skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually don't think this is a good explanation at all. I'm not saying it's badly written, just that it's not a good explanation for the stated purpose (serving as an intuitive explanation).

To this point, the article is certainly NOT intuitive if you don't already understand image convolution. The explanation is also very long and rambling. While I understand the author has made an effort, I don't think the article really presents the subject matter in a new way: I can learn all of this elsewhere. This is a common problem when people write about complex subject matter without fully understanding the knowledge gap between teacher and audience.

If I were the author, I might try to read up on technical communication and spend some time figuring out how to correctly simply something. As it stands, this article using the typical strategy of information hiding to simplify the subject matter. The problem is that information hiding doesn't doesn't work very well unless it is expertly done. I do like the animation, but again, it only serves to show how image convolution works, and doesn't actually teach us anything about a CNN.

I would suggest the author break the document into three separate sections, the first being very simple (maybe start with the part that says 'images are just matrices') and then add more details in each section. The final section would have a lot of detail. That way you counteract the information blindness that occurs from simplification by providing the information later.

Otherwise, this article is really more of a data dump than an intuitive explanation, and since it doesn't really teach us anything we can't learn elsewhere, I don't see what it contributes.

A cleaner explanation, expertly prepared, could really elevate the effort that went into this.
I wonder if it would be easier to find discrete components that work at high temperature. And use a vacuum tube instead of a transistor - vacuum tubes can handle high temperature easily.

Put all of them in a single strong container instead of using lots of fragile glass in a high pressure environment. And you won't need to heat the emitter, saving weight.
The elite still probably likes to use iDevices themselves. Once they get some other luxury brands going its time for the concessions.
Who runs envkey? Or better phrased, what social proof do you have which might make a user feel safe about handing you their data?
I thought one idea for Venus was to have a balloon with a gondola that would float high in the atmosphere, that way it wouldn't have to handle extreme temperature and it would just need to deal with the occasional sulfuric acid thunderstorm!
They also have a long-tradition of left-wing politics, rooted in a sense of “Midwestern decency.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Minnesota
There is still the East/West divide. Less jobs and lower payment in the East. Then there is a larger sector with low-paid jobs and lots of people from East Germany and Central/East Europe competing. The EU rights makes it easy for EU-citizens to look for jobs in Germany.

Mostly everybody with medium- or high qualifications should have no problems finding a well-paid job. Across all ages. In the western parts of Germany...
No, because it was par for the course at that point in history and the people who were genocided were themselves genociding other people simultaneously, and only came to live on the given land because they enslaved, pillaged, raped, and killed the previous native americans who were living on the land.
I would argue this question is not really related, but we use PrestoDB (the technology AWS Athena is built using), and it is particularly great for when data becomes too large to fit in a "regular" database. PrestoDB and Apache Impala are the two major open-source surprisingly-fast-distributed-SQL-query-planning-engines. If you pair either of them with a columnar data storage format like Parquet or ORC, you can make analytical workloads work on inconveniently-sized data. AWS Athena abstracts the cluster management for you and runs PrestoDB on spare EC2 instances under the hood.
Less a parody, more a comedy version of Star Trek. A parody implies they're making fun of Star Trek. So far the episodes have been a combination of humor [1] and a more played-straight sci-fi universe and story modeled after TNG.

[0] See Galaxy Quest, which makes fun of the culture around ST as much as ST itself.

[1] Sometimes too much taking me out of it, first episode was the worst for this, it's improving.
I think I meant to say:

You have no idea if a file contains something needed as part of a decryption process, or if the file itself contains encrypted informations.

So basically, having a "pad" file incriminate you.
You're not wrong there. I deleted it so I could take the time to expand on it beyond that glib knee-jerk reaction, which I regret posting even for the very brief period it was online.
When I typed my reply, I briefly considered if AI/ML/NN might help but then I thought about it. I don't think there will be enough training data and I suspect that existing reference points would be vastly different, and made even more difficult to use by the lack of resolution.

But... If it had some initial training done by hand, and by people including what dates and locations they know, maybe it could work backwards? It'd still end up being a HUGE amount of data and the compute power for that would probably be obscene.

Which, of course, means I think it's an excellent idea and that someone should do this. I can't even begin to imagine the costs. This might just be the best idea ever, or the worst.
> China being the world's giant copy machine has worked very well for those in power in China. Why not sustain that as long as possible?

Someone may correct me...

