skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The upcoming wave of IoT products will all be local-first because too many users (and thus founders) have been burned by the old cloud-addicted products that literally die when their supply is cut off.

In the meantime, just say no to cloud-only products!
Yersina pestis is endemic in rodent populations in the American Rocky Mountains. There are a few human cases every year, which are treatable with antibiotics if caught early enough.
good content, but here is all of the content in one tweet

https://twitter.com/saallyjohnsonn/status/121719070339206758...
All streaming integrations in Sonos (like Spotify) communicate with the Sonos backend rather than the device directly. So that would fall apart too.
A little mu-metal might be a skeleton key.
Bose were almost always panned after the 301 by audio people. While they have good design, their performance always seemed secondary. They were more of an 'I can afford it' thing. While I dislike their products, their branding is stellar.
> All they have to do is buy a Ring device

That's expensive. Much more expensive than basic firmware updates and a couple servers from a system that by design is going to put a priority on keeping the cost of firmware updates low.
Ownership & reward work 10x better than responsibility & punishment if you manage to make people truly internalize them.
I just don't get why this is such a throwaway line in the piece... I want to read a full interview with this person.
I bought privacymesh.com a while back for this purpose!
This is just a bunch of unverified reddit/Twitter reposts.

I’m sure the defrost trick works in winter, but it won’t work as well in summer.
> Is the issue that we're conflating the two tasks into one? If so, is a product that would solve your problem one that cleanly delineates between software engineering tasks and logic tasks?

Oh yes!

> Or is it one that gets rid of software engineering all together, if that were possible?

I have no problem with doing software engineering when I don't have the feeling that the problem has been solved dozens of times before.

Let me try to give an example: you run a colocation business. So you have to manage data centers, cages, racks, and the hardware that's in the racks.

I want a solution where the boring CRUD is mostly taken care of, so you get a list view of the hardware, you can filter it, modify and so on. You can also define some constraints (like, a hardware inherits the location from its rack) that are automatically enforced. And of course permissions are enforced, a customer can only see their own hardware, and can only access racks that contain only his hardware etc.

But I also want the flexibility that adds a rack view, where I can show a 2d graphics of the rack and where each piece of hardware is, which port is connected by cables to which other port etc. This is something that nearly no other business needs, so I'm totally fine writing my own thing for this view.

Software like ServiceNow allows the first part pretty easily, but it's expensive, cloud only (unless you pay several millions a month, I've heard) and doesn't have the kind of flexibility to allow me to implement the rack view, for example.
The SIM card thing might be a felony.
the article states that

> After “receiving feedback from the community” – that is, having its new parking enforcement method thwarted – OU has decided to pause the trial use of the five devices it’d borrowed from the Barnacle’s manufacturer.

so I would guess it has to do more with aggressive sales tactics
Learning to solve IRL problems - that absolutely need solving - is why we send them to college.

I couldn't be more proud.
Why are people so quick to assume that every single other alien species would be completely unfathomable to us? We all share the same physics, chemistry, and mathematics of our common universe. For example, there's only three dimensions, and there's only three regular polygons that can tessellate a grid. Unless you're going to posit that there's no alien species whatsoever that will even come up with the concept of a game (which I find highly doubtful), they're going to be using the same abstract mathematical concepts as we are in building said games, because only so many abstract mathematical concepts even exist.

Our simplest board games aren't that far removed from the realm of the purely mathematical. And yet aliens won't all have their own completely different mathematical systems; such a thing isn't possible.
Related:

https://elaineou.com/2017/03/10/technical-interviews-from-th...

> 2. A bill for 5 typewriter ribbons and 24 pencils totalled $9.85. If a typewriter ribbon costs $1.25, what is the price of a dozen pencils?

> The IBM Programmer Aptitude Test is from 1960 (? I think. It’s tough to read the date on the mimeograph). Is it just me or have technical interviews gotten much harder?

> I interviewed for a programmer job at Facebook several years ago, and one of the questions I got was, “Given a set of obstacle coordinates, write a function that finds the shortest path between two cells for a knight on a 3-D chessboard while avoiding the obstacles.”

> I remember this question because it was one of the few that I managed to solve. Probably a half-dozen others ended in fumbles. Not surprisingly, Facebook didn’t give me an offer.

https://elaineou.com/2017/08/26/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing...

