skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the attempt to hold public and/or private vehicles accountable for these violations is laudable, I question how these problems truly get fixed. NYC is very densely populated, it has a lot of commercial transit, tourists, bikes, scooters, j-walkers, busses, Ubers, taxis, and getting these all to play nicely on the same road network seems beyond the current infrastructure and enforcement scheme. Obviously, many of the observed cases should be penalized, but some 100k annual violations in a city of over 10 million people, that's a drop in the bucket of violations.

In the long run, it seems to me that enforcement is not the solution as much as infrastructure, technology, and culture. Why not make major avenues/streets one-way and convert half the street into bike lanes, then remove bike lanes from other streets which are too narrow to allow cars/bikes/busses to move together well? Or, improve the subway infrastructure so that surface transit is less appealing by comparison. Or, create a system where we don't have public storage of privately owned vehicles in parking spots. How about the issue of vehicles that have 4 seats on average, but have <2 people in them in typical use. Buses are cheaper than trains to implement, however I've seen many massive buses often run completely empty, thus their capacity factor is definitely closer to 50% than the 100% that public transit afficionados would love to believe. Maybe we need more granularity in offering the right bus for the right job, which would be more energy and space efficient as well.

Given all these potential solutions, it remains to the rancorous and slow-moving world of representative government to play a massive role in these solutions. I can't foresee the problem getting substantially better any time soon via politics, but rather culture/technology will be a more nimble answer.
How did you manage before Amazon was a thing?
>Given that humans have largest brain with largest brain/body ratio and with good energy efficiency the opening scene from Matrix looks to me like racks of GPUs running distributed computation/simulation.

That was what the Matrix was originally supposed to be - the humans were wired into a neural network to bootstrap the AIs, but executives were afraid moviegoers wouldn't be smart enough to understand that, so they forced the change to "batteries."
Thanks but no thanks. The last thing I want for my Friday afternoon is to see a picture of an abused child or worse.
Humans-as-CPUs was the original plot of the Matrix IIRC, as pitched by the Wachowskis. The studio thought audiences would have a hard time understanding this, so they became D-cell batteries in the film instead.

Ahh, jinx!
No questions, I just wanted to say this is really cool seeing the data with analysis in its final form. I wish more articles included data like this.
How do you think they got this data? It appears more than just hidden wiki entries.
We're going to keep developing features that make tokens easier to use, especially at a larger scale. We'll charge for premium features later down the road, but those features aren't set in stone yet. We have a few things planned already, things like automated token distribution (without needing MetaMask) and smart contract integrations.
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Comment permission is granted after solving a quiz about article content.

The statement related to how NRKbeta isn't sure how ad-hoc quiz questions are best constructed, was vague.
I think a lot of the more complex stuff excel has historically been used for has appropriately migrated to better suited analytics and data analysis platforms.
Like every other country, they want a healthy economy, which requires innovation.

China's proposed social credit system would be counterproductive to innovation, i.e. the cost may be too high.
...committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights, as well as those who used expired tickets or smoked on trains.

The move is in line with President’s Xi Jinping’s plan to construct a social credit system based on the principle of “once untrustworthy, always restricted”.

6.15 million Chinese citizens had been banned from taking flights for social misdeeds.
>Isn't surprising either that Dragonfly BSD's outperforming Linux in network throughput, despite its small number of developers.

This is a pretty meaningless statement. Network throughput on what? Low latency connections? High latency? Jumbo frames? What if you're using DPDK? How about vs. XDP? What is it tuned for?

If you mean that if you just install Dragonfly BSD and some random popular Linux distribution that you might see better performance out of the box on some arbitrary benchmarks, yeah, I can believe it. If you mean that you're going to get better performance in Dragonfly BSD than Linux when it comes to all scenarios with network throughput, this is silly, especially when you can take advantage of things like DPDK, XDP, af_packet v4, etc. If network performance is your biggest concern in 2018, you're caring more about that sort of tech and being on something that supports it than you are about how things perform out of the box.

(Also, Linux has had a lockless TCP stack since 2016)
The general consensus is that Civ 4 is the series' high point. I prefer Civ 5 myself, though. It set out to streamline the Civ formula, which led to a game a lot of purists thought was too simplified but I found quicker to play and more enjoyable.
5 great things Chatbots can do and what it means for your business
So, person B who was born male chooses at age 30 to identify as some other gender. You then say they were a different _sex_ their whole life, and consider that objective truth?

Now, as happens occasionally, person B realises they now wish to identify with their birth sex and not their assumed gender. What's the objective truth now.

Isn't the whole "well in a different gender" completely sexist, why do I have to fall in line with someone's quantised buttons of gender because they choose to self-identify in a different way to me?

