skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes me think they must be recycling old POS systems from gasoline pumps -- the ones where you twiddle your thumbs, waiting for the display to update.

And, any kind of real QA should have / would have caught this. Anything simulating a real user.

Leaving me with no confidence whatsoever in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of this system. This problem leaves no room for benefit of the doubt.
The best thing I have done to keep the buckets and remember stuff:

- I write everything down that comes to my mind, immediately

- I keep a Trello board with 5-6 lists, 1 for work, 1 for private stuff, 1 for side-projects, 1 for books I’m planing to read. Only rule: it has to fit on a screen

- when working, I try to move away from the laptop as often as I can, I print things out and read them offline, make notes etc.
I haven't seen much evidence the shorts have committed a wrong.
Sounds right, and details easily searchable. Can't be bothered as I moved to Linux full-time after the turn of the century.
Discussion on r/ML from six months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8d72cu/d_p...

One humorous point was someone complaining about the acronym GAN in ML because it sounds offensive in Chinese (Mandarin), see https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/12354/why-%E5%B9...
I commend you for paying. Seriously. People usually vote with their mouths, not their dollars.

With that said, tech capitalism is hard! Even if you pay, as you mention, you might still end up being left in a lurch.

I don't know what the solution is unless you build everything yourself, which is untenable, or ensure that providers you use are easy from when necessary.
No, I'm with CydeWeys, it's not entitled we're just glad we don't work for you! :)

Just because your customers don't come from these countries, doesn't mean your vendors (and source code for important infrastructure) won't. Doesn't this seem a little bit even possibly xenophobic?

I understand you'll make exceptions in cases where the use is legitimate, and I don't know how large your organization is, but I would be worried that there are going to be missed opportunities because they're not going to come to me, if I was in your shoes.

They're just going to say "oh well," then move on and use something inferior that comes from inside of the bubble.
Alternatively, protest by voting by mail and convincing everyone you know to do so.
That is actually a really good point. At the end of the day there are many, many kernels out there and only Linux, BSD, and NT scale from all the way at the bottom to all the way at the top. I actually even recall my scepticism when MS announced Windows for IoT platforms (not that this scepticism has abated, though).
I think that could feed the output of the GAN into yet another network that assesses the quality of the generated image and automatically tweak the parameters a bit until it doesn't look like an alien.

In fact, that network is probably already part of the original GAN training phase.
This is good. We don't have a choice. I was absolutely convinced 5 years ago that we must actively take carbon out of the atmosphere and ocean if we are to have any chance as a species. We have to add methane to the list now.

The time for talk and arguments has passed. Its time for action, and lots if it, or we are doomed.
It's a great option but has the same problem (to smaller degree) as electronic voting machines, that the process is not entirely observable by the public.
I hope you're not suggesting that your ability to observe poll workers means that paper ballot elections can't be rigged.
Do you know of some data that relationships within companies (and in particular where one person has power over the other) are significantly more abusive than the average?

That's what it would take for me to reconsider my belief that relationships within companies are not to be regulated by policies.

My experience is that there is a) no significant difference and b) that sexual predators won't be stopped by a policy (but it makes it easier to remove them).

I actually have difficulties why we have to discuss relationships and sexual misconduct in the same thread.
Bridging the Gap Between Tools for Learning and for Doing Statistics [pdf]
A couple of lawyers and Bob’s your uncle.
If you haven't seen an Asteroids cabinet in action, I suggest you find one at an arcade museum near you. Actual Asteroids is quite different from any port or emulation of it. The slow-decay phosphor leaves visible trails for your ship and shots, and the machine has control over electron-beam intensity in a way that raster units do not, which means that your shots and enemy saucers glitter in the dark, creating a "spacey" atmosphere that's hard to replicate on a raster display.
In that talk though, he discusses the impossible task of introducing new course electives/mandatory courses to public middle or high schools, how the school board and teachers will simply drop the rigor if it's a mandatory course making it yet another useless class or how students will never end up taking it as an elective as their elective timeslots fill with remedial assistance courses.

You are right though I wish there was a course that taught set theory and complexity in HS. Anybody interested in learning both at the same time, there are intro discrete math books that also teach intro programming https://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/ but not in the full CS101 coverage of SICP.
The proposal document seems to be quite good.
This happens to Scottish stuff all the time. When something or someone from Scotland becomes internationally notable for something good, suddenly it's "British". If it's for something bad, though, it'll stay Scottish.
Postgres.

Currently, our mean response time for the route with the most throughput is 16ms. Its to measure exactly how much of that time is being spent in the database, but the main query takes about ~6ms.
I am genuinely interested, would you mind explaining why the rules are different? Should they be different?
What should Musk argue in his defense then? "My engineers are too modest about their abilities, so I took their estimations and multiplied them by 1,000, because I truly believed they could do it?"
anytime makes the claim of hundreds of times faster with XYZ, the first implementation is almost always exceedingly naiive or done with the wrong tool.

