skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before:

- you want to transfer $100,000 to another bank

- you do a wire or ACH

- that’s risky so someone has to verify that you actually have $100,000

After:

- each of your dollars are digitally signed using cryptography

- to transfer them, you share the hashes

- the recipient validates the digital signatures to verify those $100,000 in tokens are legit

It’s all about a system of accounting to reduce risk. With less risk, transfers are faster. Think of it like an api to verify account balances that can only be hacked if the SSL cert for the API is hacked by figuring out the private key
The redevelopment plan they scrapped was much much smaller than what Amazon was proposing. Several city blocks smaller.

The bottom line is that the Amazon deal had very broad support in NYC, and a very vocal irrational minority just ruined it for everyone.
Counter example: PG&E. More expensive than smaller, greener alternatives. And 85 people killed just last year alone is the safety record.
> What happens next?

It falls to the ground, of course. At the scale of something that long steel isn't any more rigid than rope is.
If you are happy with your workflow you can continue as usual. In other work-cultures people might not like your approach which is why a draft PR can be helpful. Basically what this feature does is that it avoids having to point to a branch and tell your coworker that it is WIP that you want feedback on. Usually a PR will also show the changes directly.
Machine Learning and Mobile: No One’s an Expert, Yet
More Modern CMake
Can you provide some source?
Yeah, it seems like it would be useful for debugging to replace some part of the architecture with a simple linear sum and see if it does just about as well?
Yeap. There's only so much people can or will give without feeling used, resentful, bitter and/or bored of being overworked and told to work harder. It's also another example of why not to take on investors: their interest aren't ever aligned with the founders. Their goal is to make lots of money soon, and they don't care if they stress and burn-out 1000 people to get there. If you want sanity, move with some impatience but workaholism isn't healthy.
Andrew Waterman's PhD thesis "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture" ("Why Develop a New Instruction Set?") has a nice comparison of ISA encoding and density of RISC-V, MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, ARMv7/8, Thumb, OpenRISC, and x86/x86-64.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...
While this company is doing some pretty shady shit, it's actually not worse than what traditional electric companies do.

Talk about corruption and dishonest practices.

In Florida, FPL, the electric provider for half of Florida, complained for about a decade (from 2004-2014) on how how they needed to keep raising rates so that they could continue to "upgrade the infrastructure" so that they could be prepared for the hurricanes that inevitably would hit the coast.

Some estimates that FPL made a few extra billion dollars on the price increases that went beyond normal inflation.

What do you think happened when south Florida got hit with the next major hurricane in 2014?
Yup. same outages that we saw in 2004.

And the hurricanes weren't even worse.

10 years and billions of dollars in "upgrades" resulted in the same exact problems.

FPL took our money and didn't do anything with it.

AND they have been vehemently against people owning solar panels, even going as far as blocking legislation that would allow people to install them on their own homes without special permission from "FPL approved" companies.

And you can guess how many "approved" companies they would actually approve.

I have yet to see any major utility company operate with any decency, so while this solar panel company is doing some shady shit with their salespeople and leasing terms, it at least didn't scam millions of people for billions of dollars like FPL.

Florida should have the cleanest electricity in the world. Sunshine almost every day, but we don't have it because:

A) We don't price in the environmental impact of non-solar producing coal and natural gas plants, thus keeping solar "more expensive" than fossil fuel electricity.

B) FPL actively blocks the widespread adoption of solar panels on people's homes.

C) Politicians are happy to take money from FPL and other interest groups that don't want to adopt solar.
> Is it always good enough to take the outputs of the next-to-last layer as features?

It usually doesn't matter all that much whether you take the next-to-last or the third from last, it all performs pretty similarly. If you're doing transfer to a task that's very dissimilar from the pretraining task, I think it can sometimes be helpful to take the first dense layer after the convolutional layers instead, but I can't seem to find the paper where I remember reading that, so take it with a grain of salt.

> When doing quick iterations, I assume the images in the data set have been run through the big net as a preparation step?

Yep. (And, crucially, you don't have to run them through again every iteration.)

> And the inputs to the net you're training is the features? Does the new net always only need 1 layer?

Yeah, you take the activations of the late layer of the pretrained net and use them as the input features to the new model you're training. The new model you're training can be as complicated as you like, but usually a simple linear model performs great.

> What are some examples of where this worked well (except for the flowers mentioned in the article)?

The first paper in the post (https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6382) covers about a dozen different tasks.
Thank you, and thank you to the other repliers who answered. I have learned something today.
> I mean, you could focus on whether the word "midwest" is accurate

It's actually pretty important, because the crux of your argument is that they're moving to places with much a lower CoL. If people are moving from NYC to LA/Seattle/etc., your argument doesn't really hold much water.

