skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's antiquated. My toaster uses machine learning to determine the "doneness" of the bread. Thereby allowing for breads of variant moisture levels to be brought to the same level of doneness, independent of surface heat.

Couple that with the fact that my toaster is also connected via 802.11g to the INTERNET where, naturally, I can view the toast progress via an iOS or Android app. A live feed of the toast progress is streamed to the app, and I can either cancel early or allow the bread to finish toasting. Upon finishing, a push notification is sent to my phone. Nice.

Lastly, and this is probably the highlight feature... I can share my toasting status to social. With the click of a button I can share a screen shot of my toast, WITH my choice of camera filter. Nothing says "ive got it better than you" than a picture of a perfectly toasted piece of toast with a christmas spirit filter.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News and stop using this site for political and ideological battle? You've unfortunately done quite a bit of both, and we ban accounts that do them repeatedly. The reason is that they both go against intellectual curiosity, which is the purpose of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could they not have meant all that is included with gasoline engine cars? I didn’t interpret their statement as to be taken literally to strictly including the weight of engine alone.
Correlation is not causation; and public transit is not walking. This is a rat's nest of extreme reaches.

I really like being able to walk places, I think it probably is helping me fiscally, but this is not even a survey.
> best solution

For some values of "best". There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all power source.
probably because we have precedent of social media companies not bothering with that level of support/intentionally avoiding having to provide proper support. There's no reason to assume Facebook will change that either.
OP asked about CPU bugs, not the cause (design or implementation).

Either way, they're CPU bugs.

For pentium FPU, but I was referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
I’m interested, please post the link to the paper.
I don't think it's fair to call this a flaw in capitalism. Valuations are only as rational as the fallible humans making valuation decisions. Imagining a capitalist system composed of all rational actors, this problem would disappear completely.

This isn't a structural flaw in capitalism, that's expecting too much of capitalism.
I like that. I'll tell him when I see him next :)
No one has that kind of influence on Ivy League schools now. They all have multi-billion dollar endowments.
The problem is that you are conflating things.

The only explanation for observing 1000 coin flips coming up as heads is that something other than random chance made that happen.

Simply observing a series of events does not immediately explain the source and reason those events occurred.

Naturally, there could be several explanations - the overwhelmingly most likely is that he was cheating.
This is a completely blank page using the Tor browser in Tails Linux.
I use it for exactly that kind of purpose - highlighting interesting relative strengths and weaknesses in a 42-point assessment. So much better than benchmarking against some average, with the added advantage that it will keep finding interesting points even as scores improve.

Amazingly little code too. Numpy and Scypi are awesome :-)
Please, read more about the project. IITs aren't "colonial institutions".
There was an article yesterday also dubiously claiming "Cars are killing more people – and driverless cars won't solve the problem." It seems ironic that just as self driving tech is getting good enough to maybe make a difference you get all these articles asserting it'll never work.

Looking down the list of accidents in the article, basically all of them apart from maybe deliberate road rage could be prevented by self driving tech within a decade or two. Stopping them by taking most cars of the road in the same period on the other hand isn't going to happen.
I keep seeing this statement but not sure what other sources to consume. What is a good alternative?
Dense cities being expensive is relatively recent in the United States. It follows decades of restrictive zoning and changes at the federal level to make housing more of an investment. Also, don’t forget that for most of history, you could only travel on foot, by horse (or similar), or by boat. “Walkability” is a retronym; for the longest time it was the only way most people got around.

Edit: Downvotes? Stay classy, HN.
Established tech companies that have IPOed are offering market level comp + stock as well. They also, in my experience, give out better bonuses, have better benefits, and offer better work/life balance.
I’m glad someone said it. So tired of the advice I constantly hear on HN to assume your grant is worthless.

I forward exercised my stock options when I started a job for $7k in 2013. Last December I was able to sell some that valued my initial grant at $1.3m (still private but probably will raise at higher value or go public soon). Because I forward exercised I paid taxes at the 2013 value of the company, which was basically nothing. And I only pay long term capital gains when I sell, which is less than the earned income tax rate.

Of course there is a certain element of luck involved, but to say that the mathematical probability of building wealth from your share of equity in a startup is the same probability as winning the lottery is completely disingenuous.
In real life.

The founders and angel shares do not delute and your percentage goes down each round.

If your lucky they are worth the same.
I meant for normal 4 year degrees. For example CS!
There's a need to be properly trained for hair cutting, styling, coloring/dye jobs, perms, etc. These are skilled professions that apply potentially harmful chemicals to people heads, with hygiene issues involved. And the licensing requirement is really not onerous as it's nearly automatic upon passing the requisite curriculum. A 1-year program in the area typically costs between $8000 to $10000 with many students eligible for financial aid grants or subsidized loans. None of this is particularly onerous considering you can easily finish with a job paying ~$35000 a year to start and $50,000 with some experience, much more if you're really good at it and develop a loyal clientele or find a higher end salon to employ you or open your own business. There aren't state quotas on how many people can go through these programs, they aren't otherwise limited, and I'm not aware of any type of incumbency pressure exerted to increase requirements and raise the bar beyond these reasonable levels.
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through dilution "you'll pretty much be set to the original value" after each funding round is what the OP said.

they're purposely complicated, and recruiters and VCs will take advantage of people who don't know how to do the math or reason about the amount of value extraction they're capable of, telling folks "oh this stock could be worth 100x of what is now"
Ringing in Your Ears
How is EROI a red herring? Energy returned on manual labor may be interesting wrt. profitability, but EROI is literally whether there's any sense of doing it in the first place.
> I’ve had people try to make the argument to me that all the water falling on all the pasture land in the US needs to be ‘counted against’ meat.

Those people are legitimately insane and/or belong to a cult.
Is it on Amazon?
> About twelve 12oz cans of regular Coca-Cola

I hope people don't read this thinking they can get their caffeine just from a soft drink; each can has 36g of sugar.
There's a real danger for young tech employees to put too much faith into models like these. A nice probabilistic graph appeals to our logical and mathematical sensibilities by appearing to cover the range of possibilities and giving some well-reasoned projection of likelihood, but it doesn't account for the human element.

Picking a successful startup with growing valuation is just the prerequisite, if you are lucky enough to do that then the likelihood of getting a good payout from stock options becomes dominated by the behavior of the board of directors and the founders. So actually the number one question is: do you trust the founder(s) to look out for their employee's interests? Number two question is: are the founder(s) savvy enough to avoid investors triggering scenarios that totally screw early employees (dilution, liquidation prefs, etc)? These are super hard questions to answer even for savvy veterans, and probably totally outside the depth of the inexperienced young people flooding into tech right now.

I don't think its responsible to advise young people to give significant value to options based on spurious models. Instead I'd recommend they go read Steve Blank: https://medium.com/@sgblank/startup-stock-options-why-a-good...
Two ways this happens are liquidation preference and "participation". In both cases (they work differently but mean similar downsides for employee stock), your stake's value becomes conditional on a best case scenario exit and investors in practice gain more ownership than the numbers immediately reveal.

If the company fails, all that means nothing. If the company goes big, it won't matter. But in the most likely exit case where the company sells for less than everyone was hoping, now you get into the interesting territory where the investors might make their 1.5x return before you see a cent.

It's not that founders don't understand this. It's that founders end up taking these conditions when they're low on negotiation leverage and choose between that and running out of funding, so it's an understandable decision. However, they also avoid talking about it unless forced to because it changes how you will value your stock, which changes how attractive your offer or current compensation is. As a rule I ask about it when I talk to startups about job offers.
Same thing, but a little more practical for computing in case your computer doesn't have a hand and a table:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort
It is pretty near impossible to beat that at a startup...
Stock options in the UK are a near fraud. Your a ability to excercise them is contingent on an exercise window opening at the next funding round (a long time) and you lose said options on your last day of employment. Unscrupulous management trying to claw back options can force employees out.

I do not take stock options in UK companies seriously and neither should you.
People Who Read a Lot of Books Are Way Nicer, Kinder and Empathetic
Since PCA is geared towards reducing dimensions, it would be an example of data which has many features (aka dimensions). Data on 'errors in a manufacturing line' would be a good example because you could be capturing a large number of variables which may be contributing towards a defective product. You would be capturing features like ambient temperature, speed of the line, which employees were present, etc. You would (virtually) be throwing in the kitchen sink for features (variables) in the hope of finding what could be causing defective Teslas, for instance.

What PCA does (to reduce this large number of dimensions) is hang this data on new set of dimensions by letting the data itself indicate them. PCA starts off by choosing its first axis based on the direction of the highest degree of variance. The second axis is then chosen by looking perpendicular (orthogonal) to the first and finding the highest variance here. Basically, you continue until you've captured a majority of the variance, which should be feasible within a lower number of dimensions than that which you started. Mathematically, these features are found via eigenvectors of the covariance matrix.
It’s all fun and games until someone hacks your toaster to start toasting penii onto the surface.
That's fair and you're entitled to that opinion. Maybe you can propose a solution by filling in the blank:

I understand why it’s appropriate to tax [fill in blank] in order to fund emergency services.
Transfer learning is absolutely under-investigated. The current results in CV are awesome but they only pertain to CV. There’s little underlying theory that helps you apply it to other areas. Mine, for instance, which is robotics manipulation.
Many people cancel cable and don't subscribe to anything, and decide to read books instead, but we wouldn't call "nothing" or "reading books" a "cable replacement service"...

From the GP's comment, it's clear that the reference was to actual "cable replacement services."
Money doesn’t need to be spent in order to provide utility.

Example: I recently needed to switch both jobs and housing urgently. When I learned this, I had about £13,000 in liquid savings and $7,000 in almost-as-liquid savings. I didn’t end up needing to really touch more than £3,000 of those savings pots. So was my £10,000 of extra savings giving me any utility?

Absolutely yes. I was much less worried.

Contrast this with someone who has no savings and whose tire blows. How do they acquire $250 in order to be able to keep their job?
Easy. LZW compress it. Comprehensibility suffers a bit, though.

Kidding, but there's a point: If you want to make it 1/3 shorter, and not lose any info, it has to be denser. That won't make it easier to read - probably the opposite, in fact.
While I sympathise with your sentiment, viable is enough. We aren't exactly sd spoilt for choice
If anyone pays for the BBC, please stop.
Only when you take it out of their ecosystem. Otherwise you can send the balance to other Venmo users.

There's also a debit card linked to the balance, like Square's Cash App and card. So you can spend the balance that way, too (assuming the merchant takes cards).
Usage note:

The monopolies were probably exacerbated, rather than exasperated, though /you/ might have been exasperated.

To exacerbate a thing is to make something that was bad, worse. You will usually exacerbate the _aspect_ that is bad, but you might also exacerbate a whole thing (such as a monopoly or a house fire) if the whole thing is in fact bad.

Whereas to exasperate is to irritate very intensely when action to sooth the irritation is frustrated. So if a young child is screaming and won't stop but you know hitting them is wrong, you may be exasperated.
Usually things are be under-investigated because they're hard.
Interesting. I know a lot of the statistics have been discussed elsewhere here, so I'll add two weak speculations -

Cars are pretty expensive to own and operate. Mr. Money Moustache is constantly railing against them - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/04/22/curing-your-clown.... Agree or disagree with his approach to things, his blog is very much about high social mobility.

Secondly, walking is a pretty good way to force yourself to get exercise. I'm fortunate enough to work for a big tech company with a shuttle; I recently realized that taking the shuttle forced me to walk more than 500 miles a year just between the stop and my apartment. That's huge when I'm pretty unreliable about going to the gym. The shuttle also strongly encourages me to stay on a reasonable schedule - in before the last morning shuttle, out before the last evening one. I have to imagine that over time, this is also a pretty huge health benefit.

Edit: typos
Ask HN: How often have natural disasters completely destroyed a data center?
DC or Regions (AWS)
Don’t forget it’s hooked up to the IoT cloud and has a digital twin for real time troubleshooting, as we are monitoring the device telemetry via MQTT and performing big data predictive maintenance analytics using RNNs! We’ve already shipped a replacement toaster coil, dispatched a technician and billed your credit card $9.95 per month, since it’s now “toaster as a service”!
Income. Real estate.

People with high income are more able to pay such a tax, if it’s structured progressively. People with real estate holdings benefit most from emergency services.
Well, I wouldn’t actually call something like having competent window management, something that macOS is sorely lacking, a “hobbyist” feature.

I don’t buy the argument that Apple wants to let you get things done when their stuff lacks things like that. How is removing a feature like “mark all as read” helping me do that?

And if you think Finder works better than Windows Explorer or other products that emulate Windows Explorer, you’re certainly in the minority.
Why? Because they report on government demands? Because they don't include enough opposing quotes to your liking? Or just in general?
Signed apps are required to be notarized. Unsigned app will run like before (right click -> open in Finder).
It sounds like a lot to me, but it's worth noting that there are individuals with more money than that (and certainly plenty of tech companies who could invest that much). The Gates Foundation alone could fund that investment.
Some costs (e.g. waste management) increase with each sold item.
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You seem to misunderstand the issue. Reactors do not "consume" freshwater, primary and secondary coolants runs in a closed loop, water never "leaves" or runs out. There are also variants that use liquid metals

The powerplant requires a cold reservoir to discharge heat, as does any heat engine. Cooling towers that evaporate fresh water are one of several methods for doing that.

Coastal powerplants use seawater to discharge heat.

Reactors in megawatt range usually use passive cooling and air cooling, you could operate them in the middle of sahara.
> No one has ever successfully kept their prices low, drove out the competition, and then raised them.

Standard Oil did exactly this. It kept prices low under Rockefeller's leadership and raised prices dramatically under Archbold, when they already had the market sewn up. Very successfully.

More recently, China did exactly this with rare earth metal prices.

There's even a name for it, cornering the market.
Jews are gonna jew.
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El Capitan machines are already set up, Catalina machines are being set up?
Windows 10 native audio upsampler causes aliasing and distortion above 19khz
Right. The big players have salary on lock down and small players can't compete on that front. You pretty much have to believe in your startup. It's a gamble.
I think it's weird to suggest that programming languages are under-investigated, and the discussion he gives of it makes me question his conclusions about other fields. There are vastly different paradigms completely orthogonal to the hierarchy in that image the author uses. I don't think getting people to stop using assembly/C/fortran/cobol/php/whatever is a research problem.
I used to be an applications engineer for a company that developed electronic parts. So many times I would interact with engineers at various companies around the world. The Japanese engineers always stood out in how they evaluated your product. They would always do rigorous testing of your products. They don't just trust your specs like most other places. Sometimes they built custom test fixtures to test things even we didn't have the bandwidth to perform. I felt that is why they always have high reliability cars and stuff.
I love the concept but think it would be 100X more powerful if the demo specifically addressed PowerShell Core and scenarios for automating tasks in Linux and macOS.
Software Product – Fake It Until You Make It?
In US you or anybody can print checks, provided they gave the account number, routing number. Name, address, Bank are optional.
Apologies for hijacking, but it's interesting how lead and gold have changed in possible uses in the past couple hundred years. Gold was scarce, and used for decoration. Lead was common, but used for (unfortunately) things like pipes.

Now, gold is still highly prized as a store of value, while lead has continued to be found harmful (petrol, etc.) However, gold's electrical properties (and resistance to tarnish) make it a very valuable practical material.

No point here, just interesting to think about how our perception of those materials has changed over time. (Kinda like how when aluminum was prized as great utensil material, because aluminum smelting took too much energy for what they had available.)
AR Quick Look is not Web AR. You can already do true Web AR with all the Javascript you want with 8th Wall.
I think I would be quite annoyed

If you would be annoyed, then VAT is hidden in the most important sense. It's like a mosquito that can bite without making you itchy so that you don't notice it. Yes, everyone may be aware that mosquitos exist but without the annoying reminder they can do a much better job spreading malaria to unwitting people.

VAT, being a sales tax, is a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. The fact that you don't have to calculate it at checkout is a point against it, not in favour of it.
Modern media, especially news outlets, is sd marketing. These are ad marketing companies, and news is the byproduct of selling ads. The more slanted and accusatory an article, the more interesting, and the more ads it sells. it's easy math.
Knowledge broadens the mind... but I'm curious if listening to audiobooks at 1.5x speed or greater leads to generalized impatience with people who speak at normal speeds.

(Maybe it's just me...)
Another limit is that it is harder to shop around with an e-prescription. I cannot find a way to get Kaiser's pharmacy to tell me what a given drug will cost out of pocket on my Kaiser plan unless I present them with an actual written prescription. Then they can tell me what it would cost to fill it right there.

So I have my Kaiser doctor, who can easily send e-prescriptions to any pharmacy I choose, instead write me paper prescriptions just so I can find out the Kaiser price, and then decide if I want to fill it there or take somewhere else and use a GoodRx coupon or pay cash.
Check put Winthrop Sargent’s translation. It comes with a transcription and word-by-word gloss of the Sanskrit, so you don’t have to learn Devanagari.
Thanks for sharing your very poignant story!
There are non-technical people that are on-call and still barely know how to use a smartphone.
There was this bug:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
Same here, iOS 12.4.1 Safari
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As a non-technical founder of a technical start-up you need to learn about technology. Coding bootcamp programs teach how to program. Being able to code (program) does not translate into an understanding of technology. I know of no bootcamp or academic program that teaches the theory and technology rather than the nuts and bolts of coding. Problem is deep understanding is hard while programming is relatively easy.
"Accidental propaganda" is an oxymoron. What's the line between that and just being wrong or disagreeing? It isn't bad arguments; people are even more likely to call 'propaganda' (or astroturfing, shilling, etc.) against good arguments, because good arguments one dislikes are even more activating than bad arguments one dislikes.

The problem is that there are two different phenomena surrounding those words. The first is real abuse; the second is people labeling comments they dislike as abuse because they can't imagine anyone could hold them in good faith. As far as we can tell, the second problem is much more widespread than the first.
Mass transit is not an option in the next decade. And the solution to prices impacting poor people is to give poor people money, not to remove the mechanism by which resources get allocated (transparent pricing).