skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good candidate for Betteridge's Law.
Release the Wu Tang...
And wear seatbelts, by the same standard.
That is my favorite analogy too. Easily the closest Western approximation.
Would they be publicly resolvable? And even if they are, how would you find the name? Wouldn't a lot of these machines be internal infrastructure of various companies?
Check out PTC Thingworx Studio. Many industrial companies are pursuing similar technologies - AR to visualize data streaming off machines in a factory or industrial setting
Making those two companies employee-owned would do absolutely nothing to spur innovation. Changing who gets the profits doesn't change the fact that a lock on the market means the best strategy is to coast on your existing products.
I think it's commonly used to cut other drugs (coke), so I don't think that argument would go far.
How is insurance handled for airlines/planes if there is a problem with autopilot?
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

- W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)

In the multiverse I'm supremely happy that I've ended up in one where Bach both existed and created tremendous amounts of music. You can spend a lifetime exploring his oeuvre and find entire corners of delight.

I'm reminded of this thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7720708

Despite appearances to the contrary, I find that one of the powerful things about Bach's work is how it is almost a kind of "abstract" auditory form that just happens to be performed on instruments. What I mean is that many of his pieces can be performed equally well on just about any combination of instruments or voice and still be beautiful. It's not always true, but there's a strange density of his music that seems like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkPaGnKb5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvwM07BYvg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRj-T4l-e8

Some favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8&t=353s (BWV 1048 III Allegro)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWlfmepsUuQ (BWV 1049) - the reason why the Recorder has value as an instrument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4kWmxpZGs (BWV 1060) - Every note the Oboe plays is made out of magic and delight here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexJQ8VWJfY (BWV 1051) - Even Violas can be beautiful, and this is one of the most incredible pieces of music in all of music.

I think the next composer to have captured my attention has been Steve Reich. And for entirely different reasons. I can take or leave his earliest highly experimental works. But when he came into full form later on he created majesty. Some of this music feel like being inside the engines of creation. You'll find his fingerprints all over modern music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Np9yApXD94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMsYuFrKUQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZelvSvh3A
Perhaps attempting to emulate Uber's dangerous pace of avoiding laws, yet getting enough funding to not care?
Fighting the tyranny of probability distributions makes sense for orthogonal properties, but it's utterly nonsensical when the straightforward purpose of this forum is to facilitate discussion between technologists.
Good god, it wasn’t meant to be LITERALLY 99/100, and anyone who reads it that way has some serious textual interpretation problems.
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What certificate error? Neither https://openpgpjs.org nor the link here have a certificate error for me. Maybe you are being MITMed...
People building automated vehicle algorithms must have their hands full, I can't even begin to think how you'd wrangle the amount of noise that exists in the real world. Then you have to imagine all the ways that a system can be exploited in the ways that it's supposed to function. How does it handle a road side advertisement with a stop sign? A cardboard cutout of a person next to the side of the road? All the reflective materials and their individual properties? I know a lot of it is radar related so it's not just image processing, but I can imagine a lot of ways that could be fooled and go wrong as well.
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No, Uber says it's profitable in the US. Also, the two products aren't really interchangeable because the main reason I use Uber/Lyft is that they fix the scamming nature of cabs (lying about broken credit card reader, inefficient routes, etc).
> No, in the United States they're generally passed on to the insured's employer.

Who takes them out of the total amount they are willing to pay for labor, so it still comes from the insured.
Ultimately there does have to be someone (or some small group) where 'the buck stops'. That's who assigns the other tasks, or at least spawns them and sets default ownership + deadline. (So that the tagged individual can either produce a good alternative, or at least why they're not a good fit.)
So, that's a conclusion but no reasoning behind it, therefore it's impossible to evaluate critically.
Chill, even his lawyer wants to punch him in the face.

http://time.com/5193461/martin-shkreli-lawyer-punch-face/
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What workloads do you prefer pubsub over nats and vice versa?
Depends what qualifies as a quantum computer. It is questionable whether current 'quantum computers' deserve the name.
loving the analogy
The nanny states of Australia and New Zealand are the only two places on earth where that's the case, IMO. Australia even censored a tourism advertisement because it showed someone riding a bicycle without a helmet.

You'd fit right in.
I tried to evaluate it last month. Their login page does some kind of cross-site cookieing or referering that my privacy settings don't permit. Any time I log in, I get a warning that someone's been trying to brute force my account and it's been locked for 24 hours.

Support was useless. I was repeatedly asked if the IP address I gave them was public or private, when they should've had training or tooling to know at a glance. The help system closes tickets aggressively, ignores replies, and the link to keep a ticket open just leads to a knowledge base. Eventually support agreed to take a curl that reliably reproduces their bug, but I got no tracking number or even a vague promise they'd get back to me when it's fixed.

