skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a shame to see someone so talented working for a company that is lightyears behind Waymo and GM in autonomous driving and that is going to go bankrupt.

I believe the last three directors of autopilot have quit in the last 3 years or so. And that's in addition to the mass exodus of executives, some of whom left millions of dollars of stock options on the table.
The article seems to think it's lack of time:

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Sure, toddlers may want to help, but let's face reality here. At first, they really can't do much. They can be clumsy, destructive and even enraging. Their involvement in chores often slows things down or makes a mess.

For this reason, many parents in Western culture rebuff a toddler's offer to help, Mejia-Arauz says.

"We have mothers tell us things like, 'I need to do a chore very quickly, and if my toddler tries to help, he makes a mess. So I'd rather do it myself than having them helping,' " she says.
My mum told me something important once: Your kids want to help. Let them. Kids are something you should live with and involve in your life, not something you designate to an hour of “kids time” once a day.

Both me and my sister started learning to cook when we were 5 or so, we helped with dishes, we set the table, we learned about cleaning up after pets. Of course we both tried to purposefully forget it when we were teenagers, but the skills and confidence to be okay without help were there when we needed them.

If I ever have kids, I hope I’ll have the patience to take the same approach.

Nothing worse than a person suffering from learned helplessnes and that stuff starts early.
The ads on this make mobile reading near impossible. It's a shame ads are still this invasive.
> In the world you propose, option #1 is impossible.

You can still send $50 to the creator of ReticulatorPro?

But that's not quite your point, is it?

You're saying that I, as a developer, should be able to work on a product that doesn't have enough qualified demand (pre-sales or crowd-funds) upfront to pay for its development costs, and expect to cover my gamble by requiring customers to give me money before allowing them to use it after I've already written it? Is that right?
Never use it for anything involving security. Ever. It's just inviting pain. It's not what it was designed for.

With that said, PCG is my go-to for testing things that need fast random generators (such as prototyping ideas about hashing-based data structures). It's fast and I haven't encountered situations in practice yet where it causes failures that a stronger random source doesn't. Mersenne Twister, in contrast, can easily be the bottleneck for testing small/fast structures.
Please feel free to look up my bio in my profile. Then go play around with a basic mortgage calculator online. You will find that as you extend the length of the mortgage, the payments will approach the interest only payment level.

Also, in the late 80s, early 90s, interest rates were 15%. 10% is just slightly above historic norms.

It is 100% possible to reimburse a mortgage at 10%. Millions of people have done it.
What's wrong with data collection and tracking? Privacy seems extremely overrated here on HN. Am I missing something?

Why would anyone take such efforts to avoid using Google products? That doesn't seem very rational...
Brazil suspends voting paper trail, calls e-voting critics conspiracy theorists
I am on linux ... just tried Apple Maps - horrid ... it fails to permit location search by zip code ... just show the globe and let me zoom around - fail ... forced me to login - fail ... unable to enter arbitrary address - talk about slurping personal data ... unbelievably evil
Spark for macOS and iOS can do something similar for any mail accessible via IMAP/POP/Exchange.
Actually it's the thermal expansion/contraction cycles of turning on and off, as well as ablation of the electrodes on startup. So leaving it on is marginally better for bulb longevity.
Reminds me of something I read from Jared Diamond, wherein he said that in traditional societies that he had investigated, the kids play is just small versions of the adults life, that gets more and more realistic until it's the real thing. So, a child gets a piglet to look after, if the adults raise pigs. This would make sense from a biological point of view; the young watch the adults and imitate what they're doing as well as they can, getting better and better by practicing it.

It reminds me also of what I've learned about speaking a foreign language; you can't learn enough to be good at it first, then start speaking. You have to just start speaking it even though you're horrible. That's how you improve.
> We all know how the freedom for creativity end up.

You mean, it completely dominates the programming world?

C is a massive success story, no other language even comes close.
Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades
I thought it was strange bing was not mentioned, even though it has Mozilla's endorsement of having a better privacy policy than Google[0] and is probably the most popular alternative to search in the United States. This far from a complete list of Google alternatives.

[0]https://www.pcworld.com/article/184520/mozilla_endorses_bing...
This is the Nth time this website has been promoted on HN. As far as I know, a peer-reviewed academic paper has not yet been published; one was withdrawn for strange reasons. The algorithm, and claims made on this website, have garnered some significant criticism.

