skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there a law that says taxi drivers can't refuse to take someone ?

Yes. The "unjustified refusal to transport passengers within NYC or defined counties" is punishable by fines and "revocation of license" [1]. (Same with the driver "seeking [the] destination before [the] passenger is seated inside [the] vehicle.")

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/2011rulebook_ch54.... page 4
This feels like Alex Jones type "logic".
why the skepticism and negativity around this arguably good deed? he is stepping in to help people. what’s the issue here? why the downplay of the initiative?
I don't think the Blue Ridge Mountains count as rolling hills, and I would count them among our national treasures.

That being said, the fact is that WV's natural resources have been subjected to some of the most profound (and least regulated) economic exploitation in the country. So I don't think the GP's point is correct.
1. There are a lot of researchers who are working on interpretability (check on arxiv).

2. This rant has very little to do with the article, and feels like a borderline meme that some people post on all that is ML-related.
I find this resource confusing and annoying to read. When performing my thesis research I wasted a bunch of time trying to make sense of Hewitt's writing. I think a big problem is that the term "actor model" is so overloaded that it almost becomes meaningless. The actors that Hewitt is talking about is not at all the same as Erlang or Akka. As an example I consider this quote from the text nonsensical "Actor systems can perform computations that are impossible by Turing Machines" or of very little relevance to the actor models we use for programming. This has been discussed at [0].

For an overview of different actor models I prefer, see "43 years of actors: a taxonomy of actor models and their key properties" [1]. Agha's book [2] is also very good and I'd also like to recommend "Mixing Metaphors: Actors as Channels and Channels as Actors" [3].

[0]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5208
[1]: http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2016/vub-soft-tr-16-11.pd...
[2]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6952
[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06276
Very Hackers. (The movie.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launc...
Nokinside made an appeal to authority when he described Senator Warren's qualifications.

BurningFrog is arguing that that is not correct because Senator Warren is not an authority in the first place.

You could still argue that she is correct; but (assuming BurningFrog's judgements on her qualifications), that arguement must be on the merits of her arguements, not her qualifications.
> i choose Vue.js, because it is the most flexible and does not require transpiling.

Thanks moved it up my list to look into.
I also like wiskunde for mathematics, I've been told it means something like the study of certainty.
Taxi medallion owners not NOT drivers. Most drivers would pay a fee to the owner and rent the medallion for the day.
Not really - it's eliminating competition. Apple is stopping competitors (web apps) from displaying any ads, and enforcing ads through the channel (App Store apps) it profits from.
Low single digit percent of 1.5 billion is still tens of millions. Certainly you can make money with that size of a willingly paying customer base.
This seems not correct to me. No one has made RVC "mandatory". For a start no one had any authority to do any such thing!

Some people building Linux-capable processors decided to include RVC.

Some people with Linux distributions (Fedora, Debian), seeing that all known current efforts to build linux capable processors were supporting RVC, and seeing the large benefits it provides, decided to build their distros using RVC.

If someone wants a Linux distro that doesn't use RVC .. it's not a problem. The instructions supported are exactly the same. There are no portability problems. If a package will build successfully with RVC then it will compile without it, no problem, with no additional human work. Just change one configure flag when you build the compiler (to default to rv64g instead of rv64gc). The only difference is the binaries will all be 30% to 50% bigger.

Some more build machines will be required, and a few GB of disk space. Theses are trivial things.

It's absolutely nothing like the difference between, say, armeabi and armhf or the differences between armv4, armv4t, armv5, armv6, armv7.
Admits it fails, but won't blame himself. What a jerk!
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"In evaluating Google’s claims, it’s valuable to keep in mind Google has a vested financial interest in convincing us that the key to effective use of deep learning is more computational power, because this is an area where they clearly beat the rest of us. If true, we may all need to purchase Google products. On its own, this doesn’t mean that Google’s claims are false, but it’s good be aware of what financial motivations could underlie their statements."

