skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but the Android comparison was meant as a counter example to how packages outside the main repository being difficult to install is somehow a deal breaker to ordinary users. It's not. Desktop computer market share is mainly due to historical reasons.

Of course an easier to use third party packing system would make the desktop easier to use, but that's not where the pain points are. (Especially since most third party binary packaged software is just something you unpack and run.)

Even the most easy to use packaging system you could imagine wouldn't impact the Linux desktop market share measurably.
It didn't even come with any kind of proof? Like a leaked password or your full name?

There is a spam attempt threatening with death https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7iymgu/got_an_emai...
We pump plenty of money in now for specific infrastructure projects; which is exactly what we should be doing here.
The main problem on Augur right now is volume

I think that the relevant term is liquidity
I admit that I don’t have a deep understanding of the real estate market; however, from what I’ve heard the (temporary) reduction of prices in 2008 was largely a unique situation. The reinflation of prices since then would suggest that gov’t doesn’t want to see prices go down significantly (for a variety of reasons) and so it is more likely that prices will simply plateau (and be made more affordable long term by inflating away home values without impact dollar amount to purchase). Thoughts?
I asked myself the same sort of question a couple of years ago and ended up buying an Epson L355.

This printer has ink tanks on the side that you refill, and tubes going to the print head. The ink refills are way cheaper than normal "attached-to-the-print-head" ones on a price-to-volume-of-ink basis. Also there's no way for the printer to tell whether or not Epson branded ink was used.

The only problems I have with it are:

(1) it's WiFi seems to drop the DHCP lease after it auto-powers off, so I fix this by telling the router to always give it a fixed address, otherwise the PC's that saw the printer before can no longer talk to it, and

(2) over time the odd "pins" on the print head get gummed up, and you have to run the process to fix this through a number of cycles to fix them all.
They definitely can produce so much oil. Venezuela produces around 2 million barrels / day and are ranked no1 by proven oil reserve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oi...) . So 1.5 billion barrels is completely in their range over several years ! No one said they need to repay the debt tomorrow, as long as they do not default on the foreign debt (which is the whole point of the move) they can restructure it and repay it at their own pace.

The issue comes from the fact that during the last weeks/month, oil production has significantly dwindled due to political turmoil. Instead of defaulting on the foreign debt, they sacrificed their own population.

They do not need to create 20x the value they created before. The USD price of a Kilogram of coffee did not change at all, so any amount of coffee they would be selling now will contribute the exact same amount towards foreign debt reduction than the same amount produced 3 month ago: they don't suddenly need to produce 20x more.

On the other hand, if they did sell a significant amount of coffee 3 month ago and saved the profits in bolivars for their old days, or to invest in modernising the farm, their savings just got divided by 20.
Thats not how you measure the effect of regulatory burden on price. If the us government turned into single-payer, the doctors are still private, but the government is the insurance.
There are a large number of penetration testers that operate in the open because it is legal and there are frameworks for disclosure. What happens when we make this illegal? Will those people simply cease and desist?
I'm 39, still as excited about new ideas as 20 years ago. Or even more. It's so simple to implement new ideas nowadays, just pick a matching tool/framework and you are good. Back in 1998 you were forced to write a lot of things from scratch long before you get to your idea implementation and it was actually demotivating, at least for me.
And yet you _completely_ failed at understanding what the author was saying.
I guess it depends on what you count as "relatively new". Vietnamese have been traveling internationally, since the early 1990s after Đổi Mới in 1986. It is 4 hours from Saigon to Cambodia by bus. It is 12 hours from Hanoi to China by bus. I think Hanoi to Laos is also 12 hours or so by bus.

That's three countries within a pretty easy bus ride, making international travel relatively common.

As far back as 2007 (the oldest numbers I could find quickly), Cambodia was seeing over 125,000 Vietnamese tourists a year.

There's a reason there are massive casinos in Cambodia all along the border. (Vietnamese aren't allowed to gamble in Vietnam, so they go to Cambodia to do it.)

Vietnamese have been traveling throughout Southeast Asia for a while now. It is just that their numbers have finally caught up to (and in many cases surpassed) Japanese & South Koreans so you can notice them.

More disposable income certainly helps. But so do things like the increase in the formal economy (it is impossible to get a visa anywhere unless you have a bank account, a labor contract, etc). So do things like the spread of "Western" work hours (even now, the typical non-office job is 6 days a week, usually 10 hour shifts, which doesn't exactly leave much time or energy for travel; so travel most often happens in between jobs).
Aggregate political will is a feature of democracy. The fact that any single person on his/her own wish cannot make a big impact change is how a democracy is designed to work. For a democracy to work people need to take active part in the political process including things like consensus building. Changes start at grassroot level and is usually localised. You would have more impact at your constituency level than at state or national level.
But the fact is that significant number of people do not even fulfill their most basic duty of voting.
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I've been experimenting with annotations to chain a set of functions together using a common namespace. In a nutshell,

ns.register(foo: int, bar: int)

@ns
def add_one(foo : ns.foo) -> ns.bar:
return foo + 1

It gets a good bit more complicated than this, but when you've got a whole mess of functions to chain together, this lets you do it _reasonably_ sanely and figure out the ordering.

