skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought facial recognition would border on the impossible, but that seems to be a solved problem today.

And yes, context is needed to recognize cursive. At the very least a word frequency combined with a dictionary should get "most likely" recocgnitions.

For example, my OCR software (for printed text) often recognizes ? as }. Come on.
More productivity per man hour means less man hours needed. This actually lowers demand for labor.

E: lowers the price. Supply increases, demand stays the same.
I'm glad that there was enough backlash and attention on this for a happy ending. It's disappointing they handled it so poorly from the start, especially considering how good their cs has been when I've had minor issues in the past.
I don't know. I mean, rationally, I understand my accomplishments, and register when people compliment me. But I used to have a hard time internalizing that. It didn't feel like it was really me doing it on an emotional level... If that makes sense.

Especially earlier in my career I'd attribute nearly everything to luck. Finishing that project on schedule, getting good marks on an annual review... It made leaving my first job hard because I thought I'd caught lightning in a bottle. But with each transition I was still getting good marks from managers and peers, finishing projects on schedule, etc. I began to accept that I wasn't a fraud who got lucky and would blow it one day.

Even though all along I was able to rationally deduce it, it didn't feel intrinsic. Is that imposter's syndrome?
Did they demonstrate that there was a causative and not correlative effect being observed?
author here: About your second point. We spend quite some money on AWS every month. As long as we keep paying our bills, I don't see why they would want to cut us loose.
So, gog == Great Old Games (gog.com), right?
Alcohol is shilled so hard in America. It's disgusting. I honestly don't know why it isn't more strictly regulated.

I used to binge drink every few nights when I was younger. Like most people that have drank more than they should have, I have lots of stories of mischief and questionable (at best, sometimes straight illegal) behavior. And these are the stories I used to trade with friends and coworkers. Oh man, they were legendary, right?

This is the thing I see most often that just disappoints menow that that's not me anymore and I have realized that alcohol is a terrible drug. The celebration of behavior that is written off to alcohol and thus, totally fine and even funny. Everyone has a story. It's like when you quit smoking and are no longer blind to cigarette butts on the ground everywhere.
You're right, I got over-enthusiastic. And it looks like the C code has been migrated to Python anyway.
Also, owners of MikroTik hardware look to be thoroughly owned:

elif str(beacon_hdr.os) == '40':
beacon_data['os'] = "MikroTik-MIPSBE"
elif str(beacon_hdr.os) == '41':
beacon_data['os'] = "MikroTik-MIPSLE"
elif str(beacon_hdr.os) == '42':
beacon_data['os'] = "MikroTik-x86"
elif str(beacon_hdr.os) == '43':
beacon_data['os'] = "MikroTik-PPC"
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Absolutely. It's ridiculously risky for the economy to give people million-dollar loans for shacks in East Palo Alto when we know that prices will decline once the Bay Area finally adopts sane development policies.
Sorry, not trying to mock you, but I'm really curious how you (or anyone else on this thread who seems to be surprised by the possibility) managed to not know.

I mean, assuming you do know that CNAMEs are a thing, this reads to me like "well, yes, HTTP can do redirects, but I didn't know you could also redirect requests for images!" ...

I guess what I am wondering is: What is/was your mental model of CNAMEs that they could redirect DNS resolution, but then it's somehow surprising that they can redirect DNS resolution!?!
I’ve always wondered this same point. Not trying to be disrespectful to people who feel this way. But yeah idk, sometimes it feels like the term is thrown around too loosely. Anyway, irrelevant to conversation.
For a super quick (non-expert) explanation of a Generative Adversarial Network, you essentially have 2 models that are pitted against each other:

1. A generator ANN creates synthetic examples
2. A evaluator ANN indicates how "realistic" the examples are

The generator uses the evaluator output to incrementally improve it's synthesis.
After working in a cubicle I'd be reluctant to ever go back to an open office (I guess remote is the next step in this progression). Which is shitty because there are companies I'd like to work for but they have open offices.

