skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think coinbase/bitcoin will replace anything. At best they might get 1% of that market, but they will never be real competition. Besides the technical issues where cryptocurrency cannot keep up with the same demands credit and banks can. Coinbase sits on a razor blade of questionable ethical practices. Reddit and other cryptocurrency forums always have a handful of people asking for help dealing with exchanges(say exchanges because not just coinbase does this) that either fail to transfer funds or funds just go missing over night. The regular response from people is "it is crypto money what you expect?". Saying it is the normal for money to go missing with no recourse just demonstrate the lack of control and power a end user has in this anarchy financial system.
I know this is a big issue in AI/ML right now. Deepmind's papers are notoriously hard to reproduce, because they will lay out the general terms of the architecture but not specific implementation details - things like filter length, stride, number of layers, number of hidden units, feature selection, and all the little tricks of initialization or normalization or a zillion other subtleties.

The trouble being that those "specific implementation details" are typically non-obvious and absolutely crucial to getting the system described to work at all. For instance, as far as I know, nobody's managed to implement a WaveNet that sounds anything like as good as Google's samples. Neural Turing Machines - published three years ago - were so finicky that someone actually figuring out how to implement the damn thing and have it actually work as described was enough to warrant a paper of its own (Implementing Neural Turing Machines, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.08518.pdf). Not to mention how hard it is to iterate on failed replications when you aren't blessed with ten thousand Nvidia Teslas and custom tensor ASICs and have to wait eternities for models to train. At this point, I think most of the community just kind of looks at their papers, sighs in jealousy, and moves on.
The iPhone SE doesn't have the 5.5" screen either.
Oh wow, so I have to give them my name, address, phone, and SSN just to process a credit card payment? That's not worth it...
We could simply mandate it that all "express" lane projects be marked to ease use of self driving cars. express lane is the new word for toll lanes. we could even convert HOV lanes to support self driving cars provided they are in that mode. the benefit is early adopters are more likely to pay for express lanes if that includes being able to go nearly hands free the whole drive and it is in a controlled environment with very limited access points.

which brings up something else. how to communicate to others that a car is under the control of the onboard systems. we have DRLs and third brake lights. So something at both ends?
I love points. I get to fly first or business class internationally all the time, and it's all pretty much paid for by rubes that subsidize my travels.
> there's tens of millenia worth of reasons why they are the way they are.

Eh, not quite: all of these "reasons" are adaptations to a specific condition. Many of which only exist since recently (for example, reinforced concrete enforces certain adaptations).

Evolution is not working towards one static best solution. It is always a process of adaptation of an existing solution to the current context.
Flex!
Tried TDD and didn't realize the benefits? Try next time you get writer's block
i had very bad experiences 1st and 2nd hand with Acer, though. unprovoked crashes, WiFi not working without significant research and fiddling. multiple models.
So…following the rules? Keep in mind that the moment someone takes a picture of a Waymo car blasting through a shoulder, the program is going to get a lot more scrutiny.
Not once robots are doing all the labor. You just ask your robot to do it, or maybe your friends' robot if you don't have your first robot yet.
I don’t get all the hate on the new MacBook Pros

I'm a heavy tmux/vim user.

Apple replaced the best programmer's laptop on the market (their previous-gen MBP) with the MBP model that they sell now. It's not a bad laptop per se, it's just that it's not a programmer's laptop.

Apple sells the MBA which doesn't have enough pixel density to support tmux with multiple panes.

Apple sells the MB and the MBP with that execrable butterfly keyboard which is terrible for touch-typing for long periods.

There's nothing else anymore. They stopped selling that Ivy-bridge-era MBP model they were keeping around for serious touch-typists. Everyone I know who has one of these turkeys defends the keyboard, but then admits that, "anyways, I usually use an external keyboard anyhow." I need the built-in keyboard to be useable and Apple has given up on making those.

I'd buy a new programmer's laptop from Apple, but they just don't make those anymore. Apple took something we loved away from us - that's why the new MBP gets so much hate.
> Having a highly trained, standing army...

... is why we go to war every 10 to 15 years to justify the MIC spend instead of returning to a pre-WW2 stance.
if thats the line for you, then they don't need to do that, they need to be there in real time helping Facebook investigate where these users are coming from, instead of getting reports later after the Facebook security team says they're behind 7 proxies.
You can compensate for distractions by completely mastering your tools so that less focus is needed. That's a technique that you have control over.
Yeah mine dropped but over time (around a year) has come back higher than it was so I could definitely believe that.
It's extortion. MacOS is the only good consumer OS built on *nix, so I'd probably pay 3x if they charged it.
Sure, authors can suggest reviewers, but the editor cannot always assume the list is reasonable. This is one of the things where a good editor with understanding of the field can in principle "add some value".
It seems Apple hasn't gotten that memo either, because XCode doesn't run on iOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
Nintendo, it would get them some very sought after IP.
Cognitive behavioral therapy!
Tell that to my knees.

