skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the best business plan with the most competent people behind it is a wild gamble filled with idiosyncratic risk and its success or failure will hinge on a substantial amount of luck. If professional hedge funds can't consistently beat a passive index fund, what makes VCs and bankers special?

Steps to being a VC:

1. Have lots of money

2. Establish procedures that filter out the obvious losers, increasing odds of success from 1 in a million to maybe 1 in a thousand.

3. Leverage said money and procedures such that you statistically make money on that 1 in a thousand.

It's the same way someone with infinite money can keep going back to the Casino until they hit the jackpot (assuming no house limits, this is why house limits exist actually), or buy up all the lottery tickets until they find the winning ticket.

So anyone who privately funds businesses out of their own pocket is gambling, but they can't be removed because where else is the funding going to come from? Maybe you can crowd source if you have really good marketing and a popular idea. Beyond that nothing really exists on the scale of what VCs offer. If you hypothetically created a government office with a large enough budget to replicate the various VCs, perhaps it would be slightly more fair in terms of who gets access, but it would just be bureaucrats doing the gambling with taxpayer dollars instead of private entities out of their own budget, which wouldn't necessarily be any better if you look at the current state of government contracting/grants.

So sadly, their money and willingness to gamble is largely their use and why they're entitled to profits. The system isn't fair and it rewards the lucky more than the deserving, but without said system a lot of cool, revolutionary stuff would never have happened.

Even SpaceX and Tesla are indirect effects of the success of Paypal, which was initially funded by Peter Thiel.
Elon Musk pledges $100M for new X Prize carbon removal competition
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) works like original Bitcoin. It has no artificial blocksize limit, and has less than $0.01 transaction fees (1 sat/byte).

She could use BCH. Just open Bitcoin.com app on phone, tap "SEND", "Scan a QR code" (or enter email, or phone number, or BCH address), and slide. Video: https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/1179037602499837954
Sorry, I meant 1988. My bad. Wikipedia has old info about versions and end of life.
Localbitcoins is one option. Lots of others.
How powerful!

Not having intermediate pose estimation is interesting to me. It just seems like it would need something similar to that to at least be automatically learned. Maybe it effectively recognizes different image patches and their relevant movements? And so the full pose is just extra information that makes things less efficient?

The third dimension of the CNN is for time?

I wonder if it could be useful to have a pose estimation that would compliment the pixels. So not throwing out the pixels after the pose estimation. That way if the pose wasn't perfectly detected or there was other relevant information in the scene then it would all be considered. But correct pose estimation could still be useful to the network in those cases.
you do realize you can hot reload and preview in a local browser before deploying? pretty inefficient to deploy just to check your changes
I don't think that's important. In practice you can also use the pulseaudio API and that will work everywhere because of this: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
> Why is Google forced to provide customer support* for something they provide for free?

Providing something for free is not a defense against anti-trust law.

The most famous example showing this, was regarding internet explorer, which was provided for free, yet anti-trust law effected it anyway.
For some of these cases you could sue them in small claims or pursue CFPB or GDPR claims depending on jurisdiction. I’ve had good luck with CFPB.

People might be afraid of lawyers but they aren’t involved in these processes.
True. But I believe this is a case where correctness and clarity are the paramount concerns.

There should be a public reference implantation of these methods if they are going to be used in court.
I asked them about IPv6 at some point, they said there are no plans to deploy it but "well you could buy a static IPv4 address if you don't like the NAT or want to run a server". It's a nice ISP otherwise, no "value-added" services, the speed is high (too high for many servers) and service disruptions are rare.
This is a clever variation on impregnation resins, which aren’t now and are getting more and more popular. It will depend on the timber and treatment, but expect higher tensile & compressive strength then the wood, plus more hardness and stability.
This would be very interesting for structural windows and likely much cheaper than glass in similar size. Probably better thermal insulation too.
EU's Vestager warns Apple to treat all apps equally amid privacy dispute
It's only an anecdote but I used to buy Adderall on Libertas, which was a Monero-only drug market, seemed to work pretty well and solved a real world problem for me.
So, we've got "reality", as represented by data.

We've got a model, implemented in code. Since it's code can be differentiated - not sure how that works with branches, I guess that's the math. :) This is generated through a set of input parameters.

We've got an error function, representing the difference between the model and reality.

If we differentiate the error function, we can choose which set of parameter mutations are heading in the right direction to then generate a new model? We check each close point and find the max benefit?

However, if everything is taking the parameters as input, is the derivative of the error function only generated once?

