skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline seems to misuse the word "semantic" (not to mention "understand"). Does the door-opening robot now understand how to open all hinged doors with a similar opening mechanism? Or was it just trained to imitate a sequence of changes in a 2D image from a fixed angle? Can the same software and robot also be taught to open windows? Boxes? We are talking about "semantics" explicitly here. Does it understand "open" versus "closed" for these different types of closures/portals?

I don't want to discount the value of this research. It's absolutely necessary to do this sort of basic proof-of-concept testing of these ideas. But the claim being made implicitly here is way beyond what's actually going on. The software understands nothing, and the "semantics" extend to simple image-matching of objects, but there's no deeper meaning associated with the labels, so I think calling that "semantics" is a major stretch.

This approach is not going to teach a robot how to pick fruit, or serve food, or clean floors anytime soon. In the best case where this is even a workable approach, research like this is just the first of millions more tiny steps along the path. Anyway I think it's naive to assume that a good way to approach automation is to write software to let robots learn by watching humans do the desired task. As cool as that sounds, chances are that approach would ultimately be a massively inefficient way to solve the problem. It'd be like trying to invent the automobile by building a steam-powered horse robot that can tow carriages. The critical purpose is being overlooked in favor of a cool-looking but totally impractical toy demo.
Same thing applies to the cold in the North.
Max column length (line length) does make sense in one case. It simplifies side-by-side comparison. We have a max 100 column rule which is perfect for our merge and review tooling :). It was raised from 80 few years back and probably raises again to 120 as everybody has all their monitors 1920x1080 now. The idea is everybody should see the entire line in one go without wrapping enabled.

A second reason is that it prevents nesting as a side effect. You are forced to make methods and don't go into nested if/for. Much easier to check for our (custom) linter than verifying for/if nested loop depth.

Oh, Turning on word wrap is evil...
I am seriously baffled, I have some extended family in Newburgh, NY and I have no idea why this woman would commute two hours to live there. Not only is there absolutely nothing special about it (other than seeing the American Chopper cast in the grocery store) it's got a problem with crime [1][2] and is #5 on some random "10 worst places to live in New York State" list.[3] if you're just looking for "not Manhattan" you could do a lot better.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12newburgh.html?...

[2] https://tcf.org/content/commentary/welcome-to-newburgh-murde...

[3]https://www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-new-york-...
Same thing applies to the cold in Chicago/New York.
Its very tempting to believe that because most of math/science (e.g.) is incremental, that all math is incremental. Once in a long while I stumble onto something really new, a theorem or a proof which simply has no precedent. These things make you go "wow how did someone think of that?" - and it is the ability to do that which distinguishes a genius from a regular and competent mathematician.

It's very easy to dismiss all ideas as being incremental, but I think there exist real, rare sparks of genius which leapfrog the field forward, and these sparks of genius only get deeper and more mysterious the more you think of it. My only reaction to these ideas is a certain sense of awe.
Artem Volokitin: «I am changing – so is my painting»
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I don't think it's completely unreasonable, particularly in the case of bathrooms. Larger bathrooms (to a point) are nicer than smaller bathrooms, and that should be reflected in the square footage.
On the one hand, I agree that the time of typewriters and their fonts is (or should be) long gone. On the other hand, something keeps telling me that program code is not (and should not be) exactly a piece of literature, and there may be some advantages to being able to see code as a two-dimensional object rather than linear text.
Still looking. Mostly for any role with a data analyst/data scientist title (i.e. I am not applying for the machine learning/NLP roles which require a PhD and the authorship of several papers since there is no point).
I use and love Calca which is a maths oriented text editor that does live display of equation results as you type. I really wish that more programming were like this: real-time feeling, high feedback. It's a great model for exploratory stuff and I often use it in place of spreadsheets

This is a cool project, I'm excited to see where it goes
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Does that work with a regular meter? My internet sluething says some people have been charged for the electricity the produce because they don't have a "compatible" meter.
Shinn’s motel room contained 26 stolen books and a file full of inventory cards for another 154 volumes. He was well-educated in book history, restoration and binding, and the tools of his trade filled the room: color-stained cloths and Q-tips with jars of shoe polish, used to color-match and conceal library markings on book spines.

I was raised with a certain respect for books, but my ex was a great deal more of a bibliophile than I am. He set a very high bar for how to handle and store books carefully and respectfully. Our home was full of little bibliophile accessories, like bookmarks and book darts and special magnifying glasses.

The above paragraph strikes a certain horror in me and makes me imagine my ex being inspired to violence in the face of it.
So does this mean that you can offset your electricity cost because your solar panel just sends the electricity it generated back into the grid (and credits you for it)? How could I verify that it's working?

