skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, mechanical drawing and 'artistic' drawing are totally different skills. The best technicians, with the highest level of mechanical drawing training and experience, wouldn't be able to draw a portrait.

RISD asks applicants to draw their bike as part of the application. It's tough because both originality and observational skills are needed (google "risd bike").

But OMG it is important to realise that being able to make measured, technical drawings is not the same as being a renaissance draftsman, capable of the most incredible evocations of the human body etc.
I highly suggest installing f.lux[1] on your computer and using a similar app on your phone like Twilight[2]. They've done absolute wonders for my sleep schedule and I actually feel noticeably sleepier as the night goes on when using them. And occasionally when I do turn them off (when working late at night), I feel more awake and alert which was an unexpected plus for when I'm under crunch but an unwanted side effect when I'm trying to get a good night's rest.

[1] https://justgetflux.com/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
Yeah, you were replying to a fictional post.

I'm from Maine originally and the only person I ever heard open their mouth to complain about "Taxachusetts" was...my dad, who moved away from there in a huff.
Feel free to ask me everything. You can find me also on Dribbble or LinkedIN.
It appears that it would be opt-in, and even then, the data would not be used for ad targeting. One of the suggested ideas is that you’d be able to see your account balance and receive fraud alerts from your bank within Messenger. I would actually love a chatbot that would let me clear a debit card fraud alert, rather than having my card shutdown and being forced to call in when my usage goes up (usually when traveling).

The fears here seem to be somewhat overblown and misrepresented by the article - certainly by its headline.
Break the apps. Undocumented APIs can not be relied on.

Of course it's a shame they were available/undocumented in the first place, but at least they are finally fixing this.
Biotech requires several very different foundational assumptions than consumer-tech. You can't "move fast and break things" in biotech. You have to budget a lot more for R&D, and you have to be okay with dozens of experiments outright not working and not leading to anything useful. Having world-class scientific talent on your team is actually really important, while it's overkill for most software. Your iterations are usually about whether the science works, not whether the market will accept it. Technical risk dominates market risk. There's a large regulatory barrier to even getting a product to market. Your per-unit profits are often significantly higher than in consumer software, but your per-unit costs are higher, and your unit volumes are much lower.

[source: I'm in consumer tech and my brother-in-law is a cancer researcher.]

A VC's core competency is typically in knowing & applying the core industry dynamics to their investments, so if the core industry dynamics are different, it makes sense that VCs will eventually specialize in subjects that they actually know something about. Trying to apply consumer software "best practices" to biotech will get people killed and you sent to prison.
If you continue to violate the site guidelines we are going to ban your account. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended.
My Team uses CosmosDB heavily (so far, and not too far anymore) and it is another half-baked service. The support people are Indians (Microsoft outsourced Azure support to an Indian company - MindTree) and are not very knowledgeable on the CosmosDB service. They always point us to the URI of a web article (of course from Microsoft) and says everything will work if you follow the article, and close the ticket. Over the time, we understood that we know more than them on CosmosDB, and used to ignore their replies, but nevertheless raise tickets to make sure that they are aware.
That didn't even occur to me. If they were compatible for this in humans, then a huge amount of the meat industry could benefit by providing the lungs that they can't always easily sell (organ meat isn't as popular for humans at least).
> OpenAI's goal is to see if they can recreate the ability to plan and strategize over a partial information continuous long time horizon environment.

If this was actually the goal, they would add further mechanical restrictions beyond the 200ms delay to simulate the way humans players play. That way, human and AI would be on a roughly even mechanical playing field, leaving the differentiating factor only strategy/tactics.

As it stands, it looks like their victory is as much based on raw mechanical superiority as it is strategic/tactical superiority. Computers being able to be pixel-perfect accurate at all times, issue commands at ludicrous speeds, etc. is kind of an uninteresting advantage in the context of building strategic AI.
The only rational solution is to make political affiliation a protected class. It is the only way to ensure democracy in this age of corporations which exert national control over what we see and hear. Radio waves had FCC protection, no such system exists for the internet which is rapidly replacing these systems.

If in the days of the first amendment paper producers conspired en mass to censor we would have seen it dealt with then. Alas its a modern problem which is ours to solve.
The snow-melting effects of incandescents seems like something that was always there and "just worked" and, therefore, required no though. I'm not sure "the people paid to make those decisions" think it through any more than any of us can take the time to consider every possible consequence of every decision we make every day. And us tech folk already could be accused of overanalyzing many things, while still missing a ton..
Yes.

