skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard of Dual flush toilets, but never seen any in real life. Maybe more common in places with a drought or bigger cities.

I've seen a bunch with sensors that automatically flush though, I've figured that's the most common in commercial spaces.
You mean besides Milwaukee, Madison, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Cedar Rapids, St Louis, Cincinatti and Toledo?

That's more people than Chicago itself.

If you take Chicagoland as an endpoint and not the city boundaries, Des Moines is also within 300 miles.

Transcontinental high speed rail is, I agree strongly with your subtextual argument, a pipe dream. But regional HSR in the midwest would make a lot of sense.
Yup, and people like Bianca Devins get killed in the fallout.
They are still awesome boats.
> The reality is that we should be just as concerned by a guy blowing up a truck at the Apple Store as we should about ICE raids at 3 in the morning..

I disagree.

> With both right wing terrorists and the government, scope creep has a way of ensnaring us all eventually.

What's an example of a terrorist group's scope creep?

> So look, the question is not: Whether or not compromising my personal privacy will bring me more or less security? But rather the question is: Whether or not compromising my personal privacy is consistent with American Ideals?

Disagree.

> So in my personal opinion we, as a nation, have no business mandating that people compromise their personal privacy.

Agree.

Good talk.
I'm thinking about making a website that lists all dark patterns and user experience fudges of a given service/app/website so that we users/customers can better choose where our time/money is going.

Users would be able to complain about: Phantom credit card charges, captcha walls, requiring cellphone verification, random account termination, etc.

What do you think about it? I think it's really susceptible to astroturfing, but maybe there's a way to fix that.
No, the train system should be reorganized. Having multiple stops slows down travel. If Amtrak used shorter trains with a direct route, and all freight trains yielded to passenger trains, people will use more trains.

Otherwise any train trip that takes over eight hours is unpalatable, no matter how bad airport security becomes.
With $200k/year also comes accountability.

No one keeps tabs on your hours, but you better get stuff done!
> Plus being a super picky eater

Took deliberate effort (training, even) but I got over this. I can't eat just anything (nothing with bones I'm expected to crunch on, or a clear face, please—I can do [love, even!] fish skin-on and could probably manage with the head on too but I won't eat the head, ya know?) but I can eat all kinds of "weird crap" that sure, lots of Americans will eat, but many (most in some cases?) think is super-gross. Calamari, those little whole octopi, all kinds of sushi including some of the weirder ones, most any stinky cheese, beef marrow. Just about whatever. Haven't done bugs yet but could probably manage. And that's just the notable stuff I'm up to, go back far enough and I wouldn't eat most "normal" food either!

What I basically do is just shut off the part of my brain that was judging stuff as it went in my mouth. Probably people are picky for all kinds of reasons, but in my case, it was that. I was really picky. Now, I'm fine, but I still have to consciously repress it when trying some new things (if it's good, and most things are, it's much easier to have it again). Possibly some time working on Stoic non-judging helped make this easier, dunno.

It seems to be much easier when I'm out of my ordinary surroundings. With one or more other people, out at a restaurant, while traveling is ideal, though any of those helps. I don't prepare "weird" food myself for a first try, though I will prepare most "normal" things that I used to not be able to eat—was very picky, I'm telling you.

Still not sold on Mexican food of the smothered-in-melty-cheese variety, or pretty much any casserole, but I reckon I've earned a couple quirks so I'm not worried about getting over those. I'm never gonna be a big-hunk-of-oven-roast-or-crockpotted-meat fan like big hams or thanksgiving turkey, I've decided, though I can make myself eat it to be polite (couldn't before).
All that drawing and character design practice for nothing I guess.
> How expensive is it in terms of labelled data and compute?

All the stuff you see in that page (except the BigGAN ones) is unconditional, no labels. You just dump the images in and it figures it out. StyleGAN does support labels via one-hot embedding as I understand it, but I don't know how to use it so none of my experiments use it. A few people have mentioned or used it, but there's no good documentation about how to make it work, so... For unconditional samples, it depends on how many you have and how different they are. You can see in the various examples transfer learning with a few hundred to a few thousand (with and without data augmentation).

> Do you know if anyone tried this for just ahegao faces?

It's funny you ask that because I was corresponding with an anonymous who was using it for just that (and ball gags). He'd run into some issues with the encoder/editing functionality and wanted advice, but the regular transfer learning worked fine. He'd compiled a small dataset of a few hundred to a few thousand examples on his own, and it worked disturbingly well: sufficiently so I didn't want to write it up. (I try to keep my site SFW.)
Reminds me of the Deep Learning work from StyleGAN.

https://twitter.com/_Ryobot/status/1096565388165300225
A bionic tactile plastic hydrogel-based electronic skin
> How is it any different than busting down your door though?

