skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be optimizing for a "perceptual loss function" over in https://github.com/google/butteraugli/blob/master/butteraugl...

Looking at the code to that, it looks like 1500 lines of this:

double MaskDcB(double delta) {
PROFILER_FUNC;
static const double extmul = 0.349376011816;
static const double extoff = -0.894711072781;
static const double offset = 0.901647926679;
static const double scaler = 0.380086095024;
static const double mul = 18.0373825149;
static const std::array<double, 512> lut =
MakeMask(extmul, extoff, mul, offset, scaler);
return InterpolateClampNegative(lut.data(), lut.size(), delta);
}

The code has hundreds of high precision constants. Some even seem to be set to nonsensical values (like kGamma to 0.38) Where did all of them come from? The real science here seems to be the method by which those constants were chosen, and I see no details how it was done.
There are dozens of articles about this topic. Do you even Google, bro?
I can't comment on Azure, but most of the complaints about networking issues in AWS went away when they redesigned their networks around an SDN model with VPC. We see consistent <1ms RTTs within region, and <300µs within availability zone (datacenter).
> Rather than trying to find a system that could be universalized,

By "system that can be standardized", do you mean, e.g., defining standard data content, representation, and interchange formats and perhaps funding one or more open source implementations, or creating and mandating a single mandatory software system?
To give some context, 5V @ 1Amp takes ~12AWG, which is around the normal size of wiring installed in a typical 120v 20A circuit in the US.

Any more current than 1-2A the wiring gets silly. At 5A, which is around the power levels used for LED lighting, you need 6AWG (13 mm^2) wires.

These figures were calculated assuming an average of 40' of wire from converter to outlet. A per-room converter would be more reasonable, but you might be better off doing something like using 120vDC so every non-motor device can drop the bridge rectifier.
I really like this collection, this is going to turn out very useful for me in the future.

With that said, the website/webapp behaves kind of weirdly in my opinion.
I would have never ever thought to click on the heart icon in order to select an animation for later download. I assumed that was some form of BS sharing feature.
Also, when clicking on the "code" icon { } I wanted to see the underlying animation, not just its implementation.
I'm not affected so its definitely not 100%.
Unsure about EU, this is track ready for U.S. and could be road ready with the right DMV paperwork.
There are a list of div objects (with the class "anim-object"). The one with the active class is the one displayed. The site uses onclick events to change the classes and stylings of the divs to trigger the events. Open developer tools or view source. It's clearly meant to be agnostic as to the triggering event for the various animations.
Haskell's garbage collector is compacting (see below). When the GC compacts, it is very easy to put linked list entries together for more efficient access.

http://simonmar.github.io/bib/papers/parallel-gc.pdf
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It's not quite so clear cut, AFAIK, rather wanting to wait and see how ES6 imports end up getting used rather than speccing and implementing something similar for HTML imports.
> Ironically, your conveyance of your opinion in this dismissive register with no substance ...

How much substance is required beyond the fact that these ideas are unfalsifiable? To a scientist like myself, saying that places the burden of evidence on the other party, who can only respond with a basis for empirical falsification. But that's not possible in philosophy, by definition.

Am I obliged to prove that Bigfoot is a myth? No, I need only say there's no evidence. And I'm not under a burden to to prove a negative in such a discussion -- impossible in any case. That makes a statement about Bigfoot comparable to statements about philosophy -- it's unfalsifiable.

> Your post is a pervasive and automatic mental pattern, common in a population that has been raised to uncritically worship abstract philosophical notions like "objective truths"

It didn't require many words for you to establish your post-modern credentials. From here, assuming I were inclined, we would have an inconclusive-by-definition debate about whether there are objective truths ... we would philosophize.

Thanks ... I'll pass.
QALY and DALY are different.

http://www.qalibra.eu/tool/support/page8.cfm
Ah, my apologies!

