skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thought provoking contrast presented in the article is camera derived sparse maps with lane lines, road edges, signs etc. vs lidar derived dense detailed models of the whole environment. Any thoughts around why the former is not enough? If it is enough it would certainly be preferable, since smaller in size and likely easier to maintain.
The only interesting part here is the behavior when the manufacturer's API goes down, and that's solveable just by having the clients maintain a queue of their failed modifications and retry them later when the API goes back up again. And of course the manufacturer can even provide the software that does this to the client so the client doesn't have to do any work for it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425451
The free to paid with CC is obviously skewed. If you have the commitment to signup trial with CC you are, statistically, much more committed to stay. What they don’t say is that the higher CVR of CC is balanced by less people signing up for trial in absolute numbers.
I still don't get what was so revolutionary about gofmt, we already had indent for years.
„That one day I was sharpening the pencils in my garage and got this revolutionary idea and launched pencil-sharpening startup which is now earning billions”. NOT. Rich and influential parents, lots of money available to burn, location, availability of cheap workforce - otherwise you end up unemployable and with debt (and, for fucks sake, don’t drop out of the university).
At the browser level you have Captcha, which is a lot more expensive to spam - you need a human somewhere to overcome - than an API.
I use them for natural language processing. There are cases where the performance increase is enormous (as in I wouldn't be able to afford the computation without them) and the downside of false positives is or can be made irrelevant.
thanks for the amazon link, it's now bumped up to my next read.
I've always understood nltk as a teaching tool, and been accordingly surprised when I see people use it in production.

SpaCy really fills an important gap
I think you're right, these are good ideas. My concern for damage has to do with the ratio between production and wage. Obviously wage earners should keep more than they currently keep, but the amount they keep needs to be flexible. If the economy tanks or there's a shift in the market, the wage needs to be flexible. I merely advocate for an approach with the necessary responsiveness to a dynamic economy while still improving wages.
I see Android Pay signs and stickers and logos all over he place. That’s a lot of branding to throw away and replace.
Why would they completely limit API write access when there's a less nuclear route to prevent abuse as detailed in the article?
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What in my comment suggested to you that I believe that one glass of scotch or wine makes one a drunkard?
> But certainly for C-like languages I've used, just getting people on the same team to all use the same format was a struggle, much less the whole company, much much less the whole world.

We were using indent with CVS pre-commit hooks in 1999, hardly revolutionary.
I remember looking into it, and discovering that it didn't work in a sane way (ie: no server tls support). Why would I want to expose traffic unencrypted? Especially considering dangerous content, like attachments etc.

Now I see that Ms allows federation for on-premise lync - but not for office 365. :-(

Everyone wants their own silo, and force their multitude of awful clients on people.
If you think you can divine such a diagnosis from a one paragraph comment on a forum explicitly populated by tech nerds that might want to read about gritty technical details via the kind of intellectual curiosity that is in no way unneurotypical, you might want to get checked out for narcissistic personality disorder.
The point was more that problems that need to use atan() in a context where the line may point near the Y axis don't flip out over "floating point precision", they just use atan2().

Problems like the one in the grandparent that need to intersect nearly-parallel lines (or subspaces) use special techniques better suited to the problem and don't just feed it to a linear solver.
Get me a waze _lite_ and I’m sold. But not current waze.
Yea but the civil war happened, which was super deadly.

I see what you are getting at. But honestly, if the gov wants to do a genocide, they have tanks and bombers to do it. No AR15 will help against that anyway.
That's not too different from the Bay Area, or at least the trendy neighborhoods in SF and in Oakland where the tech people live
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>Ahh, you sound confused by the sugar industry marketing.

I don't think so, I agree with you. All of those sugars are processed. What did I write that made you think otherwise?

I don't need a doctor to tell me if something is bad for me or not, but it seems to be very useful for many people, hence the Mayo sources. But my point in referencing Mayo was also to demonstrate that this is becoming common knowledge.

Sucanat is simply juice from a cane plant with the water removed. This is not a "processed sugar". My personal opinion is this is a plant extract.
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Well bookmark the following and be prepared. Because Facebook posts a lot about what they do.

https://newsroom.fb.com

https://code.facebook.com
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I first read the comments page on nakedcapitalism.com before browsing these comments. It is interesting that these articles are discussed on HN as a proxy for using the comment section of the actual site, but I guess that is the norm these days. I would kind of expect the discussion at the actual site to be more informed as only more dedicated people to the topic would have membership at the smaller site. But I feel like, more or less, the discussion here mirrors the one on nakedcapitalism. It would be interesting to bucket all the arguments that are more or less the same. I see the following: (in answer to why have wages stagnated)

* 'its because the rich are greedy assholes who have corrupted government'

* its due to globalization or cannot be explained without factoring this in

* its because of some complex unorthodox economic theory (insert here)

I can tolerate the comments on HN more than on reddit where I can only anticipate the ratio would tilt so heavily in favour of just emotional outbursts against rich greedy assholes that get upvoted by online pitchforked mobs ready for the revolution. These main lines of thought spawn mini threads that swirl like like pools of attention suckage in a steady stream of water. What I think would be interesting would be for some kind of automatic moderation that parses out the main arguments, prevents de-railments, crushes duplication, and forces the true competing arguments to face each other head on in the rational arena.
Interestingly, Julia handles the type safety aspect with ease despite being dynamic, since it has both multimethods and parametric polymorphism.
That time range "conveniently" includes the 2011 Breivik massacre, which skews the result mightily. Mass shootings are sufficiently rare, particularly in Europe, that single events have an outsize effect on the stats.

According to most other stats, the US has more "school shootings" than most of the rest of the world combined, see for example https://qz.com/37015/how-school-killings-in-the-us-stack-up-...

Also, the gun homicide rate is around 10x that of other rich industrial nations. If you think that there's a substitution effect you're right: if all homicides regardless of weapon are taken into account the ratio drops to around 4-5x.
uhhh... You literally made the point of the article. Specifically claiming aggression is part of the "masculine psyche". Seriously, w. t. f.

I'm a man, and I know many other people who are men (I have male friends even), and yet I've never decided my identity is tied up in aggression or violence. Nor have I felt I am owed women (or I guess men assuming equivalent personality issues in gay men).
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Did Amazon employees just tip the company’s hand on HQ2?
Just a few use cases. I suspect there are quite a lot:

1) Allowing a delay between creation and posting e.g. Buffer.

2) Posting updates to Twitter whenever CMS content changes e.g. Wordpress.

3) Large companies who need tools that work across all social media sites e.g. Hootsuite.

4) RSS -> Twitter.
Weak ass list for YC management to come up with. No mention of blockchain, self driving cars, quantum comptuers or AI..... Seriously, pepes.... It's your job to see in the future. That was only 9 years ago!
> Hacker news loves upvoting articles about bloom filters (and Bayesian probability - its on the front page again this evening.) Personally I've never found a use for either of them in practice.

Perhaps that speaks about the type of work you are involved in rather than about the Hacker News community?
Case in point, collocation detection over very large corpora:

https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter#example-on-the-...

Reduces RAM requirements some 31x times when automatically detecting common multiword expressions (e.g. "New York", "network license" or "Apache Hadoop"), which is significant.
My guess is that the more detailed, dense map allows the car to precisely localize itself by using its view of the world to match against the map, yielding a location more precise than GPS (and for when gps doesn’t work); eg ICP point cloud matching/alignment/registration. More sparse maps would give you a less confident match, and you’d have to convert what the car is seeing to the sparse form.
At least in my country, incoming call filters do wonders, in particular those which query the incoming number at an online database to show you who's the caller.
While whatsapp messages are, apparently, e2e encrypted - your phonebook and metadata are slurped up by facebook.

Signal does not have that goal and have been shown by courts documents to not store the metadata.
I didn’t mean to say that it’s good that I‘m behaving this way. And I‘m not responsible for every emotion I have, you know. Some things need working on before you can get in control of them.

EDIT: Removed comment about downvotes.
I must be misremembering it. I'd edit my comment but it's timed out.
insert the mathematical joke about the half-black sheep
>But you're better off investing your energy in proven strategies and not whatever nonsense you see on the internet

I generally agree, but there was a time when books and libraries were the internet of the time. And the saying was similar "just because you read it in a book doesn't mean it's true."

Consider how recently science and doctors have been wrong about certain diseases and fixed/changed their healing techniques. I'd rather use common sense than suffer at the hands of those that are working on the wrong side of the knowledge curve. Many doctors today are of a similar opinion, sometimes the majority is wrong, and it takes a long time for them to come around, but that doesn't mean everyone has to wait.
What if you could be someone else for one week and see life differently?
Everyone is different; everyone has different physical and mental capabilities and different people handle themselves differently. Most people would have done something different from what you did.

nickbauman>"Because they were, to any point of rationality, on a direct course to killing me. I felt like it was me or them."