Perhaps instead of people demanding others rewrite the past they should get over themselves. Accept what's true and can't be changed and get on with it.

Now I can be condescending to you and tell you to think about it if you like ...?
Wasn't showing up as flagged when it disappeared.

It is now, though.
For productivity, coffee and a spliff. 50/50 cannabis/tobacco with a coffee can help with focus and creativity, and productivity too. Probably good to have some chopped veggies/nuts/etc as a snack too.

Edit: The 50/50 ratio is adjustable of course for newcomers to have less tobacco or more (as Europeans might do it).
The Outlook.com app that just rolled out of Beta (and seems much more closely related to the work the ex-Accompli team has been doing with Windows Mail app that is also the iOS/Android Outlook apps) is rather good. It's probably still a few months until it rolls out to most Office 365 tenants, though.
+100 - i was waiting for them to launch Postgres prod. It just doesnt go live. Even worse, they have had trouble in exposing max_connections as configurable PostgreSQL flag (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37271935)
> (Don't watch S1E1 1!)

People always say that but it's one of the most compelling episodes.
I'm willing to admit that maybe I'm not the best at social interaction. I think this article is on point though.

I am unable to count the number of times I've gone to some random project community for assistance dealing with whatever problem I was having at the time to be met with someone telling me that what I'm doing is insane and shouldn't be done in the first place.

It's taught me that I should just use these outlets as a last resort. I'd rather struggle with whatever I'm attempting to solve and try to refine my searches beyond the amount of time for it to be useful than deal with very opinionated and unhelpful people in a chatroom/mailing list/forum.

The unfortunate thing is that this is generally something that happens when I deal with open source and when asked about why the interaction is the way it is, there is always a retort by someone saying the help is free and that I should be grateful. The feeling is certainly something that I could compare to what I imagine the receiving end of the santa scenario was.
Maybe, but then I have to get into that whole "no, I mean Free as in Speech, not Free as in beer" discussion again...
Sure, you could do that but bare in mind that you're dealing with criminals and whatnot. I wouldn't want to fraud such people.
>people should be called out

Anyone can be doxxed in the way you describe--harassed, slandered--for any reason, and a lot of people have been for terrible reasons. This thing has nothing to do with justice against idiots or hateful people. There are already courts, professional organizations, etc for that. It's nothing more than a disgusting, immature, backwards trend that has become an opportunity for hateful people themselves.
Right now you would need to send these tokens to your co-workers using an Ethereum wallet, and you would need to pay gas. However, we're working on a way for you to programmatically send tokens.
It might just be a matter of preference but to me Outlook.com is an attempt to webify Outlook The Desktop Client, which was horrible to start with. But they made it worse than the desktop app.

An example: while searching in your Outlook.com "client" it enters a new state, the search state. When you are done searching there is a left arrow in the navigation panel which you can click to go back to the "normal" state of things. Awkward.

I'm a longtime Windows user, familiar with Microsoft user interfaces, but to me there is nothing to love about Outlook.com.
> Can you see a particularly cash-strapped town telling officers to skip the Toyota Camrys and instead pull over the BMWs?

No I see a world where neither Toyotas nor BMWs are speeding. But if both are speeding, then owners of both should feel equal amount of pain. And equal amount of pain won't come from equal amount absolute fines (300$ is a drop in the bucket for a billionaire, significant for a poor person).
Do you imagine a CEO switching a whole company of this size because google released a new chat app? AFAIK those decisions are planned for a long time & costs are calculated + lost/gained productivity. What a terrible CEO would that be if they switched 130k people on a whim.
Sure, or with patches broadcasted on radio, scribbled on napkins etc.

I don't think you intended to counter my argument but in case anyone is interested in elaboration: my point about centralized/decentralize is that using github doesn't necessarily centralize your work. It's only central in the sense that any other remote repository is: if you can't access it you can't. If github dies, copies of the repository may still exist on a million other computers and any of those can be used as a basis for further collaboration by a wide variety of means. From a peer to peer perspective, github is just a peer like any other.
Ok, but what if the deep learning software of the SDC confuses a "no entry" sign with a 100mph sign?

Or is DL classification at 100% accuracy?
Star Trek debuted in 1966, not 1970.
The proposition "the universe is a simulation" is just a form of global scepticism.

I am reasonably sure that the best explanation for the causal structure of the world is the causal structure of the world -- not some other world which, in some grand mystical paranoia, behaves as-if it were the world.

Global scepticism is another "bug" of a different kind. It is a scepticism-loop, like conspiracy theories.

In rational thought, doubt attenuates, it doesnt build. The more occurances of events occur which pertain to one hypothesis, the more confidence you should have in that hypothesis.

The problem with global scepticism is that it declares, by assertion, that every event cannot reduce doubt -- for some magical reason. And so it makes escape from doubt and explanation itself, impossible.