I'm mostly fine walking around. I can even do short flights of stairs. In fact, up until a few years ago they only bothered me when I sat in a really unergonomic chair for a while. Then someone convinced me to try this "couch to 5k" thing, and said that literally anyone could do it, and that I liked like I weighed maybe half as much as people that'd actually followed the timetable and gone from couch to 5k.

Fast forward two months. The doctor says "stay off your feet and see if it gets better". They haven't started feeling better. It's been almost three years.

I understand the viewpoint you're trying to hold, and I sympathize. Knowing there are things you can't do really sucks. Especially when you try and fail at something you really wanted, in Brooklyn or otherwise. Unfortunately, you're being a little bit insensitive, verging on offensive. "Just put down the crutches and walk". "Just stop being depressed and be happy". "Just focus". "Just try harder". "Just stop telling yourself you're incapable".
Awesome take on the situation.
>The only benefit of AMP is that the pages are promoted higher in results.

Not just promoted in the results but actually pre-loaded in the background when you're using google search. It's double the monopoly fun.
Cpu prices on mbp scales really closely to the market.
You might even argue that helps protect the integrity of the journals.

If journals paid authors for published papers, there would be a greater incentive for an author to tweak/falsify data to make the conclusions stronger, the paper more exciting, and more attractive to publishers.
We wouldn't be doing our due diligence if we didn't try. Otherwise it's pretty much a guarantee that 30-40,000 people will die on America's roads next year and every year after that.
The approach when educating kids is a bit different, but the message is the same: once a person finds themselves in a bad situation, the preference is to stay put and ask for help, if possible.

> the above steps are also the most logical expansion routes FOR a search zone.

It doesn't really work like that. Although there are books on the subject (Lost Person Behavior) and some other efforts to figure out behavior statistically, and local SAR managers will have some hunches based on experience, nobody can entirely get into the head of a missing person and judge with any certainty whether one direction or another is better during a search.

Search managers are well aware that "follow water downhill" is common advice going back to the boy scouts, but when a missing person inevitably encounters some obstacle along the way, they deviate from that plan. The search area gets big really quickly, and SAR teams are a limited resource. It's way better to respond to coordinates from a phone call or a PLB than it is to spend days with a lot of boots on the ground.
That's such a great talk by Tony Seba. Highly recommended for anyone who hasn't seen it or some of the other ones he's given.

I imagine that the traditional car rental companies will be the first to provide services. They already have fleet maintenance, post-ride clean-up/turnaround, and demand forecasting/repositioning down, all that's left is to setup a subscription model.

Uber could get there but I kinda feel that they will implode if they make an attempt to transition to self-driving cars, from a huge driver backlash or strike.

Though I really want to see most what happens to all the parking lots and parking garages which will slowly disappear. Hopefully they can be transformed into green spaces.
Thank you for the link. The study includes Rio, but not São Paulo, Brazil. I'm not sure why they would skip the largest city in the world that is both in a developing country and a warmer climate, but without including it, it's certainly not a very comprehensive study is it?
I found the Sony wh-1000xm2 (prev gen also) to be quieter than the Bose 35s. I just listen to silence 90% of the time. There are some white noise playlists on Spotify to avoid needing Youtube. Also rain, storms, rivers etc. If doing sound or music, I almost always use a single song loop, or a playlist with only a few songs looping to avoid interrupting thought. Music is just a couple of soundtracks/songs I've added to a playlist. Few examples:

Clint Mansell (random ost, fountain ost)
M83 Oblivion (Starwaves/ title track)
Random Hans Zimmer
Interstellar ost
Only God forgives ost

Adderall helps also, makes most visual distractions/sounds have less affect, if any. (have prescription)

Phone in airplane/do not disturb helps also.
Whenever I've laid hands on unfamiliar systems and their terminals, which has been a quite frequent occurrence over the years, one of the first things I've usually tried to do is get my hands on the terminal's handbook (or at least the condensed cheat-sheet version of it) to learn what all of its keys and key combinations did. (In this case the same would go for ISPF.) Assuming that the author is using some kind of 3270 emulation software, then she should have access to this stuff somewhere. In other words, she probably just needs to RTFM!
I live close to the top few locations in the list, although I've not yet had sufficient spare time to actually hike 20 miles off-road. But another interesting thing about this area is how far it is from a "proper city". e.g. 8h drive to Salt Lake or Calgary. 11h to Denver and Seattle. I'm not aware of any place in the lower 48 that's so far from metropolitian living. e.g. the next place down the list : Sierra Nevada. If you lived in a town nearby, say Mariposa : you're only 4h from San Francisco (assuming 580 is only moderately stationary).
Contrast ratio is an accessibility issue. One of these things is not like the other.
If you don't cancel and instead just downgrade to a no-annual fee card it should help your score. I am not sure how it works in Australia, but average age of accounts plays a large role in US credit rating calculations.
Well yeah, quantum mechanics in general is the theory of quantized probabilistic physical systems, so it makes sense that apparently probabilistic systems with an apparent finite set of component states that can only discretely change in magnitude can be modeled with the theories that were developed to address precisely that. I suspect the cause of your surprise is actually inverted (as in, it's not surprising that alot of high level systems work like that, but rather that the most fundamental elements of matter/energy do.)
That does not speak well of the publisher. Of course with Elsevier, just add it to the pile...
In the modern development environment, I think it's genuinely fair to say that something which doesn't support Unicode strings cannot be claimed to support strings.

