skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning there is kind of hard to follow. Did the US add the War Guilt clause to a treaty that was otherwise going to be fairly neutral?

In school we learned that it was England and France who pushed for the punitive version of the Treaty of Versailles, but I guess this could be my American textbooks whitewashing the world.
Ph.D.'s are not, by definition, specialists; they have, of course, demonstrated depth in at least one narrow specialty, but that is not inconsistent with also having breadth (and I think Google's​ preference isn't​ for breadth instead of depth, but for both together.)
In other words, the cure for fear is acid.
It's my primary editor. I'm so used to it I don't even know what the commands are - I just watch my fingers do it.

The first thing I do with a new system is port ME to it. I'll use vi to do what's necessary to get there (usually get ssh working so I can edit the files with ME on another machine).

I've worked out how to do syntax highlighting on it, but never got around to doing it.
just a meta showerthought;

I was about to ask "What is it we expect from GPU companies in the next ten years? Why/how will they dominate computing/innovate in ways that we care/compute?"

you answered my question. I think now is the time to invest in Nvidia and any other GPU manufacturer as the ML/DL/AI field is on the precipice to explode computing in the next 15 years. (15 years happens much faster than you might think)
I think this is the right decision for Ubuntu.

I also think that convergence is the future, but I don't think the market is ready for it. Phones run on ARM, desktops run on x86. The non-Pro Microsoft Surface is good, but many people still have a few x86-only legacy applications or devices that need a "real computer". USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 adoption is just barely in its infancy, and it'll be a couple of years before we start seeing it on affordable mass-market phones, laptops, printers, monitors, and so forth.

I think we've got another decade or so to go, but the pieces are slowly moving into place. Unity was a bit too far ahead of its time.
I think I was being civil, the upvotes seem to agree.

The source link was the to one of the original blog posts David Wolfe paraphrased the content and lifted the imagery from. The source link was crap and the arguments were lies that are easily debunked.

>However it links to a CBS article (that is available) this one mentions 10 times higher than usual radiation in Tuna caught off the West Coast (but its still supposed to be edible).

Yeah, detection in Tuna is concerning and needs to be considered. I wanted numbers so I found https://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=FRD&id=20593 and a breakdown of how those numbers related to reality: http://abitofperspective.com/?cat=3 We are many orders of magnitude away from even a simple medical procedure. Even assuming you can afford to eat 75lbs or so of contaminated Bluefin tuna caught near Japan.

Mercury content (in any long lived fish) poses a more realistic concern. We already recommend tuna not be eaten frequently for these and sustainability reasons. But your source article was claiming that radiation was found in salmon and causing tumors there, which is a lie.

(Thankfully mercury levels have been declining as we move away from coal power generation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tunas-declining-m... )

>I am not convinced. Reminds me of how the Chernobyl accident was being downplayed in an IAEA report.

Don't go throwing a red herring in here. What happened there was wrong but you can't make that argument without data. It's just as wrong as misinforming the public and causing a panic.

If you feel offended by me calling your source liar, come prepared to defend them or learn to accept new data and change your position. I responded so future readers of this thread won't be mislead into believing something that isn't true.
> DON'T HANDLE THIS IN YOUR DATABASE LAYER.

I implore you to reconsider. I used to hold this opinion very strongly, have since changed my mind, and began to question why I ever held it in the first place. Now I realize it was rather simple: the first few teams I worked on had a database administrator that wasn't one of the engineers. We would avoid doing anything in the database because the iteration cycle would take months, involve many emails, and we'd end up with something different than what we wanted. In other words, it was a social problem, not a technical one.

If you empower engineers to change the database, these problems go away. At MixRank, we deploy a handful of schema migrations every day— they're a normal part of our development flow. In particular, we embrace constraints (who doesn't like avoiding invalid data?), and triggers extensively. Once we started using triggers, we noticed all sorts of awkward and inefficient patterns in our code that were contortions to avoid adding a single function into the database.
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My guess is that important people would have enough money to not care about fee and chose to donate directly which is possible on the site. It sounds better anyways unless you are providing a service
The effort to develop nuclear weapons was ruinously expensive. I doubt we would have undertaken it in peacetime, so we may not have seen nuclear weapons until the early 1960s if not for the war. We almost certainly would have been at war with the Soviets before that.
Linear UX: A new approach to UX
It has become a taxpayer ID number too. It's not just citizens. Every individual who is legally authorized to work has one. Every legal entity (like corporations) that has assets usually has one too.
Oh I see why my comment perturbed the collective conscious, but I wasn't making any statement on the merit of the accusation, just his continual employment and how impressive that is.

I was saying that most people get fired for any accusation whether they have merit or not.

