skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social Security and Medicare solve problems too though. Even the Pentagon (say half a trillion) solves a problem. None of them do it very efficiently, is the thing.
This is marketing. Someone should flag it.
I find a lot of psychology experiments about game theory have this problem, for an example.

The common mistake is to analyze it as if people were in a prisoners’ dilemma situation rather than an iterated prisoners’ dilemma situation: there’s no way to fully detach lab participants from the fact that the people they’re interacting with exist in society, which is a sort of large scale iteration of all the social games.

Once you realize lab participants are treating each other as members of society they’ll have to deal with in the future, instead of isolated lab rats only existing for one round of experimentation, almost all of the “people don’t understand game theory” results disappear.

It seems instead we have multiple papers confirming psychologists don’t understand society.
How closely do Uber drivers have to follow the suggested route? Do they get penalized if they often don't follow it?
The problem is threefold:

1) it's not a true shutdown because the military still get paid. There is a builtin rightwing fudge of what gets deemed "essential".

2) Most governments have a similar possibility of not being able to pass a budget; but, in the Westminster system, this forces fresh elections. The people get to decide on what compromise is necessary to resume business.

3) Businesses should not make their employees into creditors. Failing to make payroll is usually a sign that a business is either unethical or nearly bankrupt. This screws over people badly, e.g. https://twitter.com/shawndgoldman/status/1085733207469891585

"The NASA Postdoctoral Program contract runs out of money tomorrow. This means its fellows - some of the best and brightest space scientists in the world - will go without pay starting Friday. These folks are contractors, which means they aren't covered by the backpay bill."

(There was also some suggestion that not being paid would automatically terminate their J-1 visas, but I can't find that now)
Yes. I work at a 15-person agency doing website design and SEO for small businesses up from about 5 when I started there 4 years ago. We specialize in a few verticals and have a few industries we won’t work with. We do wordpress only and turn away plenty of clients who we don’t want to work with.
Quake 2 introduced (and overused) coloured lights, which are great showcase of path-tracing's capabilities.
They were Pulitzer finalists for a couple of years, but I don't think they won. Also, one of the articles that got them that was pretty bad - and I mean Russian mind control chemicals levels supposedly driving someone to suicide bad. (Though to be fair, Buzzfeed initially made it look like an article about the British police and coroners treating a Russian assassination as suicide for no reason, only mentioning that there was evidence no-one else was present and that he had a history of depression and suicide attempts which they suggested were caused by Russian mind control towards the very end. It also took a certain amount of digging to realise that they massively overstated his role in the Litvinenko investigation to justify why Russia would assassinate him.) https://www.buzzfeed.com/janebradley/scientist-who-helped-co...
I haven't been to singapore for a copule of years, but I didn't notice Uber undercutting taxis, it was just easier to get them (especially out of the city centre), and easier to expense, with a single bill at the end of the month.

Likewise in the UK, all uber drivers are licensed private hire drivers, same as Sal's taxis. It's just that they tend to be far better. The only illegality I've seen is potentially breaking the regulations I've heard exist to prevent a taxi based in stoke and thus licensed under Staffs driving me from Crewe (Cheshire) to Knutsford (Cheshire). Far better than the unlicense minicabs that used to be so common in cities on a friday night.
Try Xojo – https://www.xojo.com/
There’s no reason you can’t do both... simply build your internal code to check against multiple sources. You can asynchronously hit your bloom filter, HIBP, DeHashed, etc. and cut short whenever there is a hit.

In this way you get the best of all worlds; speed, highest degree of accuracy, and reduced dependency on a single external API.
Isn't it about taxi vs ride sharing? The author wrote:

"I’m also more aware of the profound compromises we’ve made in giving tech companies, even those with well-intentioned CEOs, so much power over our daily lives"

How do you interpret that?

Compromises over what if this isn't taxi vs ride share? What compromises have we made here?
To this day, I can say "doompa choompa doompa choompa doompa choompa choompa choompa" and my brothers and father will know exactly what I'm talking about.
Yes. Age/race/gender/national-origin discrimination in hiring and firing should by punishable by, say, 4 months in prison.
... there is a minimum threshold on at least company size and revenue built into the GDPR.
Well, I misread the comment I responded to. I thought they said that academy graduates don’t start off at lieutenant and start off at a higher rate.
https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1038517363212206080

> PCs are just several embedded devices in a trenchcoat
> #3 I'd like contributors to always retain access control of their photos and videos - they can revoke subsets of their files from the dataset at any point.

I don't understand. If the dataset can be used by other people (you, the owner, and other people) then you can't force everyone to delete the photos. They can pretend that they deleted the photos and avoid using them publicly from this time. This is similar to the API in Tweeter that make you pinky promise to delete the deleted tweets. But there is no delete button in the Internet, only a hide button.
It didn't come across as sarcastic to me, btw
Only semi related, but I still have to share.

