skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can mathematically prove for a lot of different algorithms (including PPO, DQN, IMPALA) that given enough experience with the game world, they will eventually converge to the optimal policy. It's just that the "enough experience" part might be so large that it's practically useless.

If I remember correctly, the DeepMind x UCL RL Lecture Series proves the underlying Bellman equation in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOMeug_i_M

As for "hidden information" games, I thought the trick was to concatenate the current state with all past states and treat that as the new state, thereby making it an MDP.
They're not in everything, just most large and popular things.
Yeah it is from KSP, good ear!

https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/most/kerbalspacep...

Oops I should really add a credit for it.
When you try to argue that it can replace taxes. Sure, Bezos did create jobs. His money did "trickle-down" by creating more and more jobs, that much is undeniable. But he is not paying even a small percentage of what he should be paying in taxes.
Was in the TestFlight program. Improving quickly with each release!
Chuck Marohn did my favorite exploration of this issue in "The Growth Ponzi Scheme"[0]. I wish this was front and center in the Zeitgeist.

[0]https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
Doing a quick lookup over the budget of Norway, it seems like they invest directly about 4 billion USD each year (this is for year 2007, but it can't be be wildly different today). Compare that to the government letting the pension fund invest 1400 billions on the open market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

I would say even the government of Norway recognized that the free economy will do better with the money that they can (and how right they were!)
The general domain is group conflict and change. There's a literature on that. Naval's failed to acknowledge its existence, let alone consult it.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7,39&qsp=2&q...

Changing a change of mind is a subset of admitting error. Naval's claim is an absolute ("never"), and a single counterexample serves as a sufficient disproof.

I've provided multiple.
i worked construction for a bit, and you wouldn’t believe the exceptions we made for certain “historic” buildings. i remember discussing this with my foreman, we were in an impoverished area of the city that just so happened to be “historical” by the cities standards. i am a-ok with preserving the past but these engineers told us that when we pull out the old lead piping, we gotta replace it with another lead pipe to “preserve the historical value” of the property. this was the lateral going into the housing from the water main. do you realize how ridiculous that is? their excuse was that lead pipes deal with expansion and contraction better than pvc, or some other type of piping. and they said that the inside of the pipes are now coated with some type of sealant that keeps the lead from seeping into the residence water supply. so next time you buy a city property make sure you check the water laterals, you can get this information from the city engineering office. i think the records are found in the same building as where you get your construction permits but you’ll have to double check.
He says: and including a first-use nuclear attack.

It's like the phrasing of invading a country and bombing with nuclear weapons is "all options are on the table."
Reading comprehension. They may or may not have picked an unfortunate example to make their point, but that by no means refutes their initial statement:

> Mile for mile, studies show the U.S. spends more than all but five other countries in the world on public transit, and more on roads than any other country that discloses spending data.
The idea of "I'm raising money to get people to stop using REST/JSON" seems kinda weird to me. I get that they have a product and all but the general lead in here seems weird to me.
It's a completely avoidable UI problem, too. There are two kinds of notifications:

- Notifications while I am actively using a thing - for example, "your upload is finished," or "."

- Push notifications from some website I looked at once and accidentally allowed notifications.

Browsers keep treating these as if they're the same thing. Firefox doesn't make any effort to separate them - you get the same "allow notifications" banner whether it's for push notifications or the plain old notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio... / https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192458).

But they're obviously different. I don't want to disallow notifications for every website I interact with, but if you aren't telling me what kind of notifications these are, I don't really have much to work with here.
The increase in living standards in China are directly caused by US efforts to open up China, to accept investment and liberalization of it's economy. And yes one is morally superior. One is an ethno-nationalist state that is genociding a religious minority while the other is multi cultural democracy. The successes or failures of either will inform which direction all of humanity will move towards in the 21st century.
And they can also deduct the interest on the loan since it is for business purposes. The also mixed-unit aspect of the real estate also mitigates any recent real estate tax deduction limits.
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The conviction of Galileo is actually pretty funny; it took a few decades _after landing on the moon_ for the church to apologize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Modern_Catholic...

That's some sinful pride right there.
I am not familiar with Julia, but it seems like the common feature of “automatic big num conversion” would work against optimization like this correct? Because the output type no longer depends on the input types, but also there values.
Of course it needs special scrutiny. What if in the midst of a break down in talks between the US and China, Chinese regulators come calling and say that either Apple provides the iCloud backup data of a staffer of an America senator or else they will be immediately banned from the Chinese market.
IMO vector search is pretty much a solved problem with simple to use, open source libraries like Faiss offering incredible performance out of the box for most commercial use cases.