It depends. I have a toy service that exists entirely as an autoscaling group. That's pretty dynamic!

Counterpoint: Mainframes.
There isn't data available on the general case, of course. But data from personal experience indicates: (1) many companies -- I'd say at least half of 'em-- still never look at portfolio code† (which -- even it's just a small personal project or two -- should provide plenty of conversational material for a perfectly decent and rigorous phone screen), or (2) if they do give you a take-home, they never attempt to use that as discussion fodder, either.††

Instead it's usually "Huh, you seem like you just might not be a complete dullard. Would you mind proving it to us by taking this 3-hour HackerRank test? 'Coz we know you've got nothing but time. And you'll go through just about any number of hoops to get us to pay attention to you."

† Even the ones who ask for it.

†† Even when we patiently and politely point out the gaps and ambiguities, sometimes quite glaring, in their cute little "challenge" problems. Which, again, many to occur in at least around half of these exercises.
The singular focus is definitely interesting.

I would like to have learned more about how he feels about how the world has changed, he's like Rip Van Winkle or a time traveler in that respect. But most likely as a person who would voluntarily isolate himself from society in the first place, he probably doesn't care about the world.
No, you can't do this. The Wikipedia page [1] contains a simple example which hopefully makes things clearer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_derivative
Your mention of attaching a device to draw the cut-lines made me think of Hektor, Viktor, Otto, Rita projects by Jürg Lehni
http://juerglehni.com/works/hektor
To clarify, by "literal that must exist or it throws" you mean that you don't know whether the class you're testing for exists? Testing against an invalid class would be an error in most languages…

I guess an alternative is foo.constructor and foo.constructor.name, which will give you a string if you want that.
> You can't handwave your way through a math exam

This reminds me of a calculus exam a long time ago. One of the problems was "given the ellipsoid define by formula ______ and a certain line, find the point in the line closest to the ellipsoid". The goal for this problem was for us to use Lagrangian multipliers and I hadn't studied that one particular subject. However... They made a mistake writing the exam. The ellipsoid was symmetrical, its intersection with the xy plane was a circle and the line was also in the xy plane. I only needed high school math to successfully handwave it. Lots of facepalms from my TAs.
> Satellite-based emergency signals don't seem to be practical or economic enough yet for ubiquitous usage.

It's not as much a tech or time problem as it is a physics problem. Getting a signal from many Earth transmitters to a satellite receiver takes a lot of power on the transmitter side. More power by a lot than for one satellite transmitter to a bunch of Earth receivers!
As far as inflation goes: think of money as a signalling mechanism, not as a reserve of wealth. This is true for the wealthy, and as the marginal cost of producing goods drops, it becomes true for more and more of the population. When factories can more flexibly adjust production, you'll find increased demand for, say, iPhones, and decreased demand for, say, TVs, will shift production and damp the price inflation.

Secondly, consider that an economy without a UBI yet with mass unemployment will suffer a liquidity trap. This is a more efficient way to fight that than QE (which I'm not criticizing as it was the best tool available for the times)
Where are you getting this insane idea? Wishful thinking? The people clearly voted for GOP candidates across the board, at national, state, and local levels. It's no secret that the GOP generally dislikes spending on social programs, the environment, climate science, etc., and supports massive spending on defense. Therefore, it's quite clear that the American people support a budget something like this, which boosts military spending while cutting spending for social programs, the arts, the EPA, and climate science.
I really like that Gerrit code reviews allow reviewers to comment on the commit message in the same way as on the code. The way to ensure useful commit message practices is the review process, if you ask me.
Maybe I'm naive, but I doubt specifically saying "don't pay me just $5" will increase his ability to make money. I do enjoy his snarky tone, but seriously, telling people to either pay $39 or just use it for free doesn't make much sense at all.
She defintaly failed to save Yahoo from being destroyed but I would not go so far as to say she destroyed Yahoo.
80,000 Hours has a very simple job board (https://80000hours.org/job-board/)

