skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say, I hope these people go bankrupt.

At first, it was just some guy renting out his spare bedroom, or attached unit. Nobody cared about that, and we supported them in their attempt to make an extra buck to pay for their mortgage.

But then, it became people who took out 5 to 10 mortgages, on separate properties, and turned these homes into a little hoteling empire. This reduced available properties, thus increasing housing costs for everyone, including buyers and renters.

And when you multiply this by thousands of people doing the same thing, then we all now have a very serious housing problem.

It’s a travesty, that the mortgage lenders allowed this to happen. This is also a result of a lack of regulation and oversight. Society must rectify this.
I was the main data science engineer at one of my previous companies. We used tools like airflow for running python scripts to import data, clean/transform it, train models, and even test various models against datasets. We also used Azure for similar things.

It's easy to do "dev ops" for machine learning. Basically, just automate everything and implement gatekeeping mechanisms along with active monitoring.

It's true, though. I had to cobble together a lot of custom things at the time, but it wasn't that hard to do.
In theory, if you had the money and incentive, you should be able to develop films that are much higher resolution than current digital hardware? Like the large format films you refer to.
Tripadvisor plans to layoff more than 900 employees, close its Boston office
Pachyderm is probably one of the companies you've seen in this space. Full disclosure: I'm the founder, but I feel that we've stayed pretty true to the idea of being a modular open-source tool. We have customers who just use our filesystem, and customers who just use our pipeline system, and of course many more who use both. We've also integrated best in class open-source projects, for example Kubeflow's TFJob is now the standard way of doing Tensorflow training on Pachyderm, and we're working on integrating Seldon as the serving component. We find this architecture a lot more appealing than an all-in-one web interface that you load your data into.
Because the notion of government ownership of the means of production is, if not the very definition of leftism, at least a key ingredient.

Of course it's not that simple, but it sounds that simple, and these days that's all that matters. People hear "government stake" and they reflexively think Cuba or Venezuela or China, not Germany.
> I'm almost 40, have a Master's degree and have self-studied my whole life but I often have trouble being efficient when I'm home. So no way children seven to fifteen years old can do it.

I do have problems now that I'm older (than you even). Things were very different when I was K-12 age. We sure weren't rich, but I was naturally curious and had reasonable access to books. All I really needed from the school system was for them to stay out of the way.

That said, I was baked in my parents' near-reverence for education. There are a lot of parents who probably regard academics the way my parents regarded sports (i.e., as useless), and those kids largely aren't going to do well.
You're right, in that the revenue of an incremental customer is negligible to them.

However, as a customer dependent on that particular vendor, one wants to make sure that their cloud provider has no perverse incentive to deprioritize issues one encounters.
Younger students (K-12) need interaction with other students and their teachers, not lectures. I teach some of the most motivated and diligent students you could ask for, but after 3 weeks of online learning they were burnt out.

To further compound the issue, in many places students don't have reliable internet access or a decent computer.
Nah, chat and VC: https://aws.amazon.com/chime/
Production machine learning isn't hard anymore
But they are not the carriers spreading it - it's the asymptomatic people - and once they have it it's probably too late.
This is very much consistent with my experience when tutoring my kids as well as that of friends who home-schooled their children. One hour of one-on-one tutoring is easily worth 3 or 4 hours of regular school time.
This is great to hear, thanks for providing ground truth.
Parent better.

(Personally I doubt if many other two word directives are as resoundingly difficult. Maybe "Shave a yak." or "Solve P vs NP".)
Most of Weird Al's songs aren't parodies in the legal sense.

"Party in the CIA" is just "Party in the USA" with different Lyrics, it's not protected, just like most covers aren't. "Smells like Nirvana" is, because it directly references and parodies how the singer in the song is barely understandable.
Cover Bands do pay a royalty. It not much if I recall (Last century a housemate was a former Rush Cover band member...)

But I'm wondering who Dread Zeppelin pays.... (a mash up of Elvis and Led Zeppelin with a reggae beat, which oddly works better than you would expect.. for a little while)
I think that's a fair argument to make for GPL when you're talking about software, e.g. GIMP, which you could use to produce commercial art assets that you then sell. But for data, whether these images or audio clips or weather measurements or whatever, the requirement that derivative products also be licensed under GPL makes their use effectively non-commercial.
In this situation we are forced to use distance learning, I’m not saying these ideas should carry over to “normal” times, only that the situation presents an incredible opportunity for testing other methods.
I might have translated that survey result more into something like “No major brand deemed trustworthy by majority of consumers. Amazon a little less distrusted than most other major brands”.
The ping from Earth to Mars varies between 360 and 2600 seconds, so 30 might still be fast enough for an "interplanetary" thing.
I believe cover bands can actually be in violation of copyright.

