skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the semi rural west and know many ranchers, family owns a few... i don't know of a single rancher who has been prevented from doing upkeep on roads across their own land that they allow easement to. only issues i know of are if you block a salmon stream, big no no in washington. also, people will vandalize just about anything, the assertion that they do it because its federal might be a bit off, IMO.

i had a run in with a rancher who pulled a gun on me for using public easement he was quickly visited by the local sheriff and had his ideals corrected.
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For things like this, "have broad-but-shallow knowledge of a field" and "be lazy like Larry Wall" also work.
Academia nowadays is a high-tech bureaucracy; you are forced to churn out documents (papers) that need to cite other documents, and you're evaluated based on your position in the inter-document citation network.

Then you have to write other documents (grant proposals) to grab money to write more documents (papers) by gaming the inner mechanics of some comittee.

If partner-track investment bankers are overworked, depressed sociopaths with Lamborghinis, then tenure-track postdocs are investment bankers with crappy bicycles.

Needless to say, I left academia 3 years ago and never looked back.
Yes, p3.2xlarge in us-east-1b is currently sitting at $0.3204 spot. That's only marginally more than p2.xlarge (at $0.2259 in us-east-1e).

I'm sure this will change with demand, though. :(
Supply of wannabe developers is quite high.
They make it back from the smaller merchants that are paying the full 2.75%. Local stores need Visa a lot more than Visa needs any one of them, but when you get to the Walmarts of this world the dynamic is rather different; if Walmart stopped taking Visa it would hurt Visa almost as much as it hurt Walmart.
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I think it comes down to requirements. If games aren't running smoothly, people simply won't play them.

Business apps have it a lot easier - the users are more forgiving, I guess either because they don't have a choice in the matter or any better options.
How would you prevent natural mutations from modifying or disabling the target mechanism? If you can't guarantee its integrity, the descendants of your air-born killer virus will be back for you in short order. That, rather than inability to do it, is what will hopefully prevent it.
Someone posts this glib comment every time academic careers are discussed. It's true, and yet harder than you'd think.

Suppose you know that only 1 in 10 PhDs in your field end up in a tenure track job. A decent fraction of your classmates are interested in industry--or never want to see the inside of a lab again. Maybe this reduces the competition down to one in six or seven. You're in a pretty good program, definitely in the top 15 percent of the field. It's certainly not that easy, but...you're not obviously worse than most of your classmates, you work on a hot topic and you work hard. What are your chances?

Very few grad students get any kind of personalized career advice or discussion of their prospects. They should obviously think about this, but more senior scientists also have a responsibility to provide mentorship and frank assesments.
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Are Atlantic salmon not migratory like Pacific salmon?

Pacific salmon are born in fresh water rivers and travel downstream to the river. When it's time to mate, they migrate back up fresh water streams they were born in to mate and then die.

If you were farm born and raised then where would you migrate to mate?
Yes, but it still drops the frame as far as I know (works like a charm by the way, in my experience).
If you don't need the support and don't need a physical boxed product, you can likely bring this cost down to about £40. Look for OEM.
>I'm not sure who's hypothesizing that a modern country has to emulate the US. That's a kind of cold war point of view.

It's also the de facto point of view of western countries, and the yardstick by which they judge other countries.

(Including various "NGOs" and "world organizations" that measure the world with the same yardstick and are influenced by the same ideologies and even follow the same political goals).
I think the breakeven point is much earlier than you suggest. I'd guess something like 28 hours/week is peak productivity; more than that and you're spending more effort on looking productive and being in the office and getting less done.
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> Manila file folders

TIL why OpenStack's NFS-as-a-service offering is called Manila. :)
Honestly, I didn't spend enough time delving in to the Python overhead, especially in terms of the framework. Most of it would be an issue of my own causing however rather than the framework's. The original code I wrote was never written with data loading / saving in mind as the source for speed issues so I avoided what would have been premature optimization at the time.

Some of the slowdowns now just seem silly and aren't even listed in the per epoch timings: PyTorch doesn't have an asynchronous torch.save(). This means that if you save your model after each epoch, and the model save takes a few seconds, you're increasing your per epoch timings 5-10% just by saving the damn thing!

Regarding FP16, PyTorch supports, and there's even a pull request that updates the examples repo with FP16 support for language modeling and ImageNet. It's not likely to be merged as it greatly complicates a codebase that's meant primarily for teaching purposes but it's lovely to look at. I also think many of the FP16 issues will get a general wrapper and they'll become far more agnostic to the end user. For the most part they're all outlined in NVIDIA / Baidu's "Mixed Precision Training" paper. Might be useful for DeepLearning4j to go through the most common heavy throughput use cases and get them running (just as an example of how to work around issues really) if customers were using P100s/V100s?

