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obviously society would be a lot more oppressive to debtors if bankruptcy didn't exist.

maybe I interpreted your use of "claim" more strongly than you intended, but I am mainly replying to the sentiment in this thread that payday loans create an unbreakable cycle of enslavement / indentured servitude. they are abusive loans for sure, but they're not that bad. if you already have no assets and terrible credit, you don't have much to lose by filing for chapter 7 and it will be pretty difficult for the lender to avoid having the debt discharged.
Braille interfaces are a thing.
If anybody is curious how much radiation a sievert is, there is a handy chart for reference:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

530 sieverts/hour would mean a person exposed for less than a minute would be a dead man walking. Even a 30 second exposure would be difficult to recover from. Electronics would suffer from constant bit flips.

You would really need to keep most or all of the electronics back in a shielded box at the end of a long cable and make the robot as dumb as possible. This sadly only goes so far since you do need sensors that are made out of electronics on the robot. Cameras for example. It's a complicated system, and worse you need this robot to be quite capable if it's going to deal with uneven terrain and eventually breaking up and removing the melted fuel.
It's not strictly a per-company problem. The incentives are for per-watt i.e. bigger system = bigger commission for the company instead of maximizing customer savings with Solar. The incentives don't align customers, sales, utilities, and financial providers.

Authority (City, Utility, etc.) typically push and constrain the installation at least 3-6 weeks and they rarely actually know Solar well enough to be a real 'Authority'. Lots of poorly implemented review procedures from untrained city officials and inspectors. Many unnecessary revisions, nitpicks, and expensive truck rolls surface here.

Then we also have Sales and Financing Providers who have the most leverage out of the stakeholders. High leverage also means they tend to get the biggest cut for a given Solar contract. High commissions and high fees or they leave the installation company who has to fulfill a 2-6 month-payout-delay pipeline. The fulfillment team also has the most people to retain, train, and coordinate over what is typically a multi-state field operation problem.

Not at all easy. Still, it boils my blood seeing some of these organizations fall prey to these pressures and turn to customer exploitation. What it amounts to is some deep-rooted systemic issues with the government-enforced monopolies of our utility companies, overly-simplistic incentives, and a market moving faster than the training and organizational development.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
Shell TechWorks | Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Intern | Cambridge, MA | Onsite |
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We are looking for passionate developers who enjoy working on challenging large-scale problems. Each of our projects run 3-6 months and can differ greatly from one to the next. We have worked in mobile, web, visual analytics, optimization, machine learning, and sensor projects.

Although we like to use the right tool for the job, we do have some common tech stacks that we have been using: - ReactJs, NodeJs, AWS Services, C# .Net Core, Python, and C++ Anyone who is interested in this challenging fast paced environment, with great opportunity for growth and impact please contact me at: cpistorino@shelltechworks.com Available slot counts at the time of posting:

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> The weight matrix would be a large matrix that is mostly zero except for at certain blocks (due to local connectivity) where the weights in many of the blocks are equal (due to parameter sharing).

It's correct that the inferrence mode of a convolutional neural network can be reduced to the inference mode of a FC network. However, during training, you need to make sure that the weights are the same, and FC networks don't ensure that. So you need to train CNNs-embedded-in-FC slightly differently from normal FCs, otherwise what you're getting is not an CNN any more because the weights are different. What you need to do is to a) initialize all kernel entries with the same weights and b) instead of applying the weight changes directly, average the weight changes over all offsets and only then apply them to the specific kernel positions.
No downvotes intended (new HN account, so I can't even downvote yet :))! It was a good question and a great call out.

I'll talk to the team about getting a click through BAA process in-place, perhaps somewhere in the control panel. Right now they tend to be executed once our customer success team gets engaged.

I did post an update to the thread you linked.
> it's not like you need to drink some kind of soda

Sugar is pretty addictive so for many people the need is very real. And you can see this from the worldwide sales of sodas.
My point is that abandoning simple algorithms just because they don't (seem to) lead to AGI is a mistake.
"compression is the same thing as forecasting"

This is true by definition regardless of manifold hypothesis.

In order to define compression you dont need a nontrivial metric or a topological space. You need things to even talk about the manifold hypothesis, at least in any interesting way.
So because someone is privileging you over others, you find it easy to forgive harms they might have committed against others.

I see reasons why there might be value in a more nuanced approach then erasing all work of someone who unrepentantly behaves poorly, but this doesn't seem like it is the right reasoning.
Same here. You can’t have a team with only “outstanding” score. You have to fit your team into the standard distribution. Even if one team is much better than the other, their average still has to be the same.
I love DO.

