skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predict the outcome of a roulette spin realtime.

Write a fully machine vision aimbot for CSGO. Perhaps you could feed the mouse and keyboard input into the tracking algorithm to improve accuracy. You need to intercept the mouse input anyway to tamper with the game state.

Predict a coin flip realtime.

Write a program that retroactively looks for a certain cat in a security cam footage (I miss my cat). This is the one I actually attempted a while ago using a the most dumb method known to man: Since it was an orange cat on a mostly grey/green footage I just defined a color range from dark brownish orange to light brownish orange and parsed each frame of the recording. It didn't work that well without defining a lot of treshold rules.

There are quite a few deterministic carnival/arcade games you could cheat with a bit of machine vision magic :^) Stacker comes to mind for example
To paraphrase Seneca—the world has always been this way. This is not ‘new information’, and I’d say a meaningful portion of humans know this. The question is—so what? There is power, and manipulation of it. You are not in control of it. You are in control of what you do, though.

And as some in this ‘smart crowd’ will tell you, large and amoral tech corporations are a key reason we have much of the artificial wealth and technocratic elitism we enjoy and speak from.
> Predicting the weather works with a supercomputer since all the processes (temperature, pressure, etc) can be modeled as continuous

Except it's not continuous. That assumption works most of the time. But sometimes--often--it doesn't. Particle interactions chaotically manifest systemic effects in unpredictable, dramatic ways.

The limitations on our current models of fluid dynamics and economics are uncannily symmetric. (The latter fails more unexpectedly.)
In "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Neil Postman hypotesizes that people are increasingly anesthetized by their addiction to amusement, as pushed in increasing amounts, and duller form, by the media. Now there are only armchair riots, our pitchforks are the virtual keyboards on our mobiles.
How come all the players are from anywhere but US?
Hmm well you can rationalize these things either way but in the end I find it nicer to have the tv filled edge to edge. I just do.
FWIW your "trick" has been the default for years. Unless you specify otherwise, the default max price is the on-demand price. They changed this back in 2017. Maximum price isn't really used by anyone any more. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pri...

We spend about $10k/month on spot instances and I don't specify any max price. The way to avoid terminations is just to make sure you spread your workload over a large number of instance types and availability zones.
There are also other types of data that don't lend themselves well to Codd's model either, such as structured hierarchical documents, especially those containing irregular data[1]. Whilst you can model a hierarchical document tree (like those) in a relational database, it isn't pretty and is impractical to query due to the insane amount of joins required to reconstruct the document (i.e. you'd need to join on every table that represents every type of element - and if you don't know exactly what tables/element-types are used in a document then I don't think there's any workable solution for that?).

Then consider non-hierarchical markup documents ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping_markup ) which has elements that span two or more arbitrary points in a document. Fortunately I've never encountered this problem yet so I've never had to put much thought into it.

[1]e.g. think of XML, JSON, and YAML files used for web-application configuration or a SOAP request message (but not those XML/JSON files being abused as containers for tabular data).
how come all the players in the pandora papers are from any country but the US?
That's right it will need aws credentials with access to create EBS volumes, S3 Bucket, spawn instances, etc.
In addition to the "cli" a cloud service constantly monitors the progress of the Jobs(by registering the pid when launching it), and the instance states. So the billing will be based on the hours of training run and $ saved.
Highly inefficient death traps with no active safety feature and no ability to play music or tell you where on the map you are. Great solution there buddy.
> the few knobs they can adjust, such as the discount rate, don't do what they thought they did

What is the evidence for this? We have low rates spurring inflation expectations, in the population, and concerns, at the Fed. That's about as orthodox as monetary policy gets.
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Adding microplastics to food on purpose would be illegal in the EU because there have been no extensive studies about the safety of microplastics as a food ingredient.
So I don’t feel as if we should get used to microplastics inf food - and in out bodies - by accident.
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I guess that depends on how you define Linux. It works on android, shieldtv, firetv, and other googletv enabled televisions.

That’s not really the point I was making anyway. My point was his insinuation that Apple has the market cornered on high end audio is absurd. The audiophile devices themselves are built on Linux not OSX. And android has had Dolby for years, so it isn’t something brand new as he’s implying, it’s just new to Apple.

And yes, it is supported on windows and has been for some time, you need to use the tidal app from the windows App Store:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TIdaL/comments/gnkaaq/dolby_atmos_o...
It's a matter of speed. If you can get good at types in a short period of time, that will probably make you go faster in the longterm because you won't have a certain category of bugs. But if not, then just use JavaScript. You can always convert JS to TS later.