Getting an RNG right is important. I'd not trust this method until other people in the field have verified that the author's claims are true and critics have been satisfied. The accepted method for this is peer review.
Treating training datasets as dynamic components of ML systems, along with the corresponding tooling and infrastructure, is one of the most under-appreciated points in the field today. Part of the cause, I think, is due to stigma coming from the academic side that dataset collection is a low-level problem not worthy of serious algorithmic investment (good luck submitting a CVPR paper which improves on labeling speed or taxonomy management in your dataset warehouse). Datasets are considered a given, which also has the interesting side effect of massive hyperparameter and architecture overfitting, evidenced by the recent analysis of CIFAR-{10,100} [1]. In more applied and engineering settings though, it's good to see this area seeing a lot more investment, especially on the tooling side.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00451
My high school classmate: https://www.metoliushome.com/
Networking is coming: the TS was published earlier this year and there are efforts to get it into C++20.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/n473...
Show your pasteboard content on status bar in realtime in OS X
Isn't it only the trajectory that is sensitive to the parametrization? Afaik, the location of the minimas do not depend on it.
I'm actually more worried about Google banning my account and every service along with it, and having no way to get it back or even speak to a human about it because I don't have a large Twitter following or a buddy that works at Google.
Why would you assume i meant this was on top of maintenance calories? I find it so bizarre that people look at food this way, that the main challenge is to not over-eat. To somehow eat more without incurring surplus calories. The real challenge is to acquire the necessary number of calories to support your activity. Once you achieve that goal, stop eating, duh.
Is making a good sid chip clone something within reach of hobbyists today?
As much as I like Microsoft, Bing is awful. Ive used it, and I tried to like it. It can't find anything.
There are plenty of discussions on HN (including ones where you've participated) regarding privacy. Different people value privacy differently (and privacy means different things to different people). You may not value it as much as others, and that's fine. Ignoring this as you have here with what appears to be a naïve question amounts to trolling. Please don't.
You are heavily oversimplifying (to the point of incorrectness) every concept you outline, reducing them all down to various flavors of utopianism. On top of that, your final call to action is a mirror reflection of what you just criticized. The truth of the matter is these concepts and many others are all weaving together in a complicated and nuanced way.
I don't see that in the article. Search, email, drive, youtube, maps all have many non-FOSS entries.

I am fairly sure that no apple product is mentioned because replacing all the hardware one has just for more privacy is likely too extreme for many. Not to mention that one of the biggest things you can do for your privacy is ad-blocking / cookie cleaning, and apple does not make it easier at all.
Add Safari for browser, iCloud Drive and iCloud for email, to complete the list.
I worked for a media company that had their hands in print, radio and TV. The community based news papers had way higher profit margins than the large news papers.
That's not exactly honest.
There's a reason there's no small remote-only startups in those massive expanses of land; there's nothing there to begin with.
Thanks for the clarification. The list in that link is interesting. I hadn't seen that before. Cheers.
I've always found the behavior of leaving planes (and just crowd control in general) to be fascinating.

The normal way people leave planes seems to be from front to back, and each one wants to go and get their stuff out of the overhead bin, basically blocking everyone behind them.

What would be more efficient is if we went from aisle to window (in columns, rather than rows), so that each aisle person could get out (the entirety from front to back of the plane), get their luggage, then all walk off the plane. Then you do the next column of people, closer to the window, and do the same. In doing this, at least everyone would be grabbing their bags at the same time, effectively pipelining the operation.

The only thing that doesn't surprise me is that people don't do the most efficient thing. I also think it's hilarious how people tend to congregate at junctions of hallways, and block them, which are where most of the traffic has to go through, rather than getting out of the way (not even that much) to let people get through. By being in the intersection of two hallways, you can block more than one at once.

Maybe I should have gone into traffic flow engineering instead of CS...
One of the first ones didn’t even lack the branding. The A3000 was a “BBC Micro”. Even had red function keys.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Acorn_A3...
collectorsweekly.com is the domain.
I. um. 52 "required" cookies and video only.

What the hell? 52? Really?
My wife and I stumbled across this thinking recently. We have an 18 month old and we started putting him to work. I rarely open or close a cabinet, microwave or dishwasher if he’s around. We plop him on the counter when we cook and he holds ingredients and utensils. Just today I was hanging something on the wall so I had him hold the screwdriver for me. We found that he’s thrilled to help and we never force him. Our initial intention was just to keep him busy but I’ve seen two similar posts on HN recently and I’m now realizing there’s a bigger social, reaponsibility, and familial lesson here.
Does this work even if the output format has to change? I can see that helping with class imbalance but not when a useful class is completely missing or in the wrong "format".

For example in the bright smudges vs raindrops case, it might not have a label for the sun but it should be able to identify it as a important dimension in the cases it is getting wrong. Better yet, something more abstract like "smudge illuminated by light" or "bright background" that will be hard to annotate (e.g., how bright is bright?).
their perspective is fair for a physics undergraduate. but hopefully it changes.
There is also a responsible way to teach them these skills. My wife bought my 3 year old a nylon knife which is sharp enough to cut strawberries and potatoes but arguably safer than a butter knife. I was amazed how quickly he took to using it and is SO EXCITED when he gets to help prep dinner.

