skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own a foodservice establishment. Labor is absolutely our biggest expenditure immediately after rent. Additionally, that "endless supply of cheap labor" still needs to be reliable enough and able to actually show up, plus costs in hiring and training and all of that sort of thing. This isn't coming from some webshit programmer, this is what I see every day.
Zymergen lands $400m from SoftBank for its genetically altered microbes
>People will do really stupid things like drive through deep puddles or over uneven ground because they essentially trust the car to do what it does under normal conditions.

Or because it makes an otherwise mundane task entertaining.
> If you put $250,000 in an SIPC-protected brokerage account, that account holds both cash and securities

So I won't buy any securities, just use it as a checking account, keeping the cash sitting there earning the 3% interest.

I wonder if there is a rule of Robinhood which prevents me doing this.
https://www.raisin.com/
The author mentions a 56 year old coal fire in Pennsylvania for some reason. It's not the most extreme example he could have reached for. The New Straitsville mine fire in Ohio has been burning for 134 years, and is still slowly spreading.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/New_Straitsville_Mine_Fi...
Public and private class fields
Who is the turnip, in your analogy?
Energy/power efficiency might be a more relevant concern than mere size - OOO execution is fast but energy intensive, for a given workload. (Granted, the latest process nodes might be a tad different, with "size" also impacting power consumption directly due to leakage currents. This stuff can get a bit complicated.)
You are framing it as an exercise in foreseen likelihoods and the pill falling on red rather than black in 2008, but there are many counterexamples that say that is not the whole story. Read the Black Swan, or watch Margin Call, for example.
Hopefully, they've already added some fine print, or will shortly. I've seen other banks be successful with this high interest strategy but every one of them requires 12-20 debit transactions per month in order to receive the high rate.

If Robinhood allows users to simply park their money, they could be in for a world of hurt.
They may expect it - but I could see plenty of savvy investors using at as a short term cash deposit, hell I would (if I was in the USA) its 2x what I get in the UK

Cant see this lasting long
Great stuff. Would it kill this site to allow for even just the tiniest bit of context for why a 22 year old article is being posted? Also it looks like fmwconcepts.com has come up on Hacker News a few times for Fred's ImageMagick scripts. But has anyone found the code to do the perspective transformation discussed here?
Does it matter where you go to college?
I started roasting coffee years ago and something I learned early on is that, although dark roasted coffee has less caffeine, the difference between light and dark is practically negligible. Most people just interpret coffee being bold (as in, dark roast) as being strong, but in reality it's entirely flavor and not the caffeine content.
It's not even "converting" the electricity into a coin because the amount of energy burned has no relationship to the amount of transactions processed or "coins" generated.
This is Bitcoin et al but without the Ponzi structure. So speculators would be unlikely to buy it over Bitcoin, and without those what would be the source of activity?
It is good for the city! Those long lasting buildings are where affordable housing is found, it is where artists studios thrive, where community spaces are built.

Cities need buildings that are durable, long lasting, and that have depreciated in value!
And then the Spanish Flu killed even more people than WW1 in 1918/1919.
What a terrible headline. In this case "the same" refers not to the "beauty contest" but to locating offices in an already well-established city. Garbage clickbait.
There is a great paper describing very simple OoO risc cpu with nice diagrams and a walk through a few execution cycles - https://ece.umd.edu/~blj/RiSC/RiSC-oo.1.pdf
This.

The difference between individual human watchers doing surveillance, face recognition, etc. and at-scale watchers doing the same thing is key.

The difference is no less than the old corner stores every few blocks vs Amazon's automated warehouses & shipping.

An ordinary drive with a bit of speeding here and there everyday goes from perhaps a ticket or two every decade, to 6 tickets every trip.

A meaningless wrong turn, I'm lost, let's look around and try to figure out where I am, turns from a non-event to a Suspicious Activity Report...

Just because the laws are word-for-word unchanged, the scaling of enforcement technology transforms the identical laws into a completely different society and experience (just as other scaling technology transforms our experience in a positive way).

This phenomena, as unintended consequences ("just trying to make the neighborhood safer...", but scaled 10^7), is perhaps as dangerous as Bostrom's AI warnings.
Reminds me of here in Bristol. The amount of people I know in caravans and tents in cities here in the UK is fucking depressing. Nearly all of them have jobs.
I believe Japanese hojicha is also often caffeine free or light.
Nothing on twitter carries any implicit trust. Certainly not a checkmark or even the professional standing of the individual. You might as well evaluate the truthiness of 4chan posts.
New Bitcoin app boasts lowest fees – CoinBits
There is a poster here somewhere who maintains that because animals don't have a language, they cannot think; presumably extrapolating from noticing that they themselves think in words (edit: found it - "Animals don't think, because thinking requires language...").

