skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do the PR guys blame Amazon for this?

The ToysRUs thing was such an obvious con. My son really digs certain Lego things and I stop by the store frequently. It was pretty obvious that it was being run into the ground... they would load up on inventory based on generous trade terms. The inventory in my local ToysRUs in November was aging and popular items like Lego and hot wheels were out of stock or merchandised to hide holes in the shelves.
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To expand on your thought... I think "one crash will kill the industry" would have been true if this industry had continued to behave in a cowboy caution-to-the-wind (see early Tesla, Uber) fashion. But it really does seem like cooler heads have been prevailing. There's been (at least the appearance of) openness about various incidents, post-mortems, and plenty of lobbying of both the political and marketing varieties. I think this industry, for better or for worse, has made a nest for itself that will be able to absorb a good amount of setbacks, even of the mortal variety.
since the 90's, starting with US v Lopez
it's still hard to understand the motivation, because these husks of companies with large debts (like toys r us) keep ending up defaulting on their loans. so at the least, the people that make those big loans lost. I pay moderate attention to my 401k, but I notice (at least when I look :-)) when I have a giant loss. How can these bond or loan companies afford to lose so much and stay in business?
Apartments.com lists 4098 1 bedroom apartments in Manhattan alone in my rent range, $2-2.5k/month. All over the island. They might not be as nice as my swanky high rise, but I consider it to be comparable. Certainly whenever someone asks me how much I'm paying at my current place their eyes bug out.
It would be weird, but who knows ?

I think the real reason is provided in the article. iPhone users. They think using an "Android Wear" causes confusion.
China has over 1 billion inhabitants and many millions living abroad which might just have enough incentive to move back now or soon. Immigration for them is not going to make as much difference as in the US.
Why authors of article assume that talent is distributed according to Gaussian function? Am i mistaken or authors didn't give any references to researches on this assumption?
What did the US bungle about youth education in the 50's and 60's? My memory is limited to New Math and standardized tests of more recent decades.
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Could you please ELI5 "leveraged buyout" and what is happening here? I'm not very financially savvy but I'd like to understand what kind of dynamic is it that was able to bankrupt two companies worth so much. Thanks.
This was far and away the best English-language summary available when I posted it, and I used the story's own headline, as per HN policy. I can understand that you might dislike the "broke the internet" figure of speech, but perhaps you should save your flagging for content that is truly problematic.
Ars had an article[0] over the past few weeks about how Qaulcomm isn't creating new chips for Android Wear and therefore smart watches were on the decline / not improving.

Has anything changed? Are there non Apple competitors in the field?

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/android-wear-is-gett...
Would a hardware fix also eliminate the perf degradation that the software fixes introduced? Or does it just increase security?
I would suggest more accurately that America has gifted it to China, through:

* Systematic attack on education and knowledge at all levels, from cutting funding, bludgeoning it with standardized testing, taxing grad students and cutting financial aid, and creating a culture where superstition and idiocy is rewarded instead of knowledge for its own sake.

* Cost accounting has wiped out basic research

* Offshoring and outsourcing have moved core competencies to others who have improved on them and made newer products. I think there are few or no LCD panels made domestically any more. How about hard drives? Chip fabs?
Everyone knows that Apple = iOS. Apple iPhone, Apple Watch, etc.

Not everyone knows that Google = Android because of all the other Android vendors. Google Pixel, but also Huwei Nexus 6P, Samsung Galaxy 9, etc.

Should have kept the old name.
We also canceled recently. The quality of both the ingredients, and the recipes, is quite high. Better than Hello Fresh, I think. We canceled because we built up a backlog of meals that we weren't always able to make.

There wasn't a click to cancel. We had to e-mail. They never replied to the e-mail. We escalated the tone of the e-mail, and eventually somebody canceled us and replied.

Honestly, I'm really impressed at the ability of their logistics team to get a ripe avocado to my house. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but in my experience when we buy avocados at the store they are not ripe, and are eventually ripe for about a day, then are overripe.

Here's what would be great:

1. Amazon buys Blue Apron. I get a Prime discount.

2. I get a notification sometime during the day with the meal of the day.

3. I remember we're both working, and I tap to purchase.

4. BA/AMZN Shipping and Logistics drops a meal at my house.

5. I cook dinner.
Just upload data, invite your team and build training dataset in hours
Well, I'm guessing that a simple metric could tell whether the user likes or dislikes the music they are currently listening to. Advanced brain scans can show activity in the pleasure center of the brain, so perhaps an EEG can do something similar based on a learnable multivariate function.

