skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic to see this on the front page! Thought about this yesterday (while skating), skateboarding is really THE best sport... You're competing with yourself while generating more fun, discovery and advancement for all. Total opposite of zero sum. The best are those magic sessions when everybody gets hyped off each other and lands crazy tricks far above their usual skill. Hope the kickstarter succeeds:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/322122905/rad-the-book-...
The median is apparently something like "4 or 5 books" a year.

A YEAR.

In a virtue-signalling survey that will illicit higher responses than we might otherwise expect (self reported rates of untested things seen as "good" tend to be over-report on such surveys, while rates of things seen as "bad" then to be under-reported), i think that actually supports the authors point.

Especially when he/she mentions people with a stack of books on their bedstand or whom pack their kindles with multiple books at a time for holidaying.
KYC applies everywhere that wants to stop, or even to appear to care about, corruption.

Perhaps, but it's also a great cover story for banks to pry into more of your personal or business details than they really have any need or right to know.

For example, one of my businesses in the UK was flagged for a KYC procedure by its bank after several years with them. We'd provided the usual basic information about the business and its officers when opening the facilities with them. Nothing unusual had happened recently to suggest a significant change. And yet suddenly, we're getting annoying pop-ups every time we go onto online banking, demanding that we complete an extensive and poorly presented questionnaire that seemed to want far more information than any bank had apparently required to "know" us previously.

As it turned out, it was less trouble to go to a competing bank, open an entire set of replacement facilities there by providing similar basic information to what we'd given our previous bank before, and then close everything with the original bank.

In case anyone is wondering, HSBC was the offending bank, and for this and several other reasons, I would actively recommend against them for anyone in the UK who needs to set up business banking facilities.
Anything in finance will do.
GrubHub, a direct publicly traded competitor, is profitable and has a market cap of 11.6B (and is growing tremendously). Considering that Uber Eats already has a gross sales run rate larger than GrubHub, I do imagine it's a pretty good bet. There are also a lot of horizontal synergies between the business models.
> Also notice that some of the worst problems are in locations that already have very high local and state taxes, such as California.

California has, along the US states, a fairly moderate pension issue measured per capita or per GDP. It has big absolute numbers, as with nearly every other issue, because it's a very big state.
It might be interesting as a learning exercise but there's a lot of gotchas in running 2 as 3.

Besides the obvious things like print, which will just cause an error, there's behavioral changes, like with division and range, that may introduce more insideous bugs.

Better to read up on the difference first and use a tool.
It seems that the pdftotext command does not go through. Create an issue on github if this still occurs.
I don't quite get how you can have a self driving car but not also a self driving truck. If you have the sensors and code to power a self driving car you ought to be 99.9% of the way to a truck. It should be a relatively small effort to account for a trucks different physics.
With 2.6 JIT Ruby should be much quicker this fall. It'll be interesting to come back around once they have method inlining.
In the US at least the highway system is littered with weigh stations, those would be perfect locations for "last mile" transfers.
By going this logic, there is not a thing called neutral or unbiased? Don't you agree?
> They deserve and require non-partisan attention and discussion.

There is no such thing on significt public policy issues; if it matters, and there are different opinions, it will become partisan.
As usual, phys.org takes over your CPU.

Why is this even permitted? It should be blackholed
Similar discussion about the fake Amazon review economy a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022215
> If pensions are inherently unsustainable then you must conclude that it is unsustainable for a society to care for itself.

How do you figure?

It is unsustainable for us to support all people over e.g. 60. But we can support the 5% over 60 who really need the support and can't look after themselves.
I'm confused. Do you think 4 or 5 books a year is a lot, or a little?
You both are talking past each other. Sure Elon had nothing to do with developing iridium technology. The question is whether Iridium would have been brought back to life without SpaceX. Iridium went bankrupt because it's costs were so high, they went 15 years without replacing a satellite, even though they were only rated for 8 years. They had plans to replace them, but kept postponing. It really looked like they couldn't raise enough money for the huge launch costs and were were just going to ride them into the ground (literally).

Then they suddenly got new funding and started launching satellites again in 2017. Right at the same time Falcon 9s dramatically cut commercial launch costs by well over half compared to other launch providers.

So Elon deserves some credit here, just as Bary, Raymond and Ken do.
ISPs will have to start requiring the OEMs to offer some form of ongoing software maintenance, rather than just the rare bug fix on a distribution that otherwise dates to when the SoC inside first taped out. I can't imagine the OEMs or the SoC vendors being willing to do that kind of maintenance in-house, but the large ISPs certainly have enough leverage to require upstream support in OpenWRT.
I've always thought trains were more economical still. But what do I know?
If you start making my router autoupdate and autoreboot like Windows does you will alienate a very large number of customers.

