skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have hard time reading "teenagers will be considered old enough to make decisions that will affect the entire country", how many 18 yo people are there any given elections? I don't say their votes doesn't count, but still in face of facts it is not real argument.

There is no way 18 yo is going to be president of any country.
To be elected to parliament there is separate rule where you have to be 21 in my country (I assume it is quite the same in other countries). So even though you can vote when you are 18 you are not going to make real decision that can make impact.
What exactly keeps you from implementing a negative interest rate?

I.e. some form of tax on held cash?
ah, thank you! didn't occur to me to go to .ws itself.
> I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.

This happens at any online store you purchase something at. This isn't unique to Amazon.
Here is a quote from the Smart Referer section:

It's kind of a dick move to the sites you like since it removes valuable analytics for them, so you can (and should) whitelist domains that you want to keep sharing data with.

Why removing that information a "dick move"? When I visit a bank, restaurant, or grocery store, those places don't know where I came from before entering the store unless I have merchandise from other places. The most they can gather is that what clothing I'm currently wearing and if they keep tabs on my previous visits.
Cornering the easy part of vehicle autonomy. Capture the sensor profit, make everyone else continue the hard ML slog. “Sell shovels.”
> Whatever is the final evaluator gets to define what is required.

Which is completely useless, because it means everyone will do it differently.

> Beyond that, give your users the power to do it their way. Or they will find a way to get it themselves.

Users put value on having a standard set of scaffolding. That's why these standardised config formats have succeeded.
'Only scanning for the things one is working on' to the point of missing huge security holes or safety risks is exactly that's wrong with the industrial division-of-labor approach. Workers start to assume that even if they do notice a problem, someone else is either going to fix it or has examined and OKed the current procedure. Workers who speak up and assert that something they noticed actually looks more important than whatever task they were originally assigned to are typically punished rather than rewarded, and fired if they make too much of a fuss because otherwise managerial authority might be diminished. Most firms run internally like a dictatorship, and given Facebook's absurd ownership structure (where there are voting and non-voting shares Zuckerberg retains a majority of the voting shares) it's a recipe for dysfunction.
Nested schemas are pretty disgusting in TOML. Granted, there's an argument against having deeply nested schemas in the first place.
> If someone who does online banking can't handle the most basic concepts of computer hygiene to the point of turning off an adblocker and knowing when it's safe to do so-- they probably should stick to brick and mortar banking.

I do not at all agree that we should banish people unable to navigate adblocking from the Internet altogether. They are not 'lesser' people. They do not deserve to be denied access. They simply need more help than you and I.

I definitely agree that we should tax all Internet businesses to pay for the libraries, library computers, and librarians that help one-third of American citizens operate the Internet safely.
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It's possible to use color in that the dots don't have to be black and white, and don't have to be totally random. The way an autostereogram works is that there's a repetitively tiled base image (or vertical column repeated horizontally). The stereographic angle information is encoded in mutations of the repeating image. That base image can be anything (including a photo).

However, this color image will not correspond in any way to the 3D geometry of the scene. I don't know of any way to get color information to correspond to BOTH the 3D geometry and the stereographic information (without using two images).
It is appalling how many commenters here want to rebuttal this. Boo-fucking-hoo for Amazon if they have to sacrifice a marginal efficiency in their profit stream at the expense of making their stores inclusive to unbanked Americans.
Ok, I agree. But your original comment just said “Maybe you shouldn’t be a landlord then”, and I foolishly responded.
> Are landlords accepting cash for payment?

Money orders.

I don't even keep a checkbook anymore. The one vendor that doesn't take cards gets a money order once a month.
Wow, thanks! I take it as a high compliment. :D

Thanks for paving the way with Hug. And thanks for helping make the Python ecosystem a friendly, and welcoming community.
The useful application for AI in streamed gaming seems like it would be for predicting the next 30ms to avoid input lag.

This seems gimmicky at best.
Prediction has to take place on the client though - so the challenge is making it cheap.
The Black Magic Probe is really nice. If you want to try it out without spending the money for a BMP up front, it's also fairly simple to flash it onto a Blue Pill board that can be had for a few dollars. Most F103C8 Blue Pills are sold as having 64KB flash, but actually have 128KB flash. E.g. I installed BMP on a RobotDyn Blue Pill without any problems.

