skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magic Leap is marketed as $2500. That's $500 cheaper, or 15% of the price. Essentially meaningless for anyone planning to buy one. Claimed battery life for Magic Leap is 3 hours, claimed battery life for hololens is 5.5 hours. (I've personally gotten a bit longer but that's not objective.)

Weight concerns are valid - I wish they included actual figures for the weight of the Magic Leap for comparison.
My IDE has enough going on to dedicate an entire HD screen to it. Then I need more room for documentation, and showing the app for debugging. Even if I'm blocking out the rest of the world that's at least two screens full.

> offline documentation (i.e., not in a web browser)

This deeply confuses me. Why does it matter if the documentation is in a browser or not?
To clarify the above: only 54.8% graduate in 6 years. Not 4 years... 6 years, meaning more debt. And that assumes they graduate, as opposed to just giving up.

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/bill-gates-us-college-dropou...
How Cilium enhances Istio with socket-aware BPF programs
Please add honking to that list, it's out of control in lower Manhattan.
You need to find a place out of fluvial plain or near a cost, because you'll have a hard time dealing with floods.
The supply/demand equation for college is broken precisely because student loans are can’t be discharged. Every student essentially has an infinitely deep pocket to borrow against so colleges continue to raise prices.
Internet in India: Gaping gender gap
As someone going through a Master's in CS to get into ML, this makes me a little sad..

(though I do understand what you're getting at)
Yea, if you could get $22,000 just for being detained in the US, there would be whole professions dedicated to setting people up for crimes while also leaving enough evidence of their innocence to get them acquitted.
If you don't mind a video format, this talk by Robert Smallshire includes that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-UcUs7IMIM
I was at Yahoo under Marissa and I have mixed feelings on the program.

The first couple of years the people that got accepted as APMs were very good. The flipside was they all left a year in, after their first accelerated promo happened. As time went on and Yahoo lost its Marissa halo, the quality of the APMs plummeted.
This article is incredibly misleading in numerous ways. You can find details on pretrial release, like all other issues related to the justice department from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This [1] paper is extremely relevant.

The normal process in the US is that an individual's case will be seen by a judge within 24 hours of their detention and the judge will assign bail. Contrary to the media, the defendant is often not even present for this process. They will simply be pulled from their cell or detention area and informed what the judge decided. And in the vast majority of cases this is that the individual is released for 'free', or released on personal recognizance. Even in felony cases some 32% of individuals are released without financial condition. When bail is set, individuals can generally get out for 10% of that amount. In some cases they can do it directly through the court, and that 10% will be refunded once the individual returns to court and completes their trial. If not they can go to bail bondsmen who take the 10% as their profit margin, and pay 100% to the court themselves. The bailbonds companies then get their 100% back from the court once the defendant shows up and completes their trial. This is where modern day 'bounty hunting' can come into play -- the bail bondsmen have a strong incentive to ensure that their clients do not flee.

Bail tends to be set in relation to the criminal record of an individual, the seriousness of an offense, how much of a flight risk they are, and whether or not they're likely to be a danger to themselves or others if released. So for instance of all individuals with no prior convictions 77% are released, 63% of those with misdemeanor priors are released, but only 46% of those with felony priors are released. This is also why there are demographic differences in bails and release rates (age, gender, race, etc). Two individuals may commit the same crime, but when one has a criminal record and the other does not - there will be different outcomes. Articles typically try to spin this as prejudice (as this one did), but it is in no way shape or form prejudicial.

There are also statistics that can be used to, inadvertently, test how reliable detention vs release decisions are. In particular when there are emergency releases (such as because of jail overcrowding) where defendants who would not normally be released, are, about 52% end up being charged with some sort of pretrial misconduct. The rate for those who were intentionally released ranges from 27% to 36% depending on the release type. Anyhow, there's an immense amount of other actual information and data on that paper alone, including things like regression comparison of release rates vs reoffense rates to see if the systems in place are justified or not. And in some cases they are not, in some cases they are. I think it's reasonable to conclude that it's a system that does pretty well, but could be made better.

[1] - https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/prfdsc.pdf
Ask HN: How to stop overthinking everything?
Ah okay I see where you are going with proofs.

I format my anki cards similarly for longer expanded question:

E.g.

- Question

- Short Answer (e.g. the conceptual idea and starting point for solving the proof)

- Long answer (the full proof)

What I tried to do instead, is reword each question slightly to ask a different part of the proof. Keep the long-answer the same, but modify the short-answer slightly.

I find from my experience the anki question/answer needs to be a one-liner though.

I use a yellow highlighted background for the short-answer portion. Its a basic front/back question/answer with some specialized stylesheets I made.

