skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing the size of a Core ML model: a deep dive into quantization
That's not what I understood from the article you linked. It sounds like the issue mainly stems from uncertainty on whether Square Enix would be able to push a patch out and have it reach all of their player's across platforms at the same time. But Yoshida never points fingers on which of the three is to blame (my guess is Nintendo, they're online infrastructure has never been great).

"One of the issues Yoshida noted, however, was that many companies don't consider how updates to the way online services are operated and regulated can impact an MMORPG.

"Those can become a hurdle when we consider operating FFXIV for an extended period of time," he said. "So when I talk to those first-party companies, I ask them, 'Do you have the capability to prepare for that, do you have the resolve that you're going to make sure to take responsibility and take care of those, do you have that willingness?'

"If we are able to come to some sort of agreement, a handshake so to speak, or if it does end up being that unfortunately we can't do a handshake with Final Fantasy XIV, either way we'll make sure to communicate with our players. But we have been tenacious--we've been trying to keep at it and be persistent about our conversations.""

Considering that cross-play between Microsoft, Nintendo, and PC is supported for multiple games now (Rocket League, Minecraft, and Fortnite), I think it's safe to say that Sony's the one holding back cross-play as a whole. As in to say, even if the above issues were fixed, I wouldn't be surprised if Sony said no anyway.
What does running do to your brain?
Ted Seides (who was on the other side of the bet) actually has some interesting counterpoints to make about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-03/why-i-los...
Yes, that is what we're working on.

While it doesn't address the larger point about compensation (we're working on that), one thought about compensation specific to this event, is that the companies coming to the Expo are at a wide range of funding levels and sizes. Some of them would probably not even be considered "startups" by most people, like Instacart and Doordash, which are both hundreds of people. Many of them do already offer highly competitive compensation; so I would not let this be a deal-breaker for considering coming to the event.
They are literally Hitler. Anyone has the moral high ground relative to Hitler.

Nuke China
The UI is also awful. You have to touch in opposite corners for each successive selection or choice. It takes sooo much longer than saying a "#5 medium to go" > insert card > they finish > remove card. It is a reasonable choice if there is already a line of 4 people in front of you and you are waiting anyway.

The thing I'd really like is a combination of voice (the above is trivial to parse) and a history of my last 6 orders to one touch order.
> Rust’s trait object syntax is one that we ultimately regret.

Would someone please explain the problem (and the solution) for someone who doesn't know Rust yet?
Yes!! I have been waiting for the new time helpers to arrive in stable. It may be a small thing but is so much nicer and makes Rust feel more like a higher level language when I can do `some_time.subsec_millis()` rather than `some_time.subsec_nanos() / 1_000_000`.
I don't really see how Epic can't fix this. Are they deleting your account on their servers when switching to Sony? Seems like an absolutely ridiculous thing to do.
What a pity that responding to the market isn’t leading humanity anywhere good.
They see the market for petrified fuels going down so they are working with DuPont and other to research ways to make more uses for petrochemicals
Its a little ironic that you use the pantheon as an example since its dome is constructed from concrete.
Correct. The “volunteer” part means that Linus’s formal authority is actually quite limited.

In a company the Boss can fire the incompetent or malicious. Not so with Linux; The BFDL has to constantly poke and prod the community away from its impulses.

The truth is that leadership without formal authority is messy. It only gets messier as the problems becomes more important and as more people get involved.

The alternative to outbursts is hierarchy; for Linux to structure itself even more, endowing Linus with even more power, such that he could temporarily suspend the contributor at his discretion.

No insults, no screeds, just a silent squelch.

A far neater outcome that would also be anathema to the politically unconscious.
>> Not to dismiss the challenges with automating burgers, but its pretty straightforward compared to self-driving tech - there's basically no unknowns!

I always assume things are more complicated than they appear on the surface, so this is a surprise. You sound like you've explored this topic thoroughly. What is involved in having a robot produce a hamburger (not just the patty, of course)?
There was a better article about this earlier this year in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-b...

Corresponding HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16174719
Let's nuke the shit out of them
Interesting. I had no idea.

So I guess... just use (and reuse) glass but don't recycle it?
Choosing the normal in this case would mean the most common among the population would it not?
It was a broad fund of hedge funds, the HFRI, if I remember correctly.
> Startups are struggling in this era of rising market concentration.

To rephrase it, current anti-trust is often too toothless.
Thanks for the correction - easy to forget that the P in PON is for passive.
The most interesting chaos experiments are the ones that show you gaps in your observability, when you know you've broken something and know you can't see it. The teams I've been on have learned that there are different sorts of observability that you need for different kinds of failure. Also, with complex systems, you need to learn how to operate your observability. Designing or testing resilience without being able to measure effectiveness is a time sink. Know that you can see failure first.
Do you pay an engineer to come out and fix your car or copy machine? It's not like paid employees are any cleaner... That's why the ice cream machines are "down" half the time
ACA helps. It needs an overhaul, along with a medicaid expansion everywhere to manage the risk pools.