There's an interesting Wired article, about how teams at Philips struggled to come up with the optimum filter. IIRC, at some point they were using some type of gel to 'tint' the LED light to resemble an incandescent bulb.

Of course, nearly all of this has probably flown out the window, because the bulbs are so cheap now. (The Wired article was from over a decade ago.)
Yeah that's some fun logic.

This isn't a broken web application sir, it's a static web page that displays important exception information.
I like openshift, I am not sure why developers are not hot about it.
I met a guy travelling who's business will no longer be profitable. He is planning on documenting on facebook or a blog the closing of his business and the firing of around 50 workers in the days leading up to brexit. Two are his sons and one is his wife, so you can imagine he's not happy about the situation. Oh, and he's probably leaving the UK.
> Corporations have choices. They could go about their business, and simply choose the best location, the one that makes the greatest business sense, and invest accordingly. Or they can as Amazon, GE, and dozens of others, go through the ritual of pretending to entertain a wide range of proposals, and use the leverage of competing bids to sweat the best possible deal out of their preferred location

http://cityobservatory.org/cash-prizes-for-bad-corporate-cit...

Whoever 'wins', may not come out ahead.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/9/10/what-can-i-do-...
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Google didn't try to hide that they were working with the Pentagon to better identify targets. Their participation was well known and in the open.
> Buceta was keen to send me a diagram of a scutoid, to explain what one looks like, but I pressed him for a verbal description.

-_-

It's an interesting article and a good story! I like how the math informed the later biological investigations but this was just trying to avoid diagrams to add mystique instead of clarity.
the desire to keep the stack as simple as possible

It's a somewhat deceptive simplicity, to boot. The fact that you can use SQLite like this is a testament to its versatility and quality but it's not really for this. There's a conceptual overhead in trying to wedge it into this role and it can also easily become a practical one.
To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf (2016)
I have a more negative view. The entire Android development experience is substandard from front to back. The entire framework feels over engineered and bloated no matter which system or API it is.
An ironic name.
"Defense in depth" [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
Would you please offer an example of such an app and its outstanding features?
I'm surprised that such an established HN user as you would say something that absurd about HN moderation.
Exactly. We don't learn to draw the tree we see out of the window, but the idea of a tree. Children don't really draw - they write in pictograms. We teach them icons that represent things, but we don't teach them how to translate seeing into drawing. The bicycle drawings show how quickly that habit of drawing the idea of a thing breaks down.

We falter when we try to draw something that we haven't learned the "correct" pictogram for, because our mental concept of the thing is completely divorced from the appearance of the thing. Most adults can just about draw a chair isometric projection, because they learned how to draw a cube. That crude model of perspective usually falls apart when they try to draw a dog - they know that it's supposed to have four legs, but they can't work out where to put them. You end up with a drawing like this:

https://ellenhenderson.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dog_new1....
People didn’t “love it” they tolerated it
Yes, that's optional.
I used to commute a lot from San Diego to Portland, and the blackness of Portland was jarring. San Diego has way more lights, but it also lacks cloud cover, so the light looks different.
The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]
Are there going to be any consequences for this?
If no, then it is such a betrayal of trust.
I don't see where I violated your guidelines, maybe I am not liberal enough? why am I always downvoted massively whenever I post a non-ultra-liberal comment? why? what if I posted a comment ridiculing the current POTUS and praising the former POTUS? will I get upvoted or downvoted do you think? I think you know the answer
FWIW, Amazon's hosted Kubernetes offering (EKS) isn't stable either (DNS failures, HPA is known to be broken, etc.).
[...] The escalators of the station caused a significant disaster on the Moscow Metro on February 17, 1982, that killed at least eight people. [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviamotornaya_(Kalininsko%E2%8...
Well considering they just got slapped by the EU for doing stuff like that, I can see that license agreement getting weaker not stronger.
It's the only reason stopping me from getting an Android phone. I think Apple is better on privacy.
Vanta (YC W18) is hiring generalist engineers to make security simple
>Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office?

Fits my use-case pretty nicely. I have one decent gaming machine, and six landing spots in the house where I want to game from. Longer hardcore gaming sessions from the main spot, but that's an occasional thing. Most days/evenings I have half an hour, and need to be wherever my partner and parrot are hanging out. If I can properly deliver streamed gaming to those points on basic hardware connected to a TV and wireless joypad, I'm happy.

Steam in-home streaming gets me most of the way there already though. Gonna give Rainway a test run when I get the home network wiring finished.