> or you could take my point that there is a reason why people are moving out of places like NYC in favor of less dense cities that don't smell like urine.

Where are you getting that information from? As far as I can tell, NYC has had about a 6% population growth since 2010. It actually matches the US overall population growth pretty well, which is pretty impressive for what is far and away the most populated city in the country.
I doubt you'll find many Emacs users that would prefer "C-u M-| sort" over "M-x sort-lines".
Because it made them look like they were doing their jobs by making a big, important deal? These are politicians we're talking about
Monopolies have to be propped-up by governments. No monopoly can survive in a truly free market. Never has; never will.

Power companies, cable companies, and telco operators are all monopolies propped up by government. An actually free market will always eliminate them when some competitor rises up with a lower cost, a better product, or better service.

There has never in history been a monopoly company that could operate in a free market without government support.
Automation Affects High-Skill Workers More Often but Low-Skill Workers Deeply
The Third Party Web
Most new Yorkers supported the project even when told about the subsidies. It's a vocal minority that sank the project

https://www.wsj.com/articles/majority-of-new-yorkers-support...
The Subway is a mess primarily because of cronyism, corrupt labor unions and mismanagement on a typical, everyday "these people suck at their job" type. Fixing the MTA is important, but its problems are essentially independent of this Amazon deal.
Well I will doubt the supply side. I think it's a simpler assertion, because I know so few nerds.
Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment
My wife and I have a newborn too, and I'm working on both an open-source project and a potential business. Most of the time, after work, I come home and take care of the baby for a bit to give my wife some rest. I basically put the baby in a sling and go about my day. I read her a little book, and play with her for about an hour. But otherwise, the rest of that time I use to work on my projects.

Children are wonderful, but they do not need your constant, undivided attention. I actually think it's better right now with a newborn. Once she starts walking and crawling. She'll need more monitoring.
Triage.

I basically have to give up priorities to focus on others. I've recently given up hobbies like gaming (tabletop and computer) for less time consuming hobbies like the guitar (one lesson a week and about 20 minutes of practice each night). My friends will get attention one weekend and my girlfriend another. Rather than go out for food with my coworkers, I typically read a book during my lunch hour. I have very little energy after work so if I can't bring myself to clean or read I'll dump some more time into guitar practice between aimless web browsing sessions. I have the motivation to work on a project for a few days every few months or so but I just can't ever get anything done. If I had more motivation I could probably make some life changes that would help me better manage my time, but at 30 years old I haven't come close to cracking that code and I've become complacent enough to stop caring.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163522
The blockchain signs each dollar. You could have done this instead by making each dollar a PGP signature and allowing trusted parties to decrypt the signature and claim the dollar.

Honestly though, if the chain isn’t public, JPMC can update the code behind-the-scenes so there’s not as much trust as there would be on a public network.
whoops https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135199
It might surprise you to learn that governments actually support monopolies and encourage them. A monopoly cannot exist in a true free market and has never done so in history.
That's not true, you are definitely trusting the database: In order to spend money, you need the cryptography to work but you ALSO need the canonical chain/database to record your transaction... you can't just send your signed message to another person to perform a transaction, the central entity mining the chain needs to still cooperate.
A lot of companies aren't really that intense during work hours but instead just want more hours. At my workplace I often feel that the workplace is set up to constantly interrupt work so the only way to deal with this is to spend more hours.

An incredible amount of work can be done in a week if the workplace is set up correctly.
Duplicate/blogspam of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163522
Targeted ad placement is much more valuable for advertisers and those who profit from ad placement. Surely there are use-cases that warrant a sex-based discrimination: sports bras, as an example, or hair pomade, or gendered magazines (i.e. Men's Fitness; Seventeen).
There's a Brexit impact here as well, since the wings for the A380 were being manufactured in Wales.
That's the "immediately after" part I meant. What I'd like to know is if the new routes were kept.
Apple to sell modified iPhones in Germany after patent infringement lawsuit
The poor dumb author.
Sounds like both of the conflicting work setups he's torn between are terrible.

1. Silicon valley style enforced fun. eg lol we're crazy here look we have a ping pong table.

Its hard to get anything done in these places, constant distractions, meetings, open plan etc. + I'd be happier if they just payed me the money they wasted on frivolous crap, cus getting paid is absolutely the main reason I show up to work on your thing, and not just work on my thing.

2. Putting in the hours.

As a programmer I personally reckon I have c. 4 hours per day of really really high quality focused work in me (depending on the day) Forcing myself to code when I am not in the zone would just result in worse code, more bugs, more regressions, more work to do later. I would lose time overall and have a worse product. (Aside from the effect of just the longer hours) it would also hurt my motivation as the codebase would begin to become nasty + a chore to work on.