Excuse the snark, but:

"In evaluating FastAI's claims, it’s valuable to keep in mind FastAI has a vested financial interest in convincing us that the key to effective use of deep learning is more machine learning experts, because ML education is their business model. If true, we may all need to purchase FastAI courses. On its own, this doesn’t mean that FastAI’s claims are false, but it’s good be aware of what financial motivations could underlie their statements."

I can think of thousands of ways that Google could increase the computational power required that would be much easier than the AutoML effort (for ex. simply recommending ridiculously deep models that take 100x to train without giving higher performance). They are putting so much effort into AutoML because it just works. A lot of the things included in later parts of this series are very useful (learning rate search, etc.) and decrease the computational power required, but most people just want to drop a dataset and pick the type of model (say, multiclass image classification) and leave the rest for machines to optimize.
If the values are wrong, this follows.
Having moved from the seattle area to the state of maryland, the lack of parks and public land feels very depressing. You drive by giant majestic horse pastures, but the parks are so small that you can still hear cars driving by.
Such an uninspiring idea that would be underdeveloped and underused.. People should focus on more important aspects in IoT (security, scalability, privacy etc) and use existing solutions with better design to achieve the goals of this project without this project.
Sorry this isn’t easier to figure out, currently working on a short tutorial video which should hopefully make it easier to figure out the first time
Mine had one of those "plasma" Amber displays I got from sacrificing a Dolch luggable.

People had a very hard time believing that all of those songs were "in the player".

Feels like the dawn of history now. Good Lord I'm old.
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We should find or start a Slack / Discord where we go through a math textbook and conquer our fear of mathematics together.
You forgot to use BlockchainVRAI.JS framework to orchastrate this together.
The problem is, you're beholden to Apple to allow these things to exists. I have no fear of Firefox/uBlock Origin, or any other Browser/Blocker combo suddenly no longer being on option on Google's whim, or VPNs no longer working. That, and there's ample competition amongst those solutions to keep quality and innovation going. There's 1 Web View and 1 extension API everything on iOS has to conform to, leaving very little room for innovation.
And the largest bank failure in US history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual#Subprime_los...

Okay for JP Morgan though.
That's news to me, and if true, stronger evidence for the likelihood of NSA / government backdoors.
Made me think of this:

At any rate, spring is here, even in London N1, and they can't stop you enjoying it. This is a satisfying reflection. How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who would stop me enjoying this if they could. But luckily they can't. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

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If you calculate risk and charge a high enough interest rate you can make a profit. That's how a lot of the predatory load practices work. They charge an extremely high rate to people who normally can't get credit.
[Obligatory: Someone is downvoting you, but it isn't me. I upvoted you]

Yeah, I get that. The analytics space is very complex and companies, even ones with good engineering teams, don't have the internal knowledge or resources to typically put all this together.

In addition to working in this space, my copmany helps companies set up their analytics stack.

We typically set them up with one cloud-based data integration tool (the one with the most # of integrations they need at the best price), dbt, and one BI tool (usually Looker or Periscope, in that order). All in, that takes us a few weeks to get them set up and going.

I applaud your effort. I just struggle to understand why you accept punting on transformations (and using dbt (amazing library, by the way - great choice)), but then try to tackle something like integrations or BI tools. The complexity of both of those is massive and there are great open source efforts already out there.

I'm eager to see where this goes.
Lots of them provide more than 15% ROR, too high that some normal company also put lots of money to p2p. This is crazy and it is certain most of them(p2p) will go broke.
I would bet you and I evaluate the problem similarly, I think there are remote but plausible scenarios that are almost intolerably bad (and these become likely if we keep polluting).

But there are left-leaning but not scientifically literate people who honestly believe most life on Earth is already doomed.

This obviously leads to despair in their political thinking and personal lives. I’ve even heard of people contemplating suicide.

