skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I'm not sure of, is this technique (Monte Carlo forward prop) likely to be more computationally expensive than standard backprop.
If it's not a privacy violation when I do it with my eyes and my brain, it's not a privacy violation when I do it with my computer.
How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case
"GATTACA II: The Revenge of The Robots"

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How is that analogous to hacking a device so you can tether to it and use its data plan to avoid costs yourself?
I operated a car pool for several students when I was taking evening classes. This is probably difficult for full time students, but with a little effort would probably work.
Some humans can play Chess in their minds, yes. But would they have learned to play Chess if it was purely mind stuff? I don't think so.

We might one day have octopuses play Chess with us. But there may be other alien games we'd learn from them as well. Or not.
Well part of making that progress is making the status quo (driving your car to school) slightly more inconvenient by charging to park. That will encourage other modes of transportation.
The obvious difference being that when you're a business owner, you have the mandate to make those changes, and rightfully you can reap the rewards afterwards. The same problem when you're an employee is much more complex. You may lack the mandate to perform the change, you may have inefficient or hostile management involved, there may be adverse incentives at play, and so much more.

I think it's a disservice to everyone to compare the experience of being an entrepreneur to that of being an employee. Sure, most employees could probably use some more initiative, but a lot of the time the amount of initiative you get out of employees is directly correlated to the possibility that someone will listen and take action on that initiative. In many, many companies, that possibility is almost zero.
> I do wish there was more development in alternative operating systems.

This should also go hand in hand with development in alternative computing systems, environments, and architectures as well. Just as the dominance of Unix occurred in part for social/economic/cultural reasons, so too did the current dominant computing architectures. We have examples from the past of interesting attempts (i432, Rekursiv, maybe Oberon etc).

Because we have universal data interchange standards today (think XML structures, JSON, hell even TCP/IP itself) we don't have to worry as much about the "compatibility" issues that were a real end user problem in the 80s and 90s. We can and should be experimenting with alternative systems. Maybe open hardware will also help with that.
And, arguably, mental transaction costs. Getting people to pay anything at all is a big hurdle to get over whether it's a penny, a dollar, or ten dollars. Clay Shirky wrote way back when that this was the main problem with micropayments and I'm mostly inclined to agree. (It's true that $1 digital music and video rentals for a few dollars were/are something of a thing. But people seem to generally prefer all you can eat subscriptions.)

If people were really on board with micropayments, I suspect they could be made to work technically/financially.
"maybe blockchain will fix it"
It's been an incredible model. We've already paid out $100's of thousands of revenue to small business owners in new "found" revenue. It's a totally new income stream and in many cases helps with rising rents and declining retail.
I'm the same, these $10 services start to add up quickly.

Perhaps Dropbox is better as a feature after all.
The fault in the article produce a big earthquake every 400 years, so you have a 1/5 chance of seeing one.

Yellowstone has a big eruption every 600000 years so you are probably not going to see the next one. (But the destruction will be much bigger.)
Luxury property downturn in New York hits Hudson Yards
Very similar value prop to the shops. More foot traffic & more revenue. The shops that do it in the US make $0.50 per package held.
Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
> It would be more interesting to see the total amount of vans purchased in the country and how many of them are 2010 models, 2000 models, 1990 models, etc.

What I quoted was annual new van sales. ~500k new vans purchased per year, growing at about 5% per year.

A massive operating efficiency improvement might draw forward some new purchases / push existing vans into early retirement. Cost savings would definitely not be anywhere near an order of magnitude, but e.g. if TCO could go from $0.55 a mile conceivably to $0.40 a mile that would be very compelling. (Based on 15,000 miles a year, that would mean $8,250 goes to $6,000, saving $2,250)

Note that TCO is including financing, taxes, insurance, depreciation, maintenance, repairs, and fuel. Fuel is about 30% of the TCO, so cutting fuel costs has a large effect. Depreciation on vans (after the first year) is pretty meager.

Cratering resale value of ICE vans in the face of cheaper to operate EV vans will accelerate the transition to EV vans, but there’s still an adoption curve and an infrastructure challenge to face. The market share for EV vans is essentially 0 today.
Both. There were more 3d movies last year that are not listed so the site isn't up to date. But 3d is dying too. Kind of a shame as 3d looks amazing in vr. It finally has a good use case.
Use a ngrok tunnel. I also had some luck with transfer.sh I believe. Your operating word here is "free".