I'm really interested in exploring the FP16 aspect as the QRNN, especially for single GPU, is sitting at basically 100% utilization, with almost all the time spent on matrix multiplications. FP16 is about the only way to speed it up at that stage. This gets a tad more complicated regardless as the CUDA kernel is not written in FP16 (and is not easy to do so) but even converting FP16->FP32->(QRNN element-wise CUDA kernel)->FP16 ("pseudo" FP16) should still be a crazy speedup. I tested that on the P100 and it took per epoch AWD-QRNN from ~28 seconds to ~18.

- PyTorch async save issue: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/1567

- PyTorch FP16 examples pull request: https://github.com/pytorch/examples/pull/203

- "Mixed Precision Training": https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03740
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. The US can be a bit too extreme is their demands to adopt US-style system, but the US system isn't perfect by any means. But I do agree that democratic freedoms are important for the sustainable development of a country. Free press in particular. But selling out your internal market to foreign multinationals seems to be a terrible idea.

I've long felt that the EU should have been doing something similar: instead of barriers around the EU market, they should have offered free trade with any developing country, as long as they follow certain basic values like free press, human rights, and at least some degree of democracy. Economic development in exchange for European values. If handled right, I think that could have done a lot of good in the world. Now China seems to beat us to it.
It should be only used by non-profits.
Big difference for long moves or short moves, and large moves or small moves.

I needed to move the contents of a three-bedroom house from Cambridge to Edinburgh, 400 miles, and my first quote was £4000! It was eventually done for £1000 by a firm who sent two guys and a massive lorry which took all day to fill. I don't think it could have been done with less than three trips of the largest available van to rent without a special license.
>I’m not mad at you, but as the dude on the other side of the desk, I have to decide whether you can cut it and I’m fine saying no. I could make you do some whiteboard problems, but I think whiteboard problems are pretty far removed from your day to day development and I am uncomfortable relying on them as a proxy for your ability to ship code.

So, are architects and engineers expected to have built side-houses, and side-bridges, and side-cars?
By "intuition" you must mean instinct -- but this isn't a separate category from learned behaviour for an AI that can be trained over the equivalent of many generations.

In any case, botnik is not an autonomous AI, and humans are responsible for the important decisions (is this incongruous word funny?) when composing a text with it. So it's a long way from AI humour.
Yes esp. since many times there's little to no risk since it's standing up to friends.
I've always used them exclusively for guitar picks.
Per the marketing material it's up to a PFLOP of mixed precision (is that the same as just saying "half precision"? or is it 8 bit?) for $25/hour.

I can easily see people paying full price for that. Still, spot price is currently $2.40.
My point was the way they were trying to hype it up, even feeling the need to swear, which tends to be reserved for the truly shocking. Compared to some better writing like:

> IBM's mainframes integrate water-cooling, as air-cooled systems don't tend to be sufficient.
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It would have been better to offer free screenings of A Serbian Film to movie critics and bloggers, and then nobody else would have wanted to watch the atrocity.
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I always tell students in my field (molecular biology) to at the very least learn to code at a reasonable level and pick up some data science skills. Something transferable.

At any given time in my department, there'd be five times the amount of post-grad students to full-time staff. Maybe more. It has to be obvious that there likely isn't a job at any level at the end of it. Not just high-flying jobs on the path to professorship, but even low skill technical stuff.

As in other fields, women are at a significant disadvantage if they want to have kids (presuming they've made it though the initial cull). The key time for scoring a good number of first author papers in the very best journals is late 20s and early 30s in their post-doc positions. Given every higher position is so competitive, they simple lose out due to the time taken off. Makes me quite to sad to see very very talented scientist friends passed over for this reason.
Discriminating wages on arbitrary criteria like geographic location goes against equal work = equal pay and that compensation should be based on contribution [1].

Location base: For the other 65% of the base, we factor in each location’s cost of living using Numbeo together with data from Payscale and Glassdoor, which we then use to have a base salary for that particular location (say New York or Cape Town).

[1] https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
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z/OS and IBM's mainframes are fascinating, and great pieces of engineering. Probably the only thing I like about the company.

