skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't rule a hydrogen fuel cell revolution out yet. If humans develop technology that allows hydrogen fuel to be safely generated at the pumping station, then transportation costs for hydrogen fuel would be greatly reduced and thus the efficiency over batteries could be realized.
I used this as my source for efficiencies: https://electrek.co/2017/10/26/toyota-elon-musk-fuel-cell-hy...
But what qualifies the people administering those examinations to judge how good someone is at writing reliable software in safety-critical environments?
Oxford academics are building a blockchain university “like Uber without Uber”
I don't think Grover ("the other GA") helps us here. https://qbnets.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/grovers-algorithm-fo...
if they are at fault they should be punished, but you do realize that the expectation for self driving vehicles is not to eliminate all car related deaths, right?

edit: wow this triggered some people. somehow 'if they are at fault they should be punished' got interpreted as 'they are not at fault and should not be punished'
There are more asset classes than a primary residence, stocks, and bitcoin. As the parent comment stated, a REIT is typically a less risky investment than a single house, even if you want to invest in real estate.
Electric cars still suck in the winter. Air resistance, electric heating, and poor cold weather performance of LiIon batteries deplete the usable range. At the very least manufacturers need to provide auxiliary fossil fuel heating systems that aren't a hazard like current kerosene heater hacks. There is also the problem that pure electrics are largely off limits to the rentier population with no access to a plug where they park their car.
Yes, I have a consulting company now. Also starting to put together a few interesting products that my clients may be interested in.
I have had this experience with a few companies I interviewed with in EU, where I got feedback after rejection.

It feels so pleasant, yet strange, after having taken it for granted that I'll just get a templated rejection letter based on interview experiences in the US.
Agree this is a US problem and I don't understand why.

It doesn't hurt me why you didn't select me.

You didn't think I would fit in culturally. Ok, no worries.

You didn't think I knew enough of what you wanted to know. Ok, no worries.

You didn't like the way I was dressed. Ok, no worries.

You weren't really hiring but were just testing the waters. Ok, probably won't apply again but no worries.
It's not safe to hit an obstacle at full speed. It should slow down to lower the damages to the obstacle, the car and the passengers.
Supply chain is an interesting case for blockchain. It doesn't eliminate the possibility of incorrect information being entered at some point in the chain. But there are probably still advantages to having transactions being immutable once they've been executed on a chain that's not under the control of any single party. Also smart contracts are potentially interesting.
I think, not much. This is an optimization problem to which you can apply any algorithm that "fits" --- no closed-form functional form, interactive feedback --- so bayesian optimization (with GPs), some form of RL, evolutionary algorithms et al.
This goes for firing too. I've seen people who were categorically under performing try to bring lawsuits claiming discrimination upon firing many times.
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But if those “conversations” are predicated on racial gatekeeping, then they are indeed dividing us, and the parent poster is quite right to avoid them.
Coinbase Holding My Money Hostage
Coinbase has been holding my money hostage for more than 48 hours. I received $9,997.95 over 48 hours ago and it is still in a pending status. Coinbase took there fee for receiving it and is still refusing to remove it from a pending status even though the sender has confirmed it more than 20 times. Speaking to representatives is useless they do not have any information and/or authority to do anything. They all seem like a bunch of walmart employees, yeah we work here, but we don't know where anything is.. oh and that's not my department and I am on my break! It is ridiculous that a company that handles so much money has such poor customer service and lack of communication and information. No one has called me back and/or answered any of my emails. I requested for my account to be closed and have my funds deposited into my verified bank account, but crickets.... I would love to have someone competent and with real authority from Coinbase call or email me with some real answers and information.
That's what I'm getting at. In my own experience, unhandled grudges against people end up being a major source of stress. Some people (my past self included) don't know how to stand up for themselves at a company. It's a combination of knowing what lines people can't cross with you, and what sorts of authority different people at work can have over you, because when someone crosses a line, how you correct them will differ according to their relation to you. For example, if a manager is rude to you, you can often excuse yourself but can't completely drop the issue, whereas, if a fellow collaborator is rude, sometimes you can just stop dealing with them altogether. Sometimes just looking perturbed without saying anything is enough to make people change how they deal with you. A lot of developers I see don't pay any attention to these things and nurse grudges against people for entire years.
Craig Venter has not created life from non-life. He has synthesised code that can reproduce and grow into a synthetic life form once implanted into an already living cell. So no, not life from non-life.
spotted the libturd!
Isn't that what this bug is mostly about? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061
I dealt with RSI in my hands for almost a year and made a complete recovery by going to the local rock climbing gym and bouldering. It was almost immediate that my hands began to feel better.