A much harder problem is creating accurate vectors to begin with. Even the most advanced language models today create word/sentence embeddings that leave a lot to be desired. Not to mention this is slow and GPU intensive.

Creating an end-to-end solution for embedding/searching/ranking (of which vector search is just one component, the other one should be some kind of keyword based search to increase precision) is what would be very valuable to offer as a service.
It's an old system that iirc they're phasing out. It was probably designed against for older analog systems similar to the the pulsed IR jammer turrets on US helicopters.

Focal plane trackers are generally able to defeat these types of decoys through software updates
How do you seed when there's no activity on all three fronts?
> I doubt the dead people (the vast majority being 60+) are the ones mandating it.

What’s with the silly straw man? Your last comment was a straw man too. I’m interested in a rational discussion if we can have one. Are you uninterested in that?

> if that’s a majority then the majority is simply misinformed (or stupid).

Then it seems like you’re saying the vaccine mandate is not tyranny, it’s just in your opinion stupid people, right?
GitLab team member here.

> no way to combine a text search with label/milestone/status filters, etc.

You can combine text search with field search (like label/milestone/status. Here’s an example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues?search=Visuali...
I literally can't get my 1904 Victorian house painted with any of the modern energy saving paint on the outside because the contractors all look at the age of the house and say "that's a lead job" and then can't find a remediation contractor, plus want to charge me $100k for a paint job. But the house has been pressure washed and repainted with lead-free pain by the former owner. Has me tearing my hair, since I'm disabled and can't climb ladders to do it myself. So my house has a decaying paint job.
Indeed. In fact, even with the release of generics in Go 1.18, which is coming out in early 2022 exactly a decade after Go 1.0, there will be no new keywords. So it won't even have happened once in a decade. :-)
If you're referring to IA-64, then what information available in 1994 would have made you believe that VLIW / EPIC wasn't a viable path to provide >1 IPC at competitive clock speeds? Something very many customers were asking for and wanted.

Some good ideas work. Some good ideas don't. Doesn't mean they were bad ideas, only that unknown at the time factors or future developments made them bad ideas.
This a perfect example of what some people have referred to as "first-principles thinking". Except in this case, the person doing the thinking is an idiot.
So rendering glyphs (with textures?) is slow, vs GDI.

And I guess DirectDraw lacks a fast API to do colored text?
Everyone new this back in 2016.

On May 16, 2016 - China blocked Apple iTunes, Movies, etc [0].

On the same date, Apple invested $1B in Didi (Chinese “Uber”) [1] and magically China unblock Apple.

So what’s new in this story?

[0] https://amp.scmp.com/tech/leaders-founders/article/1945616/a...

[1] https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0Y404W
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_Am...
Google has an amazing code search tool. You can try it out here[1]. That generally makes browsing source code much quicker and easier, which in turn makes understanding the structure of huge codebases much easier.

With that tool, I prefer to just dive into the source in most cases rather than read documentation, especially when there is a good chance the documentation is wrong/outdated.

[1]: https://source.chromium.org
plenty of folks coast through mba programs learning only superficially, but that shouldn't taint the value of the information itself. i gained plenty of confidence in the areas of finance, marketing, accounting, operations, etc. that i didn't have before and which was directly applicable to being a product manager and startup founder.

i've read a bit of marx but mostly in digest form. das kapital and adam smith's wealth of nations are on my list of older, original works that i want to read in full. i'm sympathetic to the labor theory of value, which both explored in their works, but most modern economists seem to eschew and even fear.
Should make 5G a little bit more interesting.
Yes, I am. Blockchains theoretical purpose is for a scenario where you need artificial digital scarcity when there are no trusted entities. Essentially any multiplayer game will require a trusted entity to originate the NFTs, host the server, and produce the clients. If you don't need to fund a trusted entity, there's no purpose to artificial scarcity.

A conventional database would obviously be much better for Ubisoft. This is just illogical fad-chasing.
But all space travel in "The Three Body Problem" is subluminical? I can't even recall a single Liu Cixin story with FTL space travel.

The closest situation I can think of is ST TNG "Force of Nature", where warp travel was damaging subspace.
"Moral qualities"? We aren't talking about Cuomo cheating on his wife, he used his position of authority to sexually harass eleven women.
Thank you, I'll be sure to fix that.
Closeness doesn't matter, I suppose. Make a t-shirt partially wet, hold it in front of some light source and you will see that the wet parts are much brighter. This will probably be the case too for UV light.
I'd love some shorter keywords here for searching so this was quickly composable into something useful.