In fact you can use TS now, but write JS. It will just work. Then as you begin to feel more comfortable with features of TS, you can begin using them.

If you write JS, you are supposed to write a bunch of tests to catch possible regressions that TS's type system would catch for you at compile time. But tests are always a tradeoff; they take a little longer today to write for being able to move faster and more confidently later (this assumes you're writing good tests. Bad tests are generally worse than no tests).
The commenter was succinct. They are pedantically subverting and misinterpreting OPs comment into an argument about exclusivity, when in fact OP displayed no such idea. It's a deliberate sleight.
And rather unfortunately has a lack of documentation. Many of the goals here has been targets of more traditional gis image processing algorithms for quite a while. There has been very active work in that space for years with a good number of year on year improvements. Additionally, footprint detection and regularisation isn't particularly easy if you want to go a good job, and roof material can be quite difficult wven from 13 band imagery.

Putting this in BlenderGIS seems like reinventing a good many wheels to be honest.
I listened to a Sean Carrol Mindscape podcast recently concerning Memory Palaces that have been used ubiquitously by ancient peoples. The theory goes that when people started settling down, the did not travel extensively and could no longer effectively use country for the palace in their mind. They therefore made physical objects with distinctive surfaces to serve as the physical part of a memory palace. This is well documented for Australian aborigines and native Anerican peoples who you can just ask. There are no equivalent populations in Europe to ask directly.

Once writing/printing became commonplace these practices were abandoned.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fYhVkbzr60E

Edit: add YouTube link.
I have also been using fish for years. But seeing how nice the scripting is that is built into Dune makes me want Dune features in fish. Or for Dune to get the autocomplete that fish has.
"This guy" is Rob Scoble, whose reputation as a tech blogger is spotty at best. I haven't read him in years (on account of said reputation), but he was widely regarded as a hack back when he was more influential.
That was the sequel I wanted to read, instead we got more Game of Dogs.

As much as I loved the Tines as an idea, I really hate it when large portions of a scifi book take place on some "medieval" world. If I wanted that, I would just read fantasy novels.
Can you explain what you mean by this? I’ve read it a few times and don’t understand
IMO it depends on the expertise, comfort level, and many other factors since it is a personal tool.

I'm comfortable with programming languages, but I rarely write a Ruby code to process a CSV file. I still prefer using spreadsheet or SQL for simpler tasks.

Panda/Python is the most powerful option for sure, but it's hard to say whether a person would prefer this option.
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It is always about balancing public, the interest of many, over private, the interest of one. When transaction size goes to millions and publicly funded politicians get involved, the public interest becomes more dominant. Especially if you have crooked deals like a friend of Putin buying a movie theater price under the market value, funded by a government loan.
> I don't think politically charged idea are the issue at all! I just think the way people end up using them waters down the original concepts, then people use it incorrectly/creates a new concept that is divorced from its original meaning

See, this just goes to prove that leftish Twitter slacktivists engage in cultural appropriation, too.
Yes, was very disappointed as they closed the airshow.
Software (and economy) get big and complex due to emergent properties that arise from base rules. This is why, for most large projects, no one _needs_ to know the entirety and all the edge case to make modifications and improvements, you focus on base rules and build off from there. For software that would be individual components and whatever invariants you have set up. And then you you build off of these to reason at higher levels. Attempting to know the whole thing at once "and all the edge cases" is quite wasteful.
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Ok I'll bite. Hiring managers need to make hiring decisions. What sets your spider-senses tingling in this article?
> Naturally this means nothing for the ruling class and is devastating to the middle and lower classes.

People are getting refunded:

> Each resident in Austria will get an annual reimbursement, with the exact amount determined by where they live to ensure those in rural regions without good public transport don’t lose out. Children are entitled to half their parents’ amount — so a family of two adults and two children in Vienna could expect to get 300 euros ($358) for example.

The price on carbon is simply a price signal to show how much damage the environment something is doing. Presumably people will switch to cheaper, i.e., less damaging, goods and services.

Carbon pricing being regressive is by no means a foregone conclusion:

> The literature on the distributional impacts of climate policies provides ambiguous results. Many studies find an overall tendency for regressive impacts (Araar et al. 2011; Gonzalez 2012). Others detect mostly regressive findings for developed countries while developing countries show an inconsistent picture with a tendency towards proportional or progressive impacts (Verde and Tol 2009; Wang et al. 2016). Nevertheless, progressive impacts have also been shown for developed countries like Australia (Sajeewani et al. 2015), Canada (Dissou and Siddiqui 2014) and Spain (Labandeira et al. 2009).

