skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barely. Modern parking meters, there's one per side of the street, folks walk up and down to retrieve receipts. That model isn't going to work with power cables.

And parking meters don't even exist in most of Brooklyn and Queens (or even a huge amount of Manhattan). That's a massive amount of infrastructure.

(Don't interpret this as an anti-electric-car argument, I just personally think it's better and maybe more likely that personally-owned-cars in general are what fade from NYC)
SEEKING WORK | San Francisco | Remote possible

Just finished adding a React Native / Firebase project to the App and Play Stores, and seeking out another web/app development project. My strength is understanding startup /business needs and building robust and usable full-stack applications. In my consulting company (acclimate.io), we also have data science / ML / machine vision talent to round out our capabilities. Would prefer to work in-person in the SF area – please reach out! awilson@acclimate.io
Well, it isn't "figured out the world over". Hospital births are not the norm, generally and even in some developed countries.

It isn't even desirable that hospital births should be the norm. Besides the financial cost, directly to the consumer or spread out via higher taxes, there are reasons to prefer non-hospital births. Disease is one. Being able to calmly rest with the comforts of home is another.
Will the individual be cap subject if they stay more than 1 year abroad ?
Hey Peter,
How much does number of citations to patent(s) matter? If it does, do they look at total number of citations for all patents combined? How many citations are considered 'good'?
Thank you!
I think it's one of the reasons boiler-plate terms-of-service documents have so many restrictions how you may use a service. For example my ISP doesn't allow me to post any hate speech related content while using their internet service. Unlikely to impossible they check all users, but gives them the loophole to deny service to anybody indidually, possibly using a small unrelated technicality as stated reason, should they find out.

Random ShowHN of a website that's not even a month old https://exifshot.com/terms "We have the right (though not the obligation) to, in Our sole discretion (i) [...] or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Our sole discretion. We will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid."

Our SaaS discussed the same. We had political parties we didn't agree with, government agencies we didn't agree with (spying, tracking), even individuals. So far none made it past the trial period, they effectively never really used our service. We would deny service, we're small (and pride?) enough to stand for our ideals.

I agree with your assessment you might get sued when it comes to religious discrimination.
Reminds me of the SUSY bets.
> That was an extreme example, I agree, not one of the best, just wanted to point out that using gasoline/diesel for vehicle transportation is a lot more failure-resistant compared to a power network.

It really isn't. It all depends on which kind of disaster we are talking about. In many cases you can't get a tanker where you need to, you have to rely on whatever fuel stockpiles you have. If you have a fuel stockpile, guess what you do? You run a generator. Generator produces electricity, you charge from that. Not ideal, but it's an emergency anyway. This is disregarding other forms of local generation, such as solar.

> And you said nothing about my point about the entire continent of Africa

The entire continent of africa is bigger than the areas of the United States, India, China and some of Europe combined. I can't meaningfully comment on that large an area. Some places have cities and electricity just fine. Some do not. The places that do not, I have some difficulty accepting that they will also have easy and cheap access to fuel. But assuming it is a problem, then fine. They will take longer to switch.

> last thing you want to hear after your house has been blown out by an earthquake or a tsunami is that the first responders can't get to you and your family because the power network is down so that they cannot move their vehicles

This is such an enormous strawman! Have you EVER seen an electric fire truck? I haven't(let alone made by VW). But assume there are electric first responders only. You know one thing electric vehicles don't care? It's where their electricity come from.

Let's take an example from hospitals. In emergency situations, what do they do? They can't be without power during a surgery. So they have battery banks, backed up by a generator. I guess first responders would do similarly. And guess what, many already have power generators. Even AAA has generator trucks to rescue EVs.

If you have electricity you use that(even with no fuel). If you have fuel, you use that – and you can also use electricity. How convenient.
I would strongly suggest that you use the `a` flag rather than `j`, to automatically select file type.
HN really needs to copy markdown for lists starting with * or 1,2,3,4 etc
In 20 years you could go full solar electric for such trips. If your talking serious off roading, add solar panels to the roof, and a trailer with even more.

On roads we currently can do 3021 km	averaging 81.2 km/h 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. : https://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/event-information/route_.... For past times https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge

PS: You convert a model 3 to Solar electric + battery and get ~30 miles of range for free every day. That’s very significant in most disaster situations, and much better than gas in a post apocalyptic world.
The best resource I've found are Udacity's Jupyter notebooks: https://github.com/udacity/deep-learning-v2-pytorch. Start with intro-to-pytorch.
This read like a joke until the end.

