skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a really tall ask for many people I would argue

I agree, but I don't think they were doing much beyond stating their own goals and methods. As a guide to what you can do and how you can attempt to go about it, I think it serves well.

> I personally would likely struggle to convince anyone I know to enter some kind of cooperative livestock purchase/kill/process/store arrangement. As a matter of curiosity, how willing is the average livestock farmer to enter into such an agreement with private individuals?

I imagine some butchers might provide cows where you can check the providence, at least in more populated areas. It wouldn't be quite as cheap as a cooperative project, but it would almost definitely be less time consuming, and supporting a free market for this good has additional benefits.
I've always been curious if the internationalization of political discussion was behind the changing definitions of the word "liberal" in US politics.

In the 1990s, "liberal" was used as a synonym of "leftist"; a "liberal" politician would support expanding the welfare state, for example. My understanding is that the European definition of "liberal" is different, and implied a light touch in business affairs; the Economist is a "liberal" publication.

In 2019, this definition has spread to the United States as well; members of the Democratic Socialists of America don't identify as liberal. The European definition is only used in some circles: conservatives tend to stick to the old definition, and would describe somebody like Bernie Sanders as "liberal". I was always curious if this was because US political activists were talking to European ones on sites like Twitter, or Internet forums before it.
>Final thing you can do is not doing incremental updates, but instead doing big rollouts with many features at once.
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>That way they'll always be weeks to months behind you.

This reminds me of the old days when Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand. I learned both apps, as each release from one would leap frog the other in features. I actually learned from a roommate that was taking college courses, and I would do his homework assignments. Not do them for him, but on my own just to learn the software. Saved me from needing to take the course!
I forgot where I learned this, but I remember someone saying that in law there are really just two entities - person and property. A person is any entity that has rights. Only "persons" can have rights in law. A property is anything that can be owned. And all law is revolved around person and property.

The rights between a human, a corporation and a river might be different, but the fact that they all have rights is what unites them and why they are "persons". I believe it is a legacy when only human beings had rights. But the legal system got abstracted and we wanted to give rights to non-human entities.

Also, keep in mind that human beings had different rights as well. Some humans didn't even have rights and were not considered legal persons.

Colloquially, we use person as a synonym for human, but in law, person is anything with rights.
He has a point. There's a bit amount of data-reuse in CNNs.

Hmm... it will depend on the CNN. There's probably a good neural network design that would take advantage of this architecture. IE: A well recycled convolutional layer that probably fits within the 32MB (load those weights once, use them across the whole picture).

So the whole NN doesn't necessarily have to fit inside of 32MB to be useful. But at least, large portions have to fit. (say, a 128x128 tile with 20 hidden-layers is only 300kB). Recycling that portion across the 1080 x 1920 input would be relatively cheap.

I herp-derped early on, there seem to be CNNs that would make good use of the architecture. Still, the memory bandwidth of that chip is very low, I'd expect GDDR6 or HBM2 to definitely be superior to the 68GBps LPDDR4 chip they put in there.
In Github terms of service, if you make a repo public, others are free to view and fork it, apparently even if you place a commercial license on it, or no license. The lawyers will have to figure out if that means copy, use or whatever.

https://help.github.com/en/articles/licensing-a-repository
In Albania, the Number of Abandoned Bunkers Is Kind of a Problem
The theoretical response of Supply & Demand curves to taxes that we learned in macro don't hold as instantaneous or ever fully realized in the real world. Humans simply aren't rational actors.
Here at Facebook they are starting to pop up as well: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs?q=rust
Tokyo also merged with its Prefecture in 1943.

If only the Bay Area cities would amalgamate and solve housing and public transit as a unified force....
WHAT are they doing?

I think his point is something like "Who knows, but you can be sure TurboTax is doing it too"
> If the majority of residents in a given area want to keep the zoning as-is, why do you (or I) have any right to force them to change?

Because: (a) the "why should you be able to tell people what to do?" argument really runs the other way, as zoning is a way of telling property owners what they can and cannot do with their property; (b) rising home values cause renters to be forced out of their homes unnecessarily; (c) banning new housing in one city causes gentrification in other nearby cities (which is why for example East Palo Alto and Stockton came out in support of SB 50).

> And frankly, if increasing density actually helped property values wouldn't you expect a place like NYC to be more affordable?