I think it should be possible to be compatible with a type checker like mypy as it could reannotate the decorated function with the types looked up from the namespace, but I haven't tested that.
Authoritarian gambling laws, at least.
Here's another good take on the moral killer in Ender's Game:

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/13/13857.html
We can learn the secrets of smooth traffic flow by watching fire ants
Unlike normal models with clear inputs and outputs with numerous methods of validating robustness of results, reinforcement learning requires a lot more dedication for a chance at the model converging and actually learning, with substantially more training time/cost needed.

Even with a higher-level library, it's not plug-and-play on new games (although tools like OpenAI Gym make it substantially easier), and you'll still need to do a lot of tuning.
And then there is the whole pre-existing condition thing. How dare someone be born with handicap, get cancer, etc. Would you be okay if your insurance tripled or was completely denied if you were diagnosed with cancer? And why should a woman have to pay into an insurance pool that pays out for prostate exams?

Car insurance is mostly based on things you can control -- at fault car accidents, tickets, etc.
How's that different from current package managers?
Wild Guess: You're not really a python programmer, are you?

Just curious...
> The majority of cases we are seeing are in teenagers and young adults who missed out on their MMR vaccine when they were children.

The vaccines->autism paper by Wakefield came out 1998, so teenagers were born after that. Correlation/causation etc, but it'd be surprising if the media frenzy which followed didn't affect the vaccination rate.

Also, according to this report measles diagnosed in Europe:
2016 -- 5,273; 2017 -- 23,927; 2018 -- 41,000 (to date)

Grim.
> The problem is that governments don't work that way

Well, they can... Just look at France. Amazing healthcare, a lot of it private, relatively cheap

> What does a Congressman get

Nothing, they don't negotiate

> What about the government bureaucrat

A performance bonus, a raise, a promotion? Just like any other organisation?

> What you need is for people to be able to choose based on published price information

OK, go and buy a pound of ground meat. Or an LCD screen. Are you seriously telling me you can get a better deal than McDonalds or Apple?
All of the big computer manufacturers in the 1970s faced challenges in the transition from minicomputers to microcomputers. Probably Digital Equipment Corporation was the saddest case.

A review circa 1980 of minicomputer development at DEC indicated their belief (probably shared by many in the industry) that there was not going to be room for such a diversity of architectures as there were in the minicomputer age and the 1980s would wind up like they did, dominated by a few chips like the 6502, Z80 and 8086.

As it was the 1980s were a minefield. With hindsight one could imagine that DEC could have come out with a 32-bit microVAX-based PC circa 1985. (With hindsight I don't think anybody thought that it would take another 10 years for 32-bit OS to be mainstreamed) I'm sure they thought about that, but it was certain that such a product would have taken a bit out of the existing VAX business and not certain that it would have caught on.

That doesn't excuse Carly Fiorina for the later problems at HP. Remember that Carly Fiorina was involved with fraudulent accounting at Lucent in 1999, personally I lost a few thousand bucks overnight when Lucent restated its earnings in 2000. Thanks to Carly, a proud American innovator (the former Bell Labs) got bought by a European bastion of stagnation.

If justice worked for the elite, Carly would have done time in prison and certainly wouldn't get put in charge of another company, but unfortunately there is no justice, and she got a chance to run another American innovator into the ground. At least she demonstrated how tone deaf Republicans can be by thinking her experience qualified her to run for president.
Arbitrage opp:

Write a program to take the opposite side of any bet that you can hedge in the public market.

For example: if someone bets against Tesla, and you can take the opposite side, but (more) cheaply offset your risk in the option market.
> knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access

The CFAA requires knowingly exceeding authorized access or doing so intentionally. If, in fact, you don’t know access is unauthorized, you’re not liable for a CFAA violation. So you can go blissfully through life doing what you, in good faith, may reasonably guess the web site owner intends you to do. You don’t need the rules “deliniated” just like for any other kind of property.

However, there is what you say about what you knew, and what a jury may reasonably infer about what you knew. If you say you didn’t know accessing port 80 was unauthorized, the jury will probably buy it, because port 80 is expected to host publicly available web services. However, if you take a URL and start manually fiddling with numbers, and you see that it yields credit card information, the jury probably won’t believe you if you say you didn’t know that access was unauthorized.[1] Similarly if you access a resource, and the web site owner tells you not to do it, or bans your IP, now you know. CFAA prosecutions are almost invariably based on a scenario where it is abundantly clear that someone knew she wasn’t supposed to be doing what she was doing.