If we had done ACA 1.1 with appropriate adjustments, it might not be a concern.

but the actual inflight plans are to reverse the ACA and, depending on the plan and who's been adjusting it most recently, it might even make us worse off than before the ACA.
Lol someone is always touching your food. It's not going to kill you.
5 years since first presented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
Nuke these subhuman beasts
It's not weird - the vast majority of long term contracts I've seen (for services my company provides) are several years long but requires the other party to renew the contract at periodic intervals.

So the contract was negotiated at a specific price point for (say) three years but every X months the other party can opt out by not renewing. They only commit for a certain term.
That depends on if you mean securities or corporations. ETFs aren't counted as companies, and there is a hell of alot more of them than corporations.
Do you need a time zone for dates?
This thread explains it quite well: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8sqiin/newbie_questio...
Show HN: What do you think about my first indie maker product?
> With more competition it will likely become cheaper.

I wish I shared that faith in market forces. What seems more likely to the cynic in me is that a big player like PayPal will incorporate it into their merchant services, obtain some overly broad patents on the process, use those to stifle competition, and make the service a nominally cheap add-on (but only for their own customers).
Welcome to Blaine, the Town Amazon Prime Built
Landfills are not sustainable, and are best used as a stop gap measure. It might seem like we have lots of easily accessible empty land right now, but eventually easily accessible land is going to become harder to find. It seems that it would be wise to come up with a sustainable solution, rather than assuming we can rely on a non-renewable resource forever.

That being said, why can't volcanoes be used as some sort of a landfill?
Business owners seem to approach their responsibilities with varying levels of seriousness.

I try to maintain work-life balance but I also try to treat both family and my business as equally important.

If my company fails, I can go get a job too. Changing jobs can be painful for a family, founder or employee.
It is a very delicate question of responsibility. Developing countries pollute the oceans most, but the source of waste is - to a large degree - western nations. So probably, the best way to put it, is to say that both are responsible. However, now things have changed, with China at least.
> Between this and similarly far-reaching laws (e.g., GDPR), it's becoming increasingly burdensome for small players to the point where secondary services like Avalara are effectively required.

Sounds like a good justification for a federal GST instead of the patchwork of (hyper) local sales taxes. I fully understand why that will never happen in the United States (states' rights), and think that it's the tax patchwork that's the problem not the requirement to collect taxes itself.
My doctor told me to take Lysine 500mg per day to prevent them. You have to take it everyday forever, but it works really really well. Surprised it's not a more well known treatment. I only found out about it a couple years ago. Good luck!
What I was going for was: if it's a standard contractor-like payment, what paperwork do you save by using cryptocurrency?
Tell me a better way to get Google to fix things, I'm all ears.

Complaining in social media, bugging people you know inside the walls and calling them out here works
A 1.2x speedup affecting a primitive operation is huge.
> Unfortunately, not all bioplastics compost easily or completely and some leave toxic residues or plastic fragments behind. Some will break down only at high temperatures in industrial-scale, municipal composters or digesters, or in biologically active landfills (also called bioreactor landfills), not on ordinary home compost heaps or in conventional landfills.

This is not that big a problem. The solution to it is municipal composting, instead of chucking it in your back yard.

Bioplastics aren't a panacea, but biodegradable ones are. We want durable materials that don't biodegrade. That's why we use plastics. Ideally, there should be a way - some catalyst, or some environment in which they do degrade. Industrial composting of biodegradable plastics is just that.

Unfortunately, it does not really solve the microfiber problem. We can't make clothing out of biodegradable plastic.
There's some discussion about this in the Electron GitHub issues, but development is fairly inactive afaik.

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673
If that was the case they would have not said "renew." "Renew" has special meaning in contracts.
Koko: Gorilla who mastered sign language dies in California
I think getting the location right has always been the biggest obstacle to being a successful restaurant. And there's only so much you can change the menu and "ambience" when you're supplying self-service burgers.

Plus the article does hint the robo-restaurant still has employees to manage customers, clean, load the machine and presumably sort out issues with it on a not-infrequent basis...
Sunrise and Sunset Times Near the Solstices
Disappointing but unsurprising. There's little to be done at the moment aside from contacting your assemblyman/state senator and making yourself heard.

I would expect, generally, that if a company is going to spend tens of billions on an acquisition, a few tens of millions on marketing material, "citizen groups", "studies", third-party editorials, etc. would be par for the course; it's pure bad business to do otherwise.

