skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. From what I have seen that most of the time even quite senior engineers are not aware of larger implications beyond technical architecture of software they are developing.
i see a bit of improvement. have anyone tried this and see any advantage ? any thoughts on this ?
I stopped reading this article after the first example of Denver. I would not trust this article not being mostly propaganda because, if one looks in detail at the first pair of photos, they are not close to displaying the same area. One third of the right of the 2014 photo shows where the grid changes directions with a very large N-S road. The one on the left from 1953 is shifted far to the left to where this part of Denver is not in the picture. It is hard to tell if even the scales (also not shown) of the photos are the same.

Edit: I decided to look at the rest of the photos after writing this comment and it is obvious in some of the other photos that the author somehow thinks it is useful to have photos of before and after that don't even overlap at all. Oakland, for example, has maybe 10% overlap with one showing mostly west Oakland and the other showing the Lake Merritt area. Maybe my browser is just not displaying things right. I'll interpret these strange before and after images that way and move on.
He needs to stop tweeting? Why should he? I don't get these articles calling on people to stop saying something the author disagrees with. If Musk is wrong then history will judge him. He will eventually have to deal with whatever the consequences of his speech is.
Not if you think you can cheat harder than them.
Mobile code was dying before, but the final nail in the coffin is the Spectre/Meltdown class of vulnerabilities (with new variants coming out monthly).

It seems modern microprocessors simply aren't designed to run untrusted code.
For what it's worth...

http://time.com/64707/mary-barra-gm-safety/

"The program is formatted to recognize employees who contribute ideas, or those who raise questions about safety issues before they become bigger problems. Call it an internal whistleblower program."
Did he tattoo the checkmarks as well?
For anyone just getting started on this I can't recommend fast.ai enough. It's extremely well done and I found it very intuitive. You are able to quickly apply some very advanced techniques.
Thanks for the detailed response. My company's product is around $200k and will be used by a limited audience, not a $100 mass market product.

Regarding the updates, how significant they are is hard for me to quantify, but we will be adding major new features.

We have thought about leasing, but the upfront capital could be a problem for us.

Do you have any links online to where these companies list their pricing including maintenance contracts? I am trying to compile a list I can share with my board to help us in making sure we are priced similarly to the market.
Yeah. The worst code camp people have been some of the worst programmers I've ever had to work with. But at the high end? The distinction in success rate is fuzzier.

Several of my most promising mentees came out of code camps. It convinces me of something I already 'knew': that good instincts don't come from a college education, they come from life. But a university will weed out a lot of dilettantes...
Pretrained models have enabled so much in CV, excited to see similar shifts in the language world.

A great supplement is Sebastian’s NLP progress repo: https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress
I don't know if I overlooked it, but it doesn't seem possible to delete my account if I so choose.
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> We found that battery electric cars generate half the emissions of the average comparable gasoline car, even when pollution from battery manufacturing is accounted for.

https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life...

Yes, EV's have higher energy and emissions numbers embedded in their manufacturing, but that gets more than offset by the much lower emissions of fuel. Breakeven is the first 6-18 months, depending on battery size and emissions makeup of your local grid. Even in "coal-powered car" country.

> EVs are powered by electricity, which is generally a cleaner energy source than gasoline. Battery electric cars make up for their higher manufacturing emissions within eighteen months of driving — shorter range models can offset the extra emissions within 6 months — and continue to outperform gasoline cars until the end of their lives.

As for waste, there is battery recycling, but the more interesting part is second-life storage use. Battery may not have the energy density required for transportation, but you can still use them fine as a cheap powerwall-like product. Cheap because the cost of the batteries was already paid for by the first owner of the car.
When has a union in this context ever protected a member who refused to take action on behalf of the business for ethical reasons? Lots of unions protect inaction motivated by worker safety, but this is a different thing.
>PE sure, I probably should have noted I know little about that, but when you talk about banking you're now going from "have no ethics laws" to "well, they exist, but they're not effective in my opinion."

Oh, if we're going to be pedantic about what exists, then software engineers have them. There are computer hacking laws! And software IP and copyright rules. See, we're regulated, too. I thought we were operating on the premise that the existing structure was insufficient or irrelevant to any meaningful end, but since it technically exists, I'm not sure why you're arguing that we need to create them.

Honestly, your entire reply seems like you're going out of your way to miss the point. When you made a mistake about PE, I didn't concoct some strawman to try to embarrass and highlight your ignorance, so I don't know why you're trying to do that to me. A software engineer's counterpart isn't some ambulance chaser getting disbarred. Biglaw associates are the professional counterparts to software engineers. And in medicine, I've seen tens of thousands of extra opioid deaths and hundreds of billions in insurance/medicare scams attributed to the medical industry to have a bit of an opinion at least.