This employee has an accusation that has substantial merit and is still employed. So thats actually broadcasting confidence amongst current and future employees regardless of what kind of thing gets slung their way.
Oh but I thought what worked in these small countries won't work in the US?
So you want to implement a new feature, and test it locally, then run tests to make sure you didn't break anything, and when you are done, upload the changes to the production server. This is sane devops, nothing fancy, yet impossible with todays databases. You basically have to manually do the same changes you did in development to the production database, then test if it works on live data in production. Then your finger might slip when writing an SQL query and you have to reset all production data from backup.
If you're looking for a guide/checklist before going through the "The Twelve Tasks of Asterix"[1] involved in setting-up a startup, I found this one particularly helpful: https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Tasks_of_Asterix
In the past, I remember being told that the fixed-pipeline cards could push a ton of vertices, but that they couldn't hand the same volume of textures and rendering effects as a consumer card.

One of the first things on the FirePro and Quadro Wikipedia pages is that the actual graphics chip in the hardware is the same as consumer levels. Aside from hardware tweaks like ECC RAM and possibly different display connectors, I think that the biggest differences are the workload that the drivers are optimized for and reliability guarantees for the results that the hardware produces.
Insurance rates aren't 10%, they're closer to 5%: http://spacenews.com/space-insurers-warn-that-current-low-ra... -- and note that 5% includes coverage of the 1st year of the satellite, and not just the launch.

Also, using a "flight tested" Falcon 9 apparently does not significantly raise the insurance rate: http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/spacex/... "In one measure of the mission’s perceived risk, Halliwell said that the insurance rates SES is paying “did not materially change” from a typical launch on a new rocket."
If they can prove it, this is super shady on Uber's part. Reminds me of Michael Bolton's money making scheme in Office Space.
Ask HN: What's a good app for grocery management?
What's a good app for managing the inventory of my pantry? It should sync between my phone and my girlfriend's phone and show me how much I should buy when I'm in the supermarket.
Why isn't anyone questioning the LASD for fucking up a basic SSN comparison before requesting a fund-transfer from BoFA? Isn't this really the LASD's fault. Can't you sue the LASD for damages?
You need to hire a lawyer. It's not fair but that's how this is. This is going to haunt you forever -- not just this account! You have to do so ASAP and get this straightened out so you have the paperwork to prove it next time this happens. You also should write Consumer Reports Web site -- they'll love this story.
>This article mentions that had the US not entered World War I the likelihood of World War II happening was much lower.

This would have likely resulted in leaving Germany in a dominant European position. Over the course of modern history, the worst thing for European stability has been a dominant continental power.

WWII stemming from a humiliated Germany might not have happened, but it's difficult to say that a imposing, bellicose, and likely-equipped-with-a-bomb Germany would be a much better outcome.
Before we had modern labor and lived indoors we may not have had employers, but we still had to leave our family to go hunt. No vacations from that. And sometimes the animals would win and we'd die.

And then modern labor started to take form and employees had many fewer protections than they have today.

So let's call the history of labor "barbaric" and recognize the situation today is still not ideal, but improved enough that we need a less dramatic word to describe it.
It used to be called mail merge. Now that there are so many abstractions layers, it's apparently best performance wise if you add a VM running inside a VM running inside a VM.
They're not dropping Gnome. They're dropping Unity and Mir for Gnome and Wayland.

And that's just awesome. A few years late, but still awesome. Linux needs more Wayland-love than just Red hat/Fedora.
It would be interesting to see an analysis of how WMD technology would develop in the absence of a major conflict. It did take a Manhattan Project to get the atom bomb, after all. It's also a mind-bending exercise to try imagining the remainder of the 20th century without WWII.
Was surprised to find this article was published today by TechCrunch. Even more surprised that it makes no mention of the Series B-H funding that drchrono has had to chase every year since its founding.
Oh really?! Cancelling a bunch of peoples' normal activities so they don't have to travel to them reduces traffic.

This argument is a tautology.
This is really cool, modeling the process instead of relying on samples is a really appealing solution. The first engine sounded like atari pole position to me but the second 4 stroke model is pretty amazing. I guess the added complexity makes the engine sound more appealing.
Sound waves boost older adults' memory, deep sleep
We do a lot of work on video encoding.
We have had a K80, Titan X(Maxwell), Titan X(Pascal), 1080, 1080Ti, and others (including render-farms based on GTX980's).

General thoughts: Don't expect to get _any_ information out of NVidia unless you are running everything on their hardware compatibility lists (i.e. server-case)
Do not mix & match consumer-rated gear with 'professional' gear. (i.e. If you put the K80 in a system with a GTX1080, then the Nvidia drivers restrict the number of available processing cores to 2 per device)

Air-flow: The Tesla's run HOT even with a blower attached, and/or installed in the recommended case.

