skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the companies that have more or less sprung up out of nowhere are...to blame for the economic stagnation of the middle class over the last 40 to 50 years?

Pardon the editorial but here we go again, politicians pinning the tail on the wrong donkey (i.e., spinning root causes out of symptoms and correlation); the voters will fall for it, and five to ten years down the road we'll all realize we wasted our time (as the root causes further strengthened their stranglehold).
> But the number of chargebacks is as much related to the frequency of buyer fraud in that industry rather than anything the merchant can control. If it's all buyer fraud then the rate is high, but how do you solve that other than by moving the liability back to the buyer?

You are. Retail price is adjusted to account for interchange which is adjusted to account for risk. Merchants can offer cash discounts.

> It's there because the credit card companies don't give customers the choice.

Again processors make money when transaction volume is higher. If this reduced transaction volume why would they do it?

> Meanwhile if you paid 3% more on purchases totaling $200,000 over the last decade due to the increased buyer fraud, have you really come out ahead?

Average merchant interchange is around 3% and there are 2% cash back cards, so it’s 1% net, meaning I’d be out $2000, so break even. Not to mention the interest-free one month loans, car rental insurance, loss insurance, warranty extensions and so on.

> We would have the data if we gave people the choice.

So you’re speculating in spite of the fact interests are currently aligned. And setting aside that the choice specifically exists for all brick and mortar merchants - so is there some reason they’re a poor sample?
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I find this feud odd (unless Nvidia is being unreasonable--which hasn't been shown). I really feel like Apple would benefit more than Nvidia by the partnership. Because of things like CUDA, there are whole domains people can only use Win/Linux for.
Thanks for sharing real numbers.

So you would have paid $12,000 to Stripe for charge back insurance, which is double what you really paid (well, it's not double since you really paid 8k, but from the sounds of it that 2k loss could have likely been prevented with a more careful background check which makes it a 6k loss).

Question: would you pay that extra $4,000 to $6,000 to never have to deal with charge backs again?
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On that, we agree. I write code, and I used to own a 2008 "cheese-grater" Mac Pro. That one was affordable enough for developers, came with a low-end video card (which was fine!), supported lots of RAM, and provided a rock-stable machine for development. The new one, not so much, it seems to be mostly good for specialized applications (like video editing).

But on the other hand, I don't think I'd want to buy this Mac Pro anyway, because of the display situation. There are no good external 5K displays, and most of the PC world is stuck in 1080p (or thereabouts) because of gamers. So, if I am to get a computer with a fast CPU and a good 5K display, I will be well served by the iMac or iMac Pro.
In machine learning, you don't get credit for publishing rigorous papers. You get credits for publishing papers that show improved performance:

One big challenge the community faces is that if you want to get a paper published in machine learning now it's got to have a table in it, with all these different data sets across the top, and all these different methods along the side, and your method has to look like the best one. If it doesn’t look like that, it’s hard to get published. I don't think that's encouraging people to think about radically new ideas.

Now if you send in a paper that has a radically new idea, there's no chance in hell it will get accepted, because it's going to get some junior reviewer who doesn't understand it. Or it’s going to get a senior reviewer who's trying to review too many papers and doesn't understand it first time round and assumes it must be nonsense. Anything that makes the brain hurt is not going to get accepted. And I think that's really bad.

Geoff Hinton interview:

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-...

I guess people look at statistical machine learning and deep learning, see all the formulae and hear all the calculus terminology and think - "oh, wow, that's a really rigorous field! Look at all the formalisms!".

But it's not. It's an extremely, almost exclusively, empirical field. The mathiness and the formulae are just unfortunate attempts to pass off the whole endeavour as something that it's not- some kind of careful science that uncovers deep truths about intelligence and cognition. In truth, it's all just about beating other peoples' systems in very specific benchmarks.

If it wasn't for this culture of pretensions to higher science, machine learning papers would most likely be written with much more clarity than they are now and mistakes like the one described in the above article would be rare.
And you can visibly see that quickly disappearing. How are people not able to see past the now like this?
Yes, although the concept is good I am pretty sure after handing this note the official would demand for more.