* https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-020-00521-1

Implementation details matter, and there are ways for progressive results:

* https://taxjustice.net/2020/06/30/carbon-taxes-can-be-progre...

* https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/550691-econom...

> So if you’re aiming for the most net-progressive tax, you use the revenue for rebates — helps the low-income, raises taxes on the high-income. If you’re aiming to appeal to the middle class, you use the revenue for payroll tax reductions — helps the middle, increases taxes on either end.

* https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/20/1758437...

* https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/distri...
Didn't see any examples or interactive demo of the main product. The did have something to generate cover letters though.

> This is Johnson Smith, writing to ask to work as a seasonal employee for Enron. I am currently available, and I think I would be a good fit for your position. You said you were looking for somebody with “strong Linux Unix skills,” so I am qualified. I am mainly self-taught, not having taken any college classes, but I am an avid learner, and I am comfortable using free resources to teach myself the skills I need to reach my goals. I worked as a software engineer at IBM for 8 years, primarily on laser sharks.” I am sure you will find that I am not just trying to fulfill a need, but that I am qualified for this position.

I'm not particularly impressed by the output.
But oil spills have been trending down over the past few decades, even as oil shipments have increased: https://ourworldindata.org/oil-spills.

You're right it won't go to zero, in the same sense that airplane crashes won't ever go to zero. however that's because it's really hard to prevent all airplane crashes/oil spills, not because people are "too indifferent".
Different cultures have different sources of dirty words. US dirty words are based on sexual references (e.g. “fuck”), while other languages (like my native Norwegian) will have dirty words based on diabolics (e.g. “hell” or various names for the devil). Other languages will have yet other categories that most swear words are derived from.
It sounds like you misunderstand what “paridoxical compression” means. It does not refer to the problem where compression sometimes increases the size. A (purported) paridoxical compression algorithm is one that sometimes decreases and never increases the size.
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I don't mean ubiquitous. I know what ubiquitous means. Latin wasn't ubiquitous in Rome. A thing of culture isn't ubiquitous. If anything it was transparent. Perhaps you should read about the era under observation before attempting to summarise/reinterpret?
I agree with you on the first sentence, but I don’t think it’s necessarily bread and circuses. Just peace and prosperity. Pax Capitalisma if you will

Bread and circuses was politicians getting into debt or Emperors dilapidating the treasury to buy the support of the masses, I don’t think that’s really the case here.

It’s more that if people are prosperous and safe they stop caring enough
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No, a straightforward "carbon tax" would do that, but this is a revenue-neutral tax. So poor people who use less carbon (e.g. don't own Ferarris and private jets) will benefit (their carbon taxes will be below average, whereas their carbon bonuses will be average†)

†caveat: looks like in Austria, rural residents will get more bonus than urban - to even out availability of public transport
> Every time you commit, package-lock.json is different. And when it is not, then I have 26 new vulnerabilities to be fixed by “npm audit fix”. I have zero trust in my build being reproducible, or even working one year forward.

In some of the nodejs projects I've worked, we had allu dependencies with pinned version numbers, and each week we created a ticket to track work on upgrading them. This typically involved a single commit updating package versions and running all tests. More often than not it took no work at all.

If a project just lets their dependencies change randomly and does not invest any work updating them, of course there's bound to be pain and suffering.
I still like looking at nice interesting rocks or pebbles and I'm way older than a teenager

finding the pure white and very black ones and arranging them in patterns or matching piles is some what interesting*

*when I'm forced to go to a beach and told to enjoy myself for hours on end whilst looking after the kids
Honestly, this looks like yet another Russian Hoax iteration.
Also, made me to figure Brian Krebs is merely a journalist, while real infosec researcher is Chris Krebs.
1. He wouldn't have listened.

2. No...”buy bitcoin” please. <-- he would have said that too, when asking for advice, but he could have made a lot of money had he bought bitcoin. I'm not sure why you wrote it, but he would have written it because 1) he thought of himself as deadly serious, and didn't want to take things like bitcoin seriously and 2) he would undermine those attempting to give advice by using tools like: Attempting to predict what those people would say. He saw this as cutting through the bulls** but another answer was that he was subverting good answers for emotional reasons. An interesting emotional reason likely being that asking others for help felt at some level as if it meant that one's own approaches or ideas weren't good enough.

