skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know of any good resources for "getting into" image stacking for a complete newbie? 2 years ago I tried stacking images I took of Jupiter in my 16" dob (taken with a Canon DSLR), but it was terrible and I'm not confident I used the app I found (I think it was AstroStack..) for image stacking correctly.
Love it. I can see this being useful once you are up to 10 or more subscriptions.
2017 Census on Work, Stress, and Productivity
> It could be that people offering less simply don't value your skills as much.

Entirely possible. Luckily, someone's inability to properly value an employee's skills doesn't prohibit said employee from finding an employer who will pay the market clearing price for their time. Value is determined by the market, not an individual hiring manager.

> You seem to be implying that there is no such thing as being overpaid, which is pretty nonsensical.

There isn't such a thing. Someone is getting paid what they were able to negotiate between two willing parties.
I would say that's an accurate "elevator pitch" of Level Level 3 or below autonomy. It's reckless of Tesla or anyone else to sell it as a working commercial feature just to try to get ahead of competitors.

I'm a big fan of Tesla and Musk, and you can see that from one of my recent comments on HN, too, but I've pretty much always criticized the Autopilot for exactly this reason.

Humans can't handle Autopilot in its current form, no matter how many asterisks Tesla puts in its Terms of Service and how many prompts and alerts it adds to warn the drivers. Either it's completely worry-free "let me take a nap until destination" self-driving - or it's not, and the driver should be expected to do manual driving at all times.
*If you live long enough, which isn't looking to be the case for the bottom quartile, considering the retirement age will be raised to 67 before our cohort will start retiring.
Interesting map! German here, surprising to see only 3 German companies have made the list. I don't know what I expected, but 3 YC companies seems like a really low number.

(Micro-nitpick: The color scale is a little bit confusing. Darker = more startups; but USA [1,062 startups] and Canada [62] both have #597b9f as color, even though there's a one-thousand-company difference)
And when your computer gets popped and you lose everything is that working well?
Why? All the law does is prevent compulsory membership in a union. That seems like a good thing.
Did you chose to have the aptitude to write code? Why should a person who can’t write code but can paint fences get rewarded less for giving up an hour of their limited time on earth than someone who can code?
Well hold on dude, are you arguing that it's not Apple's right to charge money for quality / service?
It makes you wonder what else we don't know about how specific and non-general the Autopilot is in its object recognition capabilities, doesn't it?
So true! Case in point: people considered it "oniony" for a top teacher to leave the state for one that pays teachers better. The metanarrative has made it risible for high-star teachers to shop around for better salaries like star basketball players would! That's ridiculously unfair, press them into a kind of charity role.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/6ktzx1/teacher...
He goes on to say that he still believes actions can be primed.

I believe that chapter on priming Has been widely cited and used in practice. For example, law enforcement agencies use the ideology behind priming whenever they run a sting operation, and clearly believe it actually works. Look at the new prevalence of terrorism, gun, Drug, and rape stings.
Yeah, we talked about it. We'll probably include it in a future iteration
Especially in a shared environment where people may be waiting, excessive rest periods are inconsiderate. However, there is certainly some merit to longer rest periods between sets being beneficial.

https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2016/05/not-resting-long-en...
And Babel's the one people actually use.

Within the progression, each new generation is decreasingly tied to a proprietary, revenue-generating product, and increasingly intended for outside consumption. So GMail was completely proprietary and closed off from the outside world. The JS library, compiler, and optimizer from GMail was spun off into Closure, which was widely used across Google products and finally open-sourced 5ish years later, but never got widespread external use because it's very tightly tied to the style of JS development within Google. The idea of JS transpilation was proven by Closure, and Traceur was developed from the outset to be open-sourced and not tied to Google products - but it was developed by a member of the Chrome team, and so the developer perspective was that of how internal Google engineers think, and the development process wasn't really inclusive of outside engineers. Finally, Babel was developed entirely outside Google, based on ideas that had been proven out and were widely disseminated, but it was developed from the start with an open community process.
It's not that bad. I keep a separate credit card, laptop, and office for company use.
This is yet another barrier to entry for the working class. If the poor try to use tax loopholes they get nailed. The rich can afford tax lawyers to make sure they're doing it right.
Very true. Honestly, unless I really listen for it, I don't notice when someone has my own area's accent vs a "generic TV" accent. And they're pretty different! I do notice if it's not mine, though. I'm from North Carolina, and the "Deep South" accent sounds as weird to me as it does to anyone else, although I'm sure someone else might think we sound similar.

It's the entire reason I can't get into House of Cards. Frank Underwood is supposed to be from my area of the country, and speaks with some kind of Charleston-ish non-rhotic accent.
The total seismic moment energy for a 8.1 magnitude quake is roughly 1.7 * 10^21 Joules.

