skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, many have similar look and feel and interior appointment, but I fail to see how this is worse than apartment and condo buildings in Japan, SKorea, China, Taiwan, etc with their penchant for exterior decorative tiles of different kinds but generally quite interchangeable. Also they look better than the low to mid rise abominations from the 60s and 70s.
Also fire suppression. That's become a bit of a problem, as the forests are a lot more flammable now than they were historically.
> 1 - Medium risk medium reward opportunities exist (a currently unprofitable but otherwise promising startup addressing a 25m niche can't get bank debt or venture funding)

I think one of the main arguments in favor of a bimodal distribution of VC and Bank (or high and low risk) funding is that if you are in that middle "medium risk medium reward" zone it can be really difficult to defend your position for any stretch of time. You will be attacked from both bigger players to whom you've proven a market, and smaller players who are willing to take bigger risks to see if they can blow that market up (or bite off a smaller piece of it).

In order to maintain a medium risk medium reward business you need something approaching a monopoly, but also you need the market in which you have a monopoly to be growing and not attracting new players. Maybe some of these exist, but they are very rare and I suspect identifying them is not significantly easier than identifying startups with high growth potential.

So I think skrebbel's question is pretty fair, though I suspect OP has heard it a lot. I would predict that this fund passes on WAY more deals than even a standard VC fund, and will be required to determine the risk of the investment even more effectively. That's a tough problem, and I do really wish them luck!
oh wow, I stand corrected. I always thought it was 10 years old because I discovered it around 2008. Sheesh.
Worked well for Zynga
Yeah gcp model is not user friendly at all. I hope they’re working on improving it there’s no way to win if they keep on how they’re going .
I personally like support via slack. Scaleft had it and it was amazing. I only joined the gcp slack yesterday so I don’t know if there are answers as well as questions.
> some big entity creates something compelling early on (think Wikipedia)

Good example; if there's going to be a 'shared' mirrorworld it probably can't be an end in itself the way games are.

It would have to be at least one of informative (about the real world), social (so your network is all there), or common-ground experience (like watching popular shows and sports playoffs). And since 'informative' is fungible, it might not suffice unless there's a clear leader.

Or, I suppose, some major power might roll all the popular offerings into subsections of a top-level experience. It's not that hard to imagine Google or Apple setting up an AR 'appstore' from which you can open games, information, and so on. Google Glass was premature, but the idea made some sense as way to use existing accounts and image analysis abilities.
Is it possible for someone other than NASA to send a message to the rover? I'd be happy throwing a little money at a project to ping it monthly to see if there is a response.
How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers (2015)
It's actually a very good thing.

It will create a huge opportunity for new decentralized (IPFS-like) tech. that will run circles around this dumb regulation and force incumbent established players (YouTube and the like) to evolve or die.
RIP we will never forget you.
actually, since the end of the cold war, space exploration is a robot-first endeavor (and apart from ISS robot-only -- think of the countless exploratory missions, hubble, the rovers etc). the ISS barely counts as space exploration
Programmers say this Buddhist Bitcoin could “disrupt religion”
I like this, although it's a bit ambiguous whether it's the forests or Canada as a whole that experienced a "net carbon emmissions".
I mentioned specific areas in which Amazon has lobbied for tax law changes. These specific areas are different than the area of the article in question but the comment that I responded to wasn't talking specifically about the taxes mentioned in the article. That person wrote:

Don't hate the player, hate the game. If shit like this bothers you, write your local representatives and ask them to change it.

Then you wrote in response to me:

Lobbying is not some magical salve you rub on every problem to make the laws say whatever you want.
The reality is it's more convenient to pretend you have no power because then it excuses your inaction.

Now you seem to want to talk specifically about the taxes mentioned in the article. I think you are not staying on topic. We were never talking about that specific tax law.

My Google skills returned this:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-is-wrong-amazon-lob...

