skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US currently claims 4m RMS (7.8m 95% Confidence Interval) horizontal accuracy for civilian (SPS) GPS. Some devices/locations reliably (95% of the time or better) can get 3m accuracy.
To be fair, the data google collects does end up making their products better.

> everyone who usually drives on this road is taking a detour, was there a accident or construction going on?
Uber self-driving crash: Footage shows moment before impact [video]
Arbitration itself is not a problem. The selection of the arbiters is. From what I have seen, in Europe generally the panel is composed of two members chosen by the two parties and a third one by common agreement (any previous agreement being null and void) or, in case of disagreement, nominated by the president of the local tribunal.
Oh god, he's on Vancouver Island now? Just what we need, another snake-oil-selling pseudo-hippie to run up real estate prices.
Debt is great until 1929.
I agree with that. I am not trying to defend bigotry. I think there is room to point out that many people engaged in abusive behavior don't perceive their own actions as abusive. It could be valuable to understand how these people perceive such interactions, and how they might be presented with an alternative viewpoint that may help them to eschew behaviors involved in any harm they could unintentionally be causing others.

As for people who intentionally cause harm, that's a very real issue which I was not addressing with my above comments.
Isn't that the same question as to why the whole universe exists? Why chaos results in order? Isn't there a proof that 'given such random process, an universe like we have is inevitably created'?
Please mark this as having auto-play video - I just disrupted a quiet room at work and I never watch the videos anyway.
The language they code in is PHP, but it is rebuilt as highly optimized C. Not justifying this, just adding for clarification.
> Gimp is like Linux's MS paint on steroids

Oh yeah, if steroids bring layers, masks, paths, a shitload of selection, transformation, and cropping tools, a whole lot of filters and loaders for all sorts of image file formats, complete color management support, 32-bit per channel processing and suchlike, then you might be correct :)
> Like billions of dollars and probably billions of man hours worth of gaming in an industry that is only growing?

Post hoc ergo propter hoc: just because the industry is growing doesn't mean that people don't mind toxicity. It's possible the industry would be growing even faster if there was less toxicity, for example.

> Have you considered further that some degree of so called toxicity is inherent to the fun of gaming?

Maybe some people enjoy being called a faggot by randoms on Xbox, but I don't. I'd go so far as to say the majority of people prefer not to be called slurs by random strangers. Can't we do something to stop that?

> Why stop there? Why not set standards for content as well? You're talking about games that simulate violence, killing, war in general, but you demand that the playerbase act in accordance to your personal sensibilities?

Why is any attempt to prevent any form of toxicity a slippery slope that can only lead to some sort of Orwellian nightmare of censorship?
Not picking sides here in the FB debate, but how can you trust anything that Jim Cramer says? The guy failed spectacularly during the financial crisis. He flips a coin, chooses a view, and goes with it...
That person may however learn to become caregiver, healthcare worker, or another society supporting worker.

As automation and AI take bigger roles, couple with the population aging, we the human being need more and more support from other human fellows, and those professions become more important.
I can think of a few local community colleges I can go to for starting. And then ask about housing options, or perhaps get into a campus job. If the campus job can waive most of your tuition, do you think just having that would suffice?

Also, do you recommend more on transferring out of the CC later to go to a very reputable CS university (UC Berkeley for example)? I'd like to be one of those people who can land an internship at Jet Propulsion Labs (I'd like to combine my interests in computing and space exploration).

Like the OP said in his old topic, I have a passion for coding (check my username for Github), but I can't interview worth a damn anymore. So I don't know if it's delusional to think that a CS degree (and the education that comes with it) will automatically open up many doors for me.

I wish I can maximize my utility for a business or an org even if I can't pass most interviews, because failing interviews is just making my skills go to waste.

A local job recruiter (a specialized one, not from a big agency) once told me to seek companies that offer SWE apprenticeships as a refresher. But those sorts of companies are hard to come by here.
Could major GPS issues become a nonstarter for the BFR intercontinental transport vision?
Epic Games ‘Reflections’ GDC Demo Offers Peek at Gaming’s Ray Tracing Future
French spoken in Belgium and Switzerland has 70 = septante and 90 = nonante. In parts of Switzerland, 80 = huitante.
Different school districts weight the location of a child's home differently when choosing which school the child should go to. In most districts location is the highest factor. In other places it's a moderate or low factor.
The ruling party has prominent people on the board / with shares! This is why you and I are not in the UK establishment. We are inhibited by shame and a fear of losing. When we step back they double down. Everything or nothing, no in between. It is their birthright.
These aren't signals, we've known for some time that alcohol both causes various cancers, and makes some other cancer spread faster.
Vancouver Island is much more affordable; seems like the person is willing to live away from dense urban centres. The insanity of Canadian real estate seems to be isolated to Toronto and Vancouver, although prices are predictably rising in "nearby" suburbs such as Kitchener/Waterloo (Ontario) or Langley/Surrey (near Vancouver).
I am not from US so I don't care about republicans or democrats, I am happy the people got outrage because of Trump connection because it has the side effect and pulling hidden things into light

Also the fact that you know how Facebook or Google makes money does not mean that the public knows, so my father does not understand why someone would put videos on youtube or would put fake articles about things, or click bait , most of the people do not know about trackers, about the fact that ads on pages make money for the website, that ads on the videos make money for publishers.