But it's possible that with enough actual calls/contacts from constituents that some progress gets made and reps can be pointed in the right direction. Hell, this being California, perhaps something similar will make it onto the state ballot at some point.
Sony's decision to lock Fortnite accounts on their platform seems to be in direct violation of the GDRP "data portability" law.

the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.

Cross-play is a different story though.
> all efforts to test it in software have failed so far

What does "failed" mean? Evolution is a universal concept with infinite potential implementations. Trying to measure "success" means nothing unless you have some particular goal in mind, and as soon as you add a goal you severely restrict the pool of potential "successful" implementations, which makes success harder to find. Even then, you can look to processes like stochastic gradient descent as a "successful" use. It goes a lot deeper than that but as someone who has spent many years studying evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, cognitive science, socioeconomics, and complex adaptive systems I have no idea where your comment is coming from so I won't elaborate here.
But it may not have been my state in particular, but the fact that they are all different.

Even the easiest tax system in the world won't make up for the fact that they need to record and charge for tax in that state, then send that money back to the state.

Short of not having sales tax, there really isn't a way that they can simplify it. And again, unless you are a lawyer that knows the tax laws in that area, you won't know how good or bad the local tax system is until you go to try and enter it.
They probably are contractually bound to have this behavior with Sony in exchange for promotion or cash. It doesn't benefit Epic in any way and it benefits Sony a lot.
I'm not sure why you think that skilled people who won't walk away and go devote their time to a project where they don't have to put up with an asshole boss and his army of apologists.
Quick callout: we're hiring at Gusto if anyone wants to join us...

gusto.com/careers
This is about whether using a common carrier to ship goods somewhere is considered a business nexus. And the supreme court ruled that it is, if you are making 200+ shipments a year or $100k in revenue.
As someone who successfully tested and completed stem cell therapy to prevent an amputation, I don't care who gets paid. Fuck you to saying I can't try something when it's my bone getting cut off.
> What universe are you living in that you think modern American children want to learn? They don't.

Woof...

I know when I worked around the US (mostly midwest) at a different school a week, there were always some kids who wanted to learn.

There were always some that didn't.

However, they may not have wanted to learn every single thing that the school taught, but they did want to learn about stuff that could be applied to a future career.
If startups fail (test bad ideas) 5x faster than in the 80's and 90's and if most founders quit entrepreneurship after their 1st failure, even if 2x more people are founding companies, then it's probably normal that, overall, less man-years would be spent in startups every year in the US.
How useful is SIMD on CPU these days given that most of the touted original applications (back in the MMX SSE days) have been moved over to GPUs?
How to Scale: 4 Different Phases in a Startup’s Life
The same reasons we don't just burn all our trash in incinerators plus the inaccessibility and relatively small number of active volcanoes.
I agree, it's not about Democrats vs. Republicans. It's about corruption.

How did the amendment get passed with the secret vote? My take: AT&T greased a LOT of wheels to get this legislation stopped.

It happens at the Federal level with GOP in power, it happens in many states with Dems or GOP in power. It's purely corruption.
Building a telemetry function that respects your privacy
Sony had a deal with Valve a while back for Portal 2, don't know what happened to it.
The linked thread is good, but the short answer:

Box<Foo>

If Foo is a struct, this is a single pointer to the heap. If Foo is a trait, this is a double pointer: a pointer to the data on the heap, and a pointer to a vtable for its methods. These two things are very different, but look similar. That's the mistake.

This change separates the two. Now:

Box<dyn Foo>

is always the latter, a "trait object". We have to keep the old syntax working for stability reasons, but can lint against it, so that it nudges you into the better syntax. So in this world,

// always a single pointer to a struct (or enum)
Box<Foo>

// always a double pointer
Box<dyn Foo>

This is more clear for humans. The compiler can tell with 100% fidelity, of course. But humans aren't compilers. Different things with different costs look different.

As an addendum, the parent mentions another feature, "impl Trait", which can be used with traits. Their point was, originally, Box<Trait> was the only thing that existed like this. With "impl Trait", it was "impl Trait" vs "Trait", and is now "impl Trait" vs "dyn Trait", which is much more clear, at least in many people's opinions. :)
Introduction to cryptohopper, the cloud-based crypto trading bot
Could you clarify if you think this is good, bad, or just interesting? Your comment might be received as though a change like this taking three years is somehow not efficient or tsk-worthy.
Ah yes, the ubiquitous middlebrow dismissal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...). "As a non-kernal guy" gives it away immediately.
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> give houses smaller trash cans and charge a lot for bigger trash cans.

And then find garbage illegaly dumped in forests.

> d)We need packaging laws and taxes that address waste caused by excessive/unnecessary packaging... particularly for commercial/industrial use.