1. having a more open society results in more innovation, which results in more economic development which allows the ruling class to become even wealthier and more powerful globally

2. currently, only 18-20% of China is middle class. About 78% of China is still poor. If things slow down due to a lack of innovation, historically things get ugly.
Filesystem performance is one of the main bottlenecks for OS X applications (including consumer applications).
"One of the prominent Chinese VCs, Neil Shen from Sequoia China, was on the Economist's podcast recently talking about AI in China. When the host asked Shen about the Chinese state's use of AI in monitoring the citizens of China, Shen clammed up. It is an amazing bit of audio (starts around minute 8.)

https://www.acast.com/theeconomistasks/theeconomistasks-howd... "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15017622
You never asked!
I never really agreed with this tacit assumption everyone makes that ST was this super-progressive show.

If you're really paying attention, and with the exception of DS-9, almost all of the heroes are white and educated (or their sidekicks) and all the villains are dark and barbaric. Seems straight up racist to me.
If you actually zoom in to the map, you'll see that yes, a lot of these are republican territories, but there are also a lot of democratic territories with a majority of black and latino voters.

It cuts both ways.
China does have one hope, the need of censor will drive its technology innovation and even takes the bulk of its economy GDP. As you hinted China's leading censorship will inspire the world how much human can revert the process of internet, un-internet is what China will make its name for.
> accessibility is good

Pretty much nothing is 100% good or bad.

In many cases, accessibility rules (or fire safety rules for that matter) can prevent a business from being viable. Are we better off with a store that has a huge sign "does not meet fire code, enter at your own risk" in front of it, or with no store at all? I prefer the former.
If suspicion of planned obsolescence is as common as the article presents it to be doesn't that make the search data less compelling? If it's a commonly held belief and I own an Apple product that's being phased out, I'll be more likely to remember rumors and investigate their validity when a new product is being launched. Not saying the rumors are unwarranted, but this is hardly a smoking gun.
Presumably in that the data itself is not criminal, and there could be no viable method to determine whether the data the key decrypts is criminal.
This is great! It would be even more useful to have this for Mac OSX too. A lot of the projects I do ends up being on both Mac and Linux. It's always a pain to find the corresponding number for the system call on Mac.
It won't. UglifyJS's dead code elimination is snake oil and mirrors anywhere but in the most trivial of cases.

See:

- https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2867

- https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/4784

(Note: webpack doesn't do any dead code elimination, it relies on UglifyJS to do so)
http://www.pkdandroid.org/disappearance-of-android.htm

They built a robot clone of him and his head made a run for it and is still on the lam.
You cannot reach the Play Store at all.
And your phone always complains about "limited network access", because it cannot ping the google predefined URL.
Vue.js Single-File JavaScript Components in the Browser
Regulated taxis do, but cars hired via the Uber app don't. (You might see the first name in the app, but that's it).
Also worth reading, especially the suggestions at the end:

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Probably, but It's Complicated

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/do-cell-phon...
You don't do one thing to fix something like job scarcity, you need a roundup of changes over decades to fix it. You need programs that push people into higher education so the communities have something to offer. And people can't study at college or university if they have children from unintended pregnancies, so you need to have good social programs to help people from when they enter high school to when they leave grad school. You need healthcare to prevent health issues before they happen and to get people back to work as soon as possible when they do fall ill. You need welfare programs so if shit happens (And it does) you don't have your life completely destroyed and you and your family put on the street.

Are any of those policies ones that the Republican party stands for? Sex education, socialized healthcare and education, and welfare are on the GOP hit-list. Democrat states have had these things for decades now, which is why they are the prosperous ones.
Minnesota has a lot of very unique things going for it. An above average number (17) of Fortune 500s in the Twin Cities area. One of the nations best private hospitals (Mayo Clinic), which drives its 3rd largest city's economy. A low cost of living due to opinions on its climate.
Semi off topic, but ... Is There a way in high Sierra to stop finder from littering every directory with thumbnails and other files?

There was (is?) a configuration that stops it for network paths, and 10.10 used to have aseptic (a kext that redirected those) but as far as I know there was no way in 10.11 or 10.13
In fact, there is a huge cottage industry of exactly this in at least the software engineering world. Several companies with enough revenue to make any seed-stage startup sneeze.

Making tens of thousands of dollars for a 2 day workshop/corporatetraining is not unheard of. No millions of dollars from VCs required.
I was part of the Beta when it actually was a web app. The reason I was told for switching to a native app was that it's much easier to secure a native app vs a web app. I think browser extensions are one of the big reasons for that.
If you come up with a solution that is worth more to them than the cost to them, people will find the money.

Yes, that is true. Unfortunately, that essentially means competing with the things that cost them currently, and that's mostly rent and basic utilities, which are heavily regulated markets dominated by state-supported companies. You could sell to them, but then it's no longer "solve the problems of people around you" but solve the problems of huge corporations, which is quite different.

You're still right, it's just a discouraging prospect.

