skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It isn’t a mandate to increase density. The proposed law removes limits. It doesn’t mandate anything.

When I read the article I got the impression it was a mandate to increase the number of homes. They talk about targets and rolling over targets into the next 8 years. That seems different than just saying to change zoning and approve more projects that are already desired.
That's assuming the total number of coins still exists. I would not be surprised if 20% of all bitcoins have already been lost.

EX: Satoshi's coins could all have been lost at this point.
I need to test this later as I only have access to an unprivileged account at the moment, but based on comments online (https://stackoverflow.com/a/11917816), the folder is write only for unprivileged users (FILE_ADD_FILE).
I suspect there may be some sort of hype in the AI area regarding salaries. Sure, there are a couple of rockstars, but I suspect that competition is really intense and compensation in ML area has an even more acused power law distribution than general vanilla software engineering that doesn't face as much pressure from maths, stats and other grads that look for a career to apply their quantitative skills.

I think that in the real world paradoxically math skills are easier to find than solid software design and development abilities. It may stem from the fact that the first one is taught quite well in school while the other one is more about individual learning and sometimes a contrarian stance to the system (can be reflected even a somewhat childish "I'll learn Haskell because the OOP and Java suck!") which is harder to find and therefore, more valuable.
If you've enabled Strict Site Isolation in your Chrome flags (as mitigation for Spectre), it makes all of these observablehq notebook sliders not work. That's probably what's affecting you.
> Designing AI systems requires a hard-to-come-by blend of high-level mathematics and statistical understanding, a grounding in data science and computer programming, and a dose of intuition.

Doesn't intuition to resolve a domain specific problem require domain specific knowledge?
Yes, sorry, you are right. I still think we might have a nicer planet if Fritz had invented a (humane) way to prevent the exponential population growth we had in the 20th century, instead of a way to support it.
Thanks!, I've been hoping for a tool like this for a while now. Downloaded it and giving it a go.
My guess is owning the user time, e.g if you read article via AMP you don't even visit the original website anymore. Same with providing answers directly in the search results.
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I need to test this later as I only have access to an unprivileged account at the moment, but based on comments online (https://stackoverflow.com/a/11917816), C:\Windows\Temp (%systemroot%\Temp redirects here, and is the folder Skype accesses from, is write only for unprivileged users (FILE_ADD_FILE).

Preliminary testing shows that I was able to write there with out any problem. No way for me to read it at the moment though...

Edit: As noted by another user here, yes, it is writeable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367722
The new Skype is so bad, we joke that it must be malware. The design was bad already, but holy eyesore. At least the MacOS version works.

On android, when I log in as my account, the only contacts I have are those from my sisters account (???) and none of my subscriptions are there so I can't even make calls that require Skype credit even though my account has credit. I had to add my wife as a contact and none of my chat history with her showed up. As close to unusable as it comes...
Very interesting. I think it's nice to see an account of building something from scratch instead of using a library. Sometimes I spend more time searching for a suitable library than it would take to build it from scratch :D
>a lot of companies think they need XYZ, but in fact what they need is a good product and a few algorithms requiring high-school level maths.

I think this pretty much solves 90% of the problems in the software business.
I'm interested to hear what the opinion on jQuery are like these days. Even if it's a little unglamorous, this is the perfect use case - a one-off project where you have needs for cross-browser animation, resizing, DOM manip, and where something like React might be overkill, even if feasible. CSS animations might be an alternative but it depends on audience browser breakdown.
I wonder if I can hire a botnet to flag my competition out of business.
Oh yes please, whatever the reason. The current Skype is rubbish. Make us something nice!
You typically sell at a multiple of the last 2-3 years average revenue.
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Please don't be so mellow dramatic. Here, it took me about 10 seconds of googling to find out how you can replace your license after I figured out where you were from:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/replace-drivers-licence
Once the number of of Bitcoins approaches zero, the finite value of the Bitcoin ecosystem divided by zero coins approaches infinity. This will create a financial singularity that will open a payment gateway to the hell dimension. This dimension is a land of endless opulence and limitless transaction time ruled over by that vengeful daemon, Satoshi Nakamoto. Good luck, Bitcoin users, you're going to need it! jk lol
OP here. I am in Asia and work with the best designers here (a lot of designers have worked previously with top UI teams at leading startups in Asia and even two unicorns). They handle 3 to 4 clients per month and we make only a small margin. We do not intend Manypixels to be a huge business, but rather something small and if possible allowing us to have a good lifestyle while making designers and clients happy.
Total eco system control, offering advertisers and companies more ways to market and sell, being able to push their own ad platform and ads.
This is why I’m keen on automating code standards/quality away. We’ve recently launched JS, CSS and Vue.js support in https://StyleCI.io to help more developers standardise their code.
I think you are confused about the thing being optimized.