This. Taxes and import duties should penalise overuse of hardly recyclable products and packages.
The rich country I live in is investing billions in public transport. Its also investing heavily in cycling.

Trying to meet the Paris climate accord and making sure people don't die from poor air quality makes this a legal requirement. Ofcourse the US has Trump so there is no such pressure to get people out of their SUVs.
Yeah, but they've only been there for 12 years. OFC before then.
> It's not like paid employees are any cleaner

I wasn't calling engineers less clean. I was saying paying for repairs and maintenance from experts might offset the cost savings (relative to minimum wage, minimum qualified, employees) in the long run.

Self-checkout machines seem to work because the technology is simple enough to be reliable enough. In this case you have moving parts, sensors, and food particles on everything.
Would it be possible to get the original text of the bill and introduce it as a prop?
Their kids should get jobs if they want money.
Imagine you have two random number generators, each
producing a sequence of digits. The question for your
computer is this: Are the two sequences completely
independent from each other, or are they related in a
hidden way?

That, right there, should tell absolutely everyone, by intuition alone, that, despite assurances from industry experts that flaws leading to breaks (plain-text discovery faster than brute force) are universally impractical, even with all the energy of a dyson sphere, that there are classified equations for back doors baked into all modern, commercially used civilian/consumer-grade cryptographic algorithms.
Highly recommend Technology Connections for old tech.
Still really useful. We use NEON on Android all the time since there's not a great API there and spinning up a GPU on a mobile device is not something you want to do unless you absolutely have to.
Plastics aka petroleum are a huge problem, but yoga pants (microplastics) aka performance synthetic fabrics are a even larger problem.
We were storing telemetry that was preprocessed by the MCS. This is preferable for analysis, since you can not afford to pipe the CCSDS packets through the rather slow mission control systems every time you want to plot or analyse the data. This also has the advantage that you store the data exactly as seen in the control room.

The raw CCSDS packet stream also gets stored, but given that the MCS systems are rather inflexible, they are not as valuable for general analysis.
This is awesome and important work! I hope that this project can move independently of Elm's development once it gets enough interest though.
One fact that confirms that: avoiding the fun is not enough to solve inhibition.
Really, all sizes. There are about 50 companies in the directory now that are hiring new grads. The median size is 10 people; there are a bunch in the 2-3 person range and a bunch in the 100+ person range.

If you fill out a Work at a Startup profile, we'll automatically show you a list in the directory with just the companies hiring new grads.
Best thing to do is talk to a lawyer in trademark law that operates in your country.
I canceled all AT&T services last year. Internet comes in via Sonic (which is pro net neutrality), voice is VoIP, and cellular is from T-Mobile.
This seems like it would quickly devolve into health hazard without constant maintenance. Idk, at this point, it seems like it would be a headache just to have this running smoothly. It's cool and all and yeah maybe robots will make our food in the future, but this machine is not something that I'm especially stoked about.

As a person who cooks, 50% of the time is spent cleaning up. I can see gunk, pieces of stuff, residue messing with the machine. A normal person notices and cleans each bit as they go, whereas a machine like this (unless engineered to clean itself) will be cleaned periodically (most likely after business hours). So my point is, I feel like food made by humans is still cleaner and safer.

Also what happens when something needs to be cleaned or replaced mid-lunch? You shut down the machine and open it up... the restaurant loses $. In a normal kitchen, you wipe things up, wash a knife, or grab a new one and keep going.
You must be Chinese spy. Burn him!
The only thing Firefox feels behind on is video, at least that I notice in day to day operation. Chrome runs much more efficiently. When using Firefox my laptops fans spin up, battery life takes a hit, and it's overall more sluggish.
Apple killing the Lightning port may be the next step to a truly wireless iPhone
>Although the court left open the possibility that other arguments could be pressed against the South Dakota law, Kennedy’s majority opinion strongly suggested the measure was constitutional, in part because it has the $100,000 threshold and...

Anyone know where the Constitution talks about this $100,000 threshold?

>doesn’t try to impose retroactive taxation.

Similar to how it presumably not limiting what arms can be sold makes it 'constitutional'.
> The list goes on

Every item you listed applies to states doing a lot better on the education front than California.

> All the evidence I have been asking for and you have not given?

What evidence will convince you that a high proportion of non-English speakers likely has a serious influence on educational outcomes for a school?

Would a strong negative correlation between number of non-English speakers at a school and school performance convince you?

And then once you have been convinced what will convince you that the most just and moral approach is strict border security?
Yes there are law's against littering and that doesn't mean much.
I live in New York City(in a "developed" country). Yet some streets can become pretty littered.

The glass bottle made the people police themselves instead of having the governments use public resources to do it.