skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, sort of, No, and No.

Most of the population IS worse off. Just look at the chart - you need to go to about the 96th percentile to find people who aren't worse off.

Yes the growth should go to the people who make it possible, but it is NOT actually doing so (and if you think that the founder/ceo is solely responsible for the growth and we can safely ignore the contribution of all the people who actually do the work, well, you're beyond help).

While there are some true innovators in the tech industry, vastly more capital goes to extractive, rent-seeking corporations that are actually ANTI-innovative, and merely exploit their position to extract maximum rent dollars from customers. Examples: Cable/ISPs who get anti-competitive laws passed to eliminate potential competition, even from towns themselves who want to install cable, MPAA fighting new distribution models, fossil-fuel power providers getting anti-solar legislation passed, high-frequency trading shops that extract money by quasi-legally front-running the market, providing no extra value, auto-dealer associations attempting to prevent Tesla's direct sales business model from coming to their state, real estate agents trying to prevent innovation from changing their commission structure, etc, etc., etc...

Although some of them do actual work, their protectionist anti-innovation behavior puts them all in the "predatory capitalist" class -- they actively prevent the very improved productivity and growth that you cite as deserving of the income, and in doing so they take money out of the economy.
I took his course up until the back propagation lesson and then lost interest. Credit to him as a teacher though because the basic of ML are still with me. I just didn't have any interest in going very deep with it.
Are those imperial gallons or US gallons?
CSS Containment Module Level 1
That's cool, but was thinking of something along the lines of what a PhD EE might conceive. Small chips out of sight using ultrasonic waves to create a detailed real-time 3d-map of a physical space, for instance.
Did they get the rotary to be usable? I thought even at its best, it was finicky and temperamental. I have never owned or driven one, just doing some idle reading online, so asking this as a serious question.
I'm not sure what the "I think not" was in response to.
This was an industrial application, so there were no publications.
Please refrain from being an asshole.
I still managed to read the whole thing. Quite fascinating, really, considering the lengths he went into tracking the ancient (1993) patch that turned CPU load averages into whole system load averages.
Are you serious? If you take it to the bank, they have change counting machines. Depending on how much you bring in, it takes about 1-5 minutes for the machine to count. In the US we have a company called CoinStar that has kiosks in every major grocery store chain which does the same thing. They take a small percentage, but we're talking about coins here, so it's probably less than a dollar per transaction.
I'm pretty sure the only reason social media isn't incorporated into credit scoring is that it's too difficult to reliably attach to a given individual without help from Facebook, etc. FB definitely does not want to become a consumer credit reporting agency, so their ability to cooperate without triggering the FCRA is limited.
A Visualization Suite Showing How Adversarial Examples Fool Deep Learning
Sorry. I was thinking about stores. Other instructions may cause side effects that could be hard to avoid.

It's fine to keep some behaviors of the ISA undefined. Different implementations may act differently. One generation may really avoid any side effects by retiring the instruction during the decoding stage while a simpler, say, low-power implementation may leave some side-effects (a carry that was set during an addition while the result is ignored). Stating that it may be ignored keeps the implementations free to do whatever is more convenient.
How long for deletionists to get wind of it?
yoy better figure out what it takes before the rabble rousers burn you alive
I mean, maybe yeah. But companies aren't there to hold writing workshops and poetry slams. They are there to make dollars. Or at least that is what their shareholders think. That stuff is for your knitting circle or brewing bash, maybe for a Univ. class even, but not for work at a private company. Legally a company can fire/hire in CA on a whim. Morally? I don't know, but I think that you should know not to talk about super inflammatory stuff in company wide emails/group-chats/etc by about 8th grade.
Yeah, they are all pretty tight lipped about exactly how map dependent they are. But anytime they start talking about limited operating areas it is an obvious question to ask.

And it is even possible that operating in areas with detailed maps is simply more valuable (if the map improves their ability to evaluate the performance of other systems).
That is truly depressing. CNN used to be one of the last places to get non-ideological journalism. Looks like non-partisan journalism really is dead, as is the principle of charity.
Less than a month ago my card details (the magnetic stripe) got swiped. However my bank noticed the funky payments, automatically detected the issues, temporarily froze the card. Then when I noticed it didn't work and called them they temporarily locked up the card for a single use, and then blocked it permanently and sent out a new card.

I noticed it on Thursday, I had the new card and all unwanted transactions rolled back on Monday.

This for a debit/Visa hybrid card, which acts as Visa out of country and on the Internet.

