skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Captricity turns these images into machine-readable text through what its website calls a “groundbreaking collaboration between humans and computers.”

> Captricity administers this kind of work through Mechanical Turk, an Amazon-owned online labor marketplace.

Ah yes, "groundbreaking collaboration between humans and computers", which in this case actually means "pay a human below minimum wage to type numbers on a keyboard".

Gotta love corporate marketing speak. The only thing that would make this even more ridiculous is if Captricity claimed they were using the mystical "machine learning" too. Hmm, let's check their website. [1]

>Captricity then uses sophisticated machine learning to package up these fields (we call them “shreds”) into quickly identifiable packets.

...lol

1: https://support.captricity.com/blog/captricitys-secret-weapo...
> it's important to negotiate it when arranging employment

I'm going to guess that a very small portion of WFMs employees have the ability to successfully negotiate their employment terms
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Geeze this conclusion seems rather counter intuitive, a much smaller human population's pre-modern agriculture had enough of an impact on climate so much as to prevent an ice age?
Seems like they’re having so many problems lately. It’s too bad.
> I'm delivering what is expected

Your friend is a tool.
and keeping legacy and unsafe code what's considered?
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But are the results stored in the blockchain?
And their Chief People Officer, is not coming back from her leave.

From the outside it looks like Telsa is about going to go into a tough winter like moment.

They are almost losing by winning. They are at capacity in their Fremont factory but still not making a profit.

They need to start designing and building out manufacturing facilities for their next car and the help bolster Model X manufacturing.

Stop and think for a second that Tesla is one earthquake away from no longer being a company.

- They are cash flow negative,

- they have about a year of cash runway left( optimistically)

You can't just collect insurance money and build a new factory like you can with a house, this is a many year project.

Tesla can't afford to not build cars for multiple years.

Forget the SEC investigation hanging over their head. From what I read, they are likely to get a large fine and a strong talking to.

And the most worrying thing for them is that their next car will compete head on with Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and GM. That will be the first time they've had to compete head on with a competitor.
Sure but we have bitmap displays now. There’s no reason our tools can’t take advantage and adapt to the times.
> We’re all equal, so write software accordingly!

This is a good point. Any node in a robust network (healthy society) has the capacity to lead should a current lead node fail or simply have exhausted it's alloted time in the leadership position (e.g. for fair-sharing of energy or maintenance resources). This network simply needs to be structured to support a dynamic shift in power. However, even distributed systems typically use some degree of heirarchy to improve efficiency (1). Just look at the Borg Queen herself (2).

So, you probably will always need some term to refer to the striations in nodal roles, even if those roles are very temporarily assigned (i.e. the mobility of nodes accross those striations is fluid).

FWIW, I don't find "master/slave" any more or less offensive than "Little/Big Endian".

1. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...

2. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Borg_Queen
Hi HN!

We’ve put together a simple interface and system to capture and deliver Postgres events to webhooks.

Key features:
- Event capture is atomic and reliable
- event delivery has configurable retry logic
- events are instrumented with unique ids, and logs contain info important for observing e2e latency and so on
- retry any event delivery, especially to make dev/debugging easier
Why not just look at all the other places that have already brought this up and adopt one of those?
Funny enough, in the last couple of days I've been wondering whether you could use computer vision in combination with sports betting to generate more accurate odds given the current state of the game.

Of course the problem with that is getting up to the second video feeds (as apposed to delayed video feeds from SKY etc) from a fixed view point. I'm sure you could pay some money to get essentially a security camera feed at the game but that would be expensive.

Which made me wonder whether someone could turn up the night before a big game, park a drone on the roof broadcasting the video to a van with the computers processing the results while evading detection...
>It's a tough sell telling parts of the country that swapped the first black president for man with a less than stellar morality record that this is the best economy in history.

I don't really understand what you're saying, but Obama had a despicable morality record as well. Kill list, 7 wars, drone bombed American citizens with no due process, dropped 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone, tortured people including Chelsea Manning.
A while ago I considered reserving a model 3, but I eventually decided against it. Feel like I dodged a bullet, there.

There was a time where Tesla had a genuine advantage over the incumbents, but it never was enough of an advantage to overcome their lack of experience. That's only obvious in retrospect, I suppose.
I remember an "ask a conservative" thread on reddit a while ago. What I found remarkable was that a lot of discussions that were ostensibly about "small government" or "promotion of conservative values", when challanged by a few counter-questions, shifted pretty quickly to population control along the lines of "if the poor get too much welfare they'll just have more kids".

Admittedly, this was reddit, so apologies if I'm misrepresenting real-life conservatives here, but that thread got me thinking that a lot of the political discussion might, at the root, actually be about social darwinism.
There are many different games types that can benefit from procedural content.