> Some time ago, we compared technical interviews from the 1960s to those of today: They’ve gotten much, much harder. I suggested that the last few decades of lax immigration have invited overseas talent to raise the bar – it was unfounded speculation at the time, but some number crunching shows it might be true.

> According to this Joint Venture Silicon Valley report, 74% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born immigrants. A decade ago, 36% of Silicon Valley tech workers were born abroad. In 2000, only 29% were.

> Tech industry employment has increased from about 300,000 jobs in 2007 to 400,000 in 2016, so even though we created 100,000 engineering positions in the last decade, we’ve also displaced 88,000 domestic engineers.

I'm suddenly curious what other fields are staffed by 74% foreign-born immigrants.
How to sell online (pg, 2005)
Reset your sonos, then get it to just play music without setting up a sonos account.
I designed a minimalist interaction for ECommerce Websites
It isn’t actually law enforcement, though. It’s some division of the university which is enforcing parking rules.
I think no-poach applied the same weather you applied or they reached out to you, so it’s not that.
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The article says that this was used on cars that already had three unpaid parking fines on record.
I know - I meant why do they also have an open mailbox for millions of people not remotely qualified (I presume) to spam into, creating this problem for themselves.

If you’re at the level of working for Google you’re presumably already at the absolute top of your field internationally and will know people at Google you can reach out to personally.
I don't believe campus police actually has any legal power. It also isn't the police department's SIM card, Barnacle owns it - of course it's still considered theft.
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That map comparison is kind of deceptive, as it excludes the current commuter rail system.

("But Metrolink runs really infrequently!" So did the Red Cars on the inter urban routes.)
I'm not sure where you gathered that I am against Freedom of the Press and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? I am a staunch supporter of them.

What I oppose is encryption that renders potentially criminal communication inaccessible to law enforcement. Law enforcement should have the means and the perogative to gain access to these communications.
Proven methods to share expertise and get paid up to $1000 per hour
Sonos? Their equipment age like milk and have even worse sound than Bose.

I'd recommend Marshall, nice base and excellent value.

If noise canceling is what you're after then the Apple and Samsungs seems to have eaten the cake.
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People
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Now i wonder will God know everything that universe has to offer.

For example i wrote a 3 page article. Even would be surprised be surprised if a person came and tell me if we took all the characters at prime number it would be a valid sentence about an event going to happen in future.
Well...I think that take is a little overly cynical, and I disagree particularly with this:

>the mapping from inputs to outputs performed by deep nets quickly stops making sense if new inputs differ even slightly from what they saw at training time

In my experience that isn't really true, if you have an appropriately designed net, training data which appropriately samples the problem space, and the net is not overtrained (overfit).

You can think of training data as representing points in high dimensional space. Like any interpolation problem, if you sample the space with the right density, you can get accurate interpolation results - and neural nets have another huge advantage, in that they learn highly nonlinear interpolation in these high d spaces. So the net may be unlikely to generalize to points outside of the sampled space - although now that I think of it I'm not sure of how nets handle extrapolation - but when you're dealing with space with thousands of dimensions (like each pixel in an image) you can still derive a ton of utility from the interpolation which effectively replaces hardcoded rules about the problem you're solving.
That's a rough thought. Imagine if Go were roughly as popular as, say, Tri-Ominoes, and wasn't taken seriously enough to develop the truly competitive tournament scene it has today.

I want to say that board game players are pretty good at recognizing strategic depth, and that good games naturally rise to the top and become widespread, and their mechanics are reused and evolved in further board games. You certainly see this with Euro-style board games at least.
I somewhat think the opposite though. When you're given ten ways to do it, then it's information overload and you end up just memorizing those ten ways. When you're given one way to do it then not only do you have a way to do it that will always work, but also it leaves your brain ready to find further ways to do it on its own. And that's how thing start to make sense and stick.

Basically, I think for good students, CC just makes them memorize stuff they'd come up with on their own, and for poor students it creates too much confusion such that memorization isn't even effective anymore.
How do you determine if someone is good at something you are weak at yourself?

There is often this tip of "founders have to be the first salesmen of the company". As a technical person myself, I find it much more logical to determine if someone is good (or at least acceptable) at something I am myself good at, hire him and learn the missing thing myself, which would make me qualified to hire for that position, too.

