skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really don't know how you can actually make a pothole worse by attempting to fix it.

My first thought would be using substandard or incorrect materials. Say, using concrete in an asphalt surface. You quasi cover this with your cardboard part of the comment. Perhaps an incorrect mix of aggregate to asphalt might have different thermal properties. If the pothole expanded more/faster than the surrounding material, it might make it a lot worse. Also, if your materials are not safe to drive on while setting (like my example, filling a hole with concrete). You'd also be endangering yourself and others while attempting such work as you'll be unsuitably marked and lanes won't be properly barricaded for your work.
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The people I knew that majored in biomedical engineering went on to med school... Probably one of those areas that is always in the news and science magazine but still too early to revolutionize life.

I remember when Dolly was cloned and we would have a whole new industry...
Has anyone used 'unlimited vacation' to work a 4 day week. Assuming work suitable, I'd be tempted work a longer Mon-Thur and take Fridays off.
We can also blame Nashville for taking the 'Western' out of 'Country & Western'.
> His secret weapon was his embrace of the computer at a time when most serious scientists thought computational work was beneath them.

They still think this.
I see. So there actually is a bit of magic involved.

I exist, therefore I can.
Lawyers can commission directly as captains in the USAF (and probably other branches) as long as they are not too old and can pass the fitness test. I think they also have to have passed a bar exam in one state, but it doesn't matter which one. They can get up to $65k of student loans repaid and don't even have to go through the same basic training as everyone else.

So (b) is slightly less trivial than saying a successful lawyer would not make captain in the military because most lawyers are one conversation, a few signatures, and one oath away from being a captain.

So don't delay lawyers, join today!
You are thinking of markets. Capitalism requires the state. Property rights do not enforce themselves.
Sure, she evicts, and gives it up for adoption. If it's viable, it gets adopted, or ends up in an orphanage. If it's not viable, it dies. But it's not her responsibility.
Really? If I killed all the remaining snowy owls you’d see that as morally equivalent to treating all my data as discoverable? I don’t see it.
What kind of intent?
You chose a funny example. A lawyer can make captain in the military just by signing on the dotted line, same with a doctor.
> human drivers all think they are far above average. And that’s the real problem.

This is often a joke, and there's some truth to it - people are often overconfident. But there certainly are individuals who think they are below average. It might be rare and still a market.
Last fiscal year MIT's investments earned a 14.3% profit or $1.86 in gains. The principle is now $14.8B. Agreed that 1.4% doesn't feel too crazy... http://news.mit.edu/2017/endowment-figures-2017-0908

Though curiously, MIT's own estimation of the new tax says it'll only cost $10M. If MIT really made $2.1B in one year on just investments, an extra $10M seems pretty manageable. (though this also seems far less than the 1.4% cited, so not sure what's going on).

Here's where MIT mentions the $10M in new taxes: http://news.mit.edu/2017/letter-regarding-new-federal-tax-bi...
I'm wondering if there's a MOOC that takes you from zero to being able to build a system that learns how to play such a game, maybe focusing a bit less on the math (especially the proofs). I took Andrew Ng's course on Coursera but I feel like the gap between what I know and what's needed for this contest is huge. Am I wrong?
Publishers front money (and having money often leads to needing more money) and provide a lot of expertise to get a game over the finish line.
Cointop – interactive terminal UI for crypto
You can say that about any company. But:

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets a $700,000 base salary, CFO David Wehner makes $650,000, and Chief Product Officer Chris Cox earns $625,000 as does CTO Mike Schroepfer.

