skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC my N settled at around N=2.7, which means that a lucky first click would abort the queued random clicks between clicks two and three.

After that, the most important decisions for a fast match were deciding which mines not to tag because the final auto-tag would get them anyway and which empty fields not to uncover because they would be uncovered faster with an "uncover all surrounding" click on a saturated number. Clicking was definitely the bottleneck for me, so the main goal of the eye/pattern match was to keep the click-queue filled at all times. The eyes would always focus somewhere close but not too close to where the clicking happened, so that the pattern match could work on a stable image. Or sometimes just rest for a few clicks, when the hand could not keep up.

Fond memories of stupid things.
Thanks! I looked at 9netics too, seems it has been changed back to normal 9netics -- no longer photos/art? And copyright 2018.
" Also the brick and mortars would probably do a better job of recycling/disposing of packaging."

That doesn't hold true everywhere. Recycling for me is easy. The city gives me a trash can for paper products, and another for plastic. But in the states, it was always spotty. I lived in a little town with no curbside recycling, and I didn't have a car. There was never a real push for recycling most places I lived in the states, and most states offer zero cash back for empty bottles and cans (it greatly increases the number of them recycled). Here (Norway) I can simply put them into a machine in the grocery stores, though some aren't accepted.

On top of that, commercial trash is quite a bit different. City dwellers usually pay for trash removal through taxes. The businesses, though, pay for it themselves. Most are motivated to recycle their cardboard because the company pays them to pick up trash. (plastic and other similar things just go in the trash).

Now, lets consider Amazon. They have a bit more in common with a factory than a brick and morter. Some of their stuff isn't in their control to recycle, though they could offer returnable packages. The rest, though, is doable. After all, some factories send absolutely nothing to a landfill (Subaru in Lafayette, Indiana is one of those). I'm pretty sure something similar can happen at Amazon if they had the right incentive. They'd already have the trash incentive brick and mortar stores have.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen the face swapping that was making the rounds recently, but I was thinking this makes whole body swapping look closer.
I'm guessing there are common parts like sensors and maybe some common code or electronics for doing things like determining vehicle orientation.
It always bothered me that Ruby isn't used as much as Python is used outside of web development.

I think Ruby is a nicer language than Python is in many ways.
What else can you call somebody peddling pseudoscience that's horrifically damaging to individuals, animals, and the planet?
Should have put "Saving. Please do not remove the MEMORY CARD™ or turn off the power."
Peter Thiel vs. Reid Hoffman Debate Video
The long answer. Nope. The short answer. No. Wish they would work to find the evidence first rather than asking History Channel style of clickbait questions.
There are a few interesting mechanisms of bacterial resistance. They don’t carry anything with them but genetics, so it’s hard to say it’s Not “always ... mutation”, but the genetic pathways have some interesting variety. You can form bio films, you can form spores, you can have Cell Wall materials that are less target-able by Cell-wall-targeting abx, you can build your own enzymes to degrade abx, you can build pumps to actively pump abx back out of the Cell, you can trap the abx between your cell membrane and your cell wall so that your defensive enzymes have a much higher effective concentration, etc. That’s not even getting into the abx that target transcription and translation, rather than just Cell wall destroyers.

I think the traditional mental model is “evolve a slightly different target molecule so abx can’t target them anymore,” which yeah, vastly understated the complexity.
>People need to learn to think independently.

You can't really leave it at that though. Most learning that people do is not independently driven, it is learning that complements teaching... which is never independent. Very rarely do people come to intelligent conclusions independently.
I would not suggest posting specific dates of when candidates were interviewing without a candidate's consent
I think publicizing a non celebrity is problematic even if there isn't any misrepresentation.

It can be fine in a news context, but there's not a lot of faked videos that would be appropriate in that context.

I even thought the faked Fred Astaire ad was in poor taste.

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/kellimarshall/clips/A...
I believe it's so that you can use -1 to refer to the last gridline. If it was 0-indexed there would be no way to target that final gridline, or there would be a one-off error when using negative numbers.

Example: https://css-tricks.com/things-ive-learned-css-grid-layout/#a...
I've lived in some really remote parts of the west and the worst my prime shipments have ever been is a day late.

Count that against the 40 mile drive into town that I only make once every other week -- even if they took a week to get to me it would be sooner then if I went to the store (plus all the gas savings for myself).
Because we don't care.

We can get a new one for free in a few days, we have many spare lines of credit, and we will not be responsible for any fraudulent charges
Yeah, it must be fun being sarcastically dismissive of criticism when you aren't the one getting the short end of the stick (or maybe you are and don't even realise it).