For a exe, just use github . i know a few projects that host downloads on there.
Not true, app stores solved it ...
The principle that you should not be penalized by the family you are born into would also prohibit racial preferences, but I don't see that addressed in the article.
Huh - I’ve heard tons about the 1918 flu but this is the first I ever heard of 1968.
When I was in University, there were a ton of services available to me that I never used, yet I was charged various generic fees.
Original reddit post:

https://www.removeddit.com/r/specializedtools/comments/e541r...
You're probably thinking of Sega Channel [1] which was functionally like Microsoft's Game Pass that is available now. You knew that you would only have access to the games as long as you subscribed, and that they could be changed at any point by Sega.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel
I get where you're coming from and I agree that people should pay what they owe, but just to split hairs...

Paying for parking isn't a "fair" way to distribute it. What is meant to happen is that paying for it funds the creation of more parking (ground level parks are converted to multistories etc). So paying is a necessary evil to create and maintain enough of something to go around.

With a monopoly supplier, like here, that doesn't happen as they can just pocket the cash. They may actually cut the supply as charging 20% fewer people twice the price is more money for them.
It’s good to know about turbo boost when measuring cpu bound code. When the cpu gets hot, the clock drops, sometimes by a large factor. When it’s cooler and the OS wants to run code, the clock goes back up. This can be disabled in BIOS to get a more stable result. You can monitor the cpu clock in Resource Monitor on windows 10, to see how big a deal the issue is. It varies by cpu model, temperature, cooling of your particular machine etc.
Neat. I will try this. Check out Guix. It's similar but defines packages in Scheme, which I prefer greatly to the Nix DSL.
You've just made a claim that your wealth to own a car is comparable to someone who can't use their legs. Accessibility is also something which is becoming a legal requirement, eg https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/10/fifty-college...

A new engineering building would be an investment, it's expected to increase future returns
Oh wow. I had no idea that was even a thing. That's terrifying.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s0xwAYv6KKY
Which is good. This is what you want in a developed space.

Your own temporary rental space of ~8*12 feet is a luxury. Riding on a bus or bike is not. The latter options should be accommodated with low or non-existent fees.
Rent is a fixed cost so if a shop is already paying $5k / month in rent, and they can turn an unused or repurposed closet into a $1k / month revenue stream, they are very happy. Not to mention all the new people (hopefully patrons) coming into their store!
20 Years Since Y2K: Left-Pad, Heartbleed, and DevOps
We don't need to mold the whole world into the tightly packed metropolis model. Those areas are fine for people who like that kind of living but a lot of others including me don't.

Make the parking lots more efficiently packed, expand a bit of parking into grassy areas, build a parking garage instead of spending more on sports, there are lots of solutions here.
If they have a civilization, they probably are social creatures, and thus probably enjoy playing. Most social creatures on Earth engage in play when they are young. Also, for many animals, playing helps them learn how to hunt.
Yes! I went to Japan after starting Bounce and was really inspired. Everywhere you go, you know you can find a locker nearby. It's ubiquitous, reliable, inexpensive...can truly change how you get around a city.
At another university, if you were a TA, you would have a “faculty” account flag, which would give you another option to pay any parking fines—deduction from your paycheck. Except TAs don’t have paycheck. The system would deduct from 0, and would not go negative but still count the fine as paid.
I have one of the Canon PRO-1000 printers. There was a really good sale going on a couple years ago, where I could get the printer + 2 full sets of inks for just the price of the inks.

It is incredibly expensive to operate, especially at low print volumes. If I were printing on it all day, it would probably be fine -- but I end up wasting probably half the ink in startup cycles.

But, when using good papers, it produces the most amazing prints I've ever had.

Now that I've used one, I'd never buy it again unless I had some sort of business that produced more volume -- but until I use up all the supplies I bought, I have the most amazing prints!
Very interesting. It sounds to me like this approach exists outside any kind of Bayesian learning framework; i.e. an individual Bayesian agent couldn’t be expected to converge to a correct model here. Is that true?

I would hazard that the RANSAC method sounds a lot like what you’d get out of a larger hybrid model, where e.g. many Bayesian agents with different priors are bred under a genetic algorithm after being ranked by their predictive power. (Like humans surviving to reproduce and pass down models to their children!)
And the campus is paying for those externalities with that parking fee? Or they’re pocketing it as profit?
"Number if students who need to park" is not a fixed number. Some of the students parking might have alternative ways to get to school, but will choose to drive if parking is free. Others might have no good alternatives and need to drive.

How do we encourage the people who can walk or ride a bike to school to do that instead of drive? By charging for parking.

