skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed a similar thing with Wikipedia and the ACLU. Too much money seems to in some ways be a curse. Organizations seem unable to Instead of just put a bunch of money away for a rainy day and then stop fundraising for a while when there's enough money to carry out the core mission. Instead they find more and more missions to expand into in order to spend whatever level of money is coming in.

The problem with this is that the people working on this peripheral expansion missions don't think of themselves as peripheral. When there's a money crunch or a values conflict they will fight hard for theirs even at the expense of what the organization was always supposed to be about.
You seem to be selectively ignoring my core point.

You're touting a narrative that distracts from the actual failure mode of these systems, repeatedly asking for the singular responsibility or legal culpability for the crisis, when that's not what I'm addressing.

My focus is instead on the systemic patterns that allow for these decisions to be made _without liability_. Of course no one person decided, "let's go out and screw over mortgage holders," there was simply no natural incentive to look too hard at if that was happening; and in a political situation wherein even basic protections can't be maintained, _of course_ there wouldn't be laws to assign personal liability.

It's funny that you bring up airline deregulation, as I consider that a wonderful example of exactly the pattern I'm citing. Although costs dropped, service quality followed alongside massive consolidation, soon accompanied by drops in employee pay and benefits, to the point that airlines now regularly file for bankruptcy and use that opportunity to further divest themselves of employee commitments while still giving massive bonuses to executives. (and similarly to the banks, in most of these cases _no one did anything illegal_)

Yet; there is still no hope of even re-instituting regulatory regimes, let alone punitive regimes. (look at recent airline behaviors in the news re: bumping and consumer abuses, and the extremely muted responses for examples of this. While that might not directly result from deregulation, it speaks towards an extremely un-empowered consumer base)

I would cap this rebuttal with a quote to directly shut down your assertion that deregulation has been "mostly positive", especially in light of your airline context, from the former CEO of American Airlines:

"The consequences of deregulation have been very adverse. Our airlines, once world leaders, are now laggards in every category, including fleet age, service quality and international reputation. Fewer and fewer flights are on time. Airport congestion has become a staple of late-night comedy shows. An even higher percentage of bags are lost or misplaced. Last-minute seats are harder and harder to find. Passenger complaints have skyrocketed. Airline service, by any standard, has become unacceptable."

To bring this ramble back to the point, I believe it's the wrong question to ask "what specific law did they break" when we've had a combination of conscious choice to trade worker and consumer protections for lower costs, and incentives aligned behind the powers that be to encourage that, such that even the most basic protections are non-existent, let alone a specific system of accountability.
As someone who spent many years in the United States (Arizona) Prison system, this is a great step forward. Although it still won't stop drug users from committing crimes to get their next fix.
I don't see how I'm debating who the victim should be unless you've mistaken me for somebody else.

In any case murder vs bully is a false dichotomy.
AliExpress is consumer focused; you can buy single units there.
Give people power and it will be corrupted.
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What does Amazon have to do with this? Nobody is saying that service trucks transporting goods should go away. Obviously they cannot. And nobody is trying to completely abolish private personal transportation either. But those who need to use a personal car also benefit from more people using public transport, via reduced congestion!

Of course, there's coordination problem here: ceteris paribus car users benefit from other people shifting to public transport, as long as they themselves don't have to switch. This is why it is important to make public transport a genuinely attractive option, and to put a price on the negative externalities caused by private cars, for example by means of congestion charges.
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It is actually more interesting than that. My experience is P3 instance can significantly accelerate the training performance, as much as 2x-3x, so to train the same model, you won't need to keep the instance up nearly as long for a K80 instance.
In this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940795

I described a procedure for a rideshare co-op in which the members provide their own capital, which, from a capital cost perspective, is a clear win (>20%) compared to the status quo of individually owned cars. The members may in addition decide it's even better for outside investors to provide the capital in exchange for the members paying a monthly fee, but this means the total benefit to members is even larger than the member-capitalized co-op scenario.
Listening is extremely subjective though. Headphone types can be better / worse for certain listening habits (there are people out there who don't think great bass makes great music, folks), and for different ears. Music taste itself is extremely subjective. Best thing is still to get to a trusted hifi store nearby with your own, known music in best quality and your current best headphone model and test through candidate models yourself. (Admittedly, I'd still read some reviews before investing a few hundred dollars into headphones.)
I read it as snark directed at the U.S., not Norway.
The difference is that the web was originally designed to show documents, not build applications. The failings of the web are entirely a result of turning the browser into a VM for Javascript applivations.
> Linux distros are a fantastic example of this.

I'm still looking for a Linux distro that runs on my phone without hassles.
Or, in other words - you need to learn how to pace your stresses and over time you’ll couch yourself to a person who’s capable of handling stress better.