Hyperparameters are things like the number of layers in a model, which activation functions to use, the learning rate, the strength of momentum and so on. They control the structure of the model and the training process.

This is in contrast to "ordinary" parameters which describe e.g. how strongly neuron #23 in layer #2 is activated in response to the activation of neuron #57 in layer #1. The important difference between those parameters and hyperparameters is that the influence of the latter on the final model quality is hard to determine, since you need to run the complete training process before you know it.

To specifically address your chess example, there are actually three different optimization problems involved. The first is the choice of move to make in a given chess game to win in the end. That's what the neural network is supposed to solve.

But then you have a second problem, which is to choose the right parameters for the neural network to be good at its task. To find these parameters, most neural network models are trained with some variation of gradient descent.

And then you have the third problem of choosing the correct hyperparameters for gradient descent to work well. Some choices will just make the training process take a little longer, and others will cause it to fail completely, e.g. by getting "stuck" with bad parameters. The best ways we know to choose hyperparameters are still a combination of rules of thumb and systematic exploration of possibilities.
Email is already fucked. In my experience Gmail often failed to receive emails from services like Yandex and Zoho. Plenty of people here that setup their own servers, and know what they are doing, getting randomly blacklisted.

Maybe it's fine if email is not central to your life or business but if there's even a, let's say, 10% chance of my emails not getting delivered to Mr Google I have no other option than to bend the knee.
Note for Chrome users: If you've enabled Strict Site Isolation in your chrome://flags (as mitigation for Spectre), it makes all of the sliders in these observablehq notebooks not work.
It’s a great idea. I had it on the back burner. Wasn’t sure if it was worth the time for a relatively niche app. Now I’m thinking it might be worth doing just so I can write about it!
Lawyers are not typically allowed in small claims court. Individuals represent themselves, and businesses send a representative who is not a lawyer. Often, larger businesses fail to send a representative. The plaintiff still has to convince the judge they have a case, but it's easier without opposition.
Why would I be upset that "you're" opinion differs?

I'm referring to a lifetime of what I've seen, perhaps your life experience is different.
Seriously, thank you for that very thoughtful and candid comment.

I was going to leave it at that ... but, couldn't. :)

You're right, of course, that we each grow up observing different parts of our societies -- government, elite, and celebrities (a hugely abused word) -- and our evaluation of these shape our own ethics and expectations of others' ethics.

From 2002, an article in The Register (UK) tech rag:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/13/gates_gives_100m_to...

Quoting from same:

"We do hate to rain on a high-profile corporate love-fest, but we have to point out that in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has donated to India's fight against HIV, he's funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million. That means that Linux is more than four times worse than AIDS to Billg and his happy Redmond family. God forbid any of them should learn the bitter truth the hard way and start talking sense.

"Billg's personal $100 million goes to health initiatives over ten years, while $421 million of Microsoft's money goes, over a mere three years, to support MS-friendly development and 'educational' initiatives. And being a monster MS shareholder himself, a 'Big Win' in India will enrich him personally, perhaps well in excess of the $100 million he's donating to the AIDS problem. Makes you wonder who the real beneficiary of charity is here.

"Oh, and let's not forget the five, count 'em, five, vanity puff-pieces appearing in the New York Times this week glorifying Billg's generosity, one of which he wrote himself. That's worth quite a lot too, in PR brownie points for both him and his company. It's far better than free advertising; it actually looks like news and therefore has immensely more persuasive value."

Undeniably El Reg had / have their own agenda, and it was Bill's foundation in one case and Microsoft in the other that they're comparing the dollar-figures of ... and yet ... it's hard to feel the same 'aww gee' response that's expected of us now.

But, for what little it's worth, I agree that Uber's not a net force for good either.
Ugh, sorry, my bad; this one, I misstated. I meant that Evernote (App Store version) isn't allowed to have the "Save PDF to Evernote" feature.

That feature is very useful, though; it can save anything, from any app that can print, to Evernote.
Microsoft is still actively patching Skype. Here's an example of them patching what sounds like a similar DLL flaw just last year:

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6517/
But back on the subject of the post, I'm happy to see this project. I went searching a small Linux distribution a few months ago, and most of the projects I'd relied on the in the past seemed to have stopped development, like DSL, or Puppy.
Nice – what a simple, elegant solution. Like the others are saying, sometimes there's no need to reach for the heavy toolbox...