EDIT: and now that I have read the article, my dataset has grown by 1 in the "true" column
I definitely notice it's a bit slower to load new pages of emails, never noticed any laggy scrolling though.
How so? Ballots are cast in public, collected in public, and counted in public (not the case with mail-in or electronic voting). Anyone can participate and request any poll worker be removed.

Of course voter intimidation is a threat, but that doesn't have anything to do with the process of casting and counting ballots.
There are still a lot of people out there who don’t understand that there are computing environments outside of Microsoft Windows. Not as many as there were in the 1990’s, but still quite a few.
Incredible.

Did you actually watch the video?

The P20 Pro does exactly what this new night mode does, albeit did it months ago. It does image stacking (which is not a new approach). In direct comparison testing -- in that video -- it yields better results.

This whole discussion has just been an bizarre.
I greatly appreciate articles like this because i vaguely know topology and vaguely know how to make a dress but when explained like this i understand both in much greater detail than before. I think it's because the stuff that doesn't make sense from one domain makes sense when explained in the other and it makes for a better understanding.
Yay! I'll be there, we deserve this :)
1) I agree that there are certain instances, especially in startup-land, where we have to bet the company. Lord knows I've had to do it with the company I'm a part of. That said, I don't think that this was one of those moments.

2) I've worked intimately with both buy and sell side clients, so I have pretty good first-hand knowledge of analysts on "the street". I can confirm to you that they are as irrational and misinformed as much of the general public. Bringing attention to themselves and their firms plays a big role in what they say/do. I agree that there has been a ton of irrational work done on Tesla, but I think that a reduction in target prices to reflect the company's financial state was reasonable.

3) I think we both just see this very differently.

I agree on Mulally, that would be great. Thanks for the detailed responses and thoughtful back-and-forth.
I'm probably going to be spending November watching Kurosawa and Ishiro Honda movies.
Know how I managed to stop my kids playing Fortnite? I let them play 'proper' games. So now they want to play Halo or Zelda BOTW instead, they knew about Fortnite because all the kids talk about it but the actual gameplay isn't that original, the graphics are cute and cartoony to appeal to kids but kids will still appreciate a good game. They love the cutscenes so they can follow the story and the understand that there is a story arc I have also been explaining how although the game is free Fortnite makes money, and how a game like Halo is paid for in comparison.
$432 000 painting by AI sold at Christie's-My thoughts
Yes but only certain areas of downtown, mostly in the NE (where there are TWO underground levels) and along Wacker to Congress.
In practice, most people don't expect binary files to diff or merge. It's more about how mergeable groups of files or commits are. I've seen a few tools that diff certain image formats, which can be helpful, but I don't think this is all that different than what Git does with text.

I agree that the bigger issue is workflow. Often after setting them up I get asked for a checkout/locking model because that's easier to police and gives you a clear straight-line history (anyone who has used it is also aware of the downsides). Git's permissive system where you can make changes, but then you have to resolve them before committing shifts around the problem. This seems to be more of a problem for them? Maybe because they're more medium-sized and have more of a flat hierarchy?

I was going to bring up Unreal Engine. It has had Perforce integration for awhile and Git integration has been in beta (I wouldnt be surprised if that has changed in the last few years). It abstracts everything into the engine UI (so no things like branching). It performed way worse. Their docs have a lot more caveats.

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Unreal_Project_Git_Workflow_(T...
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Git_source_control_(Tutorial)

To be fair, I don't see indie studios bothering with Perforce, either.
Yeah, that seems to be the older understanding. We've now got two studies pointing to the role of beta amyloid as being substantially tied to tangling either herpes virus particles specifically or potentially pathogens in the brain more generally.

Linked previously but I'll link again:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26836158 dated 22 Feb 2016

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30526-9 dated 11 Jul 2018

These seem to reference Alzheimer's only in passing or potentially in relation to the infectious theory, but they specifically speak to the action of Beta Amyloid.
The problem with "guess they don't want jobs" argument is that Google is not like Ford Motor Company. When they move into your town and your rents double you can't just be retrained. When a company that requires special skills moves in they kick people that do not have those skills out.
If you know you’re writing software that is directly used to violate basic human rights why wouldn’t you be?

Does doing it because you’re told to remove your complicity? (Hint: Nuremberg trials found plenty of guards at concentration camps guilty).

To you question on janitors, you’re right - there is clearly a point where there should be a cut off - does a person empty trash cans have they same culpability (or any) as the engineer who is writing software designed to support mass incarceration on the basis of race or religion?