Is it saying that the derivative of the error function is independent of the parameters, so it doesn't matter what the model is, they all have the same error function, and that error function can be found by generating a single model?
Perhaps I'm dense, but what is he alluding to? Beyond a communist/1984-like system where everyone informs on each other?
> In the USA, all sides can call and rely on their own forensics.

... to the extent their financial resources allow.
"Regulation" gave you slavery. In the more natural state of affairs, you can't just go about enslaving someone without the risk of them running away or outright murdering you while you're looking away. It is the power of the state that captures the fugitive slave or punishes them for defending themselves.
"someone said something negative about my book, of course it's racism and sexism and gatekeeping and classism"
>the Times’ tech team quickly donned their hall-monitor goggles and Stasi notebooks to warn that the Bad People had migrated to Signal and Telegram. This week they asked: “Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?” One reporter “confess[ed] that I am worried about Telegram. Other than private messaging, people love to use Telegram for group chats — up to 200,000 people can meet inside a Telegram chat room. That seems problematic.”

I'm already hearing this in local debates. It seems to seriously scare some folks that there are places where they cannot deplatform whoever they want for anything.

(PS: Open groups and channels are not encrypted on Telegram servers and can be reported. It is just that Telegram doesn't have a history of letting other abuse it.)

Edit: I've been planning to subscribe for a while. I do now.

Do it if $5 is pocket money for you. If not for this then for something else he have done.

Good journalism is extremely important but much of what we see today is a mix of extreme bias, outright lies and outrage manufacturing.
Ah yes you’re right, my apologies. They don’t support the noindex directive inside a robots.txt any more.
I absolutely agree that all VPS and server providers should do their best to deal with UCE, malware, bots and related mischief. I would add that they should make some effort to reach out to RBL's and RSL's to delist their address ranges. It would be up to a number of their customers to push for such changes before they would likely prioritize it.

I would even go as far as to suggest that both they and their customers should have aliases on all domains for spam@, uce@, postmaster@, abuse@, malware@ and security@ that route to a distribution list or mailbox that the domain holder responds to that same day. Back in the day, that was a requirement to varying degrees to sign up for any of the big email campaign providers.

Every domain holder should also have a proper DNS dmarc rule with a reporting email address listed. Example using ycombinator.com [1]

[1] dig +short _dmarc.ycombinator.com txt

"v=DMARC1; p=none; sp=none; rua=mailto:dmarc-reports@ycombinator.com,mailto:re+gewxcbuqfmh@inbound.dmarcdigests.com; aspf=r; pct=100"
You know some expert witnesses. I doubt you have a good acquaintance of a significant percentage of all expert witnesses.
I'm trolling because there is no doubt in the mind of Rust fanboys that if ripgrep was a feature-for-feature replica of grep, in some parallel hypothetical universe, it would for sure have less code-size complexity.

Got it.
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And is allowing current strains to spread further because there isn't enough vaccine not a gamble?

I'm also not sure there is a big problem:

"Neither bacteria nor viruses evolve resistance to vaccines as easily as they do to drugs, they wrote. Smallpox vaccine never lost its effectiveness, nor did the vaccines for measles or polio, despite years of use."

-- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/science/covid-vaccine-vir...

"Why the evolution of vaccine resistance is less of a concern than the evolution of drug resistance" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304978/
Outside of the film industry, director is usually a joke title.
Microspikes are really great development which I assume were enabled by materials work that enables the bendable stretchy silicone you see in all sorts of things. The alternatives before were Yaktraks which, at best, gave you a bit of extra traction on your way to pick up the mail or you had to go full-on mountaineering crampons which obviously were way overkill or not even usable in many situations.

I have mountaineering gear but, to be honest, both myself and most of the people I usually hike with just use microspikes a lot of the time. (Also much more practical for beginner instructional trips.)
I'm tempted to start using a modified version that reads: "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ad revenue"
> why not just fly big, unmanned FPV?

For the show/spectacularity I think, plus more crashes = more watchers.
Just think, in only a couple of years everyone will be a millionaire
Thanks! Looks interesting - just bought it :)
I don't think I've ever interviewed from the same angle but I have been clear with my managers that I want to avoid moving into any sort of people management. It hasn't been an issue and when you've marked yourself out as a long term developer you can get more momentum behind technical pushes that might have a long project lifetime since the company will be less concerned about putting a big weight in your hands - they can trust you to carry it through[1].

1. I mean - assuming no life changes which you should never feel guilty about making to suit your own interests.
I wasn't implying that Mozilla had explicit control over the project, but to say that it just "employed some team members" really undersells things. They employed critical team members, including as I recall the majority of the core team. They were also leveraging the project for R&D, allowing for fast feedback loops between core members and Servo developers.