If you think the argument that industry-specific regulations don't matter, and that the only regulations that matter are federal fraud laws is a goalpost change than I don't know what to tell you. My argument is that the industry codes don't matter, and that any semblance of actual regulation takes place at the federal fraud level, so putting an unnecessary step of internal regulation is pointless.
Journalists need to stop "commenting" or "sharing knowledge" on topics they are woefully under-powered (both in terms of rhetoric and intellect) to understand at even a basic cursory level...

Slate has tweeted a number of things they haven't been able to prove, some that could even be considered slander...
It's a general problem with "progress". Things change. If you really want a solid system, build it around the IBM System/360-based architecture, which is designed for long-term robustness. However, a front-end to such a system could still be a buggaboo, as UI standards (and non-standards) change like the wind. A "green screen" terminal (emulator) front-end from the 70's would probably still work, but newbies will give you a funny look. Many of the barriers to long-term robustness are social in nature.
This is about Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet.
It's an interesting project.

Read more about the project here:
https://sidewalktoronto.ca/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Labs

More:

>Sidewalk Labs responded to a Request For Proposals issued in March 2017 by Waterfront Toronto to identify an innovation and funding partner. Following a rigorous evaluation process involving several local and international firms, Waterfront Toronto selected Sidewalk Labs.

>Sidewalk Toronto will begin with a new neighbourhood, called Quayside, located at Parliament Slip, just southeast of Downtown Toronto. Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto aim to bring the innovations advanced at Quayside to scale across the Eastern Waterfront, more than 325 hectares (800 acres) that represent one of North America’s largest areas of underdeveloped urban land.
Why not keep the scooters in the cars. Grab one on the way out, leave it behind when you get home. Request an uber with a scooter in it. There will have to be some leveling between cars but that’s surely easier than blanketing the city.
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That's false though. You totally can get the features of vim in your IDE.
This is a nice breakdown but the most interesting thing I see is keeping the statistics to themselves by posting them to the site as svgs, not images and not text. You can't highlight them for copypasting even though a screenshot will work but you can't right click for saving to an image either. Thanks for the technique.
I think the millennial journalist without ample purpose or tools to navigate life is the one who's "obsessive and deranged".
> Correctness comes first.

I agree with this.

Interestingly, the post is very simple, and not correct. I prefer posts which are slightly more complex but correct, but those don't get as many upvotes.
Because it's fud. Each of the five points are either lies or stretching the truth, and is missing a key element: RISC-V allows people to innovate (on the implementation, not necessarily adding instructions to the ISA). To do this for Arm requires an architectural license which is insanely expensive (you can start many start ups for just this alone).
Well, "practicing medicine without a license" is a crime. I mean, you can call yourself a "healer" or something and claim to help people in some general, non-specific way, but you can't prescribe meds, cut people up, etc etc.

So if you're a doctor you're given exclusive right to perform the economic activity of doctoring. In return you have a steep set of obligations, which include being truthful, ethical, not refusing service, etc.

What you said is a part of these "obligations", which definitely put you at an economic disadvantage, but that's ok, because you have exclusive rights to that activity. A doctor's obligations do impose costs on them, but not compared to other doctors.

The critical bit I'm trying get at is enforceability. If a doctor acts unethically, they can be challenged in front of their board by a patient and if they lose their license they can never practice medicine again. Having your livelihood at stake is a great incentive to act properly.

A software engineer such as myself, OTOH, has no little incentive beyond my own personal ethics. In many cases, being ethical will place you at an economic disadvantage compared to other software engineers. Actually, the whole notion of "ethics" is hand-wavy and ill-defined, because there's no professional organization.

Anyway, we can wish for good things and that'll party work and it's better than being cynical, but it'll only get you so far.
You should be able to get mostly the same benefit if there was plenty of places to park them.

I could theoretically rent a bicycle, but there are only four places I could park it.
Can you clarify?

Git? The software I use to:

git add *

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This is a private 'blockchain' based on a project? So there isnt any 'coins' that are going to be doing similar worldwide?

Can you make an attempt to come up with the worldwide or coin usage that solves a verification problem similar to git?

Very interesting btw
No they aren't, they're probably saving downtown Austin's transportation woes. Decades of failed resolutions by the city council to provide expanded public transportations for an extremely high growth city have brought us to this point, one where the market had to come up with a solution. I'd imagine more regulations are probably due in the near future.
The on-the-fly error and smell checking Emacs does is better than nothing but it's on a different level than a good IDE.
Interesting thing about the default image, "beard" on a woman creates a more typically "masculine" jawline but doesn't add facial hair.