But I guess that's how they were drawing people in, people like you and I hope for something interesting, and get some strange marketing fluff instead.
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Hi there. There is a good potential market for you among floatation centre owners / spas. The use of Hydrogen Peroxide and UV in combination as a water sanitising technology is very popular, and giving the owners of float centres and spas the ability to say they use plant based peroxide produced using enzymes would be a powerful marketing message to their customers.
I think Walter is saying something else entirely, specifically that the people being recorded must have known and consented to the recording (it would be painfully obvious, given the way the technology worked at that point), so the descendants have nothing to do with the point of consent for these recordings. If I make a rare recording with knowledge that just about anyone could listen to it, and it becomes an artifact, certainly don't think I'd care what ethnicity or cultural lineage the listeners belong to any more than I did when the recording was made.

For example, if you publish a book, I don't need your descendants or the descendants of a parallel bloodline to approve me reading it.

That said, I only skimmed the article, so maybe there's something particularly sensitive about the circumstances of the recording? Forgive me if I've overlooked something. Beyond all that, it is also ultimately the researchers' discretion as to who they want to check with before publishing the works more widely, so whatever. Far be it from me to say that I have a right to something that I did not put in the effort to create.
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High turnover of underperformers isn't a bad thing.
You didn't understand my point. Having a website isn't enough to sell porn if the credit card companies won't let you charge money for it.
Yea I mean, I don't know anything about what Gamergate thinks, and I don't have as low an opinion of Kotaku as you're saying that GG does. Ive just never had any exposure to as _high_ an opinion as you have of them and was curious about it. Not really a domain I know much about, to be honest.
Yeah they turned up at the saloon with pearl handled revolvers and ordered a mint julep.
I realize (and it is good that you are sure about this). Lack of objectivity about loss of life is one point I made and I believe we actually agree. At the same time as the Charlie Hebdo attacks there was this Boko Haram attack on Baga, leaving around 2000 innocent villagers dead. News media worldwide treated this as if a bunch of flies died.

Ask around educated friends how many terror attacks there were worldwide during the most recent years. Most of them are completely unaware of the amount of extremism-fueled terror, because there are only news reports of attacks on Western nations reaching international media.
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I'm somewhat sad they didn't include a few things:

- a box/whisker plot in the latency comparison graph — esp. if we're to talk about Go's GC...

- some discussion/arguments why the particular C implementation was chosen ("tapip") — I'm not an expert in this area so I don't have the slightest idea how notable it is;

- how did they detect/measure the claimed memory leaks in C? also, some statistics about the claimed crashes?

- isn't clear to me if they used some "well known" load testing tools, or some homemade framework? (e.g. "siege" is a tool I read about more than once?)

- more details on how exactly the "correctness was determined by testing against Linux kernel [implementation]".

That said, my initial loose conclusions from this seem to be:

- it appears it may be easier to write a correct implementation in Go (the implementation seems to be written just ad hoc by the article authors?) than in C;

- it appears it may be easier in Go than in C to write an implementation scaling well w.r.t. average latency & throughput, assuming the need is for a multi-threaded & user-space implementation.
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> However claiming that working long hours and not being compensated is 100x worse than sexual harassment seems much less clear.

I'm not trying to claim that the statement is "clearly" true (or true at all), having not worked in game development personally. I just didn't think it was a fair characterization of the comment.
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The service they offer has existed for a long time. Rich people pay top dollar to get good, professional movers who take care of their stuff and don't add to the stress of moving. This company tried to provide this service, but at a lower price, so low that they couldn't be profitable.

Unfortunately, they couldn't cover their labor costs this way. Movers who will show up, take good care of the customer's stuff, are courteous and don't take tips clearly cost more than typical movers who simply provide a pair of strong arms to lift stuff up and down stairs and onto trucks, but don't give a shit about your brand. Normal people use normal moving services who provide a so-so service not because they are stupid but because they don't have the money to spend on premium movers. Obviously customers who got a heavily discounted service gave them five stars and said they would recommend them.

Presumably they tried to interest investors in subsidizing their customers' moving to build a brand. However investors are more cautious now and have been burned on laundry apps and similar. They understand that real-world services don't scale or offer first-mover-advantage (npi) the same way search engines and social networks do.
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Coasters with sharp metal edges on them are indeed a novelty. /s
Having had to fire someone who had been at a company for more than two years, I can say it was anything but a simple procedure: it involved a performance improvement plan which lasted interminably (and actually sapped a really surprisingly large amount of my own time...) and it became an awful lot more complicated when it turned out the guy was on anti-depressants. In the end, HR suggested I take the guy to the pub for lunch and they told me a series of things I could say to encourage him to quit but which couldn't possibly be construed as constructive dismissal; thankfully over lunch he told me he'd got another job offer, and I walked him out of the office the following day with a great sense of relief.
Not that you code less outside of work, but that you do other things and meet other (non-programmer) people.