In 2012, facing a slew of these court rulings, Amazon dropped its opposition to the federal "marketplace fairness" laws Walmart had long pushed. In fact, Amazon joined the lobbying coalition to pass such legislation, which would force all online retailers to collect sales tax on every sale and remit it to the state of the buyer.

This is a huge compliance burden for smaller retailers but no big deal for Amazon. Also smaller retailers, with no network of warehouses, are not required under current law to collect sales taxes, and Amazon didn't like that. Pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, and bam—you impose a big burden on Amazon's smaller competitors.
Stewarding open source for the future
The slogan was "no taxation without representation", not "no taxation, ever".
We should stop calling "Documentary" what is essentially some form of entertainment with some predefined narrative that looks like it is a documentary.

In this category for example:

- Supersize me

- Pretty much every Michael Moore movie
Chinese internet would like a word with you.
im thinking p2p will be the next major target as well.
Fair enough.

For reference I was referring to Linux where Chromium and my DE all have their dictionaries set up correctly. I only ever seem to have this problem with Electron apps too. It's very annoying though.
Fair, though it is praised as being efficient for an Electron app
And the discussion from Troy Hunt...
https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1082890150223302657
Have you seen SpaceX's talk at some NVidia conference about their homegrown Computational Fluid Dynamics simulator? It was really interesting.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/27/rockets-shake-and-ra...
Great paper, I've only gone through about 10% of it, but it offers a lot that the vendor docs and industry talks don't.

Btw, this is David Patterson one of the inventors of RISC fame. Great podcast with him here (mostly about new Tensorflow chip and history): https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/11/07/computer-arc...

Worth noting that he's at Google, but it looks like he had AWS reviewers.
Was looking through Opportunity's Wikipedia page, and found this cool comparison of the embedded systems used in Mars rovers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_compute...

That lead me to the RAD6000 page, which was new to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RAD6000

"Reported to have a unit cost somewhere between US$200,000 and US$300,000, RAD6000 computers were released for sale in the general commercial market in 1996"

Anybody know why the per unit cost is so high? Low yields or is it that much more expensive?
This is one of those classic situations where the "why not both" meme is really appropriate. AIs and Robots and Humans working together.
Just to highlight that OP was (rightly) talking about business consumers.

As a business, under GDPR I am responsible for the compliance of my subcontractors (which includes Google Cloud or Azure for instance). I read about this Google blunder and I think that I have other sh*t to worry about than how Google is screwing around with my data. On the other hand, Microsoft has demonstrated time and again that they care about their customers’ data. 2 examples: the fight with the DoJ over access to emails stored in Ireland and the fact they subcontract Azure’s operations in Germany to a German company (to avoid having to hand over the keys to the data center to a 3-letter agency: they literally don’t have them).
Starcraft is so big in Korea that games are literally broadcast on over-the-air television and displayed in restaurants.

What would happen if you asked your local restaurant in the West to replace the NFL or NBA game with a video game?
They should just drop this garbage for good already, instead of bringing this horrible zombie back.
> C++ core library, thin UI layer on each platform.

The time required for coding in C++ is much more higher than javascript, just this point alone requires a bigger budget, time and a HR problem: hiring C++ developers vs javascript. You'll also spend more time configure each build for each platform, Electron has this automate for you already.

Web technologies are easier to learn: A designer can write CSS for your Electron desktop app but can not code the style in C++. It's just easier to add more people to the project. I'm aware than native tools do have IDE for designing UIs and easier markup languages like QML. Guess what, html and css are the true winners for the majority of developers/designers. The IDEs for native development are targets for developers, they don't account for designers. I've worked with several some years ago for windows, mac and linux.

> Why would you build your own widgets? The ones the OS provided have had years put into them.

The widget provided by the OS are basic. If you try to recreate a modern web interface you've to build each components by yourself. On the web you've plenty of option to quickly assemble a GUI. On Elementary OS, the OS style is done in CSS even though they use Vala/GTK+ to code the UI.

Also a cross platform GUI is a promise that is never delivered properly. With Electron apps can deliver a consistent UI: Slack looks the same regardless of the platform. With native, the UI looks good on one OS and like crap on others.

When Electron allows you to build a fairly complex app in 3 months, it's hard to sell native development due to the massive time you'll need. Just look at the React Native, it exists because it is a lot cheaper and faster than writing individual native iOS and Android apps.
A History of the Network Information Center
1) Acquisitions of actually innovative tech corps and their products, which may be incorporated into Amazons products or simply killed. Microsoft is quite good at this.

2) Monopoly means no competition = bad for pricing, quality of service, and ultimately, the market.

Are you unaware of federal anti-trust law and it's history?
While you bring up an important forestry mgmt issue (overgrowth of underbrush) I don’t think they count individual trees but rather surface area coverage.
The mindset that having a globally distributed team with global VPS coverage is more desirable than ensuring people's private data is handled with care is way more of a fucking disaster.
you do realize the mars rover was supposed to last 90 days? and we re still receiving data from the voyagers.
any robot missions to mars will still be remotely-orchestrated, however AI can be used to manage the time lag between earth and mars
Perhaps an opportunity for HBO to step in and make the canonical Frye Festival documentary.
Show HN: CoreData share, between applications/extensions with in memory updates.
Lobbyists routinely write the actual laws themselves and then just hand them over to politicians to run.
Actually I am being serious, not trolling.

To make my point more clearly -- I think accounting is too complicated to reduce to simple populist sound-bytes like "companies with X income should pay Y tax". I also think it's plausible that there are good reasons for some or all of the deductions Amazon is taking advantage of. That might not turn out to be the case, but it's impossible to know in advance without knowing what those deductions are.
Someone who's not a developer with student loan debt might call that greed as well. We are all very sympathetic to ourselves.
Define "robot"?
Aside from the fact that this is illegal under the current rules (most perquisites are considered income by the IRS), the yacht is an expense, so reduces the taxes the corporation pays under today's rules.
Either his GANN hasn't figured out that people's front teeth are usually symmetrically identical or I only know people with good dentists.
"Cosmodrome".
One way I've solved for this in presto (Athena) is creating a table that flattens the JSON, and views on the table to un-nest arrays or show different grains of data for different use cases. Then transformations and joins to other tables become very simple.

This works well for my current area because the JSON has a consistent and well defined schema.
Phospholipids? Isn't every cell in every animal composed almost entirely of phospholipids? I think you mean omega 3 fatty acids. If that's the case, anchovies or salmon roe is probably a much more efficient source per dollar than caviar. You can even get higher purity algal sources (and can get different ratios of EPA and DHA than are present in natural sources).
Maker of worker watching software pushes bills to promote contractor monitoring
Proof of Pointer Programs with Ownership in SPARK
Efficient Personal Search with Vespa, the Open Source Big Data Serving Engine
Or to step in and make a documentary about the making of the dueling documentaries.
I've always thought of them as 'infotainment'. Slightly informational entertainment. I'm not a big fan of a lot of newer documentaries for that reason. Part of me kind of misses the old dry 60's/70's style documentaries with some boring old dude describing facts in a boring monotone way.

There's been a few times I've just stopped watching some newer documentaries and just read a bunch of articles and information about the topic it was covering. I figure I probably learned more and got a more well rounded view in the same amount of time doing it that way.
Corporate car leases, corporate hotel stays, corporate supplied breakfasts and lunches, corporate sponsored day care, corporate tickets to games/performances. There are a lot of lifestyle perks that can be justified as a cost of doing business.
Isn't cloudflare the org that "Doesnt censor under any circumstances", and then turned around and censored white supremacists? Not that I agree with them (I DONT!), but it was a full 180.

And also, isn't cloudflare also the one to allow booters and stressers to be online behind CF - and they used stolen CC's to boot?