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which allows me to split up a proof into parts. I almost always actually use it to separate the "forward" and "backward" directions of an "if and only if" proof, since they are relatively separate anyway, but I do want to keep the card logically together.

Are you chaining multiple questions / answers in one card? Something similar to glutanimate's video here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag4Hdnkig8U
> postpone seeking advice or reading about
> a topic as long as possible

Oh gosh, the number of inefficient solutions, horrible architectures, brain-dead encryption systems I saw, because of the people who did not bother to open a book.

To come up with creative solutions you need to have a base for said creativity. I.e. to connect the dots in original way you need to have the dots already.

I have nor proof, but I suspect that the number of useful solutions created by people who know nothing about the field is close to zero.

Somehow I doubt one would see much further when instead of climbing onto the shoulders of giants they prefer to stay in the pit of their own ignorance.
Yeah, good luck to them but I closed my 15+ accounts (yeah, you have to create a different account per topic), many of which had 4 figure ratings going back years, because of this pointless (to me) chasing of new users and bringing in "be nice" type rules. I spent hours moderating and commenting as well as answering but it seems like loads of other long-time users just gave up due to the waves of "plz to give me teh code" muppets.
On a roll of 12 medium format shots, I usually get 3-4 tops that I'm happy with to print. On a 35mm roll of 36 shots, it was usually around 8 or 10. So from a quarter to a third. It's been years since I intensely shot digital, but I was probably closer to to 1~5% then. Film is nice in that it forces you to really stop and think about your shot.

I'd recommend consuming A LOT of photography if you want to get better. Pick a subject matter you want to get good at (landscape? fashion? black and white portraits? etc.) and immerse yourself in the works of the greats of that field. Go to photo galleries, museums, etc., when looking at the picture try to imagine how the image was framed, what choices the photographers made; and then try to emulate a bit of what you see in your own photography.
I don't think people realize that when you pay a bondsman, you don't get that money back. Basically, you pay a bondsman to post bail for you. The bondsman then assumes the flight risk. Assuming you don't skip out of town, the bondsman gets to keep the money. Additionally, most jurisdictions don't allow you to post your own bail until certain conditions are met, but a bondsman can post bail immediately. This results in most people who are arrested having to pay a bondsman unless they are ok with sitting in jail a couple of days. I found myself in this exact situation when a clerical error caused my license to be suspended. I had to pay $700 just so I could go to work the next day. I never got that money back despite all charges being dropped. If I hadn't have had the $700 to pay the bondsman, I would have been stuck sitting in jail until I could have met with the right person (prosecutor?). This was going to take at a minimum, 2 days. Imagine being poor and in this situation.
Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
If you're keeping one photo in 20, you're on the right path. :) Mine is 3-5% keep rate, for studio work. I'm not hard enough on myself. The most valuable thing I've ever done as a photographer is learning to throw as much as possible away. When you're throwing out bad photos, it's good. When you throw out good photos, it's better. When you can throw out great photos, you're getting somewhere!
Dafydd Jones: The Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes
The Romans were not unaware of principles on the siting and prospects of new settlements. See Vitruvius's De Architectura, or The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy by Alain Bresson:

As early as the fourth century BCE, ancient Greek city planning was very far advanced. When possible—that is, when a city was to be founded or refounded—the site was carefully chosen, taking into account first of all climatic conditions. Drawing on a tradition that goes back to the physician and hygienist Hippocrates and to Aristotle, and whose “intermediaries could only be the architects who built the Hellenistic cities,” the Roman architect Vitruvius recommended choosing a site where the temperature remained moderate and that was far from swamps, in order to avoid miasmas and fogs.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10376.html
Some time ago I was dating an American med student - filing bankruptcy was basically her plan once she is done with studies and residence. She mentioned it's fine to take a hit for ~7 years as she won't be earning much during that time period, and then it should pick up quickly.
Chinese Developers Create Smart Grid Platform
HN voting is a groupthink censor
Banning setting excessive bail is literally in the constitution. We should abide by that.
So this is not quite a big deal. Others do share the code for free to go in wide open.
The United States ranked #1 most competitive economy by IMD.org
By the time you had made your post, Tesla had already issued a press release saying the same, and news had come out that Musk had been talking to the board about it for the past week. So, yeah, he was serious and not being manipulative, and AFAICT completely legal.
Tiny quad-core system-on-module with Dev Kit for hardware startups
"Military might" == "military strength".

Rewritten: how might one consider the strength of armies?
Launched Joint Solution to Protect Mobile and JavaScript Apps at Black Hat USA
Buying subsidized products from another country means you benefit from the subsidy. Having native producers to cover basic food needs via plants is reasonable, but importing subsidized beef is a net economic benefit.
So dropshipping GGWP?
Where in Europe are the tax rates determined by your field of study?
Today, you can expect at least $200,000 for 4 years of medical school.
Maybe instead of calling peope "denialists" the respectful and correct term would be "sceptic".