From what I can tell in the animal research game, it's like AI; every so often someone posits some qualitative property that only humans do as the difference twixt animals and humans, and then an observer sees that qualitative behaviour in an animal (or sometime has seen it years or decades before).

Frans de Waal's books on this are very readable. The big ones of previous years - empathy, planning, tool-using and so on - all fall pretty easily.
The value of these types of tests has been called into question long before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSbvjq1nm4

The above video had a tremendous effect on how I view intelligence and creativity. Seeing pigeons "talking" and solving problems really puts in perspective the power of the context/environment.

That is why I think we already have the algorithms for AGI.(i.e. reinforcement learning is probably all you need)
We just don't have the processing and/or the right context for it to develop. But I also think the result will have all the downsides of animals/humans. That is, it will be as hard to get the desired behavior from an AI as it is to get it out of an animal/human because the predicting the behavior out of the cost function+environment will remain extremely hard. In fact you can see this mentioned in the video. Getting the right repertoire even for seemingly "simple" behaviors is hard.
That statement only sounds weird because getting a raise without changing jobs is becoming a rarity these days.

"If no one will hire you at salary large enough to meet your expenses in $City then you can't afford to live in $City."

My skills aren't valuable enough for me to live in say, Manhatten, but I don't think that's outrageous or anything.
I don't know where you're located, but in the US, interest rates used to be much higher. So yes, you got great rates on savings accounts, but you also paid 8%+ on your mortgage.
Construction-Tech Shop Procore Triples Valuation to $3B with New $75M Round
That puts an upper bound on the value but no lower bound.
It's not discontinued, it's actively maintained (last updated 5 Nov 2018): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.read...
Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
[Initially] probably only those without other means of payment. You can convert electricity + computing power into a currency (and compared to btc you don't need to join a pool to have a realistic chance at receiving the tokens).
Is there any plan to make this compile to cuda? I can't imagine bothering with DNNs on an intel cpu in virtually any situation, even if it is 3x faster this way.
Same as FDIC which only protects depositor if the bank fails. I guess with a bank there's less risk of loss of principle.
I don't think they're a negative, either. Build, build, build!
GDPR really should only apply to companies beyond a certain size. Or at least, the requirements for small companies should be less stringent.
Only if you trust the owner of the signing key.
Maybe not really click on all the ads though. Some of them can be shady as hell, or they open a new site with even more ads, and you'll never be done! Clicking on ads opened by other ads, I find that the "deeper" you, the worse it gets. By which I mean my personal feeling of: How likely whatever's being offered is a scam, but also how they are messing with my browser, pop-unders and other weird behaviour.

And most of the time I have uBlock enabled. I'm not entirely sure if messing with the tracking system actually weighs up against having to browse without uBlock.
I wanted to use Yakuake but it's for KDE and didn't want to install a complete DE just to use its dropdown terminal. Guake is a fairly good alternative, but I'm having an issue with it that it somehow makes title bars and top menus unclickable, which forces me to terminate it every now and then start it again.
Does this have the roasted barley taste? It's great to cold brew this type in the summer. So refreshing.

In the winter we go with Rooiboos. South African friends introduced me to it, including dipping the rusks!
Most things people don't have experience with are much more complicated than they imagine. It is a valuable concept to keep in mind.
> Romania is probably the only country in EU that is moving back

Hahahahahahaha. Sincerely, a Brit.
Chrome Prototype of Social Cartography
Going vegan is also easy, so many amazing recipe books and blogs, off the shelf goods, restaurants.
Yep, but there's no lower bound on bitcoin's price either...
I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but could their motive for this launch is to get in before Monzo launches in the states (source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliversmith/2018/10/31/with-a-f...)

Monzo has blown up in the UK, and I know their team is growing at a crazy rate. While they aren't profitable yet, they plan to sell financial services through their marketplace (insurance, mortgages etc.) which seems to be a major source of potential income for them (source: https://monzo.com/blog/2017/11/16/monzo-marketplace/)
…and much higher social insurance taxes.
There is no “the flavor” of tea, though. There are hundreds of different flavor profiles in the oolong category alone (depending on the mountain, weather, season, tea tree, insect presence, etc.), to say nothing of the vast differences between red, yellow, white, Japanese green, Chinese green, pu’er, and other broader types. Loose-leaf tea can be incredibly flavorful from the leaves alone, though of course the preparation technique matters a lot too.
Not the punishment, but to make the analogy more precise: society's "interest" in individual murders does decrease proportionally with its own size.

In a village, a murder is the talk of town. In a city, we don't even know.

So, yes; GPs point, while cold and calculating in the way only actuaries can sometimes be, was a fair point nonetheless.
Let me add a couple thoughts:

1. You typically won't get very far without also implementing register renaming, such that the reorder buffer is actually much larger than the register file.

