skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't lay blame. You seem to have misread my comment or conflated it with GP. I was just saying that Trump's election doesn't demonstrate a decline in environmentalism among the electorate.
Not sure how that could be the philosophy of any self-driving car company?

That'd be extremely foolish. And regardless of the dumb things the previous Uber CEO has done in the past and the big deal people are making over a $150 license, they have still hired some of the best engineers in the world.

You basically have to find the brightest-of-the-brightest to build AI... and Uber pays very well and puts plenty of effort into recruiting that talent.

Not to mention the massive PR and monetary risks that are inherent in killing people with your products. That would make any company highly risk-adverse.
I am not the OP, but this numbers are not confirming the optimistic view that self driving cars are better, so if we do not have numbers that show that are better and even with a human driver inside we had a few incidents then the number without human driver inside would have been larger, so how should we determine that the self driving car X is ready to be released on public roads for testing? At least we should have some basic tests done by an impartial authority.
I don't even think it sounds that neat. Just silly.

3D TV's, on the other hand, I love and am very sad that they're now not being produced... Just when the size and resolution of TVs is getting good enough to make them worthwhile.
> Inkscape could be it, but it would need heavy work on stabilizing it

Stabilizing in what way? I did all the artwork for my last company over the course of ~6 years and can't remember the last time I had a crash. Debian packages.
I've heard the "MeToo" movement, with its guilt by accusation, is having unintended consequences. Male executives are starting to avoid women employees in any situation where there are not other people present.

This means no going out for drinks to make a deal, no business lunch to brainstorm, no meeting on the golf course to pitch your plan. Not even a discussion of confidential matters in the private office of one or the other.
I'm not sure that's the point you want to make, an order of magnitude making Uber 2.5x more dangerous still.
Sure drop me an email via my company website and ask away :)
Schmitt, Lothar M (2001), Theory of Genetic Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science 259: 1–61

Schmitt, Lothar M (2004), Theory of Genetic Algorithms II: models for genetic operators over the string-tensor representation of populations and convergence to global optima for arbitrary fitness function under scaling, Theoretical Computer Science 310: 181–231
A sample size of 1 is completely meaningless.
Yeah. Very eye opening how many of my friends in my age group (early and mid 20s) outside of the tech industry work. And none of them bat an eye - "That's just how it is".
If I don't have a facebook account and the facebook app is installed on my phone by cell provider but I've disabled it does it still do this?
He said he's never seen one, not that they don't exist.
I’d be a little cautious about going 150,000 miles without changing brake fluid. It does break down due over time and of course due to heating and cooling which can lead to sudden brake failure. Brake lines are also made of rubber in all but performance cars and can deteriorate/degrade independent of the fluid.

In an EV it’s possible this could happen when needed most as the brakes are used much less frequent than an ICE car.
Opsec is hard - you only need to fuck up once...
How long ago was this?
mmh... I'm unsure about what to think. Reduced ribs, crest and pelvis shape suggest more a small monkey without tail than a human to me. Is too tiny for having calcified bones yet. Some things suggest human foetus, not stillborn. Other are not easy to explain.
We interfere all the time in foreign elections, and so many countries tried to influence ours I don’t see anything innately wrong with it. Other than possibly the fact they played a little dirty. So did the DNC (per emails), the RNC (because why would they be better?), and many political groups.

Unless Trump made a deal with them to do so, this looks like business as usual to me.
Companies also tend to settle frivolous lawsuits because it's cheaper. Not giving feedback is not leaving any opening for frivolous lawsuits over the reason given.
Most policies are long term. You can't win this game if your timeline is 2 yrs or you just give up assuming in the long term we are all doomed.
If I were China I'd be cultivating a friendly chip fab for my high assurance platforms. There's no way China trusts Intel or AMD chips for classified processing.
There is ISO26262 for automotive about safety.

Yes, there are reviews, QA, and all of that. So, yes, there is no single person responsible (exceptions apply).

But there is no excuse for using 3rd party libs. Just don't use it. If you not know: do not use it.

That is the reason, why certifications are for. The same rules apply for medical and other areas.
Didn’t IBM make exactly this same mistake thirty five years ago with PCs??
Stuff like this is why P.Engs should be required in certain software fields
The other missing part is that it is the human driver who is responsible. This is a test vehicle and their job is to be ready to take over at any time as if they are driving.

It seems unlikely that the Police will find any fault because they probably don't want to have to file a criminal charge against the driver, but that is who it would go against if there was fault.
So you yourself have no expertise but are still going ahead with making an assertion and your bet is that if you are wrong others will pile in.