I would argue no - much like I would argue that if an engineer making software to identify terrorists would not be. But once that engineer discovers “terrorist” now just means “Muslim” or what have you, then continued work would mean culpability.
I want to upvote this because it made me laugh... and then I realized that it's shit like this that made me flee reddit(98% of the comments being snarky jokes).
It is. I run Github Enterprise (their on-premise version that comes in a Debian VM) and ES re-indexing has caused a few problems.
Phaedrus would be happy to learn of this.
Always make new mistakes :-)
It might not make it impossible but it sure makes them harder to rig at scale.
From 2015 till now, and this your 3rd comment ever...

Seems like there is a interesting story hidden somewhere here. Care to share?

Or is this just one of many alts?

EDIT: Not trying to start anything, not sure why this line of questioning is freaking everybody out. I am just generally curious how a account is this old and what drives somebody to comment so infrequently. Like really, this is the one topic in 3 years somebody commented on - it might be interesting to hear why.

You look at other accounts and they comment on just about anything ever. So I am just wondering what about this topic has driven somebody to comment.

Also, there is no way to send a PM to anybody so...
Aliens who reject the real numbers
Yeah, if anything I think Fortnite does a good job of avoiding gambling and preserving the integrity of free-to-play.

Loot crates, which are basically slot machines, don't exist. You buy what you see, a skin.

They make a lot of money from skins but once again, there's no in-game advantage. It's purely cosmetic so at the end of the day even if you don't give Epic a dime you're still on a level playing field with everyone else.
Why do you go back?
Actually, it will take someone actually compromising an election in a way that is unassailably and unquestionably broken. At that point the elected officials (who presumably have succeeded under the existing broken voting system) will rise up to fix the problem based on scientific evidence and their understanding of statistics.

Thankfully we can be sure that our votes have not been compromised in the past and there are no actors in the system who might benefit from avoiding looking into possible compromises.

Oh wait..
I've seen the effects of teenagers + phones in US high schools first hand. Simply put, kids are distracted and overstimulated. The always connected nature of the phone ensures that critical planning skills will never be learned. Never being bored (and the decimation of shop classes) has sapped the creative impulse from far too many of them.

Contrary to what may be popular belief, many administrations set no guidelines around phone use in classrooms, leaving it to teachers to fight the never-ending battle. The lecture becomes hard or boring, and out come the phones.

Getting a kid anything more than a feature phone is pretty much daring the poor thing to walk tightrope across a canyon without a safety net.

The parents quoted in the article talking about how preschool kids with phones are no big deal need to spend some time in a typical high school classroom.
Criticizing Phoenix for being the Rails of the Elixir ecosystem is particularly ironic given Phoenix's creation and design was heavily motivated by incorporating the lessons from Rails' successes and failures.
>“The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error — usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering,”

This is a problem with the machine and the people who made it, not the people using it. "User error" is usually an poor excuse for lazy and/or bad design.
> "in heavy media multitaskers because they have a higher probability of experiencing lapses of attention. When demands are low, they underperform. But, when the task demands are high, such as when the working memory tasks are harder, there’s no difference between the heavy and light media multitaskers.

I'm surprised no one brought this up. This seems to indicate that it's possible that multitasking only effects tasks that aren't very important or hard, and that they have no trouble concentrating on tasks which require involvement. Seems to be an argument here that heavy multitasking isn't nearly as bad as the rest of the article makes out?
See my reply - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18309062
Hack a federal election, publish a write-up. Enjoy your mandatory taxpayer funded retirement.

Nothing will change until something scares people enough to make them take action.
> and there is also a limit to the number of shareholders before you are required to go public.

You're never forced to go public, but you will be required to disclose financial data to the public if you have more than 1,999 individual shareholders and assets with a value that is greater than or equal to 10 million dollars.
The point is, though, it costs the same amount of money if you take one chance at winning or a hundred. A monthly recurring fee makes the devs optimize for lasting engagement, not impulsive choices. Sure, lasting engagement may be created by having mechanics that make the player feel guilty about not playing regularly but it's not the same sort of incentive as a slot machine.
Wall Street quant bros thought they had analytical models for prices that were based on reasonable math and science. Turns out, their models vastly under-estimated the probability of a big crash. Apparently there was even a big hegdge fund based on these ideas, Long-term Capital Management, which went bust in the late 1990's, but still the "consensus" ignored it and moved on.

N.N. Taleb writes about some of this in "The Black Swan", which I'm sure most readers here already know about. I would also recommend Benoit Mandelbrot's (yes, that Mandelbrot's) "The Misbehavior of Markets". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665134.The_Mis_Behavior_...
This sounds exactly like our "growth" team.
Windows is one of the most versatile and flexible operating systems out there, running on a variety of machine architectures and available in multiple SKUs.

