skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These levels are known to SREs as Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Managed, and Optimizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model#Leve...

These levels are known to Discordians as Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and The Aftermath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia
Balboa park station is surrounded by single family homes. Colma is inhabited by people who no longer need transportation.
Also, lolcat:

https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
I wonder if these robots will suffer from the "roomba dog mess" problem. Meaning if a jar of something gets dropped in the aisle, will the robot happily drive through it and then leave tracks of it throughout the store?

I'd also be interested in learning about the false positives. For example a product get turned around on the shelf or returned askew does that trigger an alert? And is that a good or bad thing?

I guess the proof will be in the pudding. If these are still in use two or three years from now then we know they were a success.

From a personal perspective I'd love these to improve me locate products within a store. Many stores still fail to tell you which shelf a product is on on their mobile app, and the few that day don't give you a map of the store showing you the literal location of it. I'd love to have a "Google Maps"-like experience with locating an item.
Why do you refuse to use the self checkout?
Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violent Content
Finally got back to a real keyboard. I'm slightly aghast some of you feel we systems implementers (designers, developers, etc) need to be politically correct about the way we talk about users.

A person can be clever but people still do stupid things. I do not by any means truly think my users are mentally abnormal, really just that everybody —even those with specific, specialised counter-phishing training— succumb to really stupid things when we're manipulated in the right way.

As somebody developing systems, we really have to build defensively when users' wanton disregard for (eg) data security (manhandling customer databases, giving out their access to colleagues, clients, etc) conflicts with their employers, our and our regulators' data protection rules. So again, be offended if you like, but we're protecting our livelihoods.

In the context of this, Google could protect users against themselves and make the marketplace trustworthy.
TV hours work the same in France, except that a movie playing at 01:00 on Saturday will be listed on Friday, at 01:00.
In other words, the first item listed on a given day is at, say, 9:00 that day despite the fact that other things were played earlier. The TV day then ends at, say, 6:00 the day after.

I am not sure of the hours because I haven't actively watched TV for years but it was certainly the case when I was a kid in the 80's where TV was not 24/24 but ended sometime in the night. It was then natural for the next day to start at 9 or whatever was the earliest broadcast.
A Turkey-Sized Dinosaur with a Raccoon-Like Bandit Mask
Amazon has a lot of upside potential but COGS is something like 80% of their revenue. Minus COGS their annual revenue will be about $20b with about a 5%-10% profit margin. Sure, they can increase revenue by 5x - 10x. Minus COGS that would bring them to parity with Google but with 25% - 50% of Google’s margins. As much as I like Amazon as a company it’s hard for me to square this with their valuation.
Equally oppressed under a government regime.
I think we'll just see a ton of videos of electric scooters crashing into them...
Sounds like you have allergy problems, or maybe a deviated septum, or something else causing sinus infections.

That's definitely not just a result of being over the ripe old age of 22.
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Operating margin has collapsed from 1.8% to 0.8% (adjusting for Whole Foods doesn't change the result).
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I'm going to guess because of how symbolic it is regarding our society's relation to labor.
Possible that you are not giving enough credit to Tinder's algorithm for sorting the profiles that you're presented with? There's a lot of information buried in how you swipe and message and edit.
I don't think that really refutes the point, the median public user of Android Studio is probably closer to 16GB of ram right? With a nontrivial percentage of people with 8GB? So you're still talking about an order of magnitude more ram than those people.
Musk's hype of AI is just marketing.
Block heaters are used in somewhat milder climates as well – even though a modern ICE will start quite fine at even below -20°C (increasingly more unreliably the lower you go), doing so is somewhat harmful for the engine. (Also, by heating the engine fluids you can also blow some warmer air into the cabin to prevent the windows from frosting when you get inside – not to mention the added comfort.) Actual battery warmers are much rarer I think, but that isn't often an issue as long as you keep your battery well charged (and obviously have a more capable battery to begin with).

The usual recommendation is to start using the block heater even before temperature gets below freezing (for convenience reasons not many people do so).
But can they do the cheer?
Aren't you assuming that they are matching on equality, not inferred compatibility?
The cocaine pocket
People need those jobs so I want them to exist.
Is the economy so much better than last year that everyone is buying 34% more stuff than they did last year?
It's not really loopholed; those that actually live in NZ _should_ be able to buy property there (our voting laws are similar, those with permanent residency are also entitled to vote).
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That's not available in Europe for some reason, at least not for personal projects without potential economic benefit.

> In the European Union and Russia, Google Cloud Platform services can be used only for business purposes. If the sole purpose for which you want to use Google Cloud Platform services has no potential economic benefit you should discontinue your use of the service.

https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602
> most ML data is not sparse.