I highly doubt you will ever have problem finding programmers or staf in general for even 40% of their salary.

https://www.cnet.com/news/it-costs-5m-to-keep-zuckerberg-saf...
Honestly they should consider bringing back the clone program. HP/Dell can sell me a workstation that runs OSX, that they update on their schedule, and I'll be happy. I don't want it pretty, I just want it functional.
As someone in data science this isn't a trend I particularly like. I suppose to some extent these jobs can be filtered out by requiring a salary that they're not willing to pay for that work.
And these two about Sandberg are the first ones that got downvoted. (But one of them just got upvoted, so... Touche Sandberg PR team. :)

The bracketed comments (so-called "commentary") are what drew the demerits I suspect, not the copy-paste. I apologise to anyone who was offended. No more sarcasm from me, and no more copy-paste, I promise.

Almost all other posts have gotten generous amounts of upvotes. None got downvotes.

HN has some ethical readers who are bolstering the faith I have in the future of the internet!

One post (the one about the story comparing FB to an engorged tick) got 98 upvotes.
Well they cater to the wealthy. Who else could afford adding 30% to their grocery bill every week? And the wealthy are better equipped to weather a downturn than anyone else.
The farming industry is a bit dangerous but that includes things not on the farm. Grain Elevators can kill you pretty quick. There are reasons some big ag companies take safety so seriously that standing on an office chair is a fireable offense.

Also, being a police officer, overall, isn’t as deadly as people think. Specific areas are though.
That insurance is provided by their alumni in government positions.
Explain to me how anarchy doesn't immediately lead to anarcho-capitalism?

They only way it doesn't is if you define capitalism to be some sort of corporatism ... which means you aren't "well read" as you put it.
For one thing, it claims to eliminate the speed arms race by setting a sufficiently long gap between auctions, but depends on a bizarre assumption that there are 2 speeds at which information can get to the market, each at a particular cost. I suspect this would be better modeled as continuous, which would imply that tuning the auction gap merely moves the clearing price for additional information speed.

It also doesn't cover the fact that it changes common exchange revenue streams; the necessary replacements would surely affect the market. Similarly, a lot of the more complex order types would no longer make sense, which would again have market effects.

A lot of this stuff is hard to figure out, though, and trying it in the real world isn't be an obviously bad idea.
> I have put the team on a hiatus while we reassess our path so that we can return to our vision. We are taking a break, but NOT ending the project.

Unless he's flat out lying, they're not shutting down.
The Most Powerful Mac Is 6 Years Old and Not Sold by Apple
I used Visual Assist X with VS2008 actually. Functionally it made things better but UX-wise it was a bit sluggish and glitch from what I remember. If I get a chance I'll check out the newer versions (thanks for mentioning it) but somehow I expect something again similar this time around haha.
The EU is no stranger to heavily regulating them https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight...
And deploy it...where? AWS, Azure, GCP and virtually all other providers have first class Docker and Kubernetes support. You can barely even host a Solaris VM anywhere today.
Here's the spot where I believe he got on A148 based on the description (heading east out of Holt, turned right around the bend where the road joins A148)
https://www.google.com/maps/search/holt/@52.9119877,1.114502...

I used streetview to follow along the road, it is a 2-lane that has sporadic houses and somewhat wooded, there is a sidewalk on the left side or the road. Speed limit signs say 30 km/h (so just under 20 Mph). After the residential area (1.3 km), it opens up to mostly farm field for another 1.5 km, then it hits another residential spot.
So the description of "just winding through the gears" would put it probably at the end of the first group of houses, where it makes sense that residents would be walking (there is a payphone and a bus shelter in the middle of that stretch of road).
I had Instacart express for a year (it was $99/year).

I cancelled it after a year. If I want nothing but dry goods, I'll get them on Prime Now: the Instacart shoppers couldn't buy the produce at the quality that I would expect it to be for that price...so, I just go to Whole Foods and buy my own groceries now.
You can’t skim a chip card and just use it. The terminal can tell from the data on the magstripe that you need to be using the chip. So it would be worth less on any EMV enabled to terminal.

You could only use it on terminals that have EMV turned off or never supported it. Like gas pumps.