I've lately been playing Dead Cells a lot, er too much.
It's a roguelike-metroidvania hybrid with a bit of Prince of Persia sprinkled atop.

All levels are procedural. Every time you die you start from level one again. But since it looks different every time, it doesn't bother one much or at all.

Curiously, there is no narrative or story line at all. The Indie studio behind it, Motion Twin, simply doesn't have the resources or budget for doing this 'properly'.

The typical approach is then to just use text -- just because you have to have a story.
But they opted not to even do that.

For me Dead Cells is a great example of on-the-fly procedural content done exactly right -- w/o any narrative.
The key thing with ICMP is for the love of Pete, don't drop valid ICMP type 3 (destination unreachable), specifically subtype 4 (fragmentation needed, but don't fragment set), because that breaks many real world connections on both IPv4 and IPv6.
I missed that completely, thank you!
There's no need for the majority to do something. Look at Google and military AI. A vocal minority with the implicit backing of the majority was quite effective.

Even if that's a very non clear cut issue. Now the DoD will contract someone else, and the resulting system will be probably worse, leading to loss of more human lives. (Though that could help with the lower utilization of these systems, which might help scale back military action. Or not...)
In Mexico with a Telcel pre-paid plan the max I can get is 5GB/month for 500 pesos (around $25 USD).

In India last year it was difficult as a foreigner to get Jio, so went with a couple of other providers (Airtel and Vodophone) -- not expensive at all, but coverage was dicey up in Rishikesh where I was staying.

France was the best wrt to price/data ratio, something like 20 Euros per month with Orange got me 40GB, that was really nice to have away from any big cities (Capbreton).
I found out that the author had a lot of free time (otherwise, how can you justify the learning/testing the platforms?). That is incredibly good for himself to learn all of them but seriously, why?
They don't have to :)

Seriously, you need to watch like a HD movie everyday to exhaust that kind of quota. Unless you are flush with money and entirely jobless, you won't exactly be spending hours of your time everyday doing this.

But cheap plans let you use things like Google Maps, Collaborate over WhatsApp, Send recieve/picture videos etc. That kind of stuff is important for productivity for an economy. Especially for everyday business people this works wonders.
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AMD's flagship is the $700 Vega 64 LC. NVIDIA's flagship 1080 Ti is $700 and their soon-to-launch 2080 Ti is $1000 or $1200 for the Founders Edition.
Tesla chief Elon Musk smokes marijuana on live web show
Are you certain that CPython doesn't compile to any of the SIMD parallel instructions available in e.g., AVX?

You mean concurrent.
Arbitrary deadlines rarely work. Psychologically they just encourage "student syndrome" where people feel like they can slack off until the deadline actually seems threatening. Then the deadline is missed. That is the nature of human psychology, not your particular employee.

Avery talks it about a bit here (read the section where "student syndrome" starts showing up): https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712#13

Ultimately, your job as a manager is to keep your team unstuck. People get fired all the time because their manager is bad at management, as it's certainly a supervisor's privilege to fire people they don't like. But always remember that your assessment "this guy is lazy and doesn't like the field" could be completely wrong and you're just bad at management.
If they are at capacity, why don’t they charge more money?
Agreed. The Map is a great start. If this content could be exported to another type of game such as Elder Scrolls Morrowind or Thief. Even OSS games like Battle for Wesnoth , 0 A.D., and SuperTuxKart would be interesting.
Non-amp URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/tesla-chi...

Better formatting, no hideously pixelated photos.
IMO, they should fire musk, slow down their blue-sky research projects, rip autopilot out of the cars, and just build "boring" luxury electric cars with huge profit margins and rake in cash.
It is actually - I've done quite a bit over the past two or three years and 6502 assembly is really nice to program - it's hard to explain, but the fact it only has three registers combined with a relative ton of storage space for variables means you're constantly doing this three-card Monte shuffle that is very satisfying.

It's also all eight bit, obviously, so you're also dealing with nice, human manageable numbers of 0 to 255.
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Ireland

EUR70 first year (100 after)
* 1000/100mbit fiber to home (live 20 miles outside small 3rd rate city, in middle of rural Ireland)
* Unlimited calls and texts (Ireland and UK) for home phone, and 20GB/month 4G data for bundled mobile sim (got phone separately previously)
* i didnt bother with tv bundled into this, freesat is free ,have netflix etc separately
They can't afford any capex on new factories though. They are extremely close to breaching covenants on their debt and personally can't understand why they are not raising equity money as their stock price, despite Musk's crazy antics, is holding up well.
> Low-tech users don’t often understand that a difference could possibly exist between “m.” and “www.” at all.

