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> To be honest, I don't know what the business model would be, but it seems like it should be in the banks long-term best interest to create rich, prosperous people with invest-able funds. They are literally in a position to create their own wealthy customer base.

You're right! It's absolutely in the best interest of a bank to help create a prosperous, happy, long-term customer with investable funds.

Of course, this seems like it would only apply to banks that manage investments effectively - which is the bigger ones. And they'd have to do so at least as well as specialist investment management funds, otherwise anyone who this bank helps become wealthy will invest with someone else. And they'd have to be able to successfully help people become wealthy at scale, instead of making it marginally easy for people to keep their heads above water.

Also, it might be worth considering that many people are at least somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of a robot managing all their finances for them. I use a bunch of automation to do a lot of the stuff you've mentioned, but it's all stuff I set up myself for the control that gives me.

Being as good at low-cost effective investing as Vanguard while convincing people to be happy with robots managing all their money and making people wealthy over time seems like it could be a tall order.

> Are market forces so screwy, that all this would actually be bad for the banks bottom line, in the long run?

Depends. How much are you willing to pay, each and every month, for this set of features? So far you seem to want it for free, with the idea that it could become profitable for this bank's investment arm three or four decades down the road. That's a rather long timescale to gamble on and a fairly substantial set of costs against a known successful business model.

Again, you're completely right! It's so painfully obviously in the interests of banks to encourage their customers to be happy, wealthy, long-term customers that it's very odd that they don't seem interested in investing in it. Are they just all collectively oblivious? Or could there maybe be something else worth considering?
It makes sense: they're higher displacement and air-cooled.
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We've banned this account for serial trolling. Would you mind not creating accounts to do that with on HN? It's really not what this site is for.
> For consumers, if a device supports all the systems, (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou), would we be able to get greater accuracy, or if not greater accuracy, get our location faster than before?

At a minimum, consumers will see better accuracy in challenging conditions such as "urban canyons" simply due to the fact that they are more likely to have sufficient satellites in direct view.
Maybe, or maybe you just insufficiently observed the variability across cultures or time, or ignored it, or pretended the outliers don't contradict your cherished thesis, or pretended your sample set is more representative than it is, etc., etc. Anyway "pretty good" evidence seems about the right standard for something to be labeled a just-so story.
Heard Gosper give a talk a decade ago. He was introduced as "The World's Greatest Living 19th Century Mathematician."
Cost to repair and near absolute unavailability of non-OEM spare parts doesn't help.
At one time she had what I believe is the coolest title I've heard associated with NASA, Chief of Astronomy and Relativity.
Most comments in this thread are about learning to budget/control finances.

I would just like to point out what I call "The IT bubble". We all make money here. Most of us make good money. Our social circles are filled with people making money.

Most people do not have this privilege. Below a certain threshold there is no such thing as budgeting/finances. It's just survival. You're not gonna budget because you can't save enough to do anything real with it, so you use it to make your life just a little easier.
In my country (Slovenia, aka. EU member country) over 70% of people make less than the "average pay" and most of those make minimal pay.

At least here the problem isn't financial illiteracy. The problem is that they (a) make way too little to live off and (b) worker protections have eroded past any sane point.
One difference is that if a person driving a car runs over a kid, the person driving the car (ideally) gets punished.

If a self-driving car runs over a kid, what happens? A faceless tech company in California might possibly face a fine, and some bad press that fades away after a few days. The fine is probably less than the amount the company set aside for paying these kinds of fines during its "beta test" on real humans.
You create a standard that covers 90% of most used cases and an nice extension api that allows crazy customization of the last 10%
I wonder if they are actually cement, or concrete...
The companies have a permit from the government authority having jurisdiction, do they not?

It’s patently unreasonable IMO to demand they secure individual permission anymore than Delta needs my individual permission to takeoff from the nearby airport.
It's clearly going against the intent of the company, and possibly the Communist party, I don't think I'm completely out of line using the term.
Still a problem, but not a problem at the same time. Downhill in the loss function is always better, so you may not be at the global minima but you might be at a good enough spot anyway. Using SGD gives you a bit of local minima hopping ability as well. Interesting question to think about what the loss surface looks like, as it is so high dimensional that it might just be saddles everywhere. The difference between a local minima and the global might be practically nothing in terms of classifier performance.
The convexity of the loss function for SVMs is a mixed blessing, you are guaranteed to be at the global min but the optimization problem doesn't scale with large training data or big feature vectors. Hence the historical feature engineering efforts or sacrificing this property to a more scalable optimization method.
So in short the ability to use high dimensional features in a NN means you don't get any guarantee about if the minima you get will be the best, but you lose less by not having to cut down the size of the input vector by hand (i.e. working directly with an image rather than some embedding with keypoint descriptors etc).
"It is interesting how Waymo chose not to pursue charges in a few cases where they had footage of the assailant"

...this is like a victim of a home invasion telling the cops that its ok nothings wrong, because if the cops dig deeper they will find the depths of depravity.