Also, the bank requires me to temporarily unlock the card for 'unsafe' Internet purchases before usage, which basically is all purchases that don't involve 2FA.
We've buried this thread ("announcement of an announcement") so that we won't have to mark a later discussion as a duplicate when this is actually released.
US gallons
Implicit in your comment is that any suggestion of malicious intent by the author is not substantive. That doesn't seem reasonable, given the context.
This is basically what happened to Bitcoin itself in the early days, isn't it? People hoarding them, then the value crashing as a scare causes people to try and dump their stash.
Of course you can optimize for quality and diversity simultaneously. Let's take an extreme example and say that your hiring process only accepts purple people, and then judges them on merit. If you remove the requirement for purple people and keep the rest, your diversity and quality will both improve.

Here's the problem: "Start with some selection of people chosen optimally for job performance...." That's the hiring equivalent of "assume a spherical cow." Sure, if your existing process optimally chooses people for job performance, then any move toward diversity will reduce quality. Likewise, if you have a spherical, frictionless cow, then its speed after descending a slope with a height of 100 meters will be 44.3m/s. Both statements are correct and equally applicable to the real world.
Oh, to be sorry about the billions I've made...
n 1970, total health care spending was about $75 billion, or only $356 per person (Figure 1). In less than 40 years these costs have grown to $2.6 trillion, or $8,402 per person. ... By the year 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that health spending will be nearly one-fifth of GDP (19.8).
OK, so honest question: I have a 2012 Mazda 3 which, presumably, gets 40mpg. But I can't realistically get anything above 29mpg on average. Am I just an aggressive driver? :)

[edit] I agree, by the way, that the cars are incredibly fun to drive, for being "fuel efficient."
I'm aware of what the difference is. But, and this is really important, you cannot gloss over the static nature of overloaded methods. You say "if someone adds a more specialized overload, it will be called", but that is only true if they recompile.

Generic functions in LISP are another way of doing this. It works at runtime, as well. And that leads to a good article in the elisp manual (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ge...) that shows multiple dispatch being a runtime thing even way back. So, again, I'd be interested to know sources that said multiple dispatch was the same as method overloading.

I think I can see where overloaded methods were likely coopted by single dispatch statically compiled languages. But, honestly, I don't see how "multiple dispatch" would have ever made sense in those cases, either.
What kind of company does a ChemE typically get hired at versus an EE? There’s your answer.
Ill reiterate on yet another thread that the reason people are worse off, is the purchasing power of the worthless fiat dollar.

Take a quarter from pre-1965 when we still made constitutionally sound money made with gold or silver. The silver contained in it if melted down is as of today almost $3.00 of worthless paper fiat dollars.

If you made a $1 an hour paid in four silver quarters you would be making $12/hr of paper fiat dollars. Think about that. Let that sink in. The problem is the money is WORTHLESS. It's been devalued to the point of buying next to nothing. So when people are screaming to make $15/hr flipping burgers and dunking fries because they can't live on anything else, it's the money that is the problem. Blue collar workers making $20+/hr welding or milling are still struggling because the money doesn't buy anything. The money is the problem. You are being paid in a worthless paper dollar that barely buys anything so you have to make gobs and gobs of it to obtain anything of value.

Fix the currency and a lot of these related problems disappear.
I can get 40MPG (US) highway with a 2015 Mazda3 and a somewhat aggressive driving style. City is usually low 30s.

The manual transmission is also one of the nicest I've ever driven.

These are great cars.
It seems like the major point of this release is just to provide ABI stability. What real world implications does this have?
> Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that they don't know what they are doing.

> They know exactly what they are doing...

Because you referenced one of the most oft-quoted blunders[1] of Rubio's 2016 primary campaign I can't tell if you're serious or not. It really detracts from the point you're trying to make.

[1] “And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.”
Building Blockchain Incentives
It's going to depend upon your scale, and your architecture.

Rearchitecting your application to avoid $10K a month in cross-AZ replication may make sense. Doing that to save $10 a month is likely ridiculous.

Migrating between vendors to save a few bucks is generally a fool's errand for anything that's sufficiently complex. Find a platform, commit to it, and then work to leverage resources responsibly within that platform.

Remember that "elastic" means scaling down as well as up.
To try and give a slightly better answer then others, without complicating too much.

My thought it is because they use the default shaders (and/or the artists do glossy too much). That said..

Most, if not all, modern big engines use "deferred shading" and support normal/bump maps, gloss/reflection maps in addition to "normal" textures (lately every rendering engine that focuses on being realistic is switching to "Physically based rendering", that is very similar to "normal" rendering except that it obeys the "amount of (light) energy out can not be greater then the amount of energy in"(this also means linear light space, instead of logarithmic like we humans perceive)).

All the big rendering engines can, with the same equations in shaders, produce exactly the same result. The same results in regards to the direct "shading".

