skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't mind me asking, what's your technical background? You seem well versed in the technical side of things (plus, you read HN!). I had kind of assumed your background was mostly racing.

BTW, I really enjoyed the Medical Car feature on formula1.com last year. I moonlight as a paramedic, and as part of that I'm often an ambulance driving instructor. Your quote about having some "capacity in reserve" is something I incorporate in my teaching now.
The same way those people would pay off their cards for any other purchase. BTC's downward price has no bearing. Most CC purchases are for things like food, furniture, jewelry, clothes, electronics, etc, all items that are sunk costs; the affordability of the CC bill is a product of credit score and overall credit limit.
Brilliant! Thank you. I wonder now if Canada has any projects remotely similar occuring
Federal Reserve ousts 4 Wells Fargo board members over sham accounts scandal
yeah it’s like that at my doctor; if I’m willing to see an FNP or a resident it’s still at least several weeks’ wait. so the alternative is urgent care or the ER, which both mean sinking at least half the day waiting.
Do these i/o interfaces tell you their expected latency and throughput numbers? I could see some fairly silly code being written because they didn't realize that file was actually a a bad cell phone connection.
Isn't the Raspberry Pi 3 powerful enough to do MPEG-2 decoding in software?
I've never seen an analog gauge move like this. The pressure gauge on our heating doesn't do that, the speedometer on my car doesn't tremble, and neither do analog Volt meters as far as I recall.
Awesome. Thanks for the link to those videos, I plan to watch them all.
I met someone in Chicago who fell from a roof, had a bunch of surgery that costed more than a million dollars, he ran away and went back to Spain instead of paying for them. I'm not sure what will happen next for him.
That breaks already at step 1. Government does not have the money; instead it passes a new law to pass control of companies to governing party's proxies (in this case, LO) and expropriate the wealth from shareholders.
Kubernetes isn't the product, though. GCP is. Google doesn't care what software you're running, as long as you run it with them.
So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?
Yes, nuking a country for putting antibiotics in chicken feed is crazy.
But it doesn't generalize outside of bash -- and where do you think bash got the idea from?
Wow. Pretty big mess up. Standard new cars have auto-breaking that prevents these types of accidents. Clearly their AI is not only weak, but sub-par when compared to standard, non-AI technologies that have been on the market for 4+ years.

There should be a regulation to trying to technologies out on public roads.
That is a really really interesting post. I always figured that these were only exploitable from a miner's point of view, but no! Creating a contract that will access the same randomness and THEN query the targeted contract will work, since they both happen in the same block hence the randomness will be the same.
I use Amazon's "Prime Now" service to get groceries from Sprouts (a health food store similar to Whole Foods). I don't have a car so it makes it really worth my Prime membership. I also find it much more professional and reliable than Instacart. Tips are added by default to checkout (but you can still not tip).
That's a great strategy if being not fired is your bar for success.
Well as usual, LG Prada had capacitive touchscreen = no stylus and keyboard first. Just to straighten out your false fact for last time.

As homework find something that apple actually invented for once.

Goodnight ;)
> One thing I haven't seem mentioned is that when you're driving yourself, you anticipate changes in direction and acceleration/deceleration, so the car appears to drive smoother.

And you're also holding on to the steering wheel, which makes a big difference.

Everyone I know who has motion sickness when being in a car on a winding road never experience motion sickness when they are the driver, only the passenger.
Middlebox is a technically imprecise term that is not in common usage among technical people anywhere. Why people in this thread are trotting it out is anyone's guess.
The key passage to me is in paragraph 12: "being strategic with your shopping cart could get you most of the advantages of shopping on Amazon without paying for Prime."

This is true, and the Post's Geoff Fowler documents it well. But in this time-starved world, there's only so much energy that most of us can devote to being "strategic" about life's minor routines. In the past six months, I've become "strategic" about getting refunds from United when the in-flight wi-fi doesn't work. I've become "strategic" about squabbling with Public Storage when they raise monthly rental rates far faster than they promised me the last time we spoke. I've become "strategic" about storing passwords, being careful about coffee-shop wifi, etc., etc.

Shoot me, but there's only so much of life's minor routines that can be handled "strategically" before I've got no ability to enjoy family, pick fun/gutsy new professional goals, travel with gusto, etc. If Amazon Prime lets me make semi-okay shopping choices without having to top up $17.98 shopping carts to $20, hey, that's a welcome way of clearing out the clutter. It creates more time to be "strategic" about things that really are strategic.
Since it's a trade secret, it's hard to know exactly what they do and how much human input there is - but a couple well-known quant hedge funds are Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma. They were both started by mathematicians/computer scientists and they manage 10s of billions.
If it makes you feel any better, most countries financial apps don't link with foreign bank accounts either, unless it's a credit card. Credit histories also don't cross borders easily.