E.g.

p: or f: instead of path: for filenames

l: instead of language:

-f: to exclude specific filenames (makes it easy to filter out tests)

You get the idea.
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Who supposed that?

Broken software can be fixed cheaply after the fact. Yeah, it’s cheaper if you find the bugs earlier but it shouldn’t come as any surprise that pre-validation is more extensive in systems that are expensive to change.
It seems reusing old product names is their thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch_(software)
https://sitegur.com
That's completely wrong. How is it that one of their largest global competitors, Samsung, exists despite having no factories in China for years now? Apple could leave China just fine as far as manufacturing is concerned. The question is would it be able to still sell to the Chinese market if it does.
We can't trust multinationals with our data. They will sell us all out.
The last one is particularly effective.
Yeah, China is taking advantage of US companies, state governments, to compete with USA. There are lots of company leaders and governors can benefit from secrete negotiations with China government. There is only one China, but there are tons of American businesses.
This is a redesigned site as per https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/08/apple-launches-redesign...
The world isn't as black and white as "all abstractions bad" or "all abstractions good" though. There are levels of abstraction that are objectively useful and levels of abstraction that are so separated from reality that a 3Ghz multicore computer is somehow incapable of keeping up with a human's typed input.
That would pretty much explain it. Thanks for taking the time to link it together. Suppose this is a situation of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
-ish. They have no firm plans for servicing it, but it does have a docking adapter and the fuel/coolant connections are designed to be usable in space.

Basically, because there is no reasonable way to service something in L2, they can't really plan for it, but it's expensive enough that they made sure there is the capability if someone in the future would, say, build a spaceship that is orbitally refuelable and designed so it can take crew that far out.
Hard to get anything useful out of a video like this.

How did the numbers compare to Apple's numbers for the same benchmarks?

What are the most plausible reasons for the discrepancy?
damn, my company just started using it in May, such a shame.
Well, in the past I've tried Sourcegraph several times, but it never give me experiences that match the was-dead-many-years-ago Google Code Search. I wish the new github code search does that.
Offtopic. This would be a precursor for the typical generator in the future: a stone on a rope inside a stone cavity that resonates with gravity waves, converts the piezoelectric tension of spacetime into vibration, heats up as a result and boils a rusty cup of water.
What's interesting is that the same principle doesn't seem to apply for viral infections.

The smallpox vaccine is just as effective today as it was a couple decades ago.

Then again the flu is constantly mutating so maybe it's just contingent on the type of disease.
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Not necessarily at no cost - but not at a cost greater than the advantage of having the resistance, which is still massive since the use of antibiotics is not in fact stopped, just reduced.
You are correct that “automatic big num conversion” works much against optimization. Int{8,16,32,64,128} in Julia also overflow silently. If you want other behaviour you can write your own custom behavior and "overload" +,* for your type. SafeIntegers throws an exception on overflow. Switching to BigInt would also be possible to implement but i am not aware of any package that does that or if it would give performance benefit over just using BitInt to begin with.
Totally understand your point, makes sense, and indeed if the community were to be more supportive with issues/PR it would be very helpful for the project.

Seeing this kind of topic fairly frequently, it would be great to understand the short/mid/long term plan for the project in terms of governance.

I guess we can all agree that having a single maintainer on a +40k stars project with huge adoption (amazing stuff btw) is unsustainable and extremely difficult, and can drive people away from adopting it in big corporations (I've seen a few comments on Github that mention this), and can make early adopters eerie.

I honestly have no idea on how to do that, but some other projects have been able to (fairly) successfully descentralize the development to be able to keep pace with the development.

It's obviously fair and understandable if the long term will still depend entirely on you, being the creator, you obviously have 100% right to do things the way you want, and nobody can argue against that.

I guess it could be helpful to give the community some guidance on what's the idea for the future of project, and whether it will have a more distributed governance or if it will continue being centralized.

Any of those paths is fine of course, I guess it would just help people deciding the framework choice for the future.
If you're thinking about how in e.g. python, integer addition never overflows and is always a big integer, then yes. If "small"/machine integers and big integers are seperated each have a distinct type, promotion on overflow would introduce a type instability on every addition (not only the overflowing one!). This is precisely because the type would depend on the result of the addition, not only the input types (which may both be machine integer types).

A "solution" to this conundrum is to have big integers by default, which sadly isn't feasible for performance reasons - you can't then take advantage of hardware, because every operation necessarily has to do more work than would be required for machine integers.