I concluded that if the product was broken and support was broken, there's probably something upstream in the business that's broken and I am not confident I'd be able to restore data.
Yes. Adobe in particular will accept a ton of crap
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Hi. I've traveled worldwide for many months/years at a time, so I'm directly in your target market.

What makes your service better than this policy that I've used before? https://www.insuremytrip.com/travel-insurance-providers/inte...

[edit] Or this policy, which looks like it might be the same policy that you're providing? https://www.insuremytrip.com/travel-insurance-providers/hcc-...

The price looks about the same (~$500/yr) for similar coverage options, and I've used them before so I know that they did things like automatically email me a copy of the letter declaring coverage terms needed for stay in the Schengen Area (Btw, if you don't do that, you definitely should). Their maximum policy length is a year but I know from experience that you can easily renew for another year after expiry if you need longer.

[edit] I found your policy links, but I completely missed them at first because of the tiny buried text. Can you make them bigger and not buried so far down?
Unless they received military assurances. There were a lot of DoD / armed forces mentions in the article...

Edit: And now that I think about it... you'd imagine the minimum tracking size of the US radars would be fairly classified. And likely something not bandied about the FCC in detail.
I don't think narcotics should be illegal, but law enforcement definitely does go after child exploitation and sex trafficking on the darknet as well. The FBI (very justifiably) burned at least two different NSA-developed exploits to identify people on child sex abuse websites.
This could be a milestone which accelerated the process for updating space laws to govern commercial launches to space without compromising the right to do so and without jeopardizing the safety. It must be the role of consulting company in US to ensure that the satellites which were on-boarded adhered to the FCC protocols, as for Antrix Ltd (commerical arm of ISRO) which likely communicated with the consulting company; it didn't have the need to do so. In-fact that particular launch PSLV-C40 included defence payload (Carbonite-2) from RAF as well, so unless the international space laws dictate specific terms to launching agencies like United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) for our oceans; these are bound to happen.
> The deployment and the validation should be trivial if the fix is trivial.

Trivial. That's what Oculus said.
> I've spent a lot of time around lawyers and judges and I can tell you they have absolutely no tolerance for the kind of "well, actually" smart-asses that the tech community excels at churning out.

It sounds like the smart-asses' only mistake is thinking that the same clever lawyering that protects the rich and powerful will work for them as well. The guys who put a keylogger in pirated software were in the wrong, but after seeing Sony do basically the same thing and get away with it[1], I can see how they might think that courts will give you a free pass if you come up with some loophole or something.

Martin Shkreli, like the rest of us, has no-doubt seen the rich and powerful flout the law and walk away clean after invoking some ridiculous legalism. Then he got rich, and figured he could do the same. Turns out that he's either not rich enough yet, or power flows from something other than money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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Don't forget about reddit which has also become a popular destination for drug trade. It's actually pretty surprising when you realize the same site everyone uses for funny memes and arguing about politics is also a go-to for illegal drug trade.
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I just don't understand how people don't steal these and hack them. If it was my company that would be my biggest concern. And I know it has GPS, but they can be turned off.
I think everyone who visualizes laser beams, light rays, etc. forgets to set the no_shadow property at first, and then chuckles upon seeing the result.
>you probably should not do your PGP-encryption server-side

PGP-encryption server-side is meaningless, even if it was done client side, there's a MITM. Eve can replace public keys (though at the risk of exposing her MITM if people are double checking their own public keys listed on the site against their client side public keys)

>They tweaked a feature designed to automatically encrypt messages with users' PGP keys, so that it secretly logged each message's full text before encrypting it

Unless this is Wired's way of saying a MITM as described above.
Even an unknown engineers blog about Grab would be relevant in a post about (get this) Grab acquiring Uber SEA.

Sounds like you just don't like Steve Yegge.. regardless of your opinion of him, its certainly not irrelevant to point to his post. Go away.
To be fair, he runs a legal startup (legalist) so he has more experience than the average Joe.
Not everyone shares that definition of a free market, but fair enough.
long live bikers!
Foxconn's working conditions are bad, but have been highly overstated. They employ 1.3 million people. The suicide rate among their workers is actually lower than the average. It's also not surprising that among 1.3 million people, some workers may get into fights.