I.E. Someone isn't an evolution-denialist, but rather an evolution-sceptic.

Or vaccination-sceptic.

Or climate change sceptic.

This way the conversation doesn't shut down and people's minds don't block all input. Maybe if you ask WHY are you a vaccination sceptic you can compare facts.
Bankrupcy is no way to start a legal career. It may even get you disbarred should you do it in bad faith.
'PUBG' developer plans three month sprint to 'fix the game'
Tariffs are backdoor wealth redistributon in some sense. Hear me out.

US export industries are more high tech with higher wages, imports are comparatively low tech. When US imposes tariffs it creates low-tech jobs in the US. When the trade partners impose tariffs they destroy high tech jobs in the US.

The net result is high tech jobs lost, low tech jobs gained. Overall economic efficiency goes down due to loss of high tech jobs and benefits of specialization.
Distributed Ledger Technologies are unilaterally being called web 3.0 by the blockchain community.

This isn't THAT different than a bunch of startups calling things web 2.0 five to ten years ago.

so just roll with it.

The Ethereum project's javascript library is literally called web3.js
It compared "the latest development build [of top chess engine Stocktish] compiled for OS X and running on a 3ghz 8-core Mac Pro." vs a highly ranked player and "the assistance of an older version of Rybka (about 200 points less than Stockfish's 3200+ rating), and it ran on a 2008 MacBook." I think the question is how does a top AI compare to the same top AI + (skilled?) human.
It's already regulated. They are forced to say "paid for by the committee to elect".

The public airwaves are regulated by the FCC. There is no reason to pay broadcasters to prevent some candidate from becoming elected.
Its the era of the notification and the interruption, now that we've addicted a fraction of the population to endless human-powered interruption we "need" to change all our software to have computer driven interruption. Consider app-spam in android notifications, the completely worthless notifications in the Windows notification bar.

The addicts will still get their hit, but much as bad money chases out good money, its too expensive and politically sensitive to have humans generate that attention / interruption rush, so have machines spam the hell out of us.

Besides, TV is dying, nobody watches that stuff anymore, and all those "push media" people need work.

Expect life in the 2020s to be filled with a lot more interruption, mostly machine generated.

Some interesting predictions: going to run into problems with work/life balance because of merging too close and spam explosion, such that even cognitively successful people are going to be much less well informed at work in the future than now due to sheer spam volume. Another novelty is we're in the last decade of the voice telephone call, in the death of the voice phone call era there will be bot armies in the cloud calling you dozens of times per day until you disconnect your voice call service. My guess is federated social media will have to rise when legacy hyper-centralized social media becomes pure propaganda and advertising to the point of being unusable. Possibly the same social factors that led to TV regulation of commercials back when people used to watch TV, might be reimplemented for the internet in a peculiar fashion. It'll be a major social status symbol to be interrupted all the time, much like follower counts used to be a big deal, of course cool people will spend all their time holding their phone to their face, swiping away meaningless notifications.
He certainly won the presidential election against all odds. I think that's pretty impressive. Being a good self promoter doesn't mean that you are a good president though.
Interesting. Where did you have your worst experience?
https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Person-Action-Object_(PAO)_Syst...

I considered working on this, but I'm just not excited enough about remembering. Thanks google. Oh and Einstein said (according to Shaq) you should never remember what you can go lookup.
> Just as there is a non-zero cost associated with maintaining Lambda, API Gateway, and the associated CloudFormation scripts, and finding people who can (and are willing to) maintain them.

This is mostly true, although "maintenance" for those things is minimal. There are fewer moving parts you are responsible for maintaining, and the ones requiring ongoing changes (OS and software management) don't exist. To maintain an existing web application, you are on the hook to potentially ship updated libraries (but not runtimes) in your functions, and to pay your AWS bill. This is like a half-step above no maintenance at all.

If I build a web application for a client that I deploy using a modern serverless architecture, it will require virtually no hands-on maintenance from me for... years? If I build a web application with a more traditional stack, I will definitively need to charge some amount for maintenance because it's not feasible to ignore patching or assume patching won't break all the automation I'd have around scripting, health monitoring, deployment, and everything else.

That's a significant difference.

> 99% of that complexity is already shouldered by AWS and their ilk. They implement log forwarding, metric dashboards, instance health checks, and simple (complete) examples of how to scale based on CPU and memory - the two metrics used for scaling in most cases.