However, in this case, it would cost me at least $800/mo. That $9,600/yr can buy a lot of hardware/upgrades.
Oooh! Finally!!
Pretty cool, will definitely save me some time, though I guess I used the time converting it by hand to think through some of the moves.
I don't believe that's what it says. They talk about specific things that they don't act on, which are not in and of themselves harassment.

That is to say, if somebody is harassing you, you need to have a better justification that it is indeed harassment than merely that it's "reverse racism". Similarly, they're saying that if somebody refuses to explain "cultural appropriation" again, that isn't in itself harassment.

I'm perplexed as to why they even felt compelled to say that, since these aren't harassment. As far as I can tell, the point is to specifically call out techniques that are frequently used to harass people, badgering them to justify the same arguments repeatedly, or using frequent reports in the hopes of getting them removed. These are things that occur in a lot of online communities, taking advantage of the large numbers of people in the majority to shut down people who aren't.

Moderation is an imperfect process, and they appear to be publicly acknowledging ways in which it fails. And that they will attempt to compensate for it, in ways which are easily misrepresented as "abuse" by people in the best position to benefit from a nominally "fair" process.

It's clear that it's not a declaration that marginalized people can engage in harassment.
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> That's true but with the way most utility costs have been dropping, the rates are probably not going to skyrocket.

With strict liability for wildfires, 'green deals', cap-and-trade or Pigovian tax proposals, California's classic policy insanities, grids potentially struggling with renewables and load sharing, you certainly cannot be >99% confident that there will be no large increases in the offing.
This argument is specious, it is more complicated then taxes in vs direct federal money release back. What is the net economic benefit of Federal Reserve Bank of New York to New York state considering all the money made by the primary dealers? For example.
The Hitler, Lenin, Mao problems were temporary and not constantly ongoing for thousands of years while in essence defended pretty much world-wide. Not to mention the need for Hitler to have the support of the church.
You aren't wrong, but, unfortunately a lot of consumers weren't aware of the real costs and were misled by companies offering these kinds of deals. I feel like it has done a lot of damage that is going to cost the residential solar industry a lot of money over the coming years.
> They are only doing so because it saves them a ton of money

This is less about cost savings and more about lock-in and liability. Customers can move their money around by wire or ACH with anyone. They can only do it with JPM coin through JPMorgan.

With such treasury services, moreover, fraud is a big cost centre. A cryptocurrency might be a good way to shift liability for unwanted transactions away from the bank and onto customers.
Sure, those systems aren't perfect. I'm sure there's better examples (Switzerland, Uruguay).

But they still manage to provide a situation where you're not stuck paying student loans for decades or go bankrupt because you happen to get sick. Why can't the USA, a nation with higher levels of freedom and transparency, provide the same despite collecting more tax revenue? I'm not convinced higher taxes is the answer; there's an efficiency problem. Solve that, then we can talk about raising taxes.
It very explicitly does not say that. It says that practice without talent will not make you the expert you want to be.
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When I wrote that, I was thinking outside of capital goods and including things like land use contracts, mineral/water rights, and perhaps other things in cases like condos.
Nature does what nature does, not what we might want it to do. Almost everyone believes in evolution but no one thinks it applies to humans.

Am J Hum Genet. 2003 Sep; 73(3): 627–631.
Published online 2003 Jul 23. doi: 10.1086/377590
PMCID: PMC1180686 PMID: 12879365 ACTN3 'Genotype Is Associated with Human Elite Athletic Performance'

"ACTN3, one of the most thoroughly studied performance genes. In 2003 a seven-scientist team published a study in The American Journal of Human Genetics in which 429 elite Australian athletes were tested for the ACTN3 gene . . .".

General discussion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sports_Gene
If you need a code of conduct to keep someone like him away, your project was dysfunctional to begin with.
As a practical matter I think it's pretty hard to get diversity of thought/experience/knowledge without also getting racial diversity. The two are extremely correlated, because social groups are often racially homogenous. In addition, filtering based on diversity of thought is pretty difficult. It's already so hard to interview people well...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...
What is interesting at the meta level is that some faiths, notably the Mormons, have a duty to proselytize, so if Facebook ad targeting is an efficient way to convert unbelievers, it becomes a moral duty to use Facebook ads rather than sending missionaries.

This also sounds slightly nightmarish once every faith will start bidding wars for some piece of your soul.
Wow, they seem like an awesome company. Perhaps the perfect place for me to work. Thank you for mentioning them.
There are a handful of truly short players who've demonstrated it's possible to play in the league without being tall. Is there a material difference between 4'8" and 5'3" when your opponents are 6'11"+?

At that point, probably not.