I also don't think that people have to be "on the spectrum" or socially incompetent to have technical skills. I don't like it, when soft skills are treated as hard skills. I think if your soft skills are lacking, most people should improve on them instead of hiding behind their weird scientist/computer nerd persona. On the other hand I also think, if you only have soft skills and e.g. your network is not literally worth millions so your soft skills essential turn hard skills, you don't have any skills at all and you should learn something.
There's a kinder way to share this. Ben's teaching a number of things here (basic electronics, computer architecture, assembly..) in an incredibly inviting and rewarding way. I'm confident he's reaching people at varying skill levels. Let's keep that energy going.
Right, but student codes of conduct may have a word about that.

My guess was that the university couldn’t really enforce its paper tickets because they weren’t real police, so they resorted to boots and barnacles.
Holy shit, this quote is crazy:

> While the company was dodging me, it was also monitoring me. At my request, a number of police officers had run my photo through the Clearview app. They soon received phone calls from company representatives asking if they were talking to the media — a sign that Clearview has the ability and, in this case, the appetite to monitor whom law enforcement is searching for.
Oh, interesting. That explains why you want to retain the history, so you can easily merge and stuff too.
I think your general argument, that taxes don't change behavior, is too vague to be so broadly accurate.

There are studies that show that cigarette taxes reduce teen smoking rates, for example. A better example are all the corporate taxes that very clearly alter where corporations choose to operate.

Our company, for example, has specifically avoided opening up an office in California and New York City exactly because there are a number of regulations and that just make operating elsewhere more attractive.
Maybe this one does.
To give some context, for this demo we crawled the entirety of public GitHub to show off our idea of what we mean by novel. We chose GitHub because we figured HN might like to see some cooler repos for things they are interested in.

We have the capability to crawl about a hundred million sites a day and are figuring out where to go from here.

If you want to learn more about what we're doing.
https://medium.com/@iantbutler01/existing-search-engines-fai...
EDIT: I misread the quote below- it applies to a distribution over functions, not examples. My bad and thanks to one of the authors of the post for politely correcting me in the replying comment.

>> But there is one core problem with the Bayesian framework. In practice, we
never have access to the prior distribution Pr(f)! Who could ever claim to
know the real-world distribution of functions that solve classification tasks?
Not us, and certainly not Bayesians. Instead, BNNs simply choose an arbitrary
prior distribution q(f) over functions, and Bayesian inference is performed to
compute q(f∣D). The question of whether q(f) is close to the true distribution
Pr(f) is swept under the rug.

This is true but it's also nothing new: it's the standard PAC-Learning
assumption that the examples (the dataset) are drawn from the same
distribution as the target theory (the real-world distribution).

This assumption and the complete impossibility to verify it in practice is not
unique to Bayesian Neural Nets. It is true for _every_ machine learning
algorithm.

And this is certainly no surprise for machine learning researchers (or, if it
is, it is really concerning that it is). So the done thing in machine learning
research is to demonstrate that, under PAC-Learning assumptions, a certain
technique or algorithm _can_ correctly identify a hypothesis that approximates
a "true" function to within some amount of error.

I mean to say, when people publish papers reporting a new SOTA on
such-and-such dataset, they are not really claiming that their technique
somehow finds the "true" distribution of the real-world process that generated
the data in their dataset. They're claiming "we can correctly classify
instances in this dataset and if PAC-Learning assumptions hold, this technique
should also work in real-world data from the same domain".

Of course this is often left implicit- and the article makes me wonder to
what extent this is because researches tend to forget or even :gasp: ignore it
completely. A disturbing thought.
That doesn't seem like they used an electromagnet that was strong enough (an implementation problem rather than a problem with the design). Well-provisioned magnetic door locks should be stronger than the door or a comparable physical lock.
I'm sorry the Cobra effect is literally the exact opposite of s punative tax. In that case the British spent money, here the government raises money.

This whole "giving legitimacy" argument is why we have a war and drugs without needle exchanges. It's terrible counterproductive puritsanism that's been debunked countless times and cost thousands of lives.

Now, it is possible for governments to rely on punitive taxes in twisted ways, but this tends to be on the local level, small towns with harassing police forces. I would worry less in a huge rich state with many revenue streams.
Yep, forcing MR's to be rebased to the last master/develop commit helps a lot here. IIRC this is a feature you can enable in Gitlab. Much less chance your MR will break master/develop if your work is rebased on the latest commit.
It registers, functions and can be managed as a LoadBalancer by kubectl etc?
> Obviously, some students thought that fee was ridiculous – just like paying for parking at a university where you’re already paying a hefty tuition fee

I hate parking fees as much as the next person, and totally appreciate the creativity of the people who defeated this device.

