skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The included video of "growing pains" - aberrant behaviors found during training - is interesting. This kind of thing is fairly common when training RL agents: some discussion of how the OpenAI team solved these issues would be nice.
I was surprised at the number of drawings that connected the front & rear wheels directly. I'm sure those would be fun to ride...

Also the number of bikes that were just structurally unsound, such as just the seat-stay attached to the rear wheel. Quite likely first bump you hit, things would not end well (if it even took that long). I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I did take a single class on statics in college, and that's enough for me to see that things would not end well (at least with current materials I'm aware of).
At least for me, the mechanical skill with the pencil does hold me back for non-organic shapes. I have trouble sketching things I can see clearly, but its not significantly harder for things I am only familiar with. For example, if I tried to sketch my bike, I would have no trouble getting the structure correct, but I would have trouble getting smooth wheels.
Finding that particular omission just feels like visual trickery, rather than anything to do with knowing how a bike works.

Like any number of puzzle books that include a "find the missing X!" and friends.
> Health, just like fire fighting, should not be a for-profit business.

US has a reasonable share of non-profit hospitals and other medical institutions, but the prices are not drastically different.

Random googling suggests that average doctor salary in Los Angeles is in the range $195,335–$254,517. Across the pond average doctor salary in Ireland is quoted at €48,020. For context, a registered nurse in California is making on average $94,120.

European or Asian medical professionals go to medical or nursing school with the goals of joining the middle class. In the US "graduated med school" is synonymous with raking in cash.
The parent comment is reffering to the fact that they use CloudFlare to host DNS for the domains they control. That has nothing to do with the DNS resolvers their computers use (CloudFlare is certainly a reasonable choice there though... unless you don't use DNS at all, you have to trust someone)
I think Americans have a special responsibility: Not only have they probably contributed more GHG than anyone else,[0] they have the power (and thus responsibility) to do the most about climate change, and they are the chief obstacle (see below). People are dying, and will die in greater numbers. Most people who will die didn't benefit from those GHG (the people in wealthy nations, such as the U.S., benefited), in countries where they can't afford to mitigate the problem. Is it ok to do that, to watch people die, and to be a bystander?

As much as people on HN don't like to politicize issues, sometimes the problem is political and to talk about other causes and solutions is misleading. There is one powerful political entity standing in the world's way, the U.S. Republican Party; the rest of the world is generally united. The solution isn't technical or scientific, but political: Organize against them and vote them out of office if you are American.

[0] I think China may produce more GHG now, but that's just recent history; I would guess that the U.S. is the all-time leader by a good margin.
I think I would have preferred being in Hiroshima than in Nanking.
I guess the question then is whether or not the marginal costs outweigh the marginal benefits.

I have no clue what the answer to that is.
I'm looking at the third one down and wondering: why aren't all-wheel-drive bikes a thing? (Well, steering...)

I guess there is such a thing: http://christinibicycles.com/ – sounds pretty complicated: 'A handlebar-mounted switch controls the AWD “shift on the fly” clutch. When the clutch is engaged, the rear spiral gear interlocks with the rear hub and power is transferred via internal shafts to the forward spiral gear set, which drives the CHRISTINI freehub. Due to a slight gearing differential, the front wheel is not actively powered on smooth level ground. However, the moment the rear wheel slips, power is instantaneously transferred to the front wheel. Similarly, the moment that the front wheel decelerates, as in hitting a rock or starting to wash out in a corner, power and traction are transferred to the front wheel.'

Makes me wonder if you could make an electric-assist bike where the assist was on the front wheel, thus saving all the complicated mechanical power transfer. I also suspect driving the front wheel feels crazy on a bike and I just don't realize it.
there aren't riots over the state of elder care because the elderly can't riot
> this strange phenomenon going about that presumes anything short of full-fledged vociferous condemnation or admonishment must automatically mean harbored complicity and is worth the harshest rebuke or silent dissent in the form of drive by downvotes without much contemplation or substantive discussion in the slightest

It's not so much strange, it's simple human nature really. The strange part to me is how common it is becoming on a forum as intelligent as HN. Most people here see themselves as a cut above the general public when it comes to intellectual capability, and they're right, but even with this genuine intellectual advantage so few people seem able to notice that they too are neck deep in the cultural meme war, and guilty of many of the same (or at least similar) transgressions of those they criticize, albeit to a lesser degree.

To me, this is the big elephant-in-the-room problem we should be talking about rather than obvious idiots like Infowars, and the stakes are very high in the long term.

