skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dimensionality reduction is very powerful when you need to traverse a large configuration space and look for things that seem salient.
The internet and tech related jobs are the best opportunity to work remotely that anyone living in a dying coal town will have.

An online freelancer with a low cost of living can live decently.
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It's funny you should mention lack of centralization causing small/medium farms to sell to big firms.

I just read an article which showed how one of the great side effects of the last half century of US estate taxation (where the government takes ~30-50% of the estates wealth after the original owners dies) resulted is a massive centralization of farms to a few large companies.

Basically farming in the US used to be 90% small/medium sized and largely family owned. Most farmers worked on their farms until they died and they left a decent business for their kids, not a wealthy one, but one that was sustainable to support a medium-large sized family - but also significant enough to cross the estate taxation barrier.

When they die their various children are left with the choice of a) giving 50% of the estate to the government, selling half the farms assets to do so, and working hard on this smaller farm for the rest of their lives (and then to give their kids the same choice) or b) selling it all off to the highest bidder (aka one of the mega-farms), paying off the government tax, and moving to the city.

They ALL pretty much chose b) (or sold half in a) to the big farms) and over enough generations we now have a massive oligopoly of a few companies owning all the farms. And this was in the name of making the rich 'pay their fair share'. While the mega-farm owners pay the same estate tax their estate tax doesn't translate into them giving up their mega farms which are controlled by a broad group of wealthy owners, likely engaging in your typical offshore tax evasion schemes to avoid paying their own.

I also know within a few years of Venezuela centralizing food production it caused massive shortages in order to keep prices lower - well before the drop in oil prices pushed their economy into crisis.

Otherwise I don't know enough about the farming industry to comment.
Machine sushi rice tends to be packed together, and I think it's usually cooked a little firmer so that it survives machine handling. There's a finesse that good sushi chefs have that hasn't been replicated by a robot yet.

Good sushi rice is somehow lighter, but still cohesive. The flavor balance with the fish is better and more consistent. The fish doesn't tend to fall off as easily.

If you eat a fair amount of sushi, you'll notice the difference. If you don't often? Maybe not.
Sometimes it's not possible to say no. The rip and replace strategy of SV will surely force some people to work more than a 9 to 5.
Tesla uses batteries from Panasonic (Japanese) [0].

[0] https://electrek.co/2016/11/02/tesla-panasonic-2170-battery-...
>>you are not likely to ever hear about Slovenian wine outside our country. My French girlfriend says it's the best she's ever had.

Sounds like an opportunity to market an entire country's wine culture. Once you get some recognition internationally, vineyard tours, bed and breakfasts, restaurants, etc with wine tourism.
Wouldnt you work directly with the manufacturer brand at a point beyond 10k? Are fake SDs mixed in at distributors like Synnex? I always presumed it was a retailer thing, instead of ordering from Computer2000 or Synnex lets have a 1000 of these from Alibaba?
If typeclasses are well-designed, they can be auto-imported. Sadly, it's not a common design in practice.
Why GitHub is not your CV(2013)
NeverMind: An Interface for Human Memory Augmentation [pdf]
Compared to Europe Obama is center-right. Sanders is the closest thing we have to what would be considered center-left in Europe.

https://www.quora.com/Are-left-wing-Democrats-of-the-United-...

Universal basic income, free university education and free state-run healthcare are leftist... no Democrat puts those things in their platform so I wouldn't call any democrat leftist.
And extremely versatile. When the store is slow, self-check and self-stock robots can't sweep the floor.
One of the things I was thinking about building was a write once logging system. Even at the high levels of logging that I run on various servers it is only 10s of megabytes per day which this kind of thing could absorb for years. And as a write once system it would never erase (not even have the capability of erasing) allowing for 'walking backwards' in the logs in the event of intrusion or malicious behavior.

It would certainly be an interesting mail archive system as well.
OS-level threading is often pretty good -- you can usually fork and join tens of thousands of threads per second. (I believe that the initial NPTL benchmarks showed something like 20 microseconds for thread spawn.) It's not the tens of millions per second that you get with green threads, but thread creation has an unfair reputation of being slow.

It was once true, but that was 20 years ago.
One may wonder why the filesystem driver doesn't have cycle detection, but the fact that filesystem structures are generally considered trusted data, a cycle detection algorithm would add overhead and complexity, and the inherent (4GB) limit means that this is something better left to an application like chkdsk/fsck.

FAT is still the most widely used, lowest-common-denominator, non-proprietary filesystem so it's not going away anytime soon.
Los Angeles votes to replace Columbus Day as a holiday
I think it's intended to be the same thing as "bro culture"...
Why You Can’t Put the Music Industry on a Blockchain
> In the NFL 18.8% of injuries occur at or above the shoulders, the area where athletes wear the most protective equipment. In the AFL 11.5% of AFL injuries occur in this area, where they wear virtually no protection.