Rust always, thankfully, made sure to be independent of Mozilla, but it would be silly to think that they had no influence over the project and that by firing major contributors they've lost that.
That was only because they had engineers working on it. The foundation changes nothing in that regard. If Mozilla were to hire engineers to work on bringing Rust to a new platform then it would have the same effect now.

I don't want to downplay Mozilla's many contributions to Rust in any way but I also acknowledge they worked hard to ensure Rust operated independently of any organisation, including themselves.
This is not just Google. All other tech companies including Facebook are using the same system to promote workers. As a result:

* Nobody is held accountable for the long term success of the product. Making little things work nice is not rewarded. Maintaining UX is defiantly not rewarded.

* Rewarding process over product. That's why you see so many Google products shut down. It takes a few people from L7 to L8 to build it and rewards someone from L6 to L7 to wind it down. Every annual performance review in the process is all roses and rainbows!
It missed ones on license plate
Any particular guide or set of docs you recommend for that? I've heard a lot of good things about Netlify as far as hosting, and I've been wanting to set up a blog; seems like as good a time as ever to start learning.
Samsung A51 receives Android 11 update
Thanks for clearing that up. Changed above now!
He's right. When I started writing in the 90's, there was an idea of journalism as telling stories in the principled defence of minority interests and as a public check on institutional power, but it has mutated into the unhinged and corrupt prosecution of deviance from official narrative lines. Social media is just a way for neighbours to denounce one another in a new snitch culture that rivals any 20th century system. I'm usually a couple of years ahead of the curve on trends, and I even dropped Slack last year because it's not a place for real discourse.
Keep fit. Everything else depends on it. If you hate exercising (like me), try to find some sports that are fun to play, and find some friends who are willing to drag you to play.

Also get your tests done regularly. Blood test, etc. are super important and can detect issues early on.

Health is the basic of everything else and you don't want to try to fix it when it's broken because it's going to be too late.

Another thing is try to find a passion. Could be part of work or part of hobby but one needs to have passion on something or he lives like a zombie. It can be anything from chasing girls to star gazing, but something you are so passionate at that you are willing to throw resources into it to get as professional as possible. Do yourself a favor and put up a blog and youtube channel about your passion and advertise yourself.

So now you are mentally and physcially fit, can't be better than that. The point is not to push yourself to do a lot of things in one day, but put a bit of extra care to yourself and invest a bit of time to your passions everyday for ten thousand days.
IANAL but if the individuals were already found not guilty, I think double jeopardy laws would apply.

The prosecution wouldn't be able to try again unless they made an appeal that there's a substantially different crime.
Well if you've already annotated all the bottles in the video then why do you need to train a model to do it?
Amazing! Thank you very much for sharing.
> The toolchain has changed significantly in 4+ years. It started as literally a shell script invoking Gruber's original markdown.pl. Then I switched to CommonMark, etc.

Wouldn't switching formats like that break peoples pages? That's one concern I have with using markdown for a site like this. For anything non-trivial, you either end up using HTML (in which case, what's the point) or some dielect-specific feature.
That straw man is essentially the status quo at the moment...
West Virginia Has Everyone’s Attention. What Does It Need?
The first and second case deals with issues that are mostly opaque to the consumer and affects their safety.

The third case is not actually a singular case. When we are talking about consumer facing services, there are many competitors in most cases. I suspect that it would even be difficult to make anti-trust arguments since the factors that funnel people towards Google is largely outside of Google's control.

Google's behaviour towards businesses is a different matter. While businesses may turn to the competition, their dominance means that avoiding Google will have negative consequences.
Edit: actually, you've done this so many times before that I've banned the account. Please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with. We're trying to avoid internet hell here, so repeatedly being pushed into a flaming pit is something we'd kind of prefer to avoid.

You broke the site guidelines egregiously by turning this into a gender flamewar. Seriously not cool. Please don't do this on HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Peter Norvig's Response to Chomsky on Probabilistic Language Models (2011)
I know plenty of people who I thought was humanitarian, environmentally conscious, smart, critical, hold advanced degrees, reasonable, all the good stuffs.

Everything flies out of the window when they discover Bitcoin. Suddenly they don't want to work anymore and just buy Bitcoin and confessed they've been stupid all this time railing against Bitcoin.
I don't care if people visit my blog
What about giant app stores that control almost all consumer spending in those markets? How many businesses can survive being banned by both Apple and Google's stores? Or even by just one?

Sure your business is destroyed, but you're right, you can easily get a new email address.
Disclaimer, I am FOR seeing the source in these cases.