You could view it as supervised learning, but with the user having only a passive (listening) role.
How would you change the model to be more realistic and how you think would your changes affect the outcome?
> I don't think there is much room for rational discussion for my viewpoints here.

I agree, you refuse to address the arguments people bring up in favor of attacking straw men and relying on sarcastic hyperbole.
23andme results are subject to change. A few years ago when they first released their Neanderthal estimates, I was at the top of my contact list, but recently I'm like second to last.
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What is the value of a coffee or haircut? How many coffees is a haircut worth?
Optimizing transaction settlement
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When he was in Cambridge, where I am based, it was common to see him around. Not long ago I was at a conference on the rise of fundamentalisms, and he was 5m from me. I found it incredibly inspiring that he'd be there, obviously engaged and interested, despite his physical condition.

We've made a map of the stars commemorating him, in case anyone is interested. The high-res download is here:

https://greaterskies.com/stephen-hawking-star-map/
Well, maybe it's good if people want to know about the rules, versus not caring and just knowing what you like/hate?

But being overconfident about the rules when you're actually not an expert: that we can do without.
That's what I wonder too. I would run the other way if I saw that Bain was involved. Since it appears that people are not doing that... I have to assume that, like most things in life, there is a lot here that I don't understand so my gut reaction is flawed.
The substance often is the equations, not the words. I don't really want to write equations in markdown, and I don't want some publisher trying to impose a format on my equation. I want to format it, so that my readers read my equation, not what some publisher thought it said.
Yeah, on the one hand I'm not sad to see Clear Channel die and maybe we can get some local variety on the radio again (at least until someone executes that plan again). On the other, it's another instance of the capitalists destroying a company for profit. Thanks, job creators!
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I think the point is that others likely should also be held responsible. Not sure I understand your argument here.
"People are jealous" seems to me like the uncharitable formulation. I'd phrase it more along the lines of: "we evolved in small tribes and are more acutely aware of relative status than absolute welfare." Most people's assessment of how well off they are comes from comparison with their neighbors rather than absolute knowledge of weather they have enough.

I agree though that eliminating severe poverty is a more worthy humanitarian goal than trying to produce equity.
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Get a Pixel2. It feels like an iPhone did 5-6 years ago.
>The problem I find with inside-out tracking is the range of motion. One of the most powerful concepts in VR is being able to do things with your hands when you are not looking at them.

Agreed, there is a bit of an occlusion issue when your arms are behind/above the HMD. I feel like they could probably solve this though, with inductive tracking like Sixsense [0] integrated into the controllers and used in conjunction with IMU/camera data.

https://www.sixense.com/platform/hardware/ [0]
> laws are normative arguments about whether or not something is ultimately unethical

That wasn't the distinction I was making. A law is a positive statement. An argument of what should be lawful, or an interpretation of a law, is of course normative. But I already said that in this thread.

By the "letter of the law" (section 9(4)(a) of the SEC act and existing case law), stock manipulation involves promulgating outright falsehoods. Case law shows us that exemplary falsehoods have to be categorically untrue; a biased presentation of something that is true does not pass the bar. Being that there is a vulnerability here, the material we have to go on does not paint a favorable outlook on the researchers being indicted. Activist investors routinely present facts to the media with a clear agenda, but the SEC virtually never prosecutes them if there is an inarguable, material kernel of truth to their allegations. There's a vulnerability here. Reasonable people can disagree on the severity of the vulnerability and how it should have been disclosed. But it's not fraud.

> how does acting completely unethically yet entirely within the law for malicious purposes fit into your framework?

Your question has a presupposition; if the security researchers traded on their knowledge of this vulnerability, I find that to be neither unethical nor illegal stock manipulation.
> the real thing that i'm puzzled by with blue vision is how they're registering against ARKit descriptors (if they are at all) since apple doesn't expose them in the ARKit api (only the point cloud itself). ARCore used to expose them (https://stackoverflow.com/a/29012790) but i don't think it does anymore. they must be doing the registration because they only support devices that are running ARKit/ARCore (and without it they would just have built a SLAM system - albeit backed by an "arcloud" - that sits beside ARKit/ARCore and would most likely be inferior).

