skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A six year old child is going to notice that your grammar is poor, you don't get the jokes, and that you can't tell the commercials from the TV shows. That child will notice the illogical puffery of insisting that one is always right

This brought up some painful memories for me because I remember thinking like this when I was younger. My mom called me out once as a kid for assuming she was less intelligent or incorrect just because of her accent. At the time I thought she was just trying to win the argument, but now with the perspective given by time and by talking to others I see that she was right.

I think you are coming from the right place but that you are trying to place blame on parents essentially for failing to “fit in” as much as for being strict. When we say that parents “play into” claims that they are being less human, I think that we are taking part in making that the unfortunate reality.
I don't think freedom speech and general purpose computing are separable issues. Code is speech; arguably the most important form as we merge with our creations.
I’m not singling out Democrats here. Both sides do it pretty much all the time.
Conversational Design
The thing is if you have LIDAR and video you can create video only models using the LIDAR data to use to teach the video models.
I guess that's true based on your definition of "trustless". But I wouldn't consider a network where as a practical matter I have to rely on a small number of centralized servers for validation "trustless".
My original point is that capitalism has to operate on equal footing with the state if it is to thrive, otherwise it will be subsumed into the state at the convenience of said state.

> So by virtue of being English/Dutch descended they have a better system.

Sure. Systems persist through generations. You can still see remnants of the old French colonial government in Louisiana to this day. I don't understand why this should be a controversial statement. The British attitude towards commerce evolved over hundreds of years, and their colonies inherited it.

> How is France "uniquely vulnerable to fascism?

A poor choice of words, sorry. They're 'particularly vulnerable', not 'uniquely vulnerable'.

> How do you think that having a response to monopolies enshrined in law makes it a "bedrock feature" of our society when the US has seemingly abandoned any serious enforcement of antitrust law?

When it comes to very very large institutions with difficult-to-check amounts of power, then ordinary law fails to provide for one side. The antitrust regime in particular was fighting against Standard Oil, a conglomerate that deployed the sharpest legal minds in existence at that time to circumvent federal regulation. It was checked by Teddy Roosevelt, who led the charge to disrupt their operations so they could be brought back under state supervision.

Where law fails, individuals and/or mobs take over. The ability of those corrective agents to actually check power is the operative concept here.

As another example, the Magna Carta was rammed down the throat of the British Crown by the aristocracy, which was tired of seeing their concerns meddled with by the Crown for no good reason they could see. A full-on war had to be fought between the baronies and the Crown before the Carta could be accepted as a legitimate check on authority.

When making a power play, you're changing who gets to write the rules. The mark of a functioning society is when royals, elites and commoners can square off against each other without igniting a war. If they can't do that, then one swallows the other, usually the state consuming private enterprise.

Only robust national institutions can maintain the balance of power between entities. After the Carta was passed, the actual text of the charter quickly became obsolete, but the ideas that it represented, that the Crown cannot just do whatever it wants, became enshrined in the minds of the British. Without this innovation, private enterprise cannot flourish, except in a trickle-down fashion from the state. It's not really private anymore, it's 'at the pleasure of the state.'

My argument is that only the Anglosphere and the Dutch managed to evolve this institutions throughout history, in slightly different ways, and that all other countries try to ape the institutions, and fail to create robust ones. Because it goes farther than merely having a judiciary and constitution. The public themselves has to buy into the system, which is what makes the French public so scary to its lawmakers.
Perhaps scale is part of the problem?
1. Packages dropping on your head and potentially killing you

2. Wasteful packaging ("airbags") that will undoubtedly end up in a landfill

3. Noisy drones flying around the sky introducing more noise pollution than what we already deal with in urban and suburban areas

Some ideas deserve to die.
The data about human drivers already accounts for drunk drivers.

The real question is whether self-driving cars would be less dangerous than human drivers. I don't think the data so far has been convincing, to put it mildly.

As far as I understand, the 5 million miles driven by Waymo were mostly under human supervision, so it does not tell us a lot on how safe those cars really are.
Institutional investors who need to place large sums of money without causing market shocks. Usually the company is much healthier on paper after the LBO; and to be fair some companies actually do turn it around and they end up being bargains. But a good number get caught in what I call the “PE Death Spiral” where they go through multiple rounds of LBOs and IPOs at a valuation growing right around inflation.

Yet every time they IPO their debt rating gets worse because they’re carrying more legacy debt, until finally it’s so laden no bank will fund another buyout, so there’s a fire sale on remaining assets and the company closes.
I am sure there are people on here way more knowledgeable than myself and can give some very detailed tactics. Yet from my perspective it really boils down to the following:

1. Easiest way to avoid dilution it is to not take any VC money.

2. If you have to take it to grow and you are profitable with a strong history of growth then you are in the drivers seat and can negotiate better terms.

