skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stack is basic. I develop on an old lenovo laptop and test for a few dozen frames(you can learn a lot without a CUDA GPU) before pushing it to a desktop with a cheap nvidia card. It uses pytorch and pyboy, and the model is just a couple Conv2d expansions and compressions before hitting a Linear layer outputting predicted reward for certain keypresses(basically). The model training is based off of deep Q learning. I'm looking at a pytorch tutorial[1] when I get stuck, but I'm trying to fumble around and try it myself as much as possible before looking at it.

I have an idea to have variable Q training propagation based on the amplitude of the reward so that bigger rewards propagate more, but I haven't got there yet.

Here is a great video on reinforcement learning[2].

[1] https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/mario_rl_tutorial...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M1l_nrhpQ&t=3381
If they are reaping the benefits of green tax incentives, then these tax incentives are working as designed?
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Yes! She actually volunteered to be followed up with and tracks her symptoms daily and is due to get the Pfizer vaccine next week.

We're very hopeful that it might improve the situation.
If you were at a shop that used grpc a lot, would you not have tools ready to go that can turns the protobuf back into text?

I've often thought how odd it is that the world is spending time and energy parsing things into text formats and back, when its just two computers communicating...making more work for themselves and the entire internet backbone....just because we can't be bothered to use a simple tool when debugging over the wire.
What can we tell from the evolution of Han Chinese names?
Instead of meritocracy, he proposes black-only employment programs. What a joke.

This is just the usual black supremacist posing as some kind of angry pragmatist.
Customers usually burn cannabis too. So that counts toward scope 3.
Are you implying urban planning only happens for world fairs?
Good suggestion! We'll set this up.
> I wonder if b-school/management types put serious thought into managing complexity they don't understand.

Think this is highly dependent on the school/student; In my experience (data point size=1), MBA teaching hasn't really caught up to the fact that basically everything is technology these days, so it shouldn't be treated as something 'separate'
to the 'real' business, which it often still is - i'd wager that the resulting compartmentalization in thinking around how to manage tech is the main driver behind allowing poor systems to capture IT value from the financial perspective...
I’ve been watching WSB with interest for a bit. This has not been what they’ve been about until January of this year. Before it was basically a place where the one eyed were leading the blind: someone would post their research on a particular play, like buying TSLA options for a particular date at a particular price because they think the phase of the moon and the mood of the CEO will line up to give the stock price a bump, and then everyone putting their 401k savings all into that play because it sounded plausible. Sometimes it would pay off, often it resulted in people losing lots of money. The “specialness” of the community came from when people posted “loss porn” aka screenshots of their accounts with huge losses, people would basically be really encouraging towards the poster. It was a sort of sign of respect that you risked it all and lost.

Actually buying stock and not just options is brand new to that group, and they have nearly doubled in size since January so it seems to be going through serious transitions. Now they are doing what they can to put the thumb on the scale to squeeze hedge funds out of their GME positions. The crux of it is whether enough shorts have been made to make this possible and the rumor de jour is that hedge funds misreport their positions. Whether this is true or not, well if you look at WSB posts they’ll say it’s obviously true. I am not convinced personally.

To be clear, WSB to me appears to be doing absolutely nothing illegal or wrong to manipulate the market. The only coordinated effort is to buy GME and AMC and not sell the stock unless it seriously goes up in value (current posts think it’ll go to $10k-100k). They suspect hedge funds are performing ladder attacks to lower the price, so every time the price dips the advice is to buy more. I don’t see how simply buying stock at market price is market manipulation except that it does have an effect on the volume of a particular stock.
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They will never bann chrome, but I am sure they wills start banning lesser known browsers that are not Chrome, Edge, and Firefox...
> that is basically the minimum needed for solar that doesn't end up with regular power outages

Why is it needed?

My first comment in this thread is in the context of putting the PV in the Sahara desert.
IMO it’s increasingly obvious that regardless of how a company is structured, tech companies situated in a nation are inescapably related to geopolitical security matters.

They are all easy targets for intel and manipulation, and any nation that cannot manage its own tech faces uncomfortable strategic vulnerability.
To begin with, Google Play Store is the baddest of all. No need to list other particular apps accessible from therein.
Also you can run Freetz, a way to extend (not replace) the router software. It has enabled me to run mDNS for split DHCP.
Does gabapentin do something similar? I've seen this prescribed more and more for pain relief, and it seems to have some serious side effects. My wife refuses to take it after taking it for just afew days.
And check out how GitLab frames their change: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1369777337252904960

> You spoke and we listened

Some voices are more equal than others, I guess.
I've got a UniFi Dream Machine Pro and a UAP-AC-PRO, and it's everything I could ever need or want in a home network. I had an EdgeRouter X before the UDM Pro, which was also very nice but definitely lacked a lot polish and also just couldn't provide the full speed of my Internet connection (600mbps).

