skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the joke: a Jeopardy reference, where you, Alex Trebek, just presented a textbook example of whataboutism, and CalChris was playing the role of the contestant by identifying what you just did in the form of a question.

To further ruin the joke by over-explaining it, he wasn't literally asking you to define whataboutism, because you'd just given an excellent example of it, so his question was rhetorical, and your answer was not only redundant but also incorrect.
If there was a 1% service fee for using the cashier (or a 1% rebate for self-checkout), would you still use a cashier?
64 seems a bit low, that's what I need for my hobbyist work. Granted, it doesn't take 64GiB of directly-allocated RAM to link Chrome (anymore), but there's almost no amount of page cache that would not be worthwhile if you have the whole AOSP on a box.
> I can't think of a AAA Unity title aside from Microsoft's Recore

Cities Skylines?
I don't use self checkout because I'm lazy, tbh. It's more work I need to do. Particularly at the grocery store I go to, I know which cashiers are good and efficient. If I have a coupon, or if I'm buying a clearance item, it's also not a big deal, but self checkout always seems to require a "help is on the way!"
Convenience/efficiency more than anything. Most of the time, human checkout is faster than self-checkout. I can prepare my payment in parallel with the human operating the checkout hardware. I don't have to learn and navigate the touch screen menu system (even if it can be learned in a second, that's one second more than the zero I get with human checkout). Often, self checkout kiosks fail in ways that require a human to be summoned anyway.
FWIW I believe it helps to run ordinary fans in the room in tandem with a filtration unit to combat the airflow issues.
Andrew Gerrard worked on both and apparently didn't think Camlistore was the right basis for what they wanted in Upspin. But I'm sure you, who I'm not sure has used either project, know better than Andrew and Brad and Rob.
I love bagging my own groceries the way I like, and avoiding interaction with a potentially disgruntled and inattentive cashier. I love self-checkouts.
Because I drink a lot.

Can’t buy booze in self checkout (in CA).
This is the result of negotiations between a party called New Zealand First, led by notorious xenophobe[1] Winston Peters, and a socialist PM who has described capitalism as a "blatant failure"[2].

In fact, Peters has already confidently predicted an economic crisis post-election, and begun distancing himself from it[3].

My current bet is on the coalition collapsing, with new elections held in October 2018. A few of my NZ friends and family are placing similar bets; closest guess wins.

I'm glad I left for Australia in 2007.

[1] http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/winston-why-are-you-like-t...

[2] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/jacinda-ardern-ca...

[3] https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/98061685/Winston...
For one, Wal*Mart doesn't provide cash-back at self checkout
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Wow, man. Nice job.
Perhaps I should have clarified. Too much prime real estate in almost every country is purchased by wealthy foreigners who either sparsely live there or hold it for purposes of speculation. The result is chronic housing shortages and economy-ruining rents. In that case a hefty surtax is certainly justified.
The R0 of the original article is determined on the assumption that nobody is immunized at all.

Vaccine ineffectiveness is the odds that when you are potentially infected by a wild flu, the virus that you encounter was one that you were vaccinated against.

Vaccines are more effective when they correctly predict what varieties of flu will be circulating. But the more effective the immunization program, the more the ones that they predicted become and the less effective the vaccine becomes. However we all benefit because less flu is in the environment.
200+ comments.
Why this never made HN front page?
not really on topic, but does https://www.taste.io work for you?

i always like to bring this up when people mention algos only being able to shuffle the past - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-...

i would think music or photos or writing would be the first place where algos could take WHAT you like about something and find matches. Just liking or upvoting isnt enough in my experience. But with music if I can say I like the lyrics, or beat, or instruments or vocal tones..
I love retro tools like this, so I dig the look. But I agree with sigi45 that you could parse the information and display it in a more meaningful way, because as of now I can just pop over to a terminal and do the exact same thing. And whenever I input keygen.sh, it fails because ANY is deprecated by Cloudflare [0].

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/what-happened-next-the-deprecati...
Yeah, if they're planning on allowing those with only temporary residence rights to continue to buy then the policy is useless.
Certainly!

-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -m string --hex-string "|8500|" --algo kmp --from 30 --to 31 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -m string --hex-string "|8400|" --algo kmp --from 30 --to 31 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j DROP

The above used in the filter table drops anything that does not match NOERROR recursive and NOERROR non-recursive responses.

-A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -m string --hex-string "|0000ff0001|" --algo bm --from 40 --to 65535 -j DROP

The above used in the raw table drops "ANY". It could probably be optimized to search through less of the packet.