So this is just some random anecdote that has literally zero details in it? I don't know what I'm supposed to take away from this, can someone help?
Not a lawyer, Never heard of that, sounds borderline ridiculous. Most likely it happened, but you're most likely to die on the plane back. It's all in your head. Go and have fun.
Genetic data and cognitively defined late-onset Alzheimer’s disease subgroups
The rate at which battery prices are dropping and self-driving technology is being developed, VW plan about combustion engines is right.

Here is the most probable scenario by 2025:

2022 : electric self-driving on-demand FLEET car 1000 miles/month subscription for $350/months from Google, Uber, Lyft

2025: same car 1000 miles/month subscription for $250/month. Individual car ownership will reduce by at least 35% from 2018 ownership levels in developed countries.

by 2023, Google will supply Self-driving OS software to all FLEETs (except China Didi which develops it's own) and discontinue their own fleet running business.

GM, Toyota, VW, Renault forced to run own FLEETS to stay in business like Uber, DiDi
this reminds me common sight of foreigner with local Chinese girlfriend/wife and sellers in markets blaming her for helping foreigner

so much for possibility of integration into Chinese society as foreigner, no matter how good it's your Chinese or culture knowledge you will never be accepted
Your intuition is strongly assuming transitivity: "A beats B handily and B beats C handily, therefore this is clear evidence that A beats C handily". I already gave an example where this is not true, and I don't know why you're still doubling down on the same wrong intuition.

> DeepMind didn't find any when training in different ways

Intransitivity may not occur within AG versions but could occur when compared to humans. You need very different types of strategies for intransitivity to occur.

> Are they supposed to run a tournament just to show that a massive improvement that crushes all previous versions can still beat puny humans?

I think so, yes. We do this with Chess. Why should Go be different?

Deepmind is aware of this problem. See gwern's links if you are interested.
Could this be the source of dark energy and lead to the realization that the universe is a black hole interior?
Is it possible that the soil is also depleted of interesting nutrients and that the fertilizer isn't providing them either?

Our understanding of what micronutrients humans need is not great. For plants, it may be even less understood.
Trailing whitespace also makes jumping to the end of a line or moving back over a newline not take you where you expect, which is annoying when it breaks your flow.

It's only ever a mild nuisance (in that scenario or for diffs), but the fact that it's trivial to automate seems to make it a no-brainer to me.
Most software is just reacting to inputs, yes, and AI algorithms are no different there. But one should recognise the inherent reductionism in any such statements claiming that that's all AI is.

Even if/when we do have AGI, it will still, arguably, just be software (plus hardware) that is reacting to inputs — such a definition helps nobody in this instance.

What about these things:

- Speech recognition
- Facial detection/recognition
- Fingerprint recognition
- Personal agents (Siri/Alexa/etc)
- Self-driving cars
- Recommendation engines
- Route planning
- Spam detection

All of these things have either improved significantly thanks to AI, or would not exist without AI (that is: many of these algorithms are in fact categorised as being AI). Of course, as others also point out: once it's been solved, most folk don't categorise it as AI any longer, it's merely "just another algorithm".

Furthermore, some manufacturers are now including dedicated hardware-acceleration for some of these algorithms, in mobile devices (e.g. Apple's A11 and A12).

Granted, yes, many recent advances are "nothing other than pattern matching or machine learning" but that's a very wide brush you are weilding. One day even AGI may be classed as "nothing other than machine learning".

No, we don't yet have AGI. But yes: AI is really a thing, and it's here now, hype or not.

[TBH, I'm uncertain if you're trolling or not, but hey]
This one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1383363
How can a language itself be low latency? "Less CPU" than what? The whole page is full of nothing but nonsensical hype, I was half expecting it to say "blockchain" shortly after "paradigm shift".

Also, if it's GPU based (shaders?), that's going to increase latency not decrease it, as anyone who understands bus transfers and that GPUs are optimised for throughput not latency will know.
I understand what you are saying but I have a feeling you react that way because you weren't there and you are reading this disconnected after a lot of time. The fawning does not happen without merit, definitely will not sustain itself over time if its not deserved.

