skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would has always been here. From embellishing town sayers, to the Hurst empire, media has always been The tool for mass manipulation.
It depends on what those calories are. If you're eating inexpensive veggies/fruits/starches/grains, you're probably around 200-300mpg equivalent on a bike. If you're eating steaks, then you're probably pretty close to a car.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/mpg-of-a-human/
How do you do transactions in bitcoin though? Don't you have to convert it back to local currency at some point?
Come on, they said this in the actual article. "But the vehicle will also have two additional satellites hitchhiking along for the ride: prototype probes built by SpaceX to test out the technology needed to beam down internet from space.

Sending up these two test spacecraft — named Microsat-2a and Microsat-2b — is a big first step in SpaceX’s long-term plans to create satellite internet." Sure, headlines nowadays tend to the buzzworthy but this article seems well written otherwise.
No, the Pi can still do computations while the speech recognition runs
Okay thats the bit that I was missing, seems a reasonable compromise!
Pyenv is a different thing than venv, it manages versions of Python itself rather than isolating dependencies for projects. You're probably confusing it with pyvenv, which is Python 3.4+'s command-line interface for managing venv-compatible environments.
Nope, GM has already self-driving cars on the street here in San Francisco. Remember they own Cruise.

So, GM has decided to go to Mars as Tesla did. It has acquired the tech to go to Mars and started testing it. In the meanwhile realized it could copy a page from Tesla's book and put some semi-autonomous vehicle on the road. And, according to this article, did an excellent job.

I'm no way a GM fanboy (do they even exists), but could we be fair?
Nothing bad so far... For example there's a lot of homophobic people out in the world, right? Now let's assume this article, https://osf.io/zn79k/, is correct in it's conclusions and boom, you've got machines that could potentially discriminate based on the CCTV footage of the building you entered for a job interview. This is just the start, scientists are heavily looking for those genes that make people smart, more prone to diseases, creating an AI that based on your genes determines if you're fit for high school even is seriously dystopic.
Great News!!!
Kernel code is not my area. Is this substantially different from how Linux is addressing the issue?
Well now I want more karma so I can customize the top bar.
I'm an educator, so my answer would have to be no, unless we're talking about producing educational material.

People do though.
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If you want to not infect your current shell with the new environment, you can just run it in a subshell by using parentheses:

$ ( . /full_path/env/bin/activate && python myapp.py --workers=3 )

This works for anything that you'd like a temporary shell for:

$ pwd
/home/me

$ ( cd /tmp; pwd )
/tmp

$ pwd
/home/me
Twilio adds support for RCS, next generation carrier messaging
I think you are absolutely correct. I think that people who are more entrenched in the field are even subconsciously unwilling to accept what is to come knowing that the unavoidable regulation will limit their creativity and just make their lives more miserable. But they know...
What are you saying is not "real journalism"?
Three Weeks Touring South America vs. Three Weeks Dogsitting in the West Village
https://www.eff.org/files/2018/02/20/malicious_ai_report_fin...

Still reading the paper and forming an opinion. But my initial thoughts are what exactly is new here that couldn't be done through some other means? I'm sure there will be interesting implications, but right now nothing seems particularly novel.
> politics short circuits people's brains.

I think this is a very cynical view. To some extent the demagogues and "ruling class" among us try to oversimplify things and create emotionally potent talking points.

But ultimately as citizens we must figure out reality for ourselves without the emotionally potent, over-simplified explanations offered by partisans.

We must be patient that some of us may not have realized (yet) how to think in a rational way about politics, not just abandon it completely.
The Swiss Postal service has a similar fleet of vehicles ranging from hybrid, gas and electric.

https://www.post.ch/-/media/post/ueber-uns/medienmitteilunge...

https://www.post.ch/de/ueber-uns/unternehmen/medien/medienmi...
pipenv makes it pretty trivial to get the same effect but without Docker. It also means that your favorite dev tools have easy access to the code you're working on.
Nowhere near the target design lifetime of the actual system satellites. No production functionality beyond test-bed.

Of course they will use them as long as they can; that’s consistent with what the FCC was told.
Red Hat introduces updated decision management platform
I think the network effect and discovery are the key things that Medium brings to the table.

When I write blog posts on my own site, I tend to use medium as a channel where I publish a teaser post with a link back to my blog.
Have they overcome the hacking/tricking issues they were having a few years ago yet? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/07/hackers-t...

Side note: I can't help but be reminded of Napoleon Dynamite's Liger whenever I see Lidar. Makes me smile.
An aspiring scientist’s frustration with modern-day academia (2013)
Companies generally don't get to decide what the people who buy their products get to do with them.