Ive found doing a reasonable amount of top quality work every day, and never crunching, is what gets stuff out the fastest.
Ajit Pai orders phone companies to adopt new anti-robocall tech in 2019
Sadly everything that's come since x86 has done bootstrapping much more device-specifically and it always comes with signed bootloaders. If you're lucky you can opt-out. RISC-V will likely be designed with the goal of eliminating royalties, not making extensible/portable bootloaders.
I don't think any of us would say that to a stranger in real life without expecting to cause great offense.
I highly doubt a single person created the wheel out of nothing. The idea of a circle is part of our innate biology we are hard wired to recognize or create circular shapes.

Most likely several people tried to create the wheel and ideas on what to do with a circular shape were thought of, some cross pollination from physics resulted in it being used for transportation.

So I’d argue it was not done on a sunny day but mostly as an obsession just like most every other game changing idea
For those not familiar with this title:
- traditional CMake (<3.1) usually means hard-coded paths, lots of imperative build commands in CMakeLists.txt
- Modern CMake: There is a book on this: https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/
For me it looks like the binary is 1.4MB (which is still fantastic)
Interesting, thanks for pointing this out.

I have been considering becoming a Russian resident (and eventually citizen ~ yes, crazy). Do you know if self-employed people are liable for the other taxes you mentioned?
https://www.google.com/search?q=fukushima+robots&tbs=cdr%3A1...

Limiting results to pre-2019/02/01 seems to go back to an article in 2017. Searching before that...

https://www.google.com/search?q=fukushima+robots&tbs=cdr%3A1...

... seems to pick up a good variety of articles going back to 2011.
Are they really OK with it or are they just legally powerless to stop it? That is the question.
Credit to SantiMB for that wonderful photo with the snake on the woman's shoulders. https://twitter.com/SantiMBPhotos
Governments have never consisted of "everyone getting together." That's a myth that smacks of socialism. The best way to get the products and services you want (and wipe out the ones you don't) is to vote with your pocketbook.

With Facebook and other "free" services, you are the product -- not the customer. Stopping this is very simple; just don't agree to be the product anymore.

No one needs a social network. There isn't one compelling reason for anyone to join one unless you are a shareholder. You don't need the government to protect you from social networks or fix their ills. You need to delete your account and take personal responsibility for your complicity.
Beyond GraphQL Schema Delegation: Simplifying Your API Gateway
Erm, yes it does. DTCC has a board of directors. It is a company. This blockchain eliminates that. Literally.
Dan actually sold all his stuff to a company few years ago, so I don’t know if that’s the original.

Here’s a link to the original - in kindle or audiobook

https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Marketing-Attract-Flood-Cust...

-edit, I’m actually not sure if that’s the original, I’m doing a search online and can’t easily find the original audio tapes which were recorded in the 90s. I advise you listen to the audio version.
Yes and NYC is known for the many home owners and lack of renters.

Sounds like it'd be good for landlords, I'm not sure about the person living paycheck to paycheck to make rent.
Dokku is a management platform kinda like a self-hosted Heroku.

I've used it instead of Flynn in the past with a lot of success.

Edit: If S3 is the problem, backup to a minio instance on your dokku (https://github.com/slypix/minio-dokku)
Legend has it Patrick Moore is still offering to drink it to this day.
Stop borrowing money on credit cards. Live within your means and it won't matter what any credit card company thinks of you.

Here again, personal responsibility trumps government salvation every time.
Amazon being there would mean growth; whether it's greater growth than local businesses is hard to say.

But mostly, it's obvious growth that looks good for politicians who can say, "look, I brought jobs!" People notice it when a high profile company arrives whereas if your local chain expands, that's not even a news story.

Much of the political aspect of economics is due to the relative visibility of various events in the media.
Author of Sloth here. I develop free software in my spare time and I'm not willing to pay Apple USD 100 per year for the "privilege" of developing for their platform. It's a sad state of affairs when independent developers like me have to shell out hard cash in order to give software away for free. True, USD 100 isn't much, but I'm opposed, on principle, to paying money to an enormously wealthy megacorporation just to make software for their platform. Not so very long ago, macOS had a vibrant independent developer community. It's now slowly being choked to death with this horrid App Store stuff.
The one MAJOR caveat I have with this is that, depending on what you have signed with your employer, there’s a pretty good chance that your employer can claim ownership of what you’re doing. And it’s one thing if you’re making art or something in my spare time, but a side-business may well turn into working for free for your employer.
You seem to be missing the point. Operating this blockchain is nearly free. Building it out is a capital cost. Once its built, its ongoing expenses should be low.
Commitwall: No More Beeminding Without a Way to Be Charged Money
> sharing the road with full-size cars, trucks and SUVs.