Trampling workers rights, unloading externalities onto taxpayers, establishing dangerous dominance in many sectors, wiping your ass with user privacy, hugely increasing pollution to deliver packages a day earlier, just a few examples of what it costs to ship you packets of cheap crap within 2 days. Dismissing all that because you appreciate the convenience of free 2-day delivery is the purest expression of first-world privilege.
I'm sure bash got the idea from Plan 9, although I didn't know that until recently.
A few of the default Debian packages give feedback messages like "This could take a long time..."

Most of them used to take a long time, but hardware has caught up. SSH key generation, locale installation. Instead, it's a warning that briefly appears on modern systems, but is visible for quite a while on, say, a Raspberry Pi.
I agree. Unless your brick and mortar store puts every 4-5 items into their own cardboard box with padding and tape, then a typical Amazon habit is using way more material. Unless I'm missing something, GP's point is obviously true...

Even if a high percentage of Amazon packaging gets recycled, that's more wasteful than just not using it for shipping, right? Then, we get into the relative carbon footprint of people driving to the store, and as others have pointed out, that could be marginally low when you consider they are already at the store, or are out and about for other reasons.
I think the idea from the beginning was to issue equity that diluted the current owners, but that was later revised to taxes on profit and payroll. The concept isn't radically different from a pension fund. But of course the purpose was still that workers could take part in the increased profits of companies. The funds weren't allowed to own more than 50% of the voting rights in any company.

There isn't that much in English written about them, but that is actually a good thing since most of it is of good quality.

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/sweden-social-democracy-m...
How to Disrupt the Daily Grind -- Lessons from Jim Carrey, Poets, Artists and Me
The observable is that many antibiotics increase "feed efficiency". It's an aggregate measure, so perhaps it just reflects lower incidence of subclinical infection. And it permits high-density management, which increases the risk of infectious diseases.
$nnnnnn Probably north of $100k each unless Xilinx discounts them for high volume purchases.
Most of the trading done by index funds is now fully automated.
I almost thought for a second that it would be an all self-driving Tesla race.
How cool would that be! I personally would trust way more self driving cars when they reach that level of awesomeness.
Not to say that I wouldn’t happily for self-driving car immediately.
Evidence of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered in Myanmar
It's probably not relevant to bring in copyright here.

The restrictions for using your likeness or publicizing deepfake videos with your face on them come from other laws, not copyright. For example, "disney won't let you get away with using models of their characters", but (depending on how you use them) it's just as likely to use trademark restrictions even in situations where copyright law would let them use them. In a similar manner, the fact that you can take copyright-free photos of anybody as long as they appear in public doesn't necessarily mean (for example) that you're allowed to publish those photos like you can your own; or that this has any impact whatsoever on your rights to use copyrighted face images - you could have taken the photo, but you did not, so standard restrictions apply.

"If some law prohibits others to do that it does not really equal to "the copyright to the 3D capture of your face" even if some restrictions are similar, it's an apples vs oranges thing, it shouldn't be called that - terminology matters, because it implies different rules.

For this discussion, the main question is about restrictions for publicizing fake videos of other people without their consent. There are some restrictions, they're not copyright-based and also are quite different for every jurisdiction, as they aren't harmonized with global treaties like copyright is. Also, these restrictions are different for public people (e.g. the examples with Trump or famous actresses), and the restrictions for distributing videos with your face would be different.
I would say the cynical answer is because our credit cards are valuable. We have the mentality that we are somehow responsible for other people's crimes/criminal negligence.

Just the other day, I read about how someone managed to pick up over a thousand dollars in overdraft fees when he was struggling to make ends meet and now he never had that problem because he has access to credit cards (that he can afford to pay off in full every month so it doesn't cost him much extra).
I don't think it's uncommon. But the point is it usually has little to do with load and isn't easily solved by scaling horizontally. Sure, you might be able to gain some efficiencies with distributed caches and such, but that still requires a fair bit of effort (the developer time we're trying to minimize).

You're right though. And I managed to sidetrack myself a bit. My intention in participating in the thread was to point out that you can't always optimize for developer speed and think you can get out of it "cheaply" with more hardware. And it's not just a problem when you're big enough for it to be a good problem to have. In those cases you're going to need to find a way to make the application faster.

Maybe it's aggressive in-app caching; maybe it's sitting there analyzing application profiles; maybe it's a rewrite in another language or another framework. Our goal is to provide a fast enough runtime where you don't have to make that decision.
You don't call them anything. You address their arguments and methodology. All the axe grinding in that article makes it read like a tabloid, and I don't trust tabloids.
Middlebox has quite precise technical meaning: anything that works at higher layer than on which it is visible to neighboring network.