However, how should we handle distributing a limited number of parking spaces when there are more people who want to park than available spaces?

If we just say "free to park anywhere!", then there is a good chance you come to school and can't park anywhere (especially if you are not there super early)

You could do a lottery, I guess, but then people who don't need parking might enter the lottery and then sell their spot... making parking even more expensive.

Parking fees seem like a fair way to distribute the limited resource.
We certainly are! We're rapidly expanding this year and Europe is definitely one of our most requested markets
What's with all the hype? This has been done over 10 years ago: http://ingvar.blog.redpill-linpro.com/2009/11/17/running-nat...
Reports both geometric and barometric/pressure altitudes. You can work back to AGL from geometric and GPS coordinates.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/#g7
> if I could only track the aggregated count of locations that had been visited over the course of a time period?

Buy you can't. Metadata.

And then they is the Google problem. If other are collecting everything they may have a competitive advantage in the future. To the poit your business will most certainly die.
It's technically true that the lowest value will approach the lower bound of how fast your machine can run the code, but there's no guarantee that number is valuable. If there is any significant non-determinism in the execution, the minimum time will be a value that you'll only expect to reach in a fraction of executions, even if there are no other processes contending for resources.

The only real solution for avoiding noise is to control its sources.

Reference here: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/minimum_times_tend_to_....
The misfortune might be at seeing it in 3D.
I assume it was a comment on the reddit thread about the barnacle.
“ One helped design a program that can automatically collect images of people’s faces from across the internet, such as employment sites, news sites, educational sites, and social networks including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and even Venmo. Representatives of those companies said their policies prohibit such scraping, and Twitter said it explicitly banned use of its data for facial recognition.”

I am not a lawyer. Is it possible to file a (class action?) lawsuit against Clearview AI and its clients (police agencies, etc.) in light of this breach of TOS? At the least, this should suffice in procuring a subpoena to obtain more information on the exact extent of misappropriation of public data at play here.
I'm surprised there's no one-liner for Node without dependency since it has a server by default.

Edit: Didn't know there was an `eval` flag for Node, so that will do the job:

node --eval "var fs = require('fs'), http = require('http'); http.createServer(function (req, res) { fs.readFile(__dirname + req.url, function (err,data) { if (err) { res.writeHead(404); res.end(JSON.stringify(err)); return;}res.writeHead(200);res.end(data); });}).listen(8080);"
They were convicted of collusion and fined?

Some research shows they (GM etc) were convicted of conspiracy to fix prices in the bus-transit industry. The streetcar conspiracy was tried and dismissed(?)

So, no smoking gun I guess.
I think job applicants should have to compete with eachother in a craps tournament. Losers are knocked out of the pool until the number of applicants matches the number of open positions. I also think this is how we should choose the president.
Why is everyone in this thread celebrating people who park selfishly?!

Taking up spaces with abandoned cars is a particularly miserable thing to do that makes the original underlying problem worse!
Better yet, just automate their jobs away.

Our company specializes in automating low wage clerical work.

I think we put over a thousand people out of work this year through our various engagements.
I acknowledge that this is a huge problem, but I can't help but feel like this is a massive opportunity for a competitor to charge a premium for a saner, more consumer friendly business model. So it might take a couple years but I'm not convinced yet that regulation is necessary - especially considering said regulation in the long run can have unintended side effects and chances are because of lobbying and regulatory capture it won't actually benefit the consumer much, if at all. Legislation is much more difficult to overturn than shitty market forces if consumers are savy and willing to vote with their wallets.
Whenever I see AI used for something like this, right after thinking "our dystopia is here," I wonder how it could be gamed. An experienced interviewer can tell when they're being told what they want to hear; I suspect an AI could not. The AI ends up rewarding preparation and acting skills. And when you make too many hoops for people to jump through, eventually you find you're just selecting for those who are good at hoop-jumping.
They even ticket employee's cars that are breaking the parking rules on campus.
I was extremely skeptical of this, so I googled it. Seems like Tesla owners have had no problem starting their cars without an internet connection, though obviously the internet dependant features don't work.[0] This doesn't seem comparable to a CD player that won't play CDs without an internet connection, it's more like a CD player that gracefully degrades to not showing the extra info it would get from the internet while still playing the local media.

[0]: https://forums.tesla.com/en_AU/forum/forums/can-you-disconne...