The other part of how a thing looks is lighting (aka "global illumination"), where the actual engine code is a lot more involved. Since you can't make, like raytracing does, light bounce off of things, you have to cheat (it uses too much processing power). Rendering engines cheat by, for example, plunking "light probes" around (unity had a good post about them, i can't find it now). The slight differences in lighting may not seem like much in a side by side comparison, but our brains use those little lighting clues meaning they(we) are sensitive to them.

There is also how many lights a rendering engine supports (and the distance they can cast light), how it does particles and can they emit light, how it does volumetric.. things (like smoke, maybe water and such), how good it is at reflections (are they precise, do they include dynamic things; note that they probably don't bounce twice), subsurface scattering (notable on skin), and probably more that i forgot.

Note that i simplified plenty. For example lighting and shading are closely related.

PS Reality is not like basic theory. Physically based rendering does give real world results but in reality everything has dust on it, or an oxide layer (aluminium especially), or a sulfide layer (copper likes sulphor). The other imperfection is the minor imperfections in smoothness, what the collective "they" do take into equation (see https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/publications/EGSR07-btdf.pdf).

PPS "Physically based rendering".. as if Phong shading is based on something else. (PBR is still no where near reality, for reasons above)
I've seen ~10 Cruise cars around Mission Dolores and Soma in SF. 100% of the time the driver has his hands on the wheel and appears to be making the turns himself. I'm skeptical of how automated this service actually is.

Maybe those are training runs or the drivers are letting the wheel guide them.
I could add that truth-likeness might not adequately accommodated by a subjective-probability degree-of-belief model. For example, while I might believe both of these propositions to be true, p=1, one is more uhh truth like:

Donald Trump weighs 107 kg.
Donald Trump weighs less than the sun.
I think I remember, something like 6000, right?
Absolve your guilt by transferring your wealth to someone else.

I know just the person...
How does the Wali part work? do you employ conversation reviewers? Does one dater recruit an outside person?
Yes. Facebook is evil, Google is misguided. Besides, Google's services give me much more value than anything Facebook has to offer. Facebook's """"hidden"""" ads in my feed trigger me. Do they think I'm stupid?
2012 had half Skyactiv and half .. non-Skyactiv. The expected MPG on the non is around 30. You'd have a badge on the rear of the car (if sold in US, at least) that would indicate Skyactiv.
Neat, but I've yet to see a demo of a self-driving vehicle in rain so hard drivers slow down from 65 mph to 45 mph, the wipers at their fastest setting are struggling to keep up, and when you drive through a puddle, the splash from the water obscures the windshield for a couple seconds. Conditions with such low visibility from the rain coming down so hard that you wish you had a clear view screen (also called spin window) [1], usually found on ships and machine tools that use lots of liquid. Humans regularly drive through this kind of rain, though not well. If a self-driving platform relies exclusively upon LIDAR, my understanding is seeing through this much rain requires a lot more processing.

The rain demos I've seen [2] [3] [4] are all in wet weather, but not this kind of heavy rain, where a promise of self-driving technology saving lives and property can be more assuredly realized. If anyone in the field knows of one of the contenders already working on training in such poor conditions, then please post a link to a demo if one is available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_view_screen

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9Gr9V2mOE

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlazzsroCA

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMvgtPN2IBU
Speaking of whom - a friend and I were the other day wondering Just Why On Earth none of his SciFi appears to have been optioned for conversion to other media. I can imagine scope, complexity and presumably huge budget leaving prospective optioners with slightly soiled breeks, but all the same — not even a hope of one of the tales in The State of the Art?
If it's truly universal, then the it's good effects will be severely curtailed by the substitution effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect
IMO, Science fiction is less about new ideas as it is spreading those ideas to a wider audience. The average NASA scientist may come up with an interesting idea, but unless it's directly relevant within a decade few people are going to hear about it.
While he probably indeed was the single biggest beneficiary of his book Tim Ferriss likely also helped a lot of people to change their respective lives for the better.

Who cares if you're not "living the dream" as long as you're doing better than before? 4HWW can be a real eye-opener in many respects and it's certainly not just about selling cheap info products while making use of cost of living arbitrage.

In fact, Ferriss has stated several times that the 4HWW is neither about literally just working 4 hours nor is it necessarily about constantly travelling through low-rent countries (though that certainly can be a beneficial option). It's much more about making efficient use of your time and doing so according to your own standards instead of somebody else's.

Some of the comments here depict him as some kind of snake oil salesman. I think he genuinely wants to teach and help people but that's just my personal opinion.