Well, it's hacker news, so let me pull a word we like to bandy about: "scale".
Principles of the Agile Manifesto (2001)
the driver probably made around $200 from this ride which is more than how much he would have made working the whole day, except this time he mostly drove on a highway at steady speeds instead of dealing with 30 short distance rides and 30 different people. everybody wins
You forgot Detroit, and Louisville, and almost in spitting distance of Minneapolis
If you are an officer of scale you should take this offline. If not then you’re probably not authorized to speak on behalf of scale. Check your NDAs and service agreements. This is in such poor taste, anyone who would consider scale’s service now has to consider this sort of public commentary.
> what it is the probability that they are going to willingly hurt innocent people on a massive scale at the moment?

Well, given that they're doing it now, I'd say somewhere near 100%.
If you put a small square of toilet paper into the water first, that can combat the splash. I have no idea of the science behind it, but it works.

Can’t help you with your dangling-genitals problem, however.
How did it sense fires? I guess heat transference along the steel cables connected to some kind of... bimetallic strip?
Not every toilet in Europe charges money.

For example, France has some of the best public toilets I have ever seen. Go in, do your job, and press the button. 30 seconds later, everything is flushed and cleaned automatically, and the toilet automatically opens for the next person.

In some of the long term hikes, there are pedal toilets. Do your thing, and "flush" it down by doing a small cycle movement. There is a mechanism to move your gift down the toilet without using any water.

If you are worried about left hand and water, you will be pleasantly surprised when you see butt guns. It's a bidet shower that sprays water and you don't have to use your hands. I grew up in Sri Lanka, where we have them everywhere (in addition to toilet papers), and I personally got them fixed in the bathroom when I moved.
One of the inspirations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511824
I remember swap meets like this in Los Angeles growing up. Not sure if being inside was the reason they were not called flea markets.
"So... do you want us to report the car as stolen or not?"
Tofurky takes Arkansas to court over the word ‘meat’
Amen. When the first counter-argument is an assassination of the author's character-- we have a problem! The statements in the PDF are in the public interest. Debate them, don't simply make an ad homenim attack against the speaker.
This is a weird article saying the batteries were long in the tooth. The Model S and Model X both had their electronics upgraded:
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-x-370-mi-long-range-...
Oh, you're right! My brain always stops at Ann Arbor, which I thought was too small to include.
Because of the dissonance vs expectations.
I am not sure but this may work for me.
I watch the former and my wife watches the latter. You nailed it on the recommendations! Right up our alley.
Anyone with open source examples like the couple in the post??
Ha! I do watch that for inspiration - also, magic shows.
Gimme you house keys Billy, I promise, I’ll be good.
That's a very convenient way to define parity. If we funded railroads at 175bn per year what would be subsidy come to? Presumably there would be a lot more passengers at that level.
Zipcars are great, but their coverage has shrunk over time. There's maybe a 10th of the number of vehicles, and back then Enterprise (formerly car2go) had an almost equal number of vehicles (Enterprise shut it down a while back.
Google could fire 80% of their workforce. They are warehousing people to prevent them from innovating in other parts of the economy.
I would make a distinction between curating voting information and displaying it once a user searches for that kind of information versus running a "Go Vote" banner (google doodle) on the home search page without a user having made any inquiry on that subject. The latter is what is being complained about in point 2 (I've now looked at the pdf).
Tesla has a giant new machine to produce the Model Y frame in almost one piece
The term waifu is way bigger than 4chan.
There's a heck of a lot of room for variation between "minorities and poor" and driving up the crime rate.

The blue collar dude with five cars and a project boat in his yard is totally unwelcome as far as the "muh property values" types care. He's not driving up the crime rate or leaving used needles around though.
99% Accuracy for Fighting Hunger Through Using Open Data and Deep Learning
> what if Exxon or a right-leaning org offered discounts to people who "promise to vote Republican"

Vote selling is election fraud, which is a crime. Anyone who took those discounts would go to jail. Sounds fair to me.

I don't see how "Please vote" is remotely comparable to vote buying. Can you elaborate?
Not sure about the super-high gap ones, but I'd bet the normal-gap (mid shin, maybe?) ones make cleaning a lot easier. A semi-permanent pre-fab wall especially is probably gonna have a lot of gross little nooks & crannies at floor level. Also means you don't need to match the walls to the room height, which probably makes them a lot cheaper.

