skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

In particular, it's possible to learn the variance of the return using TD-methods with the same computational complexity as learning the expected value (the value function).
See [0] for how to do it via the squared TD-error, or [1] for how to estimate it via the second moment of the return, and my own notes (soon to be published and expanded for my thesis) here [2].

It turns out that identifying states with high variance is a great way of locating model error-- most of the real-world environments are fairly deterministic, so states with high variance tend to be "aliased" combinations of different states with wildly different outcomes.
You can use this to improve your agent via either allocating more representation power to those states to differentiate between very similar ones, or have your agent account for variance when choosing its policy.
For example, Tesla could identify when variance spikes in its model and trigger an alert to the user that they may need to take over.

Additionally, there's work by Bellemare [3] for estimating the distribution of the return, which allows for all sorts of statistical techniques for quantifying confidence, risk, or uncertainty.

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0. https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08287

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00446

2. http://rl.ai/posts/fun-with-the-td-error-part-ii.html

3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06887
A doubt the penalties for violating HIPPA are going to put any of these out of business. I said 'burn', not 'destroy'.
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I figured it was so MySQL wouldn't barf so badly on DDL written for other databases. That's the only justification I can think of, and it's a pretty terrible one.

I have a pretty low opinion of it because of this.
Awesome for rural dwellers. No more dial up, bottom end dsl, or high latency / high orbit satellite connectivity.

Probably good for airline inflight WiFi too.
There are already two prototype satellites in orbit.
The idea that men have a right to sex is absurd.
Looks like capitalization as a general emphasis - if you just scan capitalized words:

Americans Bonus Pay Increase Passed Tax Cut Jobs Bill

Makes a good summary of the points they want to emphasize, that Americans get a bonus because the government is progressing on the Republican+blue-collar agenda.
They aren't accounting for devices in the path for land nor space, so the question becomes are there more or less devices in the average path for each case, and by how much, and what's the average penalty occurred for each device in each case?
Yeah, there is: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
How do you know the process list is accurate for certain?

The point is, there’s potentially back doors in everything, including the C compiler that built your Linux kernel.
Even if Intel products are bad, using terms like "pretty desperate for Intel fanboy-respect" do not exactly signal a mature and impartial view of the market.
And yet they have already said there is nowhere else to go with this 40nm process. They'd need to port it to a newer node and that's a huge job which may not happen.
Literally skynet
Wondering if you can link some examples of this? Genuinely curious. I've been using the Pi for some for-fun projects lately and haven't encountered limitations caused by the platform just yet so I haven't experienced this (yet? hopefully ever?).
"Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches"? What a joke; the very headline conveys a sentiment that frames the debate around how out of touch corporate media (and thus any blind repeater site) is.

Corporate media has been giving passes with one-off coverage that often neglects to mention any proposals for remedying long-term public ramifications. But the public's interest isn't well served by corporate media nor is public interest properly evaluated by corporate media.

Let's also stop thinking the stock market is a proper means of evaluating something applicable to most people's interests, because that's never been true. The stock market has more to do with wealthy people than most people.

The corporate death penalty seems right and proper for very egregious offenses like credit rating agencies because the public will suffer the most and for the longest time (possibly the rest of their lives) when these records are insecure. Organizations will continue to lazily make evaluations based on these records but the records could have been tampered with. And judging by Equifax's successful lobbying, the ratings agencies get away with scarce punishment and therefore have little reason to care about fixing what they broke. Relatedly, it's time we stopped trusting so few organizations with something so precious. The market just isn't designed to handle truly important things, so we should stop trusting it to do so.

No, let's not give them or any other organization passes, but let's also realize that most of these organizations use proprietary software (untrustworthy by default) to keep that data secure where nobody (including the organization) simply can't do effective audits. How proprietary software works is a secret, so such software is structurally incapable of ever being reasonably considered a sound choice for data safety. And organization's choices affect user's data safety, so users have an interest in this but not enough control over how their data is stored.
Can we one day run out of resources on Earth if we send away a lot of objects to space or is it negligible?
It's less about catching violators and more about understanding the epidemiology of PED abuse. It may be possible to isolate populations that need direct testing but by that point you're putting traps on every sewer pipe associated with an event, it'd just be easier to test everybody directly.
If anyone is interested on making compilers / programming languages, there is another recent initiative from Per Vognsen, Bitwise: https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise.

I occasionally watch streams so far it was very helpful to observe how he makes design decisions, thought process and implementations.
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> English has only 5 vowel characters but more than 5 vowel sounds.