As to how that helps: it doesn't help you solve implementation problems, it helps in designing the software to do what the client wants in a way they will like.

It is hard to put yourself in the shoes of a different person to design something for them if you only hang out with people like you and only use software built for people like you.

As a concrete example: what would a piece of software for artists be like if your only-engineering coworkers designed it vs. you having some input? By the way, it would definitely be either a portfolio hosting service or some kind of art database software. What problem do artists have that could use some software help that they aren't even aware exists?
That solution seems so obvious, I was thinking that the whole time I read the article:

Why allow people to so zealously defend their property rights on a huge plot of land that's hundreds of acres big? It's not like you're standing in their living room.

OTOH maybe that's just my European perspective where we're used to living 'cramped' (as opposed to the vastness of the Americas).
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I'm with you on single base edits being mostly not applicable to humans clinically, but...

"our ability to make directed changes far outpaces our knowledge of what changes to make"

On this point I couldn't disagree more. It's the opposite: our knowledge of what changes to make is years ahead of being able to make those changes. The polygenic scores available for complex traits now, though crude, are within an order of magnitude of what correlations will ever be possible.

For example, the best PGS for educational achievement explains somewhere around ~10% of variance, which corresponds to a correlation of ~32%, and the total heritability is only something like ~75%, meaning the best possible correlation would be ~87%. Anything you can do with a 87% correlation, you can also do with a 32% correlation, and get a proportionately weaker effect.

Of course, there are still many unanswered questions about which SNPs are really causal, and the tradeoffs associated with editing them, but you don't really _need_ this to make edits that are much more likely to help than hurt. As long as you stay within the bounds of what could have happened naturally by chance, the risk really isn't big.

The real problem is that you have to make a _lot_ of edits, and the editing technologies aren't ready for that. I don't know an exact number, but you might be looking at 100s of edits in a single embryo to do anything noticeable. Traditional double-stranded-break CRISPR can't even do 1 edit without usually causing some major damage. Base editing looks better, but still can only do a small proportion of all possible edits.

In conclusion, if you could print an arbitrary human genome, you'd see some pretty sci-fi stuff even today. But we're pretty far off that.
Containers help with both. No full-system boot delay helps. Cached layers help. Not dealing with vm-specific kernel modules helps. Fast non-nfs volumes shared with the host help.

There are speed benefits for containers all over the place - both in time spent dealing with the environment and in actual execution.
Normally people's portfolio would include their actual commercial work; it's just the way copyright has turned out in software means we can't do that.

Perhaps the best solution would be a unionized right to proper credit to developers like in the film industry.
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And running stuff on a server? So the iPad Pro, as an interface to the main computer?
Wow, nice ad, also what an epic deception.

These filters are designed for everyday use.

Cleaning smoke polluted air should be considered extreme use.

Even if you are getting an industrial filtration system installed,

you'd had to change filters almost daily.

It's the same if you get a kids pool filter for a large pool, it's useless after a day or two.

I really hope these people will get proper help to restart their life, these protip articles are super concerning.
Yeah. That's a good piece of advice. I usually spend time on data analysis, learning computer security, web designing or any tech related stuff but as hobby only. I know basic of these things but not a "pro" in one field. I guess better to keep learning new things, any time opportunities might pop up as you have said.
Data so absent that they have to draw an analogy to a different data set without any supporting evidence that such is valid. This is Nature not the daily Mail.

What is the statistic? How many PhD students have jobs in Academia 5 Years after being awarded? Surely they have /something/ that might be indicative they can publish that's better than footballers? Surely..?
this is my understanding of easements and closed roads too... a rancher bought some land near my home that has a trail crossing it to public lands that are encompassed by private land. he pulled a weapon on me and was investigated for brandishing and was set straight about his approach to dealing with people using public access, since it was there when he bought the land and it was well known.

ranchers can carry guns, but so can just about anyone else out west.

some folks i know just take the misleading no trespassing signs down. i've also seen where people attach them to trees surrounding good public hunting too, to prevent others from getting their trophies.
Maybe it's better to provide access to Google on the interview. What do you think?
Sounds like Google Wave
You know how much a banana is worth because you've seen how much people charge for bananas from different origins in different grocery stores. Knowing how much your peers are getting paid is important information when evaluate an offer, and helps to ensure a more efficient job market.
Also companies probably could use this to punish security researchers for discovering vulnerabilities in their products.