-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m state --state NEW -m length --length 24:120 -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

Above is the inbound rule that blocks some overflow attempts.
Because Winston Peters is a xenophobe, and has a long history of playing on 'yellow peril' politics w.r.t. Chinese investment and immigration.
The Fermi paradox isn't only talking about detecting alien civilizations via radio emissions and the like. More likely would be the detection of a civilization that is harvesting a respectable portion of their star's energy. Energy is power, and stars absolutely dwarf any other accessible source.

Once basic space construction is mastered (which we are very close to), large scale solar collection seems a likely path that many civilizations would take. A Dyson swarm would probably be the first step, which would be detectable from very large distances.
I guess the following won't work then.

0 / 0.1, 0.2, 0.3...0.9 / 0.01, 0.02, 0.03...0.09, 0.11, 0.12, 0.13...0.19, 0.21...0.99 / 0.001, 0.002, 0.003...0.009, 0.011, 0.012...

And when ever you list x, you also list -x, 1/x, and -1/x. Except for 0 of course. And you have to throw in +1 and -1 somewhere. Somehow it feels like you should cover all the reals eventually but that can't be true because that would imply there are only countable infinite many reals. It actually looks more like a convoluted version of the standard way to enumerate the rationals by visiting diagonals in order of increasing distance from the origin on a two dimensional integer lattice.
He never mentions price of traffic between yourself and EC2 instance in cost estimates.
If you exclude AWS, it's -2.1%, from -0.9% a year ago
The Zen of random internet sites shared via FB. Welcome to modern enlightenment.
Welp, Australia's coalition may collapse on Friday too!
> [It] remains unique not in the fact that it happens, but in the scale that it happens

There are probably more tech workers in SV than any other major metro area
Reminds of me of the Warren Bennis quote: The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Speaking as an Australian, , where we already have nominally similar policies, and keeping in mind the metro house price phenomenon is repeating in several places in the world in a similar fashion, there's just one small problem with these policies:

There's limited evidence available that it's foreign buyers primarily responsible for our high house prices :/

The primary cause has always been local steady employment, low interest rates combined with liberal access to debt with households culturally disposed to pumping that into housing.

It's very easy to blame this on Chinese money (which I'm sure is a common story in many parts of the world where house prices are taking off), but the far bigger cause had always been leveraging afforded by local households combined with a low interest rate environment.
> and simultaneous-multithreading is letting another thread use the now-idle resources.

This can actually be worse due to context switch overhead and caches you were using getting evicted by the now running thread hitting the same issue.

If you want to do this right you should be organizing your data so that the prefetcher and take advantage of it. All of those speculative things still have a cost.
In this case, the escaped fish have very little chance of establishing a breeding population, so it's sort of moot.
Related article on similar hierarchical / compositional policies learned by maximum entropy optimization: http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/10/06/soft-q-learning/
Nearly every internet-related thing is "a big part of many people's lives but they won't pay for it".
Wow. 34%? How does that happen at a company of that scale? That's simply incredible, they are hitting it out of the park like Apple and Google, FANGs are dominating this world at this stage.
The tax loop hole in housing is something that needs to be addressed. If we have income tax we really need to tax all profit, including capital gains.
Augustus was furious about the defeat, and allegedly would shout out the above phrase (translated roughly as "Varus, return [the/my] legions!") on occasion – in stark contrast to his typical, reserved demeanor.
I am very curious about Wallmart policies against Amazon growth. With this pace amazon will eat Wallmart eventually. And Wallmart is biggest company on earth. What they are going to do?
I sincerely doubt foreign purchases are the main driver of rent increase, and no study has ever demonstrated as much. The anti-foreigner mindset is extremely dangerous.

Rising rents are almost entirely because of local restrictions on creating more housing. The beneficiaries of restricted supply are existing owners and landlords.
Freelancer.com – my horrible experience
Speaking of hackathons, I've got one this weekend and was planning to use twilio in the hack. In the past did you just reach out to them for help? How so?
It becomes sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you append with other people and don't use those services. You might have a few close friends, have a favorite jogging route, make cool stuff, etc.

But from the perspective of people heavily invested in those platforms, you don't. And as the number of people on these monoplatforms trends towards 100%...

Well, I dunno, maybe it's just big cities that are like that.
> In fact, aggregate commercial sales by all seed companies account for only about 40 percent of the total volume of seeds used globally in 2014 (not sure of the last seasons). Of those commercial seed sales, roughly 2/3 of the seed volume comes from private breeding programs and significantly 1/3 comes from national or public institutions.

> While Monsanto is one of the largest commercial seed companies, even in those crops their output probably accounts for less than one-third of global commercial volume.

These are very specific quantitative statements. Can you provide your sources? it seems like whatever this is from is overall very interesting to read.
You don't think wages have any effect on the decision to automate?

I will always vote for raising the minimum wage but at the same time I know it probably makes automation more attractive.
"To me, this is absurd. This is a human rights issue (homelessness is growing by a large amount)."