My parents have Eero, and it's definitely a really nice system that Just Works. Exactly as you described it, perfect for a consumer that wants quality without having to be a network admin.
Hah, was just playing this game, and the fist-fighting is impossible - no idea how anyone managed to successfully play that minigame
> But when you actually see the process from the inside you see how optical and ridiculous it is. The entire program is a joke. No matter what one does the top of the funnel is so ridiculously non-diverse that it's excruciatingly difficult to hire a diverse person.

I agree based on my personal experiences.

One of the concrete suggestions by the author of the blog post really strikes me as a step that we could implement, but we don’t: drawing from non-traditional backgrounds. And it’s because it’s an uphill battle. Much easier to do some low hanging fruit.

I’m not a minority in tech, but coming into my current job I had a semi-traditional background. Even getting first rounds was a struggle, only ameliorated by having a professional network of tech people, which is very much not something that you can expect a non-traditional candidate to have.

Seriously, my “get to phone screen” rate without network referrals was around 2-3%. With referrals was about 60%. That’s how bad it gets. So now when it’s in my direct control I go out of my way to look for non-traditional backgrounds in the pipeline and give them the benefit of the doubt during resume screening, paid for in hours I spend interviewing instead of programming
Wait, I have to post things people like?

Ouch there goes my Sokal slant. Better read up on my Sartre.
The default instance is mine and I follow almost no one, trying to keep that "family safe". But it looks like I need to also make sure it's "politically safe". The instance list is the official list provided by Peertube. I believe the goal is to make that list decentralised and self-filling as it should be. The NSFW filter is on per default.

BTW, Google blocked an update not long ago because of a typo in my description where a word was repeated...
Is Mikrotik Router Monitoring System an actual MikroTik software, or is third party open source project? Doesn't seem to be provided by MikroTik: https://github.com/adeoluwa-adebiyi/Mikrotik-Router-Monitori...
Maybe a naive question: Would it be possible and useful to have some type of checksum system for videos? (Perhaps we already do).

This might not defend against all deep fakes, but at least it could in certain cases with more...official videos. I'm not sure how this could defend e.g. a person from a deep fake someone made of them without their knowledge. But I'd like to hear what people who are more knowledgable than me think.
> Who profits from this?

Remember back when GoldenPalace.com would do stuff like buy grilled cheeses shaped like Jesus and stuff for a million dollars? I thought that was so stupid, who cares? It’s just a cheap way to buy publicity and probably better than a million dollars in advertising.

I thought it was stupid, but people are busy and just getting a second of time for large numbers of people is possible to monetize.

So these stupid novelty things are likely guerrilla marketing at best, pump and dump fraud at worst. It’s like the olden days where you could start a social media storm with a few accounts and small amount of money.
One of my favorite zen koans is "Fire-poker Zen":

"Hakuin used to tell his pupils about an old woman who had a teashop, praising her understanding of Zen. The pupils refused to believe what he told them and would go to the teashop to find out for themselves.

Whenever the woman saw them coming she could tell at once whether they had come for tea or to look into her grasp of Zen. In the former case, she would serve them graciously. In the latter, she would beckon to the pupils to come behind her screen. The instant they obeyed, she would strike them with a fire-poker.

Nine out of ten of them could not escape her beating."

It is a great metaphor. Nine out of ten applications of the tolerance paradox do not pass the fire poker test. One needs a certain level of enlightenment and maturity of judgement to apply it, otherwise it can turn into metooism, mob behavior and plain hypocrisy.
“Why oppress X but not Y, it’s a double standard”

And both goes. That’s only logical.
Wow even Emacs doing better than I would have thought at 4.5%.

People overestimate the value of massive community and apply a winner takes all mentality too often. You don't need a giant community, and almost by definition giant communities tend to have a lower average user quality leading to lower quality of libraries and support (looking at you JS ecosystem).
That is true. You cannot trust Google. They will point to their policies and even if you critique this they will lock and ignore your request. You can't use F-droid as an example of supporting 'Free software' or FLOSS if it is restricting distribution of its list of apps to certain people they don't like in the default repository, which goes against the point of branding yourself as 'free software' in the first place.

The only way to distribute your app without all these problems is by self-hosting it yourself like the old days of downloading a .exe, .dmg, from the website or have a app store like Cydia where you can freely add their list of apps with a click of a button that says something like 'Add to Cydia'.

Problem Solved.
Project managers != engineering managers.

Project management is a pretty saturated field, you are correct. Engineering team management is considerably less saturated and EMs are just as in-demand as ICs.