I have had a look at their API documentation, and what they do is they provide you with an anchor, and that's where you attach your SCNode-s. They use the built-in ORB-SLAM to position your SCNodes, but these are all relative to the main anchor, hence achieving stability and persistence.
Stephen Hawking’s last Reddit comments
Researching Psilocybin's Effects on Depression – Dr. Rosalind Watts
Fair but she might be a clueless rube who got played...
It's amazing to me how recent these developments are, e.g. that people in Europe looked completely different just 10000 years ago, or that just 40000 years ago a different humanoid species (Neanderthals) existed...
What would a magnet link be considered?
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“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”
That's really my question too. I can guess that if you are say the ceo with a golden parachute agreement if your company is bought out, then you want to 'sell' into this, cause you win, and you leave. But it's terrible for shareholders (eventual ones at least) and for employees, and I don't know if I've ever used this phrase, but it's terrible for the world, for my country.
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I'll worry when Chinese universities surpass America's in all fields - not just STEM, but in the arts and humanities as well.

Until then, America will be the leader of technological progress.

Given that, it may be entirely possible for conservatives to destroy America's institutions of higher learning, if they had their way. We need to be proactive in protecting our universities in the face of constant attacks by the backwards conservatives that seek to regress society.

The conservative goal is to transform our economy into mindless workers that sell things they find on the ground, instead of creating an economy of engineers, designers, artists, and other free thinkers.

American universities are the central identity of America. You destroy the universities, you destroy the country.
A Steve Jobs-like ability to live in her own reality distortion field, plus much of the salesmanship, but minus Steve's very acute (not perfect) sense of what currently impossible problems were on the cusp of being solved, creating future practical products.

There were two companies that I simply couldn't understand, at all, from media reports in the last couple decades. One was Enron, 'tother Theranos. Turned out there was a reason why.
Journalists cannot keep profiling the rise of the Chinese tech industry or its supposed move from "imitation to innovation” without focusing on how Chinese companies are entirely protected from foreign competition in their domestic market and that the Chinese government is forcing foreign companies wanting to do business there to share intellectual property with Chinese competitors.

The fact that none of that triggered WTO action points to just how broken that organization is.
Makes me think of what3words.com

edit: why they're taking a novel approach: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
> However, HQ2 will create an enormous "supply chain pull" on every aspect of government, and those costs are impossible to accurately assess.

Rather than trying to account for the supply chain pull as you noted, I wish cities and states would standardize upon an open source formatting and presentation of the data in their accounting systems. Many competing analyses of costs to various jurisdictions can then arise from private citizens and organizations, and then we can pit them against each other historically to converge upon a small set of models that are consistently predictive. We can even then gather insightful analyses from weaving together accounting and GIS datasets, for example, that weren't possible before without creating entire new bureaucracies.

With more accurate cost management accounting models, we can then more reliably challenge organizations petitioning for specific tax concessions: we can reasonably accurately model the influx of X thousand employees to have $Y impact upon the cost accounting structure over Z years. NPV of that cost is $N. If spread out over F forecasted years of the concession you are proposing, at equivalent long-term bond rate of your corporation of P% at your longest-projected credit quality, then that comes to $T total cost to the jurisdiction over the time period.

Then the per-employee per-$10,000 wage-adjusted cost burden to the jurisdiction on a per-unit basis becomes a calculated, known amount. Tilt the unit measure towards favoring lots of employees at moderate wages instead of a few employees at extremely high wages to incentivize high monetary velocity in the local economy, lest the extremely high wages of a few employees get translated away into capital gains-structured instruments. Compare that to existing employment data, and you know if the jurisdiction is over-paying or not for the concessions. And now the jurisdictions have a metric against which to demand a surety bond: with any future adjustments to wage and/or employee count, if it falls below a certain threshhold, the jurisdiction can collect upon a proportional amount in the surety bond for non-performance. Benefits dollars don't count, because the jurisdiction is only interested in the localized monetary velocity impact upon the localized economy that comes from wages.
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It's unfortunate that their front page has broken layout.

