skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP "helped build" a neighborhood presumably by buying when it was less desirable, and investing time and money and effort in to making the neighborhood better.

Yes, building a bunch of new units will change a neighborhood. Yes, changing zoning will alter a neighborhood.

What, precisely, gives everyone who wishes to live in an area the "right" to live there affordably, as defined by whatever arbitrary definition?

I am all for relaxing zoning and building new houses because the rent is too damn high, but I also see this attitude in NYC and it is insane.

No one has a right to move to NYC, and most particularly my block. If you don't like the prices, no one is forcing you to move in to my neighborhood. Actually, I'm beyond saturated with people moving in to the neighborhood I invested 20 years in to, and subsequently telling me and my neighbors who did similarly how to live, how to behave, and driving every existing business away and replacing it with the same exact thing but priced at triple.

And yes, I know gentrification and new developments are orthogonal and in many cases allowing more construction would lower rents and transitively lower prices which is why I am generally in favor of relaxing zoning.

But this general sense of entitlement, SHEESH! You don't have a right to move on to my block, at whatever price you feel like paying.
There is no formal specification for what these algorithms are supposed to do, so you can't verify anything.
Machine Learning isn't a mathematical discipline.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments here? Even when stuff is dumb.
Sounds like a cluster of balloons with directional radar reflectors on it? So what you're seeing is not a single rapidly moving source, but multiple stationary point sources each being detected intermittently?
Check out https://pentesterlab.com/bootcamp/
This quote assumes that the creators of Rust didn't know about Lisp.
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time. With 4K cameras in cheap smartphones, 50x optical zoom cheap consumer cameras, cheap telescopes widely available, our UFO videos haven't gotten any better.

Ding ding ding.
Batch 1 inference on convnets is key for us internally but training does work pretty well. The underlying machinery can do much more. Here's a blog post that talks about how it works with some links to more detailed docs & the actual implementations:

http://vertex.ai/blog/tile-a-new-language-for-machine-learni...

Two of the big motivators for opening the code were 1) giving students taking the popular courses a way to get started with GPU in whatever machine they've got (recent Intel GPUs in say a MacBook Air are enough) and 2) giving researchers a platform where it's simple to add efficient GPU-accelerated ops.

For scale on #2 check out the entire implementation of convolution:

https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml/blob/master/plaidml/keras...
From bufferoverflow's comment: The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time. With 4K cameras in cheap smartphones, 50x optical zoom cheap consumer cameras, cheap telescopes widely available, our UFO videos haven't gotten any better.

the same situation with loch ness monsters, Sasquatch, etc.
Iraqi WMDs are an interesting case against broad government conspiracies. Before the invasion, the evidence was weak and fragmentary. After the invasion, it would have been a lot easier (and less embarrassing) to fake the WMDs if they had the capability. The fact that they couldn’t tells me that they aren’t good at high profile hoaxes of physical evidence with lots of witnesses.
Ok, we'll give you a question mark in the title above. Merry Christmas!
Paywall link, oh well....
Sure, but a trained human would probably pick up that something is not quite right, especially if family situation has been revealed earlier.

My neighbor has an identical twin and one day his twin came visiting, but I had no idea he was coming. He was standing in front of our intercom that’s been broken for years looking bewildered when I got home from work, and since I’d heard about my neighbor’s identical twin before it didn’t take me long to piece together what was going on, even though I’d never met this guy before and I had no idea he was going to be there.
I'd say Ubuntu out of the box is very bad at defaults (bells and whistles turned up, Unity or Gnome don't help in the least)

For minimal latency I would go for Xfce/Gnome 2 without compositing
>I am a massive skeptic when it comes to UFOs / the supernatural

Interestingly UFOs and supernatural events have been clumped together, but afaik these UFO claims typically don't require rewriting the laws of physics. If a UFO's existence was proven, and in the public domain, it would go from -100 to +100 in terms of people's attitudes of "that's all just a bunch of balogna" to "of course, we have always known it is very unlikely we are alone." However, a supernatural event would fundamentally shake up our scientific understanding of the universe. I think they're completely different types of possibilities.
One retreat into mysticism provoked by a pre-information age "de-humanizing" restructuring of society. There are surely many parallels in computer-informed society.

Cult headquarters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_do_Amanhecer

Google images: https://www.google.com/search?q="Vale+do+Amanhecer"&client=m...
Paywalls with workarounds are ok on HN, so please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Well, very extraordinary stuff does happen and sometimes you’ve got to break the law and hope that traffic court will see your case given the circumstances.

For example, what if a light breaks right in front of you and is now stuck on red?
You can't if there's no actual support for that high price from the community. And that's what the whole article is about. Without the support, the price just crashes to the natural levels, as soon as people see some idiots trading at much higher prices than everywhere else. Which is exactly what happened.