Other than that you will generally get diluted down for every round of funding you due outside of a small seed round.
There's an opportunity here to do better than human drivers too. An autonomous car will always acknowledge you, and the display for that could be put outside the car, in a way that the pedestrian always sees it. You're not always able to see the face of a human driver, depending on the light conditions.
My dad fixed those for a living. They really were great tech.
If you want to get better at solving programming problems I would consider

https://projecteuler.net/archives

If you want to get better at problem solving in general I would recommend a few books

How to Solve it by Polya

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Weinberg
That only works if your entire program is in one currency, and you don't use any non-currency integers in your program . The OP is talking about currency conversion and type-safety.
I would point you towards the "Immigration Act of 1990", which created a number of ways for highly skilled workers to immigrate to the US.

Before that, a lot of the US immigration was based on family reunification.
How AR Can Boost a Retail App Experience
Disagree. The data available has Waymo well ahead and continues to increase the gap.
I'm thinking about going with Clojure for a POC. Anyone using Clojure?
> POSIX doesn't say anything about an ABI, and there's nothing holding the system as a whole to a C-based API. It's specifying C compatibility, of course it's talking about a C API! If you want a different language API, POSIX (1003.1) isn't relevant to you.

(Double-replied because I wanted to separate this bit out.)

Effectively, it seems you're saying: "Ok, you don't want to implement a C API"[1], well, jolly good luck to you, then. The premise of this whole conversation was that POSIX was a dominating force, and now you're saying you don't have to participate...?

[1] A C API, obviously, requires an extreme amount of either 1) being C, or 2) being compatible enough with C that it doesn't matter either way, or 3) giving up entirely on the POSIX ecosystem.
So... how is that not being absurdly badly influenced by POSIX?
Neocon Cyber BS :|
Flexible issue management with Trello and IFTTT
FYI, OpenCensus doesn't lock you in to a specific provider, rather it includes its own tracing implementation and exports traces back to your provider of choice
Has the article been updated? I used google translate on it and the last line is

>According to him, the accident is not caused by the autopilot system, with which the car can be controlled without the help of a person. "This system was not in this car."

Seems this is just a regular crash caused by a regular driver in a regular car.
IBM is a horrible vendor, but the author is obviously clueless about the levels of incompetence, irresponsibility and indecisiveness of the stakeholders on client side for this kind of projects. All governmens should simply always pick the cheapest vendor because 90% of their projects fail regardless of who the implementers are
That's a non-answer answer.

It doesn't say there will be no degradation. Only that that might be minimised.
Notes:

This finds and displays a quadratic strange attractor in three dimensions. The Z dimension is used to choose a color by mapping to hue.

The search button will find different attractors, the code makes some effort to ensure that it finds "interesting" parameters.

Increasing the density will make the image clearer at the expense of compute time.

View in 3D will show the same parameters as a particle cloud.
What’s so great about this article is the nuance. It doesn’t deny the existence of economic refugees, nor the reality of war refugees. It also grapples with the morality of even making such a distinction: why should someone in danger of torture have more rights than someone in danger of starvation? Your comment is sorely lacking such nuance, and making indefensible claims.

As for your supposed data: sending able-bodied men ahead, while women and children remain in refugee camps along the way (or die) is independent of the reason for leaving their respective countries.

And the many refugee camps all the way from Syria to Germany, in Turkey, Greece, and Hungary, are quite obviously proof that many Syrians fled.
The BLS does indeed provide that data. The total number of multiple job holders is at 8.1 million, representing 5.2% of the total persons employed. As a percentage that's approximately where it was in 2006-2007 before the great recession. The peak during the great recession period was around 5.5%.

That figure has climbed slightly year over year, from 7.980 million to 8.130 million. That might imply slight stress in the labor market, in terms of cost vs wages, but nothing significant yet. It also might indicate there are some good paying side jobs that have become available due to the labor scarcity and people are snapping them up to improve their financial situation. The coming year will be interesting, as to whether the much anticipated wage growth finally shows up, or whether we're trapped in a Japan debt box of perpetual low inflation and low wage growth despite very low unemployment.
PS: When I do need to type notes (often when working with others and want to record decisions), I usually use org-mode, which is pretty much de riguer because I spend most of my time in emacs.
I feel like stuff like this is why golang was created.

Or more properly, why Rust was created.

I've grudgingly used C++ on some projects because of other constraints such as the target platform. Due to the compiler version, we're stuck on C++11, which is... OK. But keeping straight what we can use, and what we can't, and which kinds of pointers we should be using when is a considerable burden.