Source: https://medium.com/upstart-magazine/nfl-vs-afl-injury-compar...

Helmets enable players to weaponize their heads, like this recent hit (Vontaze Burfict's suspension earning HIT on Anthony Sherman): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7qQtadYqsI and many others demonstrate. I believe removing helmets would mitigate this behaviour and increase the long term health of football players. Looking for data on Aussie rules, this is not quite what I was hoping to find, but interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_rules_footb...

Without question Aussie rules has its share of devastating brain injuries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1aU0hz5Tf8. Plenty of concussions and fencing responses in that clip.

At 33, I've stopped watching North American football altogether because the violence turned me off. 10 years ago it was my second fav sports (to Hockey).
"... we just released a new version of our web client using Vue.js. 641 commits and 16 weeks of intense development after with two resources ..."

Confused by what was meant by "two resources". A resource is a printer or a computer; a developer or a contractor is a person, not a "resource", so I'll assume they weren't referring to a person.
This does not sound like a vehicle which will ever be produced in quantity ... take my chances with a niche discontinued product.

You heard it here first guys... the #1 selling electric vehicle in the US last month [0] is not popular enough to risk buying it.

Chevy's investing heavily in expanding production [1], in preparation to shut it down and discontinue it.

Everyone stay away...

0. http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

1. http://insideevs.com/chevrolet-bolt-production-to-double-aft...
I was just pointing out that it wasn't "the origin of FP" as you stated.
Adrien here from the LogDevice team.

A copy set is the list of storage node ids that the sequencer chose as recipients for a record. This piece of metadata is stored on storage nodes alongside record payloads in an index that maps the sequence number to copy set mapping.

Storage nodes consult the index to filter out payloads they shall not send to readers. The filtering logic consists in sending the copy if the storage node sees itself as the first recipient in the copy set after it's been shuffled using the client id as a seed.

This results in readers receiving exactly one copy of the payload.
But in general, we consider things right or wrong (both morally and legally) irrespective of scale. Why should this be different?

In utilitarian terms, the ratio of benefits and costs to society is the same whether it's Google or Bing that's showing a search widget, so we should allow both or neither.

If Google and Bing had 50/50 market share, then do you think the widgets would be acceptable? Bing also shows shopping widgets, so unaffiliated sellers wouldn't be any better off in that scenario.
Speaking as another Googler, but over in Product Marketing Management, my experience of working hours and reward, and that of others, is similar to your observation.

I remember being told on day two of Noogler training (paraphrasing) “if you find yourself working evenings and weekends something is messed up.” We actively want to find where efficiencies can be made or where more support is needed. Someone working 'harder' (AKA additional ass-in-chair-hours) does not deliver that.
oh holy hell it is going to be hot in Davis tomorrow.
Love Naval. Great mentor.

Suggest more people with similar values & vibe. Don't have to be currently among the living neither. Found this site thanks to him, and he has been adding a great deal of value to me ever since I first heard of him. Grateful to say the least.
Actual the enforcers in hockey who fight have some of the worst brain damage. Bob Probert, an enforcer for the Red Wings is an example of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Probert
As a kid being driven around in carpools, and being one of the smaller kids in the neighborhood, I ended up in the middle-front seat a lot (Back when cars had bench seats in the front). I saw exactly one car with over 160 000 km (100k miles) and it was a manual transmission Volvo.

I don't know why my friends parents had lower mileage cars, but I know what it was with my mom:

At this point most cars were automatic, and they crammed lots of parts of the transmission into a hard-to-service single-part-number item. Three times while I was growing up (~32 000 km per year driving) she had the transmission fail at around 170 000km and the mechanic quoted her a number approximately equal to the street-value of the car to fix.
Lots of people own lots of media.
Fascinating, I was expecting it to be in hanguls rather than Chinese characters - never really considered astronomy as having an overlap with history quite so much as this before. Thanks for the link.
In almost all of eg Appalachia, a 35-40 hour per week, $15 per hour online job (doing anything), is a good job for the majority of people versus the alternatives available.