Homelessness is a mental health issue. Nobody is homeless because of foreign speculators.

Yes, people are indeed incentivized to relocate to housing markets that Chinese people have never heard of like, for instance, Tacoma.

If those people spent half their time working and saving (like their parents did) as they spent bitching about their basic human right to live in a walkable neighborhood with artisanal foodstuffs they would then have a nice down payment when the inevitable crash comes to the hot housing market in question.
The main price driver is speculation, so I'm not confident that increasing supply in anything except for absolutely massive numbers (which 10k/year is not) would have much price impact.
> What will the People of Walmart make of this?

That depends entirely upon whether or not the robots can help deliver their "I thought it was just gas" bathroom babies.
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It's been a while since the last good "Tools of the Trade" and no doubt there are better options out there now. So what tools are you using to build your side project / startup with now?

Previous Threads:

- original 2010 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769910

- 2013 edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137

- 2014 edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8028704
This reminds me of the argument some (now dead) portal page/search engine company made to Larry Page when Larry and Sergey showed off their page rank algorithm.

It was basically something like the following:
"This is no good - if the search results are too good then people won't stay on our page long enough to see the ads"

This is basically what triggered them to start their own company instead of licensing the tech (I'm remembering most of this from In The Plex which I read a while back).

Basically it's stupid not to make the core thing better - especially in the case where Walmart's real competition is Amazon.
If that were the problem, we would solve it by adding sleep() calls...
I prefer self checkout in theory, but often the machine doesn't work properly, and you need a human to login and fix it anyway.

The whole thing where it checks if something is in bagging area seems to be pretty buggy in most of the stores where I've used them.
Which malfeasance are you talking about? Like I said earlier a lot of the claims against monsanto are either outright false, exaggerated and occasionaly warranted.

- Terminator seeds? myth, that technology was never commercialised [0]
- Suing farmers for accidental contamination? Mostly false. For example in the case of the canadian farmer, he knowingly replanted GM seeds from plants that he sprayed with roundup and ending up with 95% GM canola, breaking patent law and hence getting sued
- Indian Suicide caused by GM Cotton ? Myth. Indian farmers are committing suicide but not because of GM cotton. In fact, GM cotton got approved because Indian farmers where importing it on the black market. [2]

I'm not saying Monsanto is completely blameless in everything (as the dicamba story shows), but they do provide a very easy target to demonise and blame for a lot of issues. I used to be on the anti monsanto bandwagon as you, but after looking deeper, I realised a lot of it is BS. Those stories (especially the Indian suicide one), are very compelling so I understand why a lot of people believe them wholesale. Alas, the reality is a lot more complex.

[0]https://www.biofortified.org/2015/12/gmos-and-patents-part-1...
[1]https://www.biofortified.org/2015/12/lawsuits-against-farmer...
[2]http://issues.org/30-2/keith/
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> If there was a 1% service fee for using the cashier (or a 1% rebate for self-checkout), would you still use a cashier?

Definitely. Our average grocery bill ranges from maybe USD $50 to $125 (we're empty nesters), so 1% of that would be noise level. Heck, back when baggers accepted tips, I always tipped at least $1 (when I was a teenaged grocery bagger it was for tips only); that's more than the 1% would be.

Probably
I think it's worth taking a step back and looking at the grand scheme. Everything is a non-binary spectrum.

As an example, if you temporarily suspend societal norm (which is what I'm challenging here), to think that we have the audacity to pretend that we know how to tax people and objectively rate society's needs and redistribute wealth into various public programs in a way that's objectively fair to everyone is absurd if we try to think of objectivity as a binary thing.

But our policies obviously have socialistic elements because we don't dogmatically lock ourselves in a strict dichotomy.

And I argue for the same thing in work compensation. Some form of pure cosmic objectivity may not ever be possible but it doesn't mean we should ideologically oppose attempts to approach that end of the spectrum.
Interesting--I've found myself switching the other way recently. I used to do a lot of purchasing on Amazon, but have moved more and more over to eBay. Prices tend to be better there, even on new items. No sales tax. Most sellers now offer free shipping, and you don't have to fill your cart to $50 or whatever it is to get it, and that free shipping isn't the "carried on the back of a mule" speed like Amazon's.
In many ways amazon has already eaten walmart. In what way is walmart the biggest company on the earth?
> I don't think blackballing people due to statistical inferences about their behaviour is any better than harassment.

What? Harassment is active disruption of your life. Hiding you from someone's search results or "compatibility" list is not. It's not a great future, but let's have some perspective and not equate apples with oranges.
Out of all the big ones Amazon is the one I'd want the least to make much money. They just seem to have the least human view of their customers, with some products they've built completely centered around viewing their customers as consumer-machines.
Catalonian leaders are indeed approaching a dead end, and they do while a steamroller is coming from the other side, and this is the judiciary system. Right now most of the politicians are deep in red ink, in borrowed time.