I am a very sensitive person, nevertheless it took me years to learn how to do big leaps; and while at first I believed the only way forward for me were those “revolutionary, yet incredibly painful steps”, I had then reached an age when I could no longer progress in larger, rarer chunks.

So I learnt that I need to pace my pushes. It still is a cut each time, but I had to know how big that cut can be so that it would not be an irrecoverable wound.

Remember, none of those people jumped off a cliff to stop fearing heights. Neither have they worked out in a situation with a vitamin deficiency. It’s all healthy and psychological.
The fake-review problem was amusingly exposed for TripAdvisor by a journalist who with, the aid of five people, had his garden shed rated as five stars:

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

At the end of the TRASHFUTURE podcast (14 Dec 2017 "The Shed Chronicles ft. Oobah Butler, ca. 36 minutes in http://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/feed/ ) people are still calling for what he describes as "frozen dinners with the sort of things that wankers like on them, like microherbs".
It’s great to see Norway do the rational think and replicate the success of the Portuguese system instead of the catastrophe of the American.

I think our society would greatly improve from more mercy, and I miss that from growing up in Norway.

It seems many in the USA instead of trying something different when their opinions fail double down, because they believe conviction and force will somehow defeat actual evidence that it is just a terrible idea.
..and how is that different than selling people AAA rated investments, knowing the investments were failing, while bundling them further, so they could be fraudulently re-rated as AAA again? They knew these investment vehicles were failing and a sham, but continued to misrepresent their stability to investors.

To use a car analogy, it's similar to VW cheating on emissions testing. They knew they could not keep up, so they just lied instead. Guess what? People from VW are actually getting arrested and likely going to prison.

As far as the impact of their actions on the world economy, there could be a lot to be said about firms colluding with each other to hide and obfuscate the problems they were creating from their fraudulent activity, so that they could continue to enrich themselves. All of these firms failures at accountability being completely isolated events is simply not true.

Madoff isn't behind bars because he blew the money on cocaine. He's behind bars due to: securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements, perjury, theft from an employee benefit plan, and making false filings with the SEC.
How to Be Lazy, Dumb, and Successful (2005)
Scary: Facebook probably has even more facial recognition power, and data, than the Chinese government.
Wow that's impressive. GP suggested that rich people with access to great lawyers are subject to a different legal process than poor folks without that access... You went straight to the Killing Fields! Bravo!
True. High-dimensional non-linear systems (like deep NNs) are a frontier we are just beginning to explore with empirical success.

However, if I was a VC - my knowledge of the NFL would make me look skeptically at any grandiose claims of miracle learning algorithms. In a sense, it provides me with an upper bound to BS.
It would be an interesting experiment to extend Vinmonopolet since the infrastructure and culture (restricted opening hours, no advertisements, etc - at least that's how it works in Sweden) around it already exists. This would be different to other countries where you probably would have to trust for-profit actors to handle it well, or implement a monopoly from scratch.
What is B-Flat here?
Maybe also reinstate slavery while you're at it? In the name of cultural diversity and all that.
I still don't understand that move. If Mozilla needs money, why spend whay they already have on these useless thigs?
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Is there anything that prevents someone from pulling a CentOS style maneuver and just building a relabeled version?
I wonder how Esperanto compares to Green Arrays [1] or REX [2]. Obviously, these are very different approaches and GA doesn't even support float. But REX does.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/

http://rexcomputing.com/
That could have gone quite wrong no?
I literally _can't_ read this article. The js or css is so broken it can't scroll at all. Wtf?
Amazon does do a lot to detect bribed reviews automatically. However, in the long run, this may be an arms race that Amazon will lose.

One issue with detecting fakes with identical phrases is that many real reviewers will take phrases from the product description or from other peoples' reviews either consciously or unconsciously.

This also matches up with a common bribed review technique of giving people canned phrases to repeat in their reviews or hundreds of prewritten reviews to be distributed out to people who are part of the review program.

Top reviewers are also not a good brake on this process because the best way for them to profit from their reviews is to take bribes. Just going after people who only leave positive reviews also doesn't really work because smart reviewers salt their reviews with the occasional negative one (generally for people who aren't bribing them).

User generated reviews emerged because many surveys across many different product categories have shown that shoppers tend to trust peer reviews more than they trust expert reviews. Part of this is because so many expert reviews have been corrupted to an even greater degree, with PR departments basically being bribery and party-throwing departments whose jobs are to manipulate journalists and place articles in supposedly unbiased publications.

The issue from the seller side is that shoppers are absurd perfectionists. A product can go from a 4.24 star to a 4.26 star average and have its conversion rate double. The difference between 4 and 4.5 stars is the difference between losses on the product and profits in many competitive categories. Also many people just give 1 star reviews to products when they have minor nitpicks. That'd be fine if that 1 star review didn't tank a product average and suddenly mean the budget that was there for an employee suddenly isn't there anymore.