It looks like you might also have to sign some sort of a contract with PG&E. Is this true? https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/b2b/wholesaleelectric....
I have in the Phoenix and Death Valley deserts. I think you don't understand the difference between low humidity heat and high humidity heat. The latter is intolerable and causes the problems you described. The former just requires adequate hydration.
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He wrote three groundbreaking papers in 1905; Special Relativity was just one of them. He continued writing groundbreaking papers for decades after that. Even his unsuccessful investigations produced interesting insights.

Sure, "someone else" may have eventually written down much of the content of any one of these three papers, but probably not all three and not all in the same year.

Notably, he could have won the Nobel prize for any of those important 1905 papers (and did so for the photoelectric effect, rather than Special Relativity). In the same year he also had more than twenty other papers published, several of which were intersting, and all of which are eclipsed by the famous one on relativity.

In objectively quantifiable terms, the count, rate, and accuracy of his published papers over the years is simply exceptional.

A bit more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823796
The last place I worked we did this (though with some permission). One of the guys made friends with some people at a thin film solar plant down the street. He got a bundle of manufacturing rejects (300w panels that only made 280) for free. We strung them up on the roof and were raking in the kWh. Enough to charge 3 electric vehicles without paying the power company.
Related blog on why VCs might invest more liberally in projects like GitHub (or npm): http://words.steveklabnik.com/is-npm-worth-26mm
Mellon Udrigle is one of my favourite Socttish place names.
Congrats on the launch Sixty!!
It doesn't sound like they're being forced to undergo sterilization.

Only from a very pedantic viewpoint. Practically speaking, that's what's going on. And the government doesn't need to be in the "sterilization" business at all. It's just not an appropriate role for government.

And never mind how de-humanizing this is: to be told, essentially, "you're such a horrible person that we want to make sure you never reproduce". Imagine somebody telling you that and think how it would feel. Now try having some empathy for these prisoners.

Genuinely curious why you find this so despicable though.

We're talking about the State coercing people into sacrificing their reproductive ability. If you can't see the problem with that, then our worldviews are so different that I can't imagine anything else I can say that would make any difference.
If I can split your argument into three, then

> I think the point is that what we today might think of as Cold War style rhetoric and rivalry has antecedents in the Russian empire and points earlier.

Is probably true, people just reference Cold War because it's well known symbol and the rest of the history is not needed for them...

> I would even go so far as to say the whole thing is from the Great Schism. (...)

No, not really... The story in the article is placed when PLC was conquered, and similar things happened not only in Lithuania but also in Poland, where it was done by both Cyrillic Russia and Latin Germany. I'm not an expert on Russian history, but I could bet that at certain times they also tried to uproot other Cyrillic cultures who were deemed unwelcome by the rulers (both communist and before). I agree with the other person that this is just authoritarian thing.

> A couple months ago in the context of all the US-Russia political drama I was thinking of this...(...)

Well this one depends on the general world view I guess? If you tell history as a story of clashing ideas, then there will be a clear narration and you will easily see patterns as you describe, ever repeating conflicts of similar forces. But just one way of looking is often not enough to see the whole thing. I also see the direction of looking at the past tensions as promising, but then when do you stop? In this particular case the way of writing could be just an artifact of an older conflict used to reinforce the current one. We dnn't need to repeat the past, we can just reuse it.
Does anyone know of any non-profits that use this approach, along with satellite/boots-on-the-ground verification? It seems like a perfectly logical way to curb deforestation. Having more trees is almost always objectively better, so we should be ready to pay for them. The best way to do it is to provide incentives for keeping them up, or planting more, that are better than the gains from cutting them down.
I was in Japan a couple of months ago. Used a lot of trains and metro. Never saw guy pushing people into the trains, neither there was any need of that.
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I'm 50 and have been wearing glasses for about 6 years now.

Your neurology adjusts pretty quickly. The first few days, your field of view feels limited. After that it feels normal. It was a delight to adjust my font sizes down on all my devices, back to what I would have used at 30 years old.
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I didn't realize this would prompt so much emotion. I only said it as a consideration. As a reminder this is a quote from Bill Gates ""If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed," Gates said in an interview with Quartz. "If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you'd think we'd tax the robot at a similar level."
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Bump, I'm curious about this aswell.
You are a terrible person, Mz. You are so terrible, I hope you never have children. Your genes need to be removed from the gene pool in order to improve the human race.

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Not really, but that's basically what these prisoners are being told. Don't you think that's a bit de-humanizing?
I'm sure many know, but for those who don't, `diff` (and `git diff`) accept -w and -b to ignore all white space and changes in the amount of white space, respectively. I find these very handy.