Assuming a person is healthy, there's nothing that makes playing in the NBA literally impossible.
From what I have read this is something Gates and Jobs were good at. They saw something new and could quickly see how it could be useful and then had the courage to make it happen.
After our meal of takeout BBQ last week I called the joint, which was brand new, and thanked them for how good everything was. As a shy telephone-allergic introvert I’d never done that before, but I’m glad I did!
> what benefit is he getting during his temporary stays there that is worth anything close to the 13% they're taking?

Things that keep people healthier and smarter, and provide infrastructure and livable wages, do in fact benefit people in the state, resident or not.

I mean, if he's in the 13% marginal tax bracket, that means he's making $1M+ a year. ( https://www.tax-brackets.org/californiataxtable ) The fact that California has such jobs while other states don't have as many is at least partially because the state provides an environment in which such jobs can exist.
> I don't fully see how Dimon can back this, yet be so against Bitcoin

Lots of trading happens around banks being asked by customers to provide exposure to stupid things. If your ambition is to be a big bank to everyone, you’ll have to learn to accommodate such requests. Being able to say “I’ll help you do this, but I don’t recommend it” is part of the trade.
Cell phone towers, possibly?
Where did you learn about the concept of "free markets" though? Is it the school system of a certain country? A website?

I don't mean to try to hide why I am asking, it is because trying to tie a situation like this to "free markets" is ridiculous if you know it means "free of government meddling".
This definition is better than the others, given the origin of this use of the word "talent".
Also a good value if you're launching them into space
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Ask HN: Experiences with Purism's PureOS?
I'm considering buying a new work laptop, and wondering if any HN readers have experience using PureOS (https://pureos.net/), the Linux distribution that Purism ships installed on its Librem laptops. I like Purism on general principle, but they make some big claims for the security and privacy of PureOS, and I'm not certain how thoroughly a Linux distribution from a small company whose primary focus is hardware can deliver on those claims. And then there's the usual questions of "fit and finish" as well -- does it feel like a cohesive product, or like just one more spin of Debian plus GNOME?

(I normally run Ubuntu on my workstations, including my laptop, if that helps position where I coming from.)

I'd love to hear any real-world experiences readers have had with PureOS, either on Librem hardware or otherwise. Thanks!
> Fish is cool! I keep wanting to use it, but the inertia of Bourne shell is hard to overcome.

Back when I tried Fish some like 5 or 6 years ago I think, I was really attracted by how you could write multiline commands in a single prompt. I left it, though, when I found out that its pipes were not true pipes. The second command in a pipeline did not run until the first finished, and that sucked and made it useless when the first command was never meant to finish on its own or when it should've been the second command to determine when the first should finish.

It seems they've fixed that, but now I found that you can also write multiline commands in a single prompt in zsh, and I can even use j/k to move between the lines, and have implemented tab to indent the current line to the same indentation as the previous line in the same prompt. Also, zsh has many features that make code significantly more succinct, making it quicker to write. This seems to go right against the design principle of fish of being a shell with a simpler syntax, so now I don't see the point of even trying to move to it.
The who's hiring post works different from this. It has a blurb about how to post, and then job postings are comments, rather than the main content.

It is also only posted on the first day of the month.
Love the design, but I'm kind of envious of how easy you made this look! Haha. My wife and I got super into stained glass work for a while there, and while she kept getting better, I never really did. It's hard to do it well, so mad props to you for making it look so easy!
> Do not indicate checks, mates or promotions at all, i.e. leave out the "+," "#," or "=Q".

Some of your screenshots include the +, is this accurate?

If you don't include the =Q you can't encode all games?
Aren’t you afraid of being sued by Google for selling their search results?
The new owner just confirmed that he purchased the package: https://github.com/ZijianHe/koa-router/issues/494#issuecomme...

(in case the comment gets deleted: https://i.imgur.com/J5lOiMZ.png)
P.S. Here's a chess.com article with a video demo (if you don't want to try yourself) and tons of info about the story / how it works. Anyone that has advice on the website design or the software, please help! I'm new.
Practice makes performance at a given task faster, smoother, more automatic, and more robust. The "practice makes permanent" quote elsewhere in the comments is correct in this respect. Practice does _not_ guarantee that anything useful will be learned–this requires some way to measure progress, some measure of deliberate reflection regarding past failures and their causes (which will allow you to propose new behaviors to practice), and, for intellectual tasks, some deeper analysis of the underlying principles (which will allow you to propose better principles to guide future behavior, even in out-of-distribution cases which you have never practiced for).