Still working through "Effective Modern C++" while learning the ins and outs of it in general.
Sounds like the system is set up in such a way as to deliver a under-performing product. Especially if it optimizes for "lowest cost per rated point". Quality things require significant investment.

No wonder IBM has to go get developers outside of the US/CA/AU if they were the lowest bid.

Now it all fits together. Whenever i go to my states web services and they look odd. I now know why. That is changing though.
Exactly and with ride sharing services is how it will happen incrementally.
And that's why I use umatrix with everything off by default, and then I use ublock to filter out all of the other elements aside from the body of the page.

It's sad that removing the webdesigner's control is making the web readable again.
How many page views do Yelp.com (and other popular websites) get in a month?
Elon Musk could easily be wrong. Has been wrong multiple times in the past.

But one of Elon Musk's most underrated traits is his adaptability: if a genuinely better/cheaper technology becomes available or if the current picked solution just isn't working, he'll switch to the better option quickly.

For instance: SpaceX originally scoffed at the idea of vertical landing rockets, thinking that parachutes were just fine for recovery. They switched after parachutes failed and then Elon sent out a company-wide email of Masten Space Systems (at the time, not much more than some guys in a garage) doing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Yt5L5TlGM

It's not even that hard to change your mind like that. It's just that usually people don't do it because they invested so much emotionally/verbally/etc in telling people they had the "right" solution and don't want to lose face by changing course.
This is exactly how I feel. I also take a lot of notes in the margins, and I love to underline. There isn't a single electronic interface that allows me to do this efficiently. I don't like writing word documents either, unless I'm working on a big project that I'll have to edit a lot.

I also have a lot of books on the go and a huge backlist of things I'd like to read. The convenience of carrying around 100+ books in your pocket is so appealing so I experimented with using foxit reader to keep my PDFs and things on an iPad. I didn't read a single document all the way through because I literally had to also keep a notebook on me to write my comments in.
if they are comparing Airtable with Spreadsheet, why there is a constraint on # of records unlike spreadsheet(although Excel sheets are limited to 1.048m or so records per sheet but that's plenty I think to work with)? They do have another constraint for free account allowing only 2GB storage but then that alone should be enough and they should just allow adding as many rows as one can until one gets maxed out with this 2 GB storage.
Monarch butterfly numbers keep declining
Sounds like it was designed and built by software engineers!
Ask HN: An Ideal Online Tutorial?
There are so many different formats to teach something online from video to podcast, to online course, to blog post, to a gist.

What do you consider to be a great example of an online tutorial and why?
I don't think anyone claimed the _language_ was safe.
Not just a basic one either, it had syntax highlighting! I always thought that was a pretty involved and complex feature, but it's simplified and demystified here.
It's called "layout" in the article, and it's reasonably well represented.
Because right now you can't distribute the UXTO set in a trustless way. Core developers blocked it two years ago for nonsensical reasons [1], one of the many reasons the community doesn't trust them. Work has picked up on this in BCH [2].

[1] https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/03/10/#initial-bloc...

[2] https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/workgroups/blob/master/wg-...
Looks like somebody hired a software engineer instead of an actual engineer.
This has so much potential but I'm finding it near unusable right now. I use the Clojure REPL, so some of these issues might be unique to it.

0. No docs. There's plenty of odd and unexplained behavior that needs documenting - at least until stuff is less broken.
1. Can't eval single forms from editor. Whole files only.
2. Can't eval anything from files other than main.
3. Lots of delays and hangs. Very slow. Every eval takes multiple seconds. Some repl starts take 30 seconds.
4. Weird inconsistent behavior. Sometimes it will render function return values from editor eval to the repl, sometimes not.
5. Once you drop a new file, stuff breaks in strange ways. E.g. main.clj no longer seems connected to the user namespace.
6. Can't load other files, (load "other.clj") doesn't find it.

I could go on, but it's currently a mess from my perspective. I swear it used to work pretty well and now it's super broken. Any way I can log these issues and get them worked on?
I hesitate to expect it will have that exact effect, mainly because it will first be implemented in advertising. Unless it has to be said or humans learn the AI will be nicer to them for saying it, I would mostly expect this to be popularized by ad campaigns like this one.

Your fears are inevitabilities as long as AI is used for data mining people’s private lives and advertising, but the public will continue misfiring when they look for who to blame.
Congrats, this is very impressive! I'm curious are you computing the 2D or 3D pose of the person?
Spolsky's discussion of Excel is probably the best way to understand Airtable: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...

> Over the next two weeks we visited dozens of Excel customers, and did not see anyone using Excel to actually perform what you would call “calculations.” Almost all of them were using Excel because it was a convenient way to create a table.