I don’t know EXACTLY what it is on the mag stripe that tells the terminal to use EMV mode, if anyone knows I’d love to hear it.
> to your knowledge

Well yeah but good luck proving PARC was a secret defense contractor. We can cherry pick examples of tech or benefits all day. A few good defense ones doesn't mean defense is good.

You can have an oppressive government and still have a lot of good come out of it. China is amazing. Their people still aren't free. In fact you can have a murderous military and still have benefits to humanity emerge. The military is still there to kill people and I'd rather not be part of that.

Projects were chosen as examples of countries that are American rivals, for effect and the benefit of US readers. Fun well-funded Chinese research projects might one day kill you. I would be as unhappy working on a defense project for any country, including my own. the point was "someone on the other side might have the same justifications".

We'd all be better off if the world sent more defense money to other parts of our lives. It's not the defense aspect that makes the projects good or possible, it's that defense has our money. Send the money directly to tech or research, same benefits would emerge.

We can't change our countries' budgets but we can stop idolising the military as funder. Sure DARPA but they hooked up a few universities. Pics of cats and porn (probably not military but good luck proving otherwise) took us the rest of the way.

> Black and white vibes

Play the ball not the man
http://jmlr.org/papers/v15/srivastava14a.html
And I don’t think Cook has shirked his responsibility and has come out repeatedly to state that they think it is a problem and they’re always working to improve it. That is why amongst the major tech companies they have published supplier responsibility reports regularly. https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/
These people who existed “prior to capitalism”, what political and economic model did they have?
Hopefully this means I'll get more investor subsidized groceries!
It's a neat idea, but for public signage, I'm not sure there's much value in aligning the braille dots with the visible characters. Tactile letters and visual type can coexist quite easily on the same area without interfering much with each other, so what's the problem?

I could definitely see this as an aid to learning braille, I just don't see it causing a big change in accessible signage.
This seems like an excellent move for Stripe. Lowering the barrier to entry for anyone trying to get into the SaaS (or really Anything-aaS) field by making recurring billing easier strikes me a great move for their bottom line.
That's exactly what I meant when I said it's nothing to be ashamed of, somebody's gotta do it. Just don't kid yourself that it makes you ethical. Sure, you could argue that you're "better than the other guy" or "they started it", but that's a pretty low bar. It just means you're both unethical.
Something I've always wondered is how blind people discover braille on placards in public spaces, given the seeming random placement of signage and the unreliability of signage to include braille.
Cases like this are why I think the general public vastly overestimate the capabilities of government surveillance. These same people work at NSA, CIA, etc.

Not to insult the intelligence of these fine agency folk; my point is security is only as strong as its weakest link. And whether public or private, people can make some very weak choices.
Interesting because coin miners use webassembly and Google appears to have gone after raw js hashing algorithms.
>The real comparison is against number of employees who choose to commit suicide at their employers premise / number of employees.

A very large proportion of Chinese factory workers (including a majority of Foxconn workers) live in company-owned dormitories located on or near the factory site. Most Chinese factory workers are internal migrants from poorer northern and central provinces. These workers generally prefer dormitory accommodation, because it allows them to save a larger proportion of their salary towards their future plans.

You would only be comparing like-with-like if Google provided on-site housing at the Googleplex to a majority of their workers.
Interesting. My mother has worked on a similar system for awhile, embracing some of the more technical nuance of braille (like contractions and math and such)
http://dotlessbraille.org/
which was inspired by her father's work (my grandfather) on a what he called "Braille for the sighted" or "kobographs" (his initials are KOB)
http://www.dotlessbraille.org/kobographs.htm
Back in the 1980s everyone had root access in the Minix lab at school. It was kind of necessary to do the assignments for operating systems class.
The simple truth behind this is the fact that 2-3 grams of pure fentanyl painted on a card with a little water and dried will fit in a standard business envelope and be virtually non detectable. It can also be sent as powder in plastic bags?? Since a dose is 1/3 of a milligram of pure drug this is 6000-9000 doses. This traffic is made of many of these small letters, that look like simple mail.
Detection? Put the mail in standard cartons, then heat them with - I would suggest an in-line microwave oven, mounted to heat all envelopes with some sort of detector, mass spec or trained dog/rat etc sample the air they give off when a 5 pound vacuum is drawn on a box of letters. This will ID one box, and all those letters can be sniffed in detail. Frequency of the microwave? Some lab tests will show what frequency excites Fentantyl to give off fumes. This sort of setup needs to be tested first to determine if it is practical. The boxes can also be screen for any metal shielding, like aluminium foil, which is easily detectable by a radar like microwave beam of another frequency.
I think a determined experimental RF lab would be able to find some sort of method??