Similar to you thought, to me the most egregious thing is to see startups in san francisco that do something small and things similar to serving mobile ads using the phrase "changing the world" and recruiters trying to project the founder as some kind of visionary. Sure he started the company and its still a small one, lets not get carried away.
do you see any changes coming to EB5 program? Apart from delays which are potential downsides? Thanks!
Having a beer or two occasionally won’t kill you. But making it a working routine, even with such a small quantity that won’t even make you drunk, will definitely have some impact in your health in the long-term.
Integration of React and Webpack and Rails
To be clear, I think what China is doing in Xinjiang is terrible. My issue is that the American news outlets do everything they can to paint a picture that the Chinese are genocidal maniacs. The media would never treat the actions of a single abusive prison guard as the will the American government, but they do for China. The media never implied that the war on terror was modern day genocide, but they're doing that with China.
Just because they do other user tracking, doesn't mean I want DoH to add to the list.
Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
I’m very, very interested in working at a company where I can use Clojure, after five months of playing with it in my spare time and loving it. But your website does not list remote work as an option, despite your listing here, and moving to Toronto is not viable for me. Should I apply anyway?
It’s not about the planet, it never was the planet will be here until the sun inflates and even that might not be enough to “kill it”.

This is about humans and our ability to survive as a civilization yet alone as a species.

Climate change poses no risk to the planet or even life as we know it in general (as while there will be an extinction event, life will persist), however it poses an existential risk to our civilization.
I see HN doesn't do lists very well / at all? Hmm.
I did the same thing to grind levels in Runescape and I look back with regret, getting <4 hours of sleep during an important developmental stage in my life.

My parents didn't even suspect that I'd do such a thing. But they could've trivially stopped it. If they knew I was doing it, they would've removed the computer from the game room. Luckily for my kids, I know how addicting gaming can be unlike my parents did back then.

I don't really know what you're trying to say. Kids have almost zero resources. If they have an internet-connected device they can use 24/7, it's because you got them one and you let them.

Kids do have more disposable time than parents do, but that's also why kids are so good at creatively filling the void when they can't just turn on their dopamine machine. When I was bored at my grandma's house without electronics, that's when I learned to draw, a hobby I've taken into my 30s.
> That is an explicit statement that the legality of abortion necessarily implies the ethical acceptability of abortion.

No, it isn't. Read carefully: If aborting a fetus for no particular reason (as in "general legalized abortion") is ethically defensible, then...

> It's an ethical defense of the legality of a thing that does not depend on the ethical acceptability of the thing itself.

That's a fair point. Nevertheless, I would maintain that many pro-choicers would consider abortion itself ethically defensible, regardless of the implications of its legality or lack thereof.

> One can defend...

I find this sentence unreadable. Since you are not keen on defending the ethics of abortion, but rather the ethics of the legality of abortion, it's probably moot anyway.
wasn't the original folly hashmap exactly that?
Same for https://usefathom.com/ (listed in their privacy policy).
Apples and oranges. If you needed a comprehensive client accessible CMS then how did you replicate that side of things in Node etc?

If you didn't need a CMS then I'm not sure why you were using Drupal/Wordpress in the first place. The only reason I can think to use them is if you want to hand off content editing to a non-developer.
> That said there are enclaves within some companies of teams that are 90% one ethnicity be it Chinese, Indian, Eastern European or Israeli.

But the most common scenario (90% white US-born male) isn’t as weird?
it's much easier than highlighting whole area including nearby countries since most of the countries don't have blocky shape and if you end up highlighting whole country you must highlight also unnecessary areas behind border

you must be really fanboy if you need to have explained how it's choosing package of country/region data superior to highlighting some area

you also forgot to answer how it's offline navigation working in these great Google maps
Inside the MSI file format (2003)
Dune I has one the best soundtrack for the adlib card

https://youtu.be/FjHon6yg-r8
Methotrexate Tri-Glial Dysregulation: Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment
Location: San Francisco!

Remote: Possible

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Front-end (React, React Native, UI/UX, Firebase) and data science (Python, R, advanced data analytics, ML models, financial modeling)

Résumé/CV: https://www.andwilson.com/about

Email: awilson@acclimate.io

Industrial engineering -> boutique strategy consulting -> software engineering for a startup -> data science freelancing -> full-stack ML app consulting (acclimate.io). Being in the Bay Area, I want to work with intelligent people, bringing ML models into production and/or creating engaging front-end experiences. Open to contracting, part-time, and full-time opportunities. Really excited to join a passionate team to contribute meaningfully to their vision.
HN seems pretty notorious to me for hating VW while being largely oblivious to the actions of others.
I think there's some interesting lessons to be learned from the criticisms here, specifically how not to roll out functionality changes. But fundamentally the author wasn't saying "Canvas Sucks", as in his headline. He's saying "Canvas was fine until they replaced something with untested beta crap"
Agreed it’s sales 101 help the customer write RFP.
ML noob hobbyist here. Would you use PyTorch for models not involving deep neural networks too or is it just good for that. Say if I use linear models (like least squares etc) or use custom algorithms (integer linear programming, optimization, or something else...) but need very fast linear algebra support is PyTorch a good lib? I'm a C kinda guy so I usually use blas, lapack etc or numpy+pandas+sklearn in python. Would PyTorch give a "complete" enough feel or would I just use it only for nn and use other libraries for other things?
You forgot Apple, since they are secretly working on their own car too - I heard ;)
What does FLEET stand for?
Sure, but that's nationalism, not racism. Wanting one's own country to be the best (at everything, or at least the most popular sport) is a pretty common view that doesn't necessarily require seeing the other countries' inhabitants as genetically inferior. As a historical example, the Sputnik shock and ensuing space race can be seen as an expression of the American expectation that the Soviet Union's dominance in space exploration was an unnatural occurrence that the US was destined and entitled to rectify.
For what it's worth, I attended an event where Murdoch spoke a couple years ago [0][1]. Despite the interviewer's best efforts, he actually seemed a bit extreme to the other direction in refusing to say a negative thing about China. To paraphrase what I remember, "I've visited plenty of Chinese startups, there is real innovation," and "I don't think China is a military threat."