Plenty of for profit businesses have a less direct monetization strategy than simply charging the end user for their use of it.

That's also very true. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with ads, since I dislike the concept, but recognize that I and many others who couldn't afford online services have greatly benefited from the redistributive effects of ads. Still, I wouldn't use them as my revenue source.

Unfortunately, except for ads and a fremium model, I don't see many ways to do this decoupling.
Yeah SWS (sears web services) was revolutionary in its day
America needs to stop with the "land of opportunity" bullshit narrative. It's not the 1920's anymore, not everyone gets to be Elon Musk.

We can either be like Germany and tackle these problems together - which will involve massive capital and wealth redistribution. The course we're on - "winner takes all" - is not sustainable - there will be riots on the streets before long.

I find it ironic how the GOP voters who seem to be disproportionately living in economically distressed areas are the ones most likely to vote for politicians pushing the dog-eat-dog economic model.
You can't force change on people who distrust you and all your ideas.
I think the commenter has a point.

From a review: "T'Kuvma, the Klingon leader, has a rallying cry of “Remain Klingon .... loathes the Federation ideals of equality, diversity, and peace. "

Those are nice ideals, and the work in a nation like America, which is 'an idea'.

But consider for a moment that 95% of people outside America live in 'ethnic groups' - and who's ethnic identities are existentially challenged by an American led corporate-globalism.

I live in Quebec, where the issue is real. The decline of the 'Francophone' culture - which is very different than the 'rest of North America' - can be measured. It's not doing so badly, but it's an issue: new immigrants want to speak English, and be 'Anglo' (i.e. not just language), meaning at one point in the future 'there is no Quebec'. I'm not hyperbolic, I think it will be ok - but my point is the issue is fully legit. Literally two hours ago I had a convo in a cafe with a French girl studying finance 'in English' to move to 'New York' 'where the money is' (literally her words).

I agree with the commenter (maybe for different reasons) because I feel that many outside America will simply see 'The Federation' as a metaphor for 'Americanisation'.

"We are morally superior"

"Your culture is barbaric"

"Give up your stupid cultures and norms, and become like us, speak English, and put a Starbucks on every street corner"

Even though that might not be the intent - often, it really is pragmatically that.

'Free Trade' with America, which is 10x bigger than any partner really means: "once we have even trade, our companies will devour yours". Imagine if Canada-US had 'free trade' on ownership of Telecoms. Do you think Bell Canada would buy Verizon? No. Sprint, Verizon and AT&T would instantly buy Telus, Rogers and Bell (their Canadian counteroparts). 100% of the 'good jobs' would go to the US, in Canada, only 'tech support' and 'local marketing' would remain. But because the 'balance sheet' would look better, economists like it (and have convinced even left-of-center politicians of this).

Yes - ideas such as 'equal pay for equal work' are fairly universal ... but cultural context is relevant.

You know what would be more 'authentically Star Trek'? ----> the 'Prime Directive' !!! "Don't mess with other cultures!"

If they stuck to the 'Prime Directive' maybe they'd be more appreciative/understanding of the Klingon's views instead of just starting a war (!) with them :)

FYI - the original Klingon's I don't think were politicized in this context, of course I think Rodenberry may have used them as a stand-in for the Soviets or whatever. (Soviets were hard-core egalitarians though, at least on paper. More female Engineers than males in Soviet Russia).

Anyhow: "Disney Social Politics" does not fit very well in the rest of the world. Even though Americans think they might be 'doing good' by promoting specific values, like so many things, we know the parable about 'good intentions'. Let's try the 'Prime Directive' (except when it comes to stopping things like genocide etc..) I like that one :).
What he meant is it has worked well for a selected few in China, as well as those international tycoon.
The human capital attraction by socially liberal policies can easily outweigh the fiscal policy burden of liberal tax policy.
The ACLU has produced a map to this effect: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-governments-100-mile-b...
Getting close: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Cottage-Company-10x16-GPM-WPNK...
I find the idea of an essentially clockwork rover really interesting but from a practical standpoint I still think the ideal rover for Venus would be like a cross between an submersible and an airship.

When the rover starts to run out of coolant it would inflate the airbag, rise up to about the one atmosphere level (50km?), use solar power to replace the coolant, then descend again for another ground mission. And since the venusian atmosphere is about 5% nitrogen, nitrogen seems like the ideal coolant, and, on top of that, it's probably the ideal lift gas for Venus as well. This is because pure gaseous nitrogen is considerably less dense than gaseous carbon dioxide.
I wonder if the intent is to compare their outputs directly, or to point out that China has its history of great writers just like the West. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classics is a nice list.)
Not at all, OP said "if one wants to keep things simple with a minimal/nonexistent build system" which would exclude the easiest ways to get one-off utility functions.
Why would they do that?