They can "mean for" retail copies to be used by individuals buying and watching them at home, but they don't get to enforce that intention.

Redbox is equal to a regular end-consumer. Because all customers are equal. Everyone has the right to buy something and then sell part of it to someone else if they want.
I don't participate much because unlike, say, reddit, HN seems much more focused on delivering people to other destinations. That might just be my perception, but I think reddit has much more sophisticated community features, where as comments have always felt like an add-on for HN
LIDAR is still expensive, so is used in the lab (or in test vehicles) but I don't think it has been used in a consumer vehicle yet, which I think are mostly using cheaper eye-like cameras.
I guess they're just refusing to acknowledge that upgrading npm installed the "prerelease" version?
So a puppy bred to enjoy beatings would be ok to beat? Idk, the ethics seem a bit muddy here if you start form the mindset of a sentient being, rather than a 'robot that feels'.
SimplCommerce, a cross platform, modularized ecommerce on .NET Core now 1.0-beta
Networking: Good vs. Evil (2011)
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-do-i-kno...

I will add that being the first woman on the leaderboard is not essential to the point that you can get a lot of karma and not be part of the echo chamber. But inevitably that is the detail that gets focused on, as if proving that I am not the first woman (or questioning my assertion, because no proof to the contrary has ever been offered when I get asked this) somehow invalidates my actual point.

My other handle has 25k karma. This one has over 3k. I don't in any way whatsoever participate in an echo chamber.
Since living in the highest taxed states and then complaining about taxes... I moved from SF to Nashville TN, couldn't be happier.
Depends on how they expect growth to go. They may design things for a break even of 100 million users with minor 'subsidies' to assist growth.
Sure, if you're part of the Kantian ethics group. But in terms of utilitarianism, I would strongly argue that Google has done more good than harm.
YC's Series A Diligence Checklist
If you consider the book applies the principle itself, it is well worth the read.

One tip I would suggest if you plan to buy the book, get the older version from the 90s at a lower price. The newest version is quite pricey.
I felt the same way about eBay back in the day. I quickly came to the conclusion that there were very few items I wanted to get rid of that were worth the hassle. The last time I had some camera equipment to get rid of I just sold it to Amazon. I'm sure I could have gotten more $$ through other channels but it was so hassle-free that it was worth it to me.
> install system dependencies

This is the important point of Docker. If your app has dependencies that are outside of the Python ecosystem (especially the pita ones to install) Docker seems like an excellent solution. I have an app that requires Oracle drivers and some other binaries with custom compile options (not available through apt) on Linux and I really wish I had built it in Docker.
Yes, I wrote this article.

No, I haven't read those papers before, but after your comment I took a look at one of them.. and it is very interesting! Thanks for mentioning it.

But, if I understood correctly, the excess memory retention is still a problem in conservative immix?
Exploring ES2018 and ES2019 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
What happened to the 'let's keep politics out of HN'?

Maybe it's just me, but I recently seem to see lots of articles on HN with almost no content on this issue, trying to incite flamewars. Feels like astroturfing to me, though I'm not sure what for/against.
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But computers are also very simple and very regimented systems where everyone makes the assumption that their state will never accidentally change and yet they still age
One would think that this could be used with GPS to protect against GPS jammers trying to fool the device's view of where it is -- useful for avionics!
This is really out of date. Even IE11 supports flexbox. It is trivial to center things both vertically and horizontally, and easy to make a “Holy Grail” layout.

If you don't need to support IE11 you can use CSS Grid and do the entire layout in one or two CSS properties.
Binomial Expansion in Solidity – Part 2
Around here, UPS also use small vehicles similar to golf carts in the busy seasons
Great to see this, and congratulations to OpenBSD on landing KPTI! From the illumos/SmartOS perspective, our collaboration with OpenBSD and DragonFly engineers has been invaluable[1]; working together, all projects made quicker progress. Indeed, the cross-project collaboration has been a silver lining to the very dark cloud of Intel's selective (and irresponsible) disclosure.

[1] https://twitter.com/arekinath/status/951321167708606464
How can you say they "did no such thing" and then say they did exactly such a thing?
I love this so much. The way Musk described it makes perfect sense. It's as if you had big bag of cash with a million dollars just falling from the sky, you'd probably go out there and try to catch it. It's the same thing.
LOL, all I can say to this, is that perhaps you should read your Tesla manual. I sincerely wish you luck with your driving, just watch out for fire trucks parked in the emergency lane...
The HN community is overwhelmingly not in SV. Less than 10% by many measures.
Just an FYI..

