skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the smartest animals on earth apart from primates are dolphins, crows and octopuses. But most aliens are portrayed as humanoids. I can't remember a single alien movie with sea creatures or intelligent birds. But if anyone knows some, please let me know :)

I think the body shape part is relevant here because it determines what kinds of games are possible or practical. A species of intelligent octopuses might play games involving changing their pigment (in wavelengths we can't even see!) or manipulating eight things at once. Bird games might involve flying competitions etc.

Edit: I guess the important part here in a species inventing Go, is having a body that can make a board game (or similar representation). Hands are pretty good for crafting tables and moving small pieces around. Beaks and snouts less so. (I'd put my money with the octopus.)
LVT is indeed really good, but the transition is awkward. Many proponents don't really buy being poor with valuable (not farm) land as something deserving protection, and frankly think it's mainly bs boogieman thrown out by actually rich people. But yes, given the sorry state of the US we can't really afford politically or policy wise to fuck over yet another group of for people for a 10 year transition.

But the fix is easy. Wealth tax and/or UBI smooths it over and then we are set. You lost your family home, poo poo, but now get a nice stepand and can also afford appartments near where you work. You'll walk or bike more, be healther including mentally and socially (not isolated among neighbors richer than you in a dust trap), and spew out less C02.
I think this is just the same problem of micropayments on the web: nobody’s “solved” it, so free is just the most convenient option by far.
Toyota makes a big bet on secretive flying taxi startup Joby Aviation
If if I was trying to solve this problem and actually cared about the students I would do some capacity based pricing.

Almost always free, as you approach parking capacity price increases. You could probably also set up a system to text people who have been there more than X hours that they will start to be charged due to high capacity.
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IBM doesn't count, or at least HN completely disregarded it. Modern AI hype really only became a thing after GAN and NVIDIA Pascal, 2014 and 2016 respectively.
It's Oklahoma. The city is likely very spread out and even if there are public transport options, you will need a vehicle to get to and from the bus stop.
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Well, the premise of the exercise is that One can even Communicate to God, so this is two or three incongruencies away from being infinitely unsolvable. Atari!
Not really. Let's imagine students live off campus and commute in each day. If they have lectures at the start of the day, then you'll get a space. But if you have one lecture at 3pm on a given day and don't elect to spend the entire day on campus then you're likely unable to get a parking space.

First come, first served works fine if you all start at the same time but I found you're often at the mercy of timetabling.
Wouldnt that unfairly weight parking spots to those with early classes? Not all classes have a variety of times available
It is 'fair' in some senses and not others... it means if you are a student with later classes, you are less likely to get parking.

It also means you can't plan effectively. If half the time, you show up to class and can't park anywhere, how can you make it to class on time consistently?

If your answer is "well, maybe you should take public transportation instead of driving", how is that any better for students than charging for parking?

If you charge for parking, you are at least giving students a choice and the ability to make an informed decision: "is it better to drive and pay $x to park, or save money and take public transportation?"

If you have free parking that is often full, your choice is "take public transportation or have a x% chance of not being able to park and missing class"
> in less than six months a research group in some country where US patents aren't held in very high regard will have duplicated the work and either sell it as a service or publish it in the scientific literature

US patents can be used to prevent the sale or import of violating foreign products into the US market. It's still the largest market and US patents are still the lynchpin of any patent portfolio.

Simultaneous discovery does occur and primacy is difficult to prove. Most patent offices had first-to-file as the deciding rule, the USPTO adopted first-to-file a few years back to cut down on endless litigation.
It is not a lie. The idea is that Tesla would go out of business and a vulnerability in the car would be found and exploited to kill you in the absence of security updates. Similar to how the article says:

> We're guessing a Charter alarm would still be able to make loud noises when someone breaks into a house, but that doesn't mean it'll work with an alarm-monitoring service.
Junkyard denial of service, amazing
Wikipedia has an article on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

tl;dr: the method works.
The usual trick is to drive someone else’s car. (Mom’s or dad’s).
Placing them on faculty cars, especially the dean's would have been the ultimate prank.
Well if you have a mortgage and your towns economy takes a spill, you have to sell your house in a down market to move to another town. In a rental you just move.
Didnt a court recently rule that someone taking off a GPS tracker (and throwing it away?) was not theft? My memory is fuzzy on that one.
Wouldn't it make sense that the university, that is charging the students all this money, ensure they have enough parking spaces to satisfy likely demand?