Fortunately we have economists to study these things instead of drawing conclusions from single data points, and the economic consensus is that supply and demand does in fact apply to housing.
Ultrasound systems are medical devices. There are limits on power levels for patient safety and to ensure efficacy. To my knowledge, licensing here is an attempt to protect patient safety.
I still use ractive for production apps today, and have legacy ractive apps that are from 2013’ish running great
I am an Indian expat and can rant endlessly on government corruption in India. Most Indians living in the US are well-aware of the graft in their mother country but many Indians in India choose not to acknowledge it. A truly remarkable corrupt event occurred recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...
Careful with that: https://i.imgur.com/2WOj0eN.png
Restaurants are not strategically important, and believe me, China would be very happy to have more home-grown airplane manufacturing expertise, but right now it makes sense for that talent to be directed towards the war industry.
There was no "Unsworth lie". There was Elon saying some very unkind things after Unsworth personally attacked him. Neither thing is appropriate, but let's not pretend this wasn't a tit-for-tat.
For work I have to use Windows and Outlook is pretty decent. Then for Linux I just stick to thunderbird.
More as, you should not modify images running in production. By human or machine.

Rather build new images and roll over the fleet. If you need to debug, remove from production (quarantine) and work on it there.

Don't run master / agent setups for ansible / salt anymore. You can still use them for creating images, which are later turned into running VMs. Think about it like containers. Do you update the contents of your running containers, or log into your containers to make changes?

Better yet, use OSes that cannot be modified.
I would say the breaking point has already been reached. There are heaps of better places to live with a vastly lower costs. All we need to do is convince the VCs to fund startups in these places and we can all forget about SF.
Seems pretty fair. Imagine you are in the Matrix and eventually when you die, it wasn't actually your real death, it was the harvesting of your meat in the real universe above. They gave you a pretty decent ride, eh? At some point we all have to admit we don't have full control of the universe - and we hope the universe will treat us kindly. Unfortunately, the universe itself, and the powerful within it, can become muddled - when men determines fate of others, as if they are Gods, then one must question their allegiance to `going with the flow.` It seems like most of us are only happy going with the flow of the all-powerful universe, not his second rate stooges... Pretty sure most vegetarian philosophy comes down to - if you want to act like a God when it comes to determining other's fates, be the God you'd want for yourself.
Complaining that JS apps (which is what Twitter is) don't work without JS is weird. Its not hard to write your own Twitter front-end that doesn't have SPA type features.
That's correct, it's lidar+cameras vs just cameras. But it should be RF + radar + sonar + lidar + cameras vs anything else. If the 737Max8 tells us anything, it's that one sensor just isn't enough.

EM radiation from UV down to radio has different propagation characteristics, and materials form different attenuators. Radio easily passes through most non-metals with less attenuation than 400-800 THz radiation (light). When I was at Tesla, I tried like heck to get people to internalize this, but the 'cameras + one forward-looking radar is enough' crowd has clearly won.

Heck, RF can shoot through mud, rain, sleet, and snow. Cameras? not so much. Although I agree that the number of 'RF pixels' one gets is nowhere near what a camera provides, it does provide some pixels when the cameras are covered in road muck.

And what about when it's dark? Are the headlights going to provide enough light for the cameras to function well in all road conditions?
Better error handling and messaging...
Does having a proof of P=NP necessarily mean that you can write the code to solve NP problems though?
> what you're really doing is giving legal standing to someone who claims to be acting on their behalf

This does not necessarily follow.
Liberal means the near opposite of leftism. In the US, and abroad, I think that we are seeing a clear shift of the right wing factions towards liberalism, away from conservatism and religion. Likewise, there is a corresponding left wing shift towards Marxism. I personally think that is how the political factions will be characterized over the next century.

I would characterize liberalism's tenets as:

1.) Universality under the law (not contextualized by identity)

2.) Focus on maximizing individual liberty and minimizing centralized authority

3.) Laissez-faire focus on accountability. You reap what you sow

I would only differentiate a liberal from a libertarian in that a liberal is just more likely to accept certain market failures as being better served by the state. A liberal is more likely than a libertarian, for example, to support anti-monopoly clauses, or heavy taxation or regulation of negative third-party-externalities. But a liberal and libertarian are of the same ilk; and value liberty as the primary virtue.
> South East Asia ?

Where ? Certainly not in Indonesia, the largest population in south east asia. Nor in singapore, malaysia or philippines.
I wish Adobe would simply send out an update that just kills the existing installs. It might cause some pain but it would be for the greater good.
Also curious how it is transmitted through vegetation. The article mentions that's how deer spread it to each other, but deer are also constantly raiding human crops as well.
> All we need to do is convince the VCs to fund startups in these places and we can all forget about SF

And you need to make sure there's a big talent pool there, and good universities.