NVENC: the Pascal-based cards performance is incredibly faster AND better then the Kepler-based cards.

For anybody else doing Video encoding work: Grab an Nvidia TK1/jetson dev-kit. This little card is a MONSTER and can handle everything we throw at it without breaking a sweat.
Another thing to like is it has no configuration files. This mattered a great deal in the DOS days because floppies were so slow! But even today, who wants to futz with such? If it needs configuring, I just tweak the code and recompile it.

Back in the 80s, I handled configuration by having ME directly patch the ME executable. (This was a trick I learned from the old ADVENT Fortran game.) It was marvelously simple and bulletproof to do that.

Unfortunately, programs that patched their own executables became huge no-nos as malware took off, and I had to abandon that.
That's a good observation. The code and trained model for this paper is on Github. It could be used to make a fake review generator. Dangerous.
You might find some interesting leads in previous HN discussions around systems for note taking and organizing personal knowledge. For example search for 'personal knowledge' keywords lists this project as top hit: http://www.acuriousmix.com/2014/09/03/designing-a-personal-k...

Please post your findings here if you discover interesting answers.
SpaceX's quoted $62M is for the first launch of a recoverable rocket. SpaceX does not have a published price for expendable launches.
There's an interesting bit at the end of John Barry's "The Great Influenza" about how Wilson got the flu at Versailles. Barry suggests that Wilson was physically and mentally affected and thus gave in on terms around punishing Germany for the war. Apparently until he got the flu he'd been pushing back hard against anything like that.
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I wholeheartedly disagree... It takes 5 minutes to learn the UI if even that long. You have pins, you have "blades" (they're just the top items that you navigate with bumpers) and a left side bar now.

My gut says way too many people look for reasons not to figure out things and blame the product for having shortcomings that are entirely self inflicted.

as for amazon, their app is rather crappy almost universally. Try netflix or Hulu..
It also doesn't speak well to Uber's reputation that I have no problems whatsoever believing that this might be happening. Compared to all the other unethical stuff that they've done (such as Greyball), I can totally believe that they'd do this as well.

If it's possible for both the rider and driver to see the forecasted route at the time of hailing, it should be pretty simple to throw together evidence to show that different pathfinding is in use.
I celebrate his entire catalog.
If you have already submitted a sample, you will get a report. Since 23andme maps your whole genome, they simply compare the existing data as new finding are approved. OR if you are like some and signed up early before the FDA crackdown, you already got all this information and now they are just reappearing little by little.
I don't get this assumption by Kazin in the piece:

> How would the war have ended if America had not intervened? The carnage might have continued for another year or two until citizens in the warring nations, who were already protesting the endless sacrifices required, forced their leaders to reach a settlement.

I don't see how any of the belligerent powers would have moved towards a negotiated settlement if they'd only bled a little more. By 1917 they'd already poured out absolutely staggering quantities of blood, buckets and buckets of it, and their positions had not softened in the least. If anything, they'd become stiffer -- negotiation became less and less feasible as the casualty figures increased, because it seemed to the both the public and the politicians to be a betrayal of the all the sacrifices that had been made. (People have always had a poor understanding of sunk costs.) Tossing even more sacrifices onto the pile wouldn't have changed that dynamic.

What seems like a more likely outcome is what actually happened in Russia: the fighting rages pointlessly on, the situation locked in stasis, even more money and blood pouring down the hole, until the people back home literally can't afford bread anymore -- at which point there is some kind of social revolution that turns the existing order completely upside down. And this repeats itself until enough combatants on one side or the other have fallen into chaos that the side overall can't fight effectively anymore, at which point the other side becomes the "victor" more or less by default, simply by virtue of having collapsed slightly more slowly than everyone else.

And what comes after that? It's hard to say, but a Europe where the Russian experience was repeated in several other major powers doesn't sound like the starting point of a notably happier timeline than the one we actually got.
YouTube TV vs. Sling TV vs. DirecTV Now vs. PlayStation Vue: Lineups Compared
Differences in CVE reporting for Docker containers?
That's like saying basketball is equivalent to just throwing a ball through a hoop. You are oversimplifying it.
We need some kind of hierarchical approach, and/or memory.
Exactly, the error is on LASD's end most likely. Whether he likes it or not he's going to have to get a lawyer to get this resolved.
100% agree... If they could steal a top UX designer from, say, Apple and start over from scratch, I feel like they could build something amazing. I love the XBOX and have been a supporter since day 1, but the new dashboard interface keeps getting worse and worse.
I personally think they did great. They targeted the blog post at a more general audience so most people can follow and get an overhead view of the idea, and then put two giant buttons for "View code" and "Read paper" right at the top of the blog post for those who want more technical writing and working code.
If you're going to be contrarian about something like that, you have to provide some sort of rationale for it, otherwise you're just throwing red meat out there and inviting downvotes.