Doesn't seem unreasonable for universities with very high tuitions, to provide amenities like reliably available parking.
I agree with all that though only the first option definitely needs color (inkjet) printing.
The LED display could have been an upgrade on an older design. I assume Soyuz always had a clock.
To a person, everyone that i know that commutes to school lives outside the metro area served by public transport.
Ask HN: Where can I host a file for free in 2020?
I'd like to host a file somewhere in the cloud and publicly share a link to download it.

1. For free
2. Reliable
3. I want the file to start downloading right after a link is clicked. So that no "download page" shows up in between. All major cloud vendors offering free file sharing (Google Drive, WeTransfer, etc.) show this download page.

It is EXE file, 29MB large.
Indeed, and it's one of the reasons HN has the reputation as "that orange hellsite" in some places.
Doesn't protect against folder climbing/traversal like `curl :8080/../../etc`.
The more relevant link is https://keplerlounge.com/neural-computation/2020/01/16/compl.... Where the author discusses why this repos exists. This isn't a very good way to do AutoDiff and isn't exact(Look at standard reverse mode AutoDiff or Julia or Swift's implementations instead). The point of the repo is that the author believes it is a biologically plausible mechanism for neurons to be trained. Whether it is or isn't is the interesting question.
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I wonder if OSM has clean extension points for adding this sort of specialized metadata. Might be a nice way to create these kind of specialized geo-databases without having to do as much of your own implementation and hosting.
Will the approach in the article you linked work today?
There's no actual gravity rules in Tetris. Pieces move downwards, but that's about it.
It made its way on to my airpods. They haven't pulled hard enough until they make it go away in the wild.
Not only should it be offline-first, but it also should have fallbacks options like self-hosting.
I have a similar setup. I really appreciate that Hue bulbs are standard Zigbee bubls, then with a layer of fancy Phillips UI on top. If Phillips ever go away, easy to replace with a different UI, and direct control.

User friendly, and not tied to specific vendor.
It is downright amazing how much information asymmetry is seen as a prerequisite to maintain law and order.

For instance, implementation details of devices being leaked are a surefire way of obviating any mitigatory measure employed to coerce cooperation out of an uninformed population.

The irony of this happening at a University, an Institution centered around equipping people with the tools they need to overcome information asymmetry, is not lost on me.
Sure, but parent was only asking about "printers".
TBH, most people have extra clothing. It's very common for people who have timeshares or vacation condos of some sort to leave clothing and other necessities so that they don't need to pack it all every time. Of course, if you can't buy clothing off the shelf, you'll probably have a lot less than many people do.
I've had multiple Airbnb hosts have no problem with that. However, you can't really rely on it, and unlike a hotel, figuring out timing logistics for when they will be around to let you drop it off early can be tricky/more trouble than it's worth.
If parked outdoors.

One of the OU pictures in the article shows indoor parking.

I’m the wacko that leaves the windows open a crack if it’s sunny enough and not going to rain.
Not sure why the future should be this way.

The issues mentioned are all bad design decisions. For it to work in the future, they just need to be executed well.
Author. There is a misunderstanding in your argument. Your point is about the dataset being sampled from the true distribution. We are happy with that assumption (it's orthogonal to our point).

The problem we have is that to apply Bayes rule you NEED a prior distribution over the correct functions, applied to the points on the dataset, and to the points outside of the dataset. In other words, one thing is assuming that the dataset is representative of the (unknown) classification task, the other is to assume that you know what the distribution over classification tasks is.
Key word being “outsized.” Prop 13 (among other issues) has turned real estate in LA to sheer insanity relative to the age and quality of the housing stock.
My wife earned negative income for a few years but kept with it. I didn't agree with her decision but supported her in it. She just didn't want to be out of the work force so long that she would have trouble getting back in once the kids were in school.
Another good option for static site development is devd [1] [2] which can automatically open the site in browser with livereload:

devd -ol .

[1]: https://github.com/cortesi/devd

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436111
You can copy the direct download link from Google Drive's download page. For instance:

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1cwRBCm3TbjpYMTVqJBsjfFGtrQ5Z...

I'm sure other providers are similar.
How does this “benefit” other students? They're the ones who are being inconvenienced by scofflaws and if it's like most other places quite likely endangered: the same people who park illegally tend to be cavalier about blocking bike lanes and curb cuts, speeding, rolling through crosswalks, etc.
They move faster at higher levels, and the exact speeds and line clear requirements are arbitrary.
>Why do all theories about aliens start with the implication that they're similar enough that they developed the way we did, they think like we do, have similar senses, brain structure and locomotion

For the same reason the laws of nature are the same around the universe.

Logic is not really that negotiatable, so thinking creatures will end up with the same kind of logic as us, even if they look differently. All forms of life are also not equally good at developing thinking and tools, so that's another pressure to converge to something similar-ish and e.g. not an underwater fish-like creature or some thing without a means to grab stuff and manipulate it (even if it's not opposable thumbs).