The article appears to be attributing the difference to genetics alone, which is neither accurate nor a useful line of inquiry. And the article is attempting to argue against a Gladwellized strawman of Ericcson's work, rather than the actual research, which feels intellectually dishonest. Not a fan of this post.
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The misconceptions about nonhuman/invalid traffic (NHT) seem like a problem brewing. There's an arms race between the NHT guys (e.g. ad fraud networks) and the guys trying to detect it (e.g. ad providers). Meanwhile, a lot of people are using analytics to inform decision making assuming most traffic is legitimate (e.g. news organizations, anyone doing A/B testing). The guys naively using analytics with weak feature detection may be totally unprepared to deal with nonhuman traffic from repurposed networks which have been optimized to defeat the more advanced countermeasures =/
What you're kinda describing is something that the "godfather" (if you will) of Deep Learning, Geoffrey Hinton, also has suspicions about.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Geoffrey-Hinton-suspicious-of-b...

Basically, we have yet (from what I know - I am not a researcher, and this field moves fast) to find any form or method by which biological neural networks (aka brains) perform "backpropagation" - ie, neurons seem to be feedforward only systems.

Furthermore, we (people) don't need thousands or millions of labeled examples in order to learn something. Now, I know someone else replied to you about how you see millions of cat images based on some flawed reasoning that the eyes are seeing at 60 Hz - which is untrue, because it's a continuous analog system - plus there's the thing of neurons being spiking potential systems (vs what common ANNs model); but the idea is intriguing that we do see much more than one or two "images". But there are other situations where we learn things that don't require this at all, and there aren't such vast amounts of "labeled input" to learn a concept.

These two issues are problems from mainly a conceptual point; they obviously don't stop current ANNs from functioning or being useful. But they do call into question how our brains are actually doing things, and especially doing this with such low amounts of power (vs the huge amounts of power required for deep learning systems, for what would be basic tasks for humans).

Another wrench that may come into play: I recently learned (I think it was from an HN post) that biologists and others are coming around to the idea that genes don't work like we once thought they actually did, and that cells - internally and externally - have some kind of communications system and other "stuff" going on that makes the whole system much more complex than the simplification most people learn about.

I tend to wonder how such new information and realizations and "mechanics" will play into how we understand how neurons actually work and communicate biologically - whether any of that plays into "how brains learn". There's long been questions about chemical pathways and other things that aren't captured by common (and even uncommon) ANN models. Then there's also been questions as to what roles other cells in the brain that aren't neurons (glial cells) in the process, if any.
I have seen some of my favorite free software disappeared by its creator when they decide they want to sell it.

Synergy comes to mind, but at least they are making a minimal effort to honor the GPL. Also AxCrypt.
I don't think that creators are obligated to continue distribution, but it still bothers me when that happens, especially if they benefited from the fruits of the community.
This[1] video with Andy Matuschak helps with refactoring these “Mega” controllers. This[2] article also is good when it comes to breaking down controllers into smaller pieces.

I will admit it’s a hard problem for me. Putting everything into one view controller is so easy and makes certain problems go away. e.g. Storyboards are a lot easier to deal with when their outlets are in the massive view controller. Custom UIviews with storyboards are a huge pain to get working with interface builder.

[1] https://academy.realm.io/posts/andy-matuschak-refactor-mega-...
[2] https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/05/better-architecture...
Some hills are worth dying on, and some aren't :)
Here's one in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163098

And another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19162386
They recently (Dec) sent emails that they are scheduling appointments to those who signed up on the list. Says only one of the several tile options available though.
Please describe how you got that impression. There wasn't a word in the article about government involvement with this company, nor anything remotely constituting a promise to hire people made jobless by the GM Oshawa plant closure.
Reportedly, it's when you also fire the bottom 10% on the spot and repeat the process every 12 or perhaps 6 months that it becomes pathological.
When should any company pay employees? Always and with no exception!

There is a name for people in a company who share the risk of running a company, and that name is owners.

There are also names for people who want all the gains for themselves and all the risks and losses for their employees, and they are not flattering names.
Unfortunately inverters fail, including the little microinverters (or optimizers with something like solaredge) on the panels themselves. This requires a qualified person to repair and possibly roof access as well. Depending on which panel it is, they may have to temporarily remove multiple panels to get to it. If the cost of labor is on the consumer, this can wipe out months of returns in a single visit.

Of course, it isn't required to offer a lease in order to also offer a warranty, which is the real solution here.
They key is the low dimensional part not that it is a manifold.

The ambient space may be huge, but data is not spread all over but lies on a tiny subset that can be well described by very few parameters. This limited degree of freedom in the data is what makes it easy to learn. A priori there is no reason why data should have such a property.

I would be interested in your thoughts on how you would map human language understanding to a Euclidean topology.