skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people can do whatever they want, does that include those running the robots?

Because if I'm a robot operator and you can do whatever you want, then I know I'm not going to get anything of value from you. So why should I work beyond Tuesday to make stuff that you need to live? I may as well go home and be 'free'. Your money is literally worthless to me.

We know what everybody doing what they want leads to. It leads to land redistribution and hyperinflation - as demonstrated in spades in Zimbabwe.

Unless you are completely self-sufficient then you have to look at the systemic impact of your idea on everybody. Then you'll find it has a severe fallacy of composition in it.

The mega rich get away with it simply because they have a slave class (the rest of us) to do their bidding. If you can do whatever you want, who is the slave class working more than they need to to service your needs?

To maintain an advanced society we need the robots working 24x7 and the land worked 24x7. To get people to give up their time to do that you have to give them something in return. Money isn't enough. That is the service to others you have to do if you want the carrots others grow.

As Ali said: Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. What we lack is a mechanism to allow people to make that rent.
This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2mekalOTas

claims that it's because these countries are near the equator, and their sunrise and sunset times are very consistent throughout the year (exactly 12 hours apart). So, they have twelve hours after sunrise and twelve hours after sunset.
The confusing way I used to piss off all my roommates
It's still kickin'.

I left the PHP world a few years ago, but I still have to go back occasionally to manage a few old projects. I recently upgraded one to PHP 7.*. It's soooooo much faster than older versions I consider it a must have for anyone working on PHP.

That said one thing I don't regret is not having to deal with composer again. It's basically a shittier version of npm, with a fraction of the speed and a fraction of the logic built in. I have projects that have installs that aren't idempotent due to weird composer caching issues. Composer is a good thing but I can't help but wonder if PHP simply isn't fast enough of a language to build a package manager in.
It would never mean 5 hours though. And if the person knew it was 5 hours or even just X hours, they would likely say it with greater precision than 'just a sec'.
Show HN: Predict winner of a Dota 2 match using neural networks
Yes, it can be inferred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ.
Seems sort of like how we use "minute" where I'm from. Like, "I'll be there in a minute," could be any moment or five hours from now. A hot minute is more a statement that they're on their way, no indication of arrival time. It's nice
The world will lose one of the great modern-day thinkers when Chomsky is no longer with us. It's hard to fathom how he remains such a clear thinker at his age.
> should only be accessible by the district attorneys office.

Why the need for such a high level of secrecy?

From outside of the US, the picture I get of the police force and the bodies that control them is they have a tendency to try and keep things secret.

I would have though a more open system would instil a much higher level of public confidence in that policing system.
I was really hoping to get some insights upon seeing this headline but came upon a collection of shallow anecdotes.
Maybe because Holocaust is mostly based on Soviet and US war propaganda than anything else?
good times.
Of course they have no way to get btc-e's bitcoins, unless Vinnik tells them the private key, which I bet he will. So it's basically US stealing from people, yet again.
PHP isn't serverless in the same way a lambda function is at all. You still need to host something that responds to HTTP requests and passes them along appropriately to PHP. Just because it has a share nothing model doesn't mean you don't need to provision servers. You still need to do 90% of the work.
What's the argument against having body cameras on at all times that they're interacting with the public, other than when the person they're talking to specifically requests that the camera be turned off?
I don't think I see what you see...

"And they may not have gone to school. They certainly didn't go to Oxford, but the working class, the rising working class, had its own institutions of education and culture, which was significant. A lot of that has been destroyed in all kinds of ways. Google doesn't help."

Maybe there's some extra context in the minutes prior that gives this a different meaning but it sounds to me like he's saying that Google changed the way the middle class accesses information, which has destroyed the old ways. I did go back 20 or so seconds and he mentions that they read books, which I think backs this up somewhat (they used to go to libraries, now they don't need libraries, they have Google).

And the laughter doesn't sound edited to me, though there's clearly a cut there.
Background:

I wanted to make a simple machine learning project, so I came up with an idea: can you predict the winning team of a Dota match based on picks alone? Input is the team composition from both sides, and output is the probability of either team winning.

The data:

Data is from OpenDota.com (an excellent resource and a really flexible API). The source data is all professional matches on patch 7.06 and above.

Recommended usage:

I recommend you go to the matches page in OpenDota.com and paste a match ID from any of the professional matches and see the prediction. For example: 3344489368, 3337182753, 3331909193

Technology:

The backend is on node and the ML library used is brain.js. It's a great library, really easy to use even for a total ML newbie.
I'm curious: why would anyone steal such an conspicuous bike? It's really hard to pass one of these off as your own when riding it.
Yeah, giving guns and arrest powers to a bunch of bitter, angry people who'd rather be doing anything else sounds like a great idea.