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To add on to this, when encountering overflow (which doesn't happen often in the first place), it's usually sufficient to go for 128 bit integers first instead of jumping directly to big integers. They're still quite a bit faster and offer a much larger space to work with.
This is one of the reasons that Julia doesn't do automatic big num conversion, instead using native machine two's complement modular arithmetic for integers. It would be a good optimization to use an immediate representation for small bignums, however. See this FAQ entry https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/faq/#faq-integer-ari... on the subject.
> Passive contribution/enabling is not the same as actively killing. It's just not. It's still worthy of condemnation, but it's not as worthy of condemnation as active, actual point-the-gun-and-pull-the-trigger killing.

agreed.

> All this kind of rhetoric does is make people think your moral compass is completely uncalibrated, and makes you look like a person to ignore.

unfortuantely, you might be right.

speaking the truth doesn't usually wins popularity contests -- it's why politicians rarely tell the truth.

MLK, for instance, was hated by most of America before he was murdered. presumably most of america wanted to ignore him because they thought his 'moral compasss' was 'completely uncalibrated'. he decided to tell what he considered to be the truth, and paid for it with his life. didn't help that the FBI probably had a hand in murdering him. so from that point of view, hopefully you are correct, and i'm being ignored, and i won't be murdered by some nazi (with or without the allged help of the fbi).
Fair point, but the software that eventually ends up in flying space hardware has usually been put to a similar test.
French bureaucracy has the expertise in house to do high level planning rather than having a subcontractor do it. They're also a lot more insulated than US bureaucracies from the vagaries of political turnover. And they're more often dealing with laws written ahead of time rather than things that can't be decided without a court decision.
Glad you asked! over here we have windows server with 445/tcp open...
Because they are crazy people. Just look at this list: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/
It is common in such commercial agreements to provide source code or to escrow source code with a third party service with conditions that trigger release of the sources (eg bankruptcy or sale to another company that discontinues the product). So it is possible they have the full source.

It is also worth considering that the JS engine likely hasn't changed much (if at all) in the past 15 years. Its bugs and limits are well-known at this point.

It is also an interpreter which makes it slower* but less subject to vulnerabilities that impact the host. Honestly that's probably the correct choice for a spacecraft where reliability and safety is more important than performance.

Don't get me wrong: JavaScript is a big ball of WAT and nonsense we've spent way too much effort improving but I don't blame them for making the choice so long ago and sticking with a known quantity rather than risk introducing new problems by changing things.

* I once worked on a project that used IronJS to run JS in the .Net runtime. It took advantage of the runtime's JIT but was a lot of not terribly optimized F# code. I built a V8 bridge and was very excited for the increase in perf... but it got slower. It turned out most customer-written JS code spent most of its time using the API which was backed by C# code and that meant lots of bridging. At the time I left they were still using IronJS because it was faster for their workloads. It taught me the importance of testing your actual workload and taking a whole-system approach to perf.
that is absolutely not true. I'm not sure where you are getting your information, but read anything from an angel investor.
most AI start ups fail because they go into huge debt getting correct data and training models, which end up bankrupting them in the process with nothing to show for it
There have been a lot of scandals in the news lately about low quality research due to these conflicts of interest in the past

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...
Erdogan in Turkey is also trying to control his central bank, and how it sets interest rates. Is that the new trend with autocratic regimes now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932021_Turkish_curr...
Ah, that link doeesn't seem to be in the paper (at least my searching for `github` didn't turn up anything), thank you! I did however find the same code as part of the visualization, so I got what I was looking for.
A lot of authors on early Simpsons and all of Futurama were heavily involved in math and other hard sciences. This is well known amongst fans.

What I started wondering looking at this article, is, what made Matt Groening associate himself with math PhDs from Ivy League universities when putting together a comedy team?
China is not the only cheap manufacturing hub. If Apple wanted to, they could be investing their 100's of billions (instead of stock buy backs they have been doing for years) in alternative locations to build their capability in other geographies.

Apple is still doing China because it wants to, not because it has to. At their size they have the time and money to invest in multiple locations and spread their risks.
> Germany openly regrets Nazis and Hitler.

If you were looking for the least-subtle example of the author's schism theory, i think you found it. :)

Though I get your point - maybe the missing piece is "a schism will split the group... but in the very long term, it might be healed."
Replace the second avenue subway with any other major passenger rail line built in the US in the last ten years, look at the costs per mile of track laid, and see that this is not some unique geological issue with manhattan but a national issue with the ability to cheaply and quickly construct capital improvements.