This goes 1000x over for touchy issues where you can be easily misinterpreted as expressing a pro-Nazi or pro-USSR viewpoint. Forums are discussions, not polls where all anyone cares about is the quantity of opinions on either side. And if you don't care about people misinterpreting you, there's no point in expressing yourself publicly to begin with. Like, literally no point. The whole purpose of forums are to communicate your ideas to other people, not to rep yourself. The more controversial and easily-misinterpreted your stance is, the more important it is to back it up with information and explanations.
Small sans-serif body text means you hate your readers. Making it grey means you really hate them.
How difficult would it be to integrate with Phaser? I believe Phaser currently has Box2D support but only through a closed source commercial plugin.
Hit refresh. I noticed :)
Is there any way to just have your entire genome sequenced and get all the data in a software-friendly format? At that point there could/should be some open source software for analyzing it and finding common or well understood things like this. That way the software could be updated and people could re-run their analysis to look for newly discovered stuff.

I think this would be an awesome amount of fun. I for one would be interested in looking for certain gene variants that are not mentioned at all over at 23andMe.
Uber has killed so much goodwill and their reputation so well that no one will be surprised at almost any accusation directed at Uber.

I know my first thought was "not surprising", and I imagine others will think the same.
Wouldn't then be desirable to avoid showing human faces up close and, instead, explore other ways of telling stories that better match both budget and technical resources?

Insisting on showing a character in great detail when the costs of doing so far outweigh the benefit is unwise.
An Unexpected Career: Target’s Forensic Services Laboratory (2012)
Could be checked by counting n-grams to see just how much it differs from other reviews.
Thanks for the comment and references. Good luck with your PhD program.

> ... Connections with PGMs... hmm, not sure what you mean.

What I meant is that ILP, PGM, HMM, are some of the topics that were being explored as an extension to GOFAI in the 1990s and first half of 2000s before the 2006 breakthrough results by Hinton which drastically shifted the focus towards NNs, Deep learning, etc.

Essentially these topics were being explored as a result of the slow realization that logic is not enough to represent highly complex systems, and there is a need to move towards a hybrid of logical and probabilistic approaches.

I'm keenly interested in these areas but currently busy with graduate work related to numerical analysis and scientific computing. In our circles 'adaptive' is the big word, and there is attempt to utilize AI/ML methodologies in scientific simulation, but it's at a very early stage. Once my work is finished, I hope to get more involved in ML related research and applications.
From https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202907980...: "Current 23andMe customers will be notified directly on their eligibility for receiving new genetic health risk reports." Sounds like it depends on which package you bought.
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Blue Origin has more press releases about BE-4 than SpaceX has about Raptor. /sarc

EDIT: In all seriousness, Blue Origin has had a reputation for secrecy, but in the last year or two, they've shed that partly because they're now a major contractor for ULA in a competition to provide the main engines for their new rocket (Vulcan). They are facing a politically-well-connected opponent (Aerojet-Rocketdyne). If they keep silent, they could very well lose out. I think that explains why Blue Origin has been very vocal even though it hasn't even been test-fired, yet. (I think Blue Origin's engine is way better than AJR's, BTW.)

SpaceX, on the other hand, had a reputation for loudly proclaiming any progress. Early on they would roll out half-finished prototypes as evidence of progress even though they still had a lot of work to do. Yet in the last few years, they've started being more secretive. Other than a few miniscule mentions in NASA PR releases from Stennis mentioning a little bit about the component testing, they've only publicly released evidence of all the work they've been doing after they did a test firing in Texas with Musk's big Interplanetary Transport System unveiling. SpaceX doesn't have as much reason to be show-boating progress, partly because they HAVE been making a lot of progress.

So since their secrecy is relatively recent, people assume that just because SpaceX hasn't loudly proclaimed something, that therefore they haven't made any progress, while Blue Origin is the opposite. But if you look at who has test-fired and who hasn't, then SpaceX is ahead for Raptor vs BE-4. If you look at actual orbital-scale reuse, SpaceX is far ahead. If you look at level of technology in the engine and things like Isp, density, and thrust to weight ratio, then Raptor is much higher than BE-4. If you look at thrust to weight ratio period, then Merlin 1D is ahead of everything in existence, with a thrust to mass ratio of somewhere between 150 to 200, depending on which version and thrust level. The nearest competitor is NK-33 with T/W of 137.
Frankly all of them seems to be invented privately, and then gets backed by the state as a last resort when private parties gets into a dispute and risk taking a large part of the economy down with them.

And apparently the notion of debt exited long before the notion of money. And even afterwards money was something used between individuals that didn't know each other (different tribes effectively).
probably won't ever get this for $300 brand new.

you might be able to find some 2013 Titans for $400.