacy suspect. While it's financially viable it will continue. The moment it costs more than the alternative ... it's unlikely to endure. One might say their compromising in China is a sign they've already begun to change.
There’s a wonderful interactive online game (for lack of a better work) that lets you explore and experience a game theoretic analysis of that tension. Very instructive. When trust collapses, everyone is much worse off.

https://ncase.me/trust/
Well...The local operators,here in London,solved the stats issue this way: if a train is late, it skips many stations and still arrive to the end station on time. Guess what,all the stats are produced on first- last ststion basis...
Oopsie: A Controller using StackOverflow to help resolving Kubernetes issues
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That's great for you, but the entire point of this subthread is that everyone is different, and what works for some people doesn't work for others.
In the real world there are trade offs. This is engineering 101.
Right, so you have to build in slack yourself, i.e. you can't rely on the "high punctuality" of 75%. They might as well be 1% punctual and, unless the amount of delay also increases, it wouldn't change a thing.
It's true in Australia, in any case, at least for people who arrive by boat or are on the way to deportation.

I assume most Australians who work in Germany would have an EU citizenship by descent from their parents: not so unusual given the number of immigrants in Australia.
Makes sense! Keep up the good work!! I think as the other poster said, business results are #1 internal processes #2.
From my experience, this is absolutely true. I figured children wouldn’t interfere with my hobbies because I’d still have evenings and the weekend to do stuff.

Turns out that during the week you are generally too exhausted, and in the weekend you always have to figure out where to leave your child if you won’t want to saddle your partner with them.

You could bring your kids, but people without children (rightly so) quickly tire of this, so you mostly end up interacting with other couples with children, and that’s glorious too, because suddenly there’s 4 instead of 2 qualified adults to pay attention.

On the other hand, I didn’t expect the amount of satisfaction I would get out of children to be this great either, and it was definitely worth the bargain.
"I think it's a huge myth to think of athleticism as a talent and not a skill that can be trained. "

Do people really believe this? You can get pretty far with training but the top athletes have talent AND work hard.

Personally I was always one of the slowest, uncoordinated
and weakest in any sport in my youth. When I was 16 I started martial arts and in a few years got myself from the bottom to someone who is generally regarded as pretty athletic. But I had to put in as much as work as other more talented guys who went on to win championship. Due to my lack of talent unfortunately
championships were out of my reach but I am still happy with the improvement and it's probably one of the most important things I have done in my life.
Yeah. No plans for any hires in the next 2 months at least, maybe longer. I think in general I'm actually too passive about culture and process since I assume everyone is as proactive as I am. Too little decree results in anarchy or weak leadership.
I read this book too, and it was such a great book. The paper it was printed on, the whole binding of it, everything. It's definitely one you have to read hardback.
> it's rather more time than kids historically got.

But... But... Any reference to this? All I can see here that some people think that "history" is how their great-grandparents were.

No!

After industrialization and urbanization, so less then a couple hundred years ago did humans start this new lifestyle. You don't even have to travel back in time, just travel to places where tribes and their commons are still around (to a certain extent). You will see, that "history" is far away from going to an office 9-5 and then spend 2 hours with your offsprings.
This is a very good book! Recently, I am very happy with a number of more foundational data books from O’Reilly:

Designing Data-Intensive Applications https://dataintensive.net/

Streaming Systems http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920073994.do

and this one.
Late journalist's portrayal in 'Richard Jewell' angers her family
See also: Atlanta Nights, another sort of "successful failure" group-written project meant to demonstrate that an alleged "publisher" was really a vanity press with no actual standards or editorial process. You can now buy the book via various links from the official website of the "author" [1], but in case you're in need of a few giggles right this minute, the submitted manuscript was also released by one of the conspirators [2].

[1] http://www.travistea.com/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20050305143929/http://www.cs.du....
You might be interested in RiftSketch:

https://github.com/brianpeiris/RiftSketch
I have been reading amazon reviews for the foldable ones. Not sure if I can trust them though. I have given rowing machines some thought. It will be a toss between the two.
> Sports and marital art practice are all about getting sub-second decisions and extremely quick/smooth movements; none of that's relevant to writing something without feeling like a fool.

Some people expect their brain to answer a question like "I want to make this particular box's children evenly vertically-spaced. What is the name of the css property to google?" with a confident sub-second response. Some people, upon observing that they can't, feel like a fool.

For those people, it is relevant.

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> Maybe a tool like this necessarily needs a bunch of practice. Or maybe it's badly designed, and the experience should be more like chopping a carrot.

I'd like to live in a world where every tool thats the best for a job is well-designed.

I'd also like to live in a world every message I try to communicate is one that people pay attention to and understand in the spirit I intended, even if I never edit it.

I'd also like to live in a world where my lumbar region is pain-free, even if I don't regularly do squats.

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The author's words about his pain points are still valuable. Systems should be improved. They can't be improved unless problems are made clear. There is much broken in the world and many of us have taken up the call to fix it and we should heed the words of others' frustration.

But there is much broken in the world that won't get fixed anytime soon.