So what are we counting here? The sounds or the characters we use to represent the sounds? Because if you go by sounds, I think Dutch has more than 14.

(a, aa, o, oo, e, è, ee, u, uu, i, ie, eu, ui, au, ij, oe)

I've heard that in Czech, the 'r' can be a vowel. In a name like Brno, for example. Those are apparently two syllables. (I don't speak Czech, so no idea if it's true.)
There's only ~1459 satellites in orbit and already someone wants to prevent more building. What's the reason for this? Preserve neighborhood character? too much noise? are you worried about the traffic?

If you arbitrarily regulate everything before you even begin to innovate, you'll never know what inventions could have been created: that's why there hasn't been hardly any innovation in housing construction over the last 20 years.
Many if not most politicians (and those pulling their strings) passing the laws to enable this crackdown absolutely understand what they are doing. This is about control, at a very basic level. Access to sex and control of sex are a huge lever for shaping society. Moves like this aim to push society in a "traditional" or "reactionary" direction.
Aaah, brought me memories from the 7 years I was in academia. All the publish and perish and the peer reviewing process is completely broken. Academia is completely broken, I would hate having to go back to academia now that I have been 7 years in industry and earning 6 figures.
> HIPPA

HIPAA
You're correct, but I don't know enough about satellites to know their retransmit delay, nor enough about fiber optics generally. I figured it all may offset because you'll never get a fiber optic cable to go exactly where you want it to go, and you may end up a mixed medium route with something like copper->fiber->copper->air->fiber->copper route, or something like that.
In yesterday's article, because the person submitting stuff was not in the United States. The reason the victim had to spend 100,000$ on legal fees was because of how difficult it was to get jurisdiction.

If the US based Google was responsible, it would be easier for people without that kind of money to protect themselves, wouldn't it?
Thanks, Rachel. A Vic-20 was my first, too, although it and its manuals have been lost to time and cross-country moves.

I got a Commodore 64 around the same time and, for a while, had a "cool" set up with a TV, the two Commodores, an Atari 2600, and A/B switches for managing all the connections. I had a tape drive for the Commodores too, but never could figure out how to use it (I was young).

I would take trips to the library and pick up secondhand computing magazines that had code listings in the back, in BASIC, and then carefully copy them in to one of the computers.

I didn't really grasp everything about it all, but I understood flow control and loops and basic logic before about 8 or so.

I really wish there was a similar development environment now for beginners. Everything seems to either dumb things down too far -- confusing drag-and-drop UIs and so on -- or introduce highly abstract concepts way too early (Javascript...). I think a big part of the success of Arduino was this same "learn by tinkering" environment.
There are other privacy problems with wireless hotspots too. A new example: you can't log in to Starbucks' wifi (via Google) without verifying a real email address through Experian's API. (Open the browser console and watch the requests -- see if you can use a fake email address.) Who knows where all that data is going.

Most hotspot providers are probably tracking your physical locations by MAC address, which can be linked with other data. It looks like Peet's recently started doing that as well.
I'm extremely glad they did that, and I absolutely give them credit for it. But it only proves that they were willing to stand up to the FBI. It doesn't prove anything else about how they handle your data and privacy. I'm not saying that they abuse it, I'm just saying that we don't know what they do.
In comparison to general processing, I haven't been keeping up with advancement in SSD/flash memory technology very much. Is the market still the cut-throat low margin hell hole I remember it being, or has technological improvement slowed to a point where performance gain is now much more difficult to achieve?
> Yup, people would like to spin this as the government cracking down on garden-variety prostitution, yet Backpage in particular has many dubious ties to child trafficking.

The law does criminalize any activity relates to prostitution, not sex trafficking. That's not spin - that's literally the express purpose of the law as written. It's not a coincidence that the law is written to apply to all forms of sex work.

Blumenthal, the senator who authored the bill, has been personally crusading against sex work from the past decade, longer than he's even been in the Senate. He chose Backpage as the particular target for this bill, but it's not like he hasn't gone after any and all forms of sex work in the past.
If I post a comment about prostitution on HN, HN is not liable

Are you sure? And are you in a position to be making that call?

No jury is going to convict the CEO of Reddit because someone somewhere posted a comment about prostitution on a subreddit.