While there aren't many job openings posted, many effective organizations are often open to hiring talented individuals at other times throughout the year. It's definitely worth dropping organizations a quick email to let them know you're interested in future opportunities. If any of you are interested in working at CEA in the future, head to our website and ask to be added to our recruitment email list. We'll be hiring for 4-6 positions later in the year.
Exactly. Neither path is easy to walk; it always comes down to trade-offs. What do you value?
Having been the victim of a VERY badly behaved scraper, I'm willing to listen to this. When that "attack" was going on, we talked about that very thing, if the scraper would only identify himself. (we were able to identify the actual culprit, and circumstantial evidence suggested they were going after our complete price list for a client)

The cost of the bad scraper was pretty significant. They were hitting us as hard as they could, through TOR nodes and various cloud providers. But the bot was badly written, so it never completed its scan. It got into infinite loops, and triggered a whole lot of exceptions. It caused enough of a performance drain that it affected usability for all our customers.

We couldn't block them by IP address because (a) it was just whack-a-mole, and (b) once they started coming in through the cloud, the requests could have been from legit customers. We eventually found some patterns in the bot's behavior that allowed us to identify its requests and block it. But I'd have been willing to set up a feed for them to get the data without the collateral damage.
Thanks again. So I guess for multiplayer games a better approach would be reinforcement learning with no game theoretic heuristics?
Not sure what you mean... can you please be more specific?

OpenEMR is 100% open source. It's GPL'ed :).

As far as compliance, we are happy to inform you that OpenEMR is now 2014 ONC Ambulatory EHR Certification complete.

EDIT: If you're asking about support, there are over 30 professional vendors. Community support​ is also available.

If you have further questions, feel free to reach out to my email (in my profile).
Face Preference Reflects Desired Personality (pdf) (2006)
There are two advantages of lists, however: you can add elements to a list without modifying the original list or ever having to reallocate it, and garbage collection never requires defragmentation as all lists (except NIL) are implemented as exactly two words, the head and a pointer to the tail.

If you're processing huge quantities of data or writing games, the speed hit you take from frequent cache misses probably means you should avoid lists whenever you can. You should certainly avoid them in non-garbage collecting languages such as C where you have the additional inconvenience of manual memory management of two word data structures. But those kinds of programs are atypical - most involve frequent user interaction.

Almost all languages (including Lisp) have contiguous data structures and these will often fit the data better. Also, lists which aren't built up a cell at a time will be CDR-coded if the language implementation supports that.
[[1 1] [1 1]] and [[10 1] [1 1]] will have different stationary distributions, the values on the diagonal will likely be different than a multiple of the identity matrix.
I see plenty of red flags, starting with a developer who hasn't kept herself updated on a technology she uses every day.

Sure, she might be forced to use 1.4 in her job but surely, any developer who's a bit passionate about what they do would be aware of the more modern version of their tool of choice?

If we use 1.8 where I work, I can't really evaluate whether she'll be able to adjust since she didn't make any time to adjust these past ten years.
Not entirely related, but the pain of the "paper cycle" as a "customer" of health-care is real.

It seems as if to avoid dealing with hipaa regulation it's all paper, fax machine, and come pick up your x-rays burnt on a cd during your work hours (cd that you have to buy).

Having not grown in the states, this type of practices seems very primitive to me. Amongst many other aspects of the American healthcare, but that's another debate.
> Why wouldn't power in the non-physics sense not have meaning?

Well, I didn't say that. I said it was an unfalsifiable topic.

> Why are you restricting meaning, and thus truth, to just physics?

Didn't say that either, and just as well, since there are no truths in physics. In science one can prove a theory false, but one cannot prove a theory true. All legitimate scientific theories remain open to falsification by new empirical evidence, in perpetuity.

Not so for philosophy, which was my point.
Did you choose a name for your company based on .com availability?