It depends upon how you do it.

If you cover the song, then that's one copyright.

However, if you hire a bunch of people because they actually look and sound like the original band, that's a completely different copyright.
Public school is not optimized for learning, it's optimized for filling time with nonsense.

If you care about your child's success, teach them how to do math. If they don't know how to read, teach them how to read as well. Probably 2-4 hours of instruction per day, at the absolute max end of the spectrum. Kids from the age of 8+ should be able to accomplish tasks with much less instruction time, and the bulk of the time will be individual effort. Of course, it's mundane and isolating, so don't expect them to sit for hours on end doing school work either.
RAL is often use for paint. E.g. if you want to paint your building in Pantone you normally get it converted.
> Only

Regardless, that's the situation -- so can't be ignored.
Thank you, so much, for this. Flawed-ISO-keybros!

Different kinds of layouts for spanish language is asinine. But hey, this reminds me, Quebec and France also have different layouts. Why keep it simple, when you can complicate everyone's life?

A toast to ANSI and your smart employer!
> Is it still capitalism with strong antitrust?

IMO, this is like asking "is it still a democracy if the people don't decide on every bill directly?" In a sense, the answer is no–but I still feel comfortable using the word democracy.

I'm going to keep going with this analogy—IMO, idolizing the idea of a completely unregulated market is akin to idolizing the governing structure of ancient Athens. Yes, the rules we've added over the past millennia make us less free in a way—but they also make for a more sustainable system. These refinements are a sign of maturity.
Your math is a bit off. $15/hour fulltime is $7650 gross per quarter. According to the EDD PDF you linked, that would qualify for $295/week in unemployment plus $600 from the Feds for a total of $895. No one is going to get more than $1050 combined in California.
Shopify launches Shop, a new mobile app
It doesn't matter for me. In class I'm engaged with my professors. Over zoom I can't seem to get the words to stick in my brain. I have no idea why. I really try to stay engaged in zoom but somehow I can't.

It's not just class too. I forget what I talked about in meetings with colleagues. I talked to people from class and my coworkers about this, and I'm far from alone with these feelings and a lack of focus on zoom. Something to do with the cadence of speech, lack of body language maybe, maybe something deeper and more primal. I thought I would love working from home, now I'm itching to get back just so I can function again.
TLDR: “we cannot rule out the possibility of sophisticated large-scale eavesdropping attacks being successful and remaining undetected”
Possibly? My grades slipped in university once I realized that no one knew my name and no one much cared. Really it's about the interaction with my teacher and the desire to keep from disappointing.
On the flip side I saw a short interview with a UCSF doctor that went to help out in New York where mentioned the hospital converted their cafeteria into a COVID19 ward. Not just in case but because it was full of patients on vents.

No amount of Hacker News Mental Gymnastics(tm) is going to explain that away.
I wouldn't call it Ponzi scheme. But I totally agree that it is an algorithm built to mimic scarcity and deflation.
> Profits to miners decrease 50% if price stays the same.

Nit: Revenue to miners decreases 50% if price stays the same.
You may be an exception that tests the rule. I do not have children, but I simply cannot imagine having to go through this stuff right now ( especially seeing what my co-workers are going through ). I do not have the patience to explain things that seem obvious to me. In short, I would not make a good teacher. There is a reason as a society we came up with school as a means to optimize the process somewhat.

I feel you may be a little too harsh though. You may say it is culture, but I would say it is the current situation people find themselves in. Not everyone has the knowledge, skills, time, opportunity and willpower to do what you do.
If this is anything like Quality Assurance at manufacturing companies than this COE will be pure performance designed to look like action without anyone having to do more than the bare minimum to look like the problem is resolved.
I'm not sure what you mean by "excited". No one seems to be excited by the current situation. Parents in high-income districts aren't excited at either losing their jobs, or having to work from home, and still doing home-school on top of all of that.

I see the point you're trying to make about rural areas having it even worse, but it's inflammatory to paint the picture in the stark contrast you portrayed.
Yes, but how do you work with the data once you get it back? I typically decode it into go structs.

What happens when the data model changes? How does type checking and validation happen?

You example looks cut off on the right, certain lines seem truncated.
There is an easy way to prove two numbers are equal. Typically in the reals there are three possibilities: a > b, a < b, a = b. If you eliminate a > b and a < b then you are left to conclude a = b. And this is exactly what is done in Apostol's Calculus Vol 1 (IMHO the greatest calc book ever written) chapter 1 when he proves that the area under n^2 is EXACTLY (n^3)/3, with no "calculus". You would be shocked how far into calculus the author gets with just that theorem. Can't recommend that book enough.
My wife grew up in the French school system and is a mostly full time mommy, and she has been very active with both our boys (6 and 12) well before the lockdown. When the lockdown started, she immediately put a schedule together for them, while I went to the library and checked out a ton of books. When the online learning started, she has been combing over everything the school has sent out, spending most of her day on schoolwork and at night is busy keeping ahead of their schedule.

