skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different ways of training things than relying other people's data. For instance alpha zero is still the most remarkable achievement in ML or 'AI' in my opinion, and it used 0 human games in learning to play chess. It training was entirely from self-play. I think models that rely on learning from these sort of weighted monte carlo type systems are likely to end up far more robust than ones that try to learn from humans. In the AlphaZero case this was provably true.

But in the more general case, the optimal solution for humans and the optimal solution for machines is not necessarily the same. So in driving, for instance, it may be the case that operating a vehicle in one way is safest for a human - yet not necessarily so for a machine. It's not hard to come up with examples. We are awesome at intuition and awful at microsecond reactions. Computers are awful at intuition and awesome at microsecond reactions. The optimal style of 'play' is likely going to differ. Yet if the machine is trained based on human data it would end up trying to shoehorn itself into replicating human behavior which may be suboptimal for it.

All that said, this sounds more like marketing talk. My guess is that Apple simply decided that self driving is extremely difficult and is going to come with some major growing pains which could negatively affected their crafted brand image, making it generally a poor investment of time and resources.
No, we deem that the return after a certain point is smaller than the return when invested elsewhere. That does not mean we accept or condone crime. I know someone who lives in Houston. Houston is the "human trafficking capital of the world", so the police are rather busy. This friend had someone smash his window and steal his brand-new leather briefcase with his brand-new laptop inside. The police barely managed to take a police report, because they are "busy".

The problem with allowing a "certain amount of crime" is that it's inherently a bright-line issue. What level is acceptable? What dollar amount? Bread is okay but a laptop is wrong; where in between those does the line fall?
It may be a little evil... but your comment reminded me of this online quiz that makes you try to classify pictures in two categories, prof or hobo... It turns out I'm not really good at it. https://www.proforhobo.com/
Entrepreneur Went from a Failed Startup to Raising $110M
This list kind of makes me want to work with you! And I didn't even work in startups... I guess that experience can be very widespread...
Doesn't GDPR require explicit cosent[0] for collection of sensitive private information? This is what many website has implemented as popups with "I accept" or "Manage Settings" options. I don't remember going through such a flow with Deliveroo and if I did I would have disabled the "marketing" category for sure.

0: https://www.i-scoop.eu/gdpr/explicit-consent/
I’ve also seen this at the Wal-Mart in Mountain View - definitely a cool idea.
It’s important to remember that any person is possibly a worker, but certainly a consumer. In fact, those two aspects average out to perfect balance, by definition.

So even in a worst case scenario, where all immigrants happen to have one skill only, and overwhelm the market for, say, phone booth cleaning, they are also a market for any other profession of at least equal size.

In practice, the numbers of immigrants should be easily absorbed by the vastly larger population of the US, although it may be beneficial to, for example, spread out the impact among the states and invest in vocational training.
I ghostwrite a decent amount for side money and as a ghostwriter, I can tell you that my clients LOVE me. I've heard many horror stories from them about "writers" who turn in articles that are primarily written in "txt spch" with emoji thrown in. I'm hyper-critical of my writing, and that seems to be an uncommon quality, especially if you are searching on common freelancer boards.

If you are looking for a ghostwriter, ask your writers to submit MULTIPLE examples of their work and give the most detailed guidelines you can. Honestly, hiring a ghostwriter for your project will be difficult. You're going to need to put in the work to make sure that the writer's voice matches your needs, and your needs are in-line with what your writer can deliver. Communication is super important. Ask for early draft reviews to make sure you are on target and cancel the relationship early. Getting a terrible manuscript that you will need to re-write is worse than paying someone for a few hours of their time and cutting your losses.
Yes, bottles of wine as well.
I have those on too! I saw the suggestion here, so I get: app notifications and emails. I also get notified if my balance gets too low. I used to want all that off, but email is a reasonable "paper trail" to know I'm not going crazy if I see an odd notification.
But everyone who was admitted can take the class, right? This article is talking about people being admitted, but then not being able to take the class at all.
Borjas's results consistently lie at the furthest extreme of existing studies. You can see this in the survey I linked. If I claim that the aggregate of research doesn't show a long-term effect of immigration on wages, it's not a rebuttal to cite a subset of data from one tail of the distribution.

Less abstractly, Borjas's methods are viewed as suspect by other economists working in this area. See, e.g, this review[1].

[1] http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/card-peri-jel-april-6-2...
I've migrated my Boost builds from Travis and Appveyor to your CI offering recently.
It wasn't super smooth, but I got it to work quite fast and I like it a lot.

So sure, I'm missing caching that I've had on Travis. But honestly, it builds reliably fast anyway. On Travis, I always needed to wait a LONG time to get macOS agents, on Appveyor, we were limited to 2 parallel builds. Here, everything starts all at once, completes under 10 minutes (there's quite a lot to build and test).