That's probably why Reddit eliminated basically all the subreddits related to prostitution. They're also probably less concerned about their CEO being jailed than they are about massive fines.
I believe you’re thinking of Rasmussen, not Quinnipiac. Q is respected, Rasmussen is known to be GOP-leaning: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

Otherwise I agree, we are living a major part of history.
FWIW this is exactly what Swift does with all of its heap-allocated value types (e.g. Array, Dictionary, Set, String, etc).
UK legal position is more nuanced than that. Money-for-sex is generally legal, but on-street soliciting, two prostitutes sharing a flat, some forms of advertising, and many other aspects of the sex trade are crimes. So you may be legal, depending on what kind of sex work you're doing. Or you may be not. It isn't Amsterdam.
We learn through mistakes, releasing magic smoke can teach a lot, so the first suggestion is to be prepared for failures: don't let them discourage you but rather use them to learn more.

Stay away as much as you can from microcontrollers and ICs, at least until you have grasped enough knowledge and handling/soldering capabilities. I'm very serious, stay away from Arduinos, Raspberries and everything like that. There will be a time for them. Opamps and logic ICs also are a vital part of electronics, but starting with them would do more harm than good. Get a book for basic electronics (No, The Art of Electronics although wonderful is not a good choice now).

Start with simple stuff to get an idea of what the Ohm Law means, that is, some resistors, a battery and some multimeters. While for serious stuff a Fluke is worth more than a billion cheap Chinese multimeters, having 3 or 4 of the latter will be immensely more useful than a single top brand one because seeing in real time the battery voltage and what develops around a voltage divider when you change the resistors ratio has no price.
Same for instrumentation: an oscilloscope is worth the information you get by using it, so you have first to know what it does measure, otherwise it's not even worth a 5 bucks Chinese multimeter.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/voltage-dividers

Try the voltage divider with a 9V battery and measure everything, the total current the battery voltage and both voltages on resistors wires. Change resistors and take note of what changes and try to find out why. Use from very low value resistors to very high ones maintaining their ratio and watch what happens to current and voltage.

Now swap a resistor with a led. Does it light or not? Was it inserted the right way? If yes why doesn't it work? If not why it still doesn't work? What's the resistor value and how much current is flowing through the led?
Measure voltage and current, choose the wrong resistor and burn some leds -> learn more.

Put a high value capacitor in parallel to the led, why the led turns on and off slowly when connecting/disconnecting the battery? Again measure voltage and current: why current increases before voltage when battery is connected?

Build a solenoid by winding from tens to a hundred turns of enameled copper wire around a big iron nail, then connect the battery with some iron small screws or iron powder near the nail head, what does happen and why?
When you remove the battery do you see a small spark? Why?

All those experiments though can be performed with very little money will put you on the right track.
Sure ... it was a chip-less Visa debit card. My point is simply because it was routed to a DDA, not a credit line, the typical protections for a credit card don't apply. (This was the US). They are pretty clear about this in the contract. We even found footage of the malefactor checking out of a department store. Live and learn, I guess... This was some years ago. Now, I almost never leave the house with a debit card, and I have all my cards make my phone go bing! when they are used.
The analogy is misleading in the following way:

Hiring illegal immigrants harms low-skilled domestic workers and taxpayers. Prostitution is essentially a victimless crime.
I’ve always thought of linguistics as a kind of human superpower. How much training have you had?
It's one thing to be storing the passwords in plain text, but the sassy attitude of that customer rep is priceless. “What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good?” Someone's getting a spankin'.
Also for people who are stuck with a 'diversity' of choices, i.e. 'cable' or 'phone'. I live in an area that is mere miles from Google Fiber but I will never get an option to use them. I am not latency sensitive at all and will be delighted to try out the SpaceX option if they make it available.
Maybe http://microbit.org ?
The available volume out at geostationary orbit absolutely dwarfs low earth orbit or the Earth's surface.
Yep. Oregon refers to this as the "Death with Dignity Act".
What is the advantage of persistent collections over value-type collections?
LunarPages, a large web hosting company, does this too and doesn't see why it's a problem. It's terrifying.
I think they started as a general purpose classifieds, but there were a lot of other options for all the non-sex ads so they lost a lot of the "general purpose" users and attrition led to them mostly being prostitution classifieds.
BTW, while it's true the feed URL listed in the <head> tag of that site is incorrect, you can in fact subscribe using http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/atom.xml
That has a lot to do with human lives being within those objects and gravity pulling them down to earth potentially being a danger to more human lives. All that versus floating space junk and dollars down the drain for the engineering, development, launch, and ongoing functionality of those satellites.
The 3+ has half of what you're looking for: 802.11ac and gigabit ethernet (although it's limited to ~300 Mbps by USB2).

