skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you learn parameters to tweak the rendered scene if the renderer is not differentiable, and you can't backpropagate through the renderer to calculate the appropriate parameter adjustments from the pixelwise errors?

I suppose you theoretically could do it with some trial and error method or grid search or something like that, but it's going to be absolutely computationally unfeasible in the general case; the pixelwise errors only become practically useful if you have an uninterrupted differentiable/'backpropagatable' path from your parameters to the pixels.
I enabled portals in Canary and tested out the demo. For some reason after the portal has activated, I can no longer go back to the previous page. So much for "take over the web and become the standard way in which websites transition between links". I wonder how much this will confuse the average user. I hope that this is still due to it being experimental.
That and even relatively smart people aren't above health neuroticism.

"$BAD_THING might happen to you watch out!" Omg. Might need one of these[0]; they say this one's a good model.

0: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FYWU2IS/?pldnSite=1
yes, that is your opinion
They aren't losing money on every ride. There is essentially no marginal cost for every new ride.

Overall, they are losing money as a company. And if you divide that out by the number of rides, you can make it seem like they are losing money.

So to think they couldn't be cheating drivers because of that is like saying we know Donald Trump never cheated anyone in business from 85-95 because he lost money for every year that decade.
Java as a language might be not so difficult to learn and understand, but using it for writing real applications can become convoluted pretty quick. Siding with Java in arguments against it, today is like arguing against printing press in the 15th century - "This devilish machine takes the soul out of divine process of copying a book by re-writing it by hand." non-Java JVM languages popping up every few years for good reasons. Another platform that has more languages is Javascript and Clojure beautifully simplifying work there as well.
it's all a matter of perspective, I think an $80 billion market cap for a company that loses billions of dollars every year with no end in sight is not that disappointing at all for those who can sell today
So do the framework within Java.
The most egregious example that stood out to me here is the x-padding between the edge of the notification panel and any text inside the panel is less than the padding between the notification title and the text below it.

The problem isn't that they need more padding, it's that their padding makes no sense. If they made a design decision to have tight padding that would be one thing, but they've got a horizontal layout with tight padding in the horizontal direction and wide padding in the vertical.

here's a really quick-and-dirty edit to even out the padding around each text block to be equal to the line height, which actually tightens up the total density by correcting the too-high line height in the notification text: https://imgur.com/uVcY6Sw
Supercars or soup-of-the-day?
No, I mean built the app, maintain it, build a relationship with users, get people to download it and tell their friends, all of that.

> The economics of a [self driving] taxi fleet don't scale to that size.

I'd be interested in hearing your analysis! I haven't heard that one. Tesla claims these vehicles will pay themselves off within two to three years once they can operate fully autonomously.
“Holier-than-thou”, perhaps, though it can be used even with people with views that aren’t similar.
This comment was flagged to death but honestly, while posed silly, it's a similar argument as most. Many others here are saying vegan is a "fluid" term or something along those lines, and one might say that "cold" is similarly relative. There are some worse comments in this thread.
For such an advanced JVM, having to prewarm it by calling code 5000x times or the JVM being much more memory hungry than other non-JVM languages doesn't feel like the cutting edge.
Would you explain a bit more clearly what you want to know?

(I can probably answer your question, but as phrased your question is extraordinarily broad and a bit unclear.)
What I feel about calculus, esp school calculus, is that it seems to comprise largely of specific tricks of symbol manipulation, rather than general approaches that work in all cases. Any ways, analytic integration/differentiation seems to be full of such tricks, of which how the core intuition was first obtained remains a mystery most of the time(rather than it being a result of scientific/mathematical method or process).
Some notes from watching Uber open:

- if it closes below $45(its IPO price) it will be the first time since 2008 that the happened for a major IPO

- TD Ameritrade executed more orders in the first 10 minutes of trading than they did for the first 2.5 hours with Lyft.

- Uber is 9% of all trading at TD Ameritrade, retail loves this stock,

- market is down today, which isn't helping Uber but its probably not much of a factor

- Kudos to Citadel, stock opened without a hitch and they seemed to nail the opening price,

- Boo to the underwriters(Morgan Stanley), who seemed to misjudge the market's appetite, important to note that major buyers at IPO, Fidelity and such already had exposure to Uber pre IPO so maybe this staying private longer but selling shares to public fudns had an effect?

https://news.yahoo.com/uber-employees-may-not-partying-15171...

- interesting piece on how Uber has grown its market cap in the past few years at the expense of its share price and how that effects later employees.

- later investors like the Saudi Public Investment Fund can’t be happy with the opening.

- from Bloomberg without comment...."Overheard trader on the floor: “That’s what you get when you don’t make a profit. If you don’t make money, people don’t want to buy you.”

