skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a rather vague objection. Suppose someone destructively uploaded their brain into a computer. The rule could be that virtual person was identical to the original OR the ruling could be the original person died. Thus, saying an algorithm used to be a person need not be relevant.

On the other hand, people use algorithms every day. Consider a simple vending machine, people inter contracts with the owner by proxy. The specifics on how the machine operates is basically meaningless.
Why Bitcoin Needs Cities
do we need to have a 5p charge on every bit of plastic to drive the point home?

Is this a people thing?

I observed very often that cashiers routinely gave away much too many bags for customers that didn't ask for them, maybe to look generous?

I still see in McDonalds and Burger King that they insist in putting in the shelf a lot of ketchup bags, drinking straws or paper napkings that I don't asked for or want. Simply forbidding them to do that if not requested would save a lot of trouble.
Thanks for your comment!

Regarding point 1, I stored both the activations before batchnorm and after since I needed them during the backwards pass. i.e. I stored h_out before and after these operations:

h_out = (h_out - np.mean(h_out, axis = 0)) / np.std(h_out, axis = 0)
h_out = gamma * h_out + beta

Regarding point 2, I do realize now that fixing a bad init via Xavier/he initialization and using batch norm fix slightly different problems - if I were to rewrite this post I probably wouldn't talk about initialization at all, or at least mention the Xavier/He initialization.
incredibly boring piece of kit. years behind...no thx.
They mention in the article of being able to launch objects at 3,000 MPH. That's a tad short of the typical 17,500 MPH used for low earth orbit, and that's not counting the extra Delta-V required to resist atmospheric drag.

I'm very glad that this company exists, but this article doesn't help its case very much other than "Hey look, they got a load of funding".
Another goofy attempt to find a problem for this particular flavor of solution.
It’s a centrifuge, so the acceleration could be low enough to not cause damage to the payload.
The parent's comment was taken directly from the OP article.
Taubes has degrees in aerospace engineering and journalism. Not to say that formal education is the marker for expertise, but it's at least a contributing factor.

I'd hardly call him a "health expert" just because he wrote a controversial book about nutrition.
I think that is absolutely true, but I was talking about a different dimension than fun or utility-- which is simply frustration.

Things like, the pointless Team Snapchat messages that MUST be watched. The app sending notifications when someone is typing, and then when they send a message. This means for each message I receive, I effectively look at my phone twice.

And last but not least, if there's a gap in some not particularly exciting conversation I was having--my 40 year old brain can't remember what the heck we were talking about.
This is also an important factor. I know when I am experiencing burnout, the feeling of anxiety and being overwhelmed is heightened. Any extra task thrown at me just snowballs those feelings until I become paralysed with indecision.

It is important to 'shed the load' when you feel the onset of burnout. Don't take on anything new - just focus on finishing what you have, and then take a break or reward yourself accordingly before doing any more.
This isn't an issue that's exclusive to Google Calendar; Office 365 also does this, as well as numerous other mail+calendar apps.

I believe it's related to the iCalendar spec.
https://icalendar.org/
I recently was lucky enough to have a conversation with a co-founder of a large cryptocurrency (identifying details redacted for his privacy), and among many other interesting ideas, he talked about the inflection point for a potential crypto-filled future.

He doesn't see people being willing, en masse, to convert the currency they receive (in a paycheck, for example) into another currency unless absolutely necessary. This is a chicken-egg problem if you want crypto widely adopted, where you need the vendors to adopt crypto but it'll likely have to be the government or company first that distributes it to citizens/employees.

He specifically mentioned Switzerland as a great country to explore a system like this (think Anti-Venezuela lol); if they were to found/back a decentralized currency, it could quickly reach mass adoption and we could actually function in society on crypto. I'm interested to see whether Switzerland could go that far with their approach.