In real terms the main difference in most categories between the reliably 4.5-5 star product and the 4 star product is that one seller spams harder than the other one. Considering that nice guys finish last in that particular competition, it rapidly becomes a triumph or the worst.

Long-run what will happen is that the reaction against user reviews will be as severe as the reaction against critics has been. Part of this is also just a scale issue: with so many products and brands constantly popping up globally, there isn't enough time and editorial attention available to review everything.
> 1) the boring machine isn't the biggest cost, so if TBM speed were an important factor and you want faster digging now you can use multiple TBMs

Yes but reducing the cost of something that "isn't the biggest cost" which directly effects the things that are the biggest cost does seem to be beneficial.

> 2) the current labor costs in the US is primarily a "political rather than technological problem"

Which is why a boring machine which reduces overall labor costs through increased efficiency and automation also seems to be beneficial.

> 3) bore size doesn't have that much of an effect on overall cost

"The Barcelona Line 9 doesn’t use the 12m diameter stacked tunnel along its whole route. Some sections are built using different construction methods, presumably because they are cheaper. This mostly depends on the local geography and available space."[0]

"This is why there’s a trend toward bigger tunnels, as a cost saving mechanism: BART’s San Jose extension is studying different tunnel approaches, one with a large-diameter tunnel and one with twin small-diameter tunnels, and the cost turns out to be similar. "

One could be excused to think 1 large tunnel == 2 small tunnels would imply that one small tunnel would cost about half of one large tunnel. As an aside, I grew up out there, why they even digging tunnels, not like there's a mountain between Fremont and SJ?

Still not seeing a reason why it isn't possible to make digging tunnels efficient enough to...actually, why are we even arguing over how some rich dude choses to spend his money?

[0]http://www.cat-bus.com/2017/10/barcelonas-line-9-inspiring-m...
Due process is what’s required to take away someone’s liberty, not to deny a job. When my boss asks me “hey, what do you think of Jim?” I can say “we can’t hire him, he was a huge asshole to everyone in school and I think he’s untrustworthy.” I can do that, and we’ll not hire Jim, and I won’t even have to submit a notarized official statement.
>“It is important to emphasise that we do not legalise cannabis and other drugs, but we decriminalise.

>“The change will take some time, but that means a changed vision: those who have a substance abuse problem should be treated as ill, and not as criminals with classical sanctions such as fines and imprisonment.”

In relative terms, this is progress. The question is, how will they treat the "ill" with their cannabis "substance abuse problems"? One can only marvel at all the overdose deaths they'll be racing to prevent.
Texas is actually deeply connected to wind now.
https://qz.com/1103816/texas-wind-power-capacity-will-overta...
Be careful: at the moment, making a rape allegation can make you unemployable.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/ashley-judd-mira-sorvino-w...
I respect that everyone does not want it in their browser, but you could also say that about developer tools, screenshots, even bookmarks are not "core browsing". By this point Pocket is just another feature, fully owned and developed by Mozilla.
I think we should stop writing code, and start thinking about the future, and write draft specs for an open web, and build a platform to discuss those specs.

Mozilla is great because they have good management, not just because they have great coders. The rest of us should take an example if this. This means that we should stop scratching our itches, and do some real thinking and have discussions before engaging in our next side project.
The key is B flat major
I have another opinion about that. Read as much medium posts aspossible, but keep a critical mind. Medium is nothing but a blog platform, not a science platform, not a news paper. Medium is important, because it makes it easy for everyone to post her/his mindset or agenda. No one has to agree with anyones opinion. But its important to know about those opinions, because it makes it easier to have a dialog.
This is because hardware manufacturers don't upstream drivers.
> I don’t believe that a police determination that this case would not be presecuted is a matter of opinion

I think you might want to research this a bit more; it's often a matter of prejudice.
You actually don't have real control over Chrome. Only Chromium is open source, and then you won't have all the features you surely use. Like videos working.

Edit: (+) Sir_Cmpwn, At least not working for me when I try seeing the pages with H264 encoded ones, and when I search, this is what I find:

https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differen...

"What Chrome Has That Chromium Doesn’t

AAC, H.264, and MP3 Support.

Adobe Flash (PPAPI)."

Chromium is not equal Chrome.
Ajross, in case you're reading replies, your comment above has been flagged and is dead.