Even just looking at images of open offices and imagining having to work with my back turned against the entire floor gives me anxiety.
> Technology has a much bigger impact on the daily life there

Strange to say technology has no impact on American lives spent entirely in front of TVs and steering wheels.
s/fatigue/incident rate of workers compensation/

whole lot of weasel words in here.
"time away from the job"
"lessen the chance of fatigue "
"reduce the physical toll on employees"

Its workplace injury, or "injury, illness and fatality" as defined by OSHA.

If the goal really is to protect workers, then bravo. If its to push the envelope on OSHA regulations and skirt safe work environments because joe six pack climbed into a robocop costume, then no. So far the Ekso company mostly works in rehabilitative technology.
The point is that there is laws requiring you to honk and back up assuming its safe and reasonable to do so if it will avoid an accident. As with all ambiguous laws what is actually "safe and reasonable" is up to a judge should it get that far.
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Welcome to late stage capitalism, folks.
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Pop!_OS from System76 looks even better than elementaryOS.
There are historical famines with as much as 90% fatalities among local populations. Losses of 20-50% are relatively common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
Yeah I think it's the latter.
A major part of the problem is that it costs too much to build. Too many construction entities living on cheap funny money and a supply shortage after the real estate crash that has still not rebounded. Why does it cost $200,000 to add a second story to a house, for example.
Also known as "shift-and-add", and very commonly implemented in microcontrollers and early microprocessors that didn't have multiplication instructions in hardware.
They're UAW. They're more than adequately compensated.
To varying extents, any country.
> You don't sue by proxy.

Actually, a defendant then suing a third party as described by the grandparent is a thing, called “contribution” [0], and I'm fairly certain there are cases where it's been applied in exactly the manner he grandparent describes involving automakers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_claim_(legal)
It’s only just starting to. HP is trying to make up for it with PhoneWise. Some phone companies make SMS apps in the MS Store.
Nothing of value? For real? Currency and a means of transacting it is produced. Being able to move your wealth outside of China is produced.
I believe they are counting all taxes, not just income taxes. Sales and excise taxes often hit the poor very hard. On average, across all states the bottom 20% pay 10.9% of their income in taxes while the top 1% pay 5.4%. In Washington, which has no income tax and a high sales tax, the poorest 20% pay 16.8% of their income and the top 1% pay only 2.4%. [1]

[1] https://itep.org/whopays/#The%2010%20Most%20Regressive%20Sta...
Mark Zuckerberg Sued Native Hawaiians for Their Own Land [video]
I remember my first job was in a cubicle and I thought of it as cubicle hell. Now I pine for the days of the cubicle.
> the perception of time under the adrenaline rush of an imminent collision may be misleading.

This may be one of the more ridiculous excuses I've seen for self driving vehicle "screwups".

Is the argument actually computers can't take action instantly compared to a human? If so, then self driving cars may as well not exist.

It's well within a computer's capability to take evasive action for an accident like this far before a human driver - assuming sufficient sensor input. This is exactly the reason I want to see self driving tech rapidly accelerate - a car that has it's situational awareness 100% at all times, and thus can react instantly in a safe manner to any situation.

I understand the software is not up to that point yet - and your response is exactly what I fear the most. I see endless DoS attacks against self driving cars once they get even a remotely substantial percentage of the market.

If all programming reverts to "failsafe stop when things may be remotely potentially unsafe" we are going to see traffic problems of a proportion we have never experienced.
Apple is still pretty awesome, let’s see if they respond to the criticism.
I thought the article was pretty clear. From your reading of the article, which part is confusing on this point?
It'll receive security patches until January 14, 2020.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/13853/windows-lifec...
Do you mean recognize text as you draw it, or recognize text in a scanned image?
> Before, I continue, I would like to call out that I am part of the ‘problem’ with open offices. I’m extroverted...