Usualy this refers to various "security" "solutions" which attempt to do deep packet inspection and generally break various things, but it also can mean NAT or L2 bridges that do filtering on L3/L4 headers (for example DOCSIS CMs and CMTSes are such middleboxes)
Oops, I was brain dead there. I meant 10^11. Or maybe even 10^12.
Oh, completely forgot about that part. When you have to guess, and both choices would be equally bad when guessing wrong, focus on which would bring the bigger benefit when guessing right. It almost has a "motivational poster deep wisdom" quality, heh.
Hard to get excited about a technique that doesn't really work well with the handwavey excuse of "it may actually work later"
Do you have any source for this? I find it generally hard to believe, but i dont know that much about medicare.
Find me a good warehouse job because I have yet to hear of one that is good (Amazon sounds average for warehouse but warehouse jobs are hard regardless of your company).

Also, warehouse employees get the same benefits as corporate: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-benefits-2017...
And what caused the mass hysteria? The greedy news media out for clickbait ad money.

Just off the top my head, I can list a few hysterias caused by the news media just in the last couple of years... "Trump will end the world" hysteria, north korea hysteria ( a few times ), "russians hiding in your computers and voting booths", flu hysteria ( a few time ), ebola hysteria, college rape hysteria, neo-nazi/alt-right hysteria, asteroid hysteria, AI hysteria, etc.

I'm sure I left out a few.
I think a lot of the problems with Ruby are really problems with the nature of Rails jobs over the past 5 years. Lots of juniors (which is great) in a field where people change jobs every year or two (which is okay, but horrible from a codebase standpoint). Giant monorails applications grow strata of different generations of code/teams/opinions; and each new generation of engineer on the project adds their own stamp on top. It leads to situations where you have enormous applications that are so deeply entagled within themselves that it becomes nearly impossible to refactor out poor performing bits of the app.

It reminds me of the Kowloon Walled City[1] -- originally a (likely cleanly built) fort that took on more and more people until it became a morass of people and buildings with no consistency or strong structural concerns.

Then Rails (and Ruby) get this reputation for being a Kowloon rather than the Fort.

Not that ruby is not slow compared to other languages, but it's not as slow as perceived.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City)
I have been here 8.5 years. The comment is informed by long experience, including a recent incident where multiple people chose to focus on my personal medical history, and not in a nice way, and utterly disregarded the actual point I was trying to make.

Further, your comment is filled with personal swipes in violation of community guidelines.

Edit: Here is a link to that incident so people can see for themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201406
Please let's get technical here. Apply to the other comments to the parent comment.

Tax avoidance is an illegal means of not paying the actual tax required.

What you and the others who have replied to your comment mean is "tax minimisation", which is legal and uses the specified tax code to minimise your tax burden.

What is often done in discussions about this subject is classifying legal tax minimisation processes as tax avoidance.

Tax minimisation is perfectly fine and quite moral. Tax avoidance is not fine and is often immoral, though not necessarily.

There is a second thing at play here though. As I have friends who have worked in one national taxation organisation, they have explained that the way the system works is that the taxing organisation has internal descriptions of what they will allow as legitimate deductions which are different to what the legislation might read. If you use the correct descriptions and terminology, they will allow your claim through with no challenge. But, if you do not use the correct description or terminology then they will challenge said deduction. Such descriptions are not publicly available.

That is why good tax accountants get those obtuse deductions for their clients.

The tax law is written so that every citizen (including corporate) is only required to pay the minimum amount required and not anything above that.
Unofficial Overwatch Stats API
Yes, exactly -- how does having some sort of external intervention into the protocol make the protocol more robust?
https://www.extremetech.com/g00/mobile/263095-apple-slashes-...
Most retail investors aren't able to participate in most IPOs. The majority of IPO shares are allocated to institutional investors or high net worth individuals. Your strategy doesn't work if you can't get a share allocation and have to buy on the secondary market at higher prices.
Ages ago I evaluated some reporting software. We were using Crystal Reports at the time. One thing that CR did better than the others was make pages available as they were generated. This made the software feel faster even though it was slower than one or two of the others[0] at the time.

[0] Can't remember which ones exactly.
For me, living without Prime requires no energy and takes the form of (1) waiting a few extra days and (2) buying less casually and frequently, resulting in spending less money on things I don't need.