At least try to be reasonable.
I can't really say for certain, but the idea of a boring, average American life in the 90s/early 2000s was having a 9-5 job and watching TV after you finished work. I haven't seen a posting for a 9-5 job in years. But I see 8-5, 9-6, and increasingly 8-6 and beyond. You get a "lunch break", but don't stroll off too far just in case we need you (wink wink). Then once work's "over", many people are called in for extra hours or expected to answer messages no matter what time of day. And good luck getting paid any sort of overtime.

America seems to be trending towards the Asian model of work.
How does this contribute to revenue for youtube though? Certainly they will be using it to drive increase ad revenue, but the data collection of itself does not pay the bills.
And some languages, frameworks, OS and kernels have more vulnerabilities than others. That's what parent is saying.
I worked for a company who was sued because a candidate told us he was the second coming of Christ. We didn't really address it, and ended up not hiring him. He used The fact that he mentioned it as grounds for religious discrimination.

He didn't win, but we still had lawyer costs and what not. It is not an overblown fear at all.
Engineers aren’t in charge. Unlike lawyers, surgeons, even dental hygienists, they aren’t making the calls.
Obligatory: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

If you want error-free software you need a blameless culture based around process, not individual ownership of code. It should not even be possible for an error to be one individual's mistake, because by the time it hits the road it should have gone through endless code review and testing cycles.
I don't quite see lithium battery tech to be a market dominating advantage.

Case in point - despite branding Gigafactory is at least in part a Panasonic operation. Don't believe me? See panasonic annual report:

https://www.panasonic.com/global/corporate/ir/pdf/panasonic_...

Largest lithium battery supplier in the world? Panasonic.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/235323/lithium-batteries...

BMW doesn't need experience in batteries - they'll buy them from a battery manufacturer.

The real difference here is that BMW can afford a wait and see approach for another year or so. Tesla is all-in committed right now & it has to work out asap since they're making huge losses. For each dollar in sales they're incurring 1.3 in costs. Which brings us back full circle to BMW's comment:

>"not profitable enough to scale up for volume production"
That 7k was very hard earned. I basically existed much like a pauper despite having a steady job. The amount felt like a lot to me back then too. 4 months later, I realised how little it was! If anything it made me realise how undervalued I was at work.
Ask HN: What companies not in West Coast have a West Coast-like company culture?
I'm just curious to know about any non-West Coast companies that have the "West Coast mentality" of people looking at the stars rather than their feet. They tend to focus far more on building capital, growing very quickly, and moonshots, and more likely to offer shares to their employees in the form of RSUs due to their more risky odds of success. Perhaps they are mostly founded by transplants from that region?
need to read more steinbeck. i liked both grapes of wrath and travels with charlie, the only books of his i've read.
Running a Scalable and Reliable GraphQL Endpoint with Serverless Part III
Interesting question is if the LIDAR was not being used because of the settlement with Google and agreement not to use any of the contested tech.
Now the panel warms up instead of the area underneath. What's the difference?
If I were a state AG, I’d bring a lawsuit based on the parens patriae provision. In the parens patriae context, where you’re suing on behalf of the public generally, the fact that the provider may not know about any specific instance of sex trafficking doesn’t help much. The argument is that the service is facilitating sex trafficking that affects residents of the state, and the service knows either that’s happening (in general) or is being willfully blind by not policing content.

I think that’s excessive, I don’t think services should have to moderate or police user generated content.
Ask HN: What's the Craziest Thing Your Insurance Has Covered?
There are reasons for everything. The liability isn't so great that is outweighs the benefit; it's simply that the corporation ascribes 0 value to helping the candidate improve.
Buying the perfect hardware for your workload works really well when you have a couple million boxes to run it. POWER9 has the insanely fast NVLink to connect to specialized silicon Google has enough volume to design and build.

Where it can make a substantial dent in the x86 server is precisely this HPC niche. A 10% faster $300 box is worth $30 more, hardly enough to warrant extra work, but a 10% faster $10 million dollar machine is worth a million more.
That's non-responsive to the comment you replied to:

> "if you don't like it, find somewhere else."

>> don't give your best efforts to the place you're at
Cambridge and Oxford have excellent AI people too (e.g. Ghahramani now on leave from Cambridge to Uber, or Frank Wood in Oxford).