How did you measure the effectiveness of having the walkthrough on the front-page? Did you (or did you think about) hooking this up to some analytics? Perhaps see where people tend to drop-off?
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You could always hire one to drive up their fraudulent clicks, so I don't see why not.
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Ok I fold. I’m switching back to regular old postal mail.
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Any current/recently graduated CS students here who can confirm that students are required to take more mandatory Stats/Math classes in core CS curriculum instead of just electives?

"Designing AI systems requires a hard-to-come-by blend of high-level mathematics and statistical understanding, a grounding in data science and computer programming".

EDIT: Improved readability
hate, hate, hate. blar blar
Google’s style is “develop, control, prioritize, monoplize”.
The modern developer's curse... We get better at choosing tools, but worse at building them.
If you split and the next person pays the next time there is an assumption that it will likely happen again. If it’s a group of people that aren’t close friends it’s very convenient to not have to worry about that.

I wouldn’t swish my friend for getting a beer or coffee but if we were 4 and had a dinner bill for €300 I probably would.
You are literally a decade late. Email has been dead for a long time. You're right that Google EEEed it.
People losing their life savings because they kept it under their mattress is basically the reason that banks were invented. So I suppose this has all come full circle now.
> Billions of people would not exist without him

As if this is a gift. A big assumption to make. More and more, I am taking to the anti-natalist viewpoint.
The great thing about a TOS which everyone violates, is that it can be arbitrarily enforced, for any unspoken actual reason.
Actually OP IS a customer. Upwork gets 20% out of his pay for being a glorified invoice generator.
I feel like they will get sued for that extremely quickly, considering their dominating position (Chrome) and being in the ad-serving business at the same time.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Br...
I experienced [^3] as well, but every time I dug into it, it was due to misconfigured mail servers like missing SPF records.

Unless somebody has proof for it, I guess attributing it to a poorly explained AI black box instead of malicious intent is more sensible, similar to the "Facebook is listening to conversations and showing ads accordingly".
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I think a large part of nowadays' use case of blockchain-based technology is to skirt regulations and conduct transactions that would have been illegal/attracted scrutiny if done with the traditional, "trusted" channel. Those people have to go with a non-legal channel, where trust becomes a very tricky and important thing. In that context, blockchain becomes a really good solution.

i.e. it's not that traditional banking is not trustworthy. It's just that many people want to avoid legal channels. That's when blockchain comes into play.

The increased regulation efforts by multiple governments might change the landscape, or not. We'll have to see.
Can you just mine my data unobtrousively instead of screwing with every service I stupidly provide my lifes details? Already migrating, not because of the obvious privacy issues, but useability. How can a company that profits by knowing what people think and talk about, see so little of the house collapsing around them? Even free isn't cheap enough, it has to work.

I think I speak for a fair number of HN readers when I say, Literally everything google offered 10-15 years ago was better. Talk, gmail, voice, search (with booleans!). Its all a wasteland now, begotten and forgotten for sweet advertising and big data deals.
I was more remarking upon

> non-distributed blockchains can be a very good solution to certain problems
The state of affairs, is that Silicon Valley along with companies that are willing to sell out to automation for everything - have become the new ruling class.

Thought experiment:

What happens if Amazon, right now, decided that you are not a good customer and deleted every one of your accounts and deleted all your AWS data? As of right now, you can't buy anything from them goods wise. And if you were using AWS as a webservice platform, now, you can't. No recourse. At all.

Your Google account was hacked, but google saw you as a spammer and hacker trying to penetrate Google's security systems. They blast all accounts away that have logged in with your IP address of the duration of the hack. You're now without a whole slew of services. Dead in the water, again. Who do you call? Nobody. But you can leave a badly worded post in Google forums - oh wait, you can't even do that.
And just yesterday I was searching for a way to get further away from AMP.

For now, the only way is to always ask for the Desktop Site when I search. Unfortunately, iOS Safari doesn't allow me to set this per site and I have to do it manually every single time I search.
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On the other hand, I’ve had only good experiences with self-hosting my email.

I’ve never had issues with being blacklisted or anything.

But I’ve been sending with SPF + DKIM + DMARC + ADSP all configured and enabled since day one, and with TLS transport for all sent emails.

That usually gives a major boost in trustworthiness.
I didn't quite understand the "Remote control" scenario; is the victim becoming a telegram bot, where the attacker sends commands to the bot and the bot executes stuff on the victim system?
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I wish Google would do something against the so called 'Rogue Redirect Ads' in their AdSense network. Ads that redirect the parent frame.

When I browse the web on my Android phone, I get redirected to spam every 10 pageviews or so. And no, it's not a problem of the phone. It's a known issue that ads can break out of their iframe:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/11/08/heres-protect-rogue...