I hope this scandal will make some light on exactly what Facebook collect when I visit a webpage with FB buttons, I want us and the public to find out about the shadow profiles, about any experiments done on users, it would be good if we find if similar things happen in other countries elections and I am wondering how well this things work.

Also it would be good if we could get less crap on FB, I do not use it that much but I have people in my family that read articles posted in FB and most of them are fake news(not politics but other crap like medicine)

I hope we get some laws about tracking people outside your webpages and making shadow profiles illegal.

So even if you don't like Hillary or her party, I think you should desire the entire truth surfaces and we see all details, elections are done so it is nothing you can do now but maybe with more information the next ones will be better with less dirt and fake news in social media and more actual debates.
Unfortunately I'm betting a twitter essay gets more eyeballs than it loses.
Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent Test IBM Systems
Lol, you should ask Indians about that.
Timefs: timeseries datastore without db-engine, perf as disk IOPS, grpc client
For future readers of this comment, there was previously a parent post here about the overly broad headline for this article.

TIL on HN, if a someone deletes a parent comment, the children get promoted to the top.
> Higher taxes + social safety net make more sense for lower income people. Higher income people can buy themselves a safety net.

It also makes sense for richer people if the living conditions are better because people poorer than you have a safety net so you aren't impacted by their social problems, or if, e.g., universal government benefits like healthcare end up being better value than what is privately available elsewhere, perhaps because of economies of scale, or because you are effectively a co-owner of a monopsony purchaser, or because the safety net for the poorer people supplying the service means total labor costs can be less without them living in unacceptable security.
Please mark this as having auto-play video - I just disrupted a quiet room at work (and always read the transcripts instead of watching the video anyway).
As a parent of English/Danish bilingual children I have to tell you that you are very wrong on this.

My children still occasionally make mistakes when saying numbers in the range 50-99 in Danish, they haven't said the English numbers wrong for years.

That the word for 50 contains the word "tre" (three) and the word for 90 contains the word "fem" (five) is very confusing to our children, especially when the English equivalents are so simple in comparison.
A few Superbowls ago Intel demoed a supercomputer which could take in live video streams from hundreds of cameras, run a batch job for about 30 seconds, and then be able to synthesize video from arbitrary viewpoints above the crowd.

I think it worked by making a point cloud that fits the camera observations.

Obstruction is not a big issue in that use case, but if there was obstruction, the system could choose to ignore pixels that were obstructed when constructing the image.
Yeah unfortunately we aren't UX experts (this is the first website I've made actually) and we've been focused on building the backend and desktop site, so we haven't made the website responsive yet.
Take a look at his supplement company and you'll quickly find he's a quack.

They sell collagen for $40/lb. Collagen is the cheapest, crappiest animal protein source and is incomplete. I bet their markup is over 1000%.

$23.50 for a 16oz bottle of coconut oil with unsubstantiated claims.

> Brain Octane oil is rapidly absorbed by your body and converted into brain-fueling, fat-burning ketone energy.

Fat isn't converted to ketones unless your body is low on carbs. If you are on a low carb diet the fat source doesn't matter. A ketone is a ketone.

Also he hasn't built a "$100 million empire" as the article claims. On LI he states that Bulletproof has a valuation of $100 million.

That leads me to another point. Why do investors keep putting money into these garbage supplement companies? Stop funding quackery.
I'm curious for the people that use GitLab CI/CD, what's the pro / cons vs Jenkins and the like?
Your resume performance has to do with windows not Firefox and it seems that something might be buggy about your experience I suggest that others are not experiencing the same issues.
I meant troll playing by that. Feeding in LoL or HotS, kicking in the own goal in Rocket League etc.
Diamond device paves way for first practical microwave lasers
The Pain Refugees
I feel like I'm definitely the vocal minority here, but I'm still a sucker for Google ecosystem and just find Firefox still overall slower than Chrome. I still consider myself a power user, but don't expect much out of my browser besides speed, and many pages just simply take longer to load in FF 58 than Chrome.

Downvote me.
House committee will summon Zuckerberg to testify
Personal attacks are often downvoted.
Free speech means arguing against messages one disagrees with, or ignoring them, but not trying to suppress them.