I also think that my issues were at least in part due to muscle tension which was coming not due to physical issues but due to emotional issues. Keep an open mind and read "The Great Pain Deception" and see if it applies to your life.

I really think that in addition to the physical benefits of rock climbing helping me, it was also the realization that if I could climb rocks then there wasn't anything really wrong with my hands, and that pain when using the computer was a conditioned response.
Ok, but that’s essentially just saying to grade homework gently. Which is totally fine but doesn’t seem to address the concerns with plagiarism nor with the earlier comment that instructors simply shouldn’t assign homework.
If you assume atmospheric water has the same density up to around 3000 feet, then you'd have to dry out 3 Death Valleys. Still pretty reasonable.
That contradicts this article.
I always had assumed it was a very clever hoax, now my heart bleeds for the poor little girl and her mother. Hopefully she will be reburied.
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Sure, but I said that's fine. My point is that it doesn't load. I wait for minutes, and it doesn't load. Quoting myself:

I've discovered also that when I switch from tab to tab, sometimes the tab needs to reload the page. That's fine. But sometimes, it takes forever to get past a blank white screen on that tab.
It is illegal to export your data from facebook by 3rd party even if you authorities it.

Google Facebook vs power ventures or https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/12/09/504999255/epis...

There is a reason for most of the monopolies, Government.
The problem is that it's a staging kernel, not a full release. I've not been able to get it to boot on m3.large AWS instances, though it seems to work on xlarge.
The difference is that the US is home to some of the best universities, attracts a lot of educated/talented people and has the largest knowledge economy in the world. So while India might have failed to develop great cars and whatnot as you claim, the US could (and does) that just fine. Taiwan and South Korea can hyper-focus on one or two sole industries because their population's sizes are fairly small (comparatively), and that has turned out well for them -- but I think the US needs to at least partially dominate a range of industries to stay afloat.

Also, people forget 1850 Germany essentially entered the industrial age through a good dose of protectionism. It worked because they already enjoyed a good educational system and skilled workforce.
Agree. Uber should have fitted their taxis with data devices.
Why in your interpretation of government subsidized training/ammo is it a requirement?

If the constitution is a document that explains the natural rights of citizens, and is restrictions on the government (which it is)... Then saying A well-regulated militia being necessity to a free state - would imply that government is obligated to train and supply ammo - any requirements for this to be part of your rights would be null considering the next words are "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Different from what? Do you mean it's not necessarily a URL? Or do you mean clicking on it could take you somewhere other than where you would go if you chose "copy url" and manually pasted it into the address bar? (And if the latter, is that true even on a forum like this that makes you post comments as plain text?)
I'm not saying it hasn't been prevalent for a long time, but I just think it's daft. Even if it is how it has always been, things could probably change for the better. I'm certainly grateful for the times we live in, however I see a lot of capable people let their lives pass by doing mundane jobs with little enjoyment, and worse still, little social impact. Surely we can do better than this?!
- The Chinese economy, being almost totally under centralized control, has been in a state of imbalance for much of its existence. This situation is not special in that regard.

- Chinese investors have a lot of restrictions, and if the government actually cared about this they would've relaxed some of the restrictions that don't have anything to do with the US

- It is not necessary to transfer more power to Xi in order to complete some sort of "adjustment" for China. History does not suggest a lot of happy endings for this type of scenario.
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What motivates you to stay at your role instead of finding a different position where you would work in better conditions?
Black Block Research's in-depth report on Request Network now out
Black Block Research just published its REQ report. It's going viral on their Reddit and causing some controversy...
https://blackblockresearch.com/

https://www.docdroid.net/raPVGHW/black-block-research-march-2018-req.pdf
Every engineer on this project at Uber knows very well that their car completely failed in one of its most basic expected functions. It's incredibly obvious, and a number of independent experts have said as much.

I'd be fairly surprised if there's any real appetite at Uber to continue with this now. It was never anywhere near their core competency.
Too many advisors, strategists, architects and analysts, too few people willing to do the actual work.
> For all human history, the conditions of people were dire.

No. There's been societies based on slavery or indentured servitude and industrial societies treating workers much like slaves and there's been also almost idyllic, often agrarian, societies far removed from war, exploitation and hunger.

Furthermore, given the incredible amount of energy and natural resources that the average person in rich countries is consuming we should all be living happy and meaningful lives and work one our per week.