I mean, imagine mopping one of those rooms. Bet you'd immediately be glad the partitions didn't reach the floor.
I heard the emperor is working on this....
GNC to close up to 900 stores and cut shopping mall presence in half
The point of the exercise is to look at air passenger statistics to get a broad sense of what the high watermark of usage would be, since air travel is the dominant way of navigating the continental US.
Reusable as in, I can create a datastructure in a thread, do some computation, yield control from the thread (wait for something else to tell it to go again), then come back to the thread with the same datastructure and keep going. With Tasks, you are supposed to let tasks complete rather than let them pause/sync so anything you declare locally is lost when you want to restart it. The workaround is to declare things in a higher scope and pass them into tasks as they are reran - this makes tasks not suited to things where you want to persist data, since tasks are opinionated in that they are only meant to contain logic, not state, so you have to add your own external logic to manage the allocation of state to the tasks that you keep recreating

This trait of tasks makes sense when writing things like web servers because it prevents developers from shooting themselves in the foot by writing something that isn't stateless.

By proactive computing, I mean some program that always has control of the entire execution graph. For example, a simulation may initialize a bunch of datastructures, separate some of them into threads, run the threads, wait for all of them to complete x ticks, do some synchronization or measurement of the total system, then continue y times, and exit.
I feel this is the dystopia we are heading to.

Not some big brother.

Not some soma magic happy pill.

But rather a convoluted mess of 'user agreements' - which are designed to basically give all power to the corporate masters that create them. Some of them are even auto tripped by filters and algorithms.

If I took the money of a corporation and then reneged on providing what I promised at the time of billing, I'd get sued to death, and even imprisoned.

But a paypal account? Uber? Upwork? - Closed, earnings forfeit and anything else they want to do. Sometimes, no human recourse at all, just machines deciding.

The worst part is that the majority of the population are inclined to side with the powerful, just look at some of the comments. Some people can't see theft if it is done by the powerful, it becomes 'enforcement of rules', or 'use of tips to pay services', or 'creation of accounts to increase fees', or 'forfeiture of funds'.
Facebook to Settle SEC Claims of Inadequate Disclosures over Privacy Practices
I got in short but very loud argument with an airport taxi driver when I did this to get dropped off just outside the airport taxi zone. The “real” ride was 5x the price at the airport taxi rate vs taking an Uber. The louder the driver got, the more I realized how good of decision it was to get the hell out of his car.
UPS to Start 7-Day Delivery to Juggle Demands of Online Shopping
While I agree with your characterization of XMPP, it can still function as a gateway into richer platforms. There's no reason to turn off the lights. Chat hasn't changed that much in 40 years.

That said, if Google wants to earn some much-needed goodwill, it could work on a new federated chat protocol. Something binary and concise that handles all of the modern emoji, stickers, outbound call initiation, bots, polls, etc. And if you could use it to build all of {Slack, Messenger, Telegram, IRC, Hangouts} on top of it, that would be amazing. Especially if it were federated and had a reference implementation.

Commoditize your compliments, right? Anyone at Google looking for a project for promotion?
If this withstands scrutiny a chimpanzee study can't be far off, though.
I paid $400 for a 20 amp outlet installed in my garage (on the same wall as the main breaker box). The charger itself cost ~$500.

$2000 might be justified if they needed to replace the main breaker box because the house was older or they were putting in a higher amp outlet.
We also allowed anyone to embed our voting location widget (it was open source too), which he missed
Better question: how out of touch must one be with themselves for this to even be a question?
[Survey] How do manager-engineer relationships impact performance and turnover?
Tech independence is just as critical in the modern world. Look at China’s rush for full-stack independence.
I was spending about $130 a month on gas for the Fit. It didn’t break down much but at 130,000 it needed both front axle bearings replaced. And of course it needed belts, oil changes every 10,000 miles, and brake pads and rotors every 30,000 miles or so.

The Leaf costs me $30 a month in electrons.
Ask HN: What a senior dev mentoring a junior one should do?
What exactly "mentoring a junior developer" means, in practical terms?

Recurrent meetings? How frequently?

Pass assigns, resources to learn from?

Directly teach CS and programming concepts?

How long it lasts? 3 months? 6? Years?
tamgu(탐구). intersting.
clauderoux, are you from korea?
That does happen occasionally, or at least it used to. I haven't seen any recently.
I wouldn't. Pretty much everywhere tries to get the vote out. Most workplaces send out email reminders, etc.
Every single person in the US gets a card in the mail reminding them to vote.

Literally everyone is trying to remind people to vote.
This is a good thing.

