skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't advocate any restrictions for knowledge, even if for the very practical reason that it fails the it's premise of keeping it away from the bad guys and also find National Security to have been well and thoroughly abused for overreaching and draconian powers, there is something to be said about the power of the information that a well trained model holds.

I believe it is fair, to at least start with the premise that, restrictions that would normally apply to some data, would reasonably extend to the Model trained by them, obviously, how much depends on the context and sensitivity of the data.
Trump's tax cuts, deregulation and increase in military spending are very much conservative policies.
CarMax has incentive to fail cars at inspection before they purchase the car, or to use the inspection results to adjust the price they pay for the car.

The price of fixing a car under warranty can be higher than the difference between their purchase price and their sell price.
Lazy research, not dishonesty, is the far more likely explanation here. From Wikipedia[1]:

> a land mine of Soviet production, very similar to the BLU-43 US Army landmine. Both devices are very similar in shape and principles, although they use different explosives.

The author probably reworded the above.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1
Has anyone had experience with Fritzing.org or something like BotFactory for low rate production like this?

BotFactory: https://www.botfactory.co
Good summary! One small correction/amplification:

> Stardock wanted to make a game and began doing so. It's he said/she said at this point

The filing in the Leonard French video indicates that the court has access to correspondence between Wardell and Reiche/Ford from this period, in which Wardell explicitly acknowledges Reiche/Ford's claims to the SC1/2 IP and says that he accepts those claims as valid and would not incorporate such IP into his new game without a license from them. (Which Reiche/Ford refused to grant.)

Much later on, Stardock released DLC content packs for Star Control: Origins that incorporated some of those very IP elements Wardell acknowledged Reiche/Ford's rights to into that game. Example:

- Star Control: Origins Arilou Content Pack: https://steamdb.info/app/899550/

- The Arilou alien race from Star Control and Star Control 2: http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Arilou_Lalee%27lay

So if Wardell is saying now that he has never accepted Reiche and Ford's claimed rights to the SC1/2 IP, and the court has written evidence that at one point in the past he absolutely did acknowledge those rights, that would put the dispute outside the "he said/she said" zone.
I’ll agree with the slowness issues, but I’ve found OpenSCAD extremely useful for functional hardware, especially when implementing something against a spec or physical measurements that need to be iterated open. As examples, I’ve designed a PC chassis and working housekey copies in OpenSCAD, both of which benefit massively from being fully parametric.

On the measure tool, it usually isn’t necessary because your critical dimensions should be inputs into your SCAD rather than outputs from it. Even so, there is a pretty useful set of modules for generating dimensioned drawings: http://www.cannymachines.com/entries/9/openscad_dimensioned_...
The problem is not whether the answer is binary. The problem is that the author of the test needs to have at least the same level of intelligence (and probably even higher) than what the test is measuring. Otherwise how can you tell if the answer is correct?

So to get a good IQ score one needs to be able to figure out what a test designer (with average IQ) thought the correct answer should be.
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What's the difference between a single government and a decentralized government? Under a single government there would necessarily be many subgovernments competing over resources, just as we have now under global capitalism.
The "Atari Stuff" section on Jed Margolin's website is a goldmine for anyone interested in this and Atari's other early 3D games.

https://www.jmargolin.com/
57 GHz? What sort of parts are they using to get a consumer product BOM cost?
Since my argument was instantaneously flagged and hidden, without any rebuttal, then I am deleting it and replacing it with this:

You are all a bunch of uneducated, illiterate dumb fucks, incapable of thinking, programmed NPCs spewing the same tired marxist bullshit that you fuckwits have been spewing since Marx was actually alive.

You can't defend your positions so you censor. You're right out of 1984.

You hate bitcoin because you can't stop it and its making your ideological enemies rich!

So censor all you want, dumb fucks.

You're obsolete and you know it.

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There are properties all over the midwest that can be had for a song - run down, in Detroit or not. My sister in law just bought a nice house for 70k in Kalamazoo. That wouldn't buy you a house boat in Seattle.

My point is that if you want to be surrounded by mountains, forests, ocean, high paying jobs, and culture, of course it is going to cost more than the Midwest.
Politicians lie, and words are cheap.
The exploit in particular is SPI write bypass. That's the critical part, which is independent of UEFI. That is a separate Intel SMM vulnerability. If you can compromise the bios region, you can do whatever you want with the boot process, UEFI or not.
Since my argument was instantaneously flagged and hidden, without any rebuttal, then I am deleting it and replacing it with this:

You hate bitcoin because you can't stop it and its making your ideological enemies rich!

