skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll bite.

I keep track of all my numbers. For the 86 months I had my last car, I paid an average of $236/mo.

This includes purchase price (subtracting out the amount I sold it for). Insurance. Taxes/fees. Gas. Auto insurance. Repairs and maintenance. Silly things like car washes.

Of course, I didn't buy a brand new car, or even a recent car. And bought a reliable brand so repairs were low. My insurance was not just liability. All apartments I lived in had parking, as did my work. The types of apartments that have expensive parking are the type that have high rents anyway, so I save in both by not living there.

Excluded is the gas for road trips, but I think that's fair as I doubt you used Lyft/Uber for road trips.

So for less than what you're paying a month, I got to have a car, and got to drive anywhere I wanted to - not just work.
Yes, he should just dedicate his life to toiling away at a problem he can't make an impact on while telling his kids and wife that he's very sorry that he can't give them a significantly better standard of living because he needs to help fix England.
Fwiw I interpreted it the way it was intended but I follow aviation stuff a fair amount.
Same thing happened with Via in NYC. They used to offer $5 flat rides to anywhere in Manhattan, now prices for the most part are variable and sometimes much more. It was unfortunately too good to be true. They offer a subscription pass that can use pre-tax dollars but for me personally it's not the same.
Absolutely right but moving to Australia has genuinely massively improved our standard of living beyond what i thought was even possible. I can't believe how good we have it here.
WebM will play in cases where MP4/h264 won't play due to missing patent-encumbered codecs.
I'd wager it's even more true among top-tier candidates. Anecdotally the best engineers I've ever worked with have been among the most uninterested in politics.
And actively funding propaganda that delays action.
Thanks, I no longer have complaints.
I'm curious about how that works for people with no visa or right to residence or healthcare in Norway.
Yes please! I 100% support unbundling and buying exactly what I actually want

Edit: It took a reread for me to realize that you were actually arguing in favor of it. I do see your point about positive externalities, but I'm still not convinced it's a good trade off overall.
I can't speak for all of machine learning, but classic statistics has some probabilistic assumptions and uses those to prove some theorems about the results of how statistical methods manipulate data.

E.g., in regression analysis, the assumptions are (i) there really is a linear mode with the variables to be used; (ii) typically the data will not fit the model exactly and instead there are errors; (iii) the errors are in the sense of probability independent, all have the same distribution which is Gaussian with mean zero. Then estimate the regression coefficients and get, say, a F ratio statistic on the fit and t-tests on the coefficients. For details can see, say, Mood, Graybill, and Boas, or Morrison, or Draper and Smith, or Rao, etc. If you need detailed references, request them here, but these are all classic references going back decades. In that case, maybe some of current machine learning does qualify as statistics.

Here regression was just an example, however, apparently especially close to much of current machine learning. But there is no end of (i) having data, (ii) having some probabilistic assumptions, (iii) manipulating the data, (iv) getting results, and (v) proving some theorems about the probabilistic properties of the results.

Might argue that in machine learning the results of the training data on the model yields some estimates of some probabilistic properties that can be used to make probabilistic statements about the results of the trained model on future real data.
HBM2E: The E Stands for Evolutionary
Thanks for the repro case!

I wasn't precise enough. The case where we needed swap not to error out was in a big mapreduce process, consuming maybe 44GB out of a 48GB host. When we didn't have swap on the box, the big process would exec a small command line process and the exec would fail, there wasn't 88GB of address space available during the brief period between the call to fork and the overlay. Adding a swap device fixed our problem even though it was _hardly_ ever used (MB to single GB).

At least that was my analysis from 10 years ago. I never went full science on it, but I did read plenty of documentation on overcommit and virtual address space.
Do you have data to support that claim? I did not have an explicit ethics subject at MIT. The closest we got was discussing Therac in 6.033.
In Vancouver where Uber/Lyft has never been allowed car sharing services Car2go and Evo (local) are very popular. Open an app, reserve a car parked nearby, get directions to it, then drive it to where you want to go. Park it wherever.

There's also (gasp) public transit (and bike share).
He was very anti Trump and then later pro Trump. Though it's not clear it's a result of coercion or anything other than Graham capitulating to work to get stuff done
Agree. I paid some for a template i liked(not for my personal site but same lotic applies). Best 50$ ever spent.
I don't think it's a PR stunt. The typical layperson doesn't know what's a kernel, so the difference between a drive-by kernel exploit and an app exploit couldn't easily be summarized and made understood. Yes a layperson will understand the difference after you give them a five-minute primer of operating system theory, but in this age of social media who still has the attention span to sit through that, if their interest isn't in computer science?

So to me, this isn't a PR stunt. It's a necessary "dumbing down" we see all too often. It's no different from journalists digesting and simplifying the content of an advancement in biology or physics.
> But the solution isn't to break them up and for society to become unproductive and un-automated again by forcing minimum wage, health insurance, guaranteed menial jobs etc.