For comparison, Tsar Bomba (the largest nuke ever built) as tested was around 50 megatons of TNT or 210 Petajoules 2.1 * 10^17.

So you would roughly need 8000 Tsar Bombas triggered in just the right pattern to make their force additive in order to release that much energy into the plate.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if you could mine all the material for those Tsar Bombas in the same place, isostasy would give you equal or greater response from the plate, but I'm not going to do those equations right now.
How difficult, if at all possible, would it be to add images to each question?
The Volt was in development quite prior to the bailout. The Volt was developed for selfish reasons by an executive to leave an electric legacy behind, not to curry favor with the American polity. Revenge of the Electric Car is a good documentary with first person glimpses into the Volt development/launch (as well as the launch of the Tesla Roadster and the development of the Nissan Leaf).

GM branding seems to want to continue to imply that their electric vehicles are better than their "mainstream models"; showboating is marketing. GM has also said (per the link above) that they expect to have the first "mainstream" electric in the ways the car industry would define it (high volume, reasonable profits). GM isn't just now responding to "market demands" because they anticipated them years ago, and in some ways have been working to create those market demands that Mercedes and VW are just now feeling.

VW, on the other hand, also is responding to the American polity. The US has graciously allowed VW to use the fines the EPA should have charged for "dieselgate" to instead go (and only go) to electric vehicle development.
The fact that the NTSB is investigating is comforting. We're moving crashes from the domain of "shit happens" to more systematic "autopilot system X suffered Y deficiency", more analogous to the investigation of plane crashes. I'm hopeful to see the number of car fatalities sharply drop over the next 20 years as autopilots improve.
The report found human error was equally to blame and went out of its way to say that self driving cars are the future. This article is sensationalizing.
I would reccommend looking into everything written by Siegfried Engelmann, particularly "Theory of Instruction". Honestly though, that might not be enough. Maybe you have the brains and drive to do it, for me the only unquestionab success has been using scripted presentations written by people who are smarter than I am.
I am not sure how Chinese readers with dyslexia perceive, but there is an amusing phenomenon that a similar trick, i.e., shuffling Chinese characters within a sentence, has little to no effect in making reading harder.
Please note that this is not an official position by the Bank of Finland! It's a paper by Columbia University researchers published in the bank's "research discussion" journal. Indeed, the cover page explicitly notes:

> The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Bank of Finland.

@admins, can we have the title properly attribute the source?
Smart people emigrating to a place where their talents can be put to use and then sending their greater earnings back home is efficient. I don't think that economic parity across nations should be a primary goal of any nation's policy, but I do think it is basically an inevitable, positive side effect of trade. As an aside, I'm also not 100% sure maximum efficiency of human labor across all humanity should be a goal of national policy either, but that is usually what I consider good economics.
Couldn't Level 3 autonomy still be valuable for drivers who are slightly impaired, like elderly people? That seems like a substantial market.
You have to pay depreciation recapture tax whether or not you actually depreciate your house[1]. Not depreciating a rental property is just stupid.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/depreciation-recapture-3192979
[1] Internal Revenue Code section 1250(b)(3)
THis. i too have noticed a 5x uptick in these dark patterns. perhaps the only way to bend back their new algo is to manually disable/opt out of each one? perhaps that will retrain their Ai? its seriously disgusting at this point.
You mean by the private contractors they hire.
In order to learn and build up a base of skills.
I didn't say go to the student and blackmail him. I said go straight to the university.
You should probably stop allowing stories where the discussion can be taken in that direction from being posted then.
As a potential contributor I need to know whether there's a professional process or a guy "playing with trains" on the other end of the wire.

The problem is that the FLOSS ecosystem doesn't give you an easy way to tell. So if I misjudge and hit a wall of dysfunction, the general response would be, "Well, the maintainer just wants to play with trains. Leave them alone and fork the project if you want it to be some other way."

At least with paying to contribute, it would force the FLOSS ecosystem general response to be, "Those maintainers are just playing with trains, but they're taking money as if they are professional engineers. That's bad." Of course that's worst case scenario-- best case is that they really are engineers and I'm funding their development. Either way, it's potentially better than the status quo which is that you have no idea until you submit the patch.
Yes. Essentially there is some qualitative evidence that there is a priming effect, but the quantitative evidence is insufficient given the sample sizes collected by the cited studies.
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When I was little, they did an MRI and found everything normal. A few years ago, the ER said they thought it was a partial seizure, one that only hits part of the brain, and part is unaffected.
Absolutely follow you. Business decision, wasn't up to me ;)

That said though, best damn lawyer's site on the web, amirite?
> Had the latin alphabet symbols for diphtongs, things could be simpler.