You are all a bunch of uneducated, illiterate dumb fucks, incapable of thinking, programmed NPCs spewing the same tired marxist bullshit that you fuckwits have been spewing since Marx was actually alive.

You can't defend your positions so you censor. You're right out of 1984.

You hate bitcoin because you can't stop it and its making your ideological enemies rich!

So censor all you want, dumb fucks.

You're obsolete and you know it.
That’s for all of it. I’d imagine we start getting pieces faster than that. Latency is 6 hours, speed is roughly a kilobit?
I was outraged until I realized it only applies locally.
If I’m interested in a car, I’ll try and rent one for a few days on Turo. It’s a great way to see what it’s like to actually live with the car. I’m never buying without renting again.
I'm sure you don't even know who Lysander Spooner is, you undeucated marxist hypocrites.
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This is why bitcoin will win and all the screaming and crying from the uneducated marxists is so hilarious.
> But why don’t they embrace Mount Pleasant? “Don’t get me wrong,” says Heaton, who’ll retire from the legislature in 2019. “The only thing that upsets me is if they’re coming, they need to blend. I don’t need ‘barrios.’ I don’t need these certain sectors where everything is still the way it was where they came from. If you’re going to meld, then meld.”

While it's a good thing that he wants the population to assimulate, it's disturbing that he considers the lack of English to be a problem.
Seconded. It's a good product, and the pricing is hard to beat.

I liked OnShape a lot, I think they got a lot of the UI right, but they priced themselves out of the market I'm in.
Want high tech remote workers? Build or support a state wide fiber network that includes rural areas... I'd love to move to Vermont for a deal like this, but I can't work remotely on a 5mbps connection, and this "zip code" coverage maps from ISPs make buying a house a gamble. For some Comcast, 10k won't get them to run a line 200ft from the road to your house.
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Now I just wonder if script readers will react "ooh,
I don't know why but this looks nice" or "ugh,
something's weird about this script but I can't
tell what."

The original announcement that someone posted [1] says that Courier Prime was developed by iterating on blinded feedback from actual screenwriters reading sample screenplay manuscripts, so I'd expect it to be reliably better in practice. Interestingly, and agreeing with the comment chain explaining the history of the font and the failure to take ink-bleed into account, the feature that apparently consumed the most optimization effort was in fact the weight, which had to be refined quite a bit over successive iterations. Neat!

[1]: http://johnaugust.com/2013/introducing-courier-prime
Nice story.
Classically illustrated by the "give instructions to make a sandwich game" https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8
> Everyone used TextMate, then everyone switched

Some of us still do, it's open source now, still getting updates and feels like a modern Mac app, all shortcuts work as expected, find/replace dialogue is a separate window, file panels look and act like Mac file panels complete with blur, smooth scrolling and elastic overshoot act as expected.
The firm whose staff are all autistic
Done! Looking forward to hearing from you.
Indeed, it's possible that if Multics had caught on with its apparent long-term vision, personal computing could have been delayed for a decade or more because people's needs could have been met.
You're basically acknowledging that they can sue you for implementing it, but they won't do it because they don't feel like doing so, hence it doesn't matter that they can?
https://www.lsac.org/lsat
Burlington telecom was my ISP when I lived in BTV. 500/500 dedicated fiber (not "up to") for something to the degree of $40/m.
It's the UK and the US. The UK traded VX for the hydrogen bomb and gets Trident from us with their warheads on top.
How do you determine the market value of a new car?
If I wasn't a grumpy old product manager, I would be tempted to get cynical and say that flat imposed higher cognitive load which keeps you on the page/UI longer which gives more time for other things to get your attention and create the mental lock in thru mix of attraction and sunk (time) cost...i.e.ive spent so long to figure this out I may as well stay and look around.

Another Responder pointed out that material design is better. Maybe I'm ignorant but I don't see how. Perhaps icon quality/diversity is better these days but the basic premise of 2D facsimile for real world 3D objects is still there.

Personally I prefer that UI things can be easily and uniquely related to action. This can be achieved by education I. E. sliders now look like nice rounded corner progress bars of yesteryear but we have gotten used to them thru their imposition on us by G and A.

That said I have used a few very old GUI programs and their look now is jarringly uncomfortable even though the tools are great and the UI is clear.

Progress?
That's a non-sensical argument; it turns the question of intelligence into a question of popularity.

An idea that "survives" in the marketplace of ideas isn't per se rational or intelligent. Indeed, anti-science attitudes worldwide have enjoyed a great deal of popularity lately. Certainly anti-vax ideology is surviving just fine at the moment.