As an ML guy I can say that sparse is pretty common in ML. Text data, market basket data, graph Laplacians, adjacency matrix, sequence fragment data are all rich in sparse matrix computation and storage operations. For a moment I thought the "not" was a typo. Lack of support for sparse matrices often becomes a serious inconvenience in a tool, very happy that TileDB folks have given thought to the sparsity requirement from get-go
Lets start an open robot cooperative where each co adopting robots to replace human labor donates to high tech or other education. This idea is open source so take it and run with it :)
The stock is up 7.5% in after hours trading.
I don't agree with the splitting of the population into "disabled" and "temporarily abled," but it does make a point very well.

There are many people who are not permanently disabled that have a temporary disability at any given time. Broken a leg, or an ankle? Had surgery that requires you to keep both eyes bandaged? Those things can be extremely disabling, even if you'll recover in a few months.
BTW, if there are other book authors that want to publish here, please feel free to do so!

Also if you have a github repo and want to make it easily runnable, you can place a badge on your repo like this:

https://notebooks.azure.com/help/libraries/sharing/create-a-...

Your users can then click it to upload+run.
Can't answer for GP, but I use human checkout to provide epsilon demand for cashiers who need the job. Efficiency isn't everything.
I'm a New Zealander that was deeply concerned by the new government winning the election but this policy gives me hope.
It's only through the construction of highways that suburbs can be accessible. There was a great study done to show that the cost of highways is mostly subsidized by the inner city, not the suburbs themselves.

Are you intentionally confusing separate issues? An hour away from the city is an hour away from a city, infrastructure can change the distance you can travel in an hour (e.g in countries with high speed rail, it's not uncommon for people to commute over 100 miles, that'd be a very long commute anywhere in America).

The highways extend the amount of land that's available for commuters, maybe cities should pay for them as the highways make it possible for cities to get away with inefficient zoning.
The last one is actually the ISO norm. There was of course an xkcd on that subject as well.
These points apply to many other economic activities, especially larger scale ones (like car manufacturing) and this is basically the argument for communism. Alas, it doesn't actually work.
That's a good start but do you have a partnership with anyone that can provide storage with free/low cost bandwidth to your service? Even Direct Connect is ridiculously expensive compared to transit.
It seems interesting to me, that computers seem to be taking on managerial roles and humans are left with manual labor. The robot knows how to tell a human to fix a problem but doesn't know how to restock the shelves itself. Similarly, in warehouses, computers tell humans what to do, and the human's job is basically just to grab things.

In the end, the robot is already higher on the ladder than the humans.
Given the previous reactions to any sort of move by fast food chains toward anything like automation, I can't imagine this won't be picked up as fodder for the "look what happens when you ask for a living wage" contingent.
They were a store last year, too.
I can't find a link to it with a quick google search, but I remember it was done at the University of Michigan if you want to search further.
These guys are snakes. They also used shareholder money to lobby against marijuana legalization because they knew it would impact their bottom line.
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Were the packages left in plain sight? In my experience (which, sure, is anecdotal), people don't stop by my box every day to check if there's anything inside it to steal.
I read that entire article and came to the conclusion that, regardless of what they said at the top, they agree with most of the claim and only quibble on a few small points. In their own words, “Partly true, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons.”
Why does it have to be a robot riding around? Couldn't the same thing be done from a camera on the ceiling?
Definitely a fan of this project, but I'm intensely curious as to why they separated from Camlistore, which seems like a very similar project and is also headed by a key member of the Go core team (Brad Fitzpatrick). Anybody from either of those two projects care to comment?

Motivation: There are 100s of initiatives trying to solve similar problems, and they could be solved relatively quickly if engineers deigned to work together on a solution instead of splintering off into hundreds of fractured groups.
> Personally, I want to see up-to-date retail stock mapping (that I can search)

Isn’t something Walmart doesn’t want you to have? Having a mapping means being more efficient when shopping in the store, which means less time in it and so less opportunities to buy things.
There are so many new faces in this thread and they all want to refocus the conversation on other hot button topics. Why is this?
Slightly OT, but this made me wonder about David Friedberg, who founded Climate Corp, acquired by Monsanto. In 2013 he wrote a letter about the acquisition and clarified his stance on Monsanto ( https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-the-climate-corp... ). In 2016 he stepped down for an advisory role ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/monsanto-executive-david-friedb... ) .
Yes! Read books, or trust your instincts, or do whatever you want, and feel free to ignore all the drivel that people tell you.

Everybody in the world seems to know how you are doing it all wrong.

Even random strangers on the street have started giving me unsolicited advise.