No. Free speech refers to protection from the government censoring or jailing for speech they don't want said. If you're relying on a private company, especially one who retains the rights to take down your video at any time for any reason, to disseminate your speech and you're worried about them doing something with that speech, you're speaking wrong.

I know you mention lawmakers are "pressuring" them to make this change, and if that's true, then yes, this would encroach on our freedom of speech. However, I'm having a hard time finding anything that backs up that claim, and "pressuring" is still very different from a government outright telling YT what may or may not be on the platform.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. And I would even go much further by saying that not one Facebook employee should be trusted to handle the fallout.
Garbage Collection in Modern Web Applications
Paying California income taxes and property taxes and everything else would maybe make sense if you lived in Palo Alto/Cupertino/Hillsborough with multiple kids in school, but if you're paying another $44k/yr for school on top of the taxes and high cost of living, it's pretty crazy. It also makes sense if you want to work at the HQ of one of the bay area tech companies, or if you're involved in a startup or other business selling to other startups, but probably doesn't make sense in any other case (including enterprise-focused startups, or potentially, even consumer focused startups now.)

While Vancouver real estate is expensive (largely due to foreign buyers, many of whom do not live in the properties), rental isn't as bad, and Vancouver Island or other areas outside metro Vancouver aren't particularly bad. If you're already willing to accept a Cessna ride to civilization, you can definitely find something cheap.

Las Vegas or Texas would have been cheaper, though.
One problem that makes it much worse is that the css for the code block has a very small max-width, if you disable it, much easier to read.
> Should Reddit refuse to allow people to arrange for sales of alcohol using their site as a communication platform, because underage people might buy beer?

To be fair, they're doing that in reaction to Sec 230.
Early birds may have been too hefty to sit on their eggs
Your overall point is totally correct, and as a Canadian I dislike the way Americans often perceive Canada as this place that's basically America but better - that they're entitled to move to in order to escape their issues with their own country.

But I wish people would stop spreading the myth that Canadian taxes are necessarily significantly higher than American ones. The highest federal income tax bracket in Canada is taxed at 33% [1], which is very comparable to US rates.

Certainly, provincial taxes do tend to push things a little higher, and by comparison there are US states with very low or non-existent tax rates. But if you live in SF or New York, with their high state and city taxes, your income tax burden would be barely any higher in Vancouver or Toronto.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...
Comparable taxes to California, except that Canadian health care is (mostly) free. Some British Columbia residents pay an extra supplement for additional insurance (prescription drugs, vision, dental, etc.), but it's a nominal amount for the coverage you get in return.
There's also plenty of places in east Dallas. I'm finding you have a lot of criticisms about Dallas that are more about you not knowing your way around here than the actual food scene.
I'm apparently your opposite - I've been using the Developer Edition for quite some time after switching from Chrome (which ate piles of memory).
He clearly states it's his opinion. E.g. mandarin is one of the least complex for him, and yet

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number/mandarin.html
Is it true that genetic algorithms have the benefit of being able to find the global optima more consistently due to the incorporation of randomness in subsequent generations? Whereas DL models often get stuck at local optima?
We’re looking at a powerful entity that builds fine-grained psychological profiles of over two billion humans, that runs large-scale behavior manipulation experiments, and that aims at developing the best AI technology the world has ever seen. Personally, it really scares me

If you work in AI, please don't help them. Don't play their game. Don't participate in their research ecosystem. Please show some conscience

When Facebook does something awful, their defenders rush to say "what about Google, they're even worse!"

There's a lot of false equivalence in HN discussions, but these two are not in the same galaxy when it comes to abusing the privacy of their users.
It already works:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2018/01/11/samsungs-...
Yeah, this is something we've been looking into for a while.

See e.g. https://plus.google.com/+AmericoGobbo/posts/VK4oZv7Hobn and around.
Last Song for Migrating Birds (2013)
Show HN: Use games and puzzles to increase customer engagement
Joining the industry in the 90s wasn't anything like joining it now, at least for entry level positions. Just saying, the industry was different back then and knowing fundamentals seemed less important than slinging code.
We don't yet know why the driver was looking down and to the right.

What this raises for me is -- shouldn't self-driving car companies be using ex-test pilots during autonomous driving? Of course, I'm assuming that the driver wasn't one.

That's the personnel issue. On a technical front, what was she looking at? Her own phone? The company-designed UI for the self-driving car? Does Uber use LIDAR, if so, did the victim show up on it -- could there be an obstacle alarm? What about IR cameras? This was obviously a very difficult visibility situation. If we really want self-driving cars to be better than humans, can we get away with just visible-light cameras, or do we need better sensors?