Does any one here know the full extent of data collection that waymo uses? does google know for sure that there are no backdoors in hardware or code?
DOES anyone know what is being hidden from scrutiny?
I used the same technologies, but neo4jrb did have a few rough spots. The change from v7 to v8 was a large, breaking change, and I ran into a number of (minor) compatibility issues with other libraries.

As you say, the appropriate use of a graph database is highly situational. I certainly would not advise doing so without a great deal of careful consideration. However, I tend to doubt whether any amount of consideration would be sufficient; it may be that the most reliable way to determine whether a graph database is the best solution is to try it and see. At least, I was never really able to stop wondering whether I might be able to do things just as easily using Postgres; I would defer to those with more experience, however.
You should start with convincing people that it is a non-negligible risk and then sell an apt mitigation. Nobody expects to die suddenly, and with a technical co-founder you don't expect them to leave the company to die, either. Depending on the actual risk (which I'm guessing is low), it seems much more efficient to have an insurance that will pay for costs incurred due to their untimely death/departure: pay for a replacement dev (for a reasonable amount of time so they can get to know the product), perhaps hiring costs, perhaps missed income for the company... Like with contents' insurance, I expect there would be a configurable amount that is paid out for all of these things, where lower amounts mean a lower premium.

Having a developer continuously kept up to date might only be affordable for larger companies, which might as well have someone doing that internally. I also don't think a single person can memorize enough about multiple startups to be worth it: either they hear about each customer's tech stack at least once every month (that already seems quite little, but is already relatively expensive so far as insurance-type services go), or they won't be worth more than written documentation.
DALEX in particular, looks pretty good. https://github.com/pbiecek/DALEX
The university does not, there might be a case for a high school or any place responsible for taking care of minors to take action, and that action simply should be the same action that individuals in public should take -- call the authorities -- that is the people we pay to enforce laws.

A dorm is no different than living in a apartment. When somebody threatens you living in a apartment or a house you call the cops. You don't call the landlord -- or even the owner of the property. These people are not equipped with the resources to properly handle these situations.

When you give these ill equipped organizations the power and authority you remove due process -- which is an assault on everybody rights and freedoms. When these organizations are responsible for "taking action" you will end up with a real quagmire, much like the one we have today where students are kicked out of school without any investigation into any allegations later to find out accusations were made out of spite. In the cases that are real, the universities should not be involved at all, the police and courts should be -- this ensures that offenders are removed from society and not just the campus.

A university is a lot like a gym, or grocery store, or a library, or even a public park -- more so with ones that take in government money. It is none of these peoples jobs -- or should it be -- to vet who they are, and or monitor or interpret peoples online behavior. If one individual has an issue with another it is their duty to take action, not some 3rd party.

University is the real life, you are a adult, and people need to start acting like an adult and expecting people to act like adults. Out in the world you don't run to your teacher when you are offended, threatened, or assaulted, you take real legal action -- involve local law enforcement.

People, please stop acting like University is some special place where all the rules and laws are not valid and we need a entirely new set of them to be enforced by people who not equipped to do so.
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Haha, ditto. I remember so many random numbers like that, but sadly forgot what many of those numbers were too.
I have worked on a few projects where graph databases were used. I have not personally seen a case where I feel they add much value relative to their complexity and tradeoffs.

One of the projects was a business workflow application centered around validating business processes by collecting and reporting on process data—think manufacturing quality control. A graph database was used in an attempt to allow application users more control in defining their workflows and give them more expressive semantic reporting abilities. We tried several graph databases. In reality what happened was that the scheme became implicit and performance was truly awful. The choice of a graph db was a strategic decision; we wanted to enable a different user experience. We probably could have done this project in 20% of the time with a standard database and wound up with a better result.

