skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Students defeat new ‘Barnacle’ parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
I would hazard a guess that this will lead to more anti-mask laws since politicians, who love appearing tough on crime, will view anyone wearing a mask as a likely criminal. Which will probably decrease crime but also effectively eliminate any checks on state power.

How has this guy not been targeted by organized crime groups already?
I don't know how votes are counted, but will that make it impossible to make positive changes?
Or if they are not part of the total count, allow a minority of shareholders to vote against the fund's interests?
So much easier to gentrify a neighborhood when you price it up and cause the original residents to pay the same tax as the new neighbors.
Is that a lot, or a little, when compared to the cost of providing the service? Without context, this number is meaningless.
on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085089
I always wondered why no governments decided to get into the payments ecosystem.

If you keep the existing rate structure, payment processing represents a ~3% sales tax that yields a huge margin for all players, a tantalizing revenue stream to nationalize.

Id you use the state resources to subsidize the price down to zero, you have a great "pro-business"/"pro-inclusive-economy" plank for political points.

Either way, you get a huge amount of data and a massive lever you can use for political ends. Think of the deplatforming debates of a year or two ago, but magnified by "this is basically the only payment platform used in the country."
Bingo. It hard to be critical when you are (or feel that you are) dependent on the paper for your grade/diploma/career progress.
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If someone built a search engine with a blacklist feature I’d switch to it and Medium would be on the blacklist. Annoying default behavior and it does something to make images look like hell in reader view.

I have no idea why it gets bumped up in SEO, content on Medium is very hit or miss.
> Please don't do that: they won't necessarily be the outliers in the dataset and your model will converge to the wrong thing.

They are the outliers. These experiments are typically measuring something that is effectively constant with almost zero noise, rather than some complex physical phenomena.

If you don't get an almost perfect fit, there is something going on that invalidates what you are doing (e.g. cache effects, clock effects, etc.).

In fact, if there are any outliers, I would not trust the benchmark at all. So removing them seems like trying to fix a bad benchmark with statistics.

> Statistics is hard. Like, really really hard. Stuff goes wrong all the time. Please leave it to the experts.

That is unnecessary gatekeeping. Benchmarking in CS is hard not because the maths/stats that are needed are hard, but because setting up the right experiment is hard and most people don't know all the pitfalls.

Therefore, if anything, you should leave benchmarks to CS/SE experts, rather than a statistician!
...but obviously only disable it if it is disabled in the environment which you want to predict. Don't try extrapolating from an environment in which it is disabled to one in which it is not, and vice versa.
Probably not a popular sentiment, but for someone continuing to use and maintain a Win XP Thinkpad T60, this is really cool news.
> So the way we can solve this problem is to outlaw shares ownership of competing companies? Seems like a fair solution.

This just isn't practical. What if I'm invested in Big Bank and Big Tech Co. but then Big Tech Co. creates a wallet app and credit card -- do I have to sell my ownership in one of these companies?

As an investor I definitely want to own companies that compete because I don't know which one is going to prevail. Owning just one of the companies doesn't really fix the problem either -- if I own only Pepsi does that mean I would want them to get into a price war with Coke?
So even in that case, it seems like he could offer the option of keeping the session running in the background using audio. If you have a jailbroken device, you can turn off the audio.

Since it is open source - that means if you own a Mac, you can install it yourself. If you don’t want the hassle of revalidating the software every seven days, and want to play with other open source software, pay the developer fee.

I have no plans on becoming an iOS developer professionally, but heck if I owned a Mac I would get a developers license just to play around with developing for iOS and to use third party open source software.

I would love to experiment with Xamarin and other cross platform mobile tech.
RustZone: Writing (ARM) Trusted Applications in Rust
Now that I think about it, you’re right that randomized hashing in Python itself could cause nondeterminism in seemingly deterministic code. However, timeit does mitigate that to some extent by repeating the same code a large number of times — 1 million times by default, and it’s better used that way. Of course, depending on the actual code, it could be the case that all 1M invocations are skewed by the specific choice of PYTHONHASHSEED; it’s not something that you can solve in-process, so there’s no panacea, you must ditch the idea of getting a single stable number in that case.
Only if there is good infrastructure such as quality public transportation to support the cut drivers.
I don’t think this is about product quality or even competition. It is that retail is dying.
I pay 55 percent taxes total if that wasnt clear.
Just of note, automatic weapons where ban in the early 80's those that are left in the US are tightly regulated and require a FFL class 3, have strict rules on transfer and the local sheriff must approve the transfer. Many sheriffs will not allow class 3's in their county. If they will not, the resident is out of luck on getting one of the few automatic weapons left. Those remaining weapons sell for upwards of 10 to 20K and not one has been used in a mass shooting in recent history. People buying automatic weapons are by and large collectors.