As a Texan, I strongly agree with you. That said, I’m still a proud driver of a regular sedan - no need for a massive truck or anything like that.
Is "10% denser" comparing RV32 or RV64 against A32, T32, or A64? And is that with or without the Compressed Instructions extension?
Corruption and wanting to meet a billionaire? Same reason politicians build stadiums for sports teams.
We tend to split workloads among teams based on timezones, so using placeholder PRs are required if you're handing your ticket over to another timezone for the night.
There's something very relevant in this story. Data Science is too glamorous a term. There's an implication that the DS person is some sort of magician who maybe isn't as good at general coding but has special data magic skills, making them more valuable than your average grunt.

In my years in finance, there was a similar problem. One guy in particular I worked with reckoned himself an "ideas guy" and would simply spout out gibberish that he expected the rest of us to implement. He could barely use excel himself, let alone code.

The fact is the best coders I met never fancied themselves as specialists. They could certainly fit some models for you, but they could also write some SQL, set up replication and other maintenance, write cron jobs, set up ssh keys, merge some git branches, and write front and back end code in several different languages, declarative and imperative. I always put it down to a mix of curiosity and humility, giving these people a very good grasp of the fundamentals plus a foothold in almost every area of coding that I could think of.
According to the article at least the purpose is to increase the speed of transactions that the bank settles internally.

I can't speak to how feasible this is because I'm not familiar with the tech, but I don't think anyone needs to adopt the politics of the original paper if they have found some other use.
> I just don't see the urgency. It feels like a 10-5 culture, interrupted by lunches and coffees.

> To really achieve maximum results, we had to push our people hard so they were constantly out of their comfort zone.

> Fortunately, my co-founder Ben is a culture-building wizard.

> "We need to focus on creating a culture that has "high performance" at its core.

> Our mission was to create immediate results and discernible momentum.

> But we decided we were weak - in relative terms - at creating energy across the business

Are we sure this isn't a parody? It is reminding me of http://paulgraham.com/circling.html. Or say an article from the Onion about startup culture.
In my view, some possible sources of ideas are sports and hobbies. People will often spend money on something that might improve their enjoyment of those activities. You're tapping into a different budget than the usual business clients, and if it's a non-tech hobby, it's not already flooded with people who can develop and execute solutions.

I hit on a solution to a problem while engaged on web forums related to my hobby. Now I sell a little gadget on the side. The people on the forum, with whom I was already on good terms, provided my initial sales and word-of-mouth.
Man jailed for possession of 3D-printed gun
> With Facebook and other "free" services, you are the product

No, you are a supplier of a key input to the product.
_Only_ if the existing community is _also_ the existing landowners. This is not always the case, often you have a large renting population. These renters only see there costs go up, not their assets.
That's the narrative, but too often the promised backside never arrives.
you lost me at 3.
Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
I was perfectly precise.

In real analysis you learn that "almost all" means that the exceptions are a set of measure 0. Since all countable sets have measure 0, the result is trivially true in classical mathematics.

In the constructible universe, you again have measure theory.
Almost all still has a perfectly well-defined meaning. And all sets with enumerations again have measure zero, just like in classical mathematics. But "uncountable" now is a statement about self-referential complexity, not size. Next, "the set of all numbers with finite definitions" is not a well-defined set. And numbers without concrete definitions do not exist.
IntelliJ is a JetBrains product - I'd be interested in what their revenue breakdown is between "corporate" and "individual" licenses, but I suspect that there are more individuals paying for it than you'd think.

I know I have an active subscription still for PyCharm, even though I've not used it personally since moving to vim full-time a couple of years ago. It's a great product, and I find it extremely useful when teaching people new to Python - the autocomplete is excellent, and there are visualization tools that I've not found a good replacement for.
> At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, researchers created a system that attempts to identify transgender people before and after they medically transition with hormone replacement therapy. To do this, researchers scoured YouTube for ‘transition timeline’ videos, which typically involve a series of photographs charting a person’s face changing over time. These videos are extremely personal, and a source of empowerment for the trans community...

This isn't a trans issue, this is a 'digital consent' issue. As noted in the linked Verge article, "[t]he MegaFace dataset compiled by the University of Washington, for example, contains 4.7 million images of roughly 627,000 individuals — all taken from Flickr users." It is fair to say that many of those photos are deeply personal.

So then, this raises a much larger question - not about digital ethics as applied to trans people, but digital ethics as applied to people: where are the lines drawn in fair-use for public content? Do you get to dictate what happens to your data that you upload to someone else's server publicly?