2. You need to distinguish between instructions that are "complete" (result is available for internal bypass to another instruction that is being speculatively executed) versus "retired" (all instructions before it have retired, the instruction can no longer raise an exception, you know for certain that it was not executed because of incorrect speculation). Canonical, architecturally visible state is only written on retirement.

3. Without good branch prediction, it is kind of pointless. A reasonable rule-of-thumb-Kentucky-windage estimate is that 20-25% of the instructions that you encounter in execution order (not static code analysis) are branches. So if you have 30 or more instructions active in the pipe, your branch prediction needs to be pretty good or you waste too much work. (Note that some branches are just "flakey" (hard to predict) but the compiler can usually do a decent job of identifying those ahead of time. Thus, modern processors include a conditional-move instruction which allows the compiler to manage speculation and replace the flakey branch with an instruction that does not pollute the branch target buffer.

4. Watching what happens in the simulator at the end of a pointer chasing loop is good humor. A strongly predicted branch gets mispredicted on: while(p!=NULL) {}, and all sorts of page-fault, memory-exception, arithmetic-exception logic lights up all over the place until something asserts "OOPS_NEVER_MIND", at which point all that fun stuff collapses in a smoldering heap. Watching that never gets old.
> If this is true, it means Agile has no definition, it’s a vacuous term.

No, it's just the definition is not in the space you (and to be fair, lots of other people) seem to want it to be in.

> If “Agile” == whatever works, then Agile’s not a thing, it cannot differentiate between what works and what doesn’t, and it can’t predict in advance what will work.

“Whatever works” is definitely a thing; however, the kind of thing it is, as you note, is not a tool for predicting what will work.

“Agile”, though, while not that kidnd of tool, is not exactly “whatever works”, either (and here I'm talking about the Manifesto; it's worth noting that the Manifesto, the Agile community, and the concrete methods labeled as “Agile” are not precisely in alignment); it is a critique of (accusation against? hypothesis about?) the status quo at the time it was written attributing its disappointing performance in finding what works to three errors:

(1) Failing to recognize that what works, at the level development practices were generally recommended, is not a universal across software development, but a function of the particular members of the team and their relations, which not only vary between efforts, but vary over time within one effort.

(2) Prioritizing written artifacts of the development process more than is justified by their utility to software development.

(3) Preference for arms-length negotiation and implementation to collaborative involvement of the customer with the development effort.
we also have service jobs in my medium sized Mid-Atlantic city where you can rent a studio for $600. no one is "forcing" waiters to commute two hours into one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Wiley Clapp: This Colt Python Business
Wikipedia. I wrote a series of items which were plain hard work, mostly owing to attitudes of other wikipedia editors. I saved some back, posted on my own site and made a good source of ad revenue over the past 10 years or so.
It is a glass bead game. D-Wave is a LARP.

FWIIW I use annealing all the time in non-gradient optimization problems. My X220 thinkpad from 2012 is faster than d-wave's thing.

The only interesting quantum computer is one which achieves actual quantum supremacy. There's a really obvious reason why this will never happen (well really obvious to me). It's the same reason you can't solve NP-hard problems using soap bubbles.
But I suppose getting banned doesn't mean they stop serving you ads, right? It's more like a shadow-ban in that sense. There's still a win in that they'll have to invalidate a whole trail of tracking data about you.
privacy has nothing to do with it as all trades are reported anyway.
They had some sweet deals I was making just under £20 a month on cash back plus a good (for the time) interest rate.

But the half baked eu ruling on merchant fees screwed savvy investors and the banks found another way to charge merchants.
When I first moved to Chicago years ago the amount of one way streets and intersecting one way streets on the northwest side made for a lot of turning around, stopping, passing the same block multiple times, pulling over to the side of a road to stare at my spotty-coverage GPS and figure out how to get back to the main two way thoroughfare. Especially while apartment hunting.

I jokingly wonder how many people I freaked out on nextdoor
Show HN: Weekly reports that list all key changes to competitors' web sites
A Virus Can Eavesdrop on Bacterial Communication
My gut feeling tells me that introducing hooks is going to end badly.

If there's no patently obvious advantage but you have to rely either on convention or an additional pool of knowledge then most junior (or generally less skilled) developers cannot be trusted to use the given thing properly.

I've seen this happen with observables - sure you can do a lot of new stuff with them but they are only clearly more useful than say promises in a handful of cases.

Thid trend of producing tools which are powerful in the hands of the best but hard to use for beginners worries me. In the long run this makes development more expensive, not less.
As a mortgage payer with no residual income "interests rates are fantastic in the UK right now", any reason I'm wrong it that framing?
I really, really like these new startups in this space: I super admire Robinhood and N26. I use them both and have nothing but good things to say about my time with them. I’d love to work for either of them too
> I wonder, does this make reusing teabags a good idea, as well?