Of course, if you like the BMP, it is worthwhile to buy the real thing to sponsor 1 Bit Squared and the convenient headers/cables.
I'd agree only if our benchmark of comparison is "I want to travel while sleeping", but the value of flying is that you get there so fast that you usually don't even need to sleep. The journey from Chicago to SF is eight times longer by train than by plane, and, price aside, the only value proposition is a (very) scenic view; considering price, you can either spend half the price of flying in exchange for two rough nights stretched diagonally across two train seats, or five times the price of flying for two nights of decent sleep.
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In theory at least, a neural network with sufficient training in the right domain should be able to add the slight imperfections and subtle light/texture cues our eyes expect to see, even to too-perfect 1990s CGI scenes. This would, however, require a network that can maintain continuity between frames so these details don’t appear to jump around.
This critique (and it is the by far the most common critique of MMT I've heard) boils down to this:

"MMT may very well be an accurate depiction of reality, but the problem is that if people start to see it as an accurate depiction of reality then inflation might go up."

That's definitely a problem for a certain class of people (creditors and investors).

MMT is controversial because, if true, it's undermining a lie that is supporting those interests ("keeping inflation as low as possible") over the interests of society as a whole.
> I get that it’s fun to beat up on Tesla.

There are many reasons to legitimately shit on Tesla including their worker treatment, statements made by their CEO etc.
> DNS
> Cloudflare

How about dnscrypt? The DNS servers offered through dnscrypt are much more trustworthy IMHO. Also it is trivial to setup n DNS servers and to randomly select a different server on each request, removing a bulk of that centralized nature of DNS.
The whole thing is an incredibly stupid move by Microsoft, very disappointing.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. "If you don't have a system in place to automatically cleanse user-submitted content, you have a liability" is indeed not part of GDPR as far as I know, nor does it seem to be the reason why the comments weren't migrated.
Western country while logged in on my google account. I've given it some thought myself, I have that account logged in from a variety of systems: linux boxes and windows boxes some behind a vpn, some not.

I suppose it sometimes looks like my account is used for botting, but then again: why wouldn't I be allowed to connect my bot to their results, given that google uses bots to index the content in the first place?

Despite the fact that I could probably adjust to better fit their 'nothing weird going on here' preconceptions, I think I'd rather complain and hope that over time it's google that will change.
it's possible he left before that. they were working on xbox 360 bc for a long time.
Sort of, but not really. The US Government is king of weird semi-privatized public partnerships that are the worst of both worlds. Amtrak is very similar to the current iteration of the USPS, in that Amtrak is run as its own "for profit" somewhat publicly traded company, yet has to answer to the US Congress as its largest shareholder.
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Don't any regular credit cards do this already? (not that I appreciate it)
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> Why do we have to jump to infinity? Why can't the velocity of money vary based on market forces, including economic growth?

Because the velocity of money isn't determined by market forces, it is determined by how easy it is for money to flow.

If bitcoin was the dream it aspires to be (instant, easy, transparent money transfers anywhere in the world), velocity of money tends to infinity, and the value of bitcoin goes to zero.

> The idea of an asset that always increases in value (or a "free lunch", let's call it) is explicitly disowned by every theory of economics, from the Austrians & monetarists to the Keynsians & the Marxists.

I'm not talking about an asset that always increases in value. I'm talking about a fixed supply of money, which would on average always represent more value (since the economy is growing on average) year after year.

As the supply of bitcoin will never increase, but there demand will (on average) always increase, a single bitcoin will represent a larger amount of value each year after year.

Therefore, it is a deflationary currency.
They were Vive headsets. From the moment I put on the helmet something feels off and I can't quite focus on objects comfortably without some kind of strain. I've learned over time to let my eyes just relax and not try to focus but it still gets me after about 30-45 minutes. If I'm in Big screen watching a movie it's not a big deal because my eyes aren't moving around focusing on different objects in a room so much. But if I'm out walking around in Skyrim I feel sick after about 30 minutes.
I'm considering doing the same. I have an Amazon Prime Visa Rewards card that will go from being 5% cashback to 3% on purchases at Amazon and Whole Foods, and I'll lose the ability to use the Twitch Prime subscription or use Amazon Video, but I don't think I will miss them.
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Well people do exercise this option if they are obliged to by a court ruling, or if it gets them a lower insurance premium.
Maybe try googling the concept of supply and demand?