At what number do I scale up? At what number do I scale down? How do I detect when there's a problem with the instances coming up? And I'm familiar with AWS--they certainly help with those things, but it's still on you to have the log forwarding agent running on your box, to set up the dashboard, to ensure you have the separate agent running on your box to forward memory usage metrics, and to ensure you're not doing anything that won't break your automatic minor version upgrades for your AMI (or manage your own, if you're not using EB or don't use that feature).

It's a whole lot better than doing it without those AWS services, but it's a significant step away from what you get with a serverless architecture.

> You mean RDS? Databaes need to be maintained no matter how the application is run. For a quick personal anecdote, there's a world of hurt waiting unless someone is hired who knows how to manage and tune databases, no matter who runs the infrastructure.

If you use RDS, sure. If you're using DynamoDB or (soon) Serverless Aurora, it doesn't require nearly as much tuning or babysitting.

> How is this different? Linux troubleshooting skills won't help to identify if it's third party software or your software - and those pains don't go away magically with Lambda.

Sure they can. Linux troubleshooting skills would tell you if an updated third party tool is now leaking memory, for example. And they often do go away with Lambda because your functions run on a level of seconds or minutes instead of hours, days, or more. Every function is effectively terminated every few hours at most. You could have problems with your libraries, but that's a much more limited troubleshooting scope than an entire VM.
Using Postgres if you already know MySQL
Developing countries grow faster than the U.S, but that doesn't mean much in terms of long-term potential
I've also been working in the STEM field for a long time, and from my own experience deadlines of hours are rare. Deadlines of days and longer are both psychologically and logistically very different. It is not at all given that someone who can sprint well is a good mid-distance or long-distance runner.

> It's exactly like saying that you don't actually need to show all that knowledge during the exam since Wolfram Alpha can do that for you.

I don't get how this is at all equivalent. Could you please clarify?
Yeah I've got the iPhone version of the Anki app. There's a good Mandarin deck called Spoonfed that gives you sentences instead of just words. Much better. But, by far the most effective way to learn the language is to practice with natives. Which I have been doing for a few weeks and the results are amazing.
No, if you want evidence then just look at the numbers of obese people in the population. People don't make rational decisions, this isn't some moral failing, it's just the way we are.
Would you agree that every apartment block should have their own medic on duty then?
Here is an important key to written communication. If someone doesen't understand your written message, the problem is not with the reader. The problem is with you (the writer).

I write clear Stack Overflow question and I don't have the problems you describe.
Experts Question Benefits of Fluoride-Free Toothpaste
Not just in lower Manhattan. Also on nice leafy outer-borough side streets.
The degree might not matter for certain types of jobs, but the additional education could still enrich people’s lives — and a more educated populace could make for a better society in general.
New research shows that what we see is distorted by what we expect to see
> formerly Piwik

I met two of the Piwik guys years ago. They got free office space at an open source company in NZ. Cool people. I remember at the time Piwik did support log scraping and Javascript tracking, but they recommended having how Piwik instances if you wanted both (one that scraped logs and the other that just did Javascript). I'm not sure there are any platforms that actually do both (which would also let you build stats on who has Javascript off or what may or may not be a robot).

But the short story long: they can just do log parsing and not need the Javascript component.
I'm a big fan of the Living Language package.
Where Have All the Augur Users Gone?
Lots of things technically don't have pixel displays, like many CRTs. It's still basically doing pixels, and can give a number.
Windows 10 Enterprise Getting “InPrivate Deskop” Sandboxed Execution Feature
Wee-slack is a gateway for weechat; it uses the slack api. But weechat can function as its own proxy (client/server split between the gui/tui and the network bits).

So not irc gateway, weechat gateway.
Treasury Issues Proposed Regulations on New 20% Deduction for Pass-Throughs
There would also be a push to get people through the system faster.
Not sure exactly what you're getting at here, but I tend to overanalyze many things (especially things like purchases and options, researching endlessly). I read a great article in the NYTimes about FOBO, Fear of Better Options, that really resonated.

I can't find the original link right now, but here's a Medium piece that is nearly the same content: https://medium.com/swlh/fobo-fear-of-better-options-is-the-r...
Google+ deactivated my account
I wasn't being sarcastic and I wouldn't use the insulting term 'tramps' to label them.
"Android has 80% of market share globally" is not an adequate rebuttal to "Apple Music is said to soon overtake Spotify in the US."

While I happen to agree that Spotify is going to remaing the dominant player in the US for a long time, global Android market share is pretty irrelevant.
War Without End
This is central to what is going on with Bitcoin as well these days.

The main Reddit forum (r/bitcoin) is "heavily moderated" by a pro-Blockstream team with any mention of opposing implementations being censored.

Arguably, the control of this main platform is the only reason Blockstream, along with Greg Maxwell, today controls the Bitcoin Github repo.
The headline is basically wrong. It should read "Congress doesn't have the political will to go to Mars".