For green tea and Oolong, I don't see why that should not work. I have not seen Oolong in bags, though, and green tea in bags is fairly rare in Germany. But it should work, for all I can tell.
In 1912, people were quite innocent, so this was seen as a big event

Huh?

40 million people died in The Great War, which just ended. And there were world events which killed people on a much larger scale than the Titanic before that.

It's a very modern and naïve viewpoint to think people of years past were "innocent," as if tragedy and large-scale loss of life is somehow a new invention.
A HAProxy statistics collection program
We've been working on something like this for the past couple of months and we'll be launching in early/mid January![0] We've got experience working on large scale fuzzing infrastructure (Chrome fuzzing team, Coinbase fuzzing), and have modelled it similarly to Google's oss-fuzz[1], but for private projects and clouds.

We're always looking for companies and security researchers that want to fuzz but don't have the time/knowledge on how to do so (we automate a lot of the set up process and integrate nicely into your GitHub workflow) - drop me a line if you're interested - andrei@fuzzbuzz.io

[0] - https://fuzzbuzz.io

[1] - https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz
Most liberal places are hell holes ? I mean Marin County is 80% Democrats is one of the best places to live in the world. In fact the entire coast of US from San Diego all the way to Washington is all blue. What about huge cities like LA and NYC ? Are they hell holes too ? I don't really need to point out what areas of the US are true dystopian, with no jobs, declining life spans, opiod epidemics, and so forth.

Also, urban areas will have blight. That is true for any country in the world. But what makes the US unique is the historical context of slavery, reconstruction, segregation, white flight, incarceration etc. It's like 400 years of history and baggage.
Ask HN: Still Any Tesla Doubters?
I sometimes casually count the Model 3's I pass on my 40 minute morning commute. Three months ago, I'd see 6-10. Today, 25.

No, they were not on transport trucks, nor broken down at the side of the road, nor leaving a trail of parts falling off.

Yes, this is in Silicon Valley.

For sure, much hard work ahead, but it seems to me that Tesla has broken through to become a viable auto manufacturer.

Are we convinced?
The reasons for this are because they are the only places offering adequate services for low income families so people migrate to these areas. They become overburdened because most cities are not pulling their own weight. It sucks but it's better than being elsewhere for them. This only works with a collaborative effort from all over the US, not just a handful of progressive cities doing all the work while people stand in the sidelines criticizing it for not working.
Small companies can and do abuse personal data just as well.

I'll never forget how some period tracking app that my partner was using was updated with much more invasive privacy policy terms. It was take it or leave it, no way to use the app any more except by clicking the accept button.

It was a small European start up that did this.

So yes, GDPR applies to all sizes of companies.
This is a great question and I have thought a bunch about it and the only conclusion I could make is that they dont care enough. This kind of news does not affect Adobe's stock price or their profits. Their users probably mostly don't care. So why bother paying $$$ for security engineers.
There’s a lot to unpack here, but you seem to misunderstand why election polls are reported, and reported more frequently the closer it gets to Election Day.

Tracking polls aren’t for informing some secret cabal, or even to inform. It’s the horse race. It sells papers. But there’s nothing biased about “Is the country on the right track, or the wrong track?”
Same from France.
I’m not talking about Bitcoin, just addressing your description of this scheme as a “stable coin.”
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the author or simply not fully grasping the concept of "design science"[0], but it seems as if they are simply trying to reclassify engineering with a term that sounds more "science-y".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science#cite_note-cross...
Building bridges to bring the global supply chain to life for space missions
That would be exploited SO FAST!

Embed my 1-person company's widget. I will collect everything and send it to big boys.

Same way as you funnel money through a shell corp to avoid taxes.
Could it possibly it have more to do with other correlated demographic attributes of those states, such as education level or age or quality of life, rather than the "blueness" or "redness" itself?
It’s marketed as a 1:1 equivalent for the regulated hard currency. It may be doing a bad job at that, but it’s essentially a bearer security for U.S. dollars. This case law has been long decided in respect of far cleverer schemes.
Being lost is not suspicious activity.

Feeding false positives to law enforcement causes them not to work what is important or to redirect resources to filtering reports.
Same from UK
I don’t know, some Asian cities (e.g. Jakarta) seem worse. At least in SF middle class people walk on the streets and don’t live behind electric fences either.
1.4 is about the best easy access cash ISA at the moment -BTW for non UK types you don't pay interest on any income in an ISA.
You might be thinking of roasted buckwheat tea? Also excellent!
All the big banks and Visa and MasterCard sell your transaction data to marketers.
That's a great video but it rushes through the process, and that K-37 is a complex beast. My favorite video along these lines is
this detailed step-by-step narration of how to fire up a small 0-4-0T:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLRSkRioRA

Pretty much everything in Keith Rucker's Vintage Machinery channel is interesting.