There's no question it can make a meaningful difference near-term. The obvious long-term solution is further urbanization or near-urbanization, convincing people to leave those dying regions for greater opportunity.
so .... if you can actually move a business from GCE to AWS in 30 days, will you please send me your resume? I'd like to hire you for a -- short -- contract :)

Seriously though, I think you're greatly underestimating how high the switching cost is to move from one cloud provider to another.
There's nothing inherently wrong with using modern language to mean what it means in the modern world.
Another aspect is the random read & write speed. Typical microSD cards are abysmally slow at those.
Yes, and this quickly leads to ageism and sexism. Want to hire a 28 year old woman who just got engaged and is excited about starting a family? Want to hire a 43 year old person who prefers spending evenings with his/her kids over grinding away at the office?
The Lexar high endurance. If you want to find SD card reliability info, check websites and videos that do reviews for dashcam SD cards. Their primary focus is on reliability because they need the cards to be able to be written on constantly without failing for a long time.
Are you sure? I thought @ was reference counted in 0.6 and then removed after. Was it before that?
I had a similar experience in Seattle in 2007-2010. "Seattle Chill" is real. San Francisco is great tho.
What are these $15/hour 40 hour a week remote jobs? How many of them are there?
You need downtime to have a Eureka[1] moment. I see a lot of wasted time spinning wheels on the wrong thing.

My wife's job has offices in a bunch of countries. Recently she was talking to someone they borrowed from Europe for a few weeks. They observed that in the U.S. they work many more hours, but take coffee breaks and intermingle work and leisure. They were suggesting they work fewer hours, but are more focused when at work. It's hard to tell, but I'd say their "output" is comparable (maybe an edge to the team in Europe).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)#Archimedes
Tip #5: "Work on your persuasion skills", is the most important.
Sometimes being a developer is about convincing someone else you work with that a feature needs to change.
Many times, total throughput roses with the number of connections.

I can see the argument why one might not want it - total time to getting an app to play with can be increased.

What I really can't understand is why they pause all download activiry while installing an app. That's truly maddening.
Genuinely curious, how? Do you have some example code to post?
A man has a think tank...
EFF, ACLU Win Court Ruling That Police Can't Keep License Plate Data Secret
A hashmap being implemented on top of vectors is a pretty common implementation. Not sure what Rust uses though.
For a few hundred million in the world it's soccer, for billions of people, it's football.
How is that obvious - It's possible to both use Stripe and store the credit card details (even though you're not supposed to).
The difference between now and say 30 years ago is many media companies were independently owned, now, like food in supermarkets, there are a few conglomerates that own all the media companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_conglomerate

If you go to the local level, John Oliver did a segment on Sinclair Broadcast Group that owns a bunch of local news stations and pushes political propaganda to them.

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/john-oliver-local-news-cons...

The point being is you have all our media digestible content, particularly news, controlled by a handful of corporations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

Sinclair, the one Oliver mentions, covers 40% of US households and is only the second largest next to Nexstar.
Down voted for a relevant content!
The Dutch have become an agricultural giant by showing the future of farming
This is definitely a challenge and something you have to address when building on top of Postgres because of its architecture. But I want to highly encourage people that you can avoid having to deal with this stuff if you approach it with CRDTs (go google them, they are fun!), like what with Cassandra does - (edit: disclaimer, I work for a competing system) I did this tech talk ( http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html ) a few years ago in Berlin on the things to avoid and the possible solutions (and their tradeoffs / dangers).
> I want to scream every time somebody suggests threading as a solution to non-blocking database calls and HTTP requests.

Rather than screaming, perhaps read this (from the developer of the Python world's most popular ORM) to see why they might be suggesting it:

http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...

tl;dr:
If your database is properly setup and provisioned it shouldn't be a source of blocking I/O (and if it is, throwing thousands of concurrent async connections at it isn't going to help you). For standard CRUD applications, your program will spend much more time in CPU processing the database response than it will waiting on the database to deliver it.

Furthermore, when querying a traditional RDBMS like postgres or mysql, safe concurrency is ultimately enforced by the ACID capabilities built in to the database itself i.e. transactions. Whether you're using async, threads, multiple processes or something else entirely doesn't matter. Given the database itself controls how much concurrency it can support, real world tests (at least for Python) show that threads give you better performance than event driven callbacks.

Of course, threads are completely wrong for the HTTP side of things and this is where async (e.g. nginx or node) offers all of its advantages. That doesn't mean it's wrong to put your DBMS behind a thread pool.
> abundance of ads

I wouldn't mock the Americans too much for their famous love of advertising. I haven't found a sport yet that is as much a slave to advertising as Aussie Rules. Try to find a square meter of space[1] at an AFL game without advertising - even the ball itself is adorned with the golden arches.