A few places are close to that, but it's not so easy to replicate.

This book talks about it some: https://amzn.to/2XAU3f0

And most of the places that are close have rampant NIMBYism problems of their own.
Only if you sell. Otherwise, if you are truly successful with up zoning for affordable housing, not only will the market rate of houses fall but land to build on won't be scarce anymore either.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to on the one hand supply large amounts of affordable housing and on the other to not negatively affect those benefiting from the lack of it.

But ultimately it isn't me you have to convince, but those who would risk their property values. If you do that, then you have a solution to the situation.
Android phones are querying servers in the US all the time.
If you think 3% is insignificant, go ask your boss for a 3% raise.
This touches close to home :')
So call them driver assists.

I am tired of seeing driver assists being sold as driverless systems.
Yes, LIDAR has drawbacks too. That's why almost all autonomous vehicle systems "fuse" LIDAR and vision data together. The debate here should be LIDAR + camera vs only camera. Musk has turned the conversation to LIDAR vs camera.
If you're skilled and practiced enough to be a world-class talent in your field, it is highly unlikely that you don't work in that field as a professional.
Nor would it necessarily work (quickly) if the order of magnitude for any constants were sufficiently large (after all, a runtime of 2 * N and a runtime of (2^512) * N are both O(N)).

If I remember correctly, in the semi-regular survey conducted with CS experts about this question, the most likely explanation that accompanied a response saying they believed that it may be the case that P=NP was “...but with very large constants”.
SF will never be a place people will want to have children. Americans do not believe children can grow up in cities. They do not believe kids can take buses or trains. We're going to see the effect of this suffocating parenting style in a next generation that is dominated by fear and discomfort with unfamiliarity.
iphone found to be querying servers in the US, discovered 10 years ago.
Were you working downtown?
Color-backtrace: Colorful panic backtraces for Rust
Wow, you found some discussions on the internet where anyone can find discussions about literally anything. I'm convinced!

/s
We could and should, but the article was about San Francisco. And let's face it, more people want to live in SF than PA or Stanford.
> It's more expensive to build tall buildings (per sq foot of habitable space) than single family homes or townhomes.

This isn't really an issue when building costs are far below market prices for either of these. Obviously, supply would drive prices down despite higher building costs.
Act how? What precisely could be done outside of protectionist policies that seem to be regarded as outmoded, inefficient, and taboo.

Are we going to war? Isolationism? React in kind? Simply wait?
Like Basecamp. The question is can a bootstrapped business grow to become a challenger to a VC backed juggernaut like Facebook/Google.
O bought your 'experimenting with babies' book for my sister when she had her first child. It's been a blast, thanks!
Replace "New York Times" with "nytimes.com" and it's really not that different from FB or Google.
An algorithm with complexity O(n^{999}) is polynomial but but not more useful than an exponential algorithm on any practical problem.

If an NP solver comes out, it may not practical (at first or for any practical purposes).

The polynomial complexity of the "P is in prime" algorithm https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/manindra/algebra/primality_... had first a bad polynomial complexity and was later improved in other papers.
Why are we even having to file our own taxes?

Supposedly a political gambit from the right. The idea is if paying your taxes is painless, you will cease to notice them. But the more painful paying them becomes, the more attention you will pay to what you are paying, and then the more you will object & vote to lower your taxes.
I thought most people (including myself) on HN were in favor of Google in that case, that APIs shouldn't be copyrightable.

What exactly is Smartcar's product? Is it just the API design?

If so, I personally think this is in the same boat as that case, and I don't really see having the same API as copying either.
This kind of smear campaign against Huawei is unprecedented and politically motivated in the history of telecommunication technology.
Other channels have recorded it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbgtGQIygZQ
to be clear, the folks who are subjects of the NY Times article are fairly friendly with the article authors. You may want to take a look at the history of the authors, and see that the same names come up (mcmillen, whittaker) over and over. It's a complicated situation but the Times tend to cover labor relations at Google far in excess of the true impact of these events.
Songwriters, You Have a Choice
In the UK, at least without further context, to describe someone as 'liberal' means to me that they have socially liberal views or are generous with their property and 'a liberal' means either socially liberal views or a member or supporter of the Liberal party. You would have to qualify the word liberal with something such as 'neo' to get me to think you meant someone like Thatcher or Reagan.
How is that strange, dude? 42% of teachers teach it. It's almost literally a coin flip whether you get it or not. Not exactly rare odds.
For children, it doesn't help that SF public schools are terrible, and the demand for private schools is so high they can't keep up. That's why most people move out of the city when they have kids.
Good lord. What kind of terrible person thinks Goldman Sachs is some kind of role model?
> What's the intuition that an extremely important proof will come from someone who gets all the TeX tweaked to camera-ready perfection, goes around and gives the talks, and all the conventional things

I think it's more that vanishingly few people with poor notation are able to get things completely right. Mathematicians acquire this intuition from marking thousands of undergraduate students' work and attempting to understand the research of (at least) hundreds of postgraduate students and professional researchers (i.e. everyone "in the system"). In these people's work the intuition bad notation => mistakes is almost universally true, so the odds against an outsider with poor notation accomplishing something mathematicians have been failing to solve but chipping away at for decades are astronomical.