It's like saying you have the fastest integer math library ever written, with the minor caveat that it only supports numbers smaller than 256 because it achieves that speed by being simply a hardcoded lookup table, and crashes if you give it anything else.
Hold up.

Somewhere between "handing out pamphlets in Hyde Park" and Twitter there were plenty of other shifts in communication patterns as well. There was a good 100 years or so where if you wanted to be heard you had to get your message into a newspaper, and then another 50 years where you also had the alternatives of TV and radio. All of these were controlled by corporate interests, and it's not like there was ever a right to have your Letter To The Editor published.
as I understand it, the Domain Name Registrars operate under government licences for all the various country-specific TLD's, and under a US government licence for the rest (for historical reasons). Some governments do operate very strict laws about what can be said on websites that operate under their country TLD, and use their ability to grant/deny a domain as a method of controlling speech on the internet.

That makes it protected under US free speech laws, because the authority to grant/deny a domain ultimately derives from a government mandate.

The ability to post random shit on Facebook does not derive from a government mandate, so therefore isn't covered by free speech laws.
I've been using WSL since it was first released on the Insider Fast Ring. It's been great. Sure, its had it its problems, but the team is really responsive to issues filed on github. Ive had all of my WSL issues fixed and usually in a new build in 2-3 weeks after filing.

WSL has also been a savior in that I no longer need a Linux VM at home. Which is "great" because virtualization support (at least for me) has been broken for months. I can't even boot my desktop with Intel virtualization enabled in the BIOS.
I wonder if there's an opposite term for 'leapfrogging' [1], whereby the pace or focus of technology -- instead of allowing poorer countries to skip trends altogether -- it leaves them behind.

An example of leapfrogging is China's payment system which switched directly from a cash-only system to a mobile-payment system in the span of a decade, entirely bypassing the need for credit cards.

I believe that cryptocurrencies, ironically, are leaving the unbanked populace behind by being a payment-only system instead of being a payment-credit system. If Bitcoin is truly successful and replaces Visa and MasterCard -- both of which also operate as a credit system -- then that's just going to result in slower economic growth in underdeveloped countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
Whilst this is true, and it already references another analogy in 'bullshit' jobs, it's just another piece of the 'bullshit' magnetism of human nature.

Church,
TV,
Music,
Movies,
Conversation,
Food,
Meetings,
Politics,
Watching sport

The 'bullshit' to 'worthwhile' ratio is 95:1 at best.

I've just depressed myself.

Maybe it's a pattern that humans are programmed to follow subconsciously. Our brains cannot handle consuming / participating in anything less than 95% bullshit. Maybe it's the bullshit time that allows us to cope with the 5% of the 'real'?

Things such as the 'bullshit' web are just a differently-contexted manifestation of that pattern of behaviour.
Pre-Beta ERP System
Why This Mama Merganser Has More Than 50 Ducklings
Oh, so How To Design Programs uses "teaching" languages, which are sub-languages of Racket. Going from that book to learning the full features of Racket has been fun.
Your SSN is essentially your Tax ID number, so I'm not sure how else you would expect them to pay your taxes on your behalf.
Lots of Wilderness in Idaho have airstrips though, I believe?
That still in no way answers the question I have posed concerning why developing driverless vehicles must involve training deaths.

I have already said I am not against their development per se.
If I claim MaysonL wore a blue shirt when this comment was made on HN, odds are that nobody can prove my claim is 100% false, and yet part of my claim is proven true, because here you are, and therefore all must believe me.

This is your logic.
Calling this movement "Quixotic" appears to inject a slightly elitist, overly negative evaluation of the goal. California is a powerhouse on its own, from farming all the way to technology, and could very well thrive with fully open immigration and free trade agreements with the rest of America, plus Asia and Europe. Come to think of it, there might be other States that would be fine doing the same?
WhatsApp lynchings in India?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44897714
The autorouter we use is on par with what you find in Altium. The one part that makes it actually work where most autorouters breakdown is the guidance and handholding our software can do automatically.