Besides, some Scandinavian universities have excellent professors, they will pay you a great salary (not a stipend!) and you will graduate quickly. I'd rather look for an excellent advisor than for a great university if I had to compromise a bit.
Trump’s new security advisor John Bolton also relied on Cambridge Analytica
Bad example, Surface >>>> Kindle. Putting windows on their tablet is absolutely the right decision. Missing out on the tiny ebook reading market is pretty irrelevant for MS.
I don’t understand why they don’t allow user to get a prompt and opt-in to the study.
X11 is a silly thing to spend time on :P

So turns out it's easy to turn off X11 in the build files https://github.com/myfreeweb/krita-wayland/commit/8ab43e3e1c... and it does work on Wayland now!
Oh for sure, but at least they are claiming something that passes the smell test technically. I read some of the BS reports that firms have put out, often they made their conclusion first (since they were paid on that basis) and connected the dots like /r/pizzagate to prove it.
The fact we've replaced (or added) one form of bubbles with another does not make criticizing the other any less valid.
Yep.

The "if you give them an inch they'll take a mile" philosophy applies. My wife tends to try and accommodate, and it has meant she isn't respected in her current position.

Meanwhile, same company, I've made it clear that I have boundaries. I may allow some time after my usual working hours; if I do, I will leave early/arrive late the next day. I'm not putting in over 40 hours, and -I- get to determine when my schedule changes.

And, perversely, it's led to greater recognition, promotion, etc. The fact I act like I am in control leads people to believe I am, and should be given, control.
> These are not amateurs. They should know better.

Yeah, in every field there are lots of cases where people end up saying this because professionals who should know better don't. Or cut corners because of resource constraints. Or, just screw up something they actually do know. Or...
Could not agree with you more. Satisfaction is lacking in so many aspects of the modern work environment.
You aren't their target market share. They are focusing solely on the HPC Market at this point. Their lowest in shape has 16 cores. Contrast that with a xeon at 6 cores. I think you were hoping that they have a desktop processor that you could play around with the actual architecture on. That would be nice, but they likely don't want to put all their eggs in too many baskets right now.
Not necessarily, on age at least. The article just states:

> After death, DNA disintegrates into fragments, which become smaller over the centuries. Ata’s DNA fragments are still large, another clue that she’s less than 500 years old.
I think the company must pay a lot if a failure happens, if NASA makes a mistake that will costs so they make sure to think hard, have good processes and do a lot of testing.

From what we seen so far the Uber car failed to detect an obstacle, we also had Tesla crash where the car did not seen a truck so it is obvious that there are some major issues that are not tested for. They need to have better tests and maybe get better security drivers inside the cars so they don't text on the phone on the job.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...

"Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's"
"Power 9 may dent x86 servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent test IBM systems"

For those like me whose comprehension was hindered by all the upper casing.
That seems like exactly the unit. Just like when measuring rainfall, the amount collected scales with the area of the equipment.

If you live in a desert, you're not trying to measure the water. You're trying to drink it.
The article addresses this too, favorably. So I take it you're gainsaying the article but it's not quite clear just why.
English numbers aren't much harder.

englishNumbers n = ten9 !! (n - 1)
where infixr 7 <<>>
(<<>>) = liftA2 (<>)
ten1 = ["one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine"]
ten2 = ten1 <> ["ten", "eleven", "twelve"] <> (["thir", "four"] <> prefixes) <<>> ["teen"] <> (["twen", "thir", "for"] <> prefixes) <<>> ["ty"] <<>> ([[]] <> ten1)
where prefixes = ["fif", "six", "seven", "eigh", "nine"]
ten3 = ten2 <> ten1 <<>> ["hundred"] <<>> ([[]] <> ten2)
ten6 = ten3 <> ten3 <<>> ["thousand"] <<>> ([[]] <> ten3)
ten9 = ten6 <> ten3 <<>> ["million"] <<>> ([[]] <> ten6)
While pointing fingers at Russia or impeaching Trump may be the options that feel good at the moment, I hope this is an opportunity to make sure something like this never happens again.

This is a pipe dream and I'm not sure this is even possible, but I think the best outcome of this is to pass legislation to try and ensure that:

1. Political campaigns don't engage in the type of behaviour in the first place, and

2. Make communications more public in general - official campaigns of people running for public office must operate under the light of greater public scrutiny

Democracy is only possible if accurate information is available, and the biggest takeaway for me in the last elections was just how many secrets all political players have.
It’s amusing to watch that as the walls close in, you guys are gradually changing your story from “There was no collusion!” to “There was collusion... but it’s no big deal”. Should I expect you’ll be fully switched over, with no acknowledgement a shift ever occurred, by the time Muller hands out indictments?
If humans then were anything like us, they were looking up at night. If it happened at night, I bet someone saw it.
If you scroll through the replies, he does admit to opting into a feature to integrate SMS and phone with Messenger [1].