I have also worked on a problem related to storing and retrieving graph data for image processing. The graph db was obscenely slow and inefficient despite the data models being actual graphs.

Both of the projects I worked on involved people who are experts in graph databases. The level of nuance and complexity was astounding. Even simple tasks like trying to visualize the data became monumentally complex.

My takeaway from both of these experiences was that unless you intend to ask questions about the relationships, a graph might not be a very good fit. Even in that case, other databases will likely perform just as well.

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You could look at what the explanation predicts about the populations involved and their effect on the fossil record.

I'm not saying this is always done, but rather it shows such theories are falsifiable in the sense of Popper.
...Yup you got it pegged sounds like you know AZ very well.
I remain keen to learn Knufen's definition of catastrophe.
Mercantilism not only targets exports.
It also tries to halt all non necessary imports, so the country retains as much value as possible.

They are nationalist, and want to gain things at the expense of others all the time (I don't have first-hand experience but I believe it to be so).

So when I say China is mercantilist, I am referring more to their approach to relations as a zero-sum game.
Is that not what a pension is for workers who qualify by working at a company long enough?
> More than a few of the touted designs for cities that self-driving cars enable are an utter hellscape for people who like walking, cycling, or motorcycling, and cars already destroyed our cities once.

I don't follow. How are cities designed for self-driving cars hellscape? You admit that self-driving cars would likely lead to an objectively safer conditions for others, so what's the downside? They would also likely lead to higher utilization, more fuel efficiency and less traffic since much of traffic is due to human error. Protocols are also much easier to program and enforce than with human driven cars (e.g. people parking in bike lanes, double parking, stopping in unsafe zones to allow passengers to exit).

You're not going to get rid of cars. It's nice to say you prefer walking and biking and such, but the fact is that that's mostly a luxury of being wealthy and having the ability to live in a location where you can access your place of work and other facilities easily. If you're living in a rural area or a less expensive suburb of a large city, you rely on other forms of transportation such as a car or public mode of transportation (e.g. bus or subway). There are also those that have mobility issues that would be greatly inconvenienced by your insistence of a car free world.
Not exactly write - you would use have to use either view patterns or a case...of statement rather than guards here. But the general gist is right.
Perhaps its "hit by a bus" because assuming that an employee will give you a solid 2 weeks of documentation on leaving and will be able & willing to answer questions after they leave is very much not a safe assumption.
Please don't do tedious flamewars on HN.
I feel like tools like this, which are intended to be used by developers for their own personal use, will have trouble succeeding if they aren't oss.

It would be nice if the documentation was available without having to download this, so people could see what the API is like.

It would also be super duper epic if this supported ESM properly.
I don't think it postulates two price points, it just uses two for the sake of argumentation.
> had complaints of micromanaging mixed with complaints of lack of management.

These aren't mutually exclusive.

> how they actively engage in bickering and in-fighting between their own teams

Take one of the offenders and publicly shit can him.
If it takes 80% of your income to live at a base level of hierarchy of needs, you need roughly doubled income to be able to actually save money, and have it not be wasted away on this or that random emergency, which is going to be more frequent.
Conjecture, but I believe this is due to disordered preference for orienting oneself perpendicular to converging lines. Imagine yourself standing on a long straight road. Now imagine yourself looking over the side of a building, which is equivalent to looking along a similarly flat surface but from a much reduced height, as if you were lying on the road and trying to look at it over the tops of your feet.

A maladaptive orientation instinct might be caused by overcompensation for astigmatism or other distortion, or a strong preference for one kind of visual cue (converging parallels) over another (the more abstract knowledge of gravity and the associated impacts.

There is some evidence to suggest that premature babies are more likely to be subject to such disorders.
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My wife are at home on the south side of Chicago right now. I've got 9 people coming for a party tonight. What do you advise we do?
What about a blockchain version of the "wishes" chained for future reference?
If they have a problem with it, they should take it up with the state government of Arizona

Passing the buck is a very SV-centric response to importnat issue.

Like Google's response from the CCC the other day saying, "Yeah, we track people in bad ways, but everyone else does it too, so it's OK."

"Oh, our self-driving car isn't responsible for killing a pedestrian. It's the governor of Arizona who allowed us to kill the pedestrian who is to blame. Go after him! We're only responsible to shareholders, and the kid wasn't a shareholder."
I feel deeply aligned with the goals of this project, but unfortunately (for me) I think a given solution is not really hackable unless it's open source.