That is also challenging though because you run into a lot of cases where a syllable is a diphthong in one regional accent, but not another.

For example, in Southern US English, "ride" is often pronounced something like "rahd". In the former, the "i" is a diphthong, but in the latter, the "ah" is not.

Conversely, some vowels become dipthongs. A short "i" in Southern accents often gets pronounced more like "ee-uh". Imagine Foghorn Leghorn saying "pin" as "pi-uhn" and you've got the idea.
all mailing list software that i found, targeted linux or unix-like operating systems

the only option i found for windows was listserv which cost 2K and up ..
getting approval for a $2000+ .. at least where i work, needs a super solid business case ..

i would argue that at this cost, maybe i should as for a linux box, but then again, who will admin that, who will install and admin postgresql (as an example of a dependency of some of those mailing list softwares)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mailing_list_software)
Do they? Cause Equifax has my financial info. Facebook and Google know that I like cat videos.
I've been living in a comfortable, if but small, house, about 15 years now. Its my family home. One of my kids was born in it.

That can never be explained in terms of capital.
For a very long time, I thought "ginger" was something used in England for the most part instead of the US. I don't know where they say it regularly in the US, though. I'm now curious too.
> Hardest parts are converting cash

There is a powerful network effect taking place: the more people accept Bitcoin, the smaller the need to convert to cash, causing Bitcoin's convenience to increase bit by bit, causing more people to use it, etc. That is what we have been seeing over the last 7 years. And Bitcoin ATMs are becoming the most convenient way to convert to cash. They are popping up around the world at an impressive rate: https://coinatmradar.com/charts/#growth

> poor store of value compared to a bank account

On the contrary, savings accounts are a terrible store of value as they lose value over time: a 1% interest rate is eaten by a 3% inflation rate.
Parodied in the highly polished mockumentary http://www.purepwnage.com/

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

Because Jeremy has lived in his basement for most of his life, he has had very little conversation with any other person and has therefore taught himself how to speak.
The more interesting question to ask is since there is such strong evidence of priming, how far should law enforcement agencies go in there own efforts to prime an individual into committing a crime(a la stings} are there any lines that shouldn't be crossed?
I have tried all the collaboration tools and I am usually skeptical but this one seems promising
That'd be the right abbreviation.
Honestly, I do use Google analytics on one of my sites. If figure, anyone who cares even a little bit about privacy will have it blocked. Using something more rare means that they might not be blocking it even if they would want to if they knew about it.
I can't say I'm that concerned about those regulations being an expensive burden on companies. I'm more concerned about them being effective.
Yes, I agree completely. Though I would emphasise that teaching universally bad only when compared to what is achieveable from tightly scripted presentations. I think the actual task of teaching flawlessly while "winging it" is extremely extremely difficult, and beyond at least 98% of the general population, even positing a good working environment.
The sentence from the article is ambiguous. It's not clear that "rare use" refers to rare use of the diacriticals or of the sounds themselves. If the latter, their claim makes sense — the sounds are already rarely used, so aren't worth enshrining in the alphabet.
Nice result!

Ok, just for fun: I'll try to make a quick back-of-an-envelope calculation and see if we can make an educated guess...

Let's use the old Sunny 16 rule, and its equivalent for moonlight, which also gives us an estimate for difference in light between day and night[0]:

> Daylight (sunny day): Correct exposure for this case is given by the Sunny 16 Rule: 1 / ISO [seconds] @ f/16. So at ISO 100, a typical exposure is 1/125 @ f/16 (that's 1/3 stop less exposure than the rule calls for, but it's the closest standard shutter speed.)

> Full moon: to get an equivalent exposure at night with a full moon, the rule is: 1 / ISO [days] @ f/4. That's right, DAYS. For ISO 100, that means 1/100 of a day @ f/4.

> That works out to something like 14.7 minutes; I just round it up to 15 minutes. So 15 minutes @ f/4, or FOUR HOURS @ f/16.

> That's 21 stops difference from sunlight to moonlight.

So on a sunny day you need f/16, 100 ISO, shutter speed 1/100.

flickr says you shot at f/5.6, unknown ISO (I'll go with quasi-conservative 6400 ISO), 5 seconds.

Aperture increased by 1.5 stops

ISO increase by 6 stops

500x longer shutter time => log2(500) -> 2^9 = 512 => bit less than 9 stops.

So that's between 16-17 stops of extra light sensitivity

That's five stops short of the 21 stops mentioned above. However, we're not aiming for a properly exposed single picture, we're aiming for minimum exposure to capture a signal!