The incentives that could be provided to make it worthy for a country like Switzerland to found/back a currency which they don't ultimately control are unclear, but nonetheless an idealistic concept.
'I just want it to stop’: Unsolicited Amazon packages contain intimate items
Yes, and transfers in and out don't take that long, maybe 15-20 minutes.
The physics of this makes no sense...
I've sometimes wondered how, or whether, this is guaranteed for companies whose ownership is organised by tradeable shares.

That is, whether there's anything that stops a sequence of share sales ending up in a situation where a set of companies between them own all the shares of companies in the set.

(If this ever happened, presumably the last human to sell a share to one of the companies was making a mistake, but humans make mistakes all the time.)

I mean, normally if you wanted to stop this sort of thing you'd do something like introduce a hierarchy of company types and say type N companies may only own shares in companies of type N+1 or higher. But I've never heard of such a rule.
I do agree that Tesla seems to be doing their utmost to say something akin to "it could be autonomous, if if if"

They are not doing their utmost. They're doing the minimum necessary to avoid getting sued. Their sales people and marketing material are pushing autonomous hard, and being very quiet about the limitations. If you're not following the tech news on these issues and only going by what the sales guy at the dealership told you, then the confusion is very reasonable.
That's exactly like claiming it's still valid to discuss what it might be like if hypothetical aliens invaded the planet. Should we build some big lasers to protect ourselves just in case?

Entertaining perhaps, but ultimately pointless and silly.
That's why they make metal straws which also works for hot drinks like preventing Coffee from staining your teeth.
The idea being corrupted by the fact that at some point the AI was owned by someone - it would be a real stretch to assume that any subsequent emancipation is not going to be scrutinized heavily.

It's the weak legal point here in the entire idea.
Agreed and as an Airbnb host myself, slightly confused. To add to what you said, why book and pay a premium for an Airbnb+ when there are thousands of standard listings that already crush plus listings.

As it stands, I have hosted 273 stays and have 184 reviews with an average rating of 91% five star reviews between two rooms.

The number one comment I get from guests is that my place is far better then a hotel and far less expensive. Enter Airbnb Plus "hotel like quality" which from my perspective and my guests, Airbnb Plus would appear to rank lower than many standard Airbnb listings.

And this does not even take into account hosting element.
Recently went to Xian which locals had described to be as being more of a small village feel. A mere 8m population.
They really thought these things through thoroughly. (That's two...)
This all already exists in the form of large, sometimes multinational, organizations. Has anyone from Well's Fargo been criminally prosecuted from the massive identity fraud they conducted by opening accounts falsely? From Equifax?

We don't need AIs to achieve this level of self-directed autonomy free to engage in criminal behavior without consequences: we already have Employee Handbooks.
obligatory: Does it run Linux?
> In effect, the ruling ratifies a particular squishy, ideological interpretation of science.

No, it just says that you can't wave a “labor organizing” flag to immunize yourself for consequences of violation of your employers facially-reasonable anti-harassment policy, thereby avoiding a situation in which employers could be put in the position of having to choose between violating the NLRA and violating the Civil Rights Act.
yea.. me. =)

I also made spam@gmail.com and basically broke gmail (too many emails to a single destination for the system to handle in those days).. but I got an AWESOME trove of spam reports to use as testing data! =)
Thank you for posting this. This issue happened to me for the first time last week - I thought my account had been hacked. I had no idea how a rouge spammy event got added to my calendar. I ended up resetting my password and spending over an hour pouring over other aspects of my account to make sure nothing else was compromised. It's mind boggling to think this could have been because of a spam message.
Are there any real-world examples of this? The wikipedia article only seems to reference theoretical discussions of it.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kein-Mann-GmbH
Just a wild guess here, maybe they’re using a variant of a ramjet, skipping the inefficient speeds, and then propelling it to LEO speed once it’s launched.
Future hosts will see your reviews and refuse to host. Since the reservation has to be confirmed by host, it can be a pain to go through a few hosts.
My Scouts from a rural community are largely not college-bound. Some do community college for a year or two; some enter the military. Most others get a certificate and work at contracting/construction/electrician type jobs. They do well.