>Humans have problems anthropomorphizing animals as it is

I don't think anthropomorphizing is really a problem, or unscientific. In fact "anthropomorphizing" as a bad thing is probably based on religious inspired dichotomy between the man and the animals, where man is basically just another animal for 99% of intents and purposes.

There's a bad form of anthropomorphizing animals (the Disney or pet owners way, which puts into animals exactly the human characteristics they lack more or don't have at all), but that aside, we share all kinds of insticts, physiology, deep brain structures, etc with animals.
I doubt the defroster trick is as much about expanding what little air is left under the suction cup and more about making the rubber plyable enough to lift an edge enough to break the seal. So summer should be quite a bit easier.
I'm not saying that GM wasn't up to some sketchy shit, they almost certainly were. However it's not as if there would be a comprehensive red car system in 2020 if not for GM. The government did more to kill public transportation in the US than GM could have ever dreamed of.
printf(1) is POSIX and is a superset of echo.
If I'm understanding correctly, the sticking point here (and in most of the thread) is people arguing about different things. Some people are saying the discovery of Go is inevitable (certain?), some are saying it's likely (but not inevitable), some are saying it's possible (but not likely).
They were convicted of trying to monopolize the supply of buses to transit agencies, not of trying to take over the streetcars.

While it's true that the main bus transit company in question (NCL) did acquire the LA streetcar systems and replace them with buses, many other cities voluntarily replaced their streetcar systems with buses in roughly the same era.
Things I print: manuscripts to edit (easier to mark up), crosswords to solve, sheets for PnP RPGs, print and play games, patterns for children, etc
We're not celebrating people who park selfishly, we're celebrating people who use a clever hack to defeat a harmful solution to the problem of people parking selfishly.

The point of DeCSS and qrpff, for instance, was not that piracy is a good thing but that DRM is a bad thing.
Sure, but that failure is on the end of the spectrum. For electronics it'd be: Online and working / Offline and core functionality is working / Battery fire
> but it's not particularly snappy

Fast enough for practically all processors made today

> it can't drive LEDs directly

That depends on the design, but CMOS chips generally have much better symmetric output characteristics than TTL ever had. Most MCUs can drive quite some current on the output pins, and 74HC and similar logic families can certainly drive LEDs.
AWS was in the market before we ever got started, so unlike other startups we never had to worry about them entering our market and competing with us because we were actually entering their market.

What made us successful was focusing on a core set of customers, developers like ourselves, and they really appreciated what we built.

The only thing I worry about is ensuring that we continue to do that. The only constant in technology is that it will continue to evolve and change, and you have to make sure that you don't get distracted from your core mission. You certainly have to be aware of the competition and what they are doing, but you also have to figure out your path and who you are the "best" solution for, and continue to evolve that overtime.
Why should the campus subsidize the car-owning students? If those students want exclusive use of a public space why not let them pay market rates for it?
> You could probably also set up a system to text people who have been there more than X hours that they will start to be charged due to high capacity.

Your plan is to have pricing that is not knowable in advance, and assess it against the students retroactively?

I'm not sure it's possible to come up with a worse plan.
You're assuming a lot about what it means to be an intelligence. It's not the concept of a square that will potentially be missing from an alien lifeform. It's the complex circuitry involved in enjoying board games in the first place. One can imagine an intelligent lifeform evolving differently than us in such a way where the adaptation that makes games fun wasn't required.
I use a government surplus HP Laserjet 1160. I spotted it on top of a dumpster when I was a poor college kid, took it home, and used it for months before I had to buy toner for it.

Generic toner cartridges are $15, and last months to years for me. The printer still has a “Department of Defense” inventory sticker on it.
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> The government did more to kill public transportation in the US than GM could have ever dreamed of.

And who was lobbying the government for that?
meh - one can argue with the advent of the internet the entire college system is a farce. College at this point is just for building your network and securing that “dream job” because employers like to check off those boxes instead of actually finding qualified applicants.

Although there is one thing that you can’t teach or learn which is having common sense or the ability to apply theories in practice.
> Wouldn't it make sense that the university, that is charging the students all this money, ensure they have enough parking spaces to satisfy likely demand?

Does the school offer paid parking permits?

If so, why should students who don't need a parking spot (for whatever reason) need to subsidize those who do?