Of course, the smugglers will engage in counter methods, once a method is found to catch the smuggled drugs.

It can be used on many other drugs as well,.
Good call out, but what would be even better is seeing the difference between 2015 and 2018. Does anyone have any screenshots from back then?
arbitrary motion collision is almost zero, the dots are several orders of magnitude larger than proper scale would be. But still "high enough to require taking into account when putting something else into orbit".
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Check out https://contest.openai.com/details

I'm not sure how different those skills are from an AI development point of view though, why do you think they are?
> Derived from the popular Helvetica Neue font

I’m not really seeing the resemblance. Could someone enlighten me? Also, would this lead to licensing restrictions?
>Lets say Google has 100,000 employees. How many Google employees commit suicide at the Googleplex per year?

Google employees don't live at the Googleplex so that's not valid.

If you want to compare them to other companies you would either need to include suicide off campus of the other companies or exclude suicide off-shift at Foxconn.
Sometimes will backfire if you are not 'authorized' to even do that, by the service you are cancelling.
Yes I have thought about it, and I do think "thinking about it" brings me tons of cool ideas about what you can do with it.

But the problem is, there's a huge difference between a cool idea and actual execution, just like Apple's Newton flopped but decades later iPhone succeeded.

I use Ableton pro to make music, I use final cut to make video. I'm pretty sure I fall into the "creative class" of people you're referring to, but I never use any of the touchbar features that ship with the apps unless I'm forced to. It's much faster to use keyboard shortcuts, and I'm sure most "pro" users are already much better with the shortcuts that they don't need the touchbar features.

I'm not saying the idea is bad. It's just a horrible execution.

Since you say you're a creative professional, let me ask you, do you actually use any of these features and think these really improved your life significantly? I'm not talking about imagination, i'm talking about actual product. In my case it's much more of a trouble than any real benefit.
Not slaves.
“Right now we can’t do what we want...”

What is it you want to do that you’re not allowed to?

Also, why are anarchist teaming up with communist in order to limit free speech?

I’m specifically talking about Antifa trying to stop a jew (Shapiro) and a gay man married to a black man (Milo) from speaking at Berkeley?

Do anarchists support free speech or not?
True. It’s about culture ultimately. Unlimited PTO doesn’t mean good culture or bad culture automatically.
> Capitalism is the natural product of freedom.

This is true in the sense that it is the natural products of a very specific conception of property rights that was advanced by the commercial class (they became the capitalist class) for their own benefit, and for which, several centuries after the model began becoming dominant in Western Europe “natural rights” justifications were concocted.

> It is not a designed system, it is an emergent system.

It wasn't “designed” in the sense of deep theory and engineering, and it is “emergent” in the sense that it is a product of individual advantage seeking by members of a particular social group.
Squeaky clean mice could be ruining research
> moreso than ten years ago, too!

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californi...

Generally steady or downward trend since 2002.
To be fair I can appreciate the technical analysis of a security issue. The marketing is useless and just plain stupid
Who gives a shit about your content?
I used Instacart in the past, and ran into many issues with them.

There may not be enough stock for one of your choices, and in that case it is up to the delivery person to pick a replacement.