One bright bookish young man was an exception. My wife heard he was discouraged about college, so she researched and came up with a program to send qualified rural students to college. He's at Auburn, at little or no cost to his family now. But he was an exception.
And the alternative is?
I think this looks good! I also think the price is reasonable, and the linked page also mentions volume discounts.

Extended temp range, long-term supply, CE & FCC certification, BSP with OTA upgrade support, manufacturing tool, and best of all: "we rely on Neutis ourselves in our line of Reach M+ and Reach RS+ RTK GNSS receivers".

What WiFi+BT chip is used?

Webpage mentions Debian briefly. How good is that support today?
Presumably, this same algorithmic actor would bring to bear the power available to it to render this 'so-called judges'' ruling void. Money buys many things invisible to the untrained eye.

Don't take this wrong, I want to be wrong, but justice better learn to swing the sword hard. Money shouldn't buy the public's opinion, nor their representatives.
I actually think the idea of using leaky ReLUs is interesting, because it'll still provide a small gradient when x < 0, which perhaps may slightly alleviate the vanishing gradients issue
> China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

What silly clickbait. I swear the media ( or propaganda ) sure loves to scaremonger with "china".

The brits want it. Europe wants it. Russia wants it. And the liberal and conservatives in the US want it.

The leading surveillance systems in the world aren't in china. It's in britain. It's in the US.

Edit: Holy cow, the brigade is strong here.
You've to appeal to their spreadsheets. Generally, lower costs.

If Oracle is well-established, it's going to be tough. It isn't just the cost of Oracle and doing business with them, it's the cost of all the work associated with making the transition. Code-rewrites, retraining ops, and so on.

If there's an opportunity for a greenfield, small project that would benefit from having a distributed backend then try that. Be prepared to show that it's not just low-cost, but it is easier to implement.
I've built similar functionality using Hammerspoon, configuration described at http://simonduff.net/hammerspoon/

However, I normally find myself lazy, and normally end up using the trackpad to drag windows to corners and edges to resize (also built with Hammerspoon)
Predator drones, or quadrocopter drones?

I thought that this could be a possibility, but has any government actually gone that far yet? This sounds a level too dystopian for the current time.
Ebooks are not 'stupid' – they're a revolution
> 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,

If it's not essential, and you don't want people to focus on it, why did you bring it up? It was the only interesting part of your comment (to me). I don't really care if HN is an echo chamber or not.

> 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.

I actually dont care if you were or were not the first woman or if it was someone else, I was just curious about how you knew on an anonymous forum. But go ahead, be mad about it.

Your blog post is interesting, so thanks for linking that.
Dropping JDAMs on cloud hosting server farms in the US or Europe is pretty fantastic.
If they're true duplicates offering no new perspective, I guess. But if the articles each show the event from a different perspective, they don't technically fall under the HN "dupe" rule. But it is still a boring subject to some HN readers, and it can fill most of the HN front page.
What if it's a subsidiary of a foreign parent?
"So when the media that hated Trump (a position I am not criticizing) started talking about allegations of Russian interference with the elections, I waited for the evidence. But after a couple of months of anonymous officials making this claim and that claim but no hard evidence in the matter, I tuned it out."

Another indictment filed today:

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000161-bf68-da6b-ade9-fffc2...

The tone of your statement suggests you don't have any way to know the facts of the Russia investigation, or what to believe.

That's bullshit. Mueller is gathering the facts and hard evidence in a very methodical, professional manner, and laying them out in criminal indictments, citing the relevant facts and evidence. You don't need the "mainstream media" to be informed on this subject. There are now direct sources you can go to.

Obviously, not everything is out yet, there is more to come. But what Mueller has already produced is very enlightening.