No doubt there's a permissions/version and facebook-overstepping-ethics conversation to have here (as always), but this isn't as major as the title implies. It does seem like Facebook continuing using permissions after he opted-out.

[1] https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976825435026735104
Understood. I think the idea that it could be traced back to the GRU is highly likely, though I do have some trouble with the idea they were able to identify a specific agent based on the IP address - what, does Russia assign static IPs to each and every agent in the office? Of course, there could have been more legwork we're not told about, or this could be a case of parallel construction, but who knows.

I did want to point out the sourcing either way, though. It's really distressing to me the way anonymous sourcing has really taken off lately, and that most people appear to be entirely credulous despite the lessons we learned back during the Bush administration. It rarely even gets questioned, though even the past year in particular has served up frequent and egregious object lessons of why anonymous government sources cannot simply be taken at their word. The sad fact of the matter is that the vast majority of anonymous sources are not leaking information to edify the American people. They are leaking information because they have an agenda.

That doesn't mean that we can simply ignore them. Sometimes the information is false, sometimes critical context is left out, but sometimes it is true and extremely important. It means we have to consider what they say very carefully and why they might be saying it.
Bitbucket Cloud PM here. We'd love to see more usage of Bitbucket (both Cloud and Server) by GitLab users.

As williamchia mentioned above, it's possible to configure GitLab builds for a Bitbucket Cloud or Server repository via webhooks and our build status API today. We're open to helping build better integration, but given the APIs already exist, it would mainly be a project on the GitLab side.
Where did they publish "IP-to-street address" yellow books for GRU ? Is the same data available for CIA ? For MI6 ?

You know, trying to convince specifically knowledgeable audience isn't something you can do easily .
When I was in college, I interviewed for an internship with the CIA. The 2012 interview was for a 2014 summer internship, and they told me I couldn’t smoke pot between now and then. Given how many talented coders I knew at Stanford who had smoked pot at least once in a year, that seemed insane to me.

Instead, I went to work at Apple where people practically smoked in the office.
For increased accuracy, one can displace the overlay slightly and measure again, and take the average of multiple measurements.
I was not speaking of inflicting suffering, but of experiencing it. Views on inflicting suffering and ethics, of course, are affected by a mindset which places value on suffering. It leads to things like the church opposing development of vaccines, of which they have always been among the staunchest opponents. Even as recently as the 1990s, the chaplain of the CDC in the US publicly stated that he would actively fight against the development of any kind of vaccine for HIV. Luckily I don't think he really had much influence in deciding what was to be researched or developed. But it is also quite easy to tell one's self that any suffering caused might not be all bad and might even be part of some greater plan if one considers experiencing suffering to have inherent value.
You're right, the paper linked above is a different way of solving the same problem. In their case they use a model to decide which website variants to show. Their model accounts for independent effects and pairwise dependencies. Evolution allows you to optimize without needing an explicit model.

I don't think they account for potentially changing conversion rates over time or delayed conversions.

Aside from that, I'd be curious to see how these two approaches compare in a real-life situation.
In the short term, yes, but the moment someone else gets a self driving car they’ll be destroyed.
Ugh, Harley Davidson is a company that sells awful, antiquated products at jacked up prices.

Say what you want about how much BMW charges, they make very technologically advanced cars and charge accordingly.

Their major fault is they tend to use very very expensive parts and overengineer everything to a fault. This tends to make them less reliable and very expensive to repair.

Case in point, the very popular and well loved BMW N54 engine used 6 piezo fuel injectors to move massive amounts of fuel. Each injector costs almost $300 at an online parts store. For comparison, a Honda Civic injector generally costs 1/5th the price.

https://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-207715-13538648937-genuin...
>So then, if Russian Intelligence is responsible for helping to expose a significant criminal conspiracy in the US...

Please point to any "significant criminal conspiracy" which was exposed, and which laws it was in violation of, if possible.

And for bonus points, please tell us why Trump hasn't thrown Hillary into prison yet, as promised.
There need to be clear consequences, to serve as a deterrent. Having a functioning democracy is a core interest of the United States, so the consequences should be severe.