Even if you ask for no replacements, or to be called in order to pick one over the phone, they may ring you (just to comply with the requirement of calling you) and then select a random replacement. If you happen to have allergies or dietary restrictions: good luck winning the replacement lottery.

I canceled an order because I was notified that 80% of my order wasn't in stock, and they unilaterally reactivated my order for another time, which happened to be a time where I was not available.

This is when I finally decided to switch to Amazon Fresh. To this date, I have had no incidents with them, especially with respect to stock. The only problems I've had with Fresh are:

- Once, they delivered slightly late and I got $10 credit for my next order.

- A few times some items were damaged. Got in contact with customer support and got a refund for all the damaged items.
Didn't realize people were actually using it. Renewed now, sorry for the downtime. I welcome feedback if anyone has any recommendations on how to improve the service.
Same story with Stanford and SRI. Stanford admins didn't like the optics of supporting the military so that was split into the Stanford Research Institute one caltrain stop away and suddenly everything was fine.
Deadly force IS a proportional response to a home invasion - in both the moral and legal sense.

Its not the victim's obligation to quiz the home invader on their intentions before they act to protect themselves, their family and/or their property. A person knowingly and foreseeably puts their own life up for forfeit by invading another's home... and for what - a material crime, as you say? (But I hope we all acknowledge that the stakes are often far more serious and irrevocable than having your ipad stolen while you sleep).

The big open secret here is, no government today or in the past has had a monopoly on deadly force (nor will they ever). They only have a monopoly on punishing deadly force via the judicial system.

Deadly force can be legally prohibited and morally justified. It can be legally justified and morally abhorrent.
I'm seeing more and more people these days reference the Franklin quote in the context of computing. I've used it myself, and I believe it started gaining in popularity shortly after the rise of Secure Boot. A sign of the times indeed.

That said, I'm all for preventing remote attacks; it's when people start thinking about locking the actual user out of the computer he/she owns that makes me offended.
I’d suggest that you perform even the most cursory level of research via Google.

In the United States, agriculture is one of the most dangerous occupational categories. Fatality rate is 7x higher than all workers in private industry, and injury rate is 40% higher than all workers. Additionally, exposure to farm chemicals results in long term health effects.

In China, safety standards are poor in agriculture and often unregulated, so no reliable statistics exist. That said, with reduced mechanization and poor working standards, injuries and deaths are likely far higher.
I think the visualizations are remarkably inuitive. A rarity for the net.
Say I'm a cashier at a retail location. All I need to do is say our system is down, carbon-copy-swipe your card number, CCV, and expiration date. You'll give me your Zip code and billing address when I ask for them "to verify the transaction with the card issuer later on when the system comes back online." I don't need your signature since that requirement is gone now. I can sell that CC info for money or I can make a few fraudulent purchases online where no card is required to be present.

Card fraud is embarrassingly easy in the USA if you're in the right position of employment, even in lower rungs of employment.
>> Computer programs do not always work as expected

True which is why I try to test until I'm blue in the face.
This is awesome, congrats! I'd love to be able to send invoice emails, and/or retrieve links for invoice PDFs and list those in your application for download (or re-sending of email). Seems a bit bizarre as the infrastructure for emails, and generation of the PDFs are clearly in place, just missing the bits to tie those two together.
Which is odd because it is literally half that value... And had dropped dramatically from 750 billion.
“Wage slavery” as it is often used is a bad term that takes away from the fact that there are more total people in slavery or forced labor than ever before in the history of the world. Chattel slavery is repugnant and debases all moral people. Working a shitty job for low pay and an asshole boss sucks but is a difference in kind, not degree.
You linked to the original dropout paper. What’s “inverse dropout”?
Got curious, found it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heESAW2addo
Sounds like pure speculation (unless grandparent has more info to share).

As far as I know, the project's scope grew out of control so the project was put on hold for several weeks.

But it is now worked on again, with the initial, smaller scope but the new engine.