The parent comment was about Visual Studio(https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/python/), and you seem to be commenting about Visual Studio Code(http://code.visualstudio.com), which are 2 totally different products.

Microsoft has terrible naming practices.
There is no evidence in this article that GM's system is technically inferior - if anything, the opposite. Whatever the question is, your strained analogies are beside the point.
The Puerto Rico tax is...weird. It goes up highly progressively on value (I think 40% over 40k), it seems to be different for importer/dealer vs. individual, etc., but the 2015 electric exemption is nice.

(But, in exchange via act 20+22: zero capital gains (LT/ST), zero tax on dividends, and consulting/services/export revenue are taxed at 0-4% -- all guaranteed through at least 2035. Seems to be becoming quite the hub for traders and cryptocurrency people, plus some saas/consultancy types, which becomes interesting to me for network effect reasons.)
That's fair, but arguing something isn't possible is very different from arguing that when it happens you can solve it with a bomb. The conversation is about a hypothetical strong AI. You can say strong AI isn't possible, like you can say warp drives aren't possible, and it's still valid to discuss what it might be like if they were possible.
Yes, you're absolutely right, I was comparing npm specifically to pip (without any additional tools like pipenv).
My initial response was that Disney should have won this. It seems to me that Disney gets to control the distribution of it's copyrighted materials. They bundle a physical and digital version of the movie. So, 1 purchase = 1 "household" can watch the media privately.

What Redbox is doing is constituting 1 purchase = 2 households can watch the media privately (the renter of the DVD and the purchaser of the code).

I'm not an expert on the First Sale Doctrine, but it seems like the end result is that Disney would sell fewer copies of it's content (i.e. damages) in respect to RedBox's actions.

(not a lawyer)
Have you had a chance to evaluate https://pybee.org ?

src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16419628#16420689
Certainly, royalties is an interesting idea.

Nope, the app has not generated any revenue, I went on Christmas holiday the day after the app went live in App Store

0% of the growth strategy have been executed.
Good question. You would think that some people would have QA/pre-prod servers with a pipeline that would catch this.
To be honest, I used to wash dishes under running warm water, probably quite wasteful.

By the way, around here (North Europe) we have special dishwashing brushes that apparently aren’t a big thing in most parts of the world.
We Might Finally Know Why the Blood of Young People Can Rejuvenate Old Brains
It can be charged under slander laws iirc, but without physical assult, not rape. Many harassment laws may also cover this. But if the picture was taken in public, you may not have many rights.

Using 'rape' to mean any unwanted sexual communication is a terrible thing, and seems to be getting more common.
I thought that you couldn't see what a host or guest wrote about you until you already wrote your review. That's the way it's been for me, anyway.
No. You get something like 10 days to complete the review and the host does not see it and you don’t see their review until either the time period expires or you both leave reviews. After the time period expires you can no longer leave a review
Would you personally pay this, or is it only a good idea if it’s someone else’s money?
We have low interest in Windows support for our software so I haven't even tried yet but WINE is a good idea if it works. For MacOS a TravisCI Mac build should do the trick. It'd be nice if it could all be done in a single run..., but it doesn't seem possible.
Can someone explain the intuition behind how the lipschitz constant k is chosen?

It seems like even in his demo video, k starts off underestimated which made the upperbound not a upperbound (f is sometimes above the green line U) and is only slowly corrected towards the end. Why does it still work?
> (But, in exchange via act 20+22: zero capital gains (LT/ST), zero tax on dividends, and consulting/services/export revenue are taxed at 0-4% -- all guaranteed through at least 2035. Seems to be becoming quite the hub for traders and cryptocurrency people, plus some saas/consultancy types, which becomes interesting to me for network effect reasons.)

And in exchange for that, Puerto Rico is broke. But that is not a topic for here and now :)
> However for a lot of old embedded controllers if it works don't break it.

If you don't maintain it, you are allowing it to break through neglect. That's like saying if the old oil works in an engine, you shouldn't bother changing it. It works great, right up until it doesn't, and then you have a bigger problem.

Software development is an incurable disease. Once you start, you can't ever stop.
Airbnb employee here: both parties have to leave a review before you can both see the review posted to prevent retaliatory reviews. Also, you can leave public feedback, private feedback, and feedback to Airbnb if you have specific issues with the guest/host that you want us to address.
It appears I was incorrect about the specific list of items

My point still stands that they developed technologies outside of their core business focus but it didn't mean that their core business focus changed
What an ungracious way to admit you're wrong. I am simply pointing out 'paying attention' is like keeping tires properly inflated, it's something many people are not going to do and thus part of real world data.
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People make decisions based on the available information, which does NOT included a looking glass.