Two independent bots that got caught in each other's lies and spiked the price makes at least some sense. One bot trading with itself makes no economic sense.
This one works better for me: http://archive.is/fXZlh
What did the pilot do wrong in Air France 4590?
I always get Bob Martin and Martin Fowler mixed up
This is akin to saying "Maybe you could start running".

Talking about chemistry in your brain, running does wonders about that

Semi /s
Isaac Newton Born on Christmas Day(*)
The odds we encounter aliens are remarkably low, but what are the odds we encounter aliens with a similar evolution pattern, that is, reproductive-driven intelligence and similar somatic senses?

We could stumble upon some weird aseuxal amoeba type beings who don't even have a personal ego or concept of private property, they just float around on organic ships and communicate through flows of slimy alien-goo. Whew, what a bummer would that be.
Reminder: It's Christmas
For those tech folks who have parents that are living and that didn't abuse you when you were little, it's Christmas. Call them and ask them how they're doing. Spend some time listening to them tell you about trivial things. Ask them what they think about things. Take time to be interested.

For many people in their 20s and 30s, it's easy this time of year to get involved in work and life and forget or put off calling the folks. The holiday season is a tough time of year for many people, especially seniors. Making them reach out to call you...only to find you're busy and distracted and don't have time for them? It can make a bad situation much worse.

We see a lot of posts this time of year for suicide hotlines, and that's a great thing that we should all support. But what we forget is that for every suicide, there are dozens of people that the season just makes sad or depressed. A little bit of effort on our part won't make us a superhero that saves the day, but it very well might be a very small thing that makes many peoples' lives a bit better and would otherwise go unnoticed. Reach out.
OK, I updated it so that users can have a custom name instead of just the pseudo-anonymous hashed IP addresses. Thanks again for the idea!
"they would have already taken control of us"

This assumes that they would be just like humans, and only the rapacious ones at that.
Can't people grow their own in California?

Isn't being able to inject your self with some marinara reefers the point of legalization?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not when they're also internet tropes.
$1-2k for a lineageos phone? A new Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 costs about 5-700 USD. What are they doing with the other 1300 USD?
The learning method is really quite naive, I'll put it that way. The algorithm I chose is designed to be risk averse and crash resistant. The learning method and algorithm are orthogonal/separate, and what learning you pair with what trading algorithm can make a big difference in risk and returns obviously.

I'd prefer not to say more than that simply because if the algorithm was run at any large scale I worry about its effect on the market as a whole. Imagine a bunch of bots all following the patterns of a few other bots and what happens if one of those big player bots errors or even if there's a change in the bot and people don't retrain their model. That's just one way it could all go south quick. I'm frankly worried that this risk doesn't already exist.
Getting Started with TDD and Vue.js
Would love to see someone do this on an Amiga running Cygnus Editor. That was the fastest code editor I've ever used.
Ask HN: Why has the navbar changed colour?
I always use select and I've been writing Ruby since 2006. I didn't even remember find_all exists. As a name select reflects what I want it to do, find_all much less (this is very subjective). Furthermore it's easier to type. Luckily we have both and everyone is happy.
But waiting for more than 5 days is a real bummer. If I want something I would want it to be at my doorstep in 2 days.
Yeah, good catch, I didn't consider that. But still, what type of algorithm will see such an increase in number of requests during the crash times but not during any others? Based on what I've seen, the number of requests needed to run these algorithms again seems pretty constant over time.
I'm curious to know more about the clear electronics. Are iPods allowed? What if they have their hard drives replaced by an iFlash SD adaptor, and run Rockbox?
Now that's a decent hypothesis. An exchange wanted to create an illusion of high liquidity, they wrote a stupid bot, which worked in unexpected ways, they had to shut everything down.
> known death from abuse of the deadly stimulant drug in it (caffeine)

Can you name 1 (one) example of tea (or coffee) induced death?
How do you type the pin? Just say it? What if there are people in the room? Tell them to get out?
My opinion is just of an amateur, but I think way too many wealthy people are learning that it is way safer AND lucrative to use their wealth to buy property to "rent" out or to flip. It IS VERY safe and lucrative than investing in some venture or a business.

As more and more wealth flows into this type of venture, whoever wins the bidding war for a property has to charge higher rent to somehow recoup the investment they made to buy the property AND make profit on top of it.

And of course there aren't THAT many small businesses that can pay that kind of rent.
It's rent only because the next guy is willing to throw $ at running a brick and mortar retail business at that level of rent.