3. He should listen, try completely new things, evaluate them, and aim to make lots of fresh mistakes.

4. But his biggest mistake was that he was not listening. He was waiting for his own heroism, his own tools to become his proven answer to problems that could have more easily been solved using other tools. He was in his own way.

5. In the meantime he should take better care of himself, or expect surprising moments of self-centeredness to break out when least desired. He shouldn't wait for others to defer to his own ideas or opinions so much.

Hurts to write all this, but I appreciate the exercise.
That’s code for, “if we publish something that the foundation dislikes, they will cut our funding.” There is no such thing as editorial independence when it comes to funding, unless it’s done anonymously or automatically.
It will get harder and harder to find actual quality content online, I guess. One might think that perhaps at some point there would be the other side of this - an AI reading assistant that filters through tons of filler texts like the ones generated by this app. It'd have to be very personalized though, because else the content creation algorithms would just be trained on them...

Or perhaps the inflation of filler text content will make people only refer to their trusted sources - well established publishing authorities.
> Google isn't really a monopoly though. They out-compete others for their market share, Chrome is open source, they abide by and push open standards, etc... They don't abuse their position like Microsoft did.

You must be kidding, right? If you are not, please take a look at performance problems various Google websites have in Firefox. Or how recaptcha behaves in FF. This is exactly the sort of abuse of power that MS yielded in the days of IE supremacy.

EDIT: about propaganda, Chrome was late to the party and while it sped up the IE demise, it would have happened anyway. Except we wouldn’t land in "all your data belongs to us" browser monoculture in which we are now.
Another source is W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis.
Very nice tool for producing blog spam content. No proof or explanation is given on why it could work for any meaningful writing task (let's say research since that the name of the tool) whatsoever.
All languages strike a tradeoff between flexibility and enforcing a regular structure. A lot of people seem to think their preferred language hits the perfect point on that tradeoff, and judge any language that makes a different choice. Python lovers judge R, Java users judge Python, C++ users judge Java, Rust users judge C++, Go users judge Rust, and everyone judges JavaScript.

A language that's more flexible than your favorite "encourages bad habits", while a language that's less flexible than yours is "bureaucratic".
Ironically, the front row at a concert is usually one of the WORST places you can be for good sound. The main PA hangs don't cover the first few rows, so you're stuck with whatever front fill they threw in as an afterthought for coverage, and (if they're not flying the subs) you get pounded with low-end.
It sounds more like a redistribution of some money based on some carbon criteria than a tax.
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The post discusses ExperLisp for Macintosh, but I’ve never managed to find a copy. If anyone knows the whereabouts of an ExperLisp binary, I’d love to try running it.

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Maybe, governments are on the offensive against privacy coins like Monero. I believe Australia outlawed it. I wouldn't be surprised if increasingly harsh penalties were imposed as their popularity grows
I think this is all FUD spread by the existing advertising companies. I recall reading here on HN several times that the pervasive tracking and "personalization" doesn't really increase conversion rates all that much; targeting the ad based on the content it's being presented with is generally more than good enough. (For example, if someone is reading an article about DIY home improvement, show ads for power tools.)

It just feels like these companies are addicted to the power of tracking people all over the internet, even if they'd do just fine if they weren't able to do that. So any time an ad platform comes up that attempts to respect privacy, they get all up in arms and spread misinformation about how it will destroy their industry.
Did you see the video? https://researchai.co/#how-it-works
You tax it when they take the money out to spend it on themselves
Agree, unfortunate such coordination is not going to happen. Carbon border adjustments is a great idea which could make carbon taxes work.
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Meritocracy is a giant myth (often completely unconnected to the underlying data), but it's important to recognize that it's just the latest in a long line of myths that have been told to justify inequality. For centuries, the wealth of the nobility and the clergy vis-a-vis the third estate was justified by appealing to the harmony of a tripartite society. In the ownership societies of the 19th century, inequality was often justified by pointing to the various rules and laws that governed and sacralized property rights (which were theoretically available to anyone) upon which stability and good governance depended.
I wonder how many employees will move (for real or not) to HCOL areas and get a pay bump.
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I think the difference is that most of us are not starving, not sleeping cold or outdoors, are receiving an education for our children, are able to find some form of work, etc. Its hard to get people rolled up enough under those circumstances.
Well, yes, my main point was that the weather is much closer to a perfect continuous model than the economy, and we get weather predictions wrong all the time. I doubt we'll have a change with the economy in the next 50 years.
Rust also has this, from what I understand:

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu