skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose you were a calculating actor like this guy, and you wanted to insult him. Would you design the insult around his private persona, which only you and a select few were privy to, or around his public persona, so that the public will agree with the insult? If the truth doesn't matter to you, you will join in on the illusion of him being disorganized, because that's what the public already believes.
Consistency fail: it's OK to be a pothead in SF but not smoke e-cigarettes.
> So i'm not really familiar with how collection plates or tithes work.

They tend to have a service provider handle the processing for them. Most decent sized churches will have their own mobile apps too.
That almost sounds like a set-piece, making sure they don't interfere with each other (assuming they're using LIDAR).
"powerful" is still part of the quote. It's from near the end of the text rather than from first paragraph.
But macOS does exactly that. The second boot is much faster than the first one after an OS configuration change, because it has to figure out what the new cache order has to be.

This feature was introduced years ago. What is stopping other OSes from doing the same?
New Shelters Will Offer Fresh Air in Smoky Seattle
Watch the documentary "Blue Gold: World Water Wars" to understand the scale of the problem worldwide.

Most people have no idea of what is in the offing w.r.t. fresh water reserves. In fact many of the wealthiest on the planet have already brought up land containing fresh water reserves as a hedge against the future.
The Self in the Self-Driving Robots
I think Apple is holding out for i.Drive instead. :)
The two hard problems are:

Cache invalidation
Naming
And off-by-one problems.

FTFY. ;)
> It's best to just assume they are in fact, a bumbling idiot.

That is intellectual laziness. Climbing the political ladder is no mean feat. Sure, serendipity plays a big role, you need to be in the right place at the right time but don't dismiss people's intelligence based on public speaking.
Simple don't let doctors choose patient by insurance plan or negotiate a higher rate. Everyone pays the same. There are first world countries wherein the massive profit potential at every step between patient and care just doesn't exist and they in general have better health outcomes than we do.
The argument would be that he is dragging in incidents and companies, which could derail the discussion unnecessary. That’s reasonable but this is not:

> I don't
think this project poses any risk there,
much like Zach points out in his
reply. Google is specifically discussing [...]

Now he’s using his moderator rights to push his opinion which unsurprisingly defends his employer.

He should have sent two mails, one moderating and one participating in the discussion.
Testifying at the Senate about A.I.-Selected Content on the Internet
HTTPS: //medium.com/ pwthornton/the-magic-of-the-daily-demo-45773665b256
There would definitely be an app created for all that in no time. We will be able to do all that stuff with one finger and your smartphone. With the exception of the well-off and rich, people who are living on a budget are certainly going to look up costs for non-emergency medical treatment.
FWIW Roland McGrath, the original glibc author, also works at Google. But of course not every possible person will be involved here, no matter how relevant.
Google are going to make it with or without LLVM's cooperation.

If it's done with LLVM, it's highly probable that LLVM won't let them extend,extinguish libc. Google's code will be carefully evaluated by a relatively neutral party: LLVM.

If Google does it alone, they will write whatever code they want. They'll be free to extend, extinguish libc.
That sounds very familiar. At first I thought it was a mistake. The confusion when you get several bills, one larger than the other. Then the shock, when you get the final picture of what you owe. I went back and forth with the hospital and finally got an itemized bill (I didn’t know such a thing existed nor didn’t understand why all bills would be itemized.) A square gauze priced at the cost of an iPad,... And then the upcoding racket. It all leaves you confused. How is this possible? Why isn’t the media all over this or the state attorney? And why in the world is the insurance company part of the game? Then came the Time magazine front cover story (2013 I believe “Bills are killing us”) about hospital charge masters (why was nobody going after this decades ago?)... Finally I came across Dr. Keith Smith from the Oklahoma Surgery center and finally the puzzle pieces fell into place. So one does what one has to do: roll back the sleeves and get to work. Poured a couple of months into pricepain.com after hours (a friend working at hospitals in Wisconsin helped with some initial price finding), a NYT offspring that had gathered some medical prices send a cease and desist when we copied their ‘transparent prices for medical procedures in NY’ eye-roll. Eventually the government released Medicaid prices - a first big breakthrough. I had discussions on HN with Better Doctor who tried something similar - eventually they pivoted and focused on other things. We pitched to YC and a medical VC fund. Latter said in 2013 ‘there is at least 5 others that are working on this’ hahaha. Then came Obamacare and the future of free market / direct healthcare with price transparency became unclear - a super state nationalized Healthcare would have buried prices in yearly increasing taxes. So eventually I had to move on but always hoped that something like today’s news - more price transparency to allow for competition and improvements of quality/service - would eventually win out.
The part where it shows the responses with regard to social interaction with neighbours is a huge part of this. A lot of my friends have been neighbours or people I met out and about. If you do not have social interactions with complete strangers, and your family is disappearing from your life, you will probably be alone.
ScrapydWeb: My first 1k-star open source project
Can't we keep paying for the R and D and just not let a minority of private actors profit?
As a non-British, I say that the idea of Boris Johnson leading Britain through Brexit sounds just like an orangutan riding a double decker bus through Piccadilly Circus: you don't want to be there, but you don't want to miss a second of this show.