- Yes. Went with a .io

Did you shell out a five-figure sum to a particularly stubborn domain speculator and got a great single-word name you really liked?

- No. Purchased retail for $80/yr.

- Shameless plug: earthdata.io

Did you negotiate a 90% discount?

- No.

Did you hire a professional namer?

- No.

Settle for a get∗.com, ∗app.com or a new gTLD and are happy with it, despite PG’s advice?

- No. .io is appropriate for an IoT business, we're happy with it.

Had to rebrand after choosing a shitty name?

- No. We like our name, before and after branding.

But I get your point. Domain squatters and speculators are a PITA, but no surprise that they exist in our capitalist-leaning world.
Yeah. They could have also dropped the nukes into the ocean. Surely that would have forced surrender without the loss of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
PoE was created exactly for this purpose! The converters aren't tiny by any means, but they can get pretty darn small if the device doesn't consume much power. Plus, its routable using existing wiring in a house, uses AC to transmit and avoid resistive losses, and is backwards compatible with existing Ethernet tech. Plus if you need internet connectivity, you only need one wire and you can cut your power consumption by ditching WiFi.
My favorite data structure has a list and a map under the hood. Lists are used precisely for the ordering, and you constantly index into the list, but only with direct pointers. I dunno how you'd implement it in Haskell, but lists are actually a really good building block -- although you often can replace them with arrays if you're clever enough.
This is awesome.

Do you have a .google.com email address?

Can you post a screenshot of the menu options for the new new Google Backup and Sync? I am interested in learning what is changing.
If you think that's snarky, see my (unanswered) question to the developers here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=308330...

I'm pretty sure the answer is "Yes".
Dogmatism like "commit messages must be at least three lines" will result in commit messages like:

here's
some
code.

Concentrating on form over substance is myopic.
Dropped from the 10.0 release. No idea if/when it will make it in. It was working in ALPHA, but only as an experiment.
If someone breaks the TOS, you can block them or send them C&D letters.

If you have the cash to take someone to court but you are going to be on the losing side.

ToS is not a mutually binding agreement. Even if you have a checkbox that says "I have read the terms", it's often thrown out because nobody expects you to read EULA down to the letter.
So... machine learning? (Sorry for buzz-wording)
Topic mining with LDA and Kmeans and interactive clustering in Python
>We have no entire people

You mean people dedicated to releases, or just that everyone must cut off an appendage to join the team? :)
I've used this before too, long ago; and it saved me a boat load of time!
>Not just for the tip, but for the entire fare. They openly commit fraud against their company by trying to steal the fare for themselves without reporting it to their company.

You think the company doesn't have access to the meter records for fares if keeping a percentage is part of the deal? If the driver keeps 100% of the cash, why pay 7% for a credit card?

I know in Chicago most of the drivers who rent their cab by the hour/day/week prefer to use square because the fees are lower and they get paid in a week or less, not the couple months the cab company takes to pay them, if they ever do.
Yes, I agree, that's a good point.
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This. I really feel like egress traffic costs is the most overlooked issue with popular cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud. Charging 9 or 12 cents for a mere GB of regular traffic is just insane, keeping in mind that even most CDNs are cheaper.

Data driven applications on AWS are already expensive because of the high traffic costs, but storing/serving media on S3 single handedly lets your bill explode.
For everyone who feels like the statements above are exaggerations, just check out their actual prices (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/) in comparison with a regular CDN (https://www.stackpath.com/pricing/).
Nice try!
Thanks, good to know. I don't use emacs, but thinking of trying it out after these years of not using it. In the initial years I did not have access to it on the Unix machines I worked on, only had vi, and later I read that it needed a lot more keystrokes than vi, also the high use of Ctrl key, which is in an awkward position (though I know it can be swapped with say Caps Lock through software). That may be why I did not get into using it, though I have read that it is extremely powerful because it is programmable in Elisp. (I've read Steven Levy's book and some other stuff about GNU, rms, etc., including the book Free as in Freedom about him and GNU. Good read.) I love programmable tools and prefer them to the non-programmable kind, but have kind of made an exception of sorts in the case of editors - I know vim too is programmable but having looked briefly at its syntax, don't like it much. So I guess I may get into emacs after all, but somewhat slowly.
>More power to Google.