I think an overarching child-rearing strategy we have used is to treat our children as people who have valid needs and capabilities. Crazy, I know. But you constantly see parents doing things like going out to dinner and drinking wine for 3 hours while their bored 4 year old makes a scene, and they get surprised and blame the kid. Our boy rarely flips out, partly because we anticipate normal reactions and avoid putting him in bad situations. And the long-term benefit of that is when we are forced into tough situations, like a 7 hour plane ride, he generally weathers it better because he isn't used to suffering crappy situations all the time.
Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish
I own one because I had hurt my foot and decided it would help for some of the longer walks during my daily commute.

I love it.

They will be outlawed if people ride them on the sidewalks. If not, I’m confident they’ll catch on everywhere.
Also: Awesome AWS alternatives https://github.com/ro31337/awesome-aws-alternatives
Even then it’s questionable if it would be effective. Over time even a faint behavioral signature will become transparent, because things that deviate from the true behavioral signature do so in random ways, which could essentially “cancel” out if your model for quantifying behavioral characteristics is well-specified. Meanwhile the “true” behaviors would “add” over time.

It would become like any other signal jamming arms race, whether it’s radar or social behaviors, and your model of generating random noise has to get more sophisticated as the other party’s anti-jamming techniques get more sophisticated.

I took a class with Scott Aaronson once where he mentioned the idea that the natural enemy of machine learning is cryptography.

So if you know the anti-jammers are using ever greater machine learning techniques, rather than trying to one-up them with adversarial learning, I suspect the best jamming would be cryptography.

Like, extensions to Facebook that essential encode text with PGP or something, send via Messenger, and allow decoding on the other side.

Then an interesting idea for machine learning would be how to make an autoencoder that accepts encrypted text, transforms it into human understandable text that would fool a machine learning algorithm designed to flag encrypted text, and can decode from natural language back to the encrypted data on the other end.
Blockchain in the Automotive and Mobility industry: the current state
Sorry but this is completely false, Swift is certainly faster than ObjC. There are several WWDC talks, independent reviews, and the language designers themselves supporting that.

In practice I agree it's easy to write code that's slow, but you can't knock the language itself for user error. They are still working on improving the user experience, such as how 4.2 will remove redundant generated retain/release calls. And hopefully they make the compiler smarter at figuring out which specialization functions to output for generics/protocols.
How about building a machine to run TempleOS natively? The crazy guy who wrote it says explicitly that the OS was meant to implement the commodore 64 ideal of one big flat address space and no memory protection, everything is rung 0, no protected io, etc.
I find bing to be better than any other Google alternatives.
Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Database Level
> think you and I fundamentally disagree on what a tax is. You seem to view it as punishment or a burden. I view it as the method for paying for things that help the collective good. Not a punishment but rather a duty for those with the means. If we aren't using taxes to collectively protect society (e.g. military, police, courts), help the less fortunate, etc then why collect them at all? The richer the entity (individual or business), the more means they have and the more they actually benefit from those taxes even if they have to pay them.

A tax IS a punishment. It is a charge not reciprocated by a service to the person that pays for it. Collective goods dont require individualized sacrifices, just individual collaborations. But okay, we can divert ideologically on that point, but nevertheless any effect of taxation is a cost on the person paying for it, and will have the same effects to him as if the person lost the taxed money into the abyss.

> Just to add, if you agree we need taxation to have functioning society, why wouldn't we get the money from the richest? Why wouldn't we put the burden on the richest? In terms of people inside rich organizations, it is only the already rich, owners and investors, which would feel the burden. Supply and demand will continue to give consumers high quality and low prices. Employees will still get their market-rate wages or minimum wage for low-skill jobs.

I think I've always had a curious thought about the idea of not discriminating minorities, except for the rich, you better discriminate those!
If we can agree at least that taxation is the cost of government, why should the cost of government only come from a section of society? A society that achieves to make a part of it responsible for its whole will not thrive in collaboration and cohesiveness. A society where some expect to make a living at the others expense is not a free one.

In economic terms, there are multiple criteria on measuring how good a tax is. There is of course how the burden affects the person itself, but also how efficient it is to levy it, how convenient it is to pay or how predictable it is. Satisfying multiple criteria will not give you much room to tax "the rich".