The guys at Roland are genius. I have a somewhat old Roland RD-150 digital keyboard. While searching online for the user manual, I found a 'firmware update' on the official site.

I was curious. My keyboard is pretty old school, it doesn't have USB or anything like that. I downloaded the firmware update and opened the zip file.

It contained a readme... and a .midi file. It sort of blew my mind. They were sending firmware updates over MIDI! You had to press a certain key combination on the keyboard and play back the MIDI file into the MIDI in, and the firmware update would be complete.

True hackers.
Apparently it's legal in some cases when you give it directly to people

>Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/put...
I think you're conflating two thing: solvability and rationality. Your example shows that nothing may be completely solvable, because the cost of calculation is too high. It says nothing about the universe being fundamentally irrational.
Facebook to teens: Plz laugh at these old memes
How would you go about mastering the principles rather than practicing random algorithmic challenges?
It seems like all of these changes are related to being able to use git inside of atom, but I use the terminal for that and have zero desire to use clunky GUI. The last few release haven't addressed any of the issues or really progressed the editor forward.
> Dell announced it would become a public company again through a complex arrangement that involved buying back tracking shares for VMware, the software business that Dell owns an 80 percent chunk of. ...

> ... Taking over an existing listed stock allowed Dell to avoid the usual IPO process...

Huh? Can someone please explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old?
Similar, you can save and load synth presets using MIDI on microKORG.
Surprisingly, it doesn't work with cheaper MIDI cables.
There is apparently an increase in heart-attacks right after the transition, attributed
by some to the loss of an hours sleep...

https://www.livescience.com/50068-daylight-saving-time-heart...
The 1/4" audio jack goes back to about 1878: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)
Xenix 2!
Money no one deserves. Eat the rich.
Sal's cars, based in Northwich in the UK, charge drivers a 'radio fee', and send cabs their way. They don't employ the drivers, they don't own the cars.

I struggle to see how Uber is any different to Sal's cars.

In the UK, Uber requires its drivers to have taxi insurance. In addition, it has 'backstop insurance', just in case an uber driver had lost their insurance / license.

I'd far rather be in an Uber in the UK than a typical minicab in the UK. Or a typical yellow taxi in new york.
Inside the Strange yet Profitable World of Retail Arbitrage
It's not the ELI5 version but Matt Levine has a detailed writeup about it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-02/dell-i...
Accountability Indirection? Ass-covering Intelligence?
>t feels problematic to me that you are saying to someone that they "need to stay far, far away" from some aspect of computing. It's a kind of gatekeeping. Sure, an outfit like NASA needs to make sure that they don't have amateurs writing their systems software. But in the industry more broadly, people have to be given permission to pursue whatever interests them. It's important, for diversity and the invention of new applications, that "differently able" coders aren't told, by intimidating stereotypical computer science types, that they don't have the aptitude to architect a useful system, or that it's "a rule" that people with their skills will just create problems.

I really needed to hear this thanks.
1993 FORD MUSTANG COBRA R SELLS FOR a RECORD $132K
Real businesses that are making money.

You don't see them hiring much because they are nursing old systems that are imperfect but not entirely out of control, have low employee turnover, etc.
How would this be any difference with a legacy taxi company?
Not only database, Oracle's ERP is also popular.
All right let me try this once more:

SwiftOnSecurity uses they/them pronouns as listed in their profile.
> Had Microsoft actually improved the POSIX personality on Windows NT, instead of having it as bullet point to win contracts in some areas, I doubt many would have cared that much about GNU/Linux.

I can see why Microsoft wanted to push Windows and the GUI itself as a new way of interacting with the system, rather than have it come off as a cheap copy of Linux. You couldn't even administer Windows server from the command line until quite recently if I recall. You had to install all of Windows, including the GUI, even if all you wanted was access to the Powershell. Its only changed from Windows Server 2012 onwards. They really believed that Linux and the terminal were obsolete.
CHRIST THE REDEEMER BRAZIL PHOTO
And Debian GNU/Hurd too.
Using Facebook's Prophet to forecast sales over time
The author talks about compromises we made in accepting technology. I'm pretty sure she doesn't argue it should have been different.

Now, let's address your question, should it be different? Sure, but not taxi vs people driving. All drivers should be targeted, not just professional drivers. This is not like airliners vs general aviation, because those two very rarely share paths and runway, while we all share the same roads. If I die as a taxi passenger because the other driver made a mistake, I'll still be dead.

Also, deaths on the road in the western world has been drastically declining because of campaign and laws against drunk driving, enforcement of speed limits, better engineering of roads and car safety. What are you proposing here for technology to increase road safety when you are saying maybe it should be different?
My guess is they do have actual law enforcement sources who told them what they reported but their sources were wrong.
> GIMP and emacs don't use hardware acceleration in the first place.