The Tor decisions to screw users over is just the cherry on top. Especially is egregious is when a captcha is demanded on even a simple static page. Seems pretty obvious what's going on here.
I guess you can do marriage faster if you really want, but not sure if it'll be better or cheaper :)
I see you missed the by proxy part of the comment you responded to. A lot of the large estates in the South pre Civil War had owners who didn't beat their slaves. Those owners hired people to do it for them. So it would be incorrect to say that those owners beat their slaves.

The above extreme example is merely to show that sometimes the responsible party is not solely those who do the actual deed. There are lots of examples of this concept in criminal law if you want learn more about idea.

It's hard to claim corporations don't control the media when only a few media companies control a large majority of the media in the United States.
> Instead of having a transparent tax code that the public understand and can judge

Patches welcome. You'll just need to be an expert in taxes first. Or do you expect the public to also contribute to discussions on the Linux Kernel Mailing List?
I’m genuinely curious what your complaints there are, could you elaborate? What specifically disqualifies something from being a “documentary”?
Microsoft is doing some amazing things with regard to accessibility and innovation. They recently had a commercial air during the SuperBowl for their adaptive controllers highlighting their efforts to make gaming more inclusive.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YISTzpLXCY
Will Automation Set Us Free?
Syntax-Guided Synthesis
Low sales, meaning the R&D cost (which'll be higher than a non rad hard chip anyway) can't be as easily amortized. And probably half of it is or so is just the .gov markup.
If it allows Atoms, then most arm processors should be acceptable.
Yes! that's it, thank you so much ( :
I dislike that FuckJerry was involved in Netflix's documentary and am happy to see them facing backlash over not just the Fyre Festival but their history of stealing jokes. But in regards to Fyre, I didn't really feel the need to see them face greater judgment (maybe that means their purported influence over the Netflix doc worked?). They were paid to shill and market for Fyre, but what's the indication that they knew that McFarland was acting fraudulently? How does their role make them significantly more complicit in the fraud than the photographer, who got paid for the viral glamorous Fyre ad he shot, and who ended up as a producer for Hulu's doc?

Maybe it comes down to how much influence you think social media has, in this incident and in general? I liked the Hulu doc, but found its focus and commentary on social media influencers (including the criticism of FuckJerry) as not being interesting enough to merit the time and weight it was given. Yes, it's inarguable that Fyre seems to have gotten a lot of Instagram views. But how much effect did that have on McFarland's ability to basically run a Ponzi scheme? My impression was that McFarland had already talked himself into Manhattan financial circles, and the firms who invested millions in Fyre/Fyre Festival were fools, but not necessarily the kind swayed by social media hype (i.e. similar to the backers of Theranos).

Undoubtedly, rich kids use and are influenced by social media. But McFarland already seemed to have enough of a network (he and Ja Rule had collaborated well before FuckJerry got involved) to convince enough rich kids to pay for tickets. To be fair, though, I don't use Instagram for anything except to check up on friends, so I'm admittedly ignorant about how influential Instagrammers can be. But Fyre seemed to be very much the result of McFarland's ambition and lack of morals, and his ability to convince naive people to work towards his goals against all logical odds. FuckJerry's support felt mostly tangential.
The old mobile reddit site [0] is _amazing_! No whitespace, no padding!

[0] The one which you can still reach by adding '.compact' to any reddit url
Yes, thank you !
I’m ex google. I still have friends on the cloud team. I’ve built on aws and gcp.

If you asked me aws or gcp I’d say aws. Having seen the sausage factory from the inside I cannot say I have a greater trust in G than in Amazon.
The biggest thing for me is GCP documentation is garbage. If you don’t know everything already you’re going to have to figure some things out. AWS documentation is adequate. GCP DOCUMENTATION IS NOT.
I think there should have been clearer disclosure that the documentary was produced by Jerry Media, the same entity that it was covering as the promoter of the fyre festival.

