skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the description above that section, it doesn't even need an internet connection in that mode, so a quick dumb hotspot for just this purpose seems like a fairly reasonable solution. If IT isn't flexible enough to provide that on request, someone else setting it up at least doesn't hurt that much.

(a server-based fallback would have some value, but I bet people would find something to complain about that too. To slow, unnecessarily sending data back to Google, ...)
This has everything to do with the attitude of people who ride the transit. You don't have poo because nobody does that in tokyo.
VW is working hard to deliver mass produced Passat-like EVs in 2020. They will be priced the same as their current fossil cars, which gives the new electric lineup a huge advantage in Norway due to high taxes on fossil cars. More info here: http://www.fullychargedshow.co.uk/electric-cars/2018/12/17/v...
There is a lot more room for margin erosion when your margins are high to begin with. So even if the S and X models had reductions in manufacturing costs there was a lot of room to play with in the first place. The model 3 has much less room.
>sometimes up to the 2500lb hitch rating

That's an impressively terrible rating for something with the curb weight of a 90s 1/2 ton pickup. I suspect the vehicle could comfortably handle far more considering how much better the power and brakes are than a 90s pickup but they don't want to be replacing certain parts under warranty (my guess would be CVs since the S has plenty of torque and traction to hurt them with).
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There's the relatively young Tech Workers Coalition: https://techworkerscoalition.org && https://twitter.com/techworkersco
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+1. So many people confuse CO2 with pollution. CO2 emission is not a pollution and causes near zero negative effects to human directly in the current concentration or in the most pessimistic prediction for future.
While the rant is valid, I feel like the amount of effort venting about this was equal to or more than actually attempting to get this to work. The author claims that there is "a fair amount of multicast in play which could be part of the issue," but there are no inherent issues with multicast over wifi. My suspicion is that it uses mDNS or some other _link-local_ multicast protocol for discovery. This isn't really news though; any network operator that supports Apple TVs, Chromecasts, etc on their network has had to deal with this (and most vendors have solutions for proxying mDNS).
Also to lobby (e.g. in favour of trust busting, copyright/IP reform) and to provide a legal heavyweight that can take on systemic abuse like the wage fixing cartel from a few years ago.
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Before anyone decides not to read the article because of this TLDR, this is not the summary at all. Which is more, a new Google gadget (Expedition) requires L2 adjacency which is pretty much always blocked in business environments for security purposes. Furthermore, Google suggest ways to get around this...
I think we can look at the recent google walkout for that, as I belive the organizers specifically interacted with and took advisement of labor union organizers in order to have a successful walkout. Google was forced to respond to their workforce's demands, however how much real change will remain to be seen. So at the very least we know somewhat how management responds to organized tech labor for one example. The economics of such likely remains to be seen.
2019 in spaceflight
just look at google trends, Model S/3/X still trending higher while I-pace pal plateaued
It would appear as though they are, at least according to this article from 2015. One would imagine they wouldn't continue expanding once the $/sqft leveled off:

"$3,785 in sales per square foot, a figure that would put Warby Parker behind only Apple in terms of retail efficiency. Though those numbers have dipped somewhat as Warby Parker has grown, the company is still averaging about $3,000 per square foot of retail space, a figure that’s in the same breath as Tiffany’s estimated $3,043."

[1]https://www.fastcompany.com/3041334/warby-parker-sees-the-fu...
I don't have any useful answers, but you could explore how tech workers have unionized in other countries and what the results have been. In France for example, tech workers are organized under so-called "Conventions Collectives" (= "collective agreement" in English).
I think it would depend on what form the unions take. There is a range from "you can't fire anybody even if they're terrible" to "professional organization that holds its own members to high standards of quality, but assuming they meet that standard, protects them 100%".
As someone who is ready to join a tech union, I would advocate for legislation that allows for you to remain in the US on your H1B during a labor dispute.
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Only if you get fired.

Afaik you’re allowed to stay in the country as ling as you are employed by the employer on your visa regardless of whether you are working or not.

Can you be fired for going on strike?
The cost still exists — you’re just moving it. Instead of factoring it into the labor cost and being part of the money allocating to the particular job, you’d just see lower allocation, and have the same problem.

The only real difference would be that the comparison in funding/cost between equivalent US and EU work would be more fair (also achieved by de-nationalizing healthcare and pensions in the EU).

Unless of course you’re also suggesting that nationalization would reduce global costs, but nothing about this particular thread supports/suggests that
I haven't read the paper and I probably won't, but it seems suspicious to me that the 1940 to 1970 timeframe mentioned just happens to coincide with WW2 and the aftermath and recovery. If you aren't prepared to systematically destroy foreign cities and industry I don't think you can recreate those conditions.
Maybe LeNet from LeCun et. al? It was before my time, but the architecture is still influential. The more important paper would probably be Phoneme Recognition Using Time-Delay Neural Networks, which introduces Time-Delay NNs, from which ConvNets arise naturally.

Other architectures, like Sepp Hochreiter; Jürgen Schmidhuber (1997): "Long short-term memory", should also be mentioned.

Not sure which paper would be the most important for SVMs.

I don't know what to do about concepts that took a long time to develop, like backpropagation. Research is usually incremental.
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Tricky to say, as software engineering is a somewhat unique profession.