Nowadays I have seen threatening with audio/video footage using a smartphone work pretty well.
ECC does not add latency and MIDI isn’t even sensitive to additional clock cycles in buffered memory (we are talking Nanoseconds here)
Can I just comment on the title without reading the article? I don't know if shredding my workflow is supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing.
That is because the DOJ website is only interested in defining lawful vs unlawful monopoly, not defining what a monopoly is.

The definition of the word "Monopoly" is already widely denoted as supply side control:

- Wikipedia: The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly)

- Investopedia: A monopoly exists when a single entity is the sole provider of a particular asset or service. (https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032415/whats-differ...)

- Oxford Dictionary: The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monopoly)
MacApp was a framework that ran on top of HIToolkit, similar to PowerPlant. Originally it was written for Object Pascal, but later it moved to C++.
From a privacy standpoint, yes, but from a Signal:Noise ratio, this is what made Fb usable for so long.
The title reads to me like hyperbole.

The implementation can differ, they got time to refactor/optimize it after the publication. But they can't probably revise the paper itself. As long as the code is there and can produce said/better result, then it is probably your responsibility to keep the differences in check.

It is actually quite common for deep learning papers overall, the github repo gets updated after the paper is out, and you will find the divergence lying there.
> I bought a G4 tower when I was in college and it sure as heck wasn’t $6,000 back then.

No, but an entry-level SGI Octane was like TWENTY GRAND back then. The Mac Pro is what occupies that space today.
Build a LED that lights up on the spot and does not use any batteries.

During the demo, just take a wire, wind it around your hand a few dozen times, connect the ends to the LED, and put it close to a wireless Qi charger. It should light up. Its pretty cool to produce light just with wires.

Now if you reverse the concept and create a board full of Led rights and wound up wires, could you wave your hand (with the Qi charger) and get the lights light up based on your hand movement?

Kids love superpowers. If you use technology to simulate superpowers and make it seem easy, you will inspire them to become more curious.
Tipping originated a long time ago, but grew popular in the USA as a way to avoid paying newly freed slaves the same as non African Americans for work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dar...

http://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants...
> "...he US doesn't care about whiny competitors but if the enduser and customer is harmed..."

It's difficult for me to imagine the Justice Dept being able to argue that "customers" were harmed...using services that were free.
Ha Ha! You fool, you fell victim to one of the classic blunders...
Are there concerns amongst these companies about the lack of hardware updates to products like this by Apple? What hardware are these companies using at the moment? iMac Pros? And before that they were using 2013 Mac Pros? I think there was a 4 year gap between those products I think? I'm surprised that more companies in industries that use this type of hardware haven't left the apple ecosystem. I have a home recording studio, so I have some desire for good hardware but I can get away with a regular iMac. It's hard for me to have perspective on this stuff.
The same is true in the USA.

And then, invariably, someone behind them will immediately change into the right lane and speed up to pass them on the right. Thereby making it even harder for the person merging to get in, while also pinning the person who made room for them in the middle lane, because there's suddenly a bunch of faster-moving traffic in the right lane.

It will tend to work out this way even when it's a 3-lane highway and the left-hand lane is wide open.
instead of thinking about what it is in practice: skip-gram negative sampling, I think it's much more intuitive to think about what it is in theory: extreme multi-class classification.

word2vec is a multi-class classification problem with a softmax output layer and cross-entropy loss. The novel part of word2vec, in my opinion, is two:

1. dataset (proximal input word & output word) generation from documents eg: skiagram, CBOW, etc
2. engineering speedup for softmax: Approximate Softmax eg Negative Sampling using NCE, hierarchal softmax, etc

If you just build word2vec w/o step 2, it's a easier to understand. Then when you get that working, add in the negative sampling speedup trick which isn't core the theoretical algorithm.
> For a nation with it's own fiat currency (currency issuers) government spending creates money, and the role of taxes is not to fund spending. Taxes fulfill other roles, like controlling inflation and expressing social policy.

If government spending creates money where does the money the government spends come from?
There is no such thing.
> It's hard to go there evolutionary.

Yeah that seems like exactly the problem.
I'm not the commenter. But taken at face value, your comment could be either bye bye mailinator.com (I'm not using you anymore) or bye bye mailinator.com (no one is going to use you anymore). Fwiw, I thought you meant the latter until I read your reply.
> Also, bike lanes are actually a sinister public policy that deliberately puts drivers against cyclists

They're actually favored by motorists and facilities advocates since they get cyclists out of the way of cars. The unpredictable stuff you mention is just stuff that cyclists have to deal with for the convenience of motorists.