- Biggest IPO since Facebook, that's something to be proud of!!

Date:

- June 4 is expiration of 25-day quiet period for analysts at underwriting banks. Expect bullish initiations on this date

- Nov. 6 expiration of Uber's IPO lockup. Large selling pressure expected to be asserted on this day as is typical for most IPO's.

Personal thought. It may be tough for employee's to not see this pop to say $65-$70 but in the long run its almost certainly better to open flat than to pull a "lyft" and get a first day pop that you price your options at in your head and to then have to cut that price by 40% before you get a chance to sell.

EDIT for comment below.
This is unfortunate for many of the rank and file Uber employees but it’s good news for the stock market in general. It’s showing we’re not in a tech bubble and companies are still going to be valued based on how strong their business case is.
Have you ever been to a supermarket? The market for carbonated beverages is massive with lots of competitors and tons of new entrants, as well as competitive pricing and low margins.

Much like, I am arguing, the market for taxi hailing will continue to be.
While that is certainly true for some travelers (myself included), some passengers would prefer to check their luggage and not wheel/carry it around, struggle to lift it into the overhead bin, etc. When I travel for work, I'm always surprised at the number of coworkers who happily check their baggage.
You have your wish: most people already don't even know how the safety net works. :P The existence of questions on a site designed to ask questions is not any indicator of how often rebase causes problems. Nobody posts to stack exchange every time it works and they're not confused. Aren't the questions on stack exchange a good thing, if what you want is for people to not have to learn the safety net? Just commit and rebase until there are problems, then if you get confused, go look up the answer on stack exchange or post a question if you don't see one already. Seems like the system is working?
Depending on how it interacts with SRI, there is one interesting use case that could be supported. Imagine you had a data-uri / bookmarklet which loaded a <portal> of a web app, using the ideas discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456

If the SRI hash on the data-uri could restrict the content of the portal to a trusted HTML document (containing SRI hashes for the scripts it referenced), then navigating "into" the portal would allow the browser to display the URL of the origin site, and run JavaScript in that context, with the TLS indicator visible.

This would allow us to pin specific versions of web apps (if they were structured this way), and those apps could be subject to independent audit. Specifically, it would then be impossible for a compromised host to silently "upgrade" you to a new malicious version of the web app (or even downgrade you to an earlier version).
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I don't understand why the US puts up with this while largely being denied market access to China. In my mind, it would be more symetrical to have applied tariffs to brands that aren't incorporated and substantially operating in the US and are imported into the US from China. This would help American businesses by having American consumers buy quality items from US companies, even if a substantial portion of the product was built in China.
And yet one of the most successful vegan companies recently genetically engineered soy beans to produce heme.

With the introduction of ethical meat riding on the back of GMO & science I bet we'll see an emergence of very different forms of veganism.

I've slowly reduced my meat & dairy consumption, but haven't eliminated it. This year I have almost entirely eliminated cow meat from my diet (probably ate ~100-200 grams this year for cultural reasons), but am highly anticipating the impossible burger 2 coming to local restaurants.
I thought the same thing.

Nothing about F5 is open.

Now hopefully F5 will continue to let Nginx be open source, but I'm not sure exactly how much more development they will do. Of course, it will be nice to see F5 to get the infusion of Nginx tech, because F5's code can use it.
https://cscheid.net/courses/spr19/csc665/

The assignments are not directly available, but my email is easy to find.
what do you mean? You looked at the analyse report and changed the query to avoid some unnecessary computation?
This seems like a lot of effort, with plenty of potentially fatal edge cases, for extremely little gain.

A small number in a URL isn't going to confuse anyone.
I’m 43 for whatever that matters. I think the experience and gravity a 45 year old brings vs a 25 year old is incredibly valuable. That said, at this point in life I am no longer willing to give all my life to work. I have a family. I realize how previously brief life is (ah mid age) and want to savor enjoying it. I work hard but with definite limits. A 25 year old has no such burdens. So there is a balance.
>It’s still a problem because there are plenty of that kind of aircraft,

Yeah. But those aircraft don't tend to inhabit the airspace around cities. Pretty much all small commercial aviation in the lower 48 is going to be running turboprops that use normal jet fuel (basically diesel). A suburban airport that actually has a meaningful GA presence is going to put far more lead into the air.
On a microcontroller one probably controls both the runtime and the application. Is there something that prevents configuring the run-time to have only 1kB memory (stack and heap)?
Well the sticker price isn't 30k, but that's probably what you end up paying by the end of the 5 year loan.
Not sure if you're joking, but the airlines have a long long history of bankruptcy...

Even American Airlines declared bankruptcy in 2011 and emerged from it in 2013... Delta in 2005. United in 2002.