SEPA & the EU is the special case exception I've found.
Animals grown for meat eat massive amounts of plants grown with pesticides, which also builds up in their tissues, so carnism is a big contributor to this problem as well.
Massive concentration into index funds has its own problems which will lead to tears at some point.

One problem is it poor's money into all stocks in an index which is great in a long bull market - but it does cause problems with being over concentrated in stocks which will cause more losses when the down turn happens.

check out https://seekingalpha.com/article/4081504-invest-high-flying-...

which is basically saying.

"The top five holdings of the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indices have generated the bulk of the market's returns in 2017. Increasing fund flows from actively managed to passive index funds has contributed to the market outperformance of these issues and has resulted in concentration risk for index investors as well as investors in the individual stocks. The next bear market or market correction could result in disproportionately large outflows from these stocks."
It's all in what you value. If, as a parent, it's more important to you to save time than have a good way to send signal your virtue to internet friends (you monster!), then you're on the right track.
I turned off my prime auto re-enroll (which is on by default).

I order about 30 things a year from amazon. $3 an order for faster shipping is not worth it for me.

I think more people need to reevaluate themselves.
Before Amazon, going to the mall to get something cost me inevitably 2-4 hours. With Amazon it's 5 min. I don't think I buy more stuff, either.

Amazon is also great if I want to send someone a gift. No more long waits in line at the post office.
Wow, what an incredibly defensive tone.

You join a discussion, refuse to provide evidence, and pre-emptively accuse those who disagree with you of being monsters.

Interesting.

This is a very good community with few monsters, typically dealt with expediently by both the community and excellent moderators.

I would expect someone who has been through this before to have some pretty good sources, but you share none. This indicates that they are weak and lacking or do not exist. You also share frustration at people not accepting your personal anecdote as data. This further reduces your credibility. You seek to poison the well and insult those with differing points of view, and refuse to engage in dialogue. Perhaps you'll find your monster in the mirror.

As written your comment is both manipulative and lacking value. It's offensive and insulting to this community.

I'm glad you found something that works for you. If you would give this community a chance you would find it very open minded if you approach it rationally. Hacks, like anecdotes, tend to be exceptions or new discoveries.
I agreed with you until the conspiracy theory. Sort of a self-fulfilling thing, that.
Reminds me of the loading screen for The Sims (an obvious parody of the above mentioned tactic)

(You might want to mute it. The loading messages are at the bottom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpMiI2QooKQ
As an Australian I'd always associated GE with light bulbs.

It was a culture shock to visit the USA and notice the saturation advertising for GE finance. It smelled of desperation.
You can't buy stocks or a house downpayment on a credit card, either. Is that an arbitrary restriction? No, there's good reasons behind it.
Taking you at your word, then perhaps meditate on whether "Start a political party and fix it" is the kind of statement which would motivate an activist. In my experience (and I've donated literally years of my life to supporting and nurturing creative people), asking questions and listening, truly expressing interest in people's ambitions, is more effective than shaming people for not having taken on ridiculously unrealistic goals.

And by the way, I feel plenty satisfied that contributing to open source software in just about any capacity helps to ameliorate the problem of economic inequality, by empowering individual creators without harming capital -- and inequality is what's at the root of this tax issue.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Amazon use more packaging materials than brick and mortar stores? They have to box up the items which would otherwise be in their own boxes. Also the brick and mortars would probably do a better job of recycling/disposing of packaging.
He would be wrong because animals grown for meat also eat vast quantities of of plants, which are of course grown with pesticides. So eating a plant based diet reduces the amount of antibiotics AND pesticides used globally.
I think it's likely that the person you responded to has a fairly negative idea of consumerism in general, if I may interpret his comment a little more softly.

I think it's fair to say that Amazon promotes consumption, and lots of places in the world just consume too much.
Oops. Unnecessarily using a qualifier is a mistake, albeit one made while trying to avoid making other mistakes. I stand corrected.
Apple is rejecting apps that use emoji in their UI
The message you replied to may be facetious, but it makes a fair point. There is too much emphasis on alleviating the suffering of people who probably shouldn't exist in the first place.

In the 90s in Ethiopia there was a famine caused by drought, lack of development and especially over-population. Affluent countries gave tonnes of food aid and reduced the size of the catastrophe.

Soon afterwards, the population of Ethiopia exploded. As a collective they had learnt nothing about the danger of over-population.

In India, there's also a lack of social awareness about the impact humans have on the environment - but the issue isn't famine. Rather, the huge population is bolstered by developments such as modern farming techniques that produce food of dubious quality.

Generally, humans (in the third world in particular) are like most species in that their populations increase to the limit of what development and the environment supports. Sudden environmental changes and rapid, careless development bring suffering to many of the extra millions that exist.

