skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they do have that responsibility. They're supposed to wash their hands. That's the #1 way to stop the spread of viruses and bacteria. We also require they put their garbage into garbage cans and out to the street every week, so that the streets aren't literally covered in contaminated waste, like they were a century ago.

We also require they call the police when a crime is occurring. And the fire department when a fire occurs. And the city's department of works when a water main breaks. We also require they follow minimum driving standards and laws, take a test to certify they can drive, and make sure their vehicle passes a regular safety inspection.

"Public safety" in America is funny sometimes. In the rest of the developed world, produce and eggs don't usually come pre-washed, and you can even buy unpasteurized cheese and milk. But we Americans take so little responsibility for our own welfare that we literally force our society to protect us in every possible corner case, because taking the time to protect ourselves is too much to ask.

Except when it comes to necessities, like guns. Then we'd much rather be dead than safe.

Another fun example of how it's a citizen's responsibility to help: ending unjust laws that unfairly target people with no ability to defend themselves. Like the homeless. In many cities in America, it is illegal for a citizen to give a sandwich to a homeless person. They also are banned from many public spaces, and pushed out of the few places that they can actually have a space to rest or sleep, like highway underpasses and abandoned train tracks. They can't form a coalition and petition the city on their behalf; they don't have the resources. But we do.

We also have the resources to vote to install more shelters, more food banks, more outreach programs, more clean needle exchanges, more job programs, or hell, even just a place someone can have a shit and a shower. We have the resources to vote for programs to help hire homeless people, and to vote to expand low income housing. We have the resources to vote to distribute blankets and food during the winter, and expand safe spaces for more vulnerable homeless like women, children, LGBTQ youth, and so on. There's a lot of things we could do as citizens that wouldn't require you to actually do anything other than check off a box on a ballot, and maybe fork over an extra $1.50 in local taxes.

That's the least a citizen could do, but I don't see that being done either.
Good to see them working on real AR instead of "render an geolocated object with the camera feed in the background" (original Pokemon Go). At least the new ARKit version attempts to track the feed a bit.
Pretty sure software architecture applies to both frontend and backend development, but for whatever reason, most frontend developers seems to ignore it (not everyone, but most public libraries are terrible architecture-wise).

Since the skill it's transitive and it's one of the skills that gives the highest value long term, I don't see how there couldn't be a fullstack developer.
Exactly. First there was nvswitch, which dramatically increased the bandwidth over pcie. But that didn't scale to a large number of GPUs. Then there was nvswitch, which solved the scaling problem inside a node. I wouldn't be surprised if the next leap is something like nvlink cables between nodes that don't need traditional routing capabilities.
How safe is Uber? Passenger was abused, attacked and molested by co-passenger
Pretend you only had 3 coins. The idea is -- when you use the scale to measure 2 coins against each other -- you actually gain "information" about all three coins.

This is because there are 3 possible scenarios:

1. the biased coin is on the right side of the scale,

2. the biased coin is on the left side of the scale,

3. or the biased coin is the coin not measured (since the scale is balanced).

In essence, even though this scale only has 2 sides, you gain information proportional to having 3 sides.

Hence if we were to extend this to a scenario where you had n coins, of which one was biased and others fair, you would only need log_3 n measurements total to find the biased coin.

This idea has pretty neat applications. For example, if you wanted to prove that merge sort has a O(n log n) computational complexity, you can use this scale idea.
Some presumably unintentional humour from the obit:

"Ellison was married five times, with at least two of those marriages lasting only weeks or months. Survivors include his fifth wife, Susan Ann Toth."

No one bore a grudge like him, and few were as talented.
Thanks Julien!
This is an awesome step in the right direction.
Haha true that! Cheers :)
Well, that’s the rational consumer side of you. What about the side of you that’s a member of a community—how do you start caring about externalities?
Similarly, optimal military squads have 8 people.
From a technical perspective, in many cases getting the total count required for formal pagination is actually extremely tricky. Even in postgres, the count operation on an indexed table is extremely slow. In cases where the query is doing something more complicated than hitting an RDBMS, getting the total count could be substantially more complicated.

Also, I hate pagination in almost every case.
Personally I'd sooner hire someone who is expert in electrical engineering or operations research than a physicist, and I am a former physicist.
> You want to have your cake and eat it too, and it would be nice if that was possible but it is not because nobody is going to give you cheap loans if it comes with too much risk.

OP is not saying that he doesn't want anyone performing credit checks. He's saying that he wants to be able to choose a company that values privacy. Currently, there's no option of choice for the consumer, and that's a problem.
Yes it's fair. In the 2016 presidential election campaigns were using micro-targeted voter suppression campaigns that attempted to get certain demographics to stay home. From a story in The Atlatnic: "The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook 'dark posts'—nonpublic posts whose viewership the campaign controls so that, as [campaign digital guru Brad] Parscale puts it, 'only the people we want to see it, see it.'" If the opposing campaigns had this information they could potentially re-deploy resources.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/trumps-...
This, and lots of things besides ML don't need high precision.
Note that GT Academy winners get extensive race driver training as part of their prize. I agree that the skills translate (somewhat), but people should be aware that he (the guy in the article) didn't go from playing Gran Turismo directly to racing an actual car and even then it took a while before he started to be competitive.
They had that? damn. I think you were supposed to click the characters in idiomatic order.

Try refresh the page. The one I've encountered were tile dragging ones.
Right, so you're saying it's not like the marketers walk in and say "we need it 0.2mm thinner because x product that released is thinner!!!"

Rather, the industrial design team tells them what they can do and product marketing informs the best mix?

Thanks for the response by the way, semi-informed is way better than my 0 informed.
> And yet the downtown is still fairly walkable, if perhaps not quite as much as an Italian town.

But I bet almost everybody has a car.
> In a place like SF where office space is as expensive as it is

You could always move. I for one would love more non-SF companies; it'd open up more options and opportunities to get off the sinking ship that is SF.
>> If homeless people on buses are a problem where you live, that has nothing to do with public transport in general.

When you hear of people being aggressive, high, inconsiderate, or here in Portland two people had their throats slit on the light rail recently near my house, it makes the public not feel comfortable using the public transportation. Since it's called public transportation and these things effect the public and the transportation, it actually has a lot to do with the public transportation.
I think this is a tough choice and relies on the context. I work at Asana and would be happy to chat with you if you want.
Redundant administration? By that logic, you might as well create a one world government, but it's a piss poor idea.

Consider that redundancy is good in that it creates multiple points of failure. Consider that bureaucracy will scale with the size of the country and not necessarily in the efficient way you think it would. Consider that regional needs and cultures vary dramatically. Even in individual countries, subsidiarian governance is good in that it best matches law and policy with the particularities of each region because local authorities have better grasp of local issues (and where matters are escalated only as necessary). Blanket statements about bigger being better are flatly wrong. And where the US is concerned, the US benefits greatly from a very fortuitous combination of geopolitical factors. Russia, on the other hand, expanded eastward with no such commensurate benefits.
If I hear an explosion and I intentionally walk outside to investigate, unintentionally blocking the path of an emergency vehicle, have I committed a felony?
Following the call for new mirrors, I created another one: https://mirror.oldsql.cc/pocorgtfo/
Plenty of high school kids have bank accounts here. That's not the issue.

The problem is that a personal bank account doesn't qualify as a non-profit under U.S. tax laws. So donors can't write off the donation and the kid would be assessed income taxes on the donation.
This is smart. It can help move the responsibility away from Twitter's issues with policing it's own platform and onto the people paying for the advertising. Without transparency the blame stops at the platform. With this people can scrutinize the actual content and sources of the content.
I disagree, every CTO I’ve worked for has their own side projects, no need to lose your mind over it
Yeah, current docs might not be the best, I think they are still working on it.

API was pretty intuitive, plus some googling and reading stackoverflow. And yes, browsing the source. I don't remember encountering any major problems with it.
I've moved to lean cooking (as in lean manufacturing, not healthy food).

I don't really keep any food in the house, except for herbs and spices, and condiments. I don't keep anything perishable or frozen.

Every day or so, I'll go to Aldi and get my vegetables for one or two meals.

My food wastage these days is about zero.

Conveniently I live practically next door to an Aldi so I don't pay a lot for my food, I'm down to $7 day or so as I've moved to a vegetable based diet.
Maybe you can travel in peace on public transportation but my 5 foot 3 inch 110 pound girlfriend cannot. She gets constantly harassed by guys when I'm not around and some (especially the homeless) get violent about it. And to make matters worse, when you are on a bus, there isn't really anywhere you can go to get away from some creepy guy. Your stuck having to deal with that person until you get to your destination.

It's so bad she refuses to use public transportation here in seattle without me due to how unsafe she feels.
If it makes you feel any better, female friends have reported multiple Facebook posts from white nationalists sending them death and rape threats only to receive the same message. At least their policy is consistently bad?
I'm with u dude, it's extremely odd phrasing to say that the airbnb "LETS" you run the bookstore when the article makes clear that running the bookstore is a requirement of staying at the airbnb. There's no option described that involves NOT running the bookstore so it seems like an extremely poorly phrased title.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/felony.asp

"a misdemeanor is a lesser offense, punishable by imprisonment for up to a year."

Is a year in prison a "joke"?