[0] http://airlines.org/dataset/u-s-bankruptcies-and-services-ce...
OP's point was that rebasing cannot rewrite commits. It can only make new commits and change branch pointers to them.
Why would providing bees access to pollen be considered exploitative?
Also depends on the temperament of the kids. My young daughter can dress herself, brush her hair, get her cereal, essentially take herself from waking up to ready to leave the house with minimum input from me. My son on the other hand will get distracted with toys, run around the house playing, and generally takes 90% of my attention to get ready for the day. 100% if I don't want a whirlwind of clothes and toys to clean up. Granted, he's 3... If I had two kids like that I couldn't imagine a third.
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I stalked you, and your resume is great. D:

Are you homeless experimentally or out of necessity?
the EB5 investment isn't backed by the government though, so a lot riskier than the loan for Quebec investor visa. Additionally, as the parent comment mentioned, one could finance the investment and therefore really only pay ~175k out of pocket.
I can definitely understand 22k considering all the drivers to manage. And imagine how many employees you need to manage regulatory compliance in as many cities, counties, provinces, states, countries they have to deal with.

The more interesting figure to me would be how many of those 22k are developers.
The fire trucks do not know where the plane will stop on the runway. A plane coming in to land will be going well over 100 mph. The fire trucks cannot be on the runway ahead of the plane (lest they be taken out by the plane and make the crash worse with the side benefit of now having more victims and less first responders).

It is physically impossible for the firetrucks to be at the plane the moment it stops.
There are a ton of individuals and big companies in tech working through standardization bodies to create an identity layer for the internet, that no single organization is in control over. Google is not among them.

A link to the ISO Standard Google is waiting for approval on:
https://www.iso.org/standard/69084.html

Examples of organizations working to solve identity problems, rather than compound them:

https://www.weboftrust.info/

https://identity.foundation/
> People with bags [...]

SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD THEIR BAGS. END OF STORY.

You say yourself the last survivor existed after 55 seconds. Did bag carriers cause even a two second delay? Could one extra person have crawled out from the smoke before succumbing? Perhaps that 12 year old girl?

You (and I mean anyone but if you fly I literally mean you) should not be making these sort of calculations when deciding to carry or not carry. Do not carry. Exit.
Great, more tech that relies on hardware keystores that will refuse to work after I unlock my bootloader and it blows an e-fuse.
Morgan Stanley going to have to do a lot to stabilize the price over the coming days...

On Uber's side, they sold at their $45 mark. However, seems this may have been a down round vs their last private funding round ($74.1BN pre-money vs $76BN last year).
> A physical key requires more dexterity than pushing numbers on a keypad.

There are adapters and grips designed for people with arthritis.
Thanks, this is great advice! Do you have any suggestions/favourite "master thinker" you think would be worth starting with?

Btw.: I used the word consume because I couldn't come up with a single word for reading books, listening to podcasts and going through a course :) I am not a native speaker.
I'm in a very similar boat, with a musical side-projects and some DJing gigs from time to time. Sometimes I think about what it would be like if I went into music full-time, but the thing is, I actually like programming (spending two-week vacation learning Haskell right now, for example), so it doesn't really feel like such a tragic choice.
Great commentary, but I disagree with this point:

> we are listening to complicated set-ups and overengineering systems of distributed networking and queues and serverless and microservices and machine learning platforms that our companies don’t need

A lot of these technologies are talked about not because they're cool or hip, but because they actually increase productivity quite significantly. You can build complex architectures with any stack. But what many new technologies enable is building a company with fewer engineers and fewer resources than what was required before.

That said: it's clearly possible to be very productive with old technologies as well. However, I just don't see new companies which need to interact with "legacy" software being run without using some sort of virtualization or containerization technology.
Is there a way to opt out of this or should I buy an iPhone?
That find in the dark feature was available in the 1970s, substituting a neon bulb for a LED.
Doesn't WASI defines a sort of ABI (what are the data types, the functions, arguments, return types etc...) ?
> Without a camera, there's ~0% chance of anyone being caught.

If you're only interested in recording what happened (as evidence) an IP camera can run on PoE to a laptop or mini-pc on a UPS, and record for as long as you want, even in the case of a power outage if you include a UPS (an old laptop works well in this case - you can potentially just run the PoE switch/injector on the UPS and let the laptop run on its battery).