That all being said, I feel like what you're looking for is a small-form-factor computer, not a development board. :)
What is the best way to contact you if we want to get more information?
+1 for Ben Eater - super solid explanations, really enlightening even right at an early level.
In other words, "works great if it works, might actively try to kill you at random, there's no clear way of telling when it might try the latter, it's your fault in any case." Yeah, that's very much the safe driving paradise I'm being promised "in two years" for a decade now, by the technooptimists. It's almost as if the technology is at 50%-ready instead of the 90% that marketing types seem to peddle, who would have thunk?
Click on the "..." above any ad and select "Why am I seeing this?"
This argument would maybe start to make sense if Bitcoin was the only cryptocurrency, rather than only the first.

Even then, it completely falls apart when you realize that "the internet" also was never about a single piece of technology, but an ecosystem of countless separately developed parts.

>It has actually gotten increasingly less useful over time.

Is just plain false.
It's a medium used for transferring a few billion $ daily.

It's not the exclusive way to transfer value between people, but neither was the mechanized agriculture the sole way of growing plants in the beginning.
Tiiiny growth strategies for SaaS
> ...even if an app slips through the cracks and only allows "Always" and "While using the app" as options...

It can't. The permissions UI is rendered by the OS, not by the application. There's no way to hide the option to deny permissions.
> 'well, sure, I guess that sounds interesting'

I think the question boils down to: would you be willing to spend the next few years of your life on a 'well, sure, I guess that sounds interesting'?

There are all kinds of people. Early adopters are usually who a startup would want to start off with. If you can’t find even a few people who are excited about the value that your nonexistent product would add to their life (not even yourself as a user?), should you be excited about building it?

Money talks. You want people who are excited enough about what you’re building to give you money for a nonexistent product/service. Via Preorders, kickstarters, etc. Words can be cheap, but once they’ve bought in you can value their feedback.
I remember working though this with my dad when I was little, very well put together. That same copy now sits on my shelf as a reminder of where it all started for me. Still have thar ol Vic & play around on it every now and then. We've sure come a long way
The same notability argument is still valid. It is not that search engines are broken, but the society which would view something that happened 20 years ago, while being the most notable fact about given person, as relevant for anything else than conversation-starter is broken.
"Permissioned" ledgers have existed and failed many times before the invention of bitcoin. This is not decentralized. None of the BFT protocols are.
The official app on macOS was never browser-based. It was based on the third-party client "Tweetie", which Twitter acquired in 2010.
for learning electronics? why? I'd say an oscilloscope way before a logic analyzer as it allows you to see what circuits are doing. Learning what analog circuits are doing is much more useful for learning than seeing digital signalling.
Are you still hiring for the Business Intelligence Intern position? I don't see the position listed on your careers page. Thank you!
* possibly, if you live in the U.S.
There's obviously an upper limit but we are very far from reaching that. Satellites are made up of many components much of which is aluminum most composed of bauxite. Apparently we have a lot reserves and are able to meet demand for quite awhile into the future.[1]

Worst case we can always recycle that space junk but it's still way cheaper to recycle what we have on our surface before we run out of mines or grab stuff from orbit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite
Qix... I need to play that again now...
Ah okay, I have rendering issues with that font.
OK. Where's that wall of text? Generally one actually substantiates an argument when arguing in good faith instead of just bullshitting. So what's that actual reason that it is, and again I quote you, "shit"?
You're not missing something. The author doesn't seem to understand how iOS's disk encryption works. It's not "full disk encryption" in that the full disk is not encrypted with one key. However, every single file on the disk is encrypted, with separate keys, and the various levels of security (e.g. "accessible always", "accessible when unlocked", etc) are managed by storing these keys in different key bags whose own keys are evicted from memory at the appropriate times.

Which is to say, it's not classic FDE, but if you were to take the storage out of an iPhone and inspect it, you'd find that everything in the filesystem is in fact encrypted.
It's not exactly conservative vs liberal; there are divisions on sex and the nature of being a woman even within the body of radical feminists.

I'm simplifying extraordinarily here, but one position might be "sex between men and women happens within the constraints of a patriarchal society and had inherent power imbalances, which is problematic; sex work is overwhelmingly poor and powerless women being exploited for sex by men" (at its extreme suggesting political lesbianism) and the other might be "there's nothing intrinsically anti-feminist about sex, and we can imagine forms of sex and sex work which are liberatory rather than oppressive. Sex work is often exploitative but is also work, and sex workers are women who deserve a voice and better treatment" (at its extreme leading to explicitly feminist pornography).

I prefer one to the other, but neither position is hypocritical.