skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to guess it's the potential the technology has. In the US in 2016 almost 40,000 people died in car accidents and millions were injured [1]. Also the average commute round trip in the US is almost an hour [2].

Self-driving cars have the potential to eliminate a great deal of human suffering AND unlock a ton of productive time that has been held up in commuting (back of the napkin calculations suggest tens of millions of hours). If we consider what could be done with all of that lost human potential, the value of self-driving cars is staggering.

Disclaimer: That doesn't mean that self-driving cars shouldn't be made and developed in safe and properly regulated ways. But the promise of the technology likely makes the engineers working on them feel a bit better.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

[2] - https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html#5.00/42...
Caring For–and Expanding–Berkeley’s Hidden Network of Hillside Paths
Hi Evan, I've sent you an email
Coinbase still didn't implement transaction batching.
Whenever Bitcoin's price drops for a few months the company forgets that its system needs to be solid and scale 10x for the next bull run. They should be already be preparing for Schnorr signatures support (not a year after it's in production). There's a lot of things they could do to solidify their business instead of spraying money around.
Some relevant past discussions on similar articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14537650 ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15492795
Apart from actual slavery with chains and guns, often the people suffering are suffering less doing the productive work than they would be otherwise because they do it by choice. So you could equally say "reducing human suffering has brought us all the things we love". Even when people die, they've taken a risk doing the dangerous job instead of whatever else which was worse. Anyone who drives to work is doing that - you could stay home unemployed or risk death in a car crash to make money.
"It's not too hard to imagine…" isn't exactly the same as saying "It's true that…". I don't have hard evidence, but it's not hard to imagine VirnetX being manipulated behind the scenes by the US government. Similar circumstances have happened in the past.
> It is a well-documented fact that Apple products are built through the exploitation of laborers in foreign factories, who must work deplorable hours for pitiable wages.

It's also pretty well documented that Apple does at least as much as, and usually for more than, any other major consumer electronics company to make its suppliers improve working conditions and wages.

I'm curious how Apple compares to whoever made the computer the author used to type that article, or whoever made the author's mobile phone.
Wow, I’m surprised at how hard they had to work to set the case ablaze. I wonder what kind of alloy it was made out of that made ignition so hard.
I also work in AI/ML field (deep learning), and usually I don't care if the paper has corresponding code or not. I read papers to find good ideas. If I find it, I can implement it myself. I rarely need more than a couple of days to test an idea (e.g. Hinton's capsules model took 4-5 hours to implement). The benefits of own implementation should be obvious.

If something important is missing or does not make sense, I usually just email the first author. Usually they respond within a couple of days, and unlike looking at code, I can also get an explanation of why they did it that way.

In fact, I don't even usually care that much about stated results (such as improvements in state of the art).

Things that matter are: deep insight into a problem, new angle to look at something, discovery of a new phenomenon, high quality explanation, practical tricks to save resources, and comprehensive prior/related work review. That's why I read papers.
Boot camps are stupid.

Go to community college. It's ridiculously cheap, and the credits are worth something.
Sorry, I may have been unclear. If you've already paid outside of the native app Apple won't prevent users from accessing the content (Netflix is an example of this). The rule only applies to purchasing within the app itself. Apple requires that if your app allows a user to purchase digital goods it must be via an IAP. There's no restriction on users accessing content they've already payed for elsewhere.

Somewhat related: It doesn't seem to be the case anymore but I have the distinct recollection of paying for Hulu through the iPad app as an IAP at a subscription price of $13.99/month only to discover Hulu was charging $11.99/month if purchased through their site. I think Apple cracked down on folks with different IAP pricing vs. direct subscription pricing, but for a while it was a very frustrating effect of the 30% cut that you're forced to give to Apple if you want to allow any in-app subscription on an Apple device.

Edit: I was right, they just recently dropped it when they rolled out their redesign

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/21/hulu-apple-itunes-billi...
Fossil (http://fossil-scm.org/) has been doing very similar for a while in plain C, it ships statically-linked and includes a CLI and a web UI. (not in React, however)
I never said it stands for "professional developer". I am also pretty sure any "professional" designer knows their shortcuts and does not need to look at the touch bar, nevermind the executive. How are executives going to use a touch bar in a useful way? Adding emojis in their email conversation?
That's fair -- the Morris Worm was an early demonstration that user-hostile software could easily make everyone's life worse. It still sucks that, as modern coders, most of our lives will be spent either producing or defending against hostile software.
It might not be a coincidence that it's common in financial firms to have lunch brought to your desk.
I haven't had much luck using Instacart at all. At my last job we would order normal sized bottled water for our office fairly regularly and 9/10 times they would bring the tiny bottles. Also they claim on their website that "Fresh produce picked perfectly" but this couldn't be further from the truth. The produce you get seems to be chosen at random and is often mediocre or bad.