"To any point of rationality"?? "...me or them"??

Well, you're alive, aren't you? The idea that you thought of killing/shooting someone indicates that you were socially isolated to an extreme degree. Where were your parents, your brothers and sisters, your friends? Did you have any?

And now you're still angry and, sadly, screwed up. Your anger toward your old bullies has been redirected toward responsible gun owners. Now you'll punish those old bullies by supporting "common sense gun control".
What it rated false was the part where Obama said this type of thing doesn't happen (at all) in other countries.

And they went on to say that a lot of the other countries that ranked highly were small countries that had a single attack. Statistics don't work well in that regime.

And of course, here's what politifact themselves commented later:

"June 22, 2015: We heard from several of you regarding Obama's use of the word "frequency," and that frequency could refer to the incidents of mass shootings, not deaths as we examined. Looking at Obama's claim by incident, the United States has a higher rate of incidents than Finland, Norway and Switzerland. We agree that there is no preferred comparison and each is valid, and we've changed some language in this article to reflect that. ... "
Arvada is still a decent place to live if you want to be on the north side of Denver. Otherwise, look down out to the south and/or west so you can at least be on the light rail.

I think you are maybe talking about Commerce City with the giant flaming smoke stacks? That area is indeed horrible.

Boulder is not part of Denver. It's its own city.

If you want someplace cool and good to live (though you will want to secure a 4-5 day a week remote job first, because driving down I25 to Denver will make you want to die. Ask me anything), may I recommend Fort Collins? :)
I skimmed the immutability article. The argument is essentially that a country like China could wreak havoc on Bitcoin by acquiring 51% of mining power. His calculation is a bit outdated -- current mining revenue is over 7 billion [1] without even counting transaction fees -- but I guess the argument is still somewhat plausible.

More importantly, the argument doesn't apply to proof-of-stake blockchains, which I believe are the future. Unless a government is able to purchase a 51% stake in the currency, but that would require hundreds of billions for a currency as large as Bitcoin.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=12.50+%2F+%2810+minutes%29+*...
Additionally, the figures might also be missing people who forgot to cancel the subscription after the free trial is over.
The guidelines ask that we don't comment on downvotes:

> "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use the CommBank app for touch payments and I'm constantly surprised by how good uptake here in Oz is. I've barely touched cash or any other payment form in the last year+, and mixed use going back way further than that. Even if it's a coffee from a coffee cart at the markets, everyone here takes paypass. I regularly go out now with nothing except my phone (and license in pocket with phone if I'm driving), with no fear of getting stuck needing cash/card. It's so nice not carrying a wallet.

I can also go to ATMs using their Cardless Cash option in the app, which solves your other point.
Those all are automated spam, and doesn't really facilitate discussion. They just increase noise on the platform.

Edit: Reminder that Twitter filters out posts that don't receive much interaction.
for example, the tweets by @newsycombinator are posted via API.
In a centralized database it is allways possible to cheat. I think something like qualitiy data from a factory. Once you stored the data, there will be no way to change it later.
I would not bother if I were you, I've never seen a coverage so negative of blockchains as the one we have on HN. Every week you have a new article looking like this, full of straw man arguments, never any pro/cons. "You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain", yeah you probably did not need a website in 1999 as well, and web technologies were crap. Cryptocurrencies are completely new field which needs time to mature, basing the potential future of it on current technologies isn't very wise.

I remember the Dropbox post on HN full of people asking why they would need it when they can use USB keys and ftp, I feel cryptocurrencies are clearly underestimated the same way here on HN.
Wow level 3 there was really elegant. In general I try to find use for a strong type system to force correct code, but here it's Rust's ownership model that ends up saving the day.
You regulate the fiat onramps and offramps which are the exchanges. Nobody uses bitcoin to actually pay for things, so once you take away the ability to exchange it for fiat, the whole scheme collapses. The US government could end most of this tomorrow by simply shutting down a handful of exchanges.
The simple fact is that

(a) the US has a 10x higher gun homicide rate and ~5x higher homicide rate than other comparable countries

(b) the big difference between the US and these countries is vastly higher gun ownership in the US

What could the relationship be between guns and deaths from guns?