Bottom line, it is just barely manageable, with the considerable amount of time she puts in, and we both wonder how others that can't (or won't) do so will be able to keep up. I don't think it's an improvement, but at least I hope this sets a foundation for doing it better in the future, as I foresee this being a long-term trend.
So often conspiracy theories are incorrect not because nobody conspired but because they tried and failed. Nudging complex systems in the preferred direction is hard.
We don’t necessarily need to rip up the existing roads. We could just put some radio based markers on the road. Then when they do construction, they could be easily moved, too.
You can still sell them. I don't get how it makes them 'non-commercial'?
Netflix always felt an outlier in the FAANG acronym, as rest of the group consists of $1tn companies
I had that happen today.
Those physical limits are surely though at a much finer resolution that common high end digital cameras?

I understand that you are saying that you see the effects even if you are not a the "molecule" level as you say, but I would think that the hard theoretic limit of photons should be at a finer granularity than high end digital cameras.
> There's not much they can do about having all their development in China, but at least their focus on security otherwise seems to be paying off.

They could start moving their development to the US. There are plenty of successful software companies in the US. There's a good ecosystem, a huge amount of talent, and tons of enthusiasm about their problem space.

What they can't do anything about is the trust they lost by misleading their customers about their security model.
This assumes I meant the lecture should be prerecorded, I actually thought more of it being live. It presents other issues as other posters have mentioned, such as catching back up after sidebars, but provides the live feedback that increases engagement,
Keep in mind that the poor hold fewer units; this is almost, only subtly different from, the definition of poor. In fact, the poor often hold negative units, in the form of debt.
Literacy & numeracy rates prior to widespread public schooling would disagree with you on this.
Apple Retail has/had an internal communications iPad app called RetailMe that overlayed their employee number in a massive watermark on the screen to capture people to leak screenshots. It was slightly visible under normal use, but load it into photoshop and play with the curves and becomes super visible.

One day there was an Ars Technica article leaking some news, included a screenshot of RetailMe. I put the screenshot into Photoshop and low and behold there was the employee's ID.
The US Dollar can be adjusted as needed, according to the needs of society (such as population growth and economic expansion). It's backed by the force of an entire military, and is also backed by an interconnected mesh of dependencies across an entire global economy.

If the US government fails so spectacularly that the US Dollar loses value, do you honestly think that the internet will even be working at that point? And without functioning internet, there won't be anyone mining bitcoin, which means that control of the blockchain will be easily seized by whoever has control of the largest mining pool. This would very quickly result in complete devaluation of Bitcoin (but not before whoever took control would be able to cash in a LOT of money).

If we had truly decentralized peer-to-peer internet (think ham radio over mesh with millions of portable devices or something) with truly peer-to-peer DNS and full encryption, and no centralized control, then MAYBE bitcoin might have a chance if the government collapsed. But we don't. So (at least for now), the idea that Bitcoin would function as a viable currency in that scenario is a giant joke.

It's true that the US Dollar is inflationary (while Bitcoin is "deflationary"), but that is by design to drive economic growth. Simulations (and history) have shown that with a slightly inflationary economy, people are more likely to spend their money instead of holding onto it. This causes a constant cycle of spending and earning, driving more goods to be created, and causing more people to do more work.

Deflationary economies, on the other hand, often result with the economy stagnating (because people are more inclined to just hold onto their money instead of spending it). You could argue that this is better (because people like the idea of their money gaining in value over time), but to make that argument, you would have to prove that economic growth is a bad thing.
I do wonder about that sometimes. It doesn't seem to be discussed much.

On the one hand inflation-adjusted GDP is 5x higher than the 60's (https://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-inflation-adjusted) so even if the workforce doubled the pie got much larger.

On the other hand markets like real estate have somewhat inelastic supply and higher household incomes as a result of dual earners might just bid up prices.
This (plus at least one other here, so it's not really "just you") makes me wonder if you/some people who find this problematic have an issue like central auditory processing disorder.

People with CAPD are often dependent to a high degree on lip reading and video feed may disrupt the connection between words and mouth movements just enough to inject too much noise into the signal. If you don't realize this is what you are doing, you can't readily compensate when it gets disrupted.
My conspiracy theory hat comes out every time a large US company seems to stand up against the government for the privacy of their users and wins. I always assume the company secretly gave the government what they asked for, and the government agreed to play along for marketing purposes.