Increasing blondeness also increases smile.
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I don't think what you're saying is in conflict with the OP:

> The complex problem comes later, and it’ll be better served by the composition of simple solutions than with the application of a complex solution.

Complicated problem domains can be made into simple ones by breaking them down into their constituent components. You can solve time zones by having 5000 Rube-Goldberg-esque lines of if/else-if statements, or you can organize the system into simple components that build on each other.

At any given component or level the problems are clear, simple, and identifiable, and the complexity arises as the components join to form abstractions upon which higher levels operate.
Technically CaaS could be IaaS, if you're just using containers as lightweight VM substitutes.

Practically CaaS tends to be PaaS, because the hosting service is also providing a platform such as Kubernetes.
Can you speak to the 'obvious' uses? They are not obvious to me unfortunately.
https://stephenmann.io

Writing a lot about infrastructure automation (Terraform, AWS, gcloud, Kubernetes) and how to design / deploy production applications. Trying to write blog posts that contain stream-of-thought code and explanations that starts at zero and ends up with a fully functional example.
Voodoo 2 was ~$500 in 1998. GF3 launched at $500, but dropped to $400 after barely a month. GeForce3 Ti 200 was $150. If you wanted decent cheap you bought $200 8500LE/4200, if you were clueless you bought $100-180 gf2MX/gf4MX.
Subjectively worse, we don't have enough battery powered cars to compare the timelines with gasoline powered. They contribute to more waste, regardless. Battery packs need replacing 5 - 10 years, are not easily recycled or disposed of and their manufacture and mining of materials still isn't a net positive in terms of pollution. There isn't a one size fits all solution. Going all electric trades one issue for another, cleaner air for more polluted rivers, cities around mines and factories and battery disposal and recycle sites. I personally have no problem with electric but I dislike hearing people tout it as the solution to all our vehicle woes. It isn't.
A smartphone comes with 8 GB RAM and 512 GB internal memory
4) After thinking how to get beat bang for buck when optimizing. Profilers don't always pinpoint the culprit.
> with no room for error

A wireless network containing safety critical devices written with no room for error. Alrighty then.
Are you planning to add cards manufactured for ML, such as the NVidia Titan V (110 teraflops)?
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Manipulating Neil deGrasse Tyson's face in the demo yields some hilariously bad-looking results.
You just use a marker for that part, duh.
More dramatic imagery of this effect is found at http://theoverheadwire.blogspot.com/2010/02/parking-bombs.ht... - "Parking Bomb" is an apt description.
Yes, NCEES (the body that administers the Engineering licensing exams nationwide in the US) is discontinuing their Software Engineering exam next year because only ~80 people have taken it since it was created in 2013.

I think the biggest problem they had was that despite having the exam, not many states actually issue Professional Engineer licenses in the Software Engineering discipline. Because of this, I don't see why anyone (in those states) would bother taking the exam if they can't actually get a license and use the title "Professional Engineer".
Vandalism is not an appropriate way to express your opinion about whether something is a great social good. It's also very difficult for something to become a social good, if it's unavailable because of unchecked vandalism.

Also, they are not being only vandalized, but stolen, which would imply that the perpetrators do believe the scooters are quite useful, but simply don't want to pay for them.
In ReverseState, the result of each computation is threaded left-to-right, and the state is threaded right-to-left. What happens if the set state depends on the computation result? Does that just yield bottom?

More colorfully, in `State RiemannHypothesisProof`, Haskell Scientists begin by reading the state (which comes from the future), pass it along, and then (in the future) set the state, which they received as an input from the past.
"it's true that to a certain extent different ethnic groups have genetic differences of medical relevance."

It's just plain true.

"While variation within groups is generally larger than that between groups"

That line is for the big traits, like intelligence, strength, etc. Those are made up of many, many genes, and I've even seen a couple of recent articles that suggest the answer to the question "which genes affect intelligence?" may well be "all of them". When it comes to specific genes, though, the incidences can be correlated very strongly to ethnicities/races.

If you're having trouble squaring that with your political pieties, bear in mind that it's actually all correlations, not causations. The real cause of the genes an individual has is their literal ancestry (i.e., not their "race" but their exact ancestry, the exact humans and indeed even the exact genes carried by the relevant eggs and sperms), and it isn't that surprising that that correlates strongly with something else that is very tied to ancestry. But really, it's a separate process.