And your "couple of months" quip rubbed me the wrong way, too. How long did you expect an investigation of this scope to take? Did you expect Mueller to publish every single fact and testimony as he received it? Questioning the people involved, without necessarily letting them know what you already know, is a good way to quickly find out who is being honest with you.
Ah yeah, my bad, I should've instead shown the activations after the first layer, since "activation 0" is just the distribution of the random data I started with
Simply spinning is acceleration. Every been on a fast playground merry-go-round?
Technology Due Diligence, or Lack Thereof (2017)
A bit of an aside, but you have to wonder how much electricity they could save on air conditioning by painting their trucks white instead of brown. Perhaps they don't use any AC at all, which means their delivery drivers are stuck in that solar oven all day. I know they now at least paint the tops of their trucks white.

Edit: Fixed typo.
I already do this and this is standard with the local airbnb hosts I know. I get that this obviously does not happen across the board but I can assure you anyone serious is already doing this. In some cases I even pickup guests.
Thank you for raising this! Can you please open an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com and specify your android device and firefox version? That would greatly help us in tracking down the bug and solve it
I once said something slightly political and my comment was downvoted into oblivion.

So that helps.
"...Whether or not those attacks are done by terrorists, or oppressed minorities, I have no comments...."

???

If "...oppressed minorities..." commit acts wherein "...hundreds of innocent people were killed..."

aren't they "terrorists"?

Or am I thinking about this whole thing wrong?
Going to space is not entirely about being high. It's about going sideways, fast.

And if, at 6,000 feet, air pressure were half that of sea level, nobody would live in Denver and most Tibetans would be dead. Half is more like 6,000 meters.
Should there be a difference between someone who inherits a debt free, million dollar house in a liquid real estate market versus someone who inherits a million dollars worth of index funds in a Fidelity account?

In California, the heir to the house is arguably better off because they would likely inherit the proposition 13 tax basis and pay very little in property taxes.
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The best option at that point is to quit and make public the breach of contract. Don't do business with unethical people or organizations it's simply not worth your time.
No it is not. Calculate the outward force of a centrifuge with 300 foot radius with a speed of 3000 MPH at the edge and you get a force of 2000G!

Check your own numbers at: http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/newtonian/centrifugal
Agreed. It's a disordered, scary place to be in. Not something to glorify and fantasize as a mythical or sensory experience (especially since unlike hallucinogen drugs it's not voluntary, it lasts potentially all your life and you're not in control).
It also ignores the fundamental realities of CMOS: binary is more energy efficient than trinary. You can save a few transistors (and thus die area) by using trinary, but you vastly increase your power use & heat dissipation to do so. It's not even optimization!
Oh wow, I've just realised your that Steven Degutis, author of Mjolnir, of which Hammerspoon is based!!!

Any reason you've built a stand-alone app for this, given Mjolnir (and Hammerspoon) can do this pretty easily?
Selfhosted GitHub Pages
Hi, we made a GitHub Pages app for Cloudron. It obviously can host regular static pages push via git to the app, as well as the GitHub flavored Jekyll pages. To use outside of Cloudron you can checkout our packaging repo at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/githubpages-app

To run on Cloudron, follow https://cloudron.io/store/github.pages.cloudronapp.html
Sprint has been IPV6 enable for several years. Some devices are/were duel stack, some devices IPv6 only with the 464XLAT.

You can see the adoption of ipv6 enabled devices growing: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/apps/ipv6week/measurement/ima...