0: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/young-leaders-circl...

1: I have zero affiliation with the above organization -- stumbling into the event was purely right-place-right-time circumstance.
And I certainly hope you're joking.

I also don't personally want to read a terms of service, let alone hire a lawyer to tell me it's consequences for every HTTP request, before it gets shoved down my throat one-sidedly in the form "if you're using this site you agree everything our legal department wrote which gives us the right to trample your rights however we like using all the legal loopholes out there, and sometimes even beyond, and hey we'll also be forcing US laws on you even if you're in a totally independent country while ignoring your hard-earned rights protected by your country's laws", but it's somehow the standard practice.

That kind attitude is a serious double standard going on for years, favoring corporations and companies over the rights of individuals. So forgive me when I find it very hard to sympathize with anything you said.
Doing it and proving it. Show me the meat (natural or artificial). Show me the ecological budget -- inputs and outputs. Solve the replication crisis in food science. Show me that the proposed diet is sustainable, i.e., that people can actually bring themselves to eat that way on a continual basis.

Disclosure: I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat relatively little meat.
NPM Announces 2019 Predictions for JavaScript
Over a decade ago, I used the GPL derivative, wxMaxima, to breeze through my HS Algebra 2 online course.

It's written in Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL), which is also cool.
“Most websites (...) do not change their behavior”.

That is: fuck off. In plain English.

But is is for your benefit. Really.
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (77 Years Ago Today)
Your comment sums up what a lot of the comments here state.

> The motivated people were just motivated and didn't require any task management and the disengaged people were too disengaged and uncurious to find it a useful resource.

What makes it so hard to target the plurality of the middle, I wonder?
Probably on the same lines of the sibling comments, but here's my 2 cents. (I'm the design lead at software company, strong fronted dev background)

I believe that design should never be a creative process — when it is it means you are improvising — and that's simply disrespectful of the users. Well, you can have some sparks of creativeness (which usually is just an insight finally coming together from different datapoints now connected) but the process that brings you there is analytical, cynical, cold and methodical.

Explore the domain, document possibilities, group approaches and make comparisons.

To answer OP's question: the problem is usually time. If you spend 2 weeks developing a feature, why would you think 2 hours are enough to design it?

It would be like that Futurama episode where Fry writes a tv series episode script in hours and he's surprised that it lasts only 10 minutes.
Polkit privilege escalation for users with larger UIDs
The only drawback against EVs in a Mad Max world is that they are very technologically advanced. And require modern manufacturing techniques to keep running, mostly due to batteries. If it is a disaster spanning shorter time scales (years rather than decades), then I would expect EVs to keep driving as fuel shortages cripple the fleet.

> PS: You convert a model 3 to Solar electric + battery and get ~30 miles of range for free every day

Do you have more details? Last time I made a back of the napkin calculation its area wasn't enough for more than a couple of miles a day (assuming 4 miles per KWh).
Two things about Norway:

- They have huge amounts of hydro so very cheap (and non-intermittent) domestic electricity

- They taxed ICE's to the point that a Tesla hit price-parity with an ICE

#2 is more interesting. Battery costs account for most of an EV's price premium today -- something like 30-40% of an EV cost is in the batteries. You look at the learning curves of battery production though and EV's are expected to hit price-parity with ICE's around 2023-2025.

When that happens, expect an EV avalanche similar to what you see now in Norway.
Curious...do you have a link to that?
Machine learning for optimization of super-resolution microscopy
Except this message is largely ignored by everyone, Joker. I like the idea of not being tracked. Realistically without any legal weight behind it it was bound to be a no-op. It's comparable to fragile markings on packages to shippers.