Honest question: On most OSes, don't regular drawing operations in these programs (Bitblits, font renderings) typically use hardware acceleration through the OS? On crostini, are these things currently done via pure CPU operations, or are they already being mapped to hardware-accelerated API calls, even before the new OpenGL support?
It's clearly akin to human is mammal.

One is a category, another is a sub-category.
History of Superconductors
A Tradeoff in the Neural Code Across Regions and Species
There is always demand for well-designed things that last a long time. I never run out of work or referrals.
I didn't say we should not try to get better at knowing things about nutrition. I said we shouldn't trust most of the "results" in this topic. This is trivially correct unless you believe eggs both cause and cure heart attacks.
Except no one uses basic RC oscillators in Audio gear, and the cheapest bottom of the barrel crystal has already mentioned 50 ppm accuracy and excellent stability.
Unfortunately Pixelbook is not supported by GalliumOS, otherwise a multiboot with actual linux would prove to be a better alternative.

Google sent me a free Acer Chromebook 11 N7, with custom firmware I'm able to dual boot ChromeOS & GalliumOS (built on Xubuntu) & use the latter for running some experiments where fan-less X86 arch comes in handy.

Till X86 based SBC become affordable & widely available, the Celeron based Chromebooks seems to be an google alternative.
Great Value[1] Linux

or if we are going with something from the last ten years,

LinuxBasics

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-the-heck-is-the-Great-Value-brand
i do very little freelance work but none of my clients have a custom site. it's all updating/tweaking squarespace, shopify, wordpress. people LOVE to have custom stuff, even on the pre built platforms.
Glibc is also GNU, though. You typically talk through it to kernel interfaces.
I guess this makes sense in the light that fb claims to have a shortage of inventory, so maybe they don't need the money and they are trying harder then it appears.

That said there are some obvious and simple ways to kill this at the root that fb seems to have been ignoring for years. Maybe they are just obvious from the outside looking in when you know how the black hats operate these endeavors.
The access control is non-negotiable. Compute solutions will have to be distributed in a way that they can work with it. For example, first few layers of a neural network can be computed locally on contributor machines and transfer only the results of the calculations.
> Dell’s fortune is now $27 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, up from $15 billion in 2013.

If he had simply parked his money in a s&p 500 index with dividends reinvested, his $15B would have grown to $26.6B. All without breaking a sweat or exposing himself to concentrated risk.

His investment and turnaround of Dell was successful to be sure, but not nearly as spectacular as the article seems to be implying.
Yes. I run a small, profitable web design and development business that serves small business. Biz owners who choose Wix/Squarespace are the very bottom of the market. We instead service those who have graduated beyond that level, who need more advanced solutions, and more importantly someone to do the work for them. We slot right in between DIY and a biz that has in house web team.

Hilarious to read some comments here from the "no" crowd - talk about out of touch. Are all you guys holed up in San Fran/Boston disconnected from the small business that actually powers America?
Can you shed some light on how you find clients?
Doing exactly that is called 'concern-trolling'
> Eventually I hope EU completely bans organised lobbying, nothing good ever comes from pandering to special interests.

Google have been lobbying hard against this for months
It really depends in my experience: I think I prefer IRC for more complex/specialized/niche topics.

Quick back-and-forth for details is very efficient compared to e-mail or postings somewhere if asking for details is really needed. Similarly, it feels more appropriate for really short questions.

The waiting isn't so much an issue if you have a stable IRC setup (or the channel has good infrastructure), but can be a problem for people that don't have that. Generally, "please ping me if you reply" works fine, and less active channels can be quite good at directing questions to the right person.

And a big thing is audience: if there's only a few people I think will know a good answer, asking in an IRC channel or on a mailing list they use is more efficient to get them to see it. On Stack Overflow I have the risk of not only having it to word in a way that the few people I want a response understand it, but also so that everyone else doesn't feel like it's a bad question, can only ask questions SO finds acceptable, and maybe the right people don't even look at SO, or don't see the question.

This obviously doesn't apply to questions many people from a larger community can answer.
The correct link is: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/19/arizona-four...
The guide would have been extremely relevant in the days before Stack Overflow and useful search came around along with the rest of the web friendly internet - the lack of date on the article makes me question when it was originally written, in those days one had to pray someone posted the same question on Usenet or else one would have to go on a road trip to a book store, do an extensive real life document search, then failing that, hope that the technical book store might have something to address the issue or, failing that, copious back issues of IEEE periodicals/Dr Dobbs/etc at the college library (or the ones one had in personally library first).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947242.
I don't think it was at all MIDI's fault. It was going to happen with or without it. Unless you just of consider MIDI a touchstone of the general computerization of the industry.
That's not Roland being genius, though. That's kind of literally one of the things sysex messages were added to the MIDI 1.0 spec. It's also why it's taking so effing long for webmidi to become a standard, because allowing sysex would mean your browser could in theory tell your midi device to brick itself.
The last time the Dems played ball, it was around DACA. Trump and Republicans promised to fix DACA if the Dems agreed to some of their demands. The Govt shut down, Dems were somehow blamed for this despite a republican majority, and the end result was a bill [1] that gave Trump some of what he wanted, including border security funding. Then DACA never was put on the table because naturally, that's how they negotiate.