[1] Okay, some of the grass doesn't have advertising on it.....
"On Aug. 31, 2017, a jury in Texas found that certain Wii and Wii U video game systems and software bundles infringed a patent belonging to iLife Technologies Inc. related to detecting if a person has fallen down," I can't remember any games that used this fall down detection they are claiming. Zelda - no, metroid -no, kirby -no, pitfall -no, even though falling is in the title.
Court Dumps Lawsuit Against Zillow Over Its Inaccurate 'Zestimates'
Interesting perspective. After reading this article, if you want to use FP in your python projects, definitely check out the toolz library. It's got great API and really good documentation.
You are right. The sheriff that covers Ryegate, MT commutes in every day from New York City, and the school bus drivers commute from Seattle, likewise the mailman commutes in from D.C., and the garbage man from San Francisco.
This is why I am developing the AMP Browser (http://ampbrowser.com) - it is a godsend in a slow 2G/EDGE network.
Why would you care whether corruption is 'automatic' or not? It's still corruption.
Seconded, Opus is amazing. Hell, 96kbps is probably overkill for a phone, the codec is that good.
I don' think you read that link you posted properly. The proposed expansion of Lifeline to broadband was tied up in court because it was entirely Federally decreed, whereas the actual law passed by congress said that it had to be handled by the states. Pai pulled it back from the courts, and determined that following the law as written was a better idea.

Go ahead and kick the FCC and Pai around for screwing up net neutrality, but the Obama-era ULS expansion thing was never going to happen the way the FCC had written those regulations.
100C would send you to the burn unit. I think you mean 100F.

Edit: 100C is boiling point for water - is the ambient temp of the Sauna 100C?
Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like
Check out Nim, it's got python style syntax, but it's statically typed and compiles down into performant C and then into a binary.

I've been converting a lambda function used at work from Python into Nim[0]: I've had very few issues so far and the performance gains are fantastic (Admittedly my lambda function is pretty straightforward, but still).
It's also got support for functional programming styles, with a function composition operator/first class functions etc[1] and a pragma to tell the compiler that a function has no side effects[2].

[0] https://nim-lang.org/
[1] https://nim-by-example.github.io/procvars/
[2] https://nim-by-example.github.io/procs/
This is the result of decades of republican control. You reap what you sow.
Forgive me if this is a naive question, as I am not well versed in ML.

Would it be possible to train using Mechanical Turk so that you get real human feedback and perception of quality?
My feeling is that it's like computer security, you can bleat all you like about how the millions of developers have to magically know this stuff, or you can build it in by default.

One method works, one doesn't.

But keep on telling people to read a book, for all the good it will do.
> why things like single payer don't have the intellectual backing of rigorous white papers and advocacy

I dont understand why Gates or Buffett who have made comments supporting single payer systems dont fund such think tanks who will "educate" the public about single payer.
Interesting. Can you please share the article?
The Poetics of Computation
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I was expecting an article about the crazy traffic in the Bay Area and people working weird hours (6am to 2pm or 1pm to 9pm or crazier) to compensate. I was kind of disappointed by the article decrying workaholism which is by no means required to get ahead anywhere in Silicon Valley.
As if the 7.5bn living ones we have now weren't enough.

Oh I see.
Math is a science, just not an empirical science. It is a formal science.
My first job in Silicon Valley I had no idea I should be saying 'no' to unreasonable demands. I burned out pretty hard.

Encouragingly, when I started saying 'no' I started getting taken seriously as an engineer. The conversation after 'no' includes real engineering topics on resources, schedules, techniques and backup plans. 'Ok, how do we get this done?', not 'You're fired'.
This is pretty surprising. What it means is that most owners will not need to replace their batteries in the time that they own the car. In my 'total cost of ownership' models, I've assumed a battery replacement at 100,000 miles, but that appears to not be necessary. This changes the calculation considerably. Not to mention that if the drive train can go 400,000 miles without needing major repair, I can keep the car 2x as long as an ICE, further reducing the cost of owning an electric vehicle.
Wait, .gov domains cost money? I guess I just thought the us government assigned them as needed to agencies. Never thought about cross agency bills.
Every problem in the US economy is because companies have too much power
San Fransisco is not a "rural" area. Even on their home page they mention they have access points on over 1000 buildings. Turn off about 998 of those access points and that is what you will be dealing with in the typical rural WISP.
My phone rarely gets below 50%, and I'd say it only gets below 20% a handful of days a year.

But yes, I've often thought it would be nice to have a toggle to say "Prolong battery life (as in years)... I only want a 90% charge since I'm not going to be using much tomorrow."

I've wondered too whether I should only use a slow (1A) charger for the overnight charge rather than the full 2.4A. But then again, I only keep my phone for 2 years before passing on it, so I've not had to care that much.
I'm a novice when it comes to neural network models, but would I be correct in interpreting this as a convolutional network architecture with multiple stacked encoders and decoders?
I used to use make Apple ][ screen snapshots with glow in the dark silly putty, but they only lasted a minute or so. But while it lasted, you could perform all kinds of cool distortion effects, kind of like Kai Power Goo.
Your girlfriend is in love... congrats! ;)