Sorry Italy! You're not the funniest country in Europe anymore. Britain just got their own Silvio Berlusconi.
I’m pretty certain that would violate the Constitution. Any lawyers around that could comment on this?
I know tons of developers clinging onto their old Macbooks who refuse to buy the new generation and many are changing to PC's.

My GoPro has a USB-C port on it. My USB-C to USB-C data cable won't recognise it on my MBP. Have to use USB-C > USB-A -> Dongle -> USB-C.

My left arrow key sticks after my keyboard replacement.

I still keep ghost tapping that damn escape key on the touchbar after 3 years.

Apple: Forget all that, let's invest in self driving cars and new watch bands.
The ups and downs of Ofo's story
You should add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction.

(I'm a moderator here and normally send this suggestion by email. You should put an email address in your profile in case we can help in some other way.)
Andrew ng was a board member at Drive.ai and also posted some very promising videos like driving in rain etc. Not sure what lead to this lukewarm exit.
So he’s a comedian, and a bad one.
This absolutely makes no sense.
Actually, the lack of a permanent recording (barring technical issues easily identified by forensics) would be very helpful... to the person you hit.
> The problem is that they fail differently than humans do, in a way that humans wind up not trusting the results.

Not only that, but human fallibility is accepted where machine fallibility is not. There's something about being a "person" which makes it acceptable for you to just take the blame for something. A senior radiologist makes a glaring error and "it happens, people make mistakes". A computer makes the same error and it's a problem which must be fixed before the computer can be trusted.

Ultimately I believe this is a cognitive bias that we're just going to have to learn to let go of.
The claim that dealing with Huawei "jeopardizes US national security" has little factual support. It is a political propaganda initiated in the Trump circle. Shame on those who perpetuate it, and shame on those who believe in it.
They were granted a swift passage. Many should be thankful for that.
People call economics the dismal science but the truth is that it isn't even a science. Its predictive power is laughable and it seems to consist mostly of just so stories told after the fact.

You can't just claim something which is demonstrably functional somewhere doesn't in fact work because your half baked theory trumps actual reality. This is why this sort of comment is downvoted.
Not true. Many, many people have so much computing power to spare they program in Python. In some cases Python isn't up to the job, and C++ on a microcontroller isn't quite, either, but a cheap FPGA could do it easily.

What is true is that they don't hire you for those projects. People who have harder problems and enough money to bring you to bear do. But you are far from representative.

Are they using FPGAs correctly? Who cares? They don't.
Elitists makes people feel inadequate.
(Disclosure, Googler here, not working on projects related to any of the things being discussed, speaking in a purely personal capacity.)

I hate to disagree with Rich Felker. I think most people have a lot of respect for musl and the amount of effort it took. But, I disagree with the basic conclusions.

For one thing, I don't think it's fair to compare this to Chrome, an end user product. libc is a fundamental piece of architecture, like (edit: as in, fundamental in stacks that they are used in, to clarify) protobufs, gRPC, Kubernetes, etc. I heavily sympathize with folks uneasy about the Chrome situation - like I've mentioned maybe hundreds of times now I use and recommend Firefox personally, but I feel this particular discussion will become more productive when that stops being a focal point.

Their other points are not really related, but I disagree with them also. I don't think there's a good motivation to keep bugs for backwards compatibility: Google runs non-Google software, too; keeping subtle incompatibilities could be a disaster. Also, Google has a pretty good corpus of code to test their libc on, so I think they have a unique opportunity to fast-track a pretty battle-tested libc (I did not know of this project before this Hacker News post, so this is purely a hot take, but for now I stand by it.)

No idea what their plan is, but open governance would probably work wonders here. After all, LLVM has plenty of corporate contributors, and it seems to do fine.
Yes, people make mistakes. And by deciding to create a business around other people's personal information some mistakes are bad enough to merit a fine.

All sorts of civil offences and crimes can be mistakes. While "it was an accident" might lower the penalty it doesn't negate the fact the mistake was made and people might have been hurt.