We are all far to blase about the risks of driving, and driving distracted, from constant familiarity. It seems that pilots, and especially test pilots might have the experience and discipline to stay alert during long autonomous drives.

One might argue (certainly moving forward) that using regular drivers vs. test-pilots is negligent.
(Native Marathi, competent Hindi speaker here. Marathi has the same problem)

So, it's not like each number has a different name.

However, it's almost like that.

Basically, the numbers can be broken down into a logical tens and ones place -- e.g. 45 will be five-forty (paintalees -- pai/talees), however the exact way to say "five" will change based on the number, as will the exact way to say "forty".

There's not much logic to it -- some tens series are more regular than others -- which means you effectively end up memorizing it, but subconsciously.

Imagine numbers in English but there were three ways of saying each digit, and each number 1-100 would pick from the synonyms. It's basically like that. That is to say, it's not too hard to deal with -- you'll mentally be associating the numbers with their words so it's not hard to say it out, and because they're synonyms not hard to understand when spoken.
The difference is that in this case, the street owner was explicitly notified (made aware of) the fact that Immortan Joe was using his road to rape and plunder, and the street owner responded by providing cover for these activities instead of stopping them.

Backpage (allegedly...) played an active role in conducting sex traffic by posting its own ads and modifying third-party ads for child prostitutes to make them less obvious to authorities. Like Silk Road, there is no deniability-- they know damn well what business they're in, so they don't get to play the "b-b-but we were just running a website!" defense.
That would be nice, but the problem with these systems historically is that they're ridiculously expensive compared to x64 servers for the end user. As a result end users and SMBs never get their hands on them and nobody develops anything for them or supports them.
Often, yes, which is why it took so long for me to start balking at it. But these days, even though the data does also improve their products, it feels so much more like an excuse to grab the data. Try removing Google Play Services' access to location data, for instance - it will nag you about it in apps like gmail, and try to guilt you into turning it back on, even though gmail has no need whatsoever for your current location.
It's not snake oil, doing it yourself. It's that he sells the products to do it when they are easy to make. He's marketed the concept, and then tries to sell it at a massive premium.

The concept, or at least some of them that he sells, are not snake oil. It's the profiting on the concept that is a bit gross.
This is a great youtube channel as well! I liked this review on a planar planimeter and how it ties in to Green's Theorem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMvEOmpy8Kw
I guess we should get ready for another AI/neural network winter. Kernel methods will be popular again!
Are there any noted events in history that have exploited such ionosphere disturbances?
Surely, being married to a working physician, their household income well cleared that mark.
Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump’s White House
So, is it the consensus of HN that this incident is more or less important than Equifax incident, and why?
Got to spend those profits some how. Salesforce probably calculated that if they include integration with every deal for an additional 15% to 20% they could grow revenue X%.

This is going to be really good for system integrators as Mulesoft is a complex platform that requires hours of consulting. If I was in the Salesforce space I would be signing up to Mulesoft courses and getting my guys all over that.
How are you a sucker if you have a rational basis for making the decision? FWIW I switched from Chrome to FF and haven't noticed any major differences.
Sf has a lottery system to avoid all the rich kids at one school, and all the poor kids at another. It’s well motivated but totally impractical from get-kids-to-school-before-work perspective.
First it was Tex Mex music. Now this? :-(
boomers? The baby boom generation was born between the mid-1940s and 1960s. They're all in their late 60s and 70s now and most have long retired. The age-out demography we are talking about now generally are their children currently in their early-40s to early 50s. The dial-up generation.
>From what I gather, the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible. My father was kicked out for having a black friend, and my mother was told by her professor that no girl was ever going to become a doctor at his faculty

Well, before that generation, the black friend would be a slave or easily lynched, and the girl wouldn't even get into the university (or be able to vote).

So I really doubt the Greatest Generation itself created the "most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible".
The reason for having your own computers is assured secrecy of your algorithms, and complete control over redundancy, latency and network linkages.

The reason for not having your own computers is because you can't afford them. A consideration for upstart funds, not a problem for RenTec.
Thanks for the great link surveying Evolution and NEAT ( Neuroevolution of Neural Nets ) by Ken Stanley who pioneered the method.

The OP is by Risto Miikkulainen who was Stanley's collaborator on NEAT and should not be summarily dismissed.
This is an old problem for hotel owners:

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-08/local/me-1830_1_motel...
So are you cheering for more regulations
they will know that this IP sent this much data to that IP but not what was inside it.

Your ISP knows the same when using a web site via HTTPS. They can see you send a request to the website but not what it contained.

You could also use a VPn or TOR if you want to hide your IP.
Why?

It is not like they ever had a different business model than making money out of userdata.

It is just the first time this is becoming a real story because somebody made it a bit too obvious.