skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conductor manages all aspects of the train other than its locomotion.

Oh, and they serve as the engineer's eyes when locomoving in reverse. :-)
that's what you have in the
desert, old retirees, meth
addicts, and hooligans.

Which one are you? :D
Have you taken a look at Hammerspoon?
The times of the Galaxy would be a fun read. Reading about the administrative shut down of corosaunt or Palpatines withdrawal from the Hoth system
UI Design: Look Back at 12 Top Interface Design Trends in 2018
Self-driving cars have killed at least 3 people this calendar year despite there being several millions fewer self-driving vehicles on the road. Scale up those proportionate rates, they would be killing far more than 10,000 people a year.

So at this point, self-driving cars still have quite a bit of work to go to prove that they are actually safer than a drunk driver, let alone a sober driver.
> cited the state board’s “history of overzealous enforcement actions.’’

Say what you want about the usual insanity of the law in Texas, but they handle lots of these overzealous professional state agencies in a healthy manner by means of the "Texas Sunset Commission": https://www.sunset.texas.gov. Basically, every few years state boards come up for review to see if their existence is worth it.

For example, a few years ago the state veterinary board was excoriated as part of the sunset review process when the board went after a leader in the animal No Kill movement. It's a good periodic check that these boards don't become the little fiefdoms that they so often turn into.
Generally speaking with those sorts of small indie programs you are paying for quality and convenience. Having to do "a little bit of hacking" and - especially - running an X server on macOS as your primary window system so that you can have some customizability doesn't exactly bring quality to my mind, but it might be me :-P

(of course for some the ability to be able to edit the source code of their window manager might be something they absolutely need, but they may just not be the target audience and... well, even then, you don't need the license to be open source, just the source code available and perhaps a license that allows sharing patches among people who already have the code)
Anything is easy once you know how to do it. :P
I'm surprised. I would have expected the exchange of money to bring this little scheme out of free speech and into regulate-able commerical activity. It's no secret that people are legally allowed to lie about their profession for personal gain.
Both perspectives need to coexist. Yes, human beings are partially products of their environment. But that environment includes the moral disapproval of others, and people do respond to internalized moral sentiments. Those moral sentiments can be undermined by too many excuses accepted or made on their behalf.

Some people are naturally more conscientious than others. Their moral burden is lighter. Life is unfair like that, but the answer isn’t to exonerate the rest of us from moral responsibility for managing our own affairs. On the contrary, those moral sentiments are most important for those who struggle with self-discipline.

Which is not to say that it’s wrong to try to organize society to give people a better chance at succeeding in their moral struggles. But at the end of it all, every man must carry his own cross.
We've got to lose the steam turbine and switch to an indirect Brayton cycle if there is any chance nuclear will be competitive with natural gas.

The bad economics of the nuclear steam turbine was what drove giantism, and in turn, non-constructability. Back then the competition was the better steam conditions in coal-fired plants, but now gas turbine power plants make coal burners unaffordable.
For those of us not in the know, what features offered by a bank would be considered "great" for startups, that isn't offered by a normal account at a large bank?
Maine allowed a special license for hygienists to do extra procedures, including cavity drilling (if a real dentist is in the building). It is going fine so far.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/02/04/independent-dental-hy...

However, getting the law changed to allow this has been fought tooth-and-nail, so to speak:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-unexpected-polit...

Like all licensed professionals, dentists are part of a cartel ("guild"). Some guilds are better than others for their members and/or consumers.
Another fix to build times is to use reliable fully incremental builds, such as implemented by e.g. Google Bazel. Bazel can also cache intermediate build artifacts to speed up the builds even further.
> One novel approach to rebalancing such costs would be to give the recipient of a credible-seeming threat license to attack the threatening party in proportion to the perceived severity of the threat. So people who credibly threaten others with murder, for example, would be making themselves a legally valid target for homicide.

not sure whether you're serious, but this actually seems like a decent idea. it would require some very well-written legislation to define "perceived severity", though. if someone threatens to kill you, specifically, and you can show that they know where you live, you shouldn't have to wait until they're in your house to do something about it.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794892
Actors call themselves doctors etc all the time without issue.

So, obviously the issue is more narrow than you’re suggesting. You can’t for example say you’re a doctor when doing so would also constitute fraud.
It's still possible to subdivide a broad field and allow less-skilled people to do individual parts.

For a cavity, I could see a DDS diagnosing it and also determining that their Certified Carries Tech can handle it on their own. They pass the work off and move to the next patient.

To keep things safe, require a dentist to be available if the need arises.
The point was that arguing the language "cannot be written" is sort of prima facie incorrect given that there are existing written forms already defined. So if you need one that is easier to use than what is already there, it's no harder, right?
There's an interesting discussion about the variety of smells which the article goes into, but there were also recurring smells across multiple epochs.

I've spent some time thinking about historical smells. My money says a huge hunk of history smelled like the back end of a horse.
What were your reasons?
I don't think it's fair to lump dentistry in with cosmetology. Performing surgery on someone's teeth and jaw can have lifelong implications if done incorrectly, and it's thus worth having real training and licensing. Even something as seemingly simple as drilling and filling cavities has all sorts of risks. We already have a much lower level of licensing than DDS for common procedures that can be done safely, i.e. dental hygienists. Actually drilling into the tooth is not one of those procedures.

Cosmetology, by contrast, is mostly aesthetic, and the risks that need managed are relatively simple ones, e.g. learning how not to cut or stab someone with scissors or razors, proper use of dying agents to avoid chemical burns, hygienic practices to prevent spread of lice and fungus, and other stuff like that. So long as you don't make those kinds of errors the worst you can do is leave someone looking not great.
The Apple store seems good for small apps because the “tax” pays for discovery/marketing, distribution, billing & payment, lends credibility to the application, etc. This is especially true for single purchases.

Recurring revenue is a much different proposition— even for small or first time apps. A player like netflix which handles it’s own marketing, payment and all other ancilliary services doesn’t need to anything the apple store is offering other than distribution. I would understand if apple took $1 or some one time download fee but to regularly claim 30% of Netflix revenue seems like a stretch. While I think apple could make the case that they signed up through iOS, i think it is equally fair for Netflix to disable this option.
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From what I heard from ios developers, the cost is a resounding "nothing"; any cancelled or fraudulent orders are simply taken out of Apple's monthly remittance to you. Details are usually wittheld for privacy reasons.

It may be great for consumers but it's been a constant headache for devs and publishers since the beginning of the App Store because it's very hard to work out the source of any shrinkage. Netflix is probably better positioned to pursue these cases but for a lot of indie devs the cost of investigation far outweights any benefit so they have to accept it as a part of the business cost on top of the 30% already charged by AAPL.
He should not use the word "justifiably" if he's merely explaining.
In Indonesia there is a word for this aggression (Gregetan). Is there a word for this type of aggression in english?
Was it a mistake for Apply to set the precedent that they will not take action against large tech firms that do this?

Regardless of what is a 'fair' fee, what happens when the handful of apps that generate the vast majority of revenue move their transactions away from the marketplace?

What is Apple/Google's next move?
guild ? you know that historically they where set up to restrict access
In that case why did they single out automated looms (which directly affected them) and why didn't they attack other factories too?
That is a significant factor. Houses are bigger than ever for less kids. The kids not sharing a bedroom each has a cellphone faster than a 1950 supercomputer. People take flights yearly.

For a few things a 1950 standard of living is literally illegal. Medical care - no NICUs. Seat belts, leaded gasoline, crumple zones.
In a world where the worst sort of racist dogmas proceed from exactly this sort of reasoning, and where natural selection is often made to stand in the place of God ("the fittest survive"), maybe we should.
As I responded to another commenter, this has been accomplished successfully in Maine:

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/02/04/independent-dental-hy...
> Jarlstrom, who holds a bachelors of science degree in engineering from Sweden, has repeatedly challenged Oregon’s timing of yellow traffic lights as too short.

> He was investigated by the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying for the “unlicensed practice of engineering,’’ after he sent his traffic light calculations to the state board, and identified himself as an engineer to local media and the “60 Minutes” TV news program, and in discussions with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.

Mats Jarlstrom was investigating traffic light policies and was fined $500 by the state for unlicensed engineering.
Wow, won't be surprised that Apple takes such hefty amount of money by essentially doing nothing. Now iOS's growth is slowing down, I see other big players follow the suit.
Context suggests people are justifiably upset, not that these specific actions where justified. Google is putting their community at risk without any form of compensation. Much like dumping toxic waste into public streams it’s public harm for private gain.

PS: Never trust a quote that’s that short, it’s been stripped of all meaning.
As far as I experience it, it's not the irresistible desire to jump by itself, but the idea of having an action at hand that would be the last action one would ever take--without having any recourse after it has been taken, and the fear that one might unconsciously or whimsically set into motion that action before being able to analyse it rationally.

It's the same fear as standing on a platform where a high-speed train passes by.

As I see it it's the fear of the small gap between realizing and rationalizing where there's a guarantee that the rationalization will not occur or be futile and irreversible.
> Generally speaking with those sorts of small indie programs you are paying for quality and convenience.