While I still prefer a private office, open offices don't bother me precisely because I'm an introvert. Headphones plus some synthwave and you all disappear.
Glad you feel like you're better than everyone else matey.

Your post reeks of smug, btw.
I'm really struggling to understand what you're recommending. Will you explain how a DNAME works with the Lets Encrypt auth process in a way that makes it as simple as a single CNAME/a-record?
> Generally, the owner of the at-fault vehicle is responsible.

Generally, the driver is at fault and liable if the driver violated a traffic law; if the accident resulted from a manufacturing defect, the manufacturer is (and potentially other participants in the stream of commerce are) liable.

The owner, as distinct from the driver, may be liable in certain cases, such as (IIRC) maintenance problems.

The absence of a driver reduces the difficulty of ascribing liability by reducing the possibilities.
I know, thats why I qualified it with "so as long as the gross job counts are replaced" Being a millenial, most people I've met in my age group are working in either retail or food service. Many of them also have 4-year degrees, just not in a business or technical field. One could say they should have made better educational decisions, but I would rather live in a world where we can celebrate the variety of human interests and endeavors, and not subject people to a lifetime of economic purgatory just because they didn't learn programming or whatever in school. I'm lucky because I happened to be legitimately interested in something that is very profitable in today's economy. Others are not so much, and I really feel for them. But the solution does not lie in dead-end jobs that give no kind of gainful employment.
Not quite. It's to refill the Lewiston Reservoir (on the American side).

The Robert Moses Niagara Power Project runs at a deficit of water during the day once the morning really picks up and through peak hours into the evening. On a slightly longer timescale it also runs at an overall deficit during the workweek, drawing down water throughout the week until electricity use drops on the weekend. At that point it relies significantly less on the reservoir (and more on the forebay) and fills back up.

There are also 13 turbine generating units in RMNPP, while Lewiston pumped storage (the reservoir) has 12 much smaller (~1/10th the size) turbines as well. This allows quite a bit of flexibility in terms of output from what is a much larger power plant overall.

EDIT: Oh, and the reservoir was built on Native American land, which resulted in a Supreme Court case related to the Federal Power Act (I believe since it was treaty-breaking, can't quite recall) in case anyone is interested in that sort of thing.
This is less software-related, but one trap smart folks can fall into is being afraid to seem not smart. Like let's say an authority figure is trying to do something that doesn't feel right to you, and you say something about it. And then Mr. Authority Figure says, "Come now, be reasonable or be rational." The fear of being perceived as "irrational" may stop you from standing up for yourself or someone else.
The cynic in me says “the right thing” was a last resort. “Let’s float a 35% discount first, see if it flies. If it does, we can still make some profit off this. If not, well, pull out our prepared statement and give them a hub. Won’t hurt to try, and if we have to use plan B, we’ll look like we ‘listen to our customers’”.
I don't think we'd considered a CNAME to redirect the specific txt records that Lets Encrypt requires. It's not intuitively obvious that they support redirects for those lookups.
> it doesn't do much that's really new, that I haven't seen before in an RPG or other game.

You might like the game Prey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2017_video_game) It does a few new things. Not too much, but has some original ideas. And the sci-fi story is quite good.
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Yes, if you improve performance on the major cloud instance types, you will get a lot of attention and be in a position to monetize.
I think Wirth's compiler book is more approachable for a beginner. Once you are done with that book you can also read "Project Oberon" from the same author. This way you can understand the implementation of a full graphical OS written from scratch for a custom made RISC processor implemented on a FPGA. The book and source code are available at: http://www-oldurls.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/
Nah. David Nutt is criminally dishonest. I've read his book (Drugs Without the Hot Air) and it is a straight up propaganda.
The guy cherry picks a lot of his evidence and it is a chapter after chapter of half truths and lies by omission.