Seems likely that the shoppers are under too much pressure to rush so that they can barely earn a living and this leads to much lower quality for the customer.
"We've seen a few advertisers pause with us and they're asking the same questions that other people are asking," Sandberg said Thursday in an interview at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. "They want to make sure they can use data and use it safely."

Sandberg said she is having "reassuring conversations with advertisers, just as we are with people," about how Facebook has built privacy into its system.

[ This is very reassuring. ]

The company makes almost all its revenue and profit from advertising.

[ This too. ]

...

In a wide-ranging interview, Sandberg discussed the company's shifting responsibilities as it thinks about what can go wrong with its network, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations.

[ "Shifting responsibilities". Hmmm. ]

...

The company will also apply new European user-privacy rules globally, Sandberg said.

While the service may look different depending on the country, "the fundamental core principles of those settings and controls we are going to apply all over the world," she said. "Whether or not laws are passed."

[ Why does it need to "look different"? Less confusing that way I guess. ]

Separately, in an interview with Emily Chang of Bloomberg Television, Sandberg took the blame for not ensuring that Facebook's operations were staffed at the right level to protect users' privacy and for failing to look at security issues in total rather than dealing with specific problems as they arose.

"We also didn't build our operations fast enough, and that's on me," Sandberg said, explaining that the company will have 20,000 people working on security by year's end.

[ How brave to take the blame, considering the repercussions for this sort of negligence or carelessness with respect to privacy in the US are... nonexistent. ]

Source:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-05/facebook-...
Do you know of a way to automatically delete all my likes and posts?

I'd like to not delete my Facebook account because my Spotify account is linked to it.
That's what businesses like Avalara are trying to do, but the EU VAT rules are such a mess that even the specialist businesses trying to do it still haven't nailed it several years later.
Are the costco prices based on their warehouse pricing or their online pricing? I've seen lots of items that are up to 50% cheaper in the store than what they advertise online.
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“Given the technology that’s inside them,” consultant Heidi Beatty said, “they are super cheap.”

Talk about being full of shit!
Hope they keep some for lawyers...
South Korea Detains Cryptocurrency Executives on Embezzlement Allegations
This is sort of bizarre to me.
I say this because I use uBlock to remove everything but the newsfeed. The screen shots shown on that extension page is basically the inverse of what I have...

How do you engage with Facebook at all?
Actual revenue, or just market trading volume? If the latter, $1bn sounds like a lot but actually isn’t really.
FWIW I love that Baremetrics has a live demo as well and it's what turned me towards them in the first place. But I don't understand what you mean by "simpler pricing". Profitwell is literally free, I don't get how that's not simpler pricing.

They do have an opt-in "Recover" product, just like Baremetrics, which is priced exactly the same way as Baremetrics.
I built a PC out of rope and wood [video]
If you're talking about the video, audio, photo, 3D, etc. markets, then maybe, though I'm really skeptical. I think sales of the Mac Pro have probably been sliding for awhile and Apple is turning their attention to it. I doubt there's some cataclysmic cliff or that it can't be turned around.

Regardless, this doesn't have much to do with the macOS / iOS dev market, which is what I was responding to. No chance that there are a bunch of big dev shops that got fed up with not having the Pro desktop / laptop hardware from Apple that they want and decided they'd rather just abandon the Apple customer base rather than deal with it. The value of that customer base is huge, and those dev shops will go through a lot to reach it.

"Our business has always been building apps for iOS and Android, but we don't like that we can't expand the memory in the iMac Pro, so we're just building Android apps from now on, even though more than half of our clients and customers are on iOS."

No way.
Yeah. I find it weird that when people dream up the "best" social structure, it's often explained by a simple overarching philosophy. How convenient would it be that the entire complexity of human society can be ideally governed by a small set of principles?

It's always "only capitalism" or "only communism" or "no money" or "no government" or etc etc.

It seems pretty obvious to me that the optimal solution isn't based purely on some philosophical idea about how things 'should' be (whatever 'should' even means!), but instead would be a pragmatic, adaptive solution based on what actually happens and works on a case-by-case basis.

It would be a patchy, ugly system, compared to the perfect elegant algorithm people want. And indeed that's kind of what we have. We just gotta keep patching and amending. There are a lot of existing problems, but we have the framework for fixing them, and no doubt it is a difficult process. But to insist that the solution is to start over is naive and dismissive of the generations of sacrifice made to get to this point.