If it's that good, I may end up also brokering it outbound for some mobile gaming.
As YC company, I would prefer if you could offer me to improve my vision. I have presbyopia which is normal after certain age. Innovate and offer me something better. I don't need another dollar shave club. At least this is how it looks to me. :)
>First, they came for Alex Jones.

You know, it's interesting how often this poem, written to warn people about the dangers of the Nazis, is almost exclusively invoked nowadays in defense of Nazis and people who share their ideology.

I mean, I get the free speech argument... even though this is less an argument and more a lazy attempt at pseudointellectual concern trolling... but why is it only ever a slippery slope to come for the Nazis, but never a slippery slope to let the Nazis come for us?
> Is Dota more difficult than Go? Why or why not?

For AI, yes. It's real-time and there's a fog of war (no perfect information). The former means that the possible action/choice space is vastly larger at any given moment in time, and you have to draw a line between small/meaningless differences in actions (e.g. a one-pixel difference in movement target generally won't be significant) and meaningful differences. The latter means that the AI needs some kind of mental predictive model where it guesses at what the opponent has likely done in the time that their actions have not been visible.
I'll go out on a leg and ask - why not brute force and use signal jammer. Or in SCIF, jam all incoming signals, except for the ones they want to whitelist. If there is wifi, whitelist devices that can be connected to it.
My fraud alerts come via email. A simple click to approve or denyz No way in hell would I want Messenger to be sending me stuff from my bank.
In the days of the First Amendment...newspapers did actively censor their opposition. Hell, the First Congress, most of whom participated in the drafting of the Bill of Rights and its ratification by the States, passed the Sedition Act, clamping down on free speech in a way not seen since outside of WWII.

As for making political affiliation a protected class...that wouldn't shield Jones. He's being kicked off for slander, lies, and acts of incitement, not his claim to be a conservative.
The calibration is pretty good at dealing with the background noise of your table top area, and we set this up in a pretty average open workspace environment and didn't encounter any issues with the image detection. Dynamicland has even lore advanced image detection from what I've gathered from various posts, where robots and action figures, and other 3d objects can be placed within a tabletop and integrated into a variety of different interactive programs.
If you'd like to follow this down another path, nyc's Recurse Center has been supporting development of a Roomdb framework that also uses concepts from the Dynamicland universe. This goes more into the database side of things in the vein of Smalltalk and Linda, and is really interesting stuff. https://www.recurse.com/blog/132-living-room-making-rc-progr... https://livingroomresearch.tumblr.com
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Alternatively, women patients speak differently to male doctors in ways that make it more difficult to make accurate and reliable diagnoses.

Educated professionals are certainly capable of exhibiting bias. But professionals are also more aware of the issue, and are even taught (formally and informally) compensating strategies. People off the street? Not so much....
here's a pro tip that I learnt in the animation scene

1. grab a wooden pencil
2. hold it so that the broad side of the lead touches the paper, not the point - you'll get a broad, pale grey line
3. rough in your drawing this way
4. when you feel like you have a solid drawing, switch to the tip of the pencil (or to a pen) and trace the lines you made in step 3

This will make it a lot easier to have a nice, clean drawing done with bold, clean lines. You will also probably end up with a silver patch on the heel of your hand from dragging it across all those light lines, along with a gray haze - a delicate touch with a kneaded eraser can fix that, or just draw with a col-erase pencil, finish with graphite, and abuse the levels in Photoshop to drop out the color.

Being able to knock out a drawing with precise lines and no underdrawing does take years, but being able to simply create a drawing with precise lines can happen a lot earlier once you've picked up a few One Weird Tricks.
> The first being that Dota is a team game which requires teamwork to win. This presents a new challenge of having actors work towards both personal and team goals in a balance (much like real players) to be able to win, which is very difficult to train.

I don't think this is actually a significant problem for an AI, because each AI 'player' will be the same copy of code, thinking the same way. They don't need to explicitly communicate if they have the same thoughts and expectations.
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Personally I trust that GDPR and its potentially enormous fines provide sufficient economic incentive for these big cloud companies to do the right thing.

That is to say I now believe that not only are Google, Cloudflare, Amazon not proactively sniffing traffic, but also that they'll have invested a massive amount of money making sure it's really hard to do undetected.

Of course I also fully expect that any one of them would give me up to law enforcement iff compelled by a court.
Confirmed. West coast biotech is back in business as well from La Jolla up to San Francisco. Many new biotech buildings and startups popping up.
IMHO, they could, maybe should, with some promise start with what are likely relatively low level brain tasks say, among the first things a brain does with an input via touch, temperature, sound, sight, movement.