The idea that we should hold companies that profit off people's personal data blameless if they manage to "make a slip-up" with it is absurd. The only other industry where we accept those kinds of mistakes is Wall Street and we all know how well that policy has gone.
Tesla just outsold Mercedes-Benz in the US for the first time
Joke is great but raises a serious (well, non-joking) question.

iDrive is a brand used by a German car company (BMW? Audi?).

When the iPhone launched, it turned out after launch that Cisco owned the trademark.

When Apple got going they had a trademark dispute with Apple Records (the Beatles' publishing company) which was easily settled as Apple in California was clearly a computer company....until decades later they launched Apple Music.

So...your joke may not be off the mark.
Govt wouldn’t run the hospitals and generally I don’t think govt contracting is super lucrative it’s just big dollars to match big costs. Also running hospitals is very different than running R&D from a cost perspective.
If you really want to see some dark patterns go try booking a flight on United.com.
Even a false positive that leads to telling the patient that they may have cancer is bad. It leads to a life-long anxiety for many people.
There's a difference between banning and criminalizing weed. You can support one without the other.
Farewell Dossier
The plebs don't seem to be aware that he's disorganized and unprepared or lacking in knowledge - that's beyond the things they care about it seems.

Apparently, people 'like him' and his sheer popularity I think is most of the driving force behind his success.

Anyone who's paying attention (small minority in reality) seems to regard him as a complete idiot, however.

The Financial Times, his former editor at the Telegraph, obviously the Guardian - any serious writing about him is seriously derisive.

These are harsh words [1]

The thing I don't understand is what the Conservatives are thinking at this time? Are they simply looking at the polls showing him as clearly the most electable in an election? Because I can't believe that conservative MP's don't realize he's a fool as well. Maybe they think they'll be able to combine him with a solid Brexit negotiator, but I don't see that working. I just can't fathom Boris Johnson sitting down with Merkel, and whoever the new EU President is going to be, and doing anything material.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-...
What are the more powerful ones? US, UK, France, Korea?, who else? Japan's SDF was still pretty neutered at the time, China didn't have a navy to speak of, I'm not sure how many other countries would have beaten them at the time. Maybe Egypt?
Maybe iTDrives
Almost all of the discussion around payment for order flow is inaccurate. To highlight the worst,

1. Retail order flow is toxic like all other flow and trading against it blindly leads to material losses. Retail is particularly well informed with respect to news and major market events. "Retail investors destroy value when trading" is a fun quote and repeated assertion of the article, but is not true of any retail order flow I've seen (and I have seen all of it).

2. Wholesalers make surprisingly little money from the flow being uninformed. Most of the P&L is a result of (a) fee arbitrage (some strategies that aren't possible on public markets become possible with an internalizer because there are less market access fees), (b) queue priority (internalizing a market order allows the market maker to effectively rest at the inside without quoting there), and (c) strategies for executing special order types that cannot be traded against on exchanges (stops, for example).

3. Robinhood earns more for order flow because their order flow is less toxic (less informed) than other brokerages. It has nothing to do with options.

4. Retail order flow data is incredibly valuable since it's needed to build pricing and trading models. Citadel Securities, in fact, does run models (and machine learning models) against retail trade data and would not be profitable without it.

Finally, if wholesalers are good for retail investors is an open question that won't be answered by this blog piece. A simple thought exercise: if I'm a retail investor with the most aggressive limit order in the market and a market maker internalizes a retail market order on the opposing side -- is the result net good, or net bad for the two retail participants?
That is not even close to the same thing.

If you train an ensemble of models with random dropout, you have an ensemble. Models trained with dropout will still have significant variation from run to run.
Apple pretty consistently pays bottom dollar for acquisitions, and typically does an acquihire which results in the former company's product being deep sixed. So this looks like an autonomous driving skill acquisition, but for all we know the remaining team will be purposed to guessing where you are by dead-reckoning on your phone, or improving Photos' judgement or who knows.

In fact the only case I can remember when they didn't do this was with the liquid metal company, and that one didn't pan out. (there are presumably others but I don't recall any off the top of my head.).

They have bought a few products, like iTunes, without buying the company.
If it is a slow day then some good ol' programming algo training with no pressure is fun. You'll look busy and it keeps those programming muscles working. Heck, try a language you don't use and see if you can make a better implementation of something that you've done.
Isn't the MacBooks charging cable USB c both sides??
Avoiding PayPal's Currency Conversion Fees
Absolutely, there are many reasons for decreasing smoking rates, it's a combination of strategies that have seen the decrease but one of those is increasing the price.
There is so much evidence Huawei are a bad actor, and probably marching in lockstep with the Chinese government, that it has it's own very long Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei
Thank you. That does indeed make more sense.
Possibly, but the Soviets were looking to offload the old ships anyway and it might have been easier to requisition the mothballed military hardware instead of materials the population needs.
Technical debt is always a problem. But generally I prefer refactoring existing code rather then rewriting to address technical debt, because I think the old system is well understood, and the deficiencies are known. When you blow it away, you are also creating more technical debt, but you just haven't discovered it yet.