Somewhat related, if you're looking at a diff on GitHub and want to ignore whitespace, you can just tack on `?w=1` to the URL (https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets).
He or she shouldn't just stand up and identify themselves, they should claim their right. It would in a way be the ideal case to litigate.
I think that their argument (translated from rant) is basically that the web should be used for documents, and that we should build some other internet-based technology to implement applications on top of. It doesn't seem like there was a whole lot of justification beyond "this isn't what HTML was designed for", "Javascript bad", and "native app good".
Actually it's really simple. You can't post national or ethnic or regional slurs like that and we tell people so whenever we see them doing it. The issue isn't defending the Bay Area, it's defending HN against the usual internet poisons.

> seemingly fine with

That's a non sequitur. A comment going unchided doesn't mean moderators are ok with it—the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. Relative to what gets posted here, the set of comments we see has measure zero.
>Lyft is opening a new office in Palo Alto, Calif., in a building once used by video-calling company Skype, and hopes that base will help it attract engineering talent, said Director of Product Taggart Matthiesen. He said the company plans to hire “hundreds” for the new division; Uber has nearly 700 working on self-driving cars in Pittsburgh alone.

This is sort of a strange admission to me that communicates, "we don't think enough of this kind of talent exists in SF but we think it exists in SV." (fwiw Uber has a SV office a 10 minute walk away at the VMWare Campus)
It just increased general phone usage by ~16% per day. Daily path length stayed the same.
(Source: study on 2800 phone users that played Pokemon GO. Data collected for at least 4 weeks having the first gaming session in the middle. Data was collected through an app that monitors your phone usage, no self-reported data. Will be presented at MobileHCI '17)
1Password for Windows v6 is a apparently a complete rewrite and not yet feature complete. It will support local vaults in the future, although 1Password has always been very slow about updates for their Windows product.

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/340062/...
A great summary of recent events and recommendations for the future.
This depends a lot on where you live. I've rented a few apartments that were cheap, by local standards, and learned exactly why this was. Loud obnoxious neighbors, who liked getting high and playing techno at 3 am, or having sex in the middle of the ground floor garden, or going crazy and screaming crazy stuff for hours.

But then I bought a decent apartment in a decent neighborhood and had none of that, and later traded it for a row house where every room has a wall shared with a neighbor in an even better neighborhood and now I pretty much don't notice my neighbors at all.
That seems to be what they are aiming towards but true AI is not the same as Machine Learning.

Google is still using what we could call a very rudimentary form of AI as they describe "Unsupervised learning on very small datasets is one of the most challenging scenarios in machine learning. To make this feasible, we use deep visual features from a large network trained for image recognition on ImageNet".
Doesn't appear this was intended as an idea to build software from, but a proof on how SQL vs noSQL is really SQL and coSQL.
I was hoping it would be part of a larger family of methods some of which would be public.
That may be what the judge is thinking, but one of the central problems that women face is that an unexpected pregnancy can be life altering, and it is usually not good news.

The women are not being sterilized. They are being offered a fairly low hassle and reliable form of birth control.

I have personally known women who wanted to be sterilized at a young age and couldn't get it. I knew one woman who ended up pregnant for the third time out of wedlock by her alcoholic boyfriend after the medical establishment turned down her request to be sterilized.

Just because that is the opinion of the judge does not mean this is not going to be viewed as a genuine opportunity by some people whose lives suck so very fucking much that they can't seem to stay out of jail.
> (Thing to avoid in web design: just displaying month and day, not year, even if something is more than a year old. Some blogs do that to look cool and current. Then they get stale and confusing.)

Related, thing to avoid in web design: displaying time as something other than ISO-8601 combined date & time format (preferably omitting the 'T' separator, for the sake of non-tech people). If you absolutely must display dates relative to current time (like "4 hours ago", "5 days ago"), please at least provide a full ISO timestamp in a title attribute (i.e. in a tooltip text).

HN has this problem, too. I get some find "4 hours ago" easier to read (never mind how imprecise it is), but then soon it becomes "1139 days ago", which is no longer funny.

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('dang, et al. - could we please have ISO timestamp as a title attribute to the relative date here? Pretty please :).)
Good luck using Wine with Wayland on Nvidia driver.

I'm really glad I ditched Nvidia and switched to AMD. With Mesa progressing at fast pace, Nvidia will become simply inferior in many aspects, including the above one.
1. That doesn't meaningfully respond to my point about cross pollinating skillsets, because we aren't distinguishing between amateurs, novices who become professionaks after expertise in other fields, and core professionals in finance/economics.