They have asked multiple times to dialogue with Spain and negotiate a satisfactory outcome for all. But the steamroller doesn't stop. And who is on the driving seat of the judiary system/steamroller? Yes, the PP, the spanish nationalists, who have appointed the judiciary and are ready to bend it to their interest. Spain has one of the least independent judiciary systems in Europe.

And catalan politicians are in a dead end, because while there may be a majority for independence, nobody else is going to defend the legitimacy of a declaration of independence, and the more they resist, the more the steamroller accelerates and the darker the street.

What I see as the likely outcome is that catalan leaders will be jailed and only after PP loses majority/power, which is very likely in the next cycle, the catalan politicians will be pardoned.
One of the main problems with this policy is that it's addressing something that isn't actually a problem.

The main driver of house pricing is land use and building regulation, unsurprisingly. If it's harder and / or more expensive to build housing, houses will cost more.

http://pc.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/australasia-world-leader-i...
As a general rule of thumb, consultants need to charge around twice as much per hour as the same work pays in a salaried position. So, if you think $15/hour is a reasonable rate for this "job," you should charge $30/hour. For a consulting gig, anything below $30/hour is basically slave wages anyway.

Given that it is an OSS, it might be reasonable to charge anywhere from $50/hour to $200/hour. Since you have been doing this for free for some time, you should feel free to charge what you want. Anything is gravy at this point. You can keep it low as a favor to small businesses. Or you can jack it up to try to get people out of your hair. ;-)
Its not that we cannot build robots that restock shelves, it is that shelves are designed for humans to stock. And emulating the range of movement and dexterity of human hands and the sensory data we get when interacting with such shelves is really expensive, rather than prohibitive. Especially to maintain. Think of all the fine motor joints you would need in such a robot that could break all the time (like how fragile human fingers are). But how else are they supposed to stock individual bottles of maple syrup with weird handles while stocking jars or bags of flour a shelf over?

In situations designed for robots, like Amazon warehouses, they don't have a problem stocking shelves as long as the range of required behavior is much more restricted so the instrumentation can be more rugged and less articulate.
It's not too different from a static type system. Humans are great at general problem solving, but computers are better at precision (but only when you can precise measure something).
I wonder why they settled on putting the cameras in robots that are on the floor. Why not use cameras attached to the ceiling? If the cameras need to move to get a good angle, they could move up and down the aisle on tracks or Walmart could simply install more cameras. If the ceiling is a bad angle, they could put them on the floor under the shelving, or on top of the shelves, or in several other places.

None of those solutions need navigation, their presences is more persistent, and the persistent visual could be used for other purposes: 'Are we out of produce bags? Check camera 5b.' 'What is on the floor in aisle 8?'
I never type sl, but often type "gerp". I have an alias though.
I'm happy that National is out, but concerned about Winnie being in. This policy might be a good start, but so far looks like window dressing that's not going to achieve much.
> investigated inside and out for around 25 years

Most of that was just politically motivated stuff. The difference is that the trove of emails was not filtered and research discovered the potentially implicating campaign finance stuff within that trove.

> 15 years of book deals and 100k speaking engagements

The personal wealth was likely done in a way that does not violate any laws. A donor can make a book deal happen with a $2M advance rather than violating laws by donating $2M. That's gray area but not surprising or concerning.

The potential area of concern is the way that the Clinton Foundation may have been used to collect donations from foreign governments in a pay-to-play arrangement. I'm not entirely sure whether it's reasonable that such things are illegal, but they are illegal so if someone is doing it we should all be concerned.

I'm pretty concerned about Paul Ryan's $8M as well. You didn't address this so I am guessing that you assume it all to be above board?
Not from Spain, but from Canada where Quebec tried to separate multiple times. I can iterate a few points that are might be similar.

- Quebec has a different official language (same with Calalonia)

- People from Quebec have a very different culture, which is more socialist.

- They constantly have businesses disrespecting their culture for sake of cost cutting.

- Their heritage is different. They don't care about the commonwealth, etc.

- They can survive on their own. They invested hard in environmentally friendly power sources and keeping ownership over their own resources.

- Other provinces disrespect their culture and right to be different.

- They pay a lot dividends to other provinces that are now broke because they sold ownership of their resources to third parties. (Alberta, NB, etc)

Disclaimer: I'm from NB, but most of my family lives in Quebec.
Why permanent daylight savings time? Why not just permanent real time? Clock noon should be roughly the same as solar noon, all year round. 'Daylight savings' is an impossibility.
As far as I know, it can recurse down and get to more files than you want.
The alternative is that the last time I ran that command, it was actually on an account with write rights to the root dir.
ADC is dominating League of Legend's S7 tournament