What you are referencing is semi-automatic weapons, which require you to pull the trigger each time you want a bullet to fire. Many hunting rifles are semi-automatic. The difference between a semi-automatic hunting rifle and a semi-automatic black rifle is the difference between a Corvette and a Corvette with a Ferrari body kit. It's all cosmetic they are at the core the exact same rifle. A Remington semi-auto .223 hunting rifle is in spirit the same gun as a AR-15.

Handguns and homemade explosives are a much greater public threat and that is the reason most gun rights advocates see no value in compromise. The issue is completely a emotional issue and the facts, which advocates are well versed in, weight out contrary to the arguments that gun control advocates are making. The reality is that other than the occasional mass shooting people are just not being killed by rifles of any kind. Handguns are used in orders of magnitude more than rifles to commit violent crimes. A sincere effort to remove guns from criminals would focus on handguns and not rifles. Therefore rights advocated jump to the conclusion that the effort is to disarm the legally owned, armed population as that is the majority of rifle owners. The simple fact is the majority of criminals use handguns, they are more easily concealed, easier to wield and easier to reload.

The only exception to this is mass shooters who want to LARP Call of Duty. Which is why they choose rifles if FPS's and movies used handguns, mass-shooters would use handguns because in their crazy minds they are role playing. That being said, you have a slightly higher chance of getting killed in a mass shooting than you have getting hit by lighting. By the number it's just a non-event. In saying that, I am not trying to minimize them, just stating the facts, they are horrible events and we should certainly do something about them. But disarming millions of law abiding citizens to prevent a lightning strike event punishes the masses for a statistically small problem.

Common sense gun control would have at it's core handgun controls as well as mental health protocols. If they don't then they are conceived via emotion rather than statistical fact.
Medium doesn't actually require you to sign in (for free content, at least). It just asks you to, but you can dismiss the dialog.

That said, I think you're right that people get confused about this more than authors think and close the site without reading the page.
This electric delivery van is being rolled out by DHL in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
Out of Darkness, Light Rail
"...there is a high degree of uncertainty that the person opening the link will be asked to pay money to read the content.”

I feel the same way about clicking links on hacker news.
Online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’
> What you really want to know it something like the 95% confidence interval after observing n runs.

Great in theory, but almost always relies on a normality assumption which just doesn't hold in general for performance measurements.

How well does this package handle pareto distributed run times?
Scientists come up with a method to make oxygen from moon dust
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/man-charged-with...
they're all from at least 1 or more months ago. i haven't run the updater script in at least 1 or more months.
If you rarely need a car, using an uber is absolutely the right solution. Most people don't print high quality photos at the frequency to justify owning an ink jet.
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. And a terrible way to build a company and culture.
You are speaking as a stats person. :)

While there are dozens of things that can go south in benchmarking, how to solve them is not about applying advanced stats, but about understanding and eliminating the sources of noise.

Most benchmarks in CS can be done quite easily as long as one understands all the technology stack.
OP is going to have to disambiguate what it means to "click the Open Access tab and you're good to go". It's easy to assume that means there be a PDF waiting there, or at least a link to get to it. I see nothing of the sort in Firefox or in Chrome browsers. There's an open access symbol but that's not an active link. My test case is this:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/category-theory-sciences linked from the top link
When deeply accustomed to privilege, attempts to restore merit often present as penalty.

Removing legacy preference in favor of merit is not penalization.

The article does not advocate admission based on racial preference.
It does point out that a level playing field allows more applications of merit from races that would traditionally be displaced.
Be Optimistic About the Future – Kevin Kelly and Marc Andreessen
The public at large does not care what we think.
what does low income have to do with this? driving is expensive. between fuel, vehicle maintenance, parking, and insurance, driving your personal vehicle should not be the "low income" choice.

If there's truly no choice other than driving (which isn't really possible, because if driving alone is an option then so is carpooling), your income level has nothing to do with it. If there is a choice, then low income is not a reason to drive.
As a technical matter, the interface is posh.

But with the departure of https://hackernoon.com there just isn't much geeky content to motivate visiting, and I never cared to subscribe.
They figured out there is a market segment for cartridge-less refillable inkjets and now sell them as well. They cost more than regular inkjets, on par with cheap laser printers.
I spent a decade in the parking technology space. (Co-founder PayByPhone -- don't hate me, I genuinely tried to make things more civilized and convenient, I swear!). Anyways, I miss hearing about hilarious and genius hacks and escalations like this. The brilliance deployed to work around parking regulations is amazing.