A legal theory that says "I trust the authorities to ignore the law when I think they should" is a terrible theory.
[posted this on reddit, too]

When I was a teenager, a long time ago, when there was one phone per floor and it was on a long ass cord so you could take it into any bedroom in the house... I got a call from Harlan Ellison. At 2am. I was a awake, but everyone else in the house was asleep. Including the person he wanted to talk with. Martin H. Greenberg and family were staying at my parent's house, because Martin was going to some SciFi convention in Lake Tahoe. I guess Harlan wanted to talk about that. I mentioned that it was 2am and everyone was asleep, but he said "wake him up." I did!

Same trip, I got to drive Martin to Robert Silverberg's house (in Oakland). I took a bunch of my Silverberg books and he signed them. Got to shake his hand, be intimidated by his very large dogs, and longly look at his very young and beautiful girlfriend. She was probably a few years older than me. He had to be 50+ then, I'd guess.

That was a good summer.
The whole point of EU is to garner trade advantage by negotiating as a block instead of as small countries when they saw large countries like US, USSR and China get negotiating power. It is also to not have any tarrifs and free movement of labor internally. Everything else has been iffy at best. EU is not a federal nation like US or India
Has JMS chimed in? I’m sure he has some great stories from working on B5.

Update: his Twitter feed is full of commentary.

https://twitter.com/straczynski

Update 2: his Facebook eulogy is striking.

https://www.facebook.com/139652459402959/posts/1999083533459...
To avoid becoming the precedent should prosecutors choose to make an example of them.
How about just imposing a very large fine instead? However, if it impedes rescue efforts, then make it a felony (as it already would be).
Genuinely have not had a single problem with my new MBP. Owned it a little over a year now. I guess I'm one of the few lucky ones.
The Zen of Python (2004)
Facial recognition rolled out by London police sparking human rights concerns
You're making it sound like the ropes are some minor incidental detail. Usain Bolt wasn't the fastest sprinter who didn't use a motorcycle.
Yeah, as a consumer, this sentiment isn't gonna get any sympathy from me ... I already despise being "marketed to", which has made me really jaded about content marketing; particularly when I consume it but only realize it's just shilling some product or service after the fact.

All advertising should be (by law, or at least industry standard) clearly marked and disclosed.
Roadrunner was... special... in that regard, requiring even more effort and bizarreness than the typical HPC GPU setup. I remember that the pre-install plan for Roadrunner Linpack was a 50 page document. Also, it's worth noting that GPU HPC computing was already in full swing around the same time: CUDA was first released in June, 2007, which is the same time that Roadrunner released its first Top500 entry.
Nice insult: "real".

The thousands of people who lost their homes during Colorado fires while some of their neighbors did not -- these victims wished they had had the right private fire insurance instead of only your "real" personnel.

Using drones to observe specific fire activity around one's private property is entirely legitimate and can save both lives and assets. The State should remain neutral -- or encourage their useful uses; neither limit nor ban them.

[added] If you're downvoting this you obviously have not lived through a Colorado wildfire and do not personally know victims of those fires. Even the public firefighters have expressed appreciation for the private firefighters' work.

And saving a home from the flames does not somehow disrupt containment! Do you know anything about fighting wildfires?
By that standard, nearly all of my pieces must have been sticky.

(And yes, I did grow up in the '80s).
There was an anecdote from a woman in Vancouver about how she would never again use public transit. She described being groped a dozen times in private places, and being followed off the bus by men on 3 occasions or more. I dont see how anyone could blame young women who go through that for refusing to use transit.

Just as a man riding on the same transit system, I totally believe that level of frequency and wouldn't expect anyone to be willing to put up with it. There were other anecdotes about drunks vomiting, fist fights on buses, racist slurs, and more.

I love the idea of transit, but it has some serious personal space, privacy, and safety problems that make personal transportation much more appealing.
Pokemon Go's AR was a joke, but the promise of AR was very real and compelling to people, so they were wildly successful and now have the resources to actually try and solve the technical problems for real.

A lot of startups work this way. They have an ambition to do something but really no chance of doing it. But if they can attract enough attention and raise enough money they might actually be able to attempt it for real.

Crowd funding overtly works like this, but it's really common in regular companies as well. If you can show there's a chance, maybe you can raise enough money to actually do it.
I get it, but the execution is going in the wrong direction.

I want good documentation for everything in current consumer products. Good documentation makes things modular, not pre-drilling a bunch of holes in steel beam. If every printer came with a good BOM and links to datasheets, it would be much easier to reuse those parts, both for consumers and other manufacturers.