There are normative arguments as well: just placing a tax on the rich doesnt mean you'll be able to raise that money, as the rich have the highest recourse to escape. Human beings are very hard to corner!
Incentivize him to make money for himself? I'd like a discount from society for doing that myself. How much does Romney actually contribute to society as a whole by making so much money for himself? Why does he deserve a discount?
Why do some people only get their luggage down as they are leaving the plane causing a delay to those who stood early and are prepared to leave?
Thanks, JdeBP, for remembering the KK :-)
You can build gRPC and get REST for free.

https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway
To understand the movie, one only needs to read the book on which it is based. Clarke's book makes a lot of the movie (like the meaning of the apes and the ending) unambiguously clear.

I think the similarities brought up in the post are interesting but over-interpreted here. Plus, there are many other parts of the Odyssey that don't show up in 2001. The only compelling connection here is the cyclops, but without that the film can still be perfectly adequately understood.
There are several types of people who visit caves.

Tourists, who visit "show caves", caves made reasonably safe for average people to visit.

Spelunkers are average untrained people who on a lark, go into a "wild" cave seeking adventure, often woefully ill equipped.

"Real" Spelunkers, scientists and geologists who are often not very well trained in cave exploration because they are Corporate or Educational professionals and going into caves is a rare part of their job.

Sport or Tourist Cavers, those who have sought out some training in safely visiting a cave, often through a Grotto (Chapter) of the National Speleological Society. This is the most common of trained cave visitor, they tend to visit well know "safe", horizontal caves.

Vertical Cavers, this is where the separation of hard core and sport cavers starts. These are cavers who have vertical rope work training, enabling them to rappel into and climb out of caves that have pit entrances.

Project/Hard Core cavers, these are the Worlds elite cave explorers, a small group of amazing people from all walks of life who share the passion of exploring caves that are technically difficult and extremely dangerous.

There are even more minor distinctions within the caving world, but this is enough to chew on right now.
I hear the converse (neural networks can’t be like brains because they do use gradient descent) argued quite a lot.
> I don't think anybody's said this before...

Except the movie is literally named after The Odyssey and Kubrick himself explained why. These invented analogies are just as likely to be right as wrong.

Kubrick and Clarke privately referred to the project as How the Solar System Was Won, a reference to MGM's 1962 Cinerama epic How the West Was Won. On February 23, 1965, Kubrick issued a press release announcing the title as Journey Beyond The Stars.[26] Other titles considered include Universe, Tunnel to the Stars, and Planetfall. In April 1965, eleven months after they began working on the project, Kubrick selected 2001: A Space Odyssey; Clarke said the title was "entirely" Kubrick's idea. Intending to set the film apart from the "monsters-and-sex" type of science-fiction films of the time, Kubrick used Homer's The Odyssey as inspiration for the title. Kubrick said, "It occurred to us that for the Greeks the vast stretches of the sea must have had the same sort of mystery and remoteness that space has for our generation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)
If this is a career thing, it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them. Try them both, proceed with the one you like best, because in the end, you will be judged by what you produce with it.

No matter how much nerd-cred a language has, it is hard to be productive with a language that you hate.

edit: FWIW, we are commenting on a site by a billionaire who seeded his fortune by writing a program in LISP back when almost everyone else thought that LISP was long-dead and buried.
It seems this guy’s software 2.0 looks like some specialized toolset for auto driving/navigation than a general purpose shift.

If all that we get out of it is fancy data labeling tools, incapable of learning anything new by themselves, it’s going to get old real quick.
Outline of Machine Learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_machine_learning

Machine learning # Applications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Applications

"machine learning map" image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=machine+learning+map&tbm=isc...
Why Crystal Is My Next Language
Binarys to Decimals Converter
Conferences, seminars, workshops. Best when it's some event that spans multiple days, that seems to engender a bit more openness and camaraderie.
Here in Singapore they have a very bad reputation after some nasty accidents with pedestrians.

They're banned from the streets and sidewalks are a joke locally. I think they would be an awesome way to commute if you have bike lanes to share?
I'm looking for something like this but works with vim. Editing chrome snippets [1] in the dev tools is not fun.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/snip...
I believe part of my issue might be that I'm using 1 HDMI port and another mDP to HDMI converter. From what I've read it seems like people tend to have these problems when using converters. So I guess if I were running directly off of mDP I'd probably be having a better time.
Can you reference that? Recently I both consulted an attorney on this stuff, and did my own research, and that's the exactly opposite of what I've found.
Until the kids all got smartphones... what chores?

Raise your kids in a single shared room without any convenient forms of unlimited entertainment, where they must either witness all the work they're not helping with while bored and guilty or participate, and see how magically helpful they are.
> Model stealing techniques, which are used to “steal” (i.e., duplicate) models or recover training data membership via blackbox probing. This can be used, for example, to steal stock market prediction models

I would like to hear stories about such attacks on stock market models.