They should. Children probably have difficulty with '6' vs. '9,' but they need to learn in order to use our number system. Likewise, users of the Internet need to learn the domain name system. Could there be better name systems? Sure. There could be better number systems, too, but this is what we have for now.
Retail day trading is guerrilla warfare. It's not about beating the big guys.
Same comments for 6 years now. Bla bla bla
Why this subnet thing is even needed? I don't understand it. Why not provide just a single IP address? Seems like big waste of addresses.
(I'm the PM on Gmail for intelligence and filtering)

Based on Dan's research we built a new gmail feature: high priority notifications. It only sends you a push notification for really important messages, cuts out over 90% of Gmail notifications for most users. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mashable.com/2018/06/15/gmail-a...

Importance is defined by a model trained on reply rate and a few other engagement metrics.

Edit: High priority notifications is now available for both Android and iOS, contrary to what the link I included says
>They are almost losing by winning. They are at capacity in their Fremont factory but still not making a profit.

Source?

They are now at capacity and they are expected (by Tesla top management) to announce profitablity for this quarter. In other words, they were not a capacity last quarter and not profitable.

That's why with the record sales and production of this summer, Q3 earnings publication will be very interesting. But we won't know the actual result until end of October. By then, the shorts (with billions in backing) will do all their best to give the company an extremely bad look. Because if Tesla manage to turn a profit this Q3, they'll lose dozens of billions. It's now or never for them.
How Carnegie acquired that money is a different story. Look up the Robber Barons.
So the headline is that the CFO is resigning, yet there's a huge picture of the photogenic HR chief(?), who, as a side-story, is 'not returning'.

I feel manipulated. Also that this publication should be doing a bit more investigation and a bit less pontificating.
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If indeed ancient farmers (that were like 1/100 our population) already had "profoundly changed Earth's climate", so much for the "human activity couldn't be the reason for climate change today" argument...
Pattern matching doesn't require any kind of runtime support, and can be implemented through desugaring.
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People have a lot of "clever" diminutives for things they don't like for nebulous reasons they can't actually articulate.

It makes me question the thoughts of anyone who consistently uses them in an argument or rant. It feels as if the speaker is more interested in scoring laughs than making any point.
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>> the US is going to become once again more union-friendly in the coming years.

It sometimes surprises people that, as a Libertarian, I applaud workers attempts to unionize. It's really the only way for those who just want to put in an honest days work to combat continually living under a cloud of worry their job/benefits will not be taken from them and given to those with equal skills but who are more desperate to survive.

In a truly free market, individual workers should be allowed and, in some cases, encouraged to organized.
From what I've seen it's just that clients like Apollo cache already requested properties so there's less unnecessary fetching. Not that compelling IMO.
Could you be more specific? Which features would you like to see?
I don't think they should fire him, but he should most definately do the un-american thing: work a sane amount of hours and go on vacation every now and then.
> Reacting before “individual investors” and trying to read the news 5 minutes faster than them is not a sufficient edge to consistently beat the market. You have to react faster than the market moves, which means you have to move faster than hedge funds, banks, prop shops, mutual funds, etc. The market moves very fast, and it is dominated by very large sophisticated participants.

5 minutes is plenty of time, well shorter than most successful day traders who are trying to predict on 15 minute or hourly horizons, or swing traders trying to predict on daily horizons. There are plenty of trends that occur on the horizons of minutes, hours, days, even weeks.

> First of all, 5 minutes is a very long period of time in the world of high frequency trading, where machines are executing millions of trades every millisecond. Secondly, the same machines are equipped with AI algorithms for reading real-time news feeds, earnings releases, etc, and reacting very quickly on the news. Thirdly, the amount of money that the machines (and their owners) are trading with dwarfs any impact that individual investors would have on market prices.

This comment reads like a science fiction fan's made up ideas about how NASA works. You've taken snippets of vague ideas about the truth and mishmashed them into a frankenmonster that would never exist in reality.

* Millions of trades every millisecond is an exaggeration several orders of magnitude off from the real world volumes of HFT firms.

* HFT algorithms don't use AI. They wouldn't be able to react fast enough if they did. HFT algorithms in practice are rarely more complicated than linear regression.

* Those who use AI in their algorithms are doing so with incredibly varied levels of success. They are typically trading on horizons much longer than HFT firms. They are trading volumes orders of magnitude lower than HFT firms, even if those volumes are orders of magnitude higher than individual investors. From what I can tell, outside of text analysis of the potential sentiment generated by news, the finance industry is pretty pessimistic about AI.