[1] But, say you’re accessing a page programatically and there is a bug in your code and you access some URL that yields credit card information, which you promptly delete because you are acting in good faith. There is no CFAA violation because you had neither knowledge or intent. And to my knowledge, nobody has been convicted of violating the CFAA in such a situation.
Is the primary value proposition of Augur (at least from a USA perspective) regulation evasion, and the ability to participate in betting markets at scale? Supposing the USA legalized betting markets, would Augur still have a value proposition over legal (but centralized) betting markets?
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It’s a lot simpler than this. Pad Thai is very sweet and Americans love sugar.
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My favorite is La Cité des Sciences, although it's not really a museum but more of an exhibition place for all things related to science.

Used to go there all the time as a kid, especially to read 2600 magazine in the library.
If only these glassboards had a "snapshot" button, that allowed me to save the image right into my git working tree ...

(phone camera is too much of a hassle)
It's possible to be a bad lecturer and use acetates. But physical constraints still act against it: they are bulky, you can't easily manage a lecture with 100 acetates, they have a tendency to slide onto the floor and make a jumbled mess, and they also cost money to make and take up physical space to store and move around.

While you can still abuse them, these factors limit how far you can take that abuse. PowerPoint knows no bounds.

I only used to print diagrams and figures onto acetates, leaving writing for the blackboard/whiteboard/blank acetates. You would use one or two for an entire session. I try to do the same with PowerPoint (well, Beamer), but some organisations increasingly mandate the whole thing be word for word on slides and stored in Blackboard for students to get. I find this wholly detrimental to the purpose of giving and attending a lecture, since it constrains the lecturer to this terrible presentation style.
It would be good if this were true, but this is just another shibboleth. Nothing done in the Large Hadron Collider is reproducible. Theoretically, yes. In practice, no. Only the LHC itself can run those experiments again, and there's always other new things to do.

Ultimately, one major factor is the credentials of the experimenters. We may not like it, but some of the major experiments done today do boil down to "proof by authority".
Venezuelan bolivar – what can it buy you?
> I would never trust an Uber backed autonomous car system.

I agree, and it makes me wonder how this is going to shake out. In the automotive industry it's very common to have the tier 1s provide LOTS of tech to the OEMs, but it's typically isn't branded. Interiors, infotainment, brakes, etc. It feels like self-driving subsystems will be the same thing.

So, I might not trust Uber-branded systems, but I might trust Apple or Microsoft (Just to use some common brands as placeholders). Would we trust those systems more than the OEM-branded systems?
Technically the HP division for oscilloscopes and ee equipment still lives on via Siglent/Agilent/whatever name they're calling it now.

Does anybody know why their test instruments division was spun off in the 90's? Was it to cut down on bureaucracy, or to "reinvent" the company for the digital age, or something else?
The Pompidou Centre (Centre Georges Pompidou) [1]. It's technically not a single museum, but several, including the largest museum for modern art in Europe (Musée National d'Art Moderne) and IRCAM, which is about music and acoustic research.

If you're into modern art and/or architecture, it's a must-see. The center itself is a beautiful mess of industrial design, and they have everything ranging from modern paintings to furniture to contemporary sculptures to technological inventions.

Two of the current exhibitions are an installation by Ryoji Ikeda [2], which is one of the most superb audiovisual pieces I've seen (you sit in a completely dark room and watch a huge projection) and Coder Le Monde [3], a history of generative art (digital 2D and 3D, as well as physical), computer graphics and visualization. Both are fantastic.

The nearby Palais de Tokyo is also fun, as is the Museum of Modern Art, which is next door to it.

Everyone mentions the Louvre, but it is incredibly crowded and touristy, and the 90% of the paintings are portraits of 19th century nobility. The gardens surrounding the Louvre are much enjoyable than the inside, in my (possibly unpopular) opinion.

[1] https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en

[2] https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/agenda/event.action?param....

[3] https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/agenda/event.action?param....
I've had good experiences with committing <some-plaintext-config-file> with git-crypt.
I think you're missing the (subtle) point that is trying to be made.

I can go to google.com or HN because I type the URL into a browser and the page is displayed -- I didn't need to go through an approval process or present a security token or anything else to gain access.

Now, what if I type in a URL into my browser that happens to look like company.com/users/12345/purchases and it displays a page of information. Did I "circumvent" anything in this case? Did I "exceed" my authorized access? If so, what is the fundamental difference between accessing google.com and this hypothetical URL?
I use Down For Everyone Or Just Me a lot, it is a great little purposeful site :)
Machine learning seems especially prone to attracting "aggregators" - resources whose sole purpose is to enthusiastically collect, promote and/or promulgate other resources for learning about the subject (or one of its sub-disciplines). I think we're starting to get at least one of these a week.