If I care about convenience, why wouldn't I just use the default WM?
Quality is also debatable. For a WM productivity is far more important than quality.
Continue to make money on selling hardware (Apple) and software licenses (Google), just less than they get now? There's no particular social good I can see that derives from the platform vendor getting a cut of customer activity. Historically, open systems have always been more successful than closed ones. It's no less true now than it was in the IBM vs. Unix days.
Neuralink – What Elon Musk Is Trying to Accomplish
2019 may be the year the 30% cut officially dies. All in the last few months:

- Epic Games refused to release Fortnite via the Play Store

- Valve lowered it's cut from 30% for major publishers to keep them from leaving

- Epic Games then announced a store with a 12% cut for PC and Android (the latter coming in 2019)

- Discord followed by announcing a 10% cut

- Netflix has pulled out of paying Apple's 30% cut

- There's a pending antitrust case against Apple's Store that has, on procedural grounds, already made it to the Supreme Court
Observing your web app – modern frontend web
It's usually advertised as "free" but they charge penalties for various things, and the parent comment is specifically talking about a fee for having a balance under some certain minimum.
Yes, it was surprising is all, I meant no offense.
> rezoned higher density areas would sell for way more per unit of space to condo building developers than as single family dwellings, so both home owners and buyers are disadvantaged by it

Sellers are disadvantaged by zoning. But it’s their neighbours who are the NIMBYs.
Wow thank you for this deeply personal comment
Hey there - I'm one of the cofounders of SharpestMinds. AMA!

EDIT: Also, I strongly concur with the fast.ai recommendation for deep learning, especially if you're starting from a background in software.
I was deeply disappointed. I need very rich algebraic structures, like hypergraphs and lattices, and no graph database seems to be up to the challenge.
> rage outbursts, screaming during work hours

I've been working as a software engineer at a big corp for four years, I've never even heard anybody shout, or anything that could be considered a rage outburst. Sometimes the volume goes up a little in meetings. I've heard of one or two people yelling through the grapevine, but I didn't personally observe it. In general, I don't think shouting has any place in a workplace. However, I also wouldn't fire somebody immediately for shouting once - a conversation with their manager and recommendation to take a few days off to unwind is a reasonable reaction to a single incident.

> Inappropriate emails

Can you be a bit more specific? My workplace sees a fair number of testy emails "X is totally fucking wrong" / "X totally shouldn't have been done without consulting me" but from experience, peoples perception of what an inappropriate email is varies widely.
Yeah I meant Ruby and Python for dynamic languages, and by debugger I mean the command-line Ruby byebug and Python pdb. Those plus logging/print statements have been all I've needed so far, never felt a need for a GUI debugger, but then I already live in Vim and Tmux. Never tried a command-line debugger for Node/JS, but the Chrome GUI debugger works well enough.
The Pineapple donation was almost exactly 1 year ago... hardly end-of-year and hardly "surprise"
The third sentence means it is standard practice to validate from only a single network perspective today.

I have heard we would not be the first CA to do multi-perspective validation, but as far as I know we would be the only CA of significant size doing it. I do not know of other CAs doing it today, but we have not done an exhaustive survey.

Also, architecture and implementation details matter for this kind of feature. How many perspectives, what networks... We are lucky to be working with a great group from Princeton that has been helping us design our implementation.
Compared to the US , in Canada, you have a LOT fewer options for serious banks. Anything that's not one of the 'big 5' will have limited range of services and technology integration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_(banks)

It's both good and bad, in my opinion. Canada's much stricter regulation of the banking industry meant that in the 2008-2009 financial crisis, when small to medium sized US banks (all the way up to Washington Mutual sized, which was huge) were failing and being absorbed into other banks, FDIC insurance paid out, etc, there were no significant bank failures in Canada.
There is astonishingly little actual data in this article. The only non-anecdotal justification of the headline is from a study that received its own article when it was originally published quite a while ago.

Makes me wonder why WaPo decided this article needed to be published.
You copy rather than use strided accesses. It's the same algorithm.
> What is Apple/Google's next move?

Innovate. Cannibalize existing products. Surprise us.
Unless they want to attract more of the "business" types that will suck them dry until they end up, one day, a long time from now... like Sears.
I both love and hate this story.

Unfairly handing out red light tickets is rotten, but fining the man who pointed it out is beyond rotten. It's corrupt. There's no question Oregon was defending its income with that move. Dirty money.

I don't feel like reversing the fine is nearly enough of a response. There was effectively no punishment for issuing that fine.

But, I'm still pleased with the outcomes Järlström keeps accomplishing. It may not completely offset the chilling effects caused by the initial transgressions, but hopefully it can inspire others.