Besides which, you really think that people only become cops for the power? No one ever honestly wants to protect and serve their community? There's a lot of problems with American police right now, but it can be so much worse.
Sorry but this is incorrect. I lived in Peru for 4 years and speak to my Peruvian wife in Spanish everyday, they use ahorita the exact same way they do in Mexico, Peru even uses more diminutive than Mexico, and I know it's the same in Bolivia, Chile and Colombia that I have visited. Looks like the author of this article doesn't know a lot about Latin America. I also know Puerto Rico is big on diminutive, so I'd say it's pretty much every single country in Latin America that speaks Spanish, they all use ahorita and even ahoritita this way.
So, as a preliminary, you can conduct these kind of attacks against humans as well. It just often isn't as subtle a change to the sign.

Among other things, though, these types of attacks make a lot of assumptions.
For example, they assume the only input to "what is that" is a classifier that looks at the image.

Given simple data and previous classification of the image, for example, one can easily determine "hey does it make sense for an added lane sign to appear at a 4 way intersection with no apparent added lane".

Heck, you don't even need to go that far.
Given previous, before vandalism classification of the sign, and no change in any terrain/mapping data, ...

So yes, i'd pretty much say "there is no need to worry about such physical attacks", as long as you are not directly hooking up an image classifier to the steering wheel. The likelihood that this ends up a major problem for self driving cars seems pretty low.
one-to-one cam-girls for one.
If I had a dollar for every time "Ek sal kom nou nou" turned into an hour or more, I'd be retired in Camps Bay.
What a clusterfuck of a disaster pgadmin4 is. This is what happens when you decide to dismiss technology (electron) without understanding what the issues with it actually are.

It's using Qt, but QtWebEngine rather than QtWidgets or QtQuick. Qt is a great pick, iff you're building a native desktop app rather than a web app.

It's so depressing. I packaged it up for Arch Linux recently without realizing how bad the whole thing was. I'll probably be taking it out of the repos soon seeing as it doesn't even start anymore...
According to the article, "ahorita" in standard Spanish is the imperative.
I highly recommend Ben Eater's YouTube channel; great video tutorials. He manages to cover a lot in short videos. (Also, consider supporting him on Patreon :)
Thanks for this.

That object dependency graph is a killer feature.

Well done Justin!
I don't think we are ever going to be able to move towards a perfectly-reasonable public stance towards intoxicants. My personal problem with marijuana is that I just don't want to smell the shit everywhere.

Your human right to ingest whatever substance you want is going to inevitably conflict with my right to choose whether I want to ingest it too or not. We've gone in one policy direction with marijuana, and another entirely with tobacco. Once you get to legalization, you're inevitably thrust back towards getting it the heck back out of the public sphere.

Tobacco seems to offer the perfect opportunity to examine the intersection of human rights way of looking at it with "plain ole'" regulation for greater social harmony. Tobacco, like it or not, is a mind-altering drug that people rely on for all sorts of really personal reasons. Our recent push to banish it is pure and simple classism.

But the people decrying the war on drugs also seem to often nurture a quiet bigotry against smokers. Smoking is legal, for now at least. But eventually you won't be able to light up without running afoul of some regulation, God forbid they start actually enforcing the now-common 50 foot rule from the entrance of businesses.

So yeah, maybe the focus on tax revenue is probably the best one. I like human rights as much as the next guy. But I'm gonna turn into a raving classist asshole the second my neighbor forces me to smell his damn weed through the shared wall. (yes it's happened) I'm already quietly cheering the slow banishment of tobacco, cognitive liberty be damned.

Sure, cannabis and tobacco are both smoked, and not all drugs are. But are we really prepared as a society for a world in which drug use is truly legal? Are people really forgetting that these things are well and truly dangerous? Cocaine makes a real mess out of people.

What about synthetic drugs? I don't think you're ever going to be able to convince a reasonable person that those things should be legal. So there you go, War on Drugs part 2.