Of course, that doesn't justify child labor.
Yeah, I recall reading about one that had something to do with watchmen in London/Britain during WWII being able to spot German fighters in the air...? The best way they found to train them was to simply have them watch experienced ones do it for some period of time.
ha me too, had to read a third time to see what the typo was.
Inspired by animated Robin Hood?
Thanks! I couldn't figure out that I need to look into jni. Not familiar with Android infrastructure, my bad.
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In the past, I've used Cigna Global to provide full medical insurance to me anywhere on earth. This isn't travel insurance, it's actually full expat health cover. If I'm in Hong Kong and I need a checkup, they'll cover that. If I'm in France and I need to get my teeth cleaned, that's covered too. They even have direct billing relationships with many providers because they're Cigna. Preventative is fully covered. https://www.cignaglobal.com
In the late 1990s you weren't a real CS grad student unless you wrote some kind of tool for dealing with LaTex and apparently Sergey is no exception.
That's aweson OP. I can't imagine the number of times I've wished for something like this.

Coming from a grad student who hates writing equations in latex. I will probably try this out.
The lute suites are crazy. He didn't play the lute, modern guitars didn't exist when he wrote them, the pieces aren't playable on a guitar without some changes, they sound amazing, and they are brutal to even approximate. He wrote many-voiced ("polyphonic") music for an instrument played by beating two hands on six strings. Not content with that, he wrote fugues for the same instrument, which are polyphonic music that obeys a lot of rules.

Take the time to learn the rules of fugues, then try to understand one of Bach's.
>See his videos. You wouldn't stand a chance debating him unless you were a lawyer or pharmaceutical exec.

I have. He's seemingly a intelligent guy with some personality issues that have gotten him into trouble. I hope he takes time during his sentence to seek help because he seemingly has more to offer the world than trolling and unethical professional behavior.

Beside that, I don't care about Shkreli himself or the silly trolling (Wu Tang, Hillary Hair, etc). I have a fascination with fan club that feels the need to hand wave his behavior every time their is a discussion about him.

Yes, it's awful that we forgot about the pharmaceutical industry's price gouging schemes.

Yes, it's awful that people get away with worse financial crimes than Shkreli has been convicted of.

Yes, there are much worse people in the world than this small-time pharma player turned troll/media sensation.

None of that excuses the fact that he committed fraud and the handwaving of his behavior doesn't do anything to highlight the other injustices.

People that defend him may think that they are being profound by sticking up for him and possibly highlighting injustice. In reality, they appear to be diminishing the seriousness of unethical behavior and justifying self-indulgent and childish behavior.
It may not be Instagram-level successful, but BigScreen really impressed me. Sitting on a virtual balcony, overlooking a huge city while having multiple desktops scaled to different sizes showed me the direction that productive desktops will be heading in the next 10-15 years. I can see myself developing software in VR using virtual monitors rather than in my office with real monitors in the mid-term future.

The #1 problem with this vision is the resolution of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. I haven't tried the HTC Vive Pro yet, but I'd say it's got to be about twice the resolution of the HTC Vive before I'll be able to actually use BigScreen the way it's meant to be used.

Once that happens, all bets are off.
They probably don't care about the cost, it's the precedent they're trying to block or overturn. And I don't see how even the appeal can stand against further appeals (or whatever they do next to protest what they consider an invalid ruling).
My friend started a company that sells high pH water for cleaning/disinfecting. https://phurwater.com/science/
I'd be very surprised if the fentanyl (or its analogues) in cocaine is deliberate (unless the goal is to harm users, which seems unlikely) - they are very different drugs. It's used more to be passed off as other opiates, because it's much cheaper and its potency makes it much easier to smuggle (carfentanyl being approximate 5000 times more potent than heroin). I'd suspect that the fentanyl in cocaine is coming from cross-contamination - lethal doses of carfentanyl are measured in micrograms, so anything less than perfect cleaning of equipment used to process both drugs could result in a fatality.
I don't understand the mindset of not wearing a helmet riding an electric vehicle at 15mph on a city street.

The chances of head & face trauma are substantially reduced, and the chance of a fatal injury reduced by almost 70% w/a helmet on.

I think that Bird's "we'll send you a free helmet" is a cute way to get around criticism & liability.

But given the clear market demand for bird and bike-sharing, I would love to see an entrepreneur really nail the "portable bike helmet" category or figure out a non-gross way to share helmets with strangers.

There are a few options on the market today that show people are thinking this problem through, but what else could be built besides a foldable / more portable solution?

https://www.ecohelmet.com

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fendhelmet/fend-the-col...

https://www.morpherhelmet.com

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/22/bicycle...
Not wanting to be stupid (ok.. losing battle) but what exactly are these huge expedia rewards? I've done quite a lot of travel and booking through them, and frankly, I am unsure what benefit I've got from it.
I remember trying to explain what was so cool about HyperCard when it first came out to non-nerds... and then having deja vu years later when I was trying to explain the internet, particularly since a lot of what I was saying about the net was so similar to what I'd said about HyperCard :-).