If I could, I would love to have an sccache ( https://github.com/mozilla/sccache ) compatible distributed free caching solution for my C++ projects. That'd be a killer feature!
In PHP people would (often badly) reinvent the wheel on every project.

In JS people would install packages for every small problem they have.

Neither is good.

I always check if I can write it myself in reasonable time, if not, I install a package for it.

I'd install React, but I'd write the navigation myself.

I'd install a video-player, but I'd write a SVG animation myself.

etc.
Spacex has proven NASA's only purpose is military industrial. It is a money pit with poor results per dollar spent. National security has been made the only excuse for the SLS.
I actually much prefer the Beyond Burger. Maybe it was cooked wrong, but the Impossible Burger I tried tasted a lot like a Morningstar Farm's Griller's Prime to me. Not a bad flavor mind you, just not worth the $3 surcharge.
I felt the same way when I worked on a large Azure project years ago. It seemed that nobody uses it for anything serious, reliability was awful (their API would return 500s in the middle of the day, no notice of downtime, VMs would lose network connectivity, disks would take 30+ minutes to attach, and much more).

The client I was working with is very big and notable, so they had lots of help from Microsoft, and even so, there were so many problems with the service. I'd hate to see how smaller customers are treated.
Racket is very exemplary with its documentation: https://docs.racket-lang.org/

GUI documentation will likely never show up: the current graphic framework is outdated, subject to deprecation and no subject to improvement since Athens low level layer was left as it is. It may or may not be replaced by Bloc or something else. I don't thing anyone is willing to write documentation when there is not clear direction regarding the GUI framework.
What is an easy to recover compression/archive format?
I want to store a file for long term archivation (let's say 5-10 years) and I am afraid of data corruption, in your experience what was a good archive format that helped with corruption or recovery? I plan more than a back-up so data loss "should" not be a problem, but I do not know an easy way to check/protect for silent data corruption.
Getting into class, naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors?
I mean if they keep using the same exact "restaurant" whose address ends up being an Apartment... It would be really suspect. Not saying this is the case, but it'd be more obvious if it were.
EuroNCAP tests are a way more advanced than those done in North America[1]:

"Ford Mustang hits the wall with 2-star Euro NCAP score [...] Lack of modern safety technology and other flaws mark Ford's sports car down in the latest round of tests. That's the lowest score a brand new vehicle has achieved in quite some time. [...] In NHTSA tests the Mustang scored five starts in every metric."

[1] https://www.evo.co.uk/ford/mustang/18757/ford-mustang-hits-t...
> Deliveroo has blamed the breach on cybercriminals getting hold of login details “stolen from another service unrelated to our company in a major data breach”.

> This is despite the company not asking customers to enter a Card Verification Value 2 (CVV2) code when making orders, a card security system designed to ensure that someone ordering something online has physical possession of the card used to pay for it.

More info on an article from November 2016: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/11/25/fraudsters-eat-f...

BBC's Watchdog documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3ZMjkWFfDZQ8zFYQJL... (with response from Deliveroo)
To run fake orders directly you need to steal credit cards info instead of hacking a Deliveroo account, it might be harder.
Overbooking increases the likelihood of full flights which increases the efficiency of the system and reduces costs. It's hard to see a problem with that.
Some very broke people borrow money so they can look well dressed. Appearances can be deceiving.
I attended a tech resume workshop recently and the recruiters there said they would absolutely discard resumes with photos (and other overly personal info) on them due to bias, and were instructed to do so by their employers. Interesting, but understandable.

I do wonder how that reconciles with all the social media around though considering the main way recruiters reach out to me is LinkedIn.
I did, and use it in the company slack, email, salesforce, etc.

Like it or not, others respond to our image. Using a professional photo is a great way to influence that response.
An example: Uber drivers requesting fake cleaning fee was recently discussed here on HN. Uber refuse to handle it properly, so people solve it by doing chargebacks only to find themselves blocked from the service.

Also heard it with lots of other vendors, but won't name without having something more substantial to back it up with.
The big issue for me is that I have a joint bank account with my partner, so using my debit card for that automatically splits the bill. I suppose we could each get a second credit card that we use only for joint transactions and pay those off from the shared account, but that means that the joint balance is now effectively split over three accounts, and at any time each of us can only see the balance on two of them (not the other's credit card). So it's definitely not "less hassle" in that respect.
I’d be in favour of that.

I can see the point in border controls for goods (laws on what can be sold vary from place to place), and an army to stop someone else taking over, but not for individual people, be they workers, tourists, students, children, pensioners, or refugees.
Photographing computers to show the art inside the black box
Are developers really terrified of speaking to real customers, or are the managers terrified of letting developers speak to real customers? Personally, I've seen more of the latter than the former.
Bing blocked in China
It just shows how many people verify PGP signatures, if this was discovered after a month.
I hope for your sake you never need a dermatologist.
So don't, unless you need to, and then it's OK?
Looks like it, and for which there is a good rebuttal: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...
Ask HN: How to get a job in software engineering, as a mathematician?
Software engineering is often touted as a possible career path for those with a strong background in mathematics, but every position I've seen seems to required a wide C.S. skillset as well as industry experience. So how can a pure mathematician with modest coding chops get a job in software engineering?
Yes, because it’s usually pretty inexpensive (I think I paid $35) relative to having a perfectly lit, clean background picture when one is needed at the last minute
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Fair enough. But the markup on those items is crazy; you could order £100 worth of beer + wine and I'd be surprised if you could resell it for more than £10-20. Seems like a really risky way to make (not much) money.
Humans can make risk/reward calculations that computers can't. Top take an extreme example, a given set of snow and ice conditions might be bad enough that any reasonable person would not want to drive in them. In such a situation, any well designed self-driving car would refuse to drive. BUT my wife is pregnant, it's a difficult pregnancy with a high risk of death for her and the infant, and she's suddenly gone into labour weeks early in a freak snow storm.

A contrived example, yes, but the point is there may well be conditions in which, given a wider context, a human would do things a computer can't because it doesn't have the wider context. The thing is these contexts come up all the time in real life. A human can take responsibility, but a computer can't and a human that doesn't in detail know exactly how the computer is designed and will deal with different situations can't make a reasonable judgement about how far to trust the computer in such situations anyway.
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besides self service cashiers i saw here in Europe global queues implemented only in Kaufland hypermarket, they actually don't use one big global queue but have queues assigned to group maybe of 4 cashiers max., in the end anything it's better than waiting at one cashier queue
And for those interested in making their own AI to play Starcraft 1 BroodWar and become a part of the huge BroodWar AI community (get in touch on Discord at: https://discord.gg/w9wRRrF), they can follow the following tutorial: https://sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=tutorial

Your AI would then be able to participate in tournaments and fight other AIs on the existing ladders.

Additionally, one could watch BW bots fighting each other on: https://www.twitch.tv/sscait
They aren’t surprised. Rather, they simply can’t make all planes go to the same place. That happens over time, but then you have recessions where that plane becomes extremely unpopular, which messes up that growth.
And before that, in the late 90s, due to the millenium bug goldrush. Now it's 'AI'...
Look at the world around you there are people literally starving to death do you honestly think it would be hard to sell groceries on the side? Order 100$ in meat and cheese and offer it at a discount and you will have people lined up around me. I would have literally no problem selling this all day long around me. You comment made me wonder how you can not see the disparity in the world. As for the risk of stolen goods that really is a minor risk I think. The poor want their next break. In my town it would be so easy to offload stolen food just through word of mouth.
Yes, you do have to support blue skies research. I just don't think building a bigger hole in Switzerland next to the current is blue skies enough.
The guidance is absolutely right, but the morals of a sizeable minority of recruiters that I've met have been "flexible" to say the least.
He (pkhamre) didn't say that John Krafcik (Waymo CEO) "not wanting fully autonomous vehicles" at all. He is criticizing the practice of confidently predicting the forever (im)possibility of something based on a projection of current technologies decades into the future.

Krafcik's a world leader in the field of autonomous cars, so we have good reason to weight his opinions more heavily than those of random HN users. On the other hand, his "may never change" verdict on sensor tech is vague to the point of uselessness. Whatever happens, he will have had a point.
It doesn't make a blind bit of difference. As long as you're a) not obese, b) not eating too much sugar and b) eating reasonable quantities of vegetables, everything else is a rounding error. Read just about any study on nutrition and you'll see negligible effect sizes at the very cusp of statistical significance.

All of the confusion about what we're supposed to eat derives from this simple fact. We've got all sorts of data suggesting that this diet or this food might be good for you, but the effect sizes are too small to care about.

If you obsessively tweak your diet based on every little scrap of data, you might possibly earn yourself three or four months of healthy life expectancy compared to a diet that your great-grandmother would recognise as being sensible. It's just not worth the effort.
They both look the same (except for use of pyramid vs circle). What exactly are the major differences as you see?
They may have been embellishing that claim; however, I think what they were getting at is that in some situations using the chargeback mechanism can have wider repercussions. For example: if you are "ripped off" through Steam on a particular purchase and use a chargeback, they may shut down your account. In that case, you would lose access to all of your games purchased through Steam. Similarly, if you use a chargeback with a Google Play Store purchase you may lose access to your entire Google Account.
American justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions
Brave Previews Opt-In Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel
Nope, though I'm using a photo from an (unpaid) photoshoot from a startup accelerator, made by a semi-pro photographer.
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A marketing pitch for sanitary pads. Cloth and traditional alternatives worked wonderfully in India for thousands of years, but who listens..