Depending on a given indivudual's opinions, availability, etc tends to be at odds with hackability.

At the same time I respect the author's desire to be rewarded for his work. Perhaps Patreon or the like could be a sustainable model. It's what the iTerm author uses (and quite a few other people who I do support).
SVMs are a convex optimization problem, which means any local optimum is also globally optimal. In practice that leads to fast, provably optimal solutions.

With deep learning, the problem is non-convex, so the results are locally optimal but not necessarily globally optimal. We get around this with different techniques such as randomized initial weights, but with few exceptions, non-convex problems are NP-complete. Therefore there is no polynomial-time algorithm for finding the global optimum in deep learning unless P==NP.

I occasionally hear people claim deep learning finds the globally optimal solution, but that’s just not correct (or they mean they are doing an exhaustive search e.g. branch and bound, which has exponential worst case run time and isn’t practical).

That said, locally optimal solutions are often “good enough” for practical problems.
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Since you are on the team, puzzle me this.
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The original creators sold out to MS back in the mid 2000's. Now MS calls it an "Office" product.
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So why is Visio not included in ANY Office bundled offering? It is only sold as an overpriced standalone product, back to 1980's marketing! It strikes me as contrary to the key concept underlying Office! That is selling bundles of products cheaper than standalone competitors.

As this question shows, there are lots of free and low cost alternatives.

Visio (and Project) should be included in at least one Office bundle, ie Pro Plus.
Please don't degrade this site further by posting dross like this.
There was a study in the UK some decades ago showing that roughly 30% of kids weren't from the father's they thought they were.

I got this reference indirectly from The Red Queen, an interesting book. It's packed away, so I can't give anything more specific.
Say there's a community (or demographic, whatever) that feels wronged by what a company is doing. You suggest the company use all kinds of deceit against that community to keep doing what it's doing.

To me that sounds like a pretty good way to get the opposite effect: more support for those opposed to the company.
This I definitely not true, even with regular maintenance, and especially with new vehicles.

The reality is the cost of new parts and replacements becomes cost prohibitive. You’ll spend more continually on the upkeep versus purchasing a new car.
> As I write this report some European editions of U.S. newspapers appear to still be impacted by the attack. The San Diego Union Tribune online edition is unavailable and the website instead displays a message that simply states: "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market."

I'm pretty sure this is due to GPDR, not anything North Korea did. Really strange that the author didn't know this. I thought of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect right away: does this person even know what they're talking about?
Louis CK has a fantastic bit about this:

"When you're broke, the bank starts charging you money... for not having enough money. If you have a lot of money, they give you money. Because you have a lot of money! You have so much money that we should give you some! Because you have a lot, you should have more! Here, take more money! Take this guy’s $15, fuck him, you should have it!"

Like the article says, class boundaries are also knowledge boundaries. Because you don't know of any alternatives, you bank at the local BoA and get taken advantage of to the tune of $15/month in perpetuity with a low balance, or even pay a percentage at the corner check cashing place. Or you can get free banking and around 3% APY today if you have savings, know how and where to bank and how to structure a 12-month CD ladder. It's expensive to be poor!
It was popularized by Jeff Atwood in his blog entry "Why Can't Programmers.. Program?" https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

Atwood referenced Imran Ghory who seems to have originated the test.
No, they were against this particular technology because its introduction meant they could no longer earn a living and feed their families.

Technology that benefits the few at the expense of the many is going to destroy us.

The only way around it is UBI in some form or another.
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> Given that the Chinese government actively promotes tourism, the number of hoops a foreigner has to jump through to pay for things where cash isn't accepted is quite ridiculous.

Setting up WeChat pay is a pretty minor problem as far as tourism is concerned. Aside from the fact that almost everyone does take cash (at least 3 months ago in Shanghai), it's only difficult if you don't know someone with RMB willing to do currency exchange.

The big problems all tourists face are directly due to government policies:

* Painful to get initial entry visa, especially if you don't live near a consulate.

* Setting up a VPN so you can even access basic services like your email.
By all logical measures, what you say about those superficial descriptions is of course correct.

However illogical it may be, though: I enjoy reading them! Though in this case, perhaps the article would have been better served by a picture of this person (who's apparently a big deal in the pen world)

Certainly there is some threshold after which I'd consider those physical descriptions distracting. I'm not sure what that threshold is.