Yes it allows placements for whatever you care about. Specify a placement if you care about it, don't specify it, and the system finds the best place for the part.
For Some Reason, These Quantum Mechanics Toys Didn’t Catch On
That's interesting...I was actually trying to find stats broken down by the type of driving. 10 seconds of illegal street driving or drunk driving must be many times more dangerous than dropping kids off at school or picking up grocery driving. It would be interesting to get the stats broken out by type of driving.

I remember finding a government site with these kinds of stats decades ago when fighting a red light camera ticket and finding that something like 95% of red light accidents came more than 10 seconds after a light turned red, but that 95% of red light camera tickets were issued during the first 1 second after a light turned red. I ended up getting the ticket dismissed because I convinced the judge that my red light running was harmless because it was half a second after the light changed.
In physics, we do. The American Physical Society (APS) journals are the gold standard in my field.

I'm a huge proponent of open-access publishing, but one must also appreciate the importance of the journals to the health of the society.

Here are relevant passages from statements by both candidates for treasurer in the 2018 APS election:

Candidate 1: James Baird

For now, there would seem to be three principal threats to the financial health of the Society. These are:

1. Open Access Publishing: Paid library subscriptions to APS journals constitute the largest single source of income to the society. Open access publishing threatens this subscription model. If paid library subscriptions disappear entirely, a new payer or payers will need to be found. Currently, this appears to be the author or the author’s institution. APS open access journal, Physical Review X, and the open access opportunities offered by the other Physical Review journals, are an ongoing experiment. The treasurer will need to be alert to financial trends in open access publishing.

Candidate 2: James Hollenhorst

APS is in very good shape, both in carrying out its mission and in its financial health. Nevertheless, the Society and its membership face many challenges, not the least of which is the threat to the business model due to rapid changes in the scientific publishing field. Open access is the rallying cry from the government, the universities, and from the readers and authors of our journal articles; but someone has to pay for the added value that APS brings.
Sure, but that only prevents the "get a comment" part... and that you could probably get around if you had a friendly relationship with a reporter.

The "verify against other sources, public info, etc." stuff is still entirely doable. In the case of Collateral Murder, info about the incident was already public, making the video something you could vet... and I'd imagine plenty else in Manning's leaked info was vettable.
Do you have trouble with metaphor, perhaps?

Because "alphabet" happens to be the fundamental writing system for human languages and therefore crucial to enabling literacy. I am simply using it as an analogy for us needing better programming environments to enable better programming literacy.
> It would still be pretty hard to implement.

That's true. But it doesn't change the fact that any other way of printing money is playing favorites--some will be winners and others will be losers.
> Apple sells the MB and the MBP with that execrable butterfly keyboard which is terrible for touch-typing for long periods.

The MacBook and MacBook Pro's keyboards are markedly different. Sure, they're both butterfly, but MacBook Pro's keyboard is a lot more clickly/springy than MacBook's, which I can only describe as mushy. Have you tried using them for an extended period of time?
> 'way of calling for help' might involve tripping security sensors.

Or making a forest fire.
Fair point. I've been in a conference room where I had a video going on my 2013 MBP with headphones in and the guy next to me asked me to stop whatever was running my fans so hard. Those things can get loud.
> But fiction is harder

Too general a statement. Sure, an engaging consistent story is much harder than, say, the average cookbook or travel guide.

But many textbooks in science and math seem like absolutely Herculean effort. Gravitation[1] by Misner, Thorne, & Wheeler (a work of non-fiction) in my opinion would be the equivalent in intellectual effort to several thousand average works of fiction.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Charles-W-Misner/dp/06911...
If you have regular rewards card, like 1%-1.5%, sure. But if you have 3% or 5% (I don't know of any card that does it on taxes specifically, but there might be ones where it fits some of the categories) or if you need to fulfill requirement like "spend $X000 in N months and get tons of points" then even with the transaction fee it might actually be a pretty good deal.
All good suggestions except Adderall. Don't start using drugs to get by in your career lest you make it a short one.
Well I kind of hoped I could pay IRS directly rather than through a middleman, or get a clear, no-loophole guarantee of some sort that they would do nothing with my SSN other than transmit it to the IRS. (Or through TurboTax, which I've unfortunately already used anyway, meaning they already have my info.)
You're mad that Apple replaced those under warranty, rather than, say, the issue happening past the warranty period or not being covered?
Google does the hardware well too. They built their own lidar to reduce cost compared to velodyne by 90%.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...

They also built a second narrowly focused longer range lidar that can be automatically pointed at the ROI of objects visuslly detected beyond the range of velodyne's ~200m.

https://medium.com/waymo/introducing-waymos-suite-of-custom-...

Both are used on their vehicles. If you have better hardware it makes the software problems higher up the stack easier.
This automates what you would normally do in KiCAD (and more). We export to KiCAD, because it's a convenient way to view and edit the design.