Acting like Trump is a rational negotiator is delusional. Why should the Dems ever bother listening to his demands when last time they negotiated, he backed out of the deal? And you're objectively wrong, again, on it being a clean CR.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_...
I didn't know what this was either.

So I searched for it.

> Urban Dictionary: God Donut
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=God%20Donut

> Aug 7, 2014 - "God donut" is a censored way to say "God damn it!". Best known for being in iPhone autocorrects.

And then I posted it for everyone else to see too.
Solar and Wind Power Investors Get More Bang for Their Bucks
Don't forget a lot of it comes down to compensation as well. It's not unusual for FAANG company to pay 2x more compared to another public company for example.
But always juniper, unless you're talking about sloe gin, which is always qualified as such.
Most of the information is not available on demand, but only if you have the requisite credentials.
Well, a gcode file is usually entirely composed of "move" operations. I'm adding one extra character on a 8 characters (at a minimum) line, for an increase of 12.5% at the worst case.

A CNC moves with speeds on the mm/s range. So does a 3D printer (unless you ask for larger movements, but those take less codes/s). They also have a precision on the 100's of µm, but let's push it down to 10's here so we overestimate things by an order of magnitude.

That means they'll need around 1000 codes/s, with a minimum of 64kbps on the 8 character case, or 72kbps with my codes. I don't think there is any serial interface chipset on the market that can't do 512kbps even on a 100's of meters long cable. Not to say that everything nowadays runs over USB anyway.

The gcodes are a leggacy that isn't needed anymore. And since both sides of the CNC link are composed of overpowered computers doing anything on software, the only reason it didn't change already is because nobody bothered to do something better. I'm not much bothered by them either so, I'm not jumping over it, but it is suboptimal.
I don't know if it's as effective to go after the company for this. In an ideal world, you'd go after the people who made the decision, even if they've left the company.
not sure that's useful information to highlight how bad MIDI is, given that you can effectively get any frequency out of a hardware device that supports the coarse+fine channel tuning instructions. It's high time MIDI gets an update, but "I can't get my non-western scale out of this device!" is not one of the problems MIDI 1.0 actually suffers from.
MIDI is already well-supported over USB, I don't see why MIDI 2.0 should be any different.
"Much of this spending-installation correlation comes from investment in more expensive offshore wind, which generates more power per megawatt than onshore turbines. Also, onshore turbines are more efficient and produce much more power now, on average, than they did 15 years ago. In terms of investment and capacity, it’s “spend the same, get the same,” but in terms of the cost of power generated, it’s “spend the same, get more generated power at a lower cost.”

Solar’s paradigm is different: “Spend more, get more,” then “spend the same, get much, much more.”

Solar investment has increased by a factor of 11 since 2004. Solar installations have increased by a factor of 110. Today’s solar asset builders invest an order of magnitude more money than they did 15 years ago, and they build far more generation capacity. And, like wind projects, today’s solar projects generate significantly more energy than those built 15 years ago."
Yes, I do. In general, I stick to simple things. Enough samples and everything is normal, god bless the law of large numbers.

If the precision of your estimation is not a direct function of the standard deviation, but is a "hidden property of the process that obtained" it, we have much bigger problems that losing "valuable information"
MSI CEO Dishes on Intel Shortage, AMD Growth, Taking Share from Apple
Cabbies aren't much better. I had a cab driver once that apparently didn't realize the gas and brake pedals had a range of motion. He stomped on the gas pedal to the floor to go, and stomped on the brake to the floor to slow down. And so we went down the street every 100 feet, accelerating like mad then screeching the tires to stop, over and over again.
My salary is renegotiated every year. If my employer truly thinks they can get a better offer they can reduce my salary to whatever they think my market rate is. Obviously they don't, because that kind of strategy is, well, completely batshit if you want to run a successful business.

Yet you're saying that the same thing is just fine if the business waits for a "lay-off" and then preferentially fires me for reasons having nothing to do with performance?
Yes. They provide this in the R-CNN paper, "Compared to the multi-feature, non-linear kernel SVM approach, we achieve a large improvement in mAP, from 35.1% to 53.7% mAP, while also
being much faster".

Also in the metrics provided in the paper, the best method was SegDPM had around 40.4% mAP. Beat it by a pretty large margin at its time.