No internet connection required. No "service" to stop working. No "API" to become deprecated.
I doubt that people who have to sleep in their cars will be able to afford an autonomous vehicle.
They even put the little under voltage lightning bolt icon that's always popping up, cool!
I hope ad blockers can universally block this tag. This seems like an attempt for them to make ads even more annoying.
As a non-vegan, it really irks me when other non-vegans try to “checkmate” vegans with situations like this. It’s a personal choice to not partake in the factory meat/animal products industry and the measurable harm that comes to life forms from it. True, you can show that vegetables and other byproducts can be derived from human labor cost, but when the rubber meets the road, and you make an individual choice on what products to consume, it’s valid to judge these ethical concerns and decide what best fits into your personal values set. I think it helps that I come from the Hardcore Punk scene where many of my friends are vegan.
Indeed, this is a huge pain. ADB is, as far as I know, the only generic backup method that does not require root. The fact that it doesn't work with a lot of apps is highly frustrating.
> They were originally sequential and then they switched to even numbers for a while, then odd numbers.

That sounds like they wanted to migrate to another cluster, and wanted to have both clusters running at the same time (for testing) without risking an ID overlap, so they turned the least significant bit of the ID into a cluster identifier. The older cluster was 0 (even numbers), the new cluster was 1 (odd numbers).
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BC is experiencing a fentanyl overdose crisis and thousands have died as a result.

Where do you think the money to be laundered is coming from?
I have switched Android phones about 10 times and I have never successfully used the Google-made backup. Here's why, I think:

Old phone is on Android N. Backups happening regularly by their service. Phone breaks or I get a new phone. New phone is running Android N-1. In the setup process it tries to use the backup and it fails, of course, because it's from a newer version of Android. Every. Single. Time. What I should have done, and I ALWAYS FORGET: do not login to your account until you have fully updated the phone to the latest Android version!
Vice has gone downhill. I do not respect them anymore. Is vice blaming Hollywood for promoting violence or using guns in movies?? Nope..
it is definitely a common manifestation of human psychology and black and white thinking. Not many people are comfortable with the grey area and the morally ambiguous.

People want strict rules that they can follow that gives them a measuring stick by which they can gauge their own (and others) "worthiness", "purity" or "success". If we set specific boundaries, then we can more easily judge ourselves if we succeeded/failed or others if they are in/out. This type of thinking is most commonly found in diets. We decide which foods are "bad" and which are "good" so we know whether or not we have achieved our goals. It's easier to know when you "fell off the horse" when you ate a food previously deemed "bad". It's not so easy to make judgements on ourselves and others when the rules are not so clear-cut.

I think many are afraid of looking to ourselves as the deciders of our own realities/moralities. We prefer to look outside to leaders/gurus/experts to tell us what the truth is.
Because you would expect to lose 40-100% of money you don't launder, either through taxes or confiscation.

So a nominal loss is acceptable. The main thing is to get it laundered, and there is usually some price to pay to do so.

Tony Montana's downfall in scarface happened because he didn't understand this. Here's a scene where his banker explains to him difficulties in laundering as volume rises:

https://youtu.be/xyrAwWc9tU0
Clickbait title! Nothing on this planet would be vegan if we look closely at harm caused by any behavior or habit or use. It’s about reducing harm and least harm. If people understood that part of veganism and then moved further to understand it better, there wouldn’t be so much hatred or so many clickbait titles.

Pointing out the truth and informing people about the consequences of their choices can be done without silly titles that make many people roll their eyes.
WTF is with this site. Even with adblock enabled, it played video advertisement to me, and then started narrating the story.
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> The smart lock could be operated without identification, using a code. It’s not clear to me that this code was unique per user.

"It's not clear to me that this is true" is different from "this is false".

(Also note that the only evidence in the article even for the existence of the code, let alone the question of whether or not it identifies the tenant, is an attorney's claim; in the article, it is not denied, but nor does anyone else confirm it. For example, the attorney's claim is perfectly consistent with the possibility that there is a code, but that the landlord did not inform tenants of it, or would not provide it to them.)

> This does not look like a privacy win to me. It looks like a good precedent that will aid in a privacy court battle in the future.

But the article says:

> It won't set a legal precedent because it's a settlement, but it represents a win for tenants who had issues with smart locks and landlords installing them against their will.
Its easier to gripe about "evil $otherparty" and vent righteous anger at the corporate written and backed ideas that get submitted, than it would be to draft legislation implementing a sensible and sound open public ID system and get some Congresscritter to actually get it to the floor.

There might have been some efforts that I'm unaware of but that I haven't heard of them suggests they didn't get far. It doesn't help that there's not yet an elegant, eloquently defined notion of what such a system should be that an advocate could point to and say "see? this will solve all your problems". We got hucksters yelling blockchain but that's a different thing.
There's a reason IPOs are called exits.
Anywhere from 2 to 20 hours. Average is probably 4-5. But I have a ton of other proposals now that I copy and paste from and just fill in relevant details. Used to take me longer.
>stuff hyped on HN

HN is going to be inclined to take a look at new-ish stuff.
Uber is valued a whole bunch above zero which is where that company will be when it runs out of money, which it will relatively soon at the rate it's going.