To sum up, legalization isn't really a viable public option. It's a fantasy.
How do you measure the level of advanced society?
This is demonstrably not true.
But both of those articles also start with "When I ..."
Emphasis on "dollar"! :-)
My biggest complaint is that it's associative arrays are different than objects. So serializing and unserializing json can become a nightmare. This is easily circumvented by being careful to be consistent. But big libraries like symfony will change your json around and break things. In node it's just not an issue
3) Incompetent and don't realize their turgid stack isn't working correctly.
Yeah, that still requires moving parts on the rotor. OPs design requires no additional moving parts. I like it.
The fundamentally wrong thing I see over and over again: Marketing != Advertising.
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Google is trying to do to Facebook what Facebook did to Snap
Bolt-On Way to Scale
I get your point but also consider that messing around with installing php extensions and using pecl is more of a nuisance than just deploying your node_modules via something like rsync. The php community solves this by writing polyfill which seems like wasted effort (writing something in php that already exists as a php extension)
> So you;d rather have fewer useful GUI programs?

Personally, I'd rather have fewer webapps (which is what these really are) bundled into bloated browsers and called "desktop" or "native".

If you're going to put in the effort to write a proper desktop application with native components through Qt, .NET, Java or OpenGL or something, go ahead but please don't bother with webapps with a browser wrapper, just leave them on the web where they belong. If you need a little more integration, do it with a browser extension.

I'm yet to see a single necessary Electron port.

> What incentive does any developer have to do as you say?

The top comment on any news article or discussion forum being something other than "great, another unnecessary Electron app that'll waste my CPU, RAM and battery".

And producing a better performing application.
I think the article is pretty clear that this is only confusing to outsiders. Nowhere does she say that her culture's understanding of time is superior. Instead, the article ends with her praising the superiority of the Mexican understanding of time.
You are insane.

I mean that as a compliment of the highest order. That project is brilliant.
Thanks to globalworld.hacker
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It's written for an audience. The way that audience tells time does make sense to us (in the audience), and other ways can be confusing to us.

There is no judgement whatsoever, and no claim that one view is more right. It is an explanation of differences.

I think you are imagining insults that were not intended, much like the author's initial misinterpretation of "ahorita".
If we're talking about safety, then the injury risk is kind of important.

The paper did not do any research on traction or driver overconfidence so remarks about these are just casual commentary, but for the record, the mention of AWD traction is not particularly relevant to avoiding traffic accidents:

"While these important results
imply that AWD
shall
not be considered as a safety
feature, it should be kept in mind that AWD does have benefits in terms of improved traction compared to 2WD cars, for instance on icy uphills, snowdrifts
and, depending on
the vehicle,
in
off-road driving"
Is the 'transpile' nonsense a java script community thing ?
>Chomsky and Herman have continued to argue that their analysis of the situation in Cambodia was reasonable based on the information available to them at the time, and a legitimate critique of the disparities in reporting atrocities committed by communist regimes relative to the atrocities committed by the U.S. and its allies. Nonetheless, in 1993, Chomsky acknowledged the massive scale of the Cambodian genocide in the documentary film Manufacturing Consent. He said, "I mean the great act of genocide in the modern period is Pol Pot, 1975 through 1978 - that atrocity - I think it would be hard to find any example of a comparable outrage and outpouring of fury."[8]
I think he meant you can easily find $5 "unlimited" php web hosts. So for all intents and purposes it's serverless as in you can use it on a shared web host, where you do not have to manage the server because the hosting company does it. Not that it's literally serverless. Even lambda uses servers obviously. They just abstract it away which is what he meant. Clearly all cloud offerings are backed by servers, it's just abstracted away to varying degrees
Worth reading to the end for the deadpan Correction.
Interestingly, the war on drugs has pushed people away from better and cheaper alternatives.
Not true. Our codebase is java/kotlin and it works.
Tobacco, like it or not, is a mind-altering drug that people rely on for all sorts of really personal reasons. Our recent push to banish it is pure and simple classism.

That doesn't follow. Are you suggesting that some social classes have better reasons for smoking than others?
Maybe, I suppose. Fear of giving offense. But it's mostly about politeness, I think. There's some of that in the US South, as well.
True, I think that people were just over-reacting to what they saw as spam and downvoted all of it.
Lets go deeper, lets create a RNN that changes the weights of this RNN!

I fear someday we may accidentally discover (and disappoint ourselves) that consciousness (AKA the mind) its just a self-modifying binary system and not as magical as we like to assume... probably still centuries away even if that's the case.
That's a great point. I actually heard of a colleague of mine who was injured on the job at his previous work. He did construction. They found out he was a medical marijuana patient and that made him ineligible for re-employment or workers comp.
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> Our recent push to banish it is pure and simple classism.

No, it's a response to the overwhelming evidence we have that smoking tobacco is massively harmful.