In a computer analogy, pay attention to the processor, main memory, Ethernet connection, PCI bus, etc.

IMHO, for the usual meanings of behavior, e.g., a kitty cat chases a mouse, a kitty cat jumps successfully from a kitchen stool to the kitchen counter top that has the offered food and water, a kitty cat follows its owner from room to room, etc. are at too high a level.

With a computer analogy, such behavior doesn't really directly involve the processor instruction set, the word length in main memory, communications over Ethernet or USB but involves software.

As we know well, given inputs and outputs of some software, even millions of pairs of inputs and outputs, tough to infer the source code or even the programming language used, C++, C, C#, Lisp, Fortran, etc.

Still, we know some things about software, e.g., the programs commonly use Do-While, If-Then-Else, Call-Return, raise exceptional condition. So, there's a microscopically thin chance that the coveted theory of neuro-science could have the coveted theories with testable hypotheses at roughly that level.

For more about behavior, IMHO have to accept real cognition, actually thinking, e.g., considering scenarios and possibilities for responding. We can guess that the work of this cognition will as software in a computer use relevant accumulated data, some usually crude causal models, and some simple deductive logic.

Can the line of attack in the OP address such cognition? Maybe, but here being closely reductionist standing on solid theories of the lower level functioning is likely asking for too much and maybe, for some progress, not necessary. E.g., commonly parts of psychology study cognition while largely ignoring the lower level neuro-science mechanisms.
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Yeah, I remember reading this.

Doesn't this really only apply to devices with GPS?
It seems that others are more industrious. Still there is a lot to be done

https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/ro0617-can-an-eye-...
It's 38 minutes to the 128 station, which is hardly Boston proper. It's an hour between Providence and Boston (South station), and the cost difference between the commuter rail or even Amtrak regional with the Acela is crazy. $12 MBTA train vs $16 Amtrak regional vs $50-$80 or more for the Acela. For what amounts to a 5-10 minute savings.
It's a Mitch Hedberg joke
I speak of paper mills not newspapers. This is analogue to DNS providers and other internet infrastructure providers participating in censorship. It would be a clear breach of first amendment rights to force someone with editorial control to print something.
> Completely untrained people can trace a drawing with a good degree of accuracy, yet fail completely to draw even simple forms with any degree of verisimilitude.

I always felt this was an argument against what you are saying. Tracing doesn't require much fine motor control because you can rest your hand on the paper and go over the existing image with very small strokes.

For example, try drawing the simplest of all forms: a straight line. I always found that good drawers can draw an incredibly straight line, freehand. My "straight" lines look like I was standing on a boat in rough seas. Yet certainly visualizing the properties of a straight line seems very simple to me. Even, for example, drawing a straight line smoothly between two other lines on a piece of filler paper is something that a good drawer could do much better than I.
Which provisioning model are you using -- ASM or ARM? The last time I used Azure we used the (deprecated) ASM model which was pretty stable instead of the newer and often broken ARM model. We ended up staying on the deprecated model until we moved to AWS (for unrelated reasons).
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I am used to driving in rural areas that don't have street lamps, so I'm probably not the one to consult on that kind of thing, but I don't find that streetlamps do a tremendous amount.
And some of those initiatives are horribly written by people who have no expertise whatsoever writing laws. WA is a great example of this with some of the most recent Gun Control policies would actually violate WA state's constitution.
A jammer doesn't fix the fact that these devices could still record whatever when inside the facility and just transmit the acquired data later once the wearer goes outside.
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Selective jamming like that is really hard to do, verging on impossible.
When you’re making purchasing decisions on a large scale one of the requirements you need to be clear on is:

Does the new acquisition suit the environment it will be operating in.

These requirements ought be stated in the contract of sale.

If the supplier makes claims that it does, and it turns out it doesn’t then they are in breach of the contract and can be tasked with making good.

Of course, sometimes we get these things wrong.
I read your post the other day and would definitely link it here if you hadn't done it already. The other side of the story xD
This is his reddit account:

https://www.reddit.com/user/jstolfi

He primarily posts in buttcoin, a sub that exists to mock bitcoiners. It's pretty fair to say he thinks all coins are crap, not just bitcoin.

Also, please include me in the "Understands cryptocurrencies and yet doesn't support it" bucket please :)
Betrayal of trust can be all part of the plan when your platform goes hand-in-hand with the idea that government is the problem rather than a solution (and you can make the best effort to prove it when you get elected).
They don’t necessarily have the same spectrum. Not an expert, but my conclusion from the little I looked into this is that lighting is hard. And decision makers don’t seem to consider externalities.