I don't know if you know anything about 1990s-early 2000s artificial intelligence research, but the vision of the future back then was artificial agents communicating through standardized protocols to negotiate for goods and services.[1] So, a decentralized dispatching system. What you are saying is false dichotomy monopolist propaganda. There is no technical reason why the only choice is between Uber and manual dispatching.

[1] I spent a few summers as a research assistant working on multi-agent systems. Feel free to object with "but, it's not technically feasible because X, Y, Z." I can probably refute most technical reasons and provide a good explanation.
Yes, although it's not entirely straightforward and there are many sharp edges, so it's maybe not for the faint of heart. Since I just did it, here's a guide I wrote up with my specific hardware and some of the issues I've encountered to set up my system specifically for VR passthrough: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/zen2-ryzen-3700x-and-x570-as...

Note: I haven't dealt with sound yet, which is another potential sticking point if you're doing gaming (most people seem to use a separate sound device, although I've seen some people use network sound when running into issues; HDMI sound I assume would work fine if you're doing GPU pass through) since I was just focused on getting my VR HMD working, which has it's own sound output already.

IOMMU groups are defined by AGESA and the X570 boards in general seem to have much finer grained groupings vs earlier AMD chips/boards (although people seem to have done ACS workarounds). My recommendation is to find something that someone has gotten working already and just follow along (the VFIO subgroup at level1techs and r/VFIO on reddit seem to be the best resources).
You know, I also often think about (and have mentioned here) how it seems like an open stack or API of some sort could handle this, and I also used the Austin services back in 2013 when I visited for YAPC. I think it was the first time I ever installed an app to call a ride. I wonder how much that also shaped how I see the industry as it developed.
Can someone post a tldr for those who can’t read the article proper?
Probably as a way to get around gift or estate taxes - if you can just "loan" someone money, then forgive it immediately, gift and estate taxes are trivially avoided.
Does anyone know if these types of bug bounties are negotiable?

As several people have mentioned, hackers can sell to the highest bidder and having proof that you have an exploit is probably sufficient, but what if Apple was willing to pay as much as the highest bidder?

This may also likely convince people who have sold bugs to reach out to Apple.

It probably costs them a fraction of the PR spend or risk of data breach/user exposure etc.
Gotta love how much this write-up refers to the serifs on the lowercase L, but is rendered in a font (on Windows at least) that entirely omits those serifs.
Thinking about this, I think designers have it easier when it comes to personal website branding

Web Designers can show the full range of skills by designing their website well.

Web Developers can't exactly cram all their elegantly designed components into one website.
Why don't they just charge a $1,000,000 filing fee for a patent? Anything worth less seems hardly worth the trouble to society.
How about $1M for a working keyboard on a Macbook?
No worries. Us non-wokies will vote you up :)
I think people want it to look fancy, rather than just plain:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Most people don't benefit very much from having prettily-designed websites.
I hear this a lot. I will believe it when I see it. Silicon Valley is crazy expensive. Why do people go there? Why don't the wealthy of Silicon Valley live someplace cheaper?

Because that is where the action and the talent is. It's not just about money and cost of living.

Also the 0.01 are so absurdly wealthy many are pledging to give away their money. They are not going to move away from their homeland because they are taxed more.
How does this compare to Xamarin?
Ask HN: Samsung Dex Equivalent for Librem (Linux)?
Today there was an announcement that Samsung Dex will now support showing apps running on your phone, on your desktop.

If you’re not familiar with Dex, it’s a way to plug your phone to a dock and then start using it with a mouse keyboard monitor.

Is there any way planned to use the Librem devices this way? Would love to use it as a portable desktop!
What makes you think it hasn't already been done, exposed and dismissed as conspiracy theory?
I can tell you as a person who has been spanked by dang a few times that there truly are people who can be ignorant in the other direction.

I have written a number of replies that to me were simply neutral questions but which felt like an attack, from what I can tell, because they were harshly downvoted and I was even throttled by the mods.

I have to assume that’s on me and I have largely stopped asking for clarification because I seem to do it without sufficient empathy or something.

dang did reply thoughtfully to my inquiries about what I had done and that actually made me feel worse! I know those two are busy doing way more important things and I hate making their day worse.
The "rationalist community" are pretty obviously a cult. They live in group houses, use logic to convince their partners to be polyamorous, have a religious obsession with superintelligence, stuff like that.