It's frustrating when people argue that all evil is because of capitalism, or that capitalism is purely good. Can't we just acknowledge that there are good and bad aspects of all systems, and work to boost the good parts and improve or attenuate the bad parts? And work in the good parts of other "competing" systems too? Yes, things don't have to be 100% pure capitalism or not. Hybrid solutions exist! That's basically what is happening, I just wish people would stop arguing by simplifying everything into some catchy moral gimmick.
why would i have to delete my account anyhow. I just stopped using facebook quite awhile ago but still have my account there. From time to time people which would have otherwise trouble to find me online write me there and thanks to the mail notifications i can tell them how to contact me properly.
Is there really a parking problem, or is it more of a walking problem? I've yet to see a costco parking lot that doesn't have tons of empty spaces if you're willing to walk 2 minutes
It's quite possible that's the only version of the original source code that still exists. Many game studios didn't use source control even through the 90s and once a game was considered "done" there wasn't much perceived value in keeping the source code or original assets around. Consequently, many games from that period only exist in release form.

Edit: I stand corrected on Starcraft.
> "you touch it, you (might) own it"

Perhaps compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855.
For sure, and its standard library equivalent was very, very good for the time, just not by 2018 standards.
Profit is what matters. I imagine it's pretty large also.
> This makes hiring professionals a huge waste except in large cities, because they'll be twiddling their thumbs most of the time.

Fire depts are not sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Plenty of work to be done. To respond to a lot more than just fires too FYI.

Volunteer firefighters are there to help out in areas not served by firefighters such as being out in a super rural area or when theres a big fire and there simply isn't enough staff, like wildfires. They're not volunteering to take away someones job. Some of them are just retired firefighters or veterans that want to look out for their community.
You can buy diapers in bulk from amazon, Target, Walmart, honest company (more expensive), etc. Costco and sams club have almost nothing to do with the conversation other than being one of many options.
That's already a potential issue today, and these societies have decided to do it anyway, because they care more about this than your potential risks.
You probably don't want to use graphics cards that have been abused mining cryptocurrencies in generally poor thermal conditions.

Floating point math errors similar to the recent Titan V issues could potentially mess with your machine learning.

Regardless, if it has been mining for some time, the lifetime of the card is greatly shortened, if the operator did not take precautions such as running undervoltage and designing a good thermal solution. Most people will not have done these things!
Well, but in the absence of an overriding rulership, i.e. anarchy, you actually can do what you want even if you're restricting the individual freedom of others and denying them access to the same means and rights as you do. There's clear motivation for some people to do that, and what's going to prevent them from doing that to weaker or less resourceful people? And a system capable and intent on effectively doing that essentially becomes a de facto system of governance, and the situation ceases to be an anarchy.
on osx, i know for a fact Docker for OSX is pretty darn slow due to its way they handle filesystem.

but using Dinghy greatly helped sped everything up due to it using nfs. just in case anyone wanted to know.
CR is a common line ending for RS-232 devices. I've got 3 or 4 in a cabinet for my current job which are "line-based" and which use CR as the line-ending. To issue a command to one of these devices, you terminate the command with CR and then the device processes it. These same devices will also send response data with CR line endings.

This is partly why stty and termios have options for CRLF translation on terminals. I'm sure there's some historical reason for that.
Congrats on the greatest ACKCHYUALLY of all time.
When did the English discover the Anglo-Saxons?
Twitter Suspends Over 1 Million Accounts
I believe it's actual revenue
I guess it's a good thing I didn't say that then.
I find shifting the burden to the merchant or card processor to be ultimately anti-consumer. It hides the true cost of financial crimes from consumers and ultimately manifests in increased costs, while to the merchants or banks it’s just a cost of business. In the end the consumer is shielded from fraud but ultimately pays for it.
This is an unbelievably well done visualization. Really helps one understand the degree of problematic space junk, though I don't have much of an intuition for collision probabilities.
I would join all of the people in this Facebook exodus but I haven't used it in five years or so.

Catch up with old friends over lunch sometime or write them an actual letter. You'll feel more connected having that kind of personal interaction than seeing snippets in a timeline.

As for events, if the people close to you don't think to invite you to things... Reevaluate your social life because something seems broken and it's not the lack of FB. People had perfectly healthy social lives before FB inserted itself.

PS: I didn't have to "delete" my account. I just never installed the app and don't ever log in. I flagged the updates as spam in my email and all is well.
Woaah there! 2.9% + $0.30?! I just changed my provider because their 1.45% (+ $0!) was way too expensive compared to the competition. Do Stripe provide a bag of gold at every Christmas?!
One year ago I returned to work at a large'ish SV company that, in my absence, was acquired and in this transition was converted from "PTO accrued at an annual rate that increased with seniority" to "unlimited vacation [as long as your manager agrees]".