In fact, in New York the law for cyclists proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic states:

https://www.dot.ny.gov/display/programs/bicycle/safety_laws/...

>> Upon all roadways, any bicycle or in-line skate shall be driven either on a usable bicycle or in-line skate lane or, if a usable bicycle or in-line skate lane has not been provided, near the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway or upon a usable right-hand shoulder in such a manner as to prevent undue interference with the flow of traffic

The last clause shows that it's not for safety; it's for the convenience of motorists.
If there are bugs in your code that would have prevented you from being able to do what you claim to do, then to the readers of your paper, it seems more likely that you might not have performed the experimentation that you claim to.
My 2011 Air has 128gb and I'm always having to clean it up to install updates. Yes, it has years of cruft, and some userland stuff, but it's really just a netbook for me, so I don't keep much on it.
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That's fair. The hype cycle may have died down faster than I remember. Not a big user of either service.
Technically, there was at least one device updated to Honeycomb - the HTC Flyer was originally released with Gingerbread and was later upgraded. I know, because I've still got mine, as handed out by Google at workshops where they tried to persuade everyone to use Fragments for everything. I think they've largely stopped trying by now...

Also relevant, that Honeycomb wasn't released into AOSP until ICS, which meant there were no third-party builds or even support from off-name brands.
Those markets are pretty "winner takes most". Not quite sure if I would call it a monopoly per say as anyone can compete but few can scale close.

I would expect most would agree the network effect serves them well - although all may fall in the face of a new competitor who actually manages to be "better" - especially if they do something stupid.
> If you ever fill 3 lanes than you need to seriously invest in public transport.

Um, you do realize that the George Washington Bridge is in New York City, one of the largest cities in the world, with an extensive system of public transportation? The idea that if NYC would just invest in some public transport those 9 lanes would go down to 3 is laughable.
> It's difficult for me to imagine the Justice Dept being able to argue that "customers" were harmed...using services that were free.

C'mon, not offering any choice in how you pay for the service is inherently anti-consumer behavior. It's certainly not free, and they certainly never offer the consumer any insight into exactly how they are paying for it.
I ran into the same thing when implementing a hash table sorting algorithm from a recent paper. Nowhere in the paper does it mention that table size MUST be a power of two.

The new table structure is supposedly more memory efficient than anything else out there. That's the whole point of it.

So it's nice that they leave out "btw only works with size power of two". I got 2/3 of the way through an optimized implementation before I realized it wasn't any more efficient than the previous contender, in fact much less so, if you couldn't fit your set into exactly a power of two size.

Not outright lying but creative ommission for sure
Bitcoin never promised anything. The technology has been quite successful as the value of Bitcoin a decade after its launch has shown. It has succeeded beyond what anyone could have possibly imagined from its origins as an experiment. This war does not affect Bitcoin.
> Under another administration (either Democratic or Republican) it might be reasonable to accept this explanation

The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by a Manhattan Democrat, is also investigating.

I have to say I'm surprised by the anger on this forum in response to these investigations. Yes, a lot of us butter our bread from big tech. And yes, there are other antitrust targets in the country. (There are always other targets.) But for years, comments about the lawlessness and recklessness of these companies have been raised. When I--and others--raised the possibility of a response, through regulators, the courts and the legislature, the possibility was met with derision.

Now that we have progress on the investigations, there is a mixture of (a) allegations of partisanship, (b) whataboutism and (c) a general tone of hostility around the motivations of those pursuing these investigations.
A demonstration on inspect element also quickly teaches people how easy it is to create a fake screenshot. No need for complex work in Photoshop when you can create something that looks perfectly real effortlessly.
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You cherry picked a deleted comment from a troll subreddit to act as an indicator of the entire Republican party stance on Net Neutrality.
Wren is small, and the language is aesthetically appealing, but it's small in the specific way of its C implementation being a small SLOC while implementing nifty features, not "anyone could study this codebase and port it to a new environment". It relies extensively on the preprocessor.

(I speak from experience.)
Title should be updated. This is not about Bitcoin.
The most interesting and least elaborated detail is the Afterburner FPGA. I’m curious what the programming model is (Metal compute kernels?) and how it compares to GPU.
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Driving in the United States is very region dependent.