2. That bet is paraded more than it should be. Buffett bet against a "fund of funds", which is the aggregate performance of the industry. We didn't need a decade long bet to tell us most hedge funds are a poor return of capital, just as we don't need a bet to realize that the greatest n participants in many fields are mediocre.

I would have gladly taken that bet with Buffett and won if I could have chosen a single firm. But Buffett wouldn't have taken that bet, because (to his credit) he understands this point already as a savvy investor. The bet proves that the industry overall is mediocre, but it says nothing about the top firms that mostly don't even take outside capital anymore because they're so successful.
I don't know what could become conscious; but it seems pretty obvious to me some sticks banging together cannot be.
No if it wasn't for Einstein physics would never be discovered except for what was discovered before Einstein. Einstein physics only even exist because that guy did. Until then Einstein physics weren't even happening. MOROMS

For someone to say what you did proves, someone actually, thought that was TrUE. Fucking wow u paint huffing faggots
What I learnt from the software I use most is that best productivity software has at least some of traits:
- is complex, but has a fast route for most common things (e.g. placeholder text for all fields where such text can be applicable; lots of checkboxes but also a button that selects a set of most common ones while unselecting most uncommon ones; etc.)
- has features that enable automation and customisation (macros, user defined presets, sharing of those presets in something not unlike Steam Workshop, key shortcuts for EVERYTHING but unbound by default)
- has user profiles (most linux tools are simply tied to your home directory, so it's a feature of the system, I can imagine though that doctors share their offices and computers, so it's something that needs to be included as a feature of the software itself)
I'm confused - does this have anything to do with Google's NaCL plug-in architecture for Chrome? Or is it only a set of crypto routines that have an unfortunate name collision with the former?
I also cannot fathom the reason this comment got downvoted. I would be happy to hear about the reason.
Nice, but I use the cluster setup... To achieve realtime feature, I created a "LevelDown" wrapper with the Node Arango Driver, thus I can sync my web client with PouchDB... It's work very well, and I can publish it as opensource...
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https://ss64.com/pass/
Is similar to LessPass but is entirely javascript in the browser, so you can save the page and run a local copy completely offline or upload to your own website. Theres also a command line version for both bash and PowerShell https://ss64.com/pass/command-line.html
When I was commuting, I would have done anything to sit on a bus or a train. Drove 89 miles door-to-door (each way) to the office, typically anywhere from 2-3 hours' commute.

Waze helped, but could only really spend time making calls or listening to the radio or podcasts.
Completely agree. If your social life can take the hit, waking up as early as possible is probably the way to go. I've never been more productive than the period of my life where I woke up at 4am everyday to hit the gym and work on my side project before work.
The best thing Linux users can do: Buy and recommend AMD and Intel hardware. Both are working well with open source drivers built into the kernel.
Here is a thought.

Maybe no formatting characters should be allowed to be saved embedded in source code, and instead presentation filters should handle everything related to formatting, documentation, etc.

It might work..
> I am fairly sure that these tasks become significantly easier if the stream does not also include diapers, orange peels and wet cardboard

My point is, they can't even trust the stream won't include those. General population can't be trusted like that.
This makes me wonder why the panel manufacturer doesn't bin panels like they do with CPUs? Surely they could sell them for less than the 300W panels, but more than zero?
They are overthinking this... with sufficiently low latency to your exchange, all your "quant"(and I use this term loosely) needs to do is watch the order book. When either side's inside bid/ask is about to crack, you join the opposing side with a market order, and place a stop on the next tick in your direction.

This is what 99.99% of consistently profitable quants do. It's boring, unexciting, and VERY profitable. The crux is...you must have that low latency connection to the exchange, and you must have priority routing for your orders. Bonus point if you have market maker status(but if you have that, why are you doing this in the first place?).

The deep learning craze seems to be infiltrating the minds of a few algorithmic funds, but it doesn't stay long(either they stop trying it, or they blow up their fund). Positions of any reasonable size(such as that required to move the market) are opened by human beings. Human beings operate on emotion and mob mentality in the market, so that is what you capitalize on when designing your algorithm.

Disclaimer: I'm looking at this with an ultra short term timeframe, such as 5-15 seconds being the maximum time in market per position. If these guys are targeting longer term positions, then all bets are off. The algorithms I create and maintain work in this timeframe, and the majority of my competitors algorithms are in the same timeframe.
I wrote a DICOM fetch and view app (mid 2000s). Image viewer was the easy part. Network interop was a mess. Worse than any ASN.1, SNMP, or XML-based interop work I've done. I can't imagine it's gotten any better since.
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