All in all, it definitely reflects very poorly on the Oregon State government. I hope they're happy with the reputation damage done.
In neighbouring Manitoba there's a carve out for locomotive engineers, power engineers, and certain types of electrical work, as long as they're certified by their respective bodies and not pretending to be a different kind of engineer. Didn't see anything in the Ontario act but I wouldn't be surprised if it were there somewhere.

edit: https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/e120e.php#66 section J
That's a few steps beyond someone who spends down their checking account each pay period (or runs deficits at times).

You have to have something to invest first.

Budgeting and/or landing a better job probably would come first.
Uber killed the pedestrian, not Waymo. But that's hardly any comfort to the elected representatives of Arizona. I suppose the execution, management and oversight of the corporation really matter, but at this early stage of the industry it's hard to look at Uber's traffic fatality and interpret it as anything but negative for Waymo and the other driverless companies.
Letters to a Young Poet #4 – Rainer Maria Rilke
Aldi and Liddle's cheap food is I would say a false economy.
For ethnicity results, yes it's based on models and reference samples that are often updated. You should be taking them with a large grain of salt. For the matching with other people it's useful and accurate and is a great way for doing further genealogical research to back up the paper research.
Well, I was going to make a comment that this sort of "just so story" logic is prevalent amongst those who are anti-evolution (e.g. creationists) and would rather see the idea die, but it seems I do not need to.
Did they invent the word engineer?
> study textbooks. Do exercises. Treat it like academic studying

This. Highly recommend Russel & Norvig [1] for high-level intuition and motivation. Then Bishop's "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" [2] and Koller's PGM book [3] for the fundamentals.

Avoid MOOCs, but there are useful lecture videos, e.g. Hugo Larochelle on belief propagation [4].

FWIW this is coming from a mechanical engineer by training, but self-taught programmer and AI researcher. I've been working in industry as an AI research engineer for ~6 years.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informat...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models-Princi...

[4] https://youtu.be/-z5lKPHcumo
Wasn't the reason why everyone cared about SVMs was specifically because of the nonlinear kernel stuff that would push performance a smidge and produce new bests on existing benchmark datasets?

The QP-dual formulation never seemed like something that could scale, and linear SVMs never seemed all that much better than just lasso/elasticnet regression. (hmmmmm :) )
The entire reason for this was scummy to begin with. Järlström had presented clear evidence that the system was flawed. The state or county he presented it to used his “public” title(engineer) to try and obscure the wide spread incompetence of the matter while taking nearly a year to resolve the maths in question.
Brace yourself for a very very fake internet
So you think anyone should be able to call themselves "physicians" or "lawyers" or "police", as those are English words that predate their professional associations?
Why Startups Need to Keep Accurate Books from Day One
Sorry, but you didn't pay the special tax for the special piece of paper from the "us" government that that magically makes you qualified to do calculations. Do not pass go, go straight to jail.
Where I live, people call themselves engineers all of the time, and it's not considered to imply any particular license or degree or accreditation.
By trying to prevent them, we lessen their effects.
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Iihf-world-juniors-2019-canada-vs-russia-livestream-hockey
https://aminoapps.com/c/otanix/page/blog/iihf-world-juniors-2019-canada-vs-russia-livestream-free/EKX0_6ocPu6lNlNVZeW2z4YelYWe8zLZR

https://aminoapps.com/c/otanix/page/blog/iihf-world-juniors-2019-canada-vs-russia-livestream/o1xX_2YtduBJrnq04eJGjn4a7YN6ooD6V4

https://aminoapps.com/c/otanix/page/blog/iihf-world-juniors-2019-canada-vs-russia-livestreaming/X6Rb_lkTgugnnXWwWzvXEooNqYQ6R6jz13

https://aminoapps.com/c/otanix/page/blog/iihf-world-juniors-canada-vs-russia-livestream-free/3Qx1_v2fBug804YZNaLXZYpwvQQb1VExr0

https://aminoapps.com/c/otanix/page/blog/iihf-world-juniors-2019-canada-vs-russia-livestream-hockey/BKXx_mocwuJk0EklmEvkLdab88NbvWd5Rk
Describes my speech and internal monologue patterns before I got medications and therapy perfectly.
The essayist doesn't but Vimes world character arc requires that he see the issue in black and white, top and bottom.

I'm sure that was an allusion by Prachett: you're not supposed to think like Vimes. His books always have layers of meaning.
The move should be to do nothing, or offer better terms to companies, as just about every other move harms consumers.
I liked the

"There are many compelling reasons to push for publishing "uninteresting" or "negative" results.
Efficiency is one obvious reason: Scientists need not waste time testing hypotheses that have been repeatedly shown to be false.
…

But perhaps most importantly, without negative results, evaluating whether a purported scientific discovery is true is simply impossible.
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