Anyone complaining about anyone trying to remind people to vote is just ridiculous.
FWIW, this was my cost breakout as well (I'm in the bay area).
> They act as though Tesla is the only company in the world that has stock fluctuations,

No, but the only one with a cap this big. Sure, there are tiny companies with crazy stuff happening. You have another example of another company with a two-digit billion dollar market valuation that sees anything remotely like this kind of volatility?
Brain protein mutation from autistic person causes autism-like behavior in mice
PSA: I get a horrific 5 GB< memory leak immediately upon opening the tool's page.
I hear that happens a lot around the beginning of April.
I'm not talking about workplaces. Having slow charging at workplaces makes the most sense, because you actually will be leaving the car there for 8 hours.
There’s no question I was paying for his time. I’ll do my own electrical, mostly, but not 240. That stuff will kill you.
Very nostalgic! The article gets most of the history right. I believe kali formed HNA which merged into RNS. Being a computer nerd, I think having pre-released albums in school was the only time I felt cool.

UPDATE: found a site that has more background on RNS and the mp3 scene history -- https://www.mp3scene.info/groups/22/rns/
'Just Don't Call It a Cult': The Strangely Alluring World of the Bruderhof
Doesn't have to have been made with any malice to still be creepy.

Because yea, it's creepy.
Does Dr. Epstein stake any of his claims on his personal credibility in his article? Why not attack the substance of the article instead of going with the the classic "slander the opposition" play that all kinds of disingenuous actors regularly employ? This post sounds like something I used to hear from Lance Armstrong's camp or from authoritarian propaganda.

For all I know you're part of a FUD campaign from Google. Dr. Epstein's paper may well be nonsense for all I know but this post adds nothing to the discussion.
BI = dashboards that are clicked through by consultants to manually generate reports that are read by management 5m every day while they take their morning shits
It's in the article he was traveling with his brother who had a Texas ID which requires a US social security number? Was there someone else mentioned in the article I missed in my reading?
At this point this is only a hypothesis. This is clear when they say "may help explain", "may have resulted", and "believe".
And never count on wireless, period. In the end it looks like they were relying on their printer(!) as an AP...
> We’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between 95th and 98th percentile on our technical interview, and “the best” candidates as those scoring at 98th percentile or above.

This is an important qualifier. I'd argue that the most technical candidates are not necessarily the ones who offer the most value to companies. In fact, I would argue that "notably de-emphasizing ambition" will cancel out your technical superiority in the overwhelming majority of cases.

Here's a choice for your company's next hire:

1. A technically superior but comfortable candidate whose top priority is maintaining work-life balance and flexible work arrangements

2. A technically adequate but hungry candidate whose top priority is moving fast and learning tons

Who would you choose?
> Can someone elaborate as to why Wolfram’s insufferable?

My own belief, based on work I did in the 1980s, is that it’s actually an intrinsic youthful genius phenomenon—analogous to the insufferability one sees in my rule 34 cellular automaton.
Nothing? Pedo lawsuit, "Funding secured", CEO found in breach of SEC regulations, missed profit and recorded near a billion loss? That nothing?
This guy was clearly abusing the program.

"...of the 3,009 flight segments Dad booked for himself from May 2005 to December 2008, he either canceled or was considered a “no-show” for 84 percent of those reservations. During the same time period, he booked 2,648 flight segments for travel companions, and 2,269 were either canceled or a no-show."

Booked 3,009 flight segments in ~42 months. That's 17 flights a week, or 2.4 a day. He was basically using the companion pass to reserve empty seats.

Did American screw up by not having better usage guidelines? Yes. Did this guy take clear advantage of this program with bad faith? Yes.
Walk up to the station, and you'll be greeted with a quick array of girls. After each step, the booth narrows your choices -- eventually leading to a final screen, where you can "adopt" the girl on the spot.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Justice Dept. ratchets up antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech
No, but there's definitely been a muddying of the definitions so it's understandable. Sociopaths actually have a purpose in society. Psychopaths are a detriment. Sociopaths can be very good and productive members of society. There's evidence to suggest that it's both a gene that needs to be present as well as the correct conditions during upbringing to trigger it.
If you can find a car charger for your laptop you will get much longer battery life as you don't have to do DC AC DC
> Didn't know Japan had squat toilets too, I always envisioned the high tech ones being everywhere.

It's a really bizarre mix in my experience. You get the high end with a heated seat, even in a random road-side shop. Unless you don't, and then there's no seat at all. There are some "standard" toilets as well, but I've mostly seen either one of the extremes.
Hit the nail on the head. A deal is a deal, regardless of what kind of utilization there was.
It has an abnormal amount of emotional and irrational dumb money retail investors, that's why
Don’t you need some sort of commercial insurance if you’re driving people around for money?
The Model X is a profoundly stupid car that needs a redesign now. The model S is just old but still a very enjoyable car, a minor face-lift and some love and care to the interiors should do the trick.