It's not impossible, of course, but so unlikely that it's almost certainly not worth the time and effort to look into the details. It would be almost inevitably disappointing, and there's not enough time for the more trustworthy interesting stuff as it is.

Edit: a person like the specific one you're describing can earn professionals' time and effort (trust) with smaller results that are both insightful and short and correct enough to be easily checked, and then showing that they can learn from their mistakes.
Your post suggested that missing any obvious obstacles casts doubt on Tesla's claim that lidar isn't necessary, but I'm saying their claim will indeed be proven true if the overall safety level of vision-and-radar autonomy is far better than that of humans, even if they sometimes crash in ways that seem obviously avoidable to humans.
What Chinese companies have top position in any sector in the US? And do you think the US government would allow any to get there?
Designing for concurrent requests is pretty much a given for web servers.
Angus Barbieri's Fast
Terrible headline. My first thought was that most teachers don’t teach math. Lo and behold, once you page through half the text, 65% of teacher don’t teach climate change because it is irrelevant to their subject.

(Definitely we should be teaching climate change—in science classes. Maybe even history classes. But in >50% of all subjects? eh...)
Not as much as you might think.
Exactly, it's flat. The property values didn't fall.
I'd like to say, clearly: I worked at Google and really felt uncomfortable with how a small fraction of the employees dominated the inner communication channels and pretended like everybody agreed with them. Many of us were afraid to speak up after a number of incidents due to the climate. However, over team it really became clear that a small number of people were repeatedly dominating the discourse in an unreasonable way.

I don't think the management is just gonna toss the protestors on PIPs without strong evidence they aren't getting their daily jobs done.
What's wrong with that? Lucidchart is a fully-featured application that runs in a web browser with a cloud-backend. I don't understand what you're trying to argue. That you have to optimize for request count? Why?
It doesn't look like they're complaining about copying the API itself, but rather the docs specifically.
No threads. no deal. There are also concerns about the ability to unwind the stack for non-local exits in manners that satisfy some languages' specification.

Our compiler is ready to target WebAssembly, but we can't run anything useful on it without those two.
The legacy is that some persons had rights. Some had more than others (still a thing) and some had no rights (almost not a thing today) and some people were seen as the property of others barring special circumstances.
As it turns out, probably nothing. Their API docs are apparently open source.
Well, absent zoning laws, you'd build tall buildings. And you'd build more floors until the marginal cost of adding the Nth floor is just under the marginal selling price of the floor.

(so it always will be an issue)
Google GDPR location history data is corrupted
Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident
No. He's saying the opposite. That whole blocks won't convert en masse. That individual properties within the new zones will convert to multi-tenant, and that will drive an overall density increase and more taxes, benefiting all units in the area, even the SFHs that didn't convert.

If you currently own a SFH, it's entirely up to you whether the house stays that way or not. You can remain as-is, and enjoy the transit benefits that accrue from the deeper tax base.
My understanding is that the common definition of middle class is in between working class and upper class, but that in America the people who most identify as middle class would be called working class anywhere else. Personally I tend to view it more as a mindset than an income range.
> I've always been curious if the internationalization of political discussion was behind the changing definitions of the word "liberal" in US politics.

No.

> In the 1990s, "liberal" was used as a synonym of "leftist"

The early 1990s was the height of what was then referred to as the “neoliberal consensus” in US politics, and the liberal in neoliberal is exactly the same sense you are trying to sell as uniquely European (but which is really just economic.)

> In 2019, this definition has spread to the United States as well; members of the Democratic Socialists of America don't identify as liberal.

The DSA has been around for a long time, and it's members have never identified as liberal. “Liberal” was only ever equated with “Leftist” in conservative propaganda. Though for a long time in the US, both the major parties were dominated by economic liberals, so economic liberals that were socially liberal were “liberals” and economic liberals that were socially conservative were “conservatives”.
Africa and the Middle East are 10-sigmas.