Edit: or is this a little contradiction/joke that went over my head about the use of the word "unaffordable" instead of expensive? Like the saying "No one goes there any more, it's too crowded"
> I'm not following how that's implied?

The proposed job guarantee talked about is a $15 per hour minimum wage job.
Outsourcing to low-quality shops in India drives the quality of the product into the ground.

Outsouring to high-quality Indian firms, or to British/Euro firms, doesn't.
It could be that I'm confusing it with something else, it's hard when everything is named with meaningless acronyms. But I really thought it was something to do with GDPR even if the connection isn't immediately obvious.
And then went on to ignore both that as well as the verbatim option and serve up stupid results despite our carefully crafted query strings.

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago and I can repeat it: if they pay my tickets and a fair price I'll be happy to hold my course "how to continue being best by not nerfing your market leading product".

Personally I gave up last year and I'm now on DDG. Not perfect but less annoying.
Is there any limit to what laws cities are authorized pass? I'm surprised this is even legal. If you push the reasoning further, could they also ban ATMs? Banks? Uber, AirBnB, Eat24, any cashless service? To be honest, I feel like this has more to do with protecting local merchants than protecting the unbanked.
At my work we've started rolling out Pulumi as an alternative to YAML hell. The advantages are numerous. It's an integrated programming environment for devops, and engineers can split config and data or unify them as relevant. Sometimes a mix is good!

The TypeScript SDK is extremely thorough and type driven, enabling non-devops engineers to catch more errors before it's run, and it extensively uses asynchrony to build up a graph of resources needed, even if those are across platforms. e.g.: We create a project in Google Cloud, then create a service account, then we create a GKE cluster, then a namespace in the cluster when that's available, then we create roles, ... all of this falls out of simply using their SDK, the resolution of the DAG and awaiting of results is done automatically with some nifty types (almost all inputs can take a promise-like value instead of a POD data type.)
What about countries where there is still a lot of violence?
Not having to maintain thousands of miles of rail seems like a big cost savings right up front. Trains should have lower fuel costs, but fuel really isn't that expensive in the grand scheme of things. People are also willing to give up some creature comforts if the trip is short which helps airlines. Trains also have a lower throughput of passengers compared to employee hours, so salary costs per passenger are higher.
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Reducing carbon output by traveling by train stead of plane is a super valid reason. It's probably the no. 1 reason why kerosene will eventually get high taxes on it worldwide (the sooner the better).
1. Inflate
2. Tax to reduce inflation

WAT

No, (2) would simply add to inflation, adding insult to injury.
Consider switching your heating and hot water to heat pumps.
There is a root cause fix - it's legal tender. Systems exist that accept legal tender in an automated way. The preservation of the bearer value of cash money is a more important principle than the preservation of amazon's marginal efficiency.
Eh, is that obvious? In some sense I don't pay for a burger with money from my job. I use my credit card to pay for burgers. So it's like I just print the money I need. Of course none of that is true. The fed could in theory print all the money it wants just like I could I theory borrow all the money I want. Both of us realize that there's a limit to how far that can take us.
> it motivates others to run witch-hunts in against fairly meritocratic organisations whose makeup stubbornly refuses to conform to their beliefs

I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. Can you give a specific example of a witch-hunt like this?

I imagine you're talking about something where (for low-stakes example) a video game competition is typically dominated by 20 year old white males. Someone stirs the boat and tries to make changes so that 50 year old hispanic women place better, despite worse objective performance.

Obviously that would not be a great thing to do! However, let's not assume the makeup of meritocratic organisations is always as fair as we think.

In the video game example, the inconsistency with the makeup is not necessarily because 20 year old males are, by nature since birth, better at video games. But for mostly social reasons, having had more exposure.
I always found that my notes were effectively write-only.

The process of writing things down on paper helped me absorb the information, but beyond that I never really looked back at the notes.

Generally I could find the information I needed in a better form somewhere else. If anything, the notes mainly helped me review broadly which topics were covered on which days.

For math specifically, I always found that what helped me most was to come up with a general "shape" of how I used the paper when solving a problem of a particular type. Then I would end up with a visual that helped me know which bits of information I was missing and what I needed to do where to find the answer.

It's different from the "draw a picture" thing, really more of a knolling[1] of the problem down on paper. If all the things are in their places, then the answer to the problem is straight-forward to come up with.