Nope, too hard.
Too bad humans ruined the stability of such currencies by building marketplaces designed to enable speculation. I mean I guess it's inevitable and maybe you can argue market places will help CC stabilize quicker, but it's disappointing from a purist perspective. I think there's great value in a decentralized currency that is resistant to manipulation by a central power. But bitcoin stopped being that lately.
Why is it so hard for Google to stick to one name, why keep on changing names of different services. What are they trying to achieve?
Why do they keep saying 'faster way to pay'... It's always slower for me to pull out the cell phone, unlock it, open Google Pay, choose the card, click/swipe/acknowledge/etc then wait for it to process. I'd rather pull out my wallet; toss out the cash.
As far as I know Tile/PlaidML (Vertex.AI) is the only DSL+compiler that's usable for real workloads across a variety of hardware. https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml
And if you look at that account there's no real interaction going on with it for an account that has 175k followers.
And this was a vulnerability that concerned an iPhone 5c, which did not have a secure enclave. The iPhone 5s was the first model with Touch ID and an secure enclave.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/226164-fbis-iphone-hack-l...
Yes, but we need professionals to be more overt we are groping in the dark I think.

The recent news about why ketamine works is a very specific aha moment, they showed a focussed impact on a brain functional element which seems to re-stim negative ideation and so blocking it relieves a cycle and then permits some kind of reset. Layman's analogies.
Depends on your definition of expensive. Captcha solving goes for around 1/10 a cent per catcha. (obviously pricier than free, but if you want to blast out 1000 tweets a day, that'd cost you $1)
That moment when you test a very unique password you used to use and it's been pwned once.. GULP! Glad I stopped using that one
Genetics and environment don't exist in isolation. As a totally made up example, maybe some people are more vulnerable to specific toxins (genetics) that are a by-product of plastic manufacturing (environment), and this causes increased appetite.
Maximizing the minimum value is a sound optimization method. It gets an overall sound system that doesn't get any obvious break point.

In terms of happiness, it makes sure that no one is left behind, and tends to produce a more homogeneous society than optimizing for the average.

Also, [1].

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2569
True, but man found fire very useful for millennium before we understood it.

And as little as we know about how drugs work we know less about how CBT works.
I apologize and retract my comment - cannot delete it now.

Do you have a bot that looks for downvote keywords?
Okay, ignore the blockchain part, what i meant is that the tool could have mechanisms to ensure trusted verification of task completions, decisions etc.

I share your experiences at large firm and startups . What I feel is that tech leads, Architects or Sr. Engineers have lot of stress to deal with when they have bad managers which is ultimately bad for the team , company and individual development.

I think my question should have been phrased a bit differently as some level of mgmt especially at Director or Sr. Manager level should be sufficient to take care of hiring/firing, budgeting etc. Also with better tooling , conflicts can also be minimized as they are caused by egoistic views which are not based on data (think pros/cons of a solution etc).

So in short first level managers and Project manager roles can be minimized and/or their roles adjusted as shared resources across teams, not as product owners and team managers which is a mostly redundant role.
> Dulling the pain for me also meant dulling life.

I've heard quite a few people say similar things (including my therapist), but it's such a sharp contrast to my own experience. There are indeed very good reasons not to use these drugs (I currently don't and it's costing me dearly), but "dulling" is not a word that would ever come to my mind if I tried to describe the experience of being on them. The years I was medicating are actually the brightest patch of my adult life.

Well, I guess such differences are to be expected when we don't know what depression is and why these drugs work.
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Foundations are supposed to be self sustaining without actually selling anything, so they require large endowments to endure. That $50M could sustainably spit off as much as $2.5M/year, funding ongoing development indefinitely.
Nope. Just read a lot of comments.
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> There's nothing toxic about masculinity. Full stop.

I agree. the problem is how young boys direct those masculin traits. while former generations had a male rolemodel and ways to channel their masculin traits, i see those channeling effects fade. single parents, adhd and drugged kids, helicopter parents. Its like there is no easy way for a young child to explore and focus their personal traits. I see Men's sheds [0] as a reemergence of those channeling effects, and that is definitly a good thing. Their slogan is "Men don't talk face to face, they talk shoulder to shoulder", what i see as a direct opposite of the (what you call) anti-masculine feminist way of "talk about your feelings"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_shed
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