* There are plenty of traders operating successfully across several time horizons. It is not necessary to be faster than HFT firms to be successful. Most day traders like me actually depend on the liquidity provided by HFT firms in order to be profitable; we couldn't do it without the deep books that they provide.

* Likewise, a lot of the predictability of how the market moves comes from the market effects of large actors: when you trade $100M in a day in a single direction, you move the market with you, and that creates a trend pattern that smaller traders can pick up on and take for a ride.
There is none.

OCaml is a kitchen sink of a language that has grown by accretion. I remember playing with it years ago, but today there are many more modern and better designed languages that cover the same ground, such as rust - and I'm not even a rust fanboy to say this.

Unless you're into historic languages for their own sake, I wouldn't waste my time. It would be like learning BASIC.
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Maybe that’s his backup plan if it doesn’t work out... use a BoringCo drill to “accidentally” trigger an earthquake, collect insurance money, funnel it all into SpaceX and launch himself to Mars.
Yep. CG-NAT puts all the power on your ISP.

You want VOIP, sorry your double nat'ed connection messes up about half the time, you better by telephone service with us instead.
But jio is also cheaper by a factor of 10-20. It is unbelievable pricing, they cannot be subsidizing it by 90%, and they probably don't have 90% margin initially, after including infrastructure costs.
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And the next article, when I kept scrolling, showed Musk smoking a joint and then holding a flamethrower!
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That we barely know enough about how our changes will affect the ecosystem at large, and can get feedback loops that get out of control.
I live in USA but I am of Indian origin. My parents' apartment in India now has Fiber Internet with 80Mbps at 1000INR (15USD)/month. On my recent travel (Aug 2018), I had Jio and was working remotely. It is so cheap to get Jio. I had 0 issues and I was praising the Internet situation in India for the first time in the last decade. Seriously, good changes in Internet situation.

The top challenges for me right now to move back there are 1. Rampant corruption in state government offices (especially with land registrations, legal heir certificates) 2. Extreme levels of sanitation/drainage issues even in metros 3. Personal indiscipline of the people. There is now some transparency because of digital transformation/e-governance. I think in a decade, (1) and (2) will be addressed. It will take miracles to fix (3). Jio pretty much stepped up the competition and other providers are fighting hard to give good speeds. I am happy about indirect benefits of technology.
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Same here. Very complex to implement, or you decide to use libraries that provide tremendous abstraction. And you still have to worry about query optimisation and n+1 problem. Not to mention if certain users can see certain fields!
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Their stock price has been highly volatile in the last year. It's "holding up," but only by the hairs on its teeth. They're hovering very close to their 52 week low when the rest of the market is having a banner year.
I'm not losing optimism because of this. Musk fits right into the current political & cultural trajectory and the Tesla brand is sleek & timeless. The media is framing Musk's flaws (Twitter insults, weed & booze) as a bad thing, but outside of the media, people do not care about such things nearly as much. It just requires a few years of optimization and the cars are going to be en par with established brands.
> yet there's a huge picture of the photogenic HR chief(?)

The photo was tiny in the original article. For some reason the AMP version has been posted, and it blows all the pictures up.
Programs written in ML dialects tend to have the astounding property that once they compile, they are correct. And this is only a slight exaggeration.

This property alone is worthwhile to learn one, if for nothing else then to be able to apply the same succesfull patterns in other languages.

I didn't know how to write proper strongly typed code until I learnt Ocaml - I had several years of experience in C++ and knew Java, but, they really don't go out of their way to expose the patterns that allow write the best code possible. With the lens of Ocaml under my belt I could better discern the shiny patterns that were buried all that ugly dirt of multiple inheritance and such bollocks.

Which ML language should you learn? Any of them is good as the next if it's for education - a modern tooling, support and community is a nice bonus.

ML languages in production nowadays include Ocaml, F# and, to some extent given it has so much isomorphism with its kin, Scala. Scala can be considered an ML dialect, although with the weirdest syntax of them all.

Unless you are quite certain Ocaml is the exact language you want to learn, F# is a good alternative.
People keep saying things like this, while France remains a technologically advanced society with nuclear powered 200mph trains, chip fabs, aerospace industries etc. Nominal GDP per capita has just overtaken the UK. It's not clear that it produces less work, just less presence in the office.
In part the midi thing on GeoCities was stimulated by the lack of any semblance of copyright controls. You saw a graphic, sound, etc., You stuck it on your own page.

Then framing grew big (putting other people's content inside your frames) and content ownership broke in to the web.
Gmail is all about user engagement. If you are sending mail that users are not reading or are reacting negatively to, you will eventually be blocked. Have you used the posmaster tools they make available for delivery insight?