Going by what happens in other industries, you'd reasonably expect a flattening of wages (both inter and intra firm) and an increase in the average wage. You'd also expect entry into the field to become harder, and exit from the field (both voluntary and involuntary) to become rarer. Fewer workers would be employed overall, though per capita productivity would increase; the overall effect would probably mean more money allocated to labor, less to capital holders, and higher costs for consumers. Work rules would increase, e.g. no one allowed to be on call for more than X hours a year, or a SWE not being allowed/required to take on job responsibilities outside the scope of the initial job offer except as facilitated by formal processes.

Many of these effects will disproportionately benefit women and racial minorities (this is a rare case where "racial minorities" includes Asians of various sorts, as they're paid less than white people in the field, though that's in large part to the power employers have over visa holders).
And Skylake itself wasn't a new design either, but rather a tweak of Haswell (prominent changes were in the uncore), which in turn was largely identical to SB/IB.
> There is at least one bright spot: Citi Bike has become an essential part of the city’s fabric. The bike-share system has 12,000 bikes across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens and recently announced plans to expand under new ownership by the ride-hail company Lyft, which will triple the number of bikes.

Almost a non-sequitur to mention Citi Bikes in particular when there are far more notable examples like Lime. This must be a paid advertisement.
so a quick dumb hotspot for just this purpose seems like a fairly reasonable solution.

I believe the issue at hand is the question of who the user is going to call when that doesn't work. The phone vendor? The phone OS vendor? The telecom? Hmm, somehow I feel that those three options will not be first on the list, but rather who is closest and has technical knowledge of any kind.
Ask HN: Is there any good OSS for interactive Windows automation?
I am hoping someone who is more familiar with Windows can make a software recommendation for me that's central to a new project I'm starting.

I'm working on a gaming app that involves automatically installing games on Windows.

For example, an end-user workflow to install and play GTA V might be:

Enter a license key (if you already bought it), OR enter your payment info to buy a license key.

An automation action downloads the game, and applies/purchases its license via the variables (license key or payment info) specified by the user.

I'm looking for something that's easy enough to program interactively (not via code), so that a layperson can create a flow for installing a game, and specify the variables to collect from the end user.
Average salary excluding executives.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13870540 for some pointers
Some of those guilds set minimums in part to provide barriers to entry. They're not solely acting in the interests of compassion and kindness. We do nobody any favors by pretending there's no economic logic at work.
Illegal in Norway though.

I just got a Model S actually, and am considering installing a hitch for carrying bikes. But I would NEVER pull a trailer..

What if I do, and my trailer collides with something/someone, and I become liable for millions in damages, not covered by my insurance...

At least in Norway, how large a trailer you can pull is regulated in the license of the car. For a Model S this number is 0 kg. And insurance covers what the license says.

(IANAL, but Norwegian Tesla forums seem to agree that hitches are for carrying bikes only around here, until Tesla is bothered to officially submit trailer crash tests or similar)
Sure, that's a problem, but a very different problem. I don't think I've ever seen a profit-focused company seriously give any weight to encouraging its customers to make good, informed decisions.
Thank you so much. I clearly over-generalised regarding the cryptocurrency crowd and their knowledge of capitalism, glad I did as I now have Trace Mayer to read properly.

I keep forgetting about Haaretz, again thanks for the quality reading material.
When Non Destructive Adjustment Layers finally arrive, it will feel as if Gnu Hurd 1.0 is released.

Been waiting for those for years now.

Common, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
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There are a number of easy-to-make mistakes with all security software. That doesn't mean it's not worth using; it just means that we should build the tooling we need in the open as shared software, so that the wisdom of crowds prevails.

Almost exactly the same set of problems exists with signed x509 certificates, but I doubt anybody would tell you not to use them. They'd just say "make sure you don't implement your own validation, unless you absolutely have to, which you don't, and even then only with lots and lots of review/audits." The wisdom with JWT should be the same, IMO.
#CastHack – Hacking Chromecasts/Google Homes/SmartTVs
I would also like such a guild to remove people from the guild for intentionally performing law breaking(or unethical) behavior- such so that individual workers can say "I can't do that, my guild will oust me" and will take the heat off themselves. I'm not sure if actor/director guilds do this, though, I've only seen it in licensing orgs.
Last year I helped several different companies switch off of JWT onto JSON encrypted with secretbox, which was much more appropriate for their use case(s). No risk of accidentally using an insecure algorithm or sending secure data unencrypted to the client.

Local storage is not secure.
The problem I see here is logistical. AI is often a blank slate, dependent on the data that's fed into it to be useful. It's that data, and the way the model is tuned, that is important. We do control exports on certain grade encryptions, but how do we control export over tuning a machine model, or over input data for a ML model?
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That's part of norways income stream. But a smaller part than you'd probably imagine.

2018:
https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/economy/governments-revenue... (check out the pie charts)
That's meditation. I do the same thing but slowly imagine athletic form in sports moves (e.g. positioning of hips while kicking a soccer ball). Imagining and focusing on an imaginary dot in your vision is the same thing I think, but I can't seem to do that well. I wonder if anyone with this realization has taken it into awake meditation -- e.g. starting a daily meditation practice using the tools they've been developing to fall asleep.
How Codemarks will make it easier to understand code