Although I can't find the story I know I read a woman's experiences with sexual abuse and Yudkowsky's BDSM habits there sometime in the last year. Actually I believe she posted it then committed suicide; people on LW responded by complaining this was an unfair way to start an argument.
Yeah but there are so many patents needed for the most mundane aspects of products. Plus it's prohibitively expensive for individual people who invent
I wonder if it's possible to maintain the ability to charge at Superchargers if you plan your conversion right.
Perhaps, then, we should stop calling CS programs strong when they only specialize in churning out obedient code monkeys.
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Google apps licenses may not be that big a stick for Huawei. What appears to be happening is that Huawei swaps market shares with the likes of Xiaomi and Oppo/Vivo. Huawei gains shares in China and cedes shares outside of China. I was puzzled when Qualcomm reported that its Chinese customers were buying Huawei chips. But it becomes understandable if they segregate the competition by geographic areas. So Huawei gains chip customers from the swap as well.
Have fun trying to model extremely nonlinear physical effects with statistics
Most of my family is Asian. It was self-evident to me for the last six or so years that he was Vietnamese :0
On SA the mods were the toxic people. Do you remember Helldump? It was a forum dedicated to stalking random users and getting them banned by proving they weren't cool enough in real life to get to hang out on SA.

I think one reason for this is that to be a mod, you needed to have tons of free time and be friends with the admins already.
I had thought of doing that but the various differences and requirements for password length and characters everywhere make it difficult to standardize on one hash. Before you know it you're keeping track of different hashes and it becomes risky to memorize. Or is your experience different?
Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf]
Nice comment, but there's more nuance than you claim.

> You made no assumptions about your data, about the distribution of it, any of it. You just followed an algorithm.

You made implicit assumptions that you are now unaware of, which might come and bite you later (eg: using zip codes or names as a proxy for race in credit scoring models, neural networks overfititng to texture and classifying a leopard print couch as a leopard). This means that you are liable to overfit to the data, and generalize poorly, or in ways you are not supposed to.

This is what leads to the perspective that "machine learning" might end up being a powerful tool for laundering bias: https://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs is a pretty well done video on the rules to be a dictator.
Using machine learning to accelerate ecological research – DeepMind
Headline is pretty clear. If one aircraft shows atypical damage, they'll ground all the others just in case they're similarly affected. This probably entails inspections and maybe even pre-emptive fixes (depending on the resolution for the cracked aircraft). So a crack on one of them is just as bad as a crack on all of them.
Why not just buy more ram?
The title seemed clear and I don't follow aviation stuff.
Bev Hills has fought tooth and claw to ensure a subway would not go through their city, and it was generally reported that the fear was that poorer people would be more easily able to go there. They (shamefully) got their Democratic congressman, Henry Waxman, to pass a bill forbidding Federal funding for any subway to the area: https://la.curbed.com/2012/4/13/10379720/eighties-subwaystal...

Some of this opposition continues to this day. Here’s the latest dispatch: https://www.lamag.com/driver/beverly-hills-finally-loses-cra...
Completely agree. It’s also stunningly impressive to me that the parent company pays the salaries of two full-time, severely overqualified moderators for site I can use for free.
That seems to paint random forests as too magical. Rather, to me, random forests are just assuming that there is a BDD to get your answer. You aren't making statistical assumptions of the data, per se. However, you are assuming you can keep doing some sort of split on the data. Such that lower levels of the tree should be somewhat interpretable. Same for the highest levels. It is just the walk from high to low that is hard to fully explain. Right?
End users. Integrators. Developers in terms of reputation. Thanks to disclaimers not at all too different from closed source software.
After many hours and tiresome calls with Apple global support and getting nowhere I told them I must take the issue to social media so others might avoid the same issue. The service agent responded “we have a large team of people who respond to such posts”.

I wonder if they're required to disclose they’re employees of Apple. If so, they could hire an external company to do the Job.

Hard to know these days.
"Thanks to a quirk in the legal structure used to set up the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known as SPY, more than $250 billion rests on the longevity of 11 ordinary kids born between May 1990 and January 1993."

By law funds require a determines termination. They tied it to the death of "random" kids. The fund will end in 2118 or 20 years after the last of these
eleven kids (chosen, "voluntarily" by their parents, as token people) dies

It' relatively clear and straightforward, but the article does not explain what happens when the fund terminates.
> Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site

> If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone else's I found on GitHub

To me that seems petty and I feel you'll end up isolating a good portion of the talent pool. Anecdotally, I can only recall a handful of personal sites that appeared to be truly personal (by your definition) and not all may have been.

For whatever reason this reminds me of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/67e0hl/whenever_i_ge...
I'm not arguing that the theorem is true. My point is that Cochrane is not claiming that the theorem is true to the real world (which hcknwscommenter seems to be claiming that Cochrane thinks).

Cochrane's point to me seems to be this: claims that "the multiplier is X" are even more naive and disconnected from the real world than Barro's theorem is.
Love the push Apple is doing for privacy.
>A 2014 Honda Civic would cost about 5k per year or $416/Mo.