And when suffering occurs, never does anyone of influence say that perhaps humans should stop breeding like rabbits and that perhaps a catastrophe is nature's way of telling us that.

Instead, with every catastrophe we hear pontificating about how terrible it is, and often foreign entities will rush to give aid and thereby reinforce the irresponsible collective behaviour of the societies that are suffering.

Does that sound heartless? It's not quite so heartless as how suffering individuals are treated by their own societies. When a society is mal-developed and contains hundreds of millions, the suffering of an individual is negligible to the whole. In these circumstances it is likely that only mass suffering will cause reflection and change.

Suffering societies need to learn from tragedies and take collective responsibility by reducing their population numbers and valuing the lives of their members.
Don’t most large exchanges disallow credit cards anyhow?
As Alistair Cook said on Black Tuesday back in 29 tomorrow might be a good day to buy some shares.
I agree, a lot of the waste that retail stores create is a bit of an 'out of sight, out of mind' situation.
The problem with these 30 MB images:

apt update -y
apt install -y telnet

Now you have a 200 MB image.
Then your guys must be operating in a much lower energy environment than mine. In an aviation crash my driver (air crew) will be inside a mess of aluminum, high voltage wires, fuel and burning carbon fiber. Extraction is the first priority. Unless the pilot is talking and can give a great reason to stay, he is comming out. It isnt so much for his safety but for the five or more rescuers who dont want to be caught in the inevitable fireball. Our SAR guys are backing away from even checking vitals in situ, let alone o2 sat.

In the extreme, ejection seat aircraft often have instructions for activating the canopy/seat on the ground, if necessary to "extract" a pilot. A twice-broken back is better than burned to death.
> There should be a regulation to trying to technologies out on public roads.

The video doesn't say where this happened, but e.g. in California Phantom AI holds the required license, has to report incidents and might lose their permit if found violating the regulations for autonomous testing. (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/testi...)
Probably not that much of an oversimplification.

Side note: Why is it that we need something so physical to attach these concepts to?

The photo of the monolithic POWER7 rig that houses Watson with it's translucent logo is akin to all of the Bitcoin articles with shiny gold coins with an icon. I understand the need to have some kind of image, but it's just so detached from the reality of what's going on in practice.

Getting back on topic, I do wonder how much data they're feeding in - it's one thing to pass masses of historical trades into the algorithm, quite another to have it watch for relevant news events that affect the asset prices.
I dropped Prime when Azon started their clever strategy of leaving my purchases on the street. (I live alone in an urban, somewhat sketchy area with a mail slot in my door.) It is just way too much of a hassle to buy something, only to have to argue with Amazon after they gifted it to some random person.

So I buy a lot less from Bezosmart these days. Can't say it is much of a loss for me.
Finland becomes the first “All-Alipay” destination in the world
It's too bad it's not possible to store a secret in a contract (as far as I know). It would be interesting to store a private key that would be revealed only after a certain block number (let's say calculated to be 10 years in the future) as a sort of time capsule for files.
Because it is cheaper and easier to build stuff down here.

Space habitats require thinking in terms of systems, dealing with inputs and outputs. Humans haven't mastered systems thinking yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Those Sinatra numbers look a lot better than I remember them being!

But I wouldn't give that much credence to that, there's barely anything happening in those benchmarks and it seems to be testing things that have had a lot of optimization effort thrown at them. Try adding session management, user permissions, large data models, some business logic, all without putting a lot of effort into optimizing (ie like most work environments) and try again. Also, yeah, use some heavy (extremely popular) gems like ActiveRecord.

And God forbid you actually do something computationally intensive anywhere. Serialization (even with drivers written in C) is also very slow if you have a lot of data. And if you have enough traffic, even a 2x performance difference can be pretty important in terms of cost.

AR and similar libraries are the killer of performance in the Ruby eco-system. It's not the bare web framework itself, but the entire eco-system is generally not too worried about performance compared to other languages (partially because it's harder to optimize in Ruby, partially due to the culture).

That said, the language has gotten a lot faster since the 1.8 days, eg GC has seen a lot of improvement, but it's still damn slow.
Wells Fargo Banned from Growing in Fed Crackdown After Scandals
Mars Rover Curiosity's Panoramic Photo Depicts Its Epic Journey
basically, this still looks hard. also, i wonder how other applications suffer after all the hoops the OP jumped through, especially networking. looks like i'm going to continue adding a little real-time microcontroller (like a blue pill) just for driving ws2812 to my projects, thankfully the ws2812 tend to be so much cheaper then the spi versions that the cost still ends up being less
I've found after the first initial years of establishing myself, I rarely buy much of anything from amazon other than the rare uncommon $5-$15 object that would be hard to find in a store.

What I do buy is significantly cheaper to just buy at target anyway during grocery runs.