If people get the message the rent will fall.
Oh I've played with Wacom Cintiq a bit. I'd love to sketch something on it at a 15 deg angle and the smooth pressure sensitive stylus. But don't feel like browsing on it. This picture was a guy drawing on a 90 deg monitor with a stylus that I suppose is not as professional as a Wacom Cintiq. That's what I called out.
> we must be extremely unimpressive

i'm reminded of a short story by Stephen Baxter, "The Invasion of Venus".
I remember that there was an anonymous social network a while ago. The screenshots for this service look similar. Maybe someone got nostalgic for that long lost application.

Edit: I think that was "Secret", it shut down in 2015.
Isn't it the extremely low interest rate set by the Fed though? With the lack of good investment opportunities and the danger of inflation, everyone puts their money on real estate, so last decade's housing crisis is imported into the next decade.
> I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing.

You know old time journalists had a solution to this. Interviewing subjects with first hand knowledge.

I know I rag on highscalability a lot, but I feel like they deserve it. They've written multiple articles about topics in which I would be a first person resource (Reddit and Netflix), and not once have they ever contacted me or anyone I worked with for an interview. They've quoted me from presentations, but the quotes were out of context and wrong they way they quoted it.

All of this could have been cleared up with a single interview of anyone who is a primary source expert.
Crystal clear blindness indeed.
In my opinion it's extremely fair. The benchmarks are Keras+PlaidML compared to Keras+TensorFlow, it allows running exactly the same nets (just imported from the Keras included applications) and whatever penalty Keras might impose is equal in the two cases. Having one very direct comparison is actually why we constructed the tests that way (none of the other frameworks run on our high priority platforms).

That said we'd be pretty excited if someone wanted to add support for TF, PyTorch, MXNet, etc. We like Keras but are happy to have integrations for all frameworks. With work you could pair it with Docker and containerize GPU-accelerated workloads without the guests even needing to know what hardware it's running on. Lots of possibilities.
christmas, probably
Interesting that for students and devs, colleagues were the best meter for code quality, but academics ranked textbooks higher. Mirrors what I've seen as a research assistant for the CS department of my university, which is roughly "I don't care what the code looks like as long as it works". At places in the industry I've worked, I've spent a significant amount of time arguing about the "right" way to do things. And some (not most) of the time they'll have almost no effect on performance, functionality, or end-user impact at all, but we still do it.
Logically, at least when you're fired you get a nice severance

Well there is a difference between getting fired and being made redundant
Who will be the Jane Goodall of aliens?
دریافت ویزای شینگن فرانسه ویژه ۱۰ دی ماه
Honestly, I actually really enjoy the music they play in stores. It's nice to have some background tunes that are typically upbeat to sort of make shopping less painful than it would be otherwise.
What you say is correct, but pensions are inherently risky to companies. There are two prime sources of risk: The stock market and retiree statistics. If either turns south, the company is required to make up the difference, which can cause smaller companies to fold. When both the stock market and retiree statistics were stable, companies were happy to provide pensions. But both (especially the stock market) are too volatile nowadays for pension plans to be viable. The only solution now is for the federal government to cover the unpredictability of planning for retirement.
Why are some people obsessed with aliens conquering Earth?

If you have the technology to do interstellar flight, surely you have advanced refining/processing tech, and you can get raw materials anywhere - the other planets and asteroid belt nearby are full of everything. You probably have robots to do all your work, too.

There's no need to enslave some species to make them work for you or risk losing anything in a potential fight (pretty sure even advanced aliens would be wary of nuclear weapons) or deal with gravity/atmospheric/natural conditions of this planet for some resources that can be found elsewhere.

If anything (as we kind of learned by now), dealing via peaceful means would be way more productive. Just provide some high tech or rare minerals and we'll gladly mine the shit out of the planet ourselves.
I think it's entirely reasonable they don't want to come down and chat since they don't want to end up having to give us their tech. After all, how will they know they've given it to the 'right' side, especially with all the hostility they must have observed between us.

I think any moral species would wait until we've made sufficient progress on our own then meet us at our level instead of rocking the boat by coming down demoing all their advanced tech.
A really good way for you to get your point across would be to write a reactionary blog post detailing the actual information. Netflix seem to be pretty cool & open about things so it should be possible?
Similarly the Gulf of Tonkin incident was lied about and also resulted in LBJ being granted war powers without congressional approval--even though the incident was also easily dismissed as false. If anything, it served as a blueprint that these two easy tricks could be used again--like in Iraq. And in both cases, they got everything they wanted and no one held them accountable. Why would they need to cover anything up if no one holds them accountable? Focusing on a cover up might have a Streissand effect. So I do think there are broad government conspiracies... The NSA surveillance was a conspiracy theory until recently.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1227...
I recommend giving Politico's early article on this a read, which is a bit more explicit on factors of doubt: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-...
Gawd. I loves me some terse, unadorned post-Hemingway English. Long sentences like that are an unnecessary cognitive burden.
> Taisei (lit. Occident) ...