(.....and, possibly relevant, I'm "you're posting too fast" throttled, once again. Is that message 100% consistent with the underlying algorithm? Oh right, "freedom of speech doesn't guarantee you a platform", there's nothing more to be said about the matter, full stop. As long as we follow the law to the letter, "it's all good bro".)
Silicon Valley is pretty awesome as far as weather goes - it will be straight 70 degrees and sunny from March till November, and rarely gets below 50. Summers are a bit more mild than in SoCal, air pollution is less of a problem, and the fire danger has been less in recent years. There is more rain and lower temperatures in the winter, but not really enough to be annoying, and it means you might actually see running water that's not channeled by concrete in the South Bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California#Climate
> they are looking at that for FalconX

I have not heard of that one and neither has google.
> So the author is not helping the cause by buying a Windows 10 laptop and loading Linux onto it.

Yes, let's all donate $100+ to Dell to help the cause. In the mean time Dell will continue with its flawed business strategy for Linux laptops by always pricing them above Windows laptops and never giving any discount.
That's like saying driving a car is simpler than walking because you don't have to put on shoes.
It's not a waste if they get better returns. In comparison, you're not going to attract many people to the Midwest when no one wants to go there, which in turn yield lower returns.
There's a lot of information already here [1], but I might add it'd be easier to create a Bitcoin wallet for each user than to open a PayPal or Stripe account for each.

[1] https://openbazaar.org/features/
Virtual Trusted Platform Module for Shielded VMs: Security in Plaintext
Sounds like something people over at bluehost or EIG would do...lol..
> Are they just getting hate because they lacked foresight in the beginning? Is it because they gambled with investor money on a ridiculous business model?

For me, both.

I want to live in a world where companies succeed by identifying a need and then providing a service/product that fills that need.

Not by taking investor money, using it to subsidize the cost of an existing service (essentially buying users), and then praying that a business model or exit offer appears after the users do but before their weight collapses the company's tenuous structure.
You won't be able to buy $2000 worth of HMNY without driving the price up (EDIT: maybe not, at 350MM shares traded as of this morning; who the hell is trading this turd?). Then when reality kicks in and the price drops back down, you're sitting on shares even more worthless than they were today at $0.06. I mean, if you think you can turn it around, go for it. Some folks on HN could pay for it out of petty cash.
"idiots" willingly and knowingly already do this with Mint. And Quicken; and other financial services sites.

The only question is if Facebook develops a sufficiently compelling financial product for the mostly not concerned to share this data.

You might not think it is a good idea. I don't think it is a good idea, but plenty of people will determine that the tradeoff is worth it.
Happy, Healthy Economy
Didn’t know Facebook had staff meetings at Noch’s. That’s an awesome tidbit.
Three weeks
Reminds of of Character Amnesia[1] phenomenon, where people can forget how to write Chinese/Japanese characters, even though they know how to read them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia
>In 2017 AMC made 5 billion in revenue and took home 500M in cash. I would say they are doing just fine.

That's why I was careful to say "economic profit". On the books numbers are all well and good. But the only indicator I'll take as a sure sign that an industry is profitable in the economic sense is if the number of firms in the market is climbing (i.e. new people are scrambling to get in on whatever benefits they perceive there are to being on the supply side of the market). And movie theaters seem to be more or less in an equilibrium to me.
There is something deeply disturbing and saddening in the honesty of your comment and sibling comments regarding this topic.
There are many, but one of the points above mentions that participants are distributed globally and that saying that everyone must use the same platform was a nonstarter. I'll add that trust is not necessarily granted by inclusion. The needs for privacy do not have to include explicit trust and that a blockchain still solves very specific problems in this scenario.
welcome to contribute! Right now i open the new issue faster than close(
Why is flat terrain an negative trait?
But I think it actually evolved three times, right? The Stoors, the Harfoots, and the Fallohides...[ducks]
The question is not whether US history books should relay the Nazi narrative of WWII or a western narrative. The question is which western narrative. There is a million ways of telling the story about WWII even while remaining factual, by selecting, framing, emphasizing different aspects etc. Just as an example, the western narrative during the cold war tended (for obvious reasons) to downplay the role of the eastern front and the USSR. This in turn made it hard to explain what Hitler was even trying to achieve with the war.
I dunno. They have families. I’d be up for throwing a brick or two, knowing what I know about it.
The single joint between the down tube and the head tube is probably not mechanically very strong, either.
Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid
Funny. On my Samsung I just saw a non-mobile website and zoomed in.

So I guess...