I've also moved most of my shopping off Amazon altogether as well, and it was surprisingly easy. Just a few searches to see who's got the best price on [x] right now. It's surprisingly often not Amazon.
I’ve seen code with progress bars that didn’t hold up under maintenance (basically lying over time). As features were added, explicit progress percentages might not be updated so last month’s “30% complete” point might have 3 more steps in between this month.
I guess. I've been reading Banks' Culture series ;)
And terribly bad for every Chinese citizen that doesn't own the company.
The only solution I can think of is evolving contracts that rewrite along the blockchain as they evolve, the most current write being the ~state of the "secret". Each evolving contract could, composing a variety of hashing functions, write frequently enough to the blockchain that it would be impossible to predict where it was going, but verify it along the way, historically. Call it an evolving hash function
My dogs get near death experiences almost every day if the food is slightly late.
This is sort of tangental.. I think it's curious that in a lot of writing AI is almost being defined as that which replaces human labour. The context of technological unemployment and whatnot.

In that frame, I think its natural that discomfort is linked to autonomy. Autonomous taxis & cruise control may be points on a continuum technically, but economically, no human involvement is different. Autonomy separates the PCs from the Looms. Cooperation where a human is involved the machine is tool use, recognizably. The humans labour gets more efficient with tools. More trinkets per human.

Maybe the Luddites thought of looms as autonomous, with humans in a supporting role.

Anyway, I think it's hard to predict where this goes on a 25y scale.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, on a lot of these products volume discounts can easily be in the 95%+ range.
> Side note: Why is it that we need something so physical to attach these concepts to?

Posts with images get more clicks.
No it's not. It doesn't prove anything, and there are ways you can prove it that don't deceive the user, like a status message at the end or a change of button text. The value of a progress bar is for the user to see the state of a background process, not to see whether it suceeded. Don't assume that all your users, or even a small proportion, think this.
I don't understand. Does this mean if you include a unicode character in a program that ios renders as an emoji your app will be banned or just if you include the actual image file?
Lots of operations code was written in Ruby. Just look at Chef, Capistrano and Puppet.

That whole field wants to be Google though and thinks they have Google's problems, so now it's mostly all Python and Go. HashiCorp has written some great stuff at least.
This isn’t the first thread I’ve seen you pop up in making medical claims, some more credible and some less, but always wrapped in some measure of indignation and “this is my personal experience and you cannot discount it.”

This is a forum for technically and scientifically inclined people. We like data. Your personal experience, regardless of what it may mean to you, isn’t data.

You’re very welcome to share your thoughts and what evidence supports them, but you don’t get to shout your ideas out into a public discussion and damn people for having the “monstrousity” of questioning or criticizing. If you can’t tolerate questioning, you should probably host your own blog and keep the comments disabled.
This is the question that applies to about 99% of Dapps (at least the one that don't simply exist to serve other Dapps) so far.
I doubt it. Once you know that can cut off a self driving car without consequences it's very tempting to do that.
A.I. doesn't have insider trading expertise.
Fees weren’t that high until recently. 10k miles for a few bucks is a deal most frequent flyer optimizers would sell their grandma for.
That's a form of appeal to authority. Something you are taught as a freshman not to do.
Try this instead then:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/well/good-fats-bad-fats.h...

Or this:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-saturated-fat-studies-b...
Understanding the React Source Code – UI Updating (Transactions) VII
Yeah I conveniently avoided to talk about that, but this is more like exploiting a weakness in the bitcoin protocol, it wasn't really meant to be feasible (and made many people angry when it was patented). That is innovation however, I grant you that.
Two big things about Amazon Prime (purely from a shipping perspective) for me:

1.) With more of my movie and book buying shifting to digital, I actually don't have a lot of things sitting in my wishlist any longer waiting to be popped into my shopping cart to round up a purchase

2.) Especially, as someone who travels a lot, I really (unexpectedly) found that being able to get orders fairly deterministically in a couple of days (aka less time than I'd have probably have taken to go to the store anyway) is hugely valuable.

The main downside is that, if I'm being honest, I do make some impulse purchases I probably wouldn't have made had I left things sit for a a few weeks but that's mostly another type of mental load. The buyer's regret items are both few and fairly low value.
> the point is it usually has little to do with load and isn't easily solved by scaling horizontally.

My point exactly. Unless you're getting slammed with traffic, there's too much going on in a page load if it takes 300ms to spit out.
It is really interesting how the following order seems to naturally follow itself:

1. disorder and chaos

2. patterns and backgrounds start to appear

3. the battle for the main background, spreading

4. totally background pattern, the war is over

5. group art creations start to appear
If you just use TCP again you haven't done anything. The whole point is to avoid latency.

Most folks use some UDP-based protocol package instead of reinventing the wheel. Its not rocket science, but it isn't trivial. Defining your own packets to do all the flow stuff is just work, like any other programming task.
Why would you think player pay has anything to do with risk of injury? There are very few occupations where this is true, and celebrity sports are close to the last place to assume that is happening.
I don’t think that’s true with predictive text
I'd really like to see some examples of the kind of code people actually write for this system. It seems strange that the dynamicland site avoids this entirely.