Also, not sure where you get the "charge half of them at random a large fine" bit from... they are fining people who park without buying a permit, not randomly.
But in this case, isn't "my lawn" the parking lot used by other college students?
The tsunami is more of the problem in the area than the earthquake as far as I understand.
There is gravity, but Tetris pieces are dropped from very high, and have achieved terminal velocity by the time they reach your board.
Many hotels have some essentials available if you ask. Co-working spaces like WeWork do too if you're a member.
:( that sounds miserable. I hope Bounce is in Belgium for your next visit. Manned by staff, and also 24/7 support if you need help with anything.
I still live there. My 14 year old daughter was one of the ones arguing against these NIMBY homeowners at those meetings, because that bus line would connect directly to her high school.

My view is that it will take time on the order of 1-3 decades for housing to densify around major arterials where this mass transit will run. At that point, it will “go somewhere people want to go.” You can see it happening in Pasadena.
Hard braking isn't good for the front tires, either. Many vans are rear-wheel drive so hard acceleration wears the rear tires faster.
My old uni sold the rights to operate their garages for the next 50 years to campus park to build a couple dorms. Prices basically doubled across all tiers when the garages were privatized
This is a cool service, and has surprisingly good coverage of Helsinki. Couple of places are missing though – I need to check what machines they currently have, and submit them!
Goku – Config Karabiner with Ease
Maybe online degree programs should start advertising:

"No Parking Fees EVER!"

Know someone that got a master's degree from the comfort of his own living room for under $10K and is now earning a decent six-digit salary.
Just wanted to say thanks for your hard work & making it FLOSS, it looks awesome.
You get merge conflicts because you're relying on debian patches. You can just download a clean package from upstream, compile it and create a binary .deb for local use via Debian's packaging tools.
A couple of things, it’s quicker and requires less knowledge to apply, less damage to vehicles, and you don’t need a parking officer to come out to remove it; they just dial it in and it pops off, and the barnacled person drops it in a drop box. This removes the need for 24/7 parking officer shifts to need to come out and remove the device.

This thing is also probably sold to organizations that don’t want to deal with the logistics of supporting boots, but are still interested in holding cars for ransom. So a traditional boot design may have always been a nonstarter for them, but this device isn’t.
Life changing tool. All my keys are custom hyper keys so there are 1000+ actions available to me in less 1 second.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karab...
You bring up a number of issues that we've went through as a company, but I think this is no different than many other companies that grow quickly and struggle through the complex process of getting alignment.

There is no company that gets everything right and I know that DigitalOcean hasn’t, and personally I haven’t gotten everything right myself. Certainly, I’ve made a ton of mistakes.

The real question is are we headed in the right direction now?

And you yourself have said that it looks like Yancey is right leader for DigitalOcean. And I would agree with that wholeheartedly.
Let Over Lambda is another classic. I heard HtDP is also good, but I haven't read it.
I like the way Apple Pay works, makes it feel very frictionless as a payer.
This is an excellent example.
On the other hand, commercial vans are used for, commercial purposes.

They get a lot of miles put them on them. They will need enough range to drive 100-150 miles, sometimes towing a trailer or full of heavy equipment.

Another thing to think about is if you have a van with four workers in it, you have to pay those 4 workers if they stop to recharge on the road. Lots of times you're working on jobsites that are under construction and might not have charging stations, or power at all.
Increasing density is precisely what we must do, because the alternative, car-centric kind of living is this close to giving us an expiration date that’s perceptibly on the horizon.
> I am accountable for myself and that if I want my circumstances to change, it starts with me.

Anyone with a minimum of intellectual honesty will accept that this is only partly true. Any circumstance that you find yourself in is a combination of many factors, it can never be naively boiled down to the single factor of "you". There are many variables that go into putting you, the reader, and myself, in the exact situations we are in now. That our actions have influenced it is beyond discussion, but that it has the potential to uniquely shape it, regardless of external factors, is absurd.

So, you may say: "Sure, external factors will affect you, but where you go from here is completely up to you" -- but this apparent truism does not hold up to scrutiny. If your life so far could not have been shaped exclusively and purely by your own initiative, how can the rest of your life?

The church of individual performance and the cult of myself is so intimately tied into our current zeitgeist or hegemony that nobody even seems to question it. I really wish more people did, if nothing else it would make for more interesting philosophy, possibly something that felt a little less like "The Secret".
>Maybe they were just reserved for higher-value targets

That's just it, though. I think there is broad popular understanding that the FBI and NSA have just about any surveillance capabilities we can imagine. But, we think, they only use it to chase terrorists, maybe pedophiles. Local cops instantly identifying a shoplifter by matching the surveillance photo to a facebook photo still seems like sci-fi, even if it was increasingly "near future" sci-fi.
The students are paying for an education. If they prefer to drive, their fellow students who make other choices should not be expected to subsidize them.
Parking fees at my university are only in small part due to rationing. You can see this because they recently added fees for the weekend, when they is no need to ration parking spots. For some reason, some university parking authorities are setup not serve the students and staff, but to make money/be cost neutral. That makes no sense to me.
Not micro in the sense of penny transactions.
I had to smile when I read this :)

When I was visiting China last time I did not find the post office so I went into a hotel near the supposed location of the post office and just asked them if they could send my letters and so they did. Of course I payed for the stamps (including a tip).
Nah, the world does far more than enough unreasonable subsidizing of driving as it is.

By all means, have some space for parking. And then charge market rate for it at peak hours, with free transit/shuttle passes for students.
I just print stuff at work.
Maybe my non-native English showing, but I expected the location field to take e.g. a city name (and otherwise be named "venue"?)

For the search term I put in it found some results in the US and some in Europe, and thus centered the map over the atlantic, without zooming out far enough to see any land or the markers
No, my first generation airport express from 2009 still works as an AirPlay device from the latest iOS. Sure you can’t configure it from latest macOS, but airplay still works. I can’t recall when the last software update was, but I haven’t done any updates for at least 3 years - it’s unplugged most of the time.
How would they go about doing what you suggest, and separating the good of confronting scofflaws from the bad effects of oppressing poor people?
Hey, if it's good enough for Linux memory management, it's good enough for parking.
Kinda/sorta/not really. It's why "free to play"/in-app-purchases rather than up-front-buying is such a big (and annoying) trend.
Maybe an even better headline would be

"A new obstacle to landing a job: getting approved by AI"

Doesn't this same problem exist for anyone finding a job? It's probably even worse when you're looking and your 40 or 50 and even worse if you're changing careers. I'd bet AI drops anyone over the age of 40, almost certainly 50.

I'm not saying "these darn kids have it so easy today" I'm sure it's not, but my 1/2 educated guess is that the older you get the harder it gets to make it past these algorithms.
Like coyotes, each one too clever by half until the entire Smart Potrzebie market vanishes from under their collective feet
I think it was Inventing on Principle that got HN all wet in their knickers. Literally nothing of any practical value has come of it. Someone started a kickstarter/company for Lisp IDE (getting HN wet all again) based on some of these ideas. They failed. These ideas are not workable, sadly. (I really want a world where they are, but they aren't.)

(Btw, 'rr' was already a thing, at least AFAIK.)

EDIT: For the downvoters (not that I care): Name a single thing that came of it. Seriously.

EDIT#2: This whole argument could be over soo soon... give me an example. C'mon people! (I find it funny that I'm usually deemed too idealistic for choosing Haskell...)
I wonder what fraction of a battery's mass is the ions that move from plate to plate, versus the plates, separator, electrolyte, casing, terminals and any other inactive parts?
According to a different article, one of Peter Thiel's 20 under 20 recipients eventually started/run Cleaview. I do not think he knowingly invested in this company.
20% fewer drivers benefits everyone, so that's not a bad policy.
I wonder what Paul Graham thinks of Clojure, which is the only Lisp I really have experience with.

I love being able to take advantage of all the wonderful Java libraries out there. Nowadays, I think you can even use Python libraries from Clojure [0].

[0]: https://github.com/cnuernber/libpython-clj
Literacy causes degraded memorization skills! The town crier will tell you all about it when the sun dial points at XI.
I pay ~2$ per 100gb per month on google drive. Standard plan.
When lone individuals go trawling social media sites for pictures of some random stranger they met on the street, this is commonly understood as creepy at best and (especially to the extent they are violating the terms of the platforms) an invasion of privacy at worst.
The good thing about charging is that is discourages use of a finite resource, and encourages the use of cheaper and more environmentally friendly options like car pooling, public transit, etc... If you make something free people soak it up.

That said I'm not sure how much those nudges matter when people need to get to class, and they might already have a schedule too busy to coordinate car pooling, and maybe their town or city doesn't have very good public transit. All of those things applied to me when I was going to college. I just parked in the closest residential neighborhood, which should probably be seen as a negative side effect of charging students for parking on campus.
Because people keep falling for it, so manufacturers do not build independence features.
As far as i understand it the RANSAC arguments are very much not Bayesian (they're all about "if you repeat this an infinite number of times under an infinite number of new samples, then...", which is almost caricaturely frequentist).

Still, you just gave me reason to mention one of my favorite "no, that won't work either" paper :) on how Bayes will not save you in the presence of model misspecification. Instead of butchering it any further, I'll just point you to this piece explaining the work, written by the author of the paper himself: http://bactra.org/weblog/601.html