Samsung > Iphone
The x - ˆx property is very easy to avoid when building a simulator. Most server-grade computers already use error correcting codes for their memory. Or, the simulator could just abort and restart at a recent checkpoint if an error is detected. It's possible to detect errors with arbitrarily low false-negative rate for a small additional cost of computing and storing checksums.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting observation that we can now easily do experiments that demonstrate correct behavior of logic to the 10^-15 level. If Descartes were looking for evidence of the fallibility of a daemon creating his sense data, it would have been hard to demonstrate better than 10^-3 or 10^-4.
For whatever reason he chose to stay on his union's plan, not Medicare or family plan bought through an Obamacare exchange.
They seemed to manage moving the several ton blue stones from Wales to the site, a dead body seems trivial by comparison.

That's assuming the body was dead prior to arrival. For all we know they could have been part of the group delivering stones and died on arrival.
> Good for them. I wish I knew which one.

Don't ask me how I know, don't believe me, but its Wells Fargo.

> It's unclear to me what segment of bank customers would knowingly agree to anything remotely close to this.

Customers would not agree much, correct. However since credit cards are not your money, you are limited in the ways to tell the bank how and what to share or not to share with other players on the market, since its bank's money you operated with, and bank's goal is to make as much money off of lending it to you as possible. (of course I don't like; jsut so you know before you downvote)

This is in fact even right in your face. Any new card (or renewal you got in mail) has a few pages attached to it, called something like "what do we do with your information and how can you stop us", where it clearly draws a matrix table with YES/NO of what information they share, with whom, and in which example you can change their default behavior (hint: not always)
This looked interesting, so I started reading the author's dissertation, but I've been sidetracked/put-off by its overbearing copyright statement.

This copy of the dissertation has been supplied on
condition that anyone who consults it is understood to
recognise that its copyright rests with its author and
that no quotation from the dissertation and no
information derived from it may be published without
the prior written consent of the author.

At least in the US, the fair use clause under the copyright law allows for limited quotes/excerpts w/o asking permission.
RDS doesn't scream DB at me.
A Tale of Two Websites: the importance of slow progress and self-reflection
The thing that I don't like about carbon offsets is the incentive to cheat. Green consumer buys carbon offset, company selling carbon offset pinky swears to offset carbon, but failing to do what was promised is unlikely to be caught, and is pure profit if they don't do it.

And they don't necessarily have to lie to do it. Take your growing trees example. They arrive at the carbon offset by saying that a tree takes X carbon, so Y trees will offset your carbon. They plant Y trees, and they are done.

However over half of trees planted in communities, will die within 1-2 years. (See https://www.state.sc.us/forest/urbsurv.htm for a source.) Based on conversations with people who planted trees for a living after clearcuts, in a wild forest setting the percentage loss is even higher for a combination of reasons from unreliable water to browsing by forest animals to a monoculture being vulnerable to disease. What incentive is there for the company planting the trees to come back in 5 years and see how many trees are still there? The higher the number, the better for them, checking just costs them money.

Moving on, are trees permanent CO2 storage? No. As forest fires around the world demonstrate, trees are only temporary storage. You don't control what will happen to those trees by mid-century and farther.

And all this assumes that there is no lying.
See https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0420/Buying-carbo... for one of many examples where it turned out that there was lying.

So pay for your carbon offsets. It will soothe your conscience. It might even do some (probably temporary) good. But be aware that you're likely telling yourself a white lie if you think that they are real.
I don’t get it. It’s still a great deal, unless the deal is a net negative to you why do you care? You must see that the initial deal was too generous and unsustainable right?
The article sort of buries the real reason for this: the large amounts of biotech VC funding. Boston is the world-center of biotech startups and VC, and biotech VC funding is on pace to be $15-20B this year. As recently as 2013 __total__ VC activity was just $29B

The amount of money being invested (and made) in biotech today, and the level of technological advancement in the field, is disproportionately higher than mainstream awareness of the field
Agreed, some of the frames were surprising and quite funny. I've never ridden a bike professionally, or even as a serious hobby, but I would've guessed that way more people would at least get the general frame shape of a rhombus with 2 connected corners and the fork coming down from the front edge.
This will get so many downvotes...
I would even dare to say that the moment you allow a majority of your children to grow up this way; you allow a minority of psychopaths to do whatever they want to them (the children). It’s a simple game-theoretic question.
In Praise of Defensive Football
Personally, I think higher order cognition in AI will be hot. Deep learning has monetized the introduction of AI into numerous mainstream domains (e.g. smart NLP search, vision, speech, game RL), which will motivate and underwrite efforts to push AI beyond the shallow hacks of the past, finally breaking through AI's brittleness problem.

Some problem domains are killer apps, like self driving cars, and on smartphones, personal digital assistants and verbal interfaces. There's no stopping these initiatives. They only question is how far each can go without moon shot levels of investment. But between the economic interests of especially Google and Apple to advance their mobile devices, and the military to make weapons and intel as smart as possible, I'm convinced there's enough critical mass for AI's pile to stay hot for a couple of decades or more.