Magical reasoning of this kind is another error. Remove any unjustifiable extra-empirical premises that cause doubt to multiply rather than attenuate. If you spiral into doubt, you're in a loop. Delete the unjustifiable premise.

{Simulation, Cartesian Daemon, Dreaming...} is this set.. now, of "empty substances" out of which every object is meant to be made. These are buggy.

Premises of reasoning which begin, "everything is drawn from... a simulation/dream/blah" are thought-traps that cause doubt to spiral. They are, of themselves, simply made up. That they cause these spirals of doubt is nothing profound.. its in the nature of the setup.
Well, that's the problem with having these dominant Internet companies (and telcos/cable cos/etc.). It's not that hard to imagine something happening that would cause you to be banned. Identity theft, software bug, triggering a flag for some strange reasons, or even just doing something that was dumb in retrospect. I'd actually worry less about Amazon than some other companies given that the lifetime value of a customer who feels dependent on Amazon is pretty high. But, in general, many of these companies have a disproportionate amount of market power.
It’s not just on the internet by random people, the state and the media are involved too. Once you did a mistake and it will never be forgotten.
If you don't want your career destroyed and your life threatened, don't come to work on "no whites" day at your college.
I appreciate your effort to bring some context to the analysis.

However, as we unpack in the story, our total is likely an undercount due to the problems in tracking street racing related crashes.
Yes, "Out of Control" seems a bit exaggerated in this context.

For some comparison, 14,156 people died of cancer in 2014 [1] in Los Angeles county alone. There were 58 gun-related deaths in just 4 months in LA [2].

[1] https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/online-documen...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/06/us/las-vegas-...
Before local retail stores went out of business due to competition from Amazon who was not charging sales taxes?
I don't think we can say which societies contribute more or less. That's based on the metric of what they are contributing, but overall that discussion is too complex to definitively say who contributes more.

As for feeling "better" I agree with you, only that pride is not necessarily a feeling of superiority. In most cases it is an acknowledgement of something related to the individual that he or she feels is inherently good. Not everyone associates good with better.
In the USA, a lot of funding for R & D (e.g. engineering and science) comes from grants that are military grants (e.g. Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.). In the US, about half (54%) of federal funding (coming from the public Federal budget) is via "military" and the rest is from other federal agencies ("civilian").

Source: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/how-science-fares-us...

Is that an American thing?
Since Jimmy Maher's essays on gaming history like this one are so consistently popular on HN, allow me to point out that he has a (criminally under-subscribed, IMHO) Patreon here:

https://www.patreon.com/DigitalAntiquarian/
No Microsoft fanboy, quite the contrary. But ended up installing Office 365 for my SOs business (~ 30 people) last year. And I'm properly impressed, by the amount of progress they do. It is a solid offering for very little money.

Yes something like Teams (Slack Clone) might be feel a bit betaish. But they are starting to add features such as recording of meeting, automatic transcribing and inline message translation.

I really think they are going to be hard to beat in the future.
Robotic Tortoise Helps Kids to Learn That Robot Abuse Is a Bad Thing
Yeah humans are not very efficient at power conversion and I hate seeing this trope.

When The Matrix was first conceived, the machines used humans for some computing, but that was dumbed down a bit in the final product.

EDIT: ugh, double jinx
I enjoyed Civ4 most because of the detailed fight stats/info before you attack.

Civ5 brought some significant changes to the gameplay but you are in the great position to make an unbiased choice. I loathe it (playing since the first release does that to you) but I have friends who prefer the new gameplay.
How will I come to an understanding of why people act in this manner without questioning those who do?

Are you asking in your position as moderator?
Thanks!

If you're a Python person, I'd love to hear what you think of how I structured the notebook.

There isn't a set style for writing these and I've been experimenting with different forms lately.

In this case, I pushed back some of the bigger code chunks into separate Python modules.
I don't disagree with the idea that ShaderToy wasn't designed for this, or with the idea that it'd be harder to do in a fragment shader than a CPU program. But fragment shaders weren't designed for most of the things you see on ShaderToy. ;) The question is whether it was possible in real-time, and I still think it is.

I'm not very interested in the worst case, I think a HAM image with width * height modify ops is very unlikely. I might even be surprised if such a HAM image has even ever existed, outside of perhaps a contrived programmer's example.

The average case for a direct HAM implementation would probably be more like hundreds of frames, or a couple of seconds, not tens of thousands.

If a modified HAM is on the table, the worst and average cases could be improved considerably. I modified Floyd-Steinberg (which is worst case) so that it runs in more like 10-20 frames, by making it radially symmetric and limiting the propagation distance, which results in negligible differences but vastly improved run times.

The palette optimization is also possible in a fragment shader, not quite as easily as OpenCL, but possible.