Edit:

Mise en place [2] might also be a good way to describe it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs_(artist)#Knolling

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place
It's weird but if I zoom, I can't make the magic eye work. Even at 50% or 200%. I wonder why that is?
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"A credentialed economist should put a stake through the heart of the heart of MMT" -- yet somehow all the critiques made by credentialed economists have been based on misunderstanding MMT.

"The financial statement of the economy has to balance." The heart of MMT is that the imbalance between money coming in to a powerful central government and money going out is the primary contributor to growth (or contraction) of the economy as a whole. When it is balanced, the economy is neither growing nor contracting. When the government increases the public debt in a sustainable manner (i.e. people are willing to buy all the Treasury bonds being offered) the economy improves.

"This is merely a backdoor way of transferring assets in a deeply unaccountable way." It's not backdoor and it's not unaccountable; it's tax policy.
I wonder if there's anyone here working on Homotopy Type Theory that can explain what it is, and how it is used in modeling?

I skimmed the PDF of the book but am drawing blank as to its connection to an application. Perhaps it's used for verification of concepts, similar to how formal methods in CS (e.g. TLA+) are used to conceptually check algorithms?
This is a UX issue, not a technical one. Google doesn't want people abandoning the site if they see zero results for their searches. So if a particularly obscure search doesn't bring up anything, Google will show you some results it thinks is close.

I find the message "missing: [term]" more helpful than not. Anytime I see that, I don't click the link. That sends a small signal to Google (compounding with the scale of search queries) that their #1 link isn't what the user was looking for.
To add on that, patents require the disclosure of a method in exchange for a protection of that method. If Tesla applies for a patent, they have "opened the source" by that action. If Tesla then goes and open sources their patents, they've essentially said "we don't need protection anymore, feel free to build this right now instead of in 20 years."

Trade secrets, like how they get their material, some specific PLC code, code that isn't specifically disclosed, or change orders for specific mechanisms have de jure copyright and ownership by Tesla. If Tesla decides not to publish, publicize, or even share documents, someone who shouldn't have documents but does, as well as the person who violated the copyright would be in trouble.
Without more details about why homotopy type theory was mixed into that paragraph about causal inference, I call bullshit. I think this is bolstered by clicking on the link to the previous post about categorical data analysis, which offers nothing and even takes a pot shot at professional statistics (saying the field is “bad at specifying the domain and range of functions” which is a bizarre and incredibly inaccurate characterization of professional statistics).

I think someone is making a mountain out of a mole hill here. I’m sure there will be a flurry of grant money though.
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Video performance is particularly awful with huge amounts of dropped frames on YouTube and Twitch.
Honestly, I would considers users who run Chrome or Safari without extensions to be safer than users who run Firefox with this guide's "few simple steps" applied. I'd rest more easily at night knowing they're protected by someone who's making judgement calls appropriate for non-technical users who have no support if something goes wrong.
Nice looking cover of the manual http://i.liketightpants.net/and/the-fortran-automatic-coding...
You can also try JTAG Versaloon firmware for the STM32 Bluepill board:

https://github.com/zoobab/versaloon
The point isn’t that you can prove Tesla isn’t perfect. That goes without saying.

The assertion was they are so far from perfect that in fact their IP isn’t even defensible in a court of law.

So please don’t reply with more quips about how Tesla isn’t perfect. Why does their CEO mouthing off on Twitter, or attacking disgruntled employees, or dubious onsite health care, or pie-in-the-sky volume estimates, or market manipulation, or literal dumpster fires on their property, mean that their IP is so much shit it can be stolen without consequence?

Throughout, despite, or perhaps even in part due to all of the above, they have still achieved great things and changed an industry. They are still the biggest battery manufacturer in the world. They still make a handful of really fucking awesome electric cars, which you can order in a few minutes on your phone and have delivered to your house. And their margins on those cars are the industry best. Those points seem to support the notion that they must have some valuable logistical IP and trade secrets backing that up.
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This is really cool to think about. In practice though I would imagine every incorrect prediction to be incredibly jarring. Additionally my intuition is that latency is easier to decrease than predicting the next 30ms. If there is some level of latency that is very difficult to reduce (more so than training an AI to predict the next 30ms with very high accuracy), I'd be curious to know why.