You can see my numbers here for my Civic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20650989

Mine was 8 years old when I bought it, but with low miles (about 60K). So I paid a bit of a premium - almost as much as the 2014 Civic on that page. I kept it till it was at 144K miles. Effective cost to own was under $300/mo.

Comparing the 2014 numbers with mine:

Insurance is almost the same.

Repairs + Maintenance was less than a third of their estimate. I didn't skimp at all on this, BTW. I'd be worried if a 5 year old Civic has that many repairs!

No financing - paid in cash. Even the 2014 one is a little over $10K. You can just save and pay cash.

Their estimate requires a lot more in fuel costs. Mine is about two thirds of their estimate. This can be highly variable (e.g. if you have a long commute).
Seconded. This is a very special gift to our community.
The one who fails later could get the market share and monopolistic power. The void will be filled as soon as it gets created. That is how the market economy normally works.
Rust + WebAssembly - Working with API Requests in Smithy v0.0.6
The amount of hair-splitting that goes into discussing this subject is unbelievable. Clearly, they both are fairly closely intertwined - particularly given that one potential explanation boils down to the motivation of the user.

So do we need an explicit taxonomy to say that one application is machine learning and another is statistics? Or does the form not matter as much as the function?

Pace the OP, who I'm sure didn't do this with this end in mind, but a lot of the cases I've seen of people trying to bring this up come down to wanting to self-identify in a certain way as opposed to actually talking about the subject at hand.
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Also, I often find it that it is better to skip right to the commentary because it is often so much better than the length article.
So, the goverments will have to pay the hackers more, right?
sounds like they are aligning the degree with the realities of a programing career. did calculus really make you a better software engineer? Most development happens at such a high level that not knowing OS and compilers probably can get most people by. How much of development is made up of frontend js programmers, mobile developers, web developers writing php/wordpress stuff. If you do want to be good at it, it is a specialty.

If you do want to do science, there are still masters and phd programs. Undergrad is job prep for most people and colleges are doing a disservice by pretending it's not.
Needs Xamarin for ios and Android development.
The world is going to leave you behind fast if you're using a landline because you're too scared of mobile phones...

In fact, most of my payments these days are with Apple Pay. My interactions with my bank and the stock market are all through my phone.

My bank protects me from fraud. It's really not that big of a deal - especially not to a point where using a landline makes any sense.
According to: https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/1201/

China imports 63% of traded soybeans.

The US accounts for 38% of exported soybeans.

Based on that alone, China is going to have to reduce its soybean consumption.

This is beyond one of those silly games where one country puts up a wall, so everyone else just navigates around it and wastes money on shipping.
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Then political is a meaningless word, the results are the same.
A more likely scenario is that the total outstanding debt was small enough that the positive PR + tax write-offs were bigger than getting pennies from a collections agency.
And not just rigorous enough, but also engaging enough that even the "apolitical" students find it interesting. (The students who naturally find an ethics course interesting are the ones who will still find it useful but ultimately need it least.)
I almost didn't leave when I visited Australia and New Zealand. I telecommute, so it wouldn't matter if I was across the country or the planet. Plus, getting paid in US dollars living in NZ with the strong dollar would be like a pay raise. If only I had the 'get up and do it' enough to do it.
I think that the censorship of viciousness rather than content is a reasonable compromise. I have engaged in a wide range of political and ethical debates on hn, and the few times the mods have shown interest has only been if I am beefing too hard with someone. The exercise of power is not to be superior, but to give the forum a sense of shape so that people can relate to it more readily. I think given the scale of the site they are doing good work.
And it appears Jeffrey Epstein may have been using compromising information as blackmail the rich and powerful then laundered the money through a fraudulent hedge fund operation.
Do you feel that speech intended to harm should be prevented by prior restraint?
Please peacefully assemble 100 feet outside of somewhere I didn't pay tens of thousands to be.
Petty though it may be, if it's true, if it's sufficiently widespread, then it's a reality with which we must be able to deal.
I'm a mechanical engineer and I have literally no idea what you're getting at here. We can machine to 10mil because we have precision motors and measurement equipment. For $25 you can get a micrometer off Amazon which is accurate to .0001.
> I think the moderation framework is only a minor part of what make these communities work.

With all due respect, it feels to me that you have never had the experience of running an online community at scale. I believe the moderation for this site is the only thing that keeps it from deteriorating into complete chaos and toxicity.

I am also amazed that the two moderators have managed to hang on for so long. It seems to me like the archetypal burnout job.
Most sans-serif fonts poorly distinguish between "I" and "l", I've found. (This led to my dad thinking that artificial intelligence was called "Al", as in "Albert".)
Not judging you at all, I promise. I found it ironically funny that forgiving debt could lead someone into bankruptcy. Talk about a win-win situation.