It didn't take much thinking to realize that "unlimited vacation [as long as your manager agrees]" is purely a way to screw the employee (who regresses to the mean of however much time they tend to habitually take off per year (having subconsciously ignored that they won't be repaid in cash for those lost hours of time off when they leave their company), but now additionally "has to beg" for time off rather than the time off being something they've earned) while also removing the liability of the accum'd PTO they owe employees from their books.

The claimed justification that "tracking PTO is an added accounting cost" rings totally hollow: all employers I've worked for in my 20 year career had automated systems in place to track this info; in my current gig I'm still required to enter my hours worked per project every week into the same old automated system (into which I used to also enter PTO consumption), so it's not like they lack the systems to track this information with minimal effort/overhead.

As another comment mentioned: this and "open office" go hand in hand: IMO the employers all get together (AEA? etc) and learn about the extra-normal practices of the "edgier" employers, select those that save the employer $$$ (regardless of consequence to employees), and adopt = normalize them (while marketing them internally as modernity incarnate: "this new system is SO MUCH BETTER than the way things used to be back in the bad old days; don't you agree?").
> dangerous ghetto

It's not actually dangerous to random people. Berkeley is far more dangerous in terms of being assaulted randomly than San Francisco.
The obvious solution is the status quo contactless payment system that can collect £4.90 from your wallet faster than the ticket holders can find the slot.

Even if London Underground decided to upset millions of commuters by raising the price to a round £5 in the most expensive attempt to rescue an incorrect HN claim yet, the contactless system would still be quicker than the machine that scans a fiver. Trust us, we've actually used both...
Except that LF was also designated as NL before Apple came onto the scene. They were deliberately incompatible.
I found this to be a real blocker every time I tried to tag something.

However, it’s a complete non-issue if the tags are automatically generated and updated.

I first noticed this in the iOS Photos app, which automatically generates collections such as “Weekend in Paris” and “Pictures of Bob”. The accuracy is good enough to be useful and can be improved automatically in future releases without requiring user interaction.
Ask HN: What are some good tech meetups in NYC?
Doesn't have to be an actual Meetup - I'm interested in any recurring gathering of tech folk.
I find it very funny that you would think I'm, like, super smart. That has literally never happened to me before :)

I'm not being modest. I'm lucky to have smart people around me and I know how smart they are and how smart I am, and I'm not that smart. Anyway I've learned not to worry about it. I'm tenacious. That's taken me a long way already.

If it helps, though, I once cheated on an online IQ test for a job. I took it with a friend and we got 130 points together (I didn't like the job).

I guess that means my IQ is somewhere around 65 :P
You're sure that this is the source of the rebooted game and not a release of the original SS1 code?
Also, I found I can't delete anything I posted from before sometime in 2008. I just get an error when I try to.
Can we get a citation for these claims? Otherwise it feels a lot like something one says while rocking themselves to sleep at night. The whole thesis of "Sapiens" is exactly the opposite of this, that "progress" has been mainly a way of making life harder. The idea rural farming is somehow more dangerous than moving to a city and working long hours in a factory seems worthy of some numbers. If you basically learn, "Don't stick your face in the thresher" I feel like farming would be fairly low danger.
Ralphs & Vons (both Kroger brands) offering the same in LA near me
Sure, there are a lot of social processes that work in smallish communes where people mostly know each other. But that doesn't scale - the relationships break down above the Dunbar limit and become substantially different as you don't even know most of the people. The processes and motivation that work in a 50 people community will not work the same way in a 5000 people community; in the first case people might behave as if they're all a big family with shared interests, in the latter case they will not.

The fact that X works in a small village should not be considered as evidence that X would plausibly work in a mid-sized town. For homo sapiens and groups of them, scale matters a lot.
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IMO, the best approach would be to jump right in, without looking into what other people are doing. People have tried to solve these problems using the current trend (deep reinforcement learning), and so far it has not worked out. Most such contests are usually won by methods which are somewhat different from the current paradigm. For instance, Imagenet 2012, and to some extent, the Vizdoom challenge was won by a method which departed significantly from the paradigm of the time.

If you have the time to work on this contest, I'd recommend trying a method which is either not deep learning or not reinforcement learning or not both. There will be enough submissions from people who will try obvious ideas, and so you're better off trying something unique. Good luck and have fun!
If you can learn skills that get you a job from a boot camp they’re not stupid. The fact that Lambda School and App Academy don’t get paid unless you get a job and they still exist suggests rather strongly that they get people jobs.
/r/writingprompts is my new favourite way to waste time on the Internet.