Where does this come from? AFAIK no word in Japanese translates to this. I struggle to even come up with a good translation for occident (欧米 might work).

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Edit: ah, the gameplay screenshot shows 泰西, an old word for that meaning. I learned something today. Thanks for the project. :D
I'd prefer "You won't believe which OS has now been open sourced"
Neuromation to Use Proof of Work Towards Mining Artificial Intelligence
I hit on the idea of reading old court transcripts to see how people actually talked back then. It’s much closer to modern syntax than I expected.
That seems like a very sweeping statement for a company that makes wide range of profucts. E.g. the 150 eur RedMi 4X has excellent build quality and battery life that easily beats any iPhone by days.
You'd hope fighter pilots would be able to identify a balloon when they see one.
Teaching Resilience to Your Kids – Stop Bullies Now – Dad University
Happened to me once. I was a passenger, so I got out, went to the corresponding light to check it was safe and confirm it was broken not just on a long delay.

Self driving sensors are better than eyes, but it is possible for there to be a situation where the car can’t know if it is safe. This probably has been thought about more by the designers than by all armchair critics combined, of course, but even if not then the law is the lowest common denominator of backside-covering.
A good idea, except I haven't worked there in almost three years, so a lot of my knowledge it out of date.

I have to start by interviewing my old co-workers! :)
I tended to my geth node like a loving gardener trying to grow a orchid. But that was 2 minutes of farting around. Apart from that nothing else.
Show HN: Work at nearby tech companies
Finally I relaunched my side project. I built it with Next.js, Prismic API and Google Maps API.

You can search for nearby tech companies by dragging the map: https://stayintech.com/

Let me know if you have any ideas for new features I can build during the holidays. :)
(and hides them).. Sadly I think both the clicking part and the blocking part of it doesn't seem to be as well functioning as uBlock Origin, thats at least the reason i went back
“We’ve tried everything except building more housing and we’re all out of ideas!”
I’m baffled how local governments can’t seem to connect the supply side.

30k new jobs + 8k new housing units = higher housing prices

Or for a more hilarious ratio, look at Mountain View over the last 15 years. I think for a decade there were effectively zero new units created.
> Stokes told The Telegraph that the department is working with “Silicon Valley providers” to help train the AI to successfully scan for images of child abuse

AI requires large image sets to do the training. These images are illegal to possess. I wonder how such training gets done without violating the law. However, I do not wonder enough to do web searches about this matter. I am probably on enough government lists already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZ2mSnaC44

It's not perfect, but shows the same object from multiple angles.
I don't mind formatting requirements - when they are known in advance and same for everybody.

But last time there were two "seniors", each with different conflicting preferences and each insisting that your code is "bad" and "mess". (And inexperienced project manager buying their bs because they were confident). And it changed based on what blogs they read last week. Juniors were more fine with that then me, because they tended to belive seniors know what they are doing. Plus juniors worked only on one module and I did on two, so I could see how what one called crap on the meeting is demanded by the other.

And the rules were different for different people.

I think it is the ability of coder to tell "fuck off" on changes he disagree with that makes all the difference. I was comiting code I disagreed with and had to come Sunday to make changes I considered useless.

I used to be for code reviews, but now I think that it requires people with strong self awareness, knowing difference between preference/feeling and objectively betters, and many programers out there don't have that. The seniors I had trouble with were on spectrum, one a little bit other a lot. They could not tell the difference and it cause a lot of problems beyond code reviews.
I can't speak for AMD's support towards the Radeon/OpenCL community, but their GPU and CPU support towards the Linux community has been less than stellar.

And while slightly off topic, their CPUs contain just as much Evil as Intel's CPUs (PSP/ME). I wouldn't be so quick to call them a "principled" underdog.
Occam's Razor would suggest that overcoming these problems would be more plausible than an alien visitation, unless you have other theories...
Bravo for pointing that out! Care to explain how you discovered this? Making such security mistakes is what my nightmares are made of
If life is common in the universe they'd be pretty busy. Maybe resources are plentiful and there's no need or they have no desire to conquer us. Your "first principle" is a complete assumption.
No doubt Xiaomi has the best price/value USB C - DisplayPort converter but try to get the technical details (maximum amperage on the two USB A when power is plugged in / power is not plugged in) and you will hit a brick wall. Both the US and HK customer service essentially told me to get lost.
I see some talk about radar measurements, and i find myself wondering how some early stealth tests would look on such equipment.

Could perhaps the speed or altitude readings shift drastically as the vehicle banked and thus exposed more or less reflective surfaces to the radar source?
Allowing players from all over the world to attend one event is very different than allowing anyone to get permanent residency.
You can make similar lists about "Airline Industry Failures in 2017" or "Software Failures in 2017" and so on. No one is stopped flying or using software.