Of the top of my head I can recall Nutt's chapter about LSD, where he claims that the LSD is very safe and even mentions Kary Mullis (a guy who invented the polymerase chain reaction and got a Nobel prize for it). Nutt builds up hype around Mullis (and to be fair, Mullis' academic accomplishments are impressive) and conveniently cites Mullis saying that he took a lot of LSD and that LSD was more important than the coursework and that he couldn't have invented PCR without LSD. What Nutt conveniently leaves out is that Kary Mullis is batshit fucking insane. Mullis denies existence of AIDS, denies climate change, believes in astrology, left science couple of times to operate a bakery and write books, talks about meeting and talking to a glowing green raccoon (yes, seriously). So... maybe... just maybe... LSD has something to do with that? Wouldn't it be at least a little bit dishonest to leave that other (weird) part of Mullis' personality?

edit: removed a paragraph with my thoughts about friends who do psychedelics.
Telling someone to calm down and take a deep breath is a quick way to make them do the opposite.
Yep. Switch off the pumps and I'll have beach front property (on the 1st floor).
There are 2 types of people who read summaries of the crowdstrike report, those who have retained a security company to produce some type of report and those who haven't.
On a similar note, "fear of not looking smart" can make it hard to ask a question. Often when I'm in a meeting and they're going deep into some technical thing I don't understand, I (nowadays) assume that everybody else is confused, too, and I ask the question. And then once I do, everyone else relaxes and follows up. But until that ice is broken, we're all sweating bullets trying to look like we get something we literally do not understand at all.
Parasite that eats the tongue of a fish than takes up residence in its place:

http://twistedsifter.com/2009/09/tongue-eating-parasite/
> At my most recent job, I did all of my best work at home. I would actively try to avoid the office for as long as possible. At home, I had two desks and complete control over my environment. Distractions and breaks were choices.

Indeed. I've worked from home since around 2007. It started when the Sunnyvale-based startup I worked for acquired a company in NC. I had wanted to relocate back to the east coast and they generously paid for the move. I purchased a home a few miles from our NC office, to which I commuted daily.

But most of the folks I was actually working on projects with were still in CA, so I was effectively working remotely from our NC office. My NC coworkers were primarily an impediment to my productivity. Sociable though I am, when I'm at work, I want to be working, not engaging in non-work related chit chat.

So I experimented with working from home one day a week. One day became two, then three. My NC co-workers didn't seem to care and my CA co-workers didn't know the difference. So I started working from home full time.

That company was eventually acquired by HP who shut down the NC location within 2 years and forced everyone to either re-locate or lose their job (no remote workers). I jumped ship to another startup in CA for which I worked remotely till they were acquired by another CA company who at the time had a CEO who'd made news for banning remote work. Turns out that wasn't 100% true.

So here I am a decade later still working remotely.
Federal income tax rates are highly progressive, but the total tax burden paid to all levels of government is only slightly progressive (and actually slightly regressive above the 99th percentile of income). WaPo published an article showing the total tax burden by income. The bottom 20% pay an average of 17.4%. It gradually increases to around 30% for the 80-99th percentiles then actually drops down to 29% for the top percentile. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/19/heres...
> The problem with kingdoms is that spacial relations matter _a lot_, and so that's not something you want to base your gameplay on with a text game.

You're rekindling my enthusiasm for this sort of thing (I gave up on Sorcery! about halfway through Book 4 when it took rewind away, and Sunless Sea after carelessly dying 20+ hours in on ironman), but I don't think I'm as focussed on just-the-text as you.

The main appeal for me is the scope for extreme fluidity of scale and timestep, and that's perfectly compatible with maps and other informational graphics. I've played way too many CRPGs where you spend 75% of your time just trudging from A to B and back without making any decisions at all.
Because with Turner Broadcasting it would too big of a media monopoly.
Ask HN: How is your company's mobile development team structured?
For products that are using "native" iOS and Android.