Not condoning, but here's a (naive?) though experiment if the Barnacle shows up in use again... Park your car and cover it. Many car covers have cable locks to prevent removal and openings to expose plates for legal/bylaw reasons, so this should be permissible. This may provide protection from sun, frost, birdshit, and now Barnacles(tm)! My assumption is that parking enforcers don't have permission to modify, remove, or damage property on a parked car like this.

Of course, there's always a tow-truck. Or you could pay for the parking you use, but I respect the hacker spirit!
https://web.archive.org/web/20200118180355/https://emvi.com/...
It’s just friction. Zero just means no payments have to take place. It’s tv e friction that puts people off not the amount of money
cool, just found it:
https://www.drdobbs.com/database/simulating-the-denver-airpo...
from 1997!
I don't think clicking outside of the box works anymore. You really have to reopen the page in incognito mode in order to read it, if you don't want to register & sign in.
I've got this tiny device that plugs into those 30-pin connectors to make them Bluetooth, really nice solution to utilise redundant tech (originally bought it for a 2015 Maserati that couldn't play music through its Bluetooth sigh talk about shitty consumer experiences).

But yeah, I'm a massive believer in keeping things un-integrated. Need a feature, but a component and plug it in
That's not a problem with escalators, that's a problem with your liability laws and regulations.
Sorry, wasn't questioning the statement, but by definition it is something you're asserting.
Nice.

I wonder, would it make sense to encode the idea of a square and hex grid with pieces of two different colors as a library of sorts, such that this basic grid implementation doesn't count against each game individually? The boards are very widely reused, generic, mathematical concepts. This would give something like Go or Connect-N a fairer shot of competing against something like a Nim, which only needs a single integer accumulator to represent its game state.
Tesla autopilot clips wing mirror of parked car
> You're conflating SCOTUS role as an arbiter of law

Well, that's what they do!

How else do we decide then? Do I get to drive 150 miles per hour because I don't think the speed limit laws are factually correct? After all, I am quite capable, I have spent thousands of dollars learning and practicing race car driving and if I am on an absolutely empty road...

You can't pick and choose what laws you should obey. We are talking about rights here. The Bill of Rights for that matter. This isn't about where you should cross the street.

This is silly.

Look, the laws are what they are.

If you don't like them, go put your case in front of the SCOTUS and argue your point.
I found total construction numbers: ~25k new units in 2017, depending on how you count (https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/rentguidelinesboard/pdf/18HSR.pd...)

That's only about 0.3% housing growth.
No, but I didn't make it clear in my question that I was assuming that the aliens would devise a similar Alpha Zero algorithm to that we have. The concepts of self play, reinforcement learning, and MCTS are obviously more universal than the exact year komi was introduced. I was more asking if using an "optimal" algorithm would reduce historical baggage in both aliens and humans, and lead to a similar convergence in terms of good go openings. However, even our choice of algorithms may be based result of historical events, and can we really conclude we've ever really found the optimum.
That appears to be untrue, given I read the post today by clicking on the link and never got so much as asked to sign it
I never wrote on Medium, but having been a reader on Medium back before the rebrand and business model pivot, my impression is that it provided the entire platform at a time when it otherwise would take a lot of work to build, host, and maintain proprietary solutions to achieve the same thing. I saw a lot of companies moving their blogs to Medium, and they got to keep their domain name and branding, but you could tell it was hosted on Medium, because of the feature set. I think that the name 'Medium' really illustrates that. Medium was supposed to be the medium of choice to publish content on the web. It was everything you needed to get your message onto the web - serving the needs of content creators and consumers. Apparently that wasn't making any money. Now they are just predatory.

Edit: and I agree with what some others are saying. By hosting content from multiple publishers, they were able to provide some unique features for both publishes and consumers. Publishers benefitted from discoverability because Medium would surface related content around the platform to consumers, and they also benefitted from readers having platform-wide accounts where they could interact frictionlessly with blog content and kind of give content upvotes. On the consumer side, it kind of made Medium a good feed to watch for personalized blog content as well as the frictionless interactivity.
While I disagree with the car centric model that parking lots encourage this is about how can an University ease attendance for students.

If for various reasons on campus housing and public transport are unavailable then parking can be a forced option
University grade inflation will be stamped out
Periodic-Table-API
> [W]ill that make it impossible to make positive changes?