> What was I talking about? Oh yeah… most people just used Excel to make lists. Suddenly we understood why Lotus Improv, which was this fancy futuristic spreadsheet that was going to make Excel obsolete, had failed completely: because it was great at calculations, but terrible at creating tables, and everyone was using Excel for tables, not calculations.

If you view it from the lens that most Excel users employ the spreadsheet to create lists and tables (data organization), then Airtable is one way to improve that workflow.
Is this really more efficient? A bunch of smaller drones making individual trips between a supply point and destination per package versus a truck loading up once to serve each area?
lat,lon doesn't have any precision attached to it. Also, you might be surprised how many times people get them reversed. Hey, even geojson encodes it as lon,lat.

Also easily normalizing (lat,lon)s isn't so straight forward.

And then there's subtleties when people are actually not using the WGS84 but a crs/datum one shifted a few tens of miles.

Sort of surprised that nobody compares this to geohash[0], though.

I hope that Google will be throwing its weight behind it (seems so for now) and proposes a rfc for this so we can stop bikeshedding about geo encoding standards.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
Plus they can text while driving safely as can do true multi tasking unlike humans.
Agreed, though it is possible to follow along using Google Maps with some difficulty. I actually enjoyed tracking it myself to be honest.

They started at Lake Athabasca, made up their way up Slave River to get to Great Slave Lake. Then they took the Mackenzie River through to the river delta at the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary. Garry Island is just past the delta.
This is true, but our bodies are made for the physical environment and our brains are "wired" around physical location and mapping. This quality is completely absent in e-readers, often resulting in less information retained, and books dropped due to unreadability.

If it works for you, that's cool. But I'll stick to the physical.
LN Dev: "We're 6 months away." Dec 14th, 2015

https://mobile.twitter.com/starkness/status/6765995708984197...

Something seems off with what LN claims is a p2p network, as the claim is they've created something better than BGP yet there's going to be many many race conditions if the network is ever actually used at scale and the only solution to those race conditions will be broadcasting updates to inform other nodes the route is inaccessible.. which will raise the bandwidth demand for anyone running nodes needing those updates.

https://youtu.be/Ug8NH67_EfE?t=635

For LN to claim to be p2p seems rather disingenuous, as everything about it is going to favor wealthy centralized payment processor hubs. What's the point than? Why not use venmo / stripe / square where there's less risk of scam for both consumer and retailer? Running a LN node will require a hot wallet with keys in memory, so if a Spectre/Meltdown style attack hits your node your key and funds are at greater risk of being stolen.

LN also opens up the ease of money laundering, so will all LN nodes need to keep KYC/AML logs for future audits?
U.S. says Russian hackers targeted American energy grid
There have been significant changes to the tax advantages corporate debt had with the recent tax changes. Not all of these types of deals make sense in the future.
If you don't trust PIA's or any VPN's clients, you can always use Openvpn clients directly, provided the vpn supports openvpn.
It's Slate https://github.com/lord/slate, which could use some updated docs, but it looks good
This won't be easy but cheaper entrants are possible. Take off the shelf components and put them together. Then rely on a human to do the more complex bits.

Take pg 7 of the draft guidelines: https://avatar.xprize.org/sites/default/files/ana_avatar_dra...

In the 'Vision' section it requires that the Avatar be able to track motion: "Can you correctly follow an object moving on the floor in front of you?"

The hard way to do this is to develop a vision system with neural nets to track relative motion of any object within the field of view. Objects need to be classified, identified and tracked. Further, the purpose of the object must be divined. That is extremely difficult.

But, if you allow for a wireless connection with a human in a suit and the human operator's brain is doing all of that work (the work a child does when catching a ball), then the challenge gets much much easier. Pass the data to the human (visual) in close enough to realtime so that the human can react while wearing a control suit. Then pass the control suit reactions back to the robot. The problem becomes one of data compression, latency in the system, UI/UX design on the human side of things, etc.

The point is, cheaper, less comprehensive systems could be built that could functionally complete the challenge and win the prize. And those systems could have immediate uses.

For example, what if I have elderly parents who have a robotic assistant at their home fulltime. Some tasks are easy to program (ex. changing a bedpan). But other tasks are much more difficult: a sponge bath to prevent bed sores. The robot could change the bedpan whenever it needed to automatically like a roomba doing the vacuuming. But when it needed to do the bath, it could call me up at home, I could put on my control suit, connect over the internet, and bath my parent from thousands of miles away. The complex 'thinking' and task management of the robot is handled in my brain.

But the basic business case is met: work can be done by a robot with a human 'guide' or 'pilot' at a distance.
I'm intrigued about the Sun Tzu history - could you expand a bit more?
Waymo has

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/googles-self-driving-car-no-ste...
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