You seem to be saying that poor people will be disproportionately affected by smoking cessation laws, and that this is somehow unjust. The fact that poor people disproportionately smoke is the actual injustice, and is one of the reasons for the mortality gap between rich and poor.
According to the AP stylebook, "pro-life" would need to be replaced with "anti-abortion" because that is more neutral and carries fewer weighted connotations with it. I would suspect a large population would disagree with the AP conclusion, but it goes to show how difficult it is to avoid bias even in a simple fact-based question.
Show HN: Exemplar Networks for a Good Time (NSFW)
http://driftwheeler.com <--- Download APK here.

Citation: Discriminative Unsupervised Feature Learning with Exemplar Convolutional Neural Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6909)

50,000 MetArt-style nudes. No banners, no ads, no hassles, no distractions. Smart image zoom to fit the woman to the screen.

See random pics (WANDER). When you like one, see the photoshoot on repeat (TRANCE).

To search for something-- e.g., grass, beach, face, pussy-- long press the image (DREAM). This finds nearest neighbors in deep feature space, but only works reliably for simple concepts because it's fully unsupervised. The features you selected by long pressing (inside the box that appears) are more likely, but only very simple searches are "pure".

For example, long press a close-up pussy to see more pussies... find one you like, then press TRANCE to see the rest of her. Long press sand and water to see more girls on the beach. Long press forest greenery to see more girls in the forest. Long press a close-up face to see similar faces... And so on.

If this is not familiar to you, take a look at: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/cnnembed/ Consider one of the big "maps" on that webpage. Notice how the tiny image patches clustered together in a map tend to be similar to each other. When you long press the image in Melondream, a box appears. That box is like one of the tiny image patches. Melondream's DREAM shows you images having patches near the patch you selected, in Melondream's map. Also notice how impure even a supervised dream would be.
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Great, now how about extending this to voting rights?
Yes, I guess "compiler" confused too many developers who thought it implied native code.
> but used hypodermic needles laying on the ground is another issue entirely

The criminal justice response to this has clearly failed. How about treating this as the public health problem it is? Give addicts access to clean needles, safe injecting spaces, and needle disposal and you'll get rid of most of the problems of irresponsibly dangerously disposed of needles.
Unintentionally hilarious.
On books, everything you say makes sense in the ideal world. But in practicable reality, things are a bit more complicated.

Re: item 1, Baltimore is the birthplace of the "Stop Snitchin'" movement, a heavily distributed and well marketed street campaign defining a dynamic that a wiki entry can't possibly describe accurately. The bigger point is that it had a counter-campaign on the police side which retaliated against it, and that thinking got ingrained in the troops. In other words, officers stick together and no policy change will realistically affect that.

After the Baltimore riots, there was a change on the police side - cultural change, not policy or regulation based one. As a result, homicide rate shot up through the roof and appears to be rising year after year. This behavior is a defensive mechanism and so incredibly tribal - not something you can set through policy, short of replacing 3,000 cops.

To that point, most of Baltimore PD cops DO NOT live in Baltimore. They travel to work from outside. In other words, despite having 3,000 job positions in the city, they couldn't fill them locally so they expanded outward, allowing officers to take cruisers home as a commuting incentive. Think about evaluating that factor - would you want to employ cops who live in your neighborhood, or ones from a neighboring town? Would there be a difference? Then think what would happen if you didn't have a choice.

Re: item 2, you're describing lex talionis, which we as a society abandoned centuries ago. You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops.

In Baltimore, there are 3,000 cops for 600,000 citizens. Median cop salary is $50k and it's a dangerous and difficult job. Tons of them turn to overtime work to make ends meet and are drained of energy (look up Baltimore Sun overtime database if curious). Meanwhile, the vast poor citizens there have a median income of $30k. That's an indicator of why people turn to crime and its volume. Living in the city is prohibitively expensive (sweet mercy, the property taxes are terrifying - it's no incentive to buy a house there.)

It's really messy.
It's tough. I think most ppl will agree that wine is great. Weed is great. But both in moderation. And that Heroin is evil. Not even once. Those are the two sides of the spectrum with a crazy amount of gray area and fear in the middle. We're fiddling with that line of what's acceptable for the masses. Now that the war on drugs is widely seen as a ... miscalculation. We're maturing, it's becoming less taboo to speak up and address the issue of mind alteration. It's a debate that can only happen in the context of the experience we've gained by drug use as illicit substances. How could we possibly speak with conviction about the topic without seeing first hand how certain drugs affect society? It would all be hand waving and speculation and would end in the loudest voice winning. We're getting there, starting to come to terms with the hypocrisy of alcohol, but the social progress is understandably super slow.