All major providers ipv6 percentage can be see at http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/
Likewise in San Francisco. I like to take very long all-day or late night walks and bathrooms are very hard to come by. Sure as long as it’s daytime and I look presentable I can usually find a cafe/store that will let me use the bathroom, but after 9pm if I don’t happen to be near a hotel it’s often impossible for me to find a restroom. Many restaurants and convenience stores will say the bathroom is broken (even when it’s clearly not). Also it’s common to find places that physically block access to the restroom with boxes or whatever. Long story short, I’ve had to get used to peeing outside in shadows since it’s rarely possible to find bathrooms. I’m not sure what I’d do if I was female or needed to take a crap.
Paywalled, but amazon can and will blacklist addresses if this is indeed, a real problem.
>The leading surveillance systems in the world aren't in china. It's in britain. It's in the US

How do you even measure that? I have no idea what you're are saying means?
Somebody misprinted a flier for a local town meeting.. the email was SUPPOSED to be congresman.<myname>@gmail.com but instead it got cut off to just <myname>@gmail.com. I started getting a wave of hate mail asking how I could hate firemen so much! At first I couldn't figure out what was happening but eventually I devised that the town had gone broke (this was 2009) and needed to lay off a bunch of workers, including firemen.

A coworker convinced me to try and see what the most outlandish thing I could say and still be believed was. Some of the toppers:

1) I don't know why we need firemen. My has has never even caught fire!

2) My wife cheated on me once with a fireman and now I am getting my revenge!

3) I believe in privatizing fire service, when the need arises the market will find a solution!
A new product like this seems to come out every month! Lots of fun for embedded folks. This is a higher-end one, and the power-per-price keeps going down. You can get small dual-thread processors for a few bucks (only 1Mb RAM etc) on up to things like this for $49. Seems like the ecosystem is filling out nicely.
They dropped the ball all around.

Even with 6 months lead time, they were startlingly unprepared in all but their works-as-designed press release.
From an economic perspective, you always have to ask: what are the incentives for someone to switch currencies. At first sight, it does not seem to matter much which unit of account you are using. However, there is in fact a strong financial incentive for the young, working generation to switch to a new currency, thereby devaluing all the nominal savings of the old, retired generation. So even in a country like Switzerland, Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency could be used by the young to brake free from paying an unfairly large share of their income to the old.
Am I missing something or is this already known to anyone who has handled animals? I have dealt with dogs, cats, pigs, lizards and horses and they all had very distinguishable personalities.
Making a Clap-Sensing Web Thing
> Thank you for that, I wish more articles would use SI units of measurement.

As someone who only uses traditional units, I wish that more articles would use them. Perhaps a good compromise between us would be for articles to use both!
Which was a deliberate "fuck you" by Republicans, attempting to enforce their ideal state tax policy through coercive taxation.
If you’re going to need a service like this to validate your passwords, it’s probably easier for you to use an oAuth provider (eg Facebook) or mangaged auth provider like auth0, firebase etc. And let them handle it.
In the context of ARM devices its understood that it isn't based off a custom fork maintained only by the SOC manufacturer.
LIDAR has severe range limitations, such that it's basically unusable for highway speed driving (or at least did, <mumble> years ago when I worked on autonomous driving), which is why Tesla doesn't use LIDAR.

Looking at Thrun et al.'s paper on Stanley (https://www-cs.stanford.edu/people/dstavens/jfr06/thrun_etal...):

"The effective maximum range at which obstacles can
be detected with the laser mapper is approximately
22 m. This range is sufficient for Stanley to reliably
avoid obstacles at speeds up to 25 mph. Based on the
2004 Race Course, the development team estimated
that Stanley would need to reach speeds of 35 mph in
order to successfully complete the challenge. To extend
the sensor range enough to allow safe driving at
35 mph, Stanley uses a color camera to find drivable
surfaces at ranges exceeding that of the laser analysis."

They built a neural network to analyze terrain and find safe paths- and trained it driving at 25 mph across the environment with the LIDAR providing the control- and then let it work at higher speeds where the LIDAR would be able to panic stop but not much more.
So the projectiles are spun, to generate a sort of carvatation effect in atmosphere? Rather brilliant.
> and declare the actual owners to be the humans profiting from the algorithm's actions

It counters the parent comment in that there would be no humans profiting from the algorithm, since all the profit is kept in the LLC and governed by the algorithm.