I also never use the other services even though they are available. Amazon music isn't as good as spotify, the tv offering isn't that interesting, etc.
Peewee 3.0 Released
> Yet Comey approved surveillance on the Trump team

At the time of the FISA warrant, Page was a former campaign staffer. Characterizing surveillance of him as surveillance of “the Trump team” is wildly inaccurate on many levels.
Great to watch the battles between patterns. I can picture the scheming, group allegiances and eventual co-operation. Lovely stuff.
Financially it will continue to be a bubble machine and generate periodic spikes and pops that cross successive powers of ten in BTC:USD until in a decade or so it reaches a couple or a dozen trillion or so market cap ($750K/$1Million : 1 bitcoin). After that governments will start to really get worried and it's anyone's game. A few people with new obscene wealth will change a little bit in the world, but in general nothing will change.
> Feeding this person means another gets less. It's just not true, unless you forget literally everything else that society does, like infrastructure, for example, ensuring property rights

It is literally true in the strict sense of the word: whoever provided the healthcare service to that person either was not paid, he worked for free. And if he was paid, then it was "kicking the can down the road".

In economical terms, what is most interesting about things like socialized solutions is that they very often have the opposite effect of their intention, even disregarding state-run efficiency. A(theoretical, dont have data for it) example of that with healthcare would be that wealthier people live longer and get more difficult diseases with age ,which in the end mean higher spending for them. As taxes are raised from everybody, it ends up being a wealth transfer from poor to rich.
This is true with free college tuition for example: it is claimed it is for the poorer, but its actually used most by middle class. And roads help people with cars more than those that can't afford cars.
Also we have to add the incredible ingenuity of people: you will quickly find ways people trade that socialized healthcare on all ends: from servicing it at benefit (turns out the new socialized top-notch hospital is close to politician's homes, and the crappy one are in the crappy neighborhoods, like what happens to schools).

Anyway, the amount of ways socialized solutions can go wrong is truly outstanding and where private markets fail, public works fail spectacularly. And they are impossible to turn around, because there is no more vested interest than state interest.

> If you're that precious about paying tax to live in a civilized society you can go and live in the woods, but no-one's going to help you when your stuff is stolen.

Right, and probably even worse, the moment you do it your very own former-country of residence might send the military to kill you and seize your claimed land immediately. Thats a real danger things like "self floating islands" and all that have to deal with.

On the other hand, submitting to that idea has no sense of proportion. There is no difference between north korea or the US: whatever the guy with the guns tells you you must abide, so it doesnt matter if 5% tax or 100% is reasonable. At least in practical terms that is not how we perceive it.
It's not at all the same thing.

The incentive for most people to buy concert tickets is to see the concert or scalp the tickets; chargebacks that occur in this context are on an individual basis and the banks will ban customers that abuse this chargeback process. In some cases, the merchant may be at fault, perhaps selling tickets to a show that does not transpire as described and the concert-goers may issue chargebacks en masse in response, but in this case the banks identify the source of the problem was not _the individuals_ (who will probably have relatively few if any chargebacks in their account history) and will actually penalize the merchant, sometimes banning them altogether if they cannot reasonably explain the chargeback behavior or if chargebacks become a pattern for that merchant.

With blockchain tokens there is no incentive except profit, so if the blockchain token markets create a panic among buyers, it can cause mass chargebacks at _any_ time within the chargeback window, this is clearly a completely different risk model than concert tickets. At the end of the day, all that's really happening here is the credit card companies are banning transactions from merchants with high chargeback history, a totally common practice.
10^8 is a hundred million people, so yeah, it's safe to say the Earth can support well over that many humans.
It's not deceptive - there's no commitment or understanding that the only thing he's doing when out of sight is work on your car. (And they don't bill based on how long they're gone - they bill based on how long they actually work on the car, in theory.)

On a computer, however, users generally assume that results are being delivered as fast as possible, even though in reality there's usually other things eating cycles.
Maybe the client should lie probabilistically, so that there is still a relationship between what the sender sees and the actual congestion.
That was Rangboom from 9netics[1]. Archive link because the site now serves a very narrowly-focused photographic art installation.

Their later effort was called "9p cloud."[2]

1 - https://web.archive.org/web/20170311182215/http://www.9netic...

2 - https://www.9pcloud.net/
Sequoia Capital plans $8B global fund, eyes China investors
Full body tracking for VR
I don't see any reason to believe this isn't happening already. As old school as Buffett is (and the man is a legend in my eyes), it just doesn't seem a stretch to think that they're running at least some deep-learning-based analysis over the deals they consider.

Whether or not they give any weight to the output is quite something else, but it would be such a (relatively) trivial cost to get that answer that it seems less likely they'd not do it.
Journalism in 2018 is tough.