But overall I don't think it's a huge deal.
Micheal Moore movies have a built in point-of-view.... his. He doesn't hide this, it is part of the attraction.

I guess you could argue it is really commentary more than documentary.
Hey Chris--We're right now using a mix of commercial and open source software like Omega, Corina, AMSOL, and Mol2DB. Probably the slowest step is generating the partial charges for each conformer with a reasonably high quality semi-empirical forcefield. I'm not sure if there are competitive (in terms of quality) GPU based methods, but if there were methods that were ~1000 times faster as can be the case for GPU based methods, it would definitely speed up the pre-computation or make on-the-fly prep feasible. Do you have any ideas of where we should look?
To me, as well, caviar tastes good but almost never worth the costs and certainly not worth pushing species into extinction for.

However, as far as most overrated and overpriced item the honor, in my book, goes to truffles. Which, for me, are not even enjoyable. But this is certainly just a personal preference.
And that's going to require a cultural change - a cultural change that will be far easier without tons of people supporting the current state of the agricultural industries.

Society-wide political action is definitely what is needed, and being generally supportive of vegetarianism/veganism, and pressuring politicians to do the same, is an important part of that process.
I would assume the kinds of use cases that people might need radiation hardened equipment for just have people willing to spend much more money. They're charging what people are willing to pay, not how much it costs to make.
Low yields, low volume, high development cost, high certification costs, strict QA.

Vorago makes a cheaper option these days at $800 a chip:
https://www.voragotech.com/products/va10820-radiation-harden...
So is Earnest Capital more of a charity than a profit making enterprise? I really like what you are doing, serving the vast majority of businesses that don't want to be hyper growth.

But for the math to work out, with a 3x cap on earnings, you need 33% of the businesses to be successful just to get your money back. At 5x you still need 20%. And that is over however long it takes for those companies to reach payback, which could be measured in decades for some of the companies.

I think it's really altruistic, but I'm not sure how big this market segment could actually get.
Love the work you guys are doing in the progressive GAN space. Last year I did something similar to make a face-aging network, involving training an encoder to get an initial guess of a latent vector for someones face into the pgan space, and then relied on BFGS optomization to fine-tune the latent vector, followed by further fine-tuning of some intermediary layers of the generator network to really match the input pixels. I also snuck an affine transform layer in there allowing the network to shift the image around to better fit the target.

The results were .... eh .... okay, at least on my ugly face.
https://twitter.com/RustBot/status/1044120159022022658

But overall, Im still tweaking. In the mean time, I've been focusing on static image analysis for aging research, but I hope to find better encoding schemes down the road.

https://twitter.com/RustBot/status/1058607878540472320
The RD-270 got me scared. That much hydrazine flowing through anything can't be good.
I actually have a few screenshots where the task was impossible since the data was mislabeled. The latest example was "click all of the buses". It wouldn't let me continue because I wouldn't select the fire truck.

My naive assumption is that you should click the "refresh" button in these cases.
the cost of sending humans is disproportionately larger
this is quite disturbing: https://imgur.com/JkBte93
The costs of employing a team to do the radiation hardening design work, running a non-mainstream fab (I believe these chips were silicon-on-sapphire) and small production runs. There's a lot of overheads amortised on to a very small number of chips.
I read this excellent article
Last week about raising funds on Kickstarter. TLDR some categories have a hard time raising on Kickstarter https://thehustle.co/crowdfunding-success-rate
> almost every economists thinks we shouldn't have corporate taxes

Source?
Not sure what year the shift started but Hondas stopped getting high ratings for reliability some time in the 2000s. I retired my 2002 Civic with 250K miles on it a couple of years ago.
Sure, insofar as those opinions matter to get them elected. But they're maximizing for votes, not for genuinely trying to find a solution to the problem
that's hindsight, though. enforcing the law is, i guess, rarely cost effective in the short run.