This isn't to say "never rewrite". I am saying we rewrite way too much now.
Really? I use a standard type C data cable to talk to my Mavic without problems. Perhaps you're using a power only cable?

The lack of standard labeling on type C connectors or cables is a slow motion disaster I agree. But your experience is quite a surprise.
Your own company, powered by Amazon
Because every automotive company already has a self driving division and they have realized it's not a realistic dream to work on for at least a decade?
And I've seen the opposite, what's your point? How do you qualify "clumsy and trivially detected nitwits"?

PS - Telling people they are "wrong" isn't convincing, and is downright condescending. Thanks for that.
Yeah, Apple is not currently the shining example of the people I want in charge of our bright new autonomous future. Then again if it’s that or Google maybe they’re not so bad.
There is no section of the GDPR that requires warnings to be given. This should not be a surprise or shocking to you. If there were required warnings for first-offenders then really heinous data leaks by first-offenders would not be punished.

There is no provision in road rules that says police officers should give warnings -- for exactly the same reason. Instead, it's purely up to the discretion of the police officer whether you get a warning or not. GDPR acts in exactly the same manner, but instead of it being individual police officers it's officers appointed for that role.
I don't think Apple said "forget that." They make a killing selling overpriced adapters for everything.

What's sad is they talk about being a green company, and yet they choose nonsense cables, rather than just USB for their phones.
I'm not making a comment dressed as a question, I'm genuinely curious. Is this super different from the linux kernel policy that you don't break user space? Both in intent and in effect.
It’s a valid question, but at some point in a code review you have to trust an abstraction layer, lest you end up reading semiconductor physics papers for every PR.
I think the railing would need to continue at least the width of a stair to form a proper "landing"
It's not China that's currently (or in the last year has been) embroiled in trade wars with all of its major trading partners.

There's exactly one event that one can trace this trade war back to: Trump's election.
awesome, tho I am curious are there easier ways like weighing the cat before and after :) Although he can be wet
There is theory, and then there is what is actually out there.

The fact that something that is actually insecure doesn't have fraud protection is the wrong thing.
Pattern matching is certainly intelligence - classical AI was focused on identifying patterns and reacting to them with techniques like decision trees.

You can make a fairly convincing argument that intelligence is nothing more than a hierarchical system of pattern matchers.
How does the GPL help with this? Google could build their own libc replacement, and if they push it hard enough to gain widespread community support, it could become the (or at least, a) new standard. At that point Google is free to do whatever they want with it as long as they make it useful enough that the community won't abandon it. The GPL just means that it could be forked later, but if Google is still putting significant resources into developing the main branch then no-one will switch to the forks.
> They make a killing selling overpriced adapters for everything.

source? intuition about what volumes/margins you think they sell at is not sufficient.

Also, every one of their products but their phones have switched to USB-C, including iPads. It's just a matter of time until iPhone is USB-C as well.

USB-C didn't exist at the time when Lightning was released, so calling it a 'nonsense cable' is really just ridiculous.
I'm a user of Mask R-CNN. While the masks it generates are great, I find too many false positives. So in applications like this, the alerts you get may not be what you think. Actual available parking spot may not be there.
There are a ton of USB-C to USB-C cables out there. Anker has quite a few on their product page: https://www.anker.com/products/110/163/usb-typec-cables

I am using one of these exact cables to transfer data off of my GoPro Hero 7. The standard one that came with my MacBook also worked.
You'd want a ball mill. Keeping it in good condition and sharp might be an issue, though. (Although not nearly as big a problem if the case is aluminium.
If you guarantee me 32'' pitch on all flights, 50lb of check in luggage, ability to change and return any ticket, any time, and good food and wine on every flight in economy, i sign to pay 2x.

After all, we have more or less this in premium economy when you have it on the flight (unfortunately it's on just a few, and business is, too drying up), and it's MORE than 2x more expensive.

What airlines have become is just an insult to the human dignity. No industry should operate that way. If you are concerned with what comparison shopping, price optimized on the Internet, and free competition done to the taxi drivers, turning them into precarious, powerless and poor Uberists, why aren't you concerned with the 'demand side' of the same problem? Much less healthcare. I'd absolutely hate to get any treatment in a system which is 'optimized' in the similar manner.