I don’t think this is warranted given what we know and the uncertainties involved. Humanity still has a future worth living for even in the most frightening scenarios.
I’m having difficulty understanding you. Is this a scenario where you’re arguing for or against MBAs? It either sounds like you’re arguing a) MBA teaches you grade school reasoning or b) an MBA teaches you to maximize your revenue stream by providing pricing structures that encourage people to spend more than they want. In either case I’d rather work with someone with a wider skill set providing someone people do want and are willing to pay for.
Can you expand on this? I genuinely don't understand the "poor people are adjacent to trees" statement in the context of an entire country. Like genuinely this sounds like solid comedy unless I'm missing something here.
That calculation sounds extremely obvious to someone with no MBA or sales/marketing experience whatsoever. I’m confident that MBAs or experiences people in those roles do a heck of a lot more than calculations like that.
Hmmm I don’t know if I agree. You can feel like someone is trying to degrade your desision making when they’re not. In mental illness this is common. If a person refuses to believe they are mentally ill any attempt to help them seek treatment appears to them as an attempt to gaslight them.
I can't understand why GitLab thinks they have to embark on a new project every so often instead of focusing on their current product and features. There is just a lot to work on, so many of the current features/products are half assed. At my place we moved to GitLab 2.5 years ago and updates where smoother back then but the past few months we had to hire a new sys admin for our build machines and GitLab server to follow on new issues created on GitLab.com and decide if it's safe release and even then he still reports 4-5 issues to GitLab support after every update. We were expecting it to be an easy `yum update` like a normal package but it's just getting worse update after update. It's so bad that my manager asked me to look into GitHub + another CI/CD solution.
It's not poor people but their social environment that is described as toxic.

Also, all too often accurate of their physical environment, and the two aren't completely unrelated.
I wish we, as a society (being the US) could agree on what is intolerable. It feels like a near majority is cynical that actually helping anyone will improve their lot, and that the only thing that works is a stick.
What it owes to be a better Python Developer?
> designed some API that other tools/platforms could plug in to coordinate a lot of the above jobs with your CI system

That's GitHub's strategy. Don't choose solutions for their customers. Be a platform other tools can plug into.

Gitlab's strategy is to cobble together a bunch of open source software (including their own) to provide a solution out of the box. It's not necessarily the best one for you, but it's certainly less effort for you.
I’ll bite: how about $10 per year, less than what I’d pay for a VPN service, but more than “free” which is what I pay to run a pi-hole like service for my local LAN only. If I were in charge of one of these existing VPN services I’d offer ad blocking as an upgrade.
There was actually a news story like last week how Dropbox shared the personal contents of people's Dropboxes to researchers (who were researching researchers) without asking for consent to be in the study. So that's actually a really bad example. I switched to Tresorit because of it since it has end-to-end encryption. The lesson is it's not different and you shouldn't trust either party.
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I would love for "Computology" to become the preferred term.
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> The offer to bail out taxi drivers is an unforeseen twist in the years-long struggle by New York City regulators to contain the explosion of ride-hailing app drivers. City Council members have said they were partly motivated by the plight of taxi medallion owners, who have seen the value of their licenses plummet in recent years in direct correlation to the rise of ride-hailing apps. Six taxi drivers have committed suicide in the last six months, a grim reminder of the human costs of technological disruption.

This is such an upsetting characterization of the situation.

The city government sold a bunch of medallions to investors/"speculators" (depending on your politics). Those medallions declined in value. Who should bear that loss?

The entire situation was created by a government monopoly that never needed to exist in the first place. Now that someone's figured out how to go around it, all the investors in the manufactured, useless regulation are losing their shirts.

It's really hard to feel bad for these guys. They were willing participants in a system designed to line their pockets by fleecing ordinary people, choking supply to ensure their prices were kept artificially high. They're basically the OPEC of transportation. Do we feel bad because electric cars are disrupting OPEC?