IMO Javascript should not be allowed in ads at all. Unless that gets implemented, I have the feeling that all blog posts about improving the user experience are just lip service.
I hope email disappears. It has no security, bad tooling and software, weird protocols. Ip reputation has long been a thing in email.

You can own IRC as well. I feel like your 3 cons are my three pros.
I have infinity. I use Gmail for business with a catchall rule that forwards to the one address in my domain.

I have an email address for every site I sign up for.

Helps you figure out who sells your email.

How do you handle this? Or do you not?

I guess you could do a DNS lookup of the mail exchange records and see if it points back to gmail and compile a list of domains to allow one account from... but then that would break many companies emails. That’s no fun.
The atom can't be directly imaged by bouncing light off it, it's far too small to do that (with visible light).

Instead they're shining a laser at it, which excites some of its valence electrons to higher orbitals. When those electrons drop back to their ground states they emit (visible) light, some of which reaches the camera.

The atom is effectively acting as an isotropic radiator (radiating equally in all directions). The camera lens is much larger than the atom.

There are thus multiple paths from the atom to the lens and the sensor behind. Less light will reach the camera from greater angles, so the light that goes straight towards the lens or nearly straight will impact the sensor most, and that area will appear brightest. (This is my somewhat mangled attempt to explain abberation in optics...)

Even if the light were perfectly collimated in a beam the size of the atom it would still be unable to make a dot in the final image smaller than a single pixel of the sensor. If film were used instead of a digital sensor it would expose at least one pigment grain, again much larger than the atom itself.

The apparent size is an artifact of the imaging process.
An interim solution could be to install the UWP Skype app from the Store. I don't think it relies on Updater.exe for patches.
Hey there! We use the Twitter API to get data from Twitter. Then, we send u email notifications/alerts for the most important conversations once an hour. Our intention is to send you relevant and important tweets so we ensure that we're not flooding your inbox:)
This is happening almost exactly three years after many of us came to the conclusion that “Apple has lost the functional high ground”.

Relieving to learn that Apple tries to get back into shape again!

Marco was right:

https://marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-grou...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836734
"Chrome will stop displaying ads on offending sites"?
It feels like there is an incentive to ban high reputation, high earning freelancers from the marketplace for the slightest excuse.

New users often charge bellow their market rate in order to build reputation on the platform. Then once you get your 5 stars and start making good money you get banned kafka style, lame explanation, no resource.

Looks like they want to keep it a race to the bottom more than anything.
Exports for countries and smaller regions (in the .osm.pbf Protobuf format as well as some others) are typically provided by third party services such as Geofabrik's download server: https://download.geofabrik.de/
It's linked from the "export" tab on osm.org, but could probably be made more visible.

As far as APIs for OSM raw data go, Overpass API is the most popular open source option. The osm.org API is neither suitable nor intended for building non-editing apps.

When it comes to keeping a rendering database current, of course, most people use the minutely diffs mentioned by rmc.
Yeah, they are blocking most VPS providers. You'll need an obscure VPS host or a residential IP
Use Firefox Mobile, Google hasn’t deployed AMP for that yet.
You can also fax memos. For intra office, pneumatic tubes.
What part of my comment suggested it was easy? Are pull requests only for "easy" things in your mind? That said, it's also not rocket science, just about every other statically typed language in existence has figured out how to do it and has had the feature for at least a decade or more. But Go folks keep clinging to this weird view that generics are "hard".

You won't see a PR from me. I'm happily ensconced in the JVM (Java, Kotlin) and Rust land these days with the occasional foray into Python here and there.
Whatever you are looking at is preferring one of the particular name tags on https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1473946 or https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/424297647

Likely "name" on the node link.

(assuming the display you are looking at is getting the data from OSM anyway; The default tiles on osm.org will use the "name" tag on nodes for most rendered place names, other users might combine OSM data with other data sources or whatever)
I believe the thought was that if they were so prestigious they would not need to advertise at all. I have never felt this way about Universities, but I certainly have for defense attorneys.
How about allowing us to install Adblock on Chrome for Android?
Consciousness is the observation of your self. There is only one system that can make that observation, you.

Outside we could observe how information is flowing, what connects to what, how parts work, how they work together. But never observe the actual feeling of you.

It's like seeing a river flowing, you can measure and describe all kinds of aspects of it. But to get wet, to feel the cold water, to feel the force by which is flows, you have to step into it. Only this river flows in virtual reality, your minds reality, and you cannot step into it.

Intelligence is hard to measure, but I can objectively say what is and what isn't intelligent. It is not the same kind of subjectivity.

And in general, your table idea, that only works for systems that can be in a limited amount of states. You cannot do it for an intelligence test, especially not if I get to redesign the test after you finished your table, same for consciousness.