If Taleb's argument is that IQ tests are a "swindle" because they don't predict popularity, he's completely off his rocker.
Less so because its many up if many complex factors. But if there are conditions that negatively affect memory, attention/focus, writing and reading skills, pattern recognition and more to various degree, it's quite likely the opposite is true and that people Excel at all of these to various degree. Now, in the same way not everyone who's super strong is going to apply it to competitive weight lifting, not everyone who's a genius will do anything meaningful with it but that's a separate topic.
The entirety of video advertising utilizes this effect. A shot of carpet cleaner is less effective than that same shot juxtaposed with a happy couple enjoying dinner in a clean home.

The naive advertising of Kermit the Frog (Ocean Breeze soap will get you clean!) Is rarely as effective as showing successfully happy people, even if they aren't using the product!

Really the Kuleshov effect is so pervasive in visual media that we don't think of it as an effect, just as the way things are. It would be like trying to imagine living without object permanance.
It does, but it's easy to underestimate how important this is to the film industry.
The publication mentioned:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25...

Relevant excerpt:

The representative general categories of technology for which Commerce currently seeks to determine whether there are specific emerging technologies that are essential to the national security of the United States include:

(2) Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology, such as:

(i) Neural networks and deep learning (e.g., brain modelling, time series prediction, classification);

(ii) Evolution and genetic computation (e.g., genetic algorithms, genetic programming);

(iii) Reinforcement learning;

(iv) Computer vision (e.g., object recognition, image understanding);

(v) Expert systems (e.g., decision support systems, teaching systems);

(vi) Speech and audio processing (e.g., speech recognition and production);

(vii) Natural language processing (e.g., machine translation);

(viii) Planning (e.g., scheduling, game playing);

(ix) Audio and video manipulation technologies (e.g., voice cloning, deepfakes);

(x) AI cloud technologies; or

(xi) AI chipsets.
If I buy something at BestBuy or Target I feel well assured that everyone else that bought the thing from Bestbuy or Target, barring promoted discounts, paid the same amount for the item that I did.

People that buy cars usually do not pay the same price for the same car. This feels unfair to the average American consumer. There is a lot of anxiety around haggling, financing, and trade-ins.
The particular problem I referred to was caused by ubuntu's packaging process though: a dependency package failed to build for some obscure architecture so they decided that the sensible course of action was to remove the package for ALL architectures.

Perhaps I'll just use AppImages like you so that I can finally upgrade off 16.04. Have you found any downsides to using the AppImaged version over the apt one? (aside from the stability issues in newer releases)
CarMax gives you a free history report on the life of the vehicle to date, including how many owners it's had, any accidents it's been involved in, any recalls it's been included in, registered odometer readings over the life of the car, and so forth. (Details here: https://www.carmax.com/articles/free-vehicle-history-report-...)

If you don't trust CarMax to give you an accurate report, you can buy a separate one from a third party like Carfax (https://www.carfax.com/vehicle-history-reports/) to confirm the details.

> CarMax has no incentive to fail a car at inspection. They'd rather sell it to you and if it breaks, fix it under warranty.

Any car you buy from CarMax can optionally be covered by their "MaxCare" extended warranty, which lets you choose a deductible and then obligates CarMax to pay the remaining cost of any repairs to the vehicle beyond that deductible. So if you set the deductible at, say, $250, and then you get the vehicle home and discover that the transmission is shot, the worst case scenario is you're out $250. CarMax eats the rest of the cost.

Car YouTuber Doug DeMuro bought a Range Rover from CarMax with this type of coverage a few years back. He paid $3,899 for the extended warranty, and CarMax ended up paying out $16,925 on warranty repairs over the six years he owned the car. More details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3jA55TJboA
If anything it is the opposite, IQ measure whatever it measures, the problems is that some people don't want to accept the correlation to other things, for example to the rate of success in academic studies. So you can ignore those correlations as much as you want and put millions into educating people with low IQ but it doesn't and won't help.

You try to shame people for looking at the clear data and coming to conclusions while coming to the exact same conclusions and wrapping it with different semantics. Yes there are also other parameters in life, nobody denies it but IQ is pretty good indication for certain things.
The devious ingenuity that went into land mine design is quite remarkable. The consequences for the civilian population were broadly regarded as irrelevant.

My "favourite" example is the Valsella VS-50, a viciously clever piece of engineering. It has practically no metal content, making it almost impossible to detect; this also makes the mine cheaper to produce and impervious to corrosion. The amount of explosive is carefully calibrated to blow off your foot without killing you, because wounded soldiers are more expensive for the enemy to deal with than dead soldiers. The pressure plate is isolated from the trigger with a compressible bladder, so the mine will react to the steady pressure of a foot while ignoring the shock from being helicopter-dropped or from explosive or flail demining.