Lyft and Uber really aren't the bad guys here, at all.
Does the definition of Propaganda require that the information is disinformation? For example I consider the anti smoking packaging required in New Zealand propaganda. It’s all true but seeing a smokers lungs dissected on a packet of cigarettes to me seems like propaganda.
Worse: We don't have the right to roam[1] here in the US and given how trigger-happy people are, the more land is privatized the more dangerous it is to explore.

1.https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/right-to-roam/
That’s because you’re suceptible to startup folklore
It's better than nature because you can have pokemon there.
As "the device owner, [I] also have the absolute right" to control what the device does, what traffic it accepts, and what it rejects. And as much as I like Apple's stance on privacy and security, I hate its refusal to honor owners' rights. So I'd never use their stuff.
If they want to charge for it they better make it easier than it is currently to migrate over chats from iOS to Android and vice versa.

iOS to Android was okay, still had to pay ~$10 for it. Going from Android to iOS was very difficult so I lost a lot of my chats.
Musk was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident, and has said they will never build an electric motorcycle because of how much more dangerous a motorcycle is vs a car.
The point I wanted to get at was that there isn't the same level of competition in electric cars than gas powered cars yet.
And the fact that it has vast natural resources is part of why it's poor. If you can forage a meal of morels, trout, and ramps, what's the point of earning a lot of money to go to fancy restaurants? It's not like you're going to get a better meal than that even by dropping a couple hundred bucks in NYC. So you end up with lots of people who living on large parcels of inherited land but not making very much money per year, because that is actually somewhat sustainable, at least until it comes time for retirement or (more likely) you have medical issues that you can't afford to pay for.
On the analytics side, we're using GitLab CI as our orchestration tool. We're pushing it to its limits and trying to find ways to make it better for us (i.e. data teams) and for GitLab more generally.

I'd love to learn more about what you'd like to see CI be able to do from a dataops perspective.
Lol I hate conservative views that think that public land is a waste.
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It reads like "the Poors can live Outdoors!"* but I'm going to assume I'm mistaken or that that couldn't possibly be a popular opinion on hn.

*this is a joke and if you want to argue that i'm implying that everyone in West Virginia is homeless, bless your heart
I've seen a sign in San Diego recently for a neighborhood in the uptown area. I didn't go as deep as as the author of the article, but after seeing the site I figured it was either a scam or a more traditional matchmaking venture.
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This is probably the way to go, you just have to worry about data limits and overages, plus the extra latency. Probably not the biggest deal for mobile, though.
They're an outlier by not being greedy.
This applies to all prominent people at any time in history.
Personally, I worry more about the ads than about the blocker.
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The service is literally a VPN with an extra ad blocking service. Why would you pay less for that?
That's weird. A very large chunk of poor people I've met live in urban areas, and if they don't, often lack the time or resources to do those things. I must know a special type of poor person that OP hasn't bumped into.
And people who have not experienced (practically) zero latency computers, don't know what they are missing.

Heck, back in the day, even though I loved my Amiga, I preferred the editor of Turbo C to more sluggish, font rendering editors on the Amiga. DOS in text mode was unconditionally fast.

Maybe VR will drive the technology back to low latency. Latency in VR equals users throwing up.
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I understand the pipeline idea, though I think it does not work when the goal is to bring A+ players. A+ players are already employed most of the times. Rarely an event like a layoff happens, that's when they come on a market briefly. They are not going to sit and wait to be processed by the pipelines. And only the B's and the C's ever get through the pipeline to the end. The pipeline idea may have worked during financial crisis, when it was not easy to find a job. But in a current market -- wake up, if you are serious about innovation at a big companies, you are not getting the talent you need for that to happen.
US, State and local governments seem to have taken on the job of propping up the values of (some) people’s investments and bailing them out when they lose value. See all the crazy things done to keep home prices inflated and the risk-swallowing they did for the financial services industry. All at the people’s expense.