We should instead ask the difficult question - why are even the richest societies so unhappy?
Does it count as "silent" if there are at least 3 GitHub issues on it, with discussions? (Linked in the article, even.)

One of them even shows up in a version Milestone list (which Changelogs and Release Notes link to):

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/54?closed=1
Interesting idea,although consider density. A Micro 4/3 camera sensor used on the popular Panasonic GH5 video camera is tiny but captures 4k video, displayed on screens far far larger.

Micro LEDs would need to be far, far smaller to be used as sensors.
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The paper linked above does directly address the case of multiple experiments occurring in the same context. They address this with hill-climbing over those 180 different variations. The use of a bayesian linear regression takes place of the exploration found with Thompson sampling.
"Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer"

Not a network whizz but doesn't that sound unlikely? They would have to have 1. Static IPs 2. Deep enough penetration of their systems to have IP/Officer mapping -> in which case they would have known this was going on anyways?

Seems necessary to edit:

I understand the NSA is the most powerful player and likely had penetrated their systems. My point is that if their networks were penetrated anyways, why are receiving this reasoning about the accident with the VPN? The only plausible explanation I can see is what another commenter put out which is the Officer had also used the non-VPNd connection to something personal. Now this would be a big fuck up

Saying they could identify an individual officer from an IP leads you to assume they had penetrated the network. In which case, why not disclose that? That would be the assumption from the other side.
Antirez distinguished between genetic algorithms and genetic programming.

As you say, GAs evolve parameters to the fitness function. But GP does, in fact, evolve programs.

They are very distinct schools of work that evolved independently. Some other major schools are Learning Classifier Systems, Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming.

The high-level name these days is Evolutionary Computation. In turn typically lumped under Nature-Inspired Computing, or sometimes Metaheuristics.
Rate and job funnel is a function of portfolio strength.

1/ Right now, tonight, go make a portfolio like this one (mine): http://www.hyperfiddle-consulting.com/ (it can be a github markdown gist, host images on imgur or github might even let you copy/paste images into markdown now). You do not want to be coding javascript and html here. It needs to iterate fast. And it needs to be done yesterday. Use markdown. Or a google doc.

2/ your portfolio will suck at first, but now that it exists, you feel that it sucks and now there is a driver function making you want to optimize it.

3/ post in the monthly HN freelancer thread, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495148 . If you don't get gigs, iterate your copy. Say you'll do it for a low rate if it gives you open source commits. -> feeds into portfolio

4/ get screenshots of whatever gigs you can (if for example it is a public site, or you can embed stuff into a company github readme for example https://github.com/wingspan/wingspan-forms#screenshots-from-...) -> feeds into portfolio

5/ company doesn't do open source? Offer to open source some library or utility in your free time. I polished wingspan-forms over thanksgiving and christmas break 2013. It's a shitty library, nobody uses it. But it feeds into portfolio!

6/ spend at least one weekend a month writing a blog post, tips and trick for whatever javascript framework, or something -> feeds into portfolio

7/ go to a lot of local meetups, at least 1 a month, offer talks, your blog is the starting point for talks, speak at least twice a year -> feeds into portfolio

Freelancing is more work up front than wage slaving. But the sky is the limit as to how much you can make. Oh and cut the silly bullcrap about not good at networking blah blah whatever. Read a howto social skills book and show up at meetups.
Yes, that's a very good point. Work has always been part of the human condition, and middle class people in the first world are enjoying much, much more comfortable working conditions than their ancestors did. I think we should all be very grateful for that. But it's also a very modern thing for people to suffer from alienating, despair-inducing work. I think this alienation, which Marx speaks of in much detail, is the root of many modern complaints.

When you do manual work outdoors, there is a sort of physical element that allows you to get "in the zone" and it really feels like true work. But for white collar tasks like accounting, programming, and filing papers, there's not as often a moment for meditation or getting "in the zone". And there's something much more alienating about doing comfortable work that is held up, not because of the winter frost, but because of some corporate inefficiency.

Likewise, blue collar assembly-line labor, in which your entire day is spent building a single part for a huge machine, is much the same. The carpenter can feel delighted from finishing an entire chair, and a weaver might enjoy seeing many completed baskets, but the factory worker never knows rest, never knows any satisfaction, because the modern species of work never ends.

"Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Genesis 3:18-19)
IdenTrust is now the biggest CA, according to these statistics, largely due to being the cross-signer of the Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates:

https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/
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Markets are not perfectly rational but you seem to be unwilling to consider the idea that favoring younger workers might actually be rational. I doubt age discrimination is economically efficient, but I'm willing to let that play out.