Say the defense finds the software in a very, very troubling state. Could that be telling enough to not trust the outcomes of the software? Assuming the DNA parts were correct, but the rest is junk, this is where the plaintiff would bring in their expert to counter the arguments?

Perhaps ^ is just a weak argument. I don't know how well versed courts are in these matters. (My guess is NOT that well versed because of the CFAA of the 80's up to Aaron Schwartz, and more).

My legal background is Law and Order, so I have no idea what I'm talking about, just curious.
Out of curiosity: what were the USSR's views on gay marriage?
The title undermines any message that the author may have cared about conveying. This is why I rarely read articles where the title has a whiff of clickbait.
I don't think you are missing anything substantial. While you might have missed the actual historical names and details, you got the idea right. Stasi is just a commonly used name for the Ministry of State Security in Soviet-occupied East Germany post-WW2. Which was known for creating those kinds of systems where it would be commonplace for people to snitch on their family and friends for as much as wrongthink.

On a more fundamental/deeper level, from my understanding, he is alluding to those systems and how regular people would all tattletale on each other voluntarily and out of some misguided conviction and belief in the system (except instead of getting canceled on twitter, they would get gulag'd instead). Without realizing that the system was not their friend and that they themselves were extremely likely to end up next on the chopping block the day after.
Thanks for summing that up; based on the title, alone, I was considering clicking because I so rarely encounter a sentence such as this: containing so many words I know/use regularly yet when put together in that precise manner, appeared to be as to have been assembled by a garbage disposal.
I feel you. Fighting SPAM is eating a serious amount of my energy, too.
Then lets regulate size if the market is going to push companies towards inhumane choices.
This is what terrifies me about Google, specifically losing access to all accounts that I signed up for using my Gmail. I started transitioning to a custom domain that I can redirect to any email, but I just realized I bought that domain using Google Domains...I'm **ed if Google decides to ban me.
Musk’s next disruption: accounting for crypto
It would be great if Python had a PEP to automatically compile down to a binary executable file, and resolve all dependencies for it.
Study: 50% of global wastewater now treated
Especially since it appears to diffuse the light, which is actually desirable in some cases.
I don't think the facts bear that timeline out, but I'm certain we're just talking about different things. From the top of the thread: my concern is about mass casualty shooting events, particularly the kind in which the shooter can stand off first-responder police forces (or, in the most horrible cases, get a clear line of fire on a crowd of people from a fortified position).

I don't think an assault weapons ban is going to do anything about routine gun crime. But it doesn't have to. (I also think "bans" are dumb).
It seems that would be weighted however towards a too-low count of bottles
> Automatic Differentiation doesn't incur more truncation error than symbolically differentiating the function and then calculating the symbolic derivative's value.

Yes. The article even says that.

_"The AD system is (as you might have surmised) not incurring truncation errors. It is giving us exactly what we asked for, which is the derivative of my_sin. my_sin is a polynomial. The derivative of the polynomial is:
[article lists the hand-derived derivative]"_

The reason symbolic might help is symbolic AD is often used in languages that don't represent things with numbers, but with lazy expressions.
I will clarify that.
(edit, I have updates that bit and I think it is clearer. Thanks)

> The article seems to calculate sin(x) in a lossy fashion and then attribute to the error to AD. That's not how it works.

The important bit is that the accurasy lost from a accurate derviative of a lossy approximation is greater than accurasy lost from a lossy approximation to an accurate derivative.
Is there a bit I should clarify more about that?
I tried to emphisize that at the end before the bit mentioning symbolic.
In other words, a Ponzi?
Does "director" mean something much lower than it sounds like? Or does "associate" mean something higher?

To me, a "director" is someone who understands the business deeply, knows how to lead, take initiative, communicate very well, has years of business experience under their belt...

They want to be a dev. Sure, they need to learn git, python etc. But these are not that hard at all. The harder part of being a developer is communication, making hard decisions, showing leadership. Things a director should be pretty damn good at.

"Demoting" her to an associate developer is stupidly patronising.
Valve does treat game developers poorly, and it can’t be fixed because their no-internal-structure setup means nobody can actually change anything at the company. They’re bad at dealing with Japanese content, if you get a reviewer who decides it’s “more gross anime shit” (as millenials like to do) they ban your game sight unseen with no appeal. Kind of a problem when the newer younger people into anime aesthetic are also the ones making all the LGBT content.
Focus on finances and health for retirement! Thanks for your advice.
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...which can be extremely different between parties leading to EXTREMELY biased outcomes.