However, much of the value of a good EM is derived as someone who builds and grows a team over a long period of time, so you don't see nearly as much short-term job hopping as you do with ICs.
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The article doesn't mention Intel getting out of the game, so I imagine you'll be able to get Optane for at least a little longer.
People are critical of Spring because they have seen it in production and in practical projects. And fall in the naive trap that somehow the tools and the libraries are the reasons why a real-life software project is messy.

However Spring is something that has stood the test of time and is used in thousands of actual projects. And Spring itself emerge out of practical software development with plenty of competing alternatives (Guice, classic J2EE plus many others).

The mentioned alternatives in article: Micronaut and Quarkus are not much beyound the demo state, and frankly based on some questionable ideas: Compile-time dependency injection and idea of "cloud native" - that somehow things run better in the cloud if they are compiled into a binary.
Brian has already said that a static set of operators for classes extending Number is on the roadmap. That's all that's required. Arbitrary operator overloading is a terrible idea.
While this is true, "learning the biases of the researchers who built it" is a very misleading way of putting it, because it is still very unclear if and how certain design decisions impact the bias of the resulting model.

Given that reducing bias while not giving up other desirable properties is a young and open research direction, researchers in general should not be faulted for using the current (imperfect) state of the art or for working on something that is not (yet) focused on bias.
I originally played the Amiga version back in the day, but it was (as far as I can see) 100% identical to the EGA version and therefore looked pretty bad compared with Amiga-native games or better ports. To their credit, Lucasfilm put more effort into later games (Indy IV, Monkey Island I/II etc.). The Amiga's graphics were in between EGA and VGA (palette of 4096 colors, but only 32 colors at the same time without further tricks), so it wasn't really straightforward to port a PC game...
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Well that's not quite the same, since it's biased by rate of search. The interesting question is crime statistics corrected for encounter rate.

Which tbf I also don't have links for on hand.
Because it's utterly useless, stupid.
Sorry if you don't get that.
“No one uses it to start a company”
There is always a smartass isn't there? You know very well that I was generalising and obviously it will vary by region due to historical reasons.
And yet people accept work in "at-will" states.

And the reason is the same as in developers build upon Google Play and Apple Store: they don't have another choice to make a living.
> Just got a new Mikrotik RBwAPG-5HacD2HnD

That's a wireless access point, not a router. Different animal.

For WAPs, I'm waiting for 802.11ax/bd to be more reasonably priced. In the mean time, it's wires for me.
No, there's nothing. It's literally a line of text attached to the number. It doesn't mean anything, except that if someone tried to put that same line of text on another one, there'd be a social media uproar about "fraud" in NFTs. It's just a matter of time until it happens.

But for now, it's more profitable for people to keep them actually unique and ride the wave of ridiculous money.

And no, it's not really any different than selling naming rights to something that can't be owned, and selling it to multiple people. I'm sure those certificates have a number on them, too.
I'd be really interested to hear from any black people here - does the idea of having a device or piece of software being called a 'slave' really actually offend anybody?

I'd never subconsciously linked the term with human slaves, only ever really thinking of it as an abstract concept, until people started complaining about it... Part of it may be coming from a different cultural context, not being from the US though...
These aren't metaphors, though. For example, a "parent process" uses the term "parent" that's defined as "a source or origin of a smaller or less important part," not "a father or mother," or one of the other half-dozen definitions
I can tell you first hand that "the youth" aren't thinking about margins and taxes when they are deciding between taking a job and joining the illegal drug market. They're thinking about how long it takes to earn a dollar.
I did keto for a while. I didn’t care much for the science behind it, I just happened to like the food groups and it made me be hyper vigilant about tracking macros and counting calories. It worked!
Well, the Left is largely a globalist, neoliberal caste at this point. They had their revolution, kicked the Old Guard to the ground, assumed power, and put in place their own regime. All revolutions are about power, not improvement. And usually, the "cure" is worse than the disease.

> What US considers center left actually is right

The problem here is that the entire political spectrum has shifted leftward. So perhaps in a relative sense what you wrote is true, but in the historical sense, everyone is further left than they were, say, 70 years ago. (It's also true that 70 years ago, people still believed in modernity, and that's no longer the case. 30 years ago, people believed in the End of History, which, despite Western triumphalism, is also no longer the case.)
Meh, I just like 'main' because it's two letters shorter than 'master'. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
tl;dr:

> This has been a rather long-winded way of saying that we shouldn’t treat digital art as though it were a stock to be traded.
I don't know, in the EGA version the sarcophagus is much more prominent, which takes away the focus from the face quite a bit.
To me the VGA version actually feels like it is more focussed on the face and shield by making the background less intrusive..
I think that you were supposed to mostly rely on stealth. You don't have to fight the big guy in the castle -- you can get him very drunk take him down with one punch.

edit: just for fun, here is the scene -- https://youtu.be/9ivNLD75rAU?t=2854
When I build something, I alone get to decide what my labor enables and what it does not. If you disagree with my choices, you’re free to use a tool built by someone whose values better align with yours.
Without exception, all of the most talented individuals I’ve met wanted to be seen and interacted with as individuals. It’s Sally the engineer, not a nameless member of women-in-technology. Or Clinton the engineer, not a recent SWE graduate of an HBCU.

Protectionist thinking is off-putting to many when it strays over some imaginary line to where I act as if I must be the champion for an underrepresented group because they think I think they are less capable. When I join with them to help, it’s generally welcome; when an influential person speaks as if that help is charitable (rather than equitable), it puts off some people.
stress is known to make systems less fragile.

The way to improve things is to speak "truth to power", and the moral way to do it is to always "punch upwards".

I've been riling against Trump, Bannon & Co for the past 4 years. Before that I've been vocal about Obama's reign of terror, his broken promises of closing gitmo, and his drone wars. No doubt in my next 4 years I'll be hurling insults against Biden.

There is no need to add disclaimers or enumerating all things that a comment doesn't stand for. Doing so not only makes for "boring reading" but also looks like the person feels very insecure.
I just left a team that was structured similarly. It was a pleasure managing them.

Team members were:
- Manager (me), BA - managed backlog and some project management (actual title was principal dev, but she wanted a role change), 2x senior developers (both capable of architectural work), 2x developers, 2x test engineers, 0.5 Product manager (they report through their own branch of the org chart and cover several related products).

Additionally, I had 2.5 developers working on a different project, run as a separate agile team.

New team is 1 architect, 1 senior dev, 1 dev, 1 test engineer. BA and PM support comes from elsewhere, which is a big change fo me. Also in a new technical area (SRE vs 20 years of product/app dev). Fun, but stressful. I'll reserve judgement on the lack of BA/PM until I'm a few months into the role.
This is a soft form of the same argument. Whatever may be the proportion of those people, the community still has to own up to it if this portion exists.
>To reduce the carbon footprint of a user playing RDR2, you either need newer more energy efficient hardware, or you need to alter the experience the game provides to make it less computationally expensive.

Or add extra tax on those who play video games to cover the carbon impact or ban high powered GPUs so they can't even cause that impact anyway, keep all gaming at low end mobile device processor levels.

It's all still code running over the same circuits whether it's being used to verify crypto or let people pretend to be a cowboy. If crypto is taxed more for it's impact then so should video games and maybe things like Marvel movies for the impact of their CGI rendering.

or does the argument of environmental impact go out of the window when its Rockstar and Disney making money from running processors full blast rather than some nobody getting rich from crypto.
Yeah, people should start treating, morally, settling just as losing a case. This doesn't apply for individuals, but companies settling for millions and millions are morally admitting defeat. Corporations can afford the drawn out court battles, so if they're not continuing them, it means that they're admitting they lost.
Given battery factories are being built as fast as possible, and given the batteries in the cars are often suggested as overnight storage (and that transport is such a major part of overall power use), I disagree that this a problem. I would instead describe it as an economic opportunity.

Also, the cost of grid storage batteries is dominated by the short lifespan rather than by the number of days or hours it can replace supply. If the battery is enough for a week of zero power from all sources in your entire grid, the wear from normal use takes longer to become a significant cost.
sounds like it's a nice, picturesque, quiet place. now they got 200 wind turbines powering Apple's data center. it's not even powering their homes. how are they benefiting from this exactly? what are they proud of? Apple is just going to open more data centers, hardly eco-friendly.

Related from Germany, Netherlands:

https://www.datacenter-forum.com/datacenter-forum/datacenter...

https://www.dw.com/en/the-germans-fighting-wind-farms-close-....
I'm disappointed the history wont mention states that became very wealthy off their deposits, only a few became good stewards of that wealth and the rest just got more skyscrapers and sportscars. They had to import teachers, engineers, system admins and other workers from developing nations, contributing hugely to those economies. And the wars.
It's disingenuous for an author to disparage racism while being racist in his or her own article.

Rich/privileged White boys is racist. It's framing a race negatively. Gross.
And then somewhere in 2019 it suddenly became a racist word against people of color in northern amerika.
My friend made literally the same point few days ago regarding anyone buying these NFTs.

My question to him was, "Would you buy the ownership of Heroes by David Bowie (his favorite song of all time), for $2000 (a price he can afford)?"

He conceded the point before I finished the sentence. Now imagine if the NFT also came with the royalty rights of the song (not that this Grumpy cat came with that, but NFTs can be created where they carry rights with them), wouldn't he be willing to pay an even higher price?