If the question were about transcoding a video stream in real time, that will be harder to do real time. If the optimized palette is fixed, it will be easier. Either way, I wouldn't rule it out. But I would agree it's "hacking" in the sense of abusing things they weren't designed for.
I like how in Nosedive, nobody is ever having fun.

I mean, guests at the party (spoiler) should be amused at the ghost of the maid and the scandal, filming it and all - especially young guys. It should go completely viral. Instead they stand frowning as if they're 70 - to avoid hurting their score.

Under social credit society, everybody will be forced to act like they're at the end of their life path.
A criminal record, while cumbersome and overly-easy to attain, doesn't impose nearly the same scope of restrictions as this article suggests...
Civ II was excellent.

I also liked IV and I and all the newer ones too (I never played III because IV came out before I got my hands on a Mac port of III). The main negative point of the newer versions is how slow turns get toward the end on large maps with lots of civilizations.
Out-of-control ski lift speeds downhill and flings skiers off their seats
As an engineer working on Docs and related products from inception through 2010: I would be astonished if this were the case. Had such behavior become known within the engineering team, there would likely have been an uprising. There was no backdoor mechanism for looking documents, at least on the Docs (word processing) side, and in any case this sort of thing Was Not Done. My guess is that things are locked down even more tightly now.
China doesn’t have a very powerful central state, local governments have lots of power and often act out of sight from Beijing. This actually leads to more abuses of the system, however.
We've been able to work through issues where a related Daniel Tiger episode helped. A few months ago, one of them was having difficulty with us leaving them with a babysitter and we put the episode about Daniel being left with a babysitter on, talked about it, and it really made an impact.

I think it's helped much more so than other PBS shows, but that might be because they're at the right age to be able to relate to some of the content.
Not the OP, but I managed before cell phones and lots of other things too. I could survive without Amazon as well. But, for many types of items, there's no comparable online one-stop shop which would be, at the least, very inconvenient.
I'd say it's more an extreme reading into the Confucian ideals of social harmony and fraternity: the State (or Emperor) is the head of the country, and its families, as a father is the head of his own family. Although I may be finding too many parallels with prewar Japan.
That's easy: By questioning them on your own platform, not on HN.
I am concerned about what is true.

Nature does not determine importance. Survival is an event, it isnt a value.

We determine what matters. And I do, in particular, when I am speaking of the things I care about.
There's lots of fake/just-for-fun stuff like that on the dark web. Often people posting emails to troll people who are taking it seriously. Or even more likely an FBI sting.
Yes, totally valid point. The difference I see is that we're focused on functionality that goes beyond selling / trading. I know there are quite a few options for "Do your own ICO" and stuff like that, which is not that interesting. We're deliberately avoiding things like ICO's and trading right now. Our focus is on making tokens usable today, and consistently improving the ease of use for someone that wants to use a token for something real.
clicked on the comments for the link here just to see all the "it's essentially the same thing here in the US!" posts and I was not disappointed. (or I was, depending on how you look at it)
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Nobody who is doxxed has a travel ban.
Visualization of success has been strongly suggested as an effective means to gain success in athletics, weight loss, and more. It’s magic, and it can go to far, but the healthy form is just what you said: a vision of how things could be, an something to strive for. Imagining yourself crossing the finish line won’t make up for a total lack of fitness and training, but if you’re physically prepared, it can definitely help. Focusing on the goal rather than discouraging outcomes is part of mental preparedness.
Do you even need a criminal record to end up on the No Fly List (or the less consequential terrorist watch list)?

I think it is only really different in scale.
> the size of a football field is variable

Sure, maybe the local, community field you and me play on, but not the ones where "real" matches are played. They have a standard size.

FIFA for example have the dimensions in their first law: http://www.fifa.com/mm/Document/FootballDevelopment/Refereei...

Probably they mean a standard football field.
You're right, I struggled for a good analogy.
Note: The above figures don't take classified funding into account. Because it's secret. Most of the classified funding is military, so the proportion of military funding is actually higher.
Sorry to sound condescending but your post is one of things people dislike about the internet too - what about-ism. This is just sweeping everything under the rug by using the logic - "this is bad but what about x?" It seems as if every issue in the world needs to be discussed and solved at once or not at all.

So, can we please stop equating doxxing with a government effort and trying to pass it of as being nearly the same or part of an arc because it is not.
You could calculate the difference between the original and uncompressed and then weight the differences by sensitivity levels of the human ear at various frequencies...

It wouldn't be able to measure "warmth" or "heart" or "anger" or anything like that. It would be able to tell you which model most closely matches the original at the frequencies you can hear. Once you have a metric, you can use it as the basis of a parameter space search. Not exactly machine learning, but maybe some preliminaries.