I suppose that the boring truth is that Facebook just used it's vast financial resources to protect itself in a way that lavabit never could
Worth noting (from the article):

> Zoom already uses Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services, but went with Oracle for its latest expansion.

Remember that Oracle’s Capex spending on cloud is very small compared to AWS, Azure and GCP. Given Zoom’s growth it’s not likely they’ll choose an also-ran in the public cloud market as their sole supplier.

Increasing optionality and maybe some access to Oracle marketing is likely a bigger reason.
I met the guy probably in 2010-2012 at some social event where he was trying to recruit people. What I remember of him is that he said: "I used to do car racing. I run our company as a race team." Whatever it means...

At that time Banjo was a social network that let you see where other people were. It was the time when privacy was dead.

I think they may have pivot into news and then I lost track... Until today.

When you raise so much money there is a lot of pressure to return it with the interests. I do not know enough about what the company does now but it seems there may be something off.

But this is not about the company.

This is a vile attack to a
person that seems to have reach some kind of success.

Some of us can see his past just as a data point but it is obviously different for the general public.

I heard somebody says that in these days the standards are too high. Somebody should have never made a mistake and if he did, he has that mistake on his head for the rest of their days. The Internet does not forget anything.

There is a lot of polarization and hunt for something or somebody to blame and complains about. The press and social medias play an important part in this positive feedback loop of negative comments.
But this is not new. Witch hunting has existed for a long time.

The world does not need more of that. It needs more compassion.

I believe people can change and I believe in forgiving those that try their best to become better human beings.
Taxation itself is a form of theft. We never had an income tax in the United States before WW2. It was called the “victory tax” and became the abomination it is today.
Never bought an RV, but $250K is not uncommon. You can also get tractors, combines, etc that cost multiples of that.
I have an arcade machine for practice. but before coronavirus, serious players preferred public arcades (namely Round1 and Dave & Buster's) because those locations have the only official networked machines capable of participating in worldwide leaderboards.

if you want to start playing at home, the cheap-but-decent option is StepMania ( https://stepmania.com ) and the L-tek "Polish" pad (looks scammy but it's real): https://maty-taneczne.pl/

the serious option is the StepManiaX stage (confusingly distinct from the above project): https://stepmaniax.com/ or finding a used arcade machine on Craigslist or eBay
Generally, text based programming without type checking is dangerous and error prone
> What's the test for when two numbers are equal?

I put this in another comment but: For the reals: eliminate a < b and a > b then conclude a = b.
> Wow, cute.

Don’t be a jerk. I answered your questions honestly.

> Why do you think you can trust what you think should happen?

Are you asking why I want to involve myself in philosophical debate? I’ll refer you to the existing wealth of information on the nature of philosophical debate. You’re certainly free to avoid making any presumptions about how the world should work, but judging by your comments about markets you haven’t done that either.

I want to say, explicit financial markets have their place. But we don’t use them for everything. You don’t charge your neighbor for each hello. Grandma doesn’t charge her children for Christmas dinner. Your friends don’t charge you for relationship advice even though paid equivalents do exist.

So the question is, could we ever possibly arrange the world such that we don’t always need to charge for material goods? The raw stuff of human survival? I think it’s possible if we’re willing to make some changes to society. None of what I advocate for is government based. We can do this with free markets. Markets are shaped by the conditions of our world. Can we create the conditions possible for free food to be as easy to give away as free Wifi?

As a robotics engineer I think we can. But the changes to our society would need to be pronounced. Is it worth it? Well some people might think so, and I want to explore this concept with those people.

In the Kashmir region of India there is a place called the Golden Temple. They serve 50,000 free meals a day using all volunteer labor, firewood, and huge iron pots. So I say “hey we could do this in Oakland with robots, and make the designs open source to share the engineering burden and help other cities do the same.”

So right now I’m employed designing a farming robot I hope will be open source some day.

When I meet people like you on the internet it’s all the same. I say people should have better living conditions and you folks immediately jump on me and say “how could you know that for sure” and “you don’t know what’s good for me”. Well fine. But I’m not asking anything from you. I don’t need anything from you. And I’m not going to make the government take anything from you. So chill out. There’s people in this world that just wanna help each other.
Between homework, sports, and working nights, high school me would be hard pressed to find the time to be a chegg tutor for the school district.
This video made it to the front page of Reddit yesterday.
Sure it is. Volvo developed a system where magnetized nails are driven into the pavement to mark the center of lanes. It's an additional hint, for when the visual, LIDAR, and GPS systems could use a little help. As in heavy snow. Volvo also points out that it's useful for snowplow guidance.

AGVs have been using wire guidance for years. You cut a notch in the floor, put in a wire, and fill in the notch. That's the technology GM used for the Firebird demo cars in the 1960s.