The trick is to avoid the roadblocks that today's academic agenda inflicts on researchers by demanding they publish frequent shallow incremental novelties. What's needed is 5-10 years to develop the infrastructure that's needed to enable the fielding of robust general reasoning w/ causation and rich knowledgebases.
That's not spam. That's from people on Switter. It's an instance for sex workers.
She uses it now. When it works, it’s great, but they’ve left her stranded on scheduled pickups twice now.
Exactly.

“Cheryl Mcleod of Las Vegas filed for bankruptcy in January after struggling to keep up with her mortgage payments and other expenses. “I am 70,”

Why the heck do you have a mortgage at 70?!
Before following this advice you should really consider checking out a state funded hospice. I'm willing to bet you'll be looking for the exits within 10 minutes.

Long term care insurance should be purchased after age 60 to offset those care costs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_care_insurance
It could be interesting, but playing DotA just isn't the best problem to test this problem on.

One could imagine a much better way of testing hand eye coordination, through a serious of mazes or puzzles or reaction tests.

It would be like trying to test hand key coordination by having a robot play physical chess against a person.
I have worked in a "wet lab" for years, but not cancer research. The first 3 were largely (of course there is always learning going on) a waste because I didn't understand what statistical significance really meant. I can't really blame myself since neither did anyone else in my committee, department, or seemingly the entire area of research. But anyway this meant the whole project was misdesigned from the start (the design was standard).

The next two were spent attempting to save the project by working 18 hour days almost constantly. In the end, despite what they claimed about doing it the usual way because "its so complicated, no one can come up with mathematical/computational models or actual predictions to test, no one can describe this or that in so much detail, etc", the actual truth was that it wasnt "too hard". It was that no one really cared about that. Instead they just wanted to know whether there were statistically significant differences anyway...

From what I've read of the cancer literature it looks exactly the same, probably worse. And guess what, there's been no real progress made for decades on the topic I was studying either.
I didn't mean that it's inherently negative, I meant given the option, more people will choose mountainous/hilly terrain over flat terrain. Either for aesthetics, or hiking, or skiing, or whatever. My only proof is that property values are higher in those areas.
That isn't the only thing wrong. If you brace the back wheel, the fore tube still has a single point of attachment, and the front wheel would tend to flex forward, encouraging the weld between the rising forward diagonal of the triangle and the fore tube to break.

It might not break right when someone sat on it, but after stresses accumulate from riding over bumps, the front portion is going to break off and pitch the rider forward into the pavement.
I disagree with this. The process for 99% of people to use a credit card is "reach in your wallet, hand a card over or type in the number". The process for 99% of people to use crypto is "read on wikipedia on what cryptocurrency is, ask someone how to use it, get a lengthy lecture about how distributed currency is the future", and then they're still not anywhere close to using crypto.
I think you're just kind of hitting on the real difference between human and bots anyway.

Regardless of if the information comes from the machine viewing the damage count and knowing exactly how much HP a given hero has at that level/gear/just by looking at the bar, or if the information comes from an API, the machine has a perfect memory of this and all other variables, whereas humans don't.
How Europe Learnt to Swim
Interesting that the Digital Wellbeing features that were teased at IO aren't being launched today, but part of _another_ beta that you have to opt in to. (And Pixel series only?)
Most of those services are probably using Plaid to connect to customers' online banking accounts, which is always done through an explicit, user-driven auth. In fact, it has to be done this way of necessity; Plaid has traditionally used scraping to get data.

Facebook, however, is trying to go in through the backdoor. From the article: "It is unclear whether bank customers would need to opt-in to the proposed Facebook services or what other privacy protections might be offered."
Quick and Dirty Serverless Integer Programming
JavaScript End to End Testing Framework – Cypress.io
I did not. The parent comment asked for a plan and I gave him one. How you meet the objective is up to the individual.
What happened to the "3rd party brand" naming convention? No payday for PayDay?
This is facially true. But I don't think MoviePass would describe their service this way. They would say they are gathering unprecedented amounts of personal data about movie preferences, which can be worth millions to movie studios and TV production companies that want to know what type of content will attract viewers. Framed this way, it is more understandable that they would need to burn cash in order to get the ball rolling on data collection.

Still, it's not rocket science and probably could have been done much more cheaply (just offering subscription coupons or something).
Analyzing US Election Russian Facebook Ads
No. Medicare penalizes early sign-ups https://www.kiplinger.com/article/insurance/T039-C000-S002-w...
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