Instead: stop making shit routers.
No, but they can react to those situations much better than a human driver and then wait on the side of the road for help.
If the ideological root of your governance cannot withstand a newer competing ideology without its compromise, then at face value your ideological system is 1) flawed, 2) deserves to die, and 3) will inevitably die; with haste.

I do not believe this to be true and representative democracy managed to survive the larger half of a century with opposition from fascism, socialism, communism, autocracy, modern dictatorship and Orwellian totalitarianism. I think this trend will continue but it seems that you do not.

Keep in mind that a full third of the English language comes from German. In the 20s & early 30s, one of the largest and most financially/socially successful groups of immigrants in the US & UK were German. Germany and Fascism were politically very popular here and openly supported until (and on the US side, part-way through) WWII. Even under those circumstances, it was politically untenable. This is even more true now.
You're forgetting about the data.

The data used to train a car is very different from the data useful to trucking.
"Make the assumption that Plato was a smart guy (A. N. Whitehead once wrote that all western philosophy is but a set of footnotes on Plato's dialogues...) and, if you find some place where there is a dumb way of reading the text and a smart one, assume Plato had the smart one in mind"

So if Plato is misunderstood, it is because he failed to make himself clear by clearly stating that an easy way of misunderstanding him is not what he actually meant.

"most of what is good in Aristotle is Plato's, often ill digested; but if you haven't heard of Aristotle yet, you are lucky and enjoy your luck as it last, and forget about Aristotle; only be aware that even if you don't know it, Aristotle had a great influence on our way of understanding the world, and contributed to instilling in our mind the wrong notions about Plato, this picture of Plato as an idealist dreaming in a world of "ideas" or "forms" unconnected with the real world).

So the author believes that Aristotle was part right in his philosophical beliefs and part wrong, and that the parts he got wrong, Plato got right. And that the modern world follows Aristotle, and so we need Plato to correct our beliefs.

I wonder what the author's metaphysical and political beliefs are, and how they would stand up against critiques from Aristotle and also various modern philosophers if the author presented them as such in a well-organized fashion. My guess is they would fair quite poorly, and he hiding behind Plato as a way of keeping this from happening.
Had an idea to do this a couple months ago, but haven't got around to implementing it yet. I'm curious: did you consider using standard image processing techniques with spectrograms as an alternative to decision trees? I know thats how Izotope does their Neutron instrument detection, but I'm not sure how it would compare performance wise. Also, have you tried classifying percussive sounds that aren't actual drums? I'd love to see how it categorizes various stuff.
It's unfair to compare industrial and consumer companies to tech companies since the demand for commodities such as energy and food will not grow nearly as fast as technology. We cannot expect an already saturated market to spend too much on Research.
I agree with you about Musk worship in general, but I bet the financial viability of a satellite constellation is at least somewhat dependent on launch costs, and SpaceX has undeniably brought those down significantly. IIRC, the original Iridium company went bankrupt and the constellation was only kept in service by a U.S. government bailout.
> Automate that which is easier to automate: the long distance highway driving

Long distance highway driving except that one highway exit on 101 that kills you. I'm just saying that when human lives are at stake, bottoms up approach may not be as feasible as with web software.
Since listening to that podcast a few weeks ago I've also started checking both ReviewMeta and FakeSpot for every Amazon listing I think about buying.

It's really made shopping on Amazon a frustrating experience -- well over half the products I've checked (in a couple specific product categories) have had F or D ratings according to both sites. I've wondered if some of these are false positives (i.e. ReviewMeta flags a product's reviews as fake but they're actually legitimate), but when you look at their reasoning in the breakdown they give, it's usually pretty convincing that many/most of the reviews are indeed fake.

I feel like this might be a case where ignorance is (mostly) bliss ... when I naively thought the vast majority of reviews on Amazon were genuine, shopping was much faster and simpler, and I mostly had good experiences buying well-reviewed products despite that many of those reviews were probably fake.
the money replaced barter model is a pretty prevalent just-so story in econ departments. It even made it into a PSA infomercial (starting about 1:30, but the whole thing is a gem) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvm9UgJBtg
Iridium was able to be resurrected only because the Falcon 9 slashed the cost to replace their satellites, it was a shell of a bankrupt company for nearly two decades.
It sure sounds like you are describing Turris OS. https://project.turris.cz/en/software
I used to believe that javascript was slow, C was fast and that there was no way to change this because of the way that javascript is interpreted and not compiled. But the more I've learnt about the benefits of "on the fly" / "just in time" optimising compilers, the more I'm convinced this is the future of computing. Being able to use multiple threads and hence multiple cores simultaneously to optimise what is actually a single threaded piece of code is quite amazing. And then being able to write code that is insanely portable and optimised on any platform is great.You can take advantage of SIMD, hyperthreading, multicore, large caches... without knowing if they're available ahead of time.