Even the first digital SLRs had a dynamic range of five to six stops, so theoretically should be able to capture something in the shadow regions. Nowadays ten stops is about the norm I believe, with some of the better cameras going up to twelve. So that should clearly be above the minimum signal required

Also, the moonlight-rule above is very conservative: it's about exposing a scene in moonlight, not about capturing stars. Stars are light sources themselves, and probably brighter than objects reflecting moon light, even in a full moon. Also, the rule-of-thumb was based on film, which actually suffered from something called "reciprocity failure"[1] so it might exaggerate the required exposure.

So yes, this should work out fine, and as your picture shows it clearly does :)

[0] https://www.flickr.com/groups/11947580@N00/discuss/721576207...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography)#Reci...
Just for the record to prevent any potential confusion: we Michiganders don't call pop "ginger". We do like our ginger ale though (particularly Vernors, but Canada Dry isn't bad).
>It took me 7 days to move $300k from one bank account to another, because of closures on weekends & ACH limits. This is not "working well". With Bitcoin I can move $100k+ in ~10 minutes.

You can move the bitcoin equivalent of $100k+ in 10 minutes. It'll take you longer than a week to convert to cash (not to mention the cost you'll be paying in fees). Plus you still have to deal with all the regulatory checks (unless you think you can get away with laundering money)
<3

Truly :D
Thus continuing the tradition of taking easily recognized icons and replacing them with blue blobs that are barely distinguishable from their neighbors. Why is everything blue! OMG WHY! A hundred blue icons and you have to find the one you are looking for....
Very much. The Kazakh president pushes the Kazakh language and Kazakh culture and stresses the distinctions with those of Russia. It's also a practical modern choice though, as the Latin alphabet is more widely used worldwide and Kazakh is not a Slavic language so it gains little from being written in the same script as Russian.
Not exactly a written map, but I think you'll enjoy.

"A tour of the British Isles in accents" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8
I have to refer to the hand I hold a mouse in, before that I used to imagine holding an n64 controller.
That's awesome! I love how so many people in this thread have their little hacks and tricks to get workouts in.
"still refuse to get up"

It's hard to be the first one to do this. I've been in some places where it would get you funny looks, some where it would get you marked as lazy (somewhat paradoxically), and some where it's encouraged.

I like to do a decent swim on my lunch breaks (1250 meters these days). It was a good sign when my boss asked about how to join the same gym instead of wondering what I was gone for 50 minutes.
That happens to all workers, but because technical workers are in short supply, that's why they tend to be spoiled and overpriced. Everyone else learns humility.
The same elderly people who drive through the front of buildings because it takes them so long to recognize they hit the gas instead of brake?
Hazardous waste disposal companies are also small for the same reason.
That could be done for sideloaded apps too.
Strange, we received different instructions. For me, item 8d in your link was a 2-page document that explained the need for separate address verification if the photo ID had the wrong address.
Can I just download an IPA from a website and install it on my phone if I have a developer account?
I'm from Indiana. I think most folks there (including myself) say caught = cot and dawn = don.
Exactly. Also, people opt in to Google and Facebook, at least to some degree. I never consented to Equifax having my data, and I got nothing in return for it. It's the difference between a free transaction - even one you regret later - and theft.
Geeze, this is terrifying given that my rear probably doesn't look like that of a vehicle when I'm walking, or cycling, or motorcycling, etc.
IME this is why some new companies are extremely choosy with hires for a long time. The newer/smaller the company, the less time there is available for oversight of each other's work. That is not to say zero review happens, but if you're trying to move fast, trust and confidence in what the rest of the team is doing facilitates that.

This may sound overly negative or controversial, but I think there are a lot of tech workers out there that are technical debt factories. They'll produce highly coupled code, super long functions, inefficient code, etc...and be extremely defensive during code review. The mantra you'll hear from this person is, "but it works!" - which is exactly what the PM will hear.

So it gets shipped. After this happens enough, "simple" changes to the product that should be easy to produce, aren't so simple.
I think it's weird that so many people seem to think that Tesla have made such a significant technology leap ahead of everyone else that they're comfortable with putting their lives in the hands of their Autopilot system while other manufacturers have no such thing available in production. I wonder how much of that relaxed critical thinking is down to the hype surrounding Tesla and its founder.

I also think it's strange that they're allowed to sell cars equipped with Autopilot at the moment, there's too little known about its capabilities and weaknesses.
I, for example, speak english as second language, and frequently a comment of mine is read more aggressively than I meant it, so it ends up at -10 or worse, even when being factually correct.

So I’m reducing my activity on HN in general as far as possible, and only post as uncontroversial opinions as possible, because I fear that going against the established opinion would just get me downvoted again.
None of those will ever fly if the currency isn't used to buy actually desirable end-consumer goods in some market. Why would those foreign remote employees accept Bitcoin if they can't spend it? Ditto for all the other transactions you cited.
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