That wasn't quite devious enough for Valsella, so they made the VS-50AR. The standard VS-50 will only trigger due to pressure, so once you've done the difficult work of finding them, they're relatively straightforward to render safe. The AR variant has mercury tilt switches, designed to detonate in response to standard mine probing and defusing techniques. If you find a VS-50, you have to act on the assumption that it's an AR, massively complicating demining efforts.

The icing on the cake? Valsella illegally exported 9 million mines to the Iraqi government in 1991, via a front company in Singapore. Heroically, some of Valsella's own employees lobbied the Italian government to ban the production of anti-personnel mines, effectively protesting to demand their own redundancy.

War is hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VS-50_mine

https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica...
I don't think those people are saying a new economics is needed. I think they're saying that crypto allows you to do new things, many of which traditional economics would have liked to have done, but didn't have the technical tools to do. Though maybe we're listening to different people.
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I agree - but if I got sold a car that actually belonged to someone other than the seller, suing the original owner so I could keep driving the car would strike me as an unethical move.
Works from New Zealand. Redirects to https://www.wikiyy.com
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ab8na3/pro...
In my book, it's OK and maybe even a good thing to react emotionally (verbally, not physically). A good pain scream seems to put some fright into my kids ("Daddy's really strong! If he screams, it must really hurt!"). I think it teaches them that their actions have consequences, and it makes me feel just a little bit better.
Is this like a Fair.com for europe? Any plans to come to the US with the service?
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If the SAT test wasn't selective in some meaningful way then people admitted through affirmative action should be expected to do approximately as well as the people that was admitted purely through merit. The outcome says otherwise [1], or if prefer a video [2].

Mismatching people to schools based upon an ideal hurts those people when they come unprepared relative to their peers. Many diverse people admitted through affirmative action with a dream to do the sciences abandon them for other less rigorous disciplines, and it doesn't have to be so if they were matched with a school without the social engineering attempts of ideologues.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-pai...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVvnTByzTmA
> In particular, re: "Nobody serious says that decentralization == privacy" -- this is presented as tautology on regular basis, by people that certainly hold themselves as serious and I'm willing to take as such, on Hacker News and other IT-related forums, as well as many other venues.

I think maybe you're reading them uncharitably. Decentralization does enable privacy. But it isn't identical and equivalent to it.
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If I understand you, you are arguing that parents should praise their kids for smartness because it helps kids to understand that they are smarter?

But there is not point doing that, if they are smarter they will figure it theirselves. At the same time if parents are praising them for smartness it would lead smartness to become a part of self-esteem and therefore their psychological well being will be tied with their success to be smart. It is bad, really bad. You cannot just make some more effort and become smarter, smartness is out of control of a person, and if self-esteem based on smartness then...

It is like praising girl for her beauty. Beauty is not completely under her control, and if she grow to not so beautiful woman, than she would have psychological problems through all her life.

From the other side, to work hard or not to work hard is completely under control of a person. And if self-esteem of a person based on working hard it is very good. When she feels bad she make more work to fix her self-esteem, and the fixing of self-esteem hopefelly leads to more success in the real life for her. Isn't it great?
Vathys (YC W18) Is Hiring Driver Engineers to Build the Future of ML Hardware
Title: Senior Driver Engineer

Job Description:
The best accelerator in the world is useless without the ability to use it.
Those of you who have tried to use nVidia GPUs in the past know of the difficulties of installing the drivers, CUDA, etc.
And should those drivers break for some reason after you have installed them.... good luck!
We aim to make our drivers "simple, bulletproof and iPhone-like" - easy to install, easy to use and robust across all types of workload.
Unlike pretty much everyone else, we do NOT view the device drivers as a cost center and aim to make it as solid as possible.

Technically speaking, the driver will be locked to a single OS to start with (Ubuntu 16.04) and will interface
with the Vathys chip through an FPGA. You must also work with us to create the FPGA glue logic.
There will be no graphics driver portion involved.

You will be taking charge of the driver project from start to finish.

Skills and Qualifications:
1. Experience in developing drivers (must have), especially Linux drivers

2. Experience with drivers that interface with FPGAs (extremely good to have)

3. Experience with FPGA glue logic development (extremely good to have)

Location: Remote is ok

Compensation: Generous compensation will be given to the right talent

If you're interested, please email tapabrata_ghosh (a)(t) vathys.ai