Sure, you won't beat C for low memory devices or hardware that you have complete control over but for 90% of use cases javascript actually makes sense and can be the most performant.
The correct way is to have your team cover you and throw with your dominant hand.
To discuss this properly, you need to consider the evaluation strategy, which is part of the semantics of the language. Strict, lazy, call-by-need: things do get evaluated in a prescribed order, and sequencing using monads (predictably) involves strictness, meaning that a function argument is evaluated before the function.

These details of evaluation order are important to know, and they are not something to be argued about: they are well-specified and the compiler doesn't just casually make lazy code into strict code or vice versa. That would cause chaos. And what instruction set Haskell is being compiled to is totally irrelevant to this level of the language's semantics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy
Stock FFT is a really high-dimension feature vector given the number of training examples used here, and most of the resolution of the FFT would be unneeded anyways.
"Average loudness in several frequency ranges" captures spectral information at a granularity much more appropriate to the data and classification task.
For analyzing drum samples you don't need a lot of frequency resolution, although other low-dimension spectral features like MFCCs or flux would probably be useful.
Benefits of immutability are same as benefits of forbidding of global variables: no side effects. If function foo(a,x) cannot have any side effects, then you can compose it freely.

Monad shines with containers, because you can write tons of useful functions, even your own libraries, for a container, which will operate on generic type T, so you will have lot of functionality available out of box for any new type T, which can be wrapped into container, without any additional effort. It's as powerful as templates in C++, but WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS, so you cannot shoot yourself in the foot.
In many places the interstate system late at night in the US is majority trucks. There may be restrictions in residential areas, but on a highway you can drive a truck at any time of the night on whatever day you'd like.
Sure it could be launched on anything but the fact remain that it is the elon musk company that launch it, instead any other.
The flip-side of collective bargaining is collective responsibility, I'm afraid.

The federal government saw this coming 30 years ago, moved to a hybrid, mostly-defined-contribution system and (surprise!) is doing fine. Most state and municipal unions fought to keep their defined-benefit plans and now are going to suffer for it.
A self-driving vehicle would be a step beyond current autopilot, and asking any human to constantly monitor an autonomous system is going to result in pretty catastrophic failure. An autonomous system needs to be fail-safe to be used.

Plane autopilot only works because air is so empty and flying in the same direction at constant elevation is unlikely to result in any problem. There are repeated examples of both pilots falling asleep and planes over-shooting destination airports, for example.
I understand that the job encompasses other duties, my father is a retired truck driver. That said, my answer is "yes, I think they could, just as well, or better than any human".

You could have multiple cameras on the load using computer vision to detect movement. You could have weight sensors sending feedback to the system. I'm sure there are many ways to do this, and any of them would beat a human behind the wheel.
It's been reliable for me.

> I find nearly everything has an F with a high amount of fake reviews when I use it

Seems like a reflection of how bad the reviews on Amazon are, not a reflection of the quality of fakespot.
Seems like this does not scale in any meaningful way. Got any companies with 50% women in jobs where the applicant pool is 20% with a large population of employees?

Hint hiring women in marketing to balance the male software developers wouldn't prove much.
He's also been aggressively pursuing new partnerships focusing on the core problem of getting a person to where they are trying to get to, including public transit tickets, car rentals, e-bikes, and scooters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/technology/uber-invests-l...
> Ideally [...] But tragically,

This is of course a value judgement. I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic.
Practical Advice for Building Neural Networks [pdf]
Thank you. It has been a tough day, but a constructive one indeed.
Unfortunately Sails is nowhere near as good as Rails. Which is kind of strange given the size of the JavaScript community, and the fact that PHP has Laravel and Python has Django, both of which are comparable to Rails.

Amusingly given all the PHP hate, if you want a faster rails-like framework, Laravel might be your best bet.
Higher Order Functions Considered Unnecessary for Higher Order Programming [pdf]
From the distribution of reviews scores, even when separated by category, the majority of ratings given are 4-5 stars (from one of my 2017 analyses: https://minimaxir.com/img/amazon-spark/category_breakdown.pn...)

My full analysis of Amazon rating values is here (https://minimaxir.com/2017/01/amazon-spark/), although it may be obsolete and it's not possible to get better/more recent data anymore.
Not exactly this one but you could dig moholes. I guess a mohole deep enough to get you 1 atm would be too hot for humans but I will not even try to do the math.
Not a bad guess!

If money isn't directly pumped into the system by receiving banks, then the only direct impact is on those banks balance sheets, which affects their choices and decisions. So the effects to the overall economy are second order, and don't have the same fractional amplification like changing the reserve ratio has.

While I'm an economist, and have training on the model you are mentioning, I'm not speaking from a formal model. Rather from what I've seen in a large bank's treasury while it happened.

Another impact I've not seen considered is what happens when different banks have different effective reserve requirements.
I would say it's more like keeping a zip file of your data. It may not be as usable, but if you lose your primary you can reinflate it and it will do just fine.
The US desperately needs an entrepreneur-specific visa. I know a Slovak with around 6 businesses spread around Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland but is unable to enter the US without some sort of wink-wink F-1/M-1/J-1/EB-5 arrangement or marrying his American gf.
The reason it isn't is passenger-to-driver ratio. It's already widely amortized to have a train driver. Sure it's an easier problem, but it's just so much less of the overhead of having a train.
I agree that this is unexpected for most of us, but if you read this section in my v8-perf repo (https://github.com/thlorenz/v8-perf/blob/master/data-types.m...) you'll understand better why that is.

However it doesn't necessarily cause a large slowdown, just makes your function polymorphic and the resulting optimized code larger and a bit slower.

To avoid this entirely I recommend using a JavaScript `class` when passing objects to a function that has to run at peak speed.
The largest earth-imaging constellation in the world can image the planet every day. Getting the data to the ground is a challenge, so my understanding is that they don't bother transmitting images obscured by clouds, or images of empty ocean.
https://www.planet.com/

Updating the cadence to an ~hourly image would require ~2000 satellites, and updating it to every minute would require another 1.5 orders of magnitude... approximately 50,000 satellites.

The downlink capabilities to pull that data off the satellites would be colossally huge. A tremendous number of groundstations with a huge array of antennae constantly coordinating and pulling data down.

I'm sure Planet is heading in that direction, but it's actually hard to imagine the commercial value of such a mind-blowingly massive infrastructure investment.

In contrast to some of the other commenters, I do _not_ think that the NRO or any other collection of government organizations has a planetary image datastream anywhere close to this. The number of satellites and quantity of data required is really mind blowingly immense. I think that the downlink stations would be impossible to conceal, so if we had such a capability, we'd know about it.

It's also not necessary for their work - they typically task a satellite with watching an area of interest if they need to. They don't need 24/7 planet-wide monitoring.
The article says it is going down to once a minute starting in 2021.
True, I gave a tech book 3 stars once and the author contacted me to request that I reconsider, explaining that anything less than 5 stars could doom a brand new tech book on Amazon. He offered personal support and training in return for raising the score. It didn't work, but it also convinced me that he has a good point regarding the score: Reviews are difficult ground due to their subjective nature, and a lot of reviewers are simply qualitatively bad at writing reviews. If an author just sits back and does nothing, they are risking their brand on the individuals who take the time to write reviews, and that set of individuals could be--even randomly--pretty bad.

For example: I've seen many, many 1-star "product was damaged in shipping" and similar e.g. "received wrong product" one-reviews for products that were absolutely stellar. Getting into even more tricky ground, I've seen 1-star "product is unscientific" reviews left on books containing information that is mainly intractable to science, like studies in history.
I've used fakespot for purchases for a while now. I feel that it's helped me avoid bad products. Thus... it's validated (at lease for myself)
I don't think Uber Eats has any specific pros over the million other food delivery startups
Their goal was never to be profitable on paper, but acquire a ton of users and use them as bargaining powers for big theaters.
It never worked though, as AMC and the others understood pretty well that the best way to deal with them is to ignore them and let them die which would eventually happen.

It is a shame, because there is a real issue in the US with movie theaters that are mostly empty due to Netflix and other "At Home" offerings. The marginal cost of someone going to a movie is zero, so there is definitely some business there.
Similarly for Kindle Unlimited despite the fact that Amazon clearly has the technology to address Markov Chain generated fakes, plagiarism and upvoting and review cabals, Amazon either chooses not to invest or not to invest enough to prevent all of that bad behavior.

IMHO investing 1/2 of 1% of the KU pool is enough to fund human review via their Mechanical Turk program. It wouldn't be perfect but it would eliminate most of the fraud.
Years ago I read an alternate-history comic book series regarding a massively successful British space program. It was an entertaining and enjoyable read.

"Ministry Of Space", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Space
When you're designing or building some things you are just GOING to kill people.

The right decision in designing a car (centre of gravity, stopping distance, thickness of gas tank) WILL kill many people.

Incompetence killing people is one thing (bad spec for o-rings, Therac 25 programming leading to massive radiation dose) but in some programming domains you just are going to make decisions that end badly. If you make the right decisions you'll kill fewer people than the alternative but still some are going to die.
Do you realize that OpenWrt is not very secure and DD-Wrt is even worse?