In cities it's everyone for themselves. Lots of speeding and general shenanigans. Especially Boston, Philly, NYC, Baltimore, SF, LA, DC, and Miami.

In the mid west drivers are generally more laid back and follow the speed limits more.

In rural parts of the Northeast like upstate NY and PA you'll find drivers a lot like Germans. Stay right, pass left.

PA turnpike has a speed limit of 70 but it's normal to see people doing 80-85 especially on I-80. But I-95 near Philly is even worse. Posted speed limit of 55. People doing 80 regularly in the left lane.

This is basically almost autobahn speeds.

For the non-mericans: 80 MPH ~= 128.748 KPH

American roads are all over the place as far as maintenance goes. The interstate road between NYC and Philadelphia is extremely high quality and you can easily hit 120 MPH (193.121 KPH).
Grossly unfair title
It's probably there for people who are going to swap out for their own SSD anyways.
Ouch. Guess I got lucky.
Is this the greatest shot in TV journalism?
That would make maps significantly worse. If not useless.
I'd say that depends on the readers an awful lot.
This article is about protected bike lanes. Protected bike lanes do not have issues with truck loading or most of the other problems you mention.
The Radeon Pro 580x is the same hardware as the Radeon RX 580, except the Pro version is underclocked
> No algorithm

They are conflating what they care about vs. what the audience cares about.
I never suggested banning anything. I'm merely asking questions. But sure, to play devil's advocate, is there some precedent here? Maybe with cigarettes for example?

Nicotine cigarettes benefit tobacco companies enormously (by increasing addiction). They'll never voluntarily give them up, either. Yet we have approaches for dealing with addictive consumables; taxes, health warnings, education, etc. I wonder if similar approaches might work when applied to social media.
In California, you don't need to stick to the right lane on the freeway. You just pick whichever lane. If you want to go faster than other cars, go in the left lane. Not necessary to keep switching lanes
Firstly, I was replying to a post which asked for in which concrete ways Assange was being treated differently from other people in similar situations. I have a bit of a hard time understanding why this phrasing of mine which is not terribly important need to be debated, but OK.

I have in all honestly not followed the Assange case that closely. But my understanding of the situation was that he went to the embassy because he feared he would be extradited to the US and face possible human rights violations if that were the case. Maybe he is de jure "free" to leave the embassy, but it is not as clear that he is de facto free to leave.

Simple example, suppose we just get rid of all the governments etc, and everyone is just "free" to do whatever they want. So in this fantastic world, maybe you are "free" to do whatever you want, but if you do certain things then some big bad guy comes and turns you into minced meat. Are you then "free" to do whatever you want, maybe this can be argued, I am not an expert in philosophy. But if you find it shocking that some (most?) people do not consider this to make you free to do these things, then I'm not sure what to say.

Secondly, you do not allow people to make different interpretations of the situation. You claim that this was a "futile attempt to avoid potential US charges he wasn't then facing", and sure, if you can prove this beyond reasonable doubt then of course there is nothing to discuss here. However, I see no such proof, not even an attempt at such a thing.

More concretely, are you going to tell me with a straight face that if you were in the position of Assange you would without batting an eye just go to Sweden and risk being extradited to the US? Like the US runs Guantanamo, bombs countries left right and center without UN approval, Snowden who exposed government lies and breaking of laws lives in exile, etc. Please note, my point here isn't that the US is terrible or anything, but just that Assange can have a justified fear of being treated poorly there given the circumstances.

So the question isn't really "which way is it", will Assange face human rights violations if he is extradited to the US? Rather the question seems to me to be something like, is it "completly insane" for Assange to think that he might face these violations.
>I wonder if it would be possible to make a "meta-framework" that uses a single code-base to compile user written code into source code written in those 3 frameworks respectively.

Just no. As an Apple user, just use whatever the tools they give you when you're developing for Apple platforms.
GCE charged me for "Chinese egress" but doesn't provide me a way to block China via firewall or other methods. They have the ability to check and bill me for it but if I want to use the same logic for a firewall rule I'm on my own. That sounds like theft and or fraud to me.

OP sounds like they're just defending their selves from ambiguous draconian billing robots.
Netflix is far less critical, and has far less marketshare (as a proportion of the general population), and far more competitors than either Google or Facebook.