Imagine if your property taxes quintupled because it turns out your governor misallocated tax revenue and now they need to make up the shortfall. Well, serves you right for moving to TN, right?

Wrong.
Malicious AI Report
Could Tennessee handle an influx of 30 million people? I doubt it. Clearly it is not feasible to say to everyone, “Just move.” There is also the fact that southern states tend to be subsidized by the richer states. The low taxes of Tennessee come, partly, from the generosity of the wealthier states.
thank you for the specific numbers, I feel like I should memorize them for every time this issue comes up...
It was in 2010 at the University of Minnesota. I actually got a degree in sociology, so I know from experience that the rest of the department was much more critically engaged. In my other classes, we were doing postcolonial studies of globalization, studying race/class/gender and reading Paulo Friere, Marx, etc. It was all solid.

But this "Killing" class is where I discovered that the department was segregated into distinct "tracks". They had one for general sociological studies, and one for people who were going on to be police officers and lawyers: the "criminal justice" track. This "Killing" class was part of the criminal justice track.

Later on, I took a class in CSCL (cultural studies and comparitive literature) called "Aliens" and found myself wishing I'd discovered CSCL sooner.
Seems like it would open you up to liability if anything inside was stolen.
Why do you think "views the community supports" is the only thing that people upvote? I upvote entire threads where people are disagreeing because the whole conversation has value. I also upvote comments that add something new to the conversation. I think you have a naïve sense of participation.
Visualising CNN Models Using PyTorch
Clean Architecture using Golang
I think we'll be plus or minus $1k next year but that's just back of the envelope; in reality, nobody has a great handle on this yet.

And, of course, more and more people will fall into the "paying more" camp as time goes on thanks to the temporary nature of the recently-passed tax plan, so it makes sense to plan ahead.
Who hasn't proposed smart contracts decades ago? We used to talk about formalizing the legal system so it could be processed by computer while sitting around the undergrad common room. You can't read, e.g. Asimov, without being exposed to such ideas. Not to mention the numerous times such an idea came up on usenet, slashdot, or here whenever some corrupt human-in-authority abused some legal system. Every one of those discussions, however, ended with the lightbulb that, unless you have AI that can comprehend intent, it is as impossible to write a smart contract as it is to write code without bugs. And if you have an AI, then laws written in English are all you need anyway. Coming up with the idea of smart contracts isn't a sign of unrecognized genius, but believing it to be a valid solution is a definite disqualification.
I use Gemini and it works fine. The amount of Coinbase Stockholm Syndrome that I see boggles the mind.
It's bad, but at the same time it's hard to blame people doing it too much when it's literally in the npm documentation: https://docs.npmjs.com/troubleshooting/common-errors
How to Setup a Python Environment on Emacs
pg said different things about downvoting. The last comment I link to seems to agree that some downvoting is a problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

> IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch. Downvotes have always been used to express disagreement. Or more precisely, a negative score has: users seem not to downvote something they disagree with if it already has a sufficiently negative score.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

> It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716

> [...] Another problem is that people use point scores as a guide to voting. It's clear from voting patterns that many if not most users vote not to express approval or disapproval, but to cause the comment to have what they believe is an appropriate number of points. If I didn't display points, people couldn't do that. Perhaps that's not a problem. But if it turned out that that's what voting was for, then this could break voting, which would in turn break the sorting of comments, which would be a problem now that there are so many.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057338
A couple of things:
1. How can activations be below 0 in a ReLU network? It seems like:

> h_out = z * (z > 0)

is the line that you're using to store activations. How can that be below 0 for any values of z?

EDIT: Whups, missed that he was storing the output of activations + batchnorm. I think it would make more sense to just store the output of the activations. The goal here is to show that batch norm provides good properties throughout the entire network. In this case, you're storing h_out/std(h_out). Which is trivially normalizing your layers to have the same variance.

2. Using initialization distributions to motivate batch norm is a little bit misleading. Prior to batch norm, people had realized that initializing uniformly was a problem, and had switched to using xavier initialization (specifically, a follow up by Kaiming He found the initialization that works best for ReLU).

I do think that the intuition for why both make sense are fairly similar. Although xavier initialization fixes the variances initially, batch norm allows you to maintain it through training.

Another thing that's cool about your post is that my intuition was that xavier initialization was not necessary if one was also using batch norm. It's cool to see that vindicated.
Not really, they are simply using the date related to a specific event which has error bars measured in months and expecting people to relate that event to the extinction. If WWIII happens and we have a full scale nuclear exchange then that's likely to be used as the peak.

Really, it's not a political statement just an interesting observation.