Secondly, if older workers need to be subsidized in some way because they're unable to compete there's probably a better way to do so than to punish employers who are unable to skirt labor laws.
The expectation is that a car that can "see" in a broader part of the spectrum than a human should have, y'know, detected a person in the street ahead, when there were no obstructions between the car and the person.

There have been cars on the market for years now that can detect a dangerous situation ahead, even in the dark, and auto-brake. If they haven't caught up to several-years-ago's consumer model of car, then what on earth are they doing putting these things on public roads?
Is this the right link? This article is about poverty and not about how far you could go on a middle class income
With the right financial planning, it can be done. But, if you've already taken on 20K in student loans and 5 year cell phone contract, it's gonna be much much harder. That's why we need to start teach financial education really early: like K-12.

Food and water can be quite cheap: the grocery stores are filled with healthy foods you can get for less than 1$ per lb in most of the US: corn, whole wheat flour, bananas, apples, grapes, onions, beans, rolled oats, etc.

The biggest problem with living cheaply is Housing, Healthcare and Tax. for the most part these are mandated by the gov regulations to be really expensive. Once those are solved, we'll be able to live quite cost effectively. I've seen some people get around that by living in a camper van, traveling the world - not for everyone, i know. But, the tiny house movement shows us we can get a tiny house for just 20K.
Agreed. I've found the more you stand up for yourself, the more your boundaries are respected. That said, I'm sure it doesn't work in all situations, or with all bosses, so I'm hesitant to blame the victim -- I've been lucky to have very good bosses in my career.
I think it's fair to set the minimum expectation of not being much, much worse in a situation where decision making is utterly straightforward and where sensors ought to give it a significant advantage over humans. It also would appear that the vehicle fell well short of that minimum standard on this occasion.
If gun owners are actively advertising to people they perceive to be likely mass shooters: Yes.

There's just so much here. They actively encouraged the practice, they made hundreds of millions of dollars on it, and the perverse incentive of a bidding war caused by all these scammers mean that despite knowing about the problem, Google had no desire to fix it.
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One mentor of mine taught me the "rule of three". The first time you have to do something, you write it in-place. The second time, same thing. The third time is when you refactor into a common module all three components can use.

When you're writing it the second time, you're accruing technical debt. You pay it off when you refactor for the third component.
Basically because you would need to have an excellent situation representation to really understand the drivers' reactions to outside events. But that does not exist.

This is the #1 reason I'm sceptical about self-driving cars becoming ubiquitous any time soon. Clearly they have potential advantages over a human driver in terms of not being tired or distracted, better sensors and better reaction times, but their judgement in any given situation will always be a function of some predetermined inputs. It's a brute force approach.

Until a self-driving car can recognise a pub door opening around throwing-out time where a drunk patron is about to stumble out into the road from a hidden position, or that it's about to pass a park and a nearby school just finished for the day so kids will be kicking balls around and running across the road to join their friends, or that the recent weather conditions make black ice likely and the cyclist it's about to pass doesn't seem very steady, and take corresponding actions to reduce both the risk and the consequences of a collision, it's going to take a lot of brute force to outperform an experienced and reasonably careful human driver.

In short, reacting to an emergency 100ms faster than a human driver is good, but sufficient situational awareness and forward planning that you were never in the emergency situation in the first place is better.
It depends on which English-speaking country they are coming from.

In the US, No, but they could call someone a "dick" and it wouldn't get the same sort of response.

Now, I don't know about other speaking countries and how they would view a CEO saying it, but I think it has less shock value in some other english speaking countries (Australia, for example). So it might be more OK.
I'm planning on open sourcing my service and was planning on using GitHub because I wanted to get people involved. However, currently I'm using a local server with Jenkins to poll GitHub for the deployment with a separate repository for deployment configuration. This isn't ideal and I'm not a huge fan of Jenkins itself in the first place. (It took a huge amount of time to setup!)

Could you explain more about how you've got public and private CI/CD setup? I'd love to get the tests to run publicly, but I'd love to deploy privately and not have all of that information right there in the repo because the plan is to offer it as a service as well.
Ex-Houstonian here (born and raised, moved to California) and I gotta say this episode actually disappointed me. I know there's no possible way to fit all the different fusion and great breadth of variety available in the city, this focused pretty much only on Viet-Louisiana fusion and similarities. There is SO MUCH MORE to Houston than that.

*edit- I'd like to also say that this show is great though, especially his view on the topic of authenticity and how he thinks it hurts more than it helps. :)