Lots of interesting similarities to the two.
Mixing cocaine and heroin is not all that uncommon. Sounds like a variant of a speedball:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug)
Anyone can join. There is no requirement that you be a particular demographic.
He was offered and declined a plea bargain that would’ve given him the minimum sentence of three years:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/10/reiser_rejected_vol...

The guy’s a delusional moron…

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Time_in_prison

“In July 2012, a jury awarded Reiser's children $60 million against their father for the death of Nina Reiser. Reiser acted as his own attorney during the trial and tried to argue that he killed his wife to protect their children.”

It’s unclear that a parole board will find him to be a very sympathetic character.
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Wait, you mean they put asphalt on the roads!?!?! More and more I see this step skipped and concrete cross-cut every 50 feet or whatever. Guess where the potholes form...
OJ is an interesting example, as his sentence for armed robbery was considered extreme compared to the facts of his case, and influenced by the fact he away with murder.

I think it’s troubling that judges have the ability to hand down sentences far above some established norm, even if those sentences are legal.
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Did you meant _aren't _ all the same? They're certainly similar, and fentanyl will satisfy the cravings of those addicted to other opiates, but compared to heroin/diacetylmorphine has a shorter duration of action and reportedly less euphoric/more sedative effects.
I didn’t downvote, however I would say that 25 mph speed limit is definitely compatible with street legal. Cyclist commuters hardly reach that speed. It’s faster than traffic in a congested city. And based on the look of those scooters, I have a hard time believing they’d even be stable above 25 mph.

It sounds to me the regulations may be more intended to restrict the speed of things that look like bicycles or mopeds, and probably won’t affect these scooters at all. Look at how small those wheels are.
I got a certificate error as well. This site hasn't had its certification for 132 days. I thought the whole link was a super meta joke/test. It does look cool though. Thanks for posting.
I would assume as to the matter of regulatory precedence or domain, that if you're broadcasting radio within US airspace, then by definition you are subject to FCC licensing requirements.
a "matte black" spacecraft would get very very hot, too hot for most electronics and be detectable with an IR camera. ion thrusters use significant power and would require a large and visible solar array. misty would be technically possible but a motivated adversary would probably be able to find it. stealth spacecraft are difficult.
Does this stop the invasive tracking? If not then no thanks (actually even then no thanks).
Capon is tasty though.
Wow.

Thanks heaps for that. I had no idea.

What do you think of the new wave of fusion companies? Do you think they will get somewhere?

There is a subreddit for fusion. reddit/r/fusion.

Would you be interested in answering questions, doing a sort of AMA there?
I researched this a few years ago for a law class. I remember the number was around 15,000[1].

> In such an non-clear cut case, I would suggest letting people decide for themselves,

I think it's pretty clear-cut in the case of seat-belts and helmets. Paternalistic laws do work.

[1] http://www.youthforroadsafety.org/news-blog/news-blog-item/t...
I thought the point was that we should look at IQ in determining punishment and risk of recidivism. Which is a deeply misguided idea.
> Assignments should be structured to illustrate the concepts and encourage reaching a bit past what was taught.

I think this is the root problem. The structure never seemed right. It didn't assist with learning as it was never the appropriate topics at the appropriate time. Once you get away from college learning is so much easier as you are not dependent on the linear timeline set out by someone else. And because you're actually learning, which is one of the most pleasurable things going, you are excited to keep reaching for more. College fosters none of that.

I understand that learning on your own time is part of the package, but the problem, which I may not have effectively communicated, is that you are still left learning the 'wrong way' as you still have to stick with the course requirements while also trying to learn the 'right way' because that is the only way you are going to learn anything at all. As it is, two hours of lecture is two hours that could have been spent actually learning instead of wasting time.

If you are smart, I am sure that none of this is a problem and the structure of the courses are most likely to your benefit. But for someone who is stupid like me, it just doesn't work. Literally everyone can learn. Not everyone is smart.
The sigmoid approximation is nice, but not 100% necessary (I don't know the cost of doing sigmoid in GPU but I suspect the modern ones by nvidia probably have some way of doing it relatively fast) - note that sigmoid and tanh are still used in GRUs and LSTMs. And sigmoid, tanh, and their derivatives all have approximative shortcuts in posits.

There is a single critical step in training which I find gets stuck in early phases of learning due to accumulation issues (I solved it by expanding to 16 bits during this phase, which should be "on-chip"). It's nice to see another method to do the same! I suspect that batch normalization (which seems similar to what HALP is) after each step will also help.
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It's that the roadway itself has a posted speed limit of 25mph or less, or has bicycle lanes. That's not common.

So, for example, a roadway with a posted 30mph limit, and no bike lanes...the scooters are not legal in that case.