People just can't shut up about how they think you should raise your kids.
Ask HN: Part-Time Job Opportunities for Employed Tech Workers?
In the past few years, high tech companies are providing more flexibility to employees. The new worker can choose where to work, when to work, and how to work. This often leads to higher productivity and thus completing required tasks with time, energy, and passion left to spare. This free resource leads to more fulfilling lives for hobbies, side projects, or other leisure. But what about greater financial freedom & success? The salary, bonus, and stock options are already set. The opportunity cost of not working those extra hours is zero since the work is already done.

This demographic makes significantly more per hour than any existing gig economy position (Uber/Lyft/Postmates) and doesn’t want the high turnover, variability, and upfront work involved with projects (Upwork) or freelance (Toptal). Instead, they want access to more regular positions (5-30 hours/week) that are as easy to apply to as any other job, often like the one they already have. Certain solutions do everything decently (Angellist) but don’t focus specifically on this group which has specific requirements/needs.

Is this a problem you identify with? If so, would you be interested in a potential solution such as a job board/weekly email/introduction service? Do you think existing solutions already address this problem? Appreciate any feedback as I and others I have talked to have run into this problem as well.
How OpenMined will revolutionize data privacy, protection and collection
and the race is on to squat on https://www.robotsofwalmart.com
It won't be long before "No Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Snapchat, no G+, no nothing" will translate to "a catch" in dating app terms: someone with whom to share life as we know it, not as we want others to think we live it.

Then again, maybe I'm overestimating the intelligence (or integrity) of dating app purveyors. After all, 'real' people are so hard to monetise...
Sam Altman: “The Winding Path of Progress” – Talks at Google – [01:00:49]
I don't think the numbers agree with your assessment.

Taken straight from your PDF link, (emphasis mine)
"the increasing
overuse of prescription opioid painkillers, contributing
to a national drug overdose epidemic and rising drug
poisoning deaths"

Look at pages 153, 154 and 155.
Drug poisoning deaths per 100,000 resident population (age adjusted) 1999: 6.1, 2015: 16.3

Drug poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics (other than heroin) per 100,000 resident population 1999: 1.4, 2015: 7.0

Drug poisoning deaths involving heroin per 100,000 resident population 1999: 0.7, 2015: 4.1
Social Impact of Big Data
If they’re always terrible why does backblaze keep buying them?
Haha, how can it do that out of interest, if you're not root? (As aren't the top level directories in / owned by root?, or does it work anyway, if rm can recurse down? deleting files from the current user)
I used to feel that way about bank tellers (having been a former bank teller a long time ago...) then I realized I was wasting 20 minutes in line for a simple deposit that the machine could do in under two minutes without a queue.
Strange to hear that some of those fired workers complained about higher wages in other auto companies - if they are so good, why not apply there?
The actions of the UAW over the past 50 years have indeed increased wages, but at the cost of the number of UAW jobs. Google the decline. A bad balance. They need to increase the base, and cap the top so that all workers can afford the products of the union few. That is why there is a used car market. Tesla is going to upend the traditional car market.

Get Musk angry and he will build a plant in a right to work state and close Fremont if he gets strangled by high wages, and more importantly the union work rules.
AN EMPTY SKULL WITH COBWEBS BY JOY ISI BEWAJI
you should probably keep your opinion to yourself.
Now I want to set up a registry and pay my family to buy the cheaper items to try to get the coupon...
Brad Fritzpatrick's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700968
I was trying to bring into focus some key challenges. I've personally known two people whom overdosed on heroine. It's a tragedy, for certain. However, I'm just trying to indicate that we have tragedies happening, all over. I think everyone has a very emotional reaction to this issue. I'm just asking people to think about the data...

As for this company, maybe they are guilty, I don't know. If they are, shame on them!!

My uncle eventually died of bone cancer (metastatic). His last few months were awful. They were less-awful, because he had a fentanyl patch, that we replace every 24 hours.

Please be thoughtful, that's all I'm asking.
Reminds me of this story: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

I always thought it was amusing when people said it would replace burger flippers and the like. Why? They're cheap, and that's relatively expensive/difficult to automate. The slightly higher paid manager though? Ripe for automation.
Because robots look cooler. Also, I imagine it’s probably doing some stuff with depth perception crap and what have you.
I've noticed a lot of comments like this showing up on Reddit when Monsanto is mentioned. Are they paying a PR firm to gaslight for them on social media?
They mostly suspend minorities who are pissed enough to not politely say "no, thank you" to Trolls & Nazis sending them death threats.

It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
Our use FEB instead of 02 - this reduces the wondering to zero
Spain is working well? They have 17% unemployment, second worst in the EU, after Greece.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
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I hope this doesn't happen. I don't want to upload things in the cloud. I pay 20 soles for every 700 MB and I can't afford uploading everything to the cloud. I need to store things locally on my file system and maybe offload them to a USB-stick if I need more space... But not to the cloud...
Managers make decisions when the information is equivocal.