Careful what you wish for!
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Something like a big list of reoccurring payments? Like a checking account?

Joke aside there is an overview page on Google play for subscriptions placed through apps from the play story. That's probably the closest to what you described.
>Satellite-based emergency signals don't seem to be practical or economic enough yet for ubiquitous usage.

They're getting a lot closer. Certainly not ubiquitous, but I'm seriously thinking at this point that something like a Garmin inReach would make sense the next time I do a solo backpacking trip of more than a couple days.

And this is coming from someone who has tended to be opposed to having to constantly be in touch.
That is very Orwellian and disturbing to me. We are treated like farm animals, domesticated for our data, and most people seem to be perfectly okay with it.

Not sure what to think right now.
Yes. Some have even made the argument that this makes voter identification requirements racist (due to the higher home birth participation of African Americans).
This kind of constant appears naturally when you approximate some computation, a famous example being Gaussian quadrature (look at x_i values depending on the "precision" you want : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_quadrature )

I don't know if this code is related to that but just pointing out that seemingly nonsensical constants may appear more than one would thing.
I think you and @SamPhillips missed my point.

My point is, he said he was going to do all these things, but he was still voted in anyway.

The only thing that surprises me about Trump is this: He's from New York City. I'm not even talking New State, NYC! How did a guy like this come out of NYC?
You can buy safety pendants that contain a GPS tracker hooked up to the cell network. It has an emergency button and can be located through the service's website. Some even have a speaker and mic so you can talk to an agent through it. I'm sure they could add a feature where if the pendant is a certain distance from home then have an alert go out to a list of contacts. Buy two of them for grandma if you really want to make sure that she is never not wearing one.
Just got this email forwarded to me, and I also got the one from Rexx a while back. This one looks legit but those URL's in this email are a huge red flag.
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I've been rummaging through the docs on DRAGONN but can't seem to find proper installation/run instructions. There is a Google Cloud installation, but I want to just run on my laptop for now against the pre-trained files. Can't seem to get started with DRAGONN.
That's what code reviews are for, though. You can't be expected to commit flawless code for (environment x) on day one.
You sound like you have experience running startup(s) in Europe. Can you be more specific here?
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>Given that we run these tests on every commit, in some sense, it would be the PR author's job, but if they get stuck, we need someone who's able to help them fix that. That is the hardest part of moving from tier 2 to tier 1 in my personal opinion. Who is that person? What happens if they drop off the project?

I would have liked to volunteer as the kind of person that would investigate issues for the FreeBSD platform but as I said, both my skills and my time are limited to the extent that they might not be sufficient.

As for what happens if the person responsible for this drops off the project, I think the solution to that is not so complicated; demote the platform back to tier 2 until someone else (if anyone ever) steps up to take over the responsibility.
It's just for our website and wiki. We've moved to Github for the most part.

There is talk between myself and a couple of other contributors to move the site and wiki to AWS :).

Feel free to volunteer to speed this up, of course.

EDIT: Misread your comment. We are hosting downloads on the SF site. Really need to move to AWS...
Wrong.

If he pays 50% because he wants, OK.

But he is FORCED to pay.

This is confiscatory payment, it's theft.

Opportunities as a young person costs 50% of what he makes?! Please don't pretend to be naive.

I thought it was common sense by now that this tax money goes to highly payed politicians, corruption, bad public administration, bad public programs, lazy people, etc.

A 10% tax should be the maximum a citizen should pay in any country.

And it will be in the future, distant future, but you can be damn sure that it will be.