Yes, but that's consistent with the passive philosophy at the heart of index investing. I was surprised that index funds had an active interest in anything beyond reducing fees to customers.
I live in a north american town 100km from the nearest city.
we have a population of 13000 and a population density of ~200ppl/km2.

but go on...
hopefully you're not using a one-liner for your actual deployment. I use it for no stakes development
Credit ratings aren’t secret.
The thing however is that the tightly packed urban model allows the more rural lifestyles to exist. Designing towns and cities to be densely packed or at least space efficient allows people in those environments to get where they need to go with public transportation, bikes, and walking. This allows these people to get rid of their cars and makes space for people like you who prefer living away from the densely packed landscape to live your life with reduced inconveniences like traffic and lack of parking spaces.

Both lifestyles win out because this isn't trying to eliminate the rural lifestyle, it instead is setting the incentives so that people can and will use the transportation medium most efficient for their lifestyle and distributing the population between different channels of transportation to keep from over-saturating any one of them.
> I constantly refer to documentation for the tools I use

I feel the same. At the same time, in my case, I'm quite sure it's because I don't pay enough attention. If you refer to the docs just to copy-paste something, you'll remember exactly how to get there (the important part) and not what you copy (the implementation detail).

If you want to change it, pay attention to the actual details. You'll be amazed how much you can remember.
Parking fares are generally more about congestion controll rather than dissuasion
> For the future you should say "piqued my interest".

Classic example of a common eggcorn. More details at https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/86/peak/
You are a hero good sir or madam. Is this redistributable with attribution?
You don’t have to be manhattan-lite. You can totally be Tokyo-lite instead. Of course one of the main hurdles is America’s race and class problem which caused the segregation and dispersion in the first place.
One of my special skills as a young developer was intuiting that the perf tool timings for small methods were highly inaccurate (at the time I characterized this as lying), and in a GC’d language that inaccuracy can be quite amplified.

I found a lot of performance issues that others missed, and there were a number of quite notable cases where I had rather extraordinary results. Like 20% from tweaking (not even deleting) a method measured as taking 5% of run time. Not the weirdest I every did, but a solid number of top ten entries from this category.

How did I find them? Sorting by invocation count instead of run time. You can blindly jump into any of functions and get some useful results, but a more sophisticated approach is to think first about expected versus actual results. You think to yourself, “I just ran this task ten times. It has this much data to deal with. How many calls to this particular function should I have expected? 250? Then why was it called 759 times?”

What you find next will be architectural problems, or problems of data flow through the system (while some, including me, would argue that I just repeated myself, not everyone accepts that).

The fastest methods are the ones you never call, and I’m surprised at how frequently people ignore call count even though it’s often right there in the results. Maybe because it’s often the last value displayed, as if to say “This is barely worth mentioning.”
Scary! Maybe the bushfire will pull down the building with this rule in place.
Killed by Mozilla...
The extremely simple and correct solution here is to not let index funds themselves vote. Only allow the votes to be cast directly by the index share holders. Problem solved, I don't know why people keep hand wringing about this and not suggesting the supremely obvious solution here.
You don't need TOR to get around DNS blocks (assuming that's how your ISP is blocking TPB). I configure my router to use Google's public DNS server 8.8.8.8 and that completely circumvents the "block".
Medium provides a lot of value to both readers and writers.

I think people don't like signing up or paying because they're not used to having to do that, so it feels unfair.

But if you look at the trade-off objectively, it's very worth it.

Medium adds much more than $10/month of value to my life, just in terms of the articles I read there. That's perhaps two coffees.

Just another perspective.

I think we often have unreasonably high standards for what we're owed by software companies, that we don't have when those companies make hardware and physical goods.
> do I have to sell my ownership in one of these companies?

No, company would have to split itself (create separated business entity) so you would have to sell your competing part of the company.

Such a change can also solve problem of companies using their dominant/monopolistic position in one business area to get unfair advantage in another.

> As an investor I definitely want to own companies that compete because I don't know which one is going to prevail.

That's the problem article describes! Such behavior reduces competition and hurts customers:

>> This line of research began with a 2014 paper about competition among U.S. airlines that quietly shook the fund industry and the antitrust world. José Azar, an economist at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, along with Martin Schmalz and Isabel Tecu, showed that airline ticket prices were 3% to 7% higher because big funds owned stakes in so many airlines.
Im mostly looking at it from the perspective of "if I have to return this because its not right, its a ton less hassle if Amazon is the party I have to deal with the return through."