That is very hard to replace.

Resource allocation and unequivocal decisions are for the machines to help us with.

If, as a manager, you do more of the latter: be afraid
Don't you feel a tinge of guilt when you walk in one day and now there's only two tellers instead of three? Maybe I'm just weird but I was at target yesterday and there were only three aisles open with lots of people going to self checkout. I said fuck it and waited in line for a person.
More like: humans who program the robots > the robots > humans who are instructed by the robots.
But then you would have to spend lots of money of redesigning ceilings, having regular maintenance work done, etc.
I don't get the shot and never will.

Under your logic all those who eat fast food for lunch everyday and don't exercise should have to pay extra for medical insurance for not taking care of themselves.
I think if you're wondering why it's becoming popular you've got wool over your eyes. Events that hurt people due to how the market works like you've described, are not rare
Question is whether those companies will culturally be able to compete in a low-margin space. I don't know anything about Microsoft but wrt Google I've often thought that the insane margins on the search ads business have made it institutionally difficult for the company to take any low-margin business seriously. Amazon on the other hand has been all about razor thin margins since day one.
> I think that Kevin may be diving in ML papers

that's what I do the rest of the day because it's part of my job

I more mean the hardware access part - at 15 my parents would have never given me their debit card to spend hundreds of dollars on GCP GPUs - good luck training GANs on a laptop CPU!
Bitcoin is an accessibility barrier, but OpenBazaar is also an example of the kind of models bitcoin reduces the hurdles for.
No, it seems toothless, with obvious loopholes. A sane housing market is way more important than allowing temporary residents to buy a home. They can rent until they either leave or become permanent residents.

Just look at Vancouver where incomeless foreign students are buying supermansions.
...and you are likely on the front line of new things, and as such less important for Twitter's long term strategy, even as you were likely a reason for their initial growth.

That's the issue for SM sites like Twitter et al: going from early adopters to mass appeal. As much as some people hate Trump, his tweets likely got a lot of the 300 million non-SF, LA, NYC users involved.

I might be off on user uptake, but the mainstreaming of Twitter is vital for their ad-based model, so anything that appeals beyond the liberal elites is going to be solid for their bottom line.
Step 1: have the Soviets occupy the eastern half of the city for 50 years.
It would probably mean that the camera would either have to hang down pretty low in the isles or the isles would need to be super wide so that the camera could get a good view angle of the entire shelf, including bottom rows. But sure I suppose they probably could have something that rides around on a track on the ceiling and raises and lowers to get into position in each isle.
Ah, thanks for the speedy response.

> The main difference I see is that Camlistore can model POSIX filesystems for backup and FUSE, but that's not its preferred view of the world.

This makes me want to throw things. I'm actually mentally discounting both projects now on the charge that core authors seem to care more about bickering over technical details than implementing working solutions to these society-breaking problems.
Gonna check it out. I always use request and cheerio on node so it's almost identical. Is this an actual headless browser though? When I have to go that route it's painfully slow.
Top down state organisation is prone to corruption. It takes effort to keep that at bay. The public oversight required is an overhead that should only be used in select tasks.

The state is not suited for all tasks, especially those with rapid iteration, experimentation, low capital costs, and low cost of failure.
Housing technology moves slower and is dominated by capital and bureaucratic concerns. It is also one of the dominating costs in modern life. The state is capable of doing this task and the public oversight burden is warranted.

For products and services that do not absolutely require the state, I believe worker cooperatives, incentivised by the state are a much better solution
I went to a presentation in SF about three years ago where someone was demoing an inventory robot like that. Same company?
To put things in a Western perspective,

- "guanxi" = old boy's club

- "face" = Italian mobster respect
True; a 20-minute difference would definitely be enough to tip the scales in favor of self-service. But in the grocery stores in our area, there are almost always plenty of registers open and little waiting. So the time requirements being approximately equal, I'd rather pay a skilled cashier and bagger to do the work of speedily "ringing up" and bagging my groceries, while I stand there and chat with them. (As a teenager I had a summer job bagging groceries one year, so I can relate.)
As an german: No, Germany wasn't created 2.000 years ago. That kind of history telling was made by Hitler. Modern historians say Germany was created in 1871.
The main obvious thing is to make property speculation neutral with regards to tax, rather than the tax avoidance hole that it currently is. Hopefully they'll address that too, but given that Adern has been quoted as saying they're not looking to push down prices in AUckland I'm not all that hopeful that they'll actually take the steps that need to be done.
A simplified version of this is what a whiteboard problem is. Me and a candidate work through some code for a small piece of a hypothetical system.