* A group of iOS and another of Android developers, working on different schedules and features
* One mobile team, everyone is expected to work on both platforms
* One mobile team, specialists on each platform assist other developers
* other arrangements

Also, using certain libraries or architectures made the approach easier to have a code base that is easier to have developers jump from one platform to another? ie. Rx, clean architecture, MVx?
The center of mass of the bullet was moved towards its back, so it's unstable
and tumbles after entering the flesh. When it tumbles, it often fragments due
to sudden increase of drag forces (soldiers at the time thought incorrectly
that the 5.56 bullet was exploding).
>> the perception of time under the adrenaline rush of an imminent collision may be misleading.

>This may be one of the more ridiculous excuses I've seen for self driving vehicle "screwups".

>Is the argument actually computers can't take action instantly compared to a human? If so, then self driving cars may as well not exist.

No, I don't think that's what the parent comment meant. It means that the people who said that it didn't take proper action (that were there) may have been mistaken in thinking there was more time to act than there was.
Since Apple has given up on keeping what really matters for a Unix, its tools, up to date the amount of time you have to spend installing the latest version of things like Bash is actually higher for OSX than Windows these days.

I am aware that at least one of the reasons for Apple to ship stone-age versions of everything from Emacs to GCC is that they hate GPL3. But the reasons don't matter when the latest version of their operating system is unable to run modern software without installing a set of packages that more or less replaces all of the Unix tools. When you have to do that, it doesn't really matter if you install those tools on top of Windows or OSX.

As for myself I find Windows to be absolutely unusable and I was using Linux up until around 2002 when I switched h to the Mac. Lately however, Apple's utter disregard for technical users that prefer the Unix experience has made me switch back to Linux, and while Linux has issues of its own, at least everything works out of the box without having to deal with an entire separate ecosystem of packages on top of what is provided by the operating system itself.
The picture reminds me of the scene in Iron Man 2 where the Hammer Industries attempts to copy the suit and a test video shows the suit twisting the test pilot's top half all the way 'round.

https://youtu.be/r2JFqC1Nvzg?t=3m9s
>Does the definition of imposter syndrome include the awareness that one should feel better about one's accomplishments?

Knowing how you should rationally feel and actually feeling that way are two completely different things.
That's my whole point though: why does this library conflict occur at all? Why do you need such a convoluted tool just to have a reproducible setup? Doesn't something about the nature of that situation seem off to you? Like, Nix solves a problem that maybe only exists because the system itself is fundamentally flawed?
A few months ago, I built a rudimentary unpowered exoskeleton

HN is truly sui generis.
Check your credit card, it might have an extended warranty that applies after the manufacturer warranty expires. Amex for sure does this automatically, doubles the warranty up to one additional year.
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And yet everyone and their dog knows about Pokémon Go.

In addition to having proved the things you outlined (I completely agree with you, just in case it's unclear), Niantic is also the perfect reminder for every entrepreneur out there that if people really want your product, it doesn't matter (at least in the short term) how buggy it is. As long as it is somewhat usable, people will flock to it.

Better to have a buggy piece of software that everyone wants to use than a perfectly engineered piece of software no one cares about.
Yes. This is called data augmentation by synthesis. They used this.
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I don't like any programming language that's not Assembly because it attempts to solve a problem that does not exist. Assembly was sufficient to enable us to go to the moon, all in 16-bit for the most part. It has a proven history of working and working well.
The 2 finger scrolling is pretty bad too, frequently doesn't respond or makes the font bigger or other nonsense. Apple has the best trackpads no doubt.
That's because Windows has a similar problem. Registry, shared libs placed in system directories, hardcoded paths, uninstallers that don't work, etc.

These things don't have to work like this. The package manager solves a problem that shouldn't even be a problem in the first place.
I once had the same problem with an old Macbook Air and stubbornly used Ukulele to create a keyboard layout that let me chord around four dead keys with alt and the key directly below. It's not a long term solution, but it might help in a pinch.