The high overall cost of tuition is a separate issue, and not one that can be solved by including even more services in the price.
My community college had more parking spaces than students on campus at any given time. They then did construction, resulting in one of the largest lots and some of the smaller lots being closed. There was still would have been enough parking for everyone, except they then rented out another parking lot to a pair of local companies. So, we ended up paying for parking when no parking was actually available. This was, of course, after raising the parking fees. The schools initial
response to the problem was to get on campus earlier; which is an absolutely absurd statement for a community college since the demographics include a lot of single mothers and otherwise working adults. Not to mention everyone had to travel to campus because there was no housing. (To top it off, the nearby residents petitioned the city to make their streets permit only. I hope they and their visitors get ticketed regularly.)

So the school expected us to pay more than ever for parking because they wanted to monetize their lot and they didn't even price it high enough to make parking possible for those who could afford to pay. They also did and do charge students to park at night, despite the fact that night classes don't come close to filling the lots.

I'm not much of a stick-it-to-the-man type, but you can bet I found all kinds of creative ways to park and get out of tickets.
Yes, it's the aftermath that I would be worried about. That and the well-being of your family. What if the quake happened in the middle of the day when the kids were in different schools, the wife was across the bridge in the city, and I was all the way over in Redmond? The destruction would take down cell service, internet, roads, bridges, water lines, electricity - everything to a screeching stop, potentially for WEEKS. That would be catastrophic.
How is this a harmful solution? Releasing it legally is simple and easy and non destructive
There should also be a room for third party to do a complete replacement of electronics, for a tractor this seems quite viable.
> I used the light rail occasionally (the Expo Line) and I too found it underwhelming. The headways were long, often 15 or 30 minutes. The trains had only 2 cars and were often crowded.

This was the case in the past. Expo line trains are now typically 3 cars, and come every 6-12 minutes.

It can still get crowded during rush hour, but otherwise has plenty of room.
Payment friction.

Anything +/- 0 by a little bit will be zero because there's huge friction costs in transferring money:

+ UI complexity, sign up
+ Transaction costs (VISA, fraud protection)
+ Financial accounting
+ Hosting the relevant financial data
+ Legal issues
Isn't figuring out the slope a red herring? The total run time is:

n * timing_overhead + n(n+1)/2 * runtime

Seems like you'd do better by measuring n^2 runs and dividing by n^2. But that's not very good because it's not taking into account the observed variance. What you really want to know it something like the 95% confidence interval after observing n runs.

My teammate has been working on a library to do just this for JavaScript, with added automation for running a set of benchmarks until some set of thresholds, like A is 95% likely faster than B.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/tachometer
Depends on where you go. My college had a legitimate police department with duly authorized officers that could arrest, carry guns, etc.
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Taken in NYC, iPhone 7, sitting down Pano shot, nothing infront of me... Time to start thinking out of the box, lets play along and pretend simulation, or cloaked tech, nothing is perfect lets find the 0moment exploits. :-D
Quote: "The company’s CEO says improvements have been made to counter these hacks already, but we’re curious to see where this parking arms race heads next."
Me too, lol. Can't wait to see as well, I mean you put your low solution vs students who eat this stuff as hobby and you think you'll best them? good luck there Mr. CEO
Unfortunately, at least for a lot of manufacturers, the decision process is going to go something like, "Should we make sure this can operate even if that domain goes offline?" "Nah, if that happens, the company will be belly-up, so why should we care?"

(And yes, that is assuming that they'll never accidentally—or intentionally—fail to renew their domain name...)
Driving an individual vehicle and parking it at a college is the first-order bad thing here. The parking spaces occupy useful land and the cars pollute the campus air.

Everything else is about people trying to avoid being asked to take responsibility for the impact of doing that.
What the article doesn't state is what advantage the Barnacle offers over a more traditional boot design. OK, there's the online payment thing, but that could be equally implemented with a boot. So why the convoluted design? Is it because you can drive around a bit (dangerously) while the barnacle is on?
>They move faster at higher levels

Which proves it's not gravity -- gravity would move the same speed always (assuming a vacuum game stage), or would move proportionally to air resistance (so based on shape), etc.
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My brother has just finished a masters programme and is starting to apply for jobs, he's coming up against a lot of these.

He's smart, motivated, very hard working, and has the necessary credentials on his CV, but when talking to him he's quite monotone and low energy. Because of this, he's failing these automated video interviews as he looks like he's not a "team player" or "personable".

While interviewing practice is becoming more aware of bias against things like this, the training data for these "AI" systems are going to be based on those interviews conducted in the past, often with questionable outcomes. The software is sold as helping "remove bias", but it instead pulls interview bias forwards in more extreme ways to the CV-review stage, preventing candidates from ever getting in front of a human.

While multiple humans on a hiring team may overcome some of their biases working together, a single piece of software trained to look for stereotypes will exacerbate those biases.
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