Linux, BSD, Darwin... You support a dozen architectures? How adorable. condescendingly pats head
Uhoh, they're still proposing to remove features. This is a terrible idea and crippled both the Perl and Python transitions. If you remove a feature and it doesn't compile existing programs, it's a new language. The automated backwards compatibility proposed might help, although it's not clear if you can mix files and libraries from different versions of the language?
Sea of Thieves - $59.99 on console

Fortnite - F2P, so different enough business model that you have to take that into account

Hitman - $59.99 on console

GTA - $59.99 on console

Assassin's Creed - $59.99 on console

Nascar Heat 3 - $49.99 on console

Are you still going to pretend that you don't see the difference here?
What are the most adopted blockchain apps for consumers? The only one I can think of is BAT/Brave with 5 million MAU.
> They sold it based on having a 60 kWh capacity which it does.

The thing is, it was their decision to give a battery capable of 75 kWh, not mine. And it's OK that they have software to limit it to 60 kWh. But it's not OK (obviously in my opinion) for them to prevent me from modifying the software to bump it up to 75kWh. I bought the car, I should be able to do what I like to it.

I actually don't really even have a problem with them including some sort of DRMish thing to prevent me from changing the software, but it shouldn't be illegal for me to try to circumvent it. Again, I bought the car, it's mine now, I should be able to do what I like with it.

I understand that Tesla didn't make the IP laws. What bothers me is that they use those laws in this manner.
If the process for confirming your vote can change your vote the machine is fundamentally broken and should be removed from service.

The end.

The state should also be refunded the full cost of a redo in every district.
How does the stamp work to send it back? Is it free?
Really opens your eyes to how careful a company(with shares) must be with anything said, if projections call for criminal probe.
This is a serious flaw with New York City.
>You can either fear the future and hence never enjoy what's good today. Or you can forget the future and actually enjoy the present.

A better choice would be to enjoy what's good today while making contingencies for when things go south in the future.
There's a big difference between handing over documents voluntarily to a government request and being forced to by subpoena though.

I'm curious on the exact wording the original article had.
> The point I am trying to make is executives always exaggerate

This statement is ridiculous and has zero basis in fact.

If the majority of executives around the world were lying on a constant basis businesses would never be able to function. Companies would be constantly under threat of law suit or government investigation and they would never stand up to independent audits. The board would be untenable and internally it would be pure chaos.

Also marketing claims that companies make are often very much real they just don't apply broadly and you should ignore them accordingly.
I have no idea if there is any legal precedent for requiring resell value on a prize, but these "rare drops" definitely do constitute prizes on a human level. And they by definition DO economic value (even if you can't resell them) because people pay money specifically for a chance to win them.
> bug-free and readable code and do it pragmatically

Erlang has historically been a bad choice for this, and there's been a lot of effort (dialyzer, records, maps etc) to make it better.

Dynamically typed languages are, in my experience, not worth the cost of maintenance and readability. In Elixir and Erlang it's possible to create function signatures that tell you almost nothing about the shape of the data you expect to pass in. This makes it really hard to collaborate at scale. Various attempts to enforce dialyzer use are usually met with 'we need to move faster' or 'we'll add them later'.

So if you want to write bug-free readable code, I think Rust is a much better choice. It's statically typed, and the addition of traits and lifetimes tell you so much about how a function or type will behave, and there's no need to sync specs or docs. The code doesn't lie.
the original article said ex-employees had received subpoena, not tesla.
No, you buy the stamp to mail it in, or you can drop it off at various collection sites (e.g. library).
There is something nice about a person voting in a place with enforced privacy. Families filling out their ballots together on the kitchen table may be fine for most, but for others the boxes they check would be different in a private polling booth. These people are disenfranchised in with mail-in ballots.
So you think fusion reactors will be too expansive and hard to extract energy from to be economically competitive with coal?
Then why are people investing huge amounts of money in it?
`input` isn't READ, it's READ-LINE. READ reads one Lisp form, even if it's more than one line, and even if there are more than one on one line.

Python's `eval` also isn't sufficient here. For example, you cannot enter that loop you wrote at the prompt it provides when you run it, even if you write it on one line. You could use `exec`, but then everything would print as `None`.

There's the larger point about forms vs strings and printing readably and such, but this doesn't even provide the same basic functionality that a Python programmer would expect from a REPL.
> At that point the elected officials (who presumably have succeeded under the existing broken voting system) will rise up to fix the problem based on scientific evidence and their understanding of statistics.

What motivation do they have to fix a system that put them in office in the first place? (hint: none, there is no motivation)