There is a de-novo genetic mutation my wife has. She didn't get it from either of her parents. (You know what I mean.) The races of all the individuals involved have nothing to do with the fact that one of our children also has it and one does not.

It's sort of important that we not freak out about "races" showing up in medicine; is it more important that people get correct medical treatment and live better lives and at times just plain live even if we can only use a crude tool for a while, or that our particular delicate political beliefs be left unchallenged? I know which I choose.
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What makes you think sexual selection led to increased intelligence in humans? In the grand scheme of things, I'm not sure humans are even that sexually dimorphic TBH, I believe the size dimorphism is actually pretty small compared to other mammals.
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EU survey asking citizens if they want to get rid of daylight saving time
Depends how one defines "swim". That'll probably turn into a meandering philosophical debate, based on my experience debating "intent" with other IT people.
This article has been posted here a few times.

I understand people hate FAANG, but let's be honest about the fact that this is a fluff piece, and that having smog sensors built into a few city blocks is not at all similar. There are so many legitimate things to be concerned about, and this has got to be about the least concerning thing out there.
Why would I need a scooter when the uber takes me door to door.

Mass transit would benefit better from a scooter partnership.
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>In Toronto, Sidewalk sketches out a picture of a neighborhood where intelligent “pay-as-you-throw” garbage chutes separate out recyclables and charge households by waste output

I don't understand why the "city of the future" types have such a fetish for pay per use. It either winds up being cheap enough that nobody cares or if it's expensive enough for people to care it will be a serious drag on poor people. Sure you can come up with various voucher and aid systems but those have administrative overhead and their own unique downsides. It's better to just ensure that utilities (like trash pickup and tap water) are so cheap they're basically free and just eat the cost of the over-users because there's less harm in that than any other option.
maybe the world would be better off if we treated marketing as a sunk cost and stopped encouraging them to actually try to control the narrative.
They may have done exactly that, but not in highway conditions, and so got fooled just like the inspection locations.
The more expansive view of front running was most famously argued in Flash Boys, where "Lewis concludes that HFT is used as a method to front run orders placed by investors".[1] Under this definition, yes, why should traders need a Bloomberg terminal just to remain on a level playing field? The five-second batch proposal would make the market more fair. We should compete on real information and not on microsecond latency.

You say that this doesn't make sense, but I'm very interested in why. Of course, we want price updates to be timely, but why would microsecond resolution be useful?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
I wonder how much of a concern the new conservative Ontario government is?
> Maybe my browser is just not displaying things right.

Yah, there should be a slider... Initial view shows left half of the area from before, right half from after, and you drag the slider to change the ratio. You might want to reconsider your browser choice if it also failed to display the "how to use" instructions at the top right.
Not to be too obtuse, but isn't WordNet (you know, the project that inspired the creation of ImageNet) "an ImageNet for language"? It seems kind of weird to bring up ImageNet within the context of NLP and not mention WordNet once.
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This doesn’t necessarily mean keeping winter time. From the consultation page[1]:

> Discontinuing the current bi-annual time changes for all Member States and prohibiting periodic switches; again this would not affect the choice of time zone, and it would ultimately remain each Member State's decision whether to go for permanent summer or wintertime (or a different time).

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/2018-summertime-arra...
In practice of many years, I haven't found iterative approach to produce either simple or easily maintainable code. If tends to grow rings instead. Each layer is relatively simple but altogether neither it is performant nor simple.

The simple code of present was almost always written by someone who understands the problem domain really well in one or two tries.
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DNS to the root servers is about as private as it gets, until such a day they could scale out to support TLS.

Hybrid models that allow TLS or VPN to a tier-1 network ring not monitored by FANG or CF that forward to the root servers are also adequate. Unbound DNS can deterministic prefetch queries that approach 0 TTL.
So Google doesn't even have enough patience to grow a fiber internet business, but it has the patience to build a whole city and then support it for decades?

What happens 5 years later after all the people have moved into it, but Google discovers that the project is not very profitable for them to maintain or that they can't achieve whatever objectives they were hoping to achieve with it?

I'm guessing the #1 objective with this is to create a "role model" for a total surveillance panopticon type of city that governments around the world would then replicate, using its technologies.

I'm also assuming this city would also get "upgrade" to having "always-on" wireless brain scanning technology in the future, so that the company can "better target" ads at you in every moment of your life.
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"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case the content is a direct copy of https://www.business.com/articles/secrets-of-the-super-rich-...
I'm not sure that was the intention. It's easier to cater to different screen resolutions with a vector format. You can always take a screenshot if you want or link to the article.