I don't believe it deserved that. I do think what you wrote has a legal mistake, but there's no malice, and it's a fairly common mistake.
Just adding parenthesis to the original would make it clearer and closer to the mathematics expresses the structure. Especially given that parenthesis are clearly used sometimes to designate arguments in here.

fac :: Int -> Int
fac(0) => 1
fac(n) => n * fac(n-1)
This ignores the myriad ways that rape victims are further traumatized by the very due process you're demanding they subject themselves to (note: "subject themselves to", not "avail themselves of"): police, prosecutors, and defense counsel all casting various kinds of doubt on her version of events; having to bare a profoundly vulnerable experience to the world; being accused by looky-lous, her own acquaintances, "friends", and family, and people with all kinds of agendas of having made it up in the first place.

Pressing charges and seeing the process through is often reported as being a significant re-traumatization — sometimes even worse than the assault, itself.

It also ignores the fact that "hiring decisions" aren't subject to due process — and that "unemployed for life" is specious hyperbole.

EDIT: Down-voters, assume an actual rape occurred. Please convince me of how it's incumbent upon the person that was raped to subject herself to all of that, just to be "fair" to the job prospects of her rapist. If the statistics are anything to go by, he's overwhelmingly likely to be acquitted, anyway.
> Mozilla is a good company

Not since the incident.
I initially wrote the raytracer in more idiomatic way. However, I wanted to show my students a side-by-side comparison, demonstrating that the program logic is pretty much the same. Take it as you will, I understand your critique though.
To add context to the article: The EU "doing good work" as you say is not the news here. The real news here is that one of the EU's core but minor member states is attempting to refuse that "good work".

It shows how fragile the EU has become. Pushing the envelope for their own gains at the cost of delegitimizing EU institutions has become a sport among EU nations. But Luxemburg best exemplifies those countries that seemed immune to this, because Luxemburg best exemplifies a nation that would lose everything if the EU disintegrates. Even they are now doing it
Something similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi9d8bstWsE&t=80

The stability seems to be about the same as in the NYT video.
The suggestions annoy the heck out of me. I probably am going to dump Firefox altogether when I will find something similar to tabs sync with qutebrowser or the new nEXT browser (which is a very interesting thing because it's implemented in common lisp with emacs-like extensibility AFAIK).
Or, for that matter, one that I can use for gaming.
It won't, but then again - petty crime is not a necessary consequence of an excessive drug habit; it is a consequence of drugs being illegal and the associated cost of obtaining drugs of dubious quality.

We can greatly reduce drug-induced petty crime by legalising (most) drugs - some will call that a surrender; I won't.
Might be, but it could be read to mean that we already do that.
And if the proper process for effectively addressing rape on a legal level is not in place yet, you suggest just to do nothing about it on any other level, great.
> In the meantime, she was required to keep working alongside the man. When she discussed getting a restraining order with Microsoft, HR told her if she wanted one, she’d need to change teams, her lawyer wrote. She liked the work and her boss, so she stayed put for the rest of the summer.

It really sounds crazy, but I can understand it. I was sexually assaulted by my boss (and I am a male and so was my boss) and couldn't understand my wife's anger when I said I'd still be working for him. Luckily I came to understand how poor a decision that would have been and I quit.
I live in Norway. While I'm happy about this vote, it remains to be seen how it will play out in practice. So far the Norwegian drug policy has been terrible — police searches of homes and cars with questianble probable cause; routinely harassment of drug addicts by police/police policy of going after low hanging fruits to easily improve statistics; and severe penalty for drug-related crimes (> $150 fine for carrying 1 gram of marihuana, as much as 21 years in prison for smuggling marihuana). Norway has a long way to go. The parliment vote is promising, but as for now I'm cautiously optimistic about how it will play out in practice.
This is good. Not nearly enough but good.

Certain things - MDMA, LSD, GHB - should be legal and regulated. They are all things that have the potential to make lives of many people significantly better. They certainly made mine better.

Drugs should be manufactured in a reliable way, researched, and educated about.
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1. I wouldn't take much away from the LSTM benchmark. It's more a benchmark of Keras since Keras only supports CuDNN's LSTM via Tensorflow right now. AFAIK CNTK does supports CuDNN LSTM but not through Keras. Keras actually implements its own LSTM in terms of the base math operations (it doesn't call the Tensorflow or CNTK LSTM operations which are in some cases optimized in C++ etc.), so on the CPU you probably could get better performance if you were using the Tensorflow or CNTK functions directly.

2. Compiling Tensorflow from source on CPUs is a bit of a hassle but I have seen nice performance gains (10-20%) for LSTM tasks. I bet you would get even higher gains for CNNs since they're more parallelizable. (Note: I've never gotten the latest TF to work with Intel MKL).

3. I haven't fully tested this myself, but with the P100s you also have full support for half precision floats, which supposedly offer a huge speedup.

4. Also would have liked to see benchmarks of other frameworks like PyTorch, etc. I haven't used them myself but everything I've heard indicates that Tensorflow is often slower.