That observation aside, this isn't the first time this has been submitted by the author. That's not a problem in of itself, but I'd like to repeat part of my original critique [1] of this website when it was submitted a few months ago.

The author is pretty transparent about the way in which these resources are collected - they're automatically scraped from GitHub. I don't think that's intrinsically bad, but it does mean that due diligence is somewhat lacking. For example, consider the "model" page for Chess Reinforcement Learning: https://modelzoo.co/model/chess-reinforcement-learning. That lists the README for the corresponding GitHub repository [2] verbatim. But the README specifically states that work on the model has been discontinued in favor of a new, better model's repository [3]. Additionally, the authors mention that they had difficulty with some of the implementation related to Self-Play.

Now I feel a philosophical point is in order. Ostensibly, an aggregator for resources should helpfully do all or most of the heavy lifting in 1) finding the resources, 2) vetting their completeness as advertised, and 3) maintaining up to date references for the resources it lists. There was no way to distinguish the limitations or obsolescence of the aforementioned model in first looking at it. Rather I had to open the page, click "Get Model" and read through the GitHub README on my own. I see substantially little difference between this activity and simply searching GitHub, considering that every single model I can find is listed on GitHub.

This is not to say that this project is bad, I just don't think it's particularly useful in its current form. I understand that's harsh feedback. But in my opinion the author would need to perform far more due diligence on the included models, the implementation artifacts of included models, the people implementing the models themselves and the methodology for model inclusion. As it stands this is presently a collection of models which are in varying states of completeness, developed by people who may or may not be authors of the papers they're implementing (or even have much implementation experience at all), and with varying levels of "out of the box" utility.

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17311346

2. https://github.com/Zeta36/chess-alpha-zero

3. https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess
Isn't it sulfur-laden oil, of no interest in the market unless there's a demand shortage? And in the current market, there's slumped demand, so they can't give it away.

Also, renovation of the Venezuelan infrastructure was paid for but not accomplished (graft/corruption). So they're in a hole for efficient production?

Finally, food production: they divided up farms and gave small holdings to the workers, who unfortunately had not the education, equipment nor capital to run them. So food supplies tanked, resulting in foreign exchange being used principally to import food.

All this added up to, a total fail of the regime to pay for their socialist experiment? Never mind games with imaginary points (currency valuation). The country can't feed itself nor make its own food nor trade its resources for food. They're in a big hole.
But how to share these man pages and how to search for man pages written by others?

I can share my man pages with git/github, but nobody will notice them, nobody will fix my spelling errors or contribute additional information.

Is there something like wiki, but for man pages?
Prime and Prejudice: Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions [pdf]
You forgot tesla
You're preaching to the choir. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that wanting to do this stuff isn't enough.

Case in point, current opposition leadership would do all this in a heartbeat but between center-leaning members and a very Conservative press, they'll always be portrayed as Nazi-sympathising Communists.

Brexit hasn't helped this either.
The biggest advantage of PV energy is that it is almost scale agnostic - a single panel on top of somebody's rooftop is as efficient as one installed in a gigawatt scale plant. This is something no other commercial power source has.

Rather than giving lump sum subsidies, a nation can make much much more by just ironing out feed in rules, and making sure the grid can accommodate that. It takes around 6-8k usd (5kw setup) to make an average Asian single family house energy neutral during summer using Chinese panels (basically we talk about 1 aircon and a fridge).

Now just compare payout periods of such setups.

Now, the last moment that can't be overstated, but almost always forgotten: the economic effects of feed-in tariff gets greatly negated when there is no real time pricing. See, in Asia aircon usage peaks proportionally to insolation, and so is the PV electricity production.
Yes, if it's the horizontal scroll you're talking about, I'm aware of that and already working on improving it =)
Haha that is brilliantly painful to read.
So wait a sec, do you open the door to anyone without checking who is it?
I could buy that devaluation via inflation is coming, and maybe even that the government prefer it, but I’m skeptical that they have the ability to actually do that. Rather it’s more like the fed pushes its buttons and prays.
Based on your perspective, what can the company do to either prevent hitting the iceberg, or minimizing the iceberg damage as much as possible?
My state's power companies all run solar and wind installations, and are incredibly heavily regulated, and all charge extra if you want power from them. Without a doubt wind and solar cost more in my southern state than Nat-Gas. Solar is a complete waste as other providers require contracts to stay available to pick up the slack on cloudy days, and that price is directly accountable against the solar energy making it far less competitive.