Such standardization makes it easier to design and cheaper to manufacture, all without artificially setting a standard. I hope with new "right to repair" legislation, we will start to see a bit more light shed by OEMs as to what parts their products use and datasheets for them.
Google provides immediate brand recognition that shows future employers that you've achieved a certain level success and/or are capable enough to get in. In addition, Google pays very well and offers equity that has a tangible value since they are already public, highly stable, and still have some growth in their future. Having Google early in your career allows you to then seek future opportunities having some money saved from salary/bonus/stock and with more ability to get into leadership in smaller but still high growth companies.
The only people allowed to use ignorance of the law as a positive defense for breaking it are the ones hired to enforce it, ironically.
The *real* reason people are ghosting at work
I want to be optimistic about this ... but it's not like people particular care who is feeding them this stuff. They will complain about shadow government fake news in one breath, while at the same time sharing loads of drivel from `UberPatriotEagleGuns News`, or to be fair, `SocialistOther96PercentDemocratHose`
SQS as an event source to trigger Lambda
Using it right now for the rush. I quit reddit, like it’s on my block list, but HNews seems wholesome enough so I’ve kept it. The problem is the dopamine rush
Fun, I learned something today! I imagine the performance of proxies is pretty terrible, so this is just a toy - but it could come in handy for implementing equivalents of some of the nice syntax sugar that numpy and tensorflow have in JavaScript.
That's part of the strategy. Then they'll just go after some of them and fine them lots of cash. Or at least hold them hostage in lieu of fining them.
Not that I have any love for Equifax, but to play devil's advocate -

Trust forms the basis of all financial transactions. Credit ratings companies increase trust, reducing the price of these transactions. Removing these companies would increase the price of loans/credit cards/etc.

(This ignores the fact that, for example, lenders in Australia mostly ignore credit ratings and instead focus on your earnings)
Theoretically that's what our elected officials should be dealing with. I've tried to intervene with loud or aggressive passengers before and I'll end up being the only person in 40 people on a BART car to do so, and after a couple experiences where I saw that nobody was going to back me up, I decided I should not risk my life over such things. I'd rather drive my car to work and make sure I get home to my children.
That's a bizarre claim. Writing about the company is one of the big PR tasks of a CxO or SVP.

As you noted yourself, blogging is a form of marketing.
The only transaction that is going to appear is currency->BTC. After that, there are many efficient ways of obfuscating a BTC->BTC transcation. There are legitimate uses of BTC, so nothing necessarily suspicious.

However, if you want to receive bribes, you just create a new wallet, you receive the bribes in BTC and either change them somehow in dollars or pay a premium to receive some services directly paid in btc (I am sure many people would be happy to receive BTC payment at a 30% discount).

Tax evasion works the same: you receive some payments that you do not declare in BTC. It works exactly the same way people use cash to evade taxes, except that here you don't have to transport luggages full of banknotes.

Another feature of BTC is that it can't be seized. Cash, gold, paintings, they all can be. BTCs are much easier to protect.
Care to expound on that? Not that I necessarily disagree with you or anything, but I'm curious.
Any of the clones I’ve tried with my kids have barely had compatibility with themselves - at least not to the standard LEGO sets. They don’t grip as well, they fall apart, even their colors can vary. Stay away.
My definition of fundamentals is more traditional CS algorithms and data structures, not "fundamentals" to a specific genre of the software development genre outside of traditional CS algorithms (ones start up companies or what have you are interested in). The fundamental taught in a traditional CS program may exclude the fundamentals that start ups use day-to-day and the fundamentals taught in traditional CS programs many be useless to startups.

So, while a student may have strong CS theory, they may lack industry specific "fundamentals" and companies may discriminate against those candidates because they lack that industry specific skills (that otherwise could easily be picked up).

I argue that traditional fundamentals as defined above are more important than industry specific tooling or frameworks, since the tooling or frameworks change but the core theory does not. I would like industries to not discriminate against graduates that come from a strong theory background but weak industry specific background, since these people should be able to pick up whatever tooling or frameworks on the job.
I'm not familiar with Manhattan, are you describing the phenomenon of building dense commuter urban-areas and far-flung residential areas? Because that is not part of being a walkable neighborhood.

But what stops public transit from being the solution here? In fact, over a 10 mi. radius, public transit scales much better than single-occupancy vehicles, and even fully loaded sedans. Go to Tokyo and folks take trains all day. If you're taking about low-to-medium density areas (which isn't a city) then yes, cars are the most effective.
Kroger Partners with Nuro to Explore Autonomous Grocery Delivery
How does it compare to hevc with preset veryslow? An Epyc server gets about 2FPS (but I've found it most efficient to run 2 jobs that both get about 2FPS simultaneously).
Automated Deep RL Environment for Hardware of a Modular Legged Robot
I think in this context "you" can be interpreted as "the team."
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On the contrary, making it a highly-punishable but rarely-punished crime opens the doors to massive and dangerous police & prosecution discretion.