If they want to run stores into the ground, they would have closed them all by now.
If data is the new oil, are tech companies robbing us blind?
> But if a company was formed, as most companies are, intending to use a proven business model, then it's not in his definition of a startup.

This would seem to exclude virtually all delivery service, cleaning service, car service, etc. companies, which are usually considered the prototypical SV startups.
> He is limited by not having an "expensive macbook with 4 real cores" ?? He gave up on a test because it "paged out the 15GB of data".

Note that he already demonstrated that for many of the tests, his older MacBook was faster than these 160 core clusters. There were a couple where the older MacBook was not faster than a 160 core cluster, but he suspects that a newer one might be.

The one that paged out happened to be one where he artificially broke it up into 160 pieces to simulate what it would be like if he had 160 similar cores, but that caused enough issues with memory locality that swapping dominated the results. This artificial partitioning was to give a sense for what results on a 160 core cluster "should" be, but the swapping distorts the results enough that for that problem it wouldn't even be a very good rough estimate.

> Is this guy for real?

This isn't supposed to be a publication-quality paper. This is a blog post, using the resources he has immediately at hand, to show why if you follow cutting edge distributed database research you might be led down a wrong, and very costly, path, which you could avoid with a much simpler implementation on much cheaper hardware.

Note that he references an earlier paper that he did publish on this topic; this blog post is mostly just doing a similar check on some more recent published work, to see if much has improved in the field:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
Azure #CosmosDB – database for serverless era
Go to your profile, put a number into the "Delay" field. This is how I (usually) deal with my urge to post glib knee-jerk reactions. I have two minutes to edit and/or delete them before anyone else can see them.
I know it doesn't fall neatly into any of those categories, but I'd love some feedback on my idea:

I want to create an organization that is essentially a 6 week retreat for students before they begin college. Selecting the best applicants possible, they will go through rigorous training to become their most successful selves, covering Academics, Social life, Health, and Lifestyle topics. Elements of secrecy will help it's applicant pool, I was heavily inspired by the Bohemian Club.

Long term, the alumni network itself will more than make up for the cost, in turn making the applicant pool stronger and stronger.

It's an aggressive plan, and requires years of building up from the ground. But it's my dream to make it happen.
Wouldn’t this be an argument for adding those solved problems to JavaScript as like a standard library? I’m not a web developer by day so forgive me if I don’t know all the nuance of JS but I feel like what you would consider it’s “standard” functions is quite small.
Mathematics and the state of being stuck
> Women have historically been provided for by husbands

I hope you know that women were also historically accompanied by dowry? Just the woman herself, with her raising a family, was not considered sufficient offering to match the groom.

If you hope to find a husband that would provide you towards the end of your life, you should (a) choose very carefully, and (b) have solid understanding of your own contribution. Otherwise, once your husband decides he doesn't want to spend the rest of life with you, it falls apart.

There's no doubt why alimony should be paid to support underage children. There's no reason why alimony should be paid to support an adult, a healthy woman of working age.
Jesus, chill. I am reading it, (and I know nothing about CNN's), and learning about what do I need to read first about them. The author makes it clear on few things that you need to read before hand.

I think it is a good article/blog post, (thanks dude, whoever you are that wrote it).

You on the other hand didn't give any better alternatives on your "rant".
Announcing the General Availability of Azure Service Fabric on Linux
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If you're not using a framework that requires you to transpile, jQuery basically takes care of the most common bits.
In Detroit they collected family movies taken around the date of the 1967 Detroit riots and created a movie.

http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2017/02/13/d...
At least a handful of NPM employees are big parts of the open-source project as well.
In Google Scholar - just a few days ago - it used to highlight whatever search term you used on the main page. Did this change with the new version? Because when I search "case law" now, when I go into a particular case, the search term is no longer highlighted.
Violence and the Sacred: College as an Incubator of Girardian Terror
should every country block every other country?
Sears was such a dominant player at EXACTLY what Amazon does that at one point... more Americans had Sears catalogs than indoor plumbing.

It use to be normal to take the Sears catalog out to the outhouse and use it for toilet paper.

Retail is flat circle, you just move the counter between the seller and the customer. Some generations like picking out the products, some generations like having someone pick it out for them. Some like it getting delivered, some like picking it up.

Not much changes... people need goods... but no one makes all the goods they need.
So sad that Intel doesn't include a blank plate in every box. Oh wait, they do.
Funnily enough, HFS+ wasn't a particularly well-performing filesystem to begin with (if compared with say... EXT4, which is similar in terms of features).
They're an old money'ish place, lead by many large companies including Cargill, the quiet behemoth that continues to chug along.
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