Consider this though: Who are the real snake oil men here? The one who tries to teach you to live a better life by your own standards or the ones that try to sell you a "> 40 hrs of work per week; consume as much as you can; don't enjoy life until you're too old to actually enjoy it;" lifestyle as the 'proper' way of living your life?
I can't remember how exactly I did it but the entire thing was written to a surface in a massive for loop per-pixel (C was used) and then flipped.
Not sure how far east you want to go but in both Poland and the Czech Republic card payments are far more prevalent than in western Germany.
I think you are misreading that. The increase of 10-30 percent is in torque, not MPG.
The context of the original comment gets lost and the [-] functionality makes skipping subthreads easy enough so I don't see the advantage.
That was my point. You can find sex "differences" but unless you somehow raised men and women separately, you'll be hard pressed to know which ones are innate and which ones are created through outside pressures.

Not in all cases, of course, but in terms of behavior.
I highly recommend Stephen King's "On Writing." The basic lesson - if it isn't needed, take it out. Kill your babies.

The GIFs are the "your babies" of this article.
> what central mechanisms changed around 1980?

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

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Is There a Genetic Basis to Career Choice?
Tagging scenes
Genders in the scene
Positions etc...

I'm curious how ML will do that, not how but accuracy would be cool to make (train) the model. Also with thumbnails that capture the viewer's attention.

The other jobs were brute searching sites in hopes to improve SEO.

Transcribing photos of receipts (funny those ads, some poor schmuck being paid 12 cents per 10 min job).

Oh I remember an awkward one it was some social site's user photo uploads, I had to tag images with babies. So weird to see so many 'public' yet seemingly intimate photos. Not nude, just random people's photos.

I did this for a whole week as much as I could do sanely, made $55 not worth it. Washing plates makes more money.
How much more R&D can the internal combustion engine pay for?
find the theoretical limit to what your web server
can handle in terms of concurrent requests. Let's
throw them all at your application. In this scenario,
the check-load-then-die code is worthless because
the request will never get there.

If there is such a limit, then why not mitigate that by setting a max number of connections for the webserver?

You're just shielding the web server from
whatever the application holds.

True. But as I said: it works. Never seen our server get slow since we implemented this a few years ago. It kicks in when we get about 25x our normal traffic. Which happened less then once a year so far.
Run a Google pagespeed test:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
IIRC, one of the things that changed back then was a movement away from workers having retirement plans with the companies they worked for (pensions) and toward managing their retirement individually (IRAs). This could have conceivably led to a new, steady source of investment in the stock market through mutual funds and whatnot (and perhaps even more aggressive investments presumably), which, if the changes shown on that graph could be thought to be generously helped by investment income, may explain some of this.

Disclaimer: I don't know enough about this stuff to make a definitive argument.
I never came across a cashpoint in Britain that was closed at night. Is this a recent change?
you can take this course

https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-parallel-programming...

John Owens is a good teacher. He helped me get started on CUDA.
80 years ago all vets were men. How can men's biology change so fast? 150 years ago elementary school teachers were men. In 1984 more than 35% of CS majors were female. Not long enough for genetic change.
There may be a difference - but they are in the same mental theatre, regardless... plus don't you think they'd be at least a bit specific about the direction they are interested in the speculation heading???
It's funny to see how these 'hip-young-cool' tech companies have 'grown up' and implemented nearly the exact same internal cultures and processes as every other company. I had hoped they were going to really change things, and not just in a less racist/sexist/etc way, but in finding a new way to do HR and all that jazz. Like, they have enough fine grained data that Orwell rolling in his grave could power London, but they still slipped back into the same old paradigm as Exon and MS and Standard Oil (minus the racism/sexism/etc, for the most part). It's interesting to see it happen in ~ a decade only.
Does the App allow "marrying" multiple wives? (This is allowed in Islam)! We need this feature.
This is going to end in a war again.
A few months ago, there was some construction going on just outside the busiest mall in the city center of Dresden. When they dug into the ground, they accidentally dug a bit too far and cut the internet cable for that mall (and a few more blocks around it). That was on a Friday evening, so the replacement cable could not be delivered until Monday.

The entire mall was without internet access and, consequently, all credit card terminals, EC terminals and ATMs stopped working. If I had not been able to pay cash (as I always do because of Datensparsamkeit [1]), I would not have been able to go to the cinema that weekend.

[1] Does the word "Datensparsamkeit" have a good translation in English? It's sort of an idiosyncrasy of the German language and the German people. It refers to the practice of protecting one's data by not generating it in the first place. Cash is datensparsam because it is anonymous, hence the metadata of my purchase cannot be associated with my identity.
For many people credit card payment also means:
- verify statement at the end of the month.

Which is annoying and time-consuming.
hahahaha, that one made my day
Google Wants to Keep 'localhost' Local
Until you get caught. The problem is not so much being an experienced pickpocket, the problem is getting to that point and then living off of it for 40 years without spending a lot of time in prison.