"Madoko = LATEX x Markd"
I'm not sure about this particular situation, but I was helping a finance friend with some risk modeling a few years back and realized that a significant portion of these high-risk loans are basically a game of hot potato.

Everyone knows the loan will not be repaid in full, so people hold the loan for a short window in order to collect that juicy interest payments, then sell it to the next sucker whose spread sheets convince them that they aren't going to be the one left holding the bag.
I'm specifically disagreeing with the usage of the term "patsy", which implies that she's not morally complicit on grounds of naivete.
And, who are the, apparent, idiots who invest in these companies during the IPO?
"I conclude that appearance/aesthetics is the dominant reason for widespread adoption of LaTeX". I fully disagree. IMHO, the dominant reason is that Microsoft word has been a nighmare for scientific documents. The different generations of equation editors were buggy and incompatible. You can not edit an old document using a recent version of word. You can not exchange documents with people using a different version of word. For most people, when you can not use word, the only choice for scientific documents is LaTeX.

Even if recent versions of word are less buggy, people will migrate slowly.
I get to see literally four lines of this article at a time, sandwiched between the largest fixed header and footer I have ever seen on a website.

One day somebody will figure out how to make those things overlap, and they won't have to write any content anymore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leedroid.s...

In anyone was wondering how to quick toggle grayscale on android. I came across a couple of articles on breaking phone addiction by using a grayscale filter awhile back, but couldn't figure out how to toggle it quickly in Android. This app (not affiliated) is able to after granting secure settings permission via ADB. Pretty happy so far.
This basketball-playing robot is coming for you, Steph Curry
This reminds me of the 90s tech bubble when companies would spend 6+ figures on a name and fumble the execution. If Android Wear had good products nobody would think there’s anything wrong with the name.
How would ars know what Qualcomm is or isn't doing? Last I checked they were not in the habit of taking out billboards announcing their current in progress parts and product roadmap. Or did I miss a radical shift in their marketing strategy?
After using a MBP 2011 17" during 4 years I returned to Windows because I never got used to macOS.
I love the myriad of apps in Windows and since I love gaming (both play and develop) Windows is the platform to go.

Back in 2015 I bought an MSI GS60 2PC GHOST and it worked great, but the build quality wasn't that great. The aluminum case wasn't that good comparing to a MBP and the rubber feet unglued quickly. Since I needed Linux for app development, I installed a VM. After WSL was launched I was in heaven.

I used it for 2 years without any major issue and a year ago I bought another MSI, an GS73VR 7RF Stealth Pro and the build quality was improved for sure. After a year the rubber feet are still there and the aluminum case is great. I haven't had any issue with it. I love it and my next one will be an MSI again.

I upgraded the RAM to 32GB and changed the secondary HDD to a 512GB SSD drive, since I hate turning off the computer every day, and I burnt 3 HDD drives this way xD
You forgot about WTO approval.
Funny, your comment is self referencing
Can you please verify your contract on etherscan.io. It makes it clear that the code is what you say it is and people can interact with your smart contract too.

https://etherscan.io/verifyContract2?a=0x100cc2fa0ea14bf9b07...
However many you're willing to give, thats the point.
Awesome, much appreciated!
It should (depending on how they implement it), as long as the software is re-modified to run the original way on only this platform and later. The performance degradation at least would move into hardware instead of software.
Are we surprised? Apple is not a software company, and has never been good at it. Apple is a design company, they make pretty things. Their hardware and software looks pretty. They figured out how to make their hardware robust. Their software not so much so.
But then you've got stuff like Skywind, who are painstakingly recreating Morrowind from scratch in the Skyrim world builder, from terrain to new 3d models to music...

Individually, building one thing from scratch should be clear from a copyright perspective. Trying to port the whole game from scratch though (rather than an end-user datafile conversion tool) feels like it's destined to failure.
I don't think there's an agreed upon explanation for why ice melts so easily when it's compressed, but I may be misremembering.
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But I don't think they are going to be next Silicon Valley soon. Their wages are skyrocketing now. Average salaries of engineers in Beijing is around $50k now. (Maybe Shanghai be similar?) This might hold them back in my opinion.
> However I see that the reach of the videos is very low compared to a blog post

That's the reason why in my other comment, the data screencast I created was made in addition to a blog post, where the blog post and the video explicitly link to each other as cross-promotion.

That does extend production time significantly though.