>>Nielsen, a research firm, estimates that around 70% of women in the country cannot afford sanitary products: 300m use unhygienic alternatives like newspapers, dry leaves and cotton rags.
"This is great. A no-nonsense, modern take on healthy nutrition. "

Even though it's technically 'no nonsense' - it actually is effectively 'nonsense' from a communications perspective.

It's almost meaningless, and un-actionable, and I don't think it will have any effect, on any group. I wonder if this should simply be a single page of points urging us to 'eat healthy' and that should be it.

Consider the main takeaway points:

'Enjoy your food'
'Eat protein'
'Eat lots of vegetables'
'Chose whole grain foods'

Seriously?

This is essentially very traditional approach to food, with noticeably less focus on carbs (we don't work on farms anymore), and also the absence milk, cheese and almost absence of meat which I believe is likely a shade ideological as opposed to nutritional.

It surely is good advice, but it's not specific at all, and essentially boils down to 'eat healthy, don't each junk food'.

Seriously consider this:

https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendatio...

It's the page on 'how to enjoy your food'.

"tasting the flavours"
"being open to trying new foods"
"developing a healthy attitude about food"

Seriously - a page devoted to instructing us to 'taste the flavours' of food.

Here the section on your 'eating environment':

Influences on eating and drinking. These can include:

distractions
where you eat
who you eat with
what you are doing while you are eating

Eating environments can affect:

what you eat and drink
the amount you eat and drink
ow much you enjoy eating

It's really an eerie thing to read.

I should add: the recipes look really good however.
it doesn't necessarily make them right either; there's always a tradeoff. when I was a kid, I was allowed to spend as much time as I wanted on the computer (I dunno why lol), but I could only watch thirty minutes of TV/movies per day and my parents refused to get a console. my parents were always very conservative with what I was allowed to watch, so what little I could watch was 2-3 years behind what my median classmate was watching in maturity level. when I was 8/9, all my classmates were obsessed with james bond. I asked my dad when I could watch james bond too and he said "maybe when you're 14". I know my parents had good intentions, but it meant that I couldn't really participate in most of the conversations my classmates had at school. I essentially lived in a culture shifted back several years. it was extremely isolating. on the other hand, I did get real good with computers and make a good living from coding now.
> It's hard to see a problem with that.

I think it's a value judgement. Is a lowered price of the majority of instances of a thing (flying or taking a class, in these examples) a worthwhile trade for the reward being a probability rather than a guarantee? Is the severity of the minority case (getting bumped) worth the trade? What actual probabilities for happy vs. sad path are acceptable to you?

Those are subjective questions with no inherently correct answers.
I tend to agree with the people saying there's a problem in Google. But that said, I also think Google should have the right to say what can and can't be broadcast. Otherwise, you make the company transmit, broadcast, and disseminate viewpoints: coercing speech.
Yeah, remote work is a huge part of it. To be honest it comes down to a big mortgage in Dublin or using my deposit to buy a house in cash in Offaly. I suspect we're due for a crash, too, making said mortgage even less enticing.

But if I find myself cramming in to the Luas from Heuston to the Docklands in a few years, well, it'll be my comeuppance for wanting to own a home outright.
I think this is a problem across the board in UK univeristies these days. When I did my CS degree (1993), I was one of two people in the year who got 1st class, now I think it's something like 25% awarded 1sts and the rest get 2:1s
Finally someone will kill Zapier.
More here
Disposable Pads Are A Hazard, A Look At Some Alternatives
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/disposable-pads-...
It’s pretty easy. Auditing 101.

You gather data on the manpower requirements for farmer Joe, look at the payroll taxes paid by farmers with similar operations, and audit the bottom standard deviations for tax compliance.

One of the reasons that conservatives traditionally have such a hard on for the IRS is that it’s the primary agency able to detect these types of frauds. In the years they control the House, they defund IRS enforcement ability.
Wow what a racist fuck.
When GitHub started they didn't have that. Now they do and every time a programmer writes a nice tool and posts it here the first comment is from someone telling him to change the project name.
The rest of the involved people are guilty for silent approval.
> reversed quotas put in place in the mid 1920’s

Is a very interesting way to put it. The Hart-Cellar act was decidedly about removing racialized immigration policy that was based upon the eugenics movement [1], it’s passage comes amid civil rights legislation.

Indeed there are internal U.S. migrations taking place — over 10% of the U.S African American population left the southern states over the first half of the 20th century, the affordability of and relatively less overt oppression in the current U.S. south are driving a return [2].

[1] https://cis.org/Report/HartCeller-Immigration-Act-1965

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/opinion/sunday/racism-is-...
Apparently you have waaay more time than I do to sue people in small claims court. Charge back via calling up my CC company is much easier and quicker.