skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After spending a little too much time on advice books, I put them permanently on the shelf, dispensed to used book stores as time went on. Particularly awful were the "What to Expect" books, which were doctrinaire and promised great ills if the doctrines weren't kept.

I kept a couple anthropological books, including Lancy's, and the Mayo Clinic's medical guides to pregnancy and the first year. Too, a developmental book "Touchpoints" which seemed to have a pragmatic style and gave some understanding of typical development.

For specific baby management concerns, we were trained by the nurses at the hospital, and visits to the doc addressed things that came up otherwise.

Thing is - what the anthro and historical views of baby raising taught me -

If your kid has Issues, that will be a medical situation, and should be addressed medically. If your kid does not have Issues, then largely they will turn out as they will, if you treat them decently and well, for the first year. Feed em, clean em, read to em, put em to bed, and it'll be largely okay. As they come to more reasoning and thinking, influence increases, but the first year is sort of a wash in many ways. There are huge variations in how different groups treat the first year, and it doesn't seem to matter in turning out functional humans.

Behavior issues can be mitigated by routine and structure, but not avoided.

The idea of each kid being this special & unique flower is sort of a 20c development. That's important to remember and contemplate.
A text alignment algorithm inspired by.. soap operas?
Some things MS does lately makes me think it's the end of days, and they are doing great things. Then I see Windows 10 load the marketing FUD pushing Edge over Chrome.
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... and a couple of hours later it has 12,000 stars. It's funny again.
This is really Tensorflow as a service. You get an IP address and a port you send gRPC requests to:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/blob/master/tools/diagnost...

Presumably, there's a whole server behind that address that has all the right drivers and libraries: details you don't need to care about.

The only partial lock-in is that not all ops are supported and you need to figure if there are any parts of the graph in the critical part that will run on the CPU instead. There's a tool for that:

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/cloud-tpu-tools#tpu_compat...

Competitors could launch something similar that uses GPUs tomorrow. Now, if you don't already use TF and don't want to switch, that's another story.
It's too bad they didn't roll out the UI as a feature. Allowing users to opt-in or opt-out. That way users could tinker with it and not lose their streaks, and learn the new UI before the _real_ rollout.

The mismanagement of Snap is so absurd. This company is going to end in a fiery scorched earth death.
The blockchain itself would be too expensive to store a large amount of data, so they would only be storing magnet links much like most tracker sites currently do.
Of course there are many other considerations, but there is a class of small finance related multi-tenancy systems for which monetary calculations are key and either a database server or a database library can potentially make sense.

Resource consumption isn't an issue at all. 100MB+ is less than loading an average news website in a browser and it costs almost nothing. The reason why I would have wanted to use SQLite sometimes is that it makes it easy to distribute and run the entire app on premises if needed. People are rightly concerned about losing access to web based software.
High quality speech recognition is ubiquitous in phone services these days so that isn't a good reason. Besides, if I want to set a 16 char password and am willing to enter that on a keypad, what's the problem?
But you would have to host it somewhere, if only to seed
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The article concludes that:

> The internet is now dominated by legitimate choices for video streaming.

I really, really would love that to be the case, so that copyright holders stop freaking out about their presumed losses due to pirated content, and would just leave the pirates be.
This. Even with a giant subwoofer system, 20 hz is more felt than heard. The "deep 808 bass drum" usually centered between 40-60 hz. My Tr-808 was centered at ~53 hz. Keep in mind that a doubling of frequency is an octave, so 26.5 hz would be an octave down and 106hz would be an octave higher
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Like the other commenter mentioned, I'd love to hear more about this too. How are you doing backups and deployment?
It doesn't matter in the ways you are considering. The ultimate comparisons are going to be time, cost, and power to complete some benchmark, just as you say.

I only mention the number of chips because loads of people are comparing the "single TPU" to a single V100 with the assumption that it is meaningful. I don't know the TDP, die size, etc. of the TPUv2 chip, so it may well make more sense for ballpark comparisons to compare "single TPU" to 4xV100.

For example, a "single TPU" has 64 GB of memory, whereas a "single GPU" has 16 GB (V100). Is this meaningful? I don't know.

It just seems like something worth noting. I could buy a DGX1-V with 8xV100, rebrand it as the TWTW TPU, and then go around and tell everyone how my TPU is 8x faster than GPUs. It appears that everyone is normalizing by marketing unit until benchmarks come out, which is potentially flawed.
Here is a C version of fizzbuzz if anyone has an interview tomorrow:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int i = 0;
for(i=1; i<=100; i++)
{
unsigned int f = 0;
if(i % 3 == 0)
{
f = 1;
}
if(i % 5 == 0)
{
f |= 2;
}
if(f == 0)
{
printf("%d\n",i);
}
else if(f == 1)
{
puts("fizz");
}
else if(f == 2)
{
puts("buzz");
}
else if(f == 3)
{
puts("fizzbuzz");
}
}
return 0;
}
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I'd say the time when we will know for sure is when Assange visits Disneyland, Florida and nothing happens. And if I were him - just being prudent - on the off chance that the US government is only about 1% as vindictive as various statements by various officials have suggested I'd visit Paris instead.
Free (aka Online.net, aka Scaleway) also offers a uTorrent with web ui in their distro installer for their servers, out of the box.
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When I was in Japan at one of their museums they had the leg bones from an early settler out to compare to those of a more recently decease person from Japan.

They wanted to highlight that the leg bones took on structural differences in ancient times because of the type of physical work they endured. The only modern humans that get these features now are Olympic athletes.
Ultraviolet?
Interesting. I'll look into it next time it comes up. I wonder how it interacts with indexes and how it affects performance generally.
PC building is a nightmare right now between RAM and GPU prices. It's clear that they are not a valued demographic to parts manufacturers.

Anyway, I would recommend a Ryzen 3 + GTX 1050 at a minimum for a gaming computer. The performance here on GTA V, a several years old game, is pretty poor.
In the Bay Area, they sell and move to Oregon, driving up our prices. And because they're retired, don't have kids in schools or anything, they mostly vote against taxes.

There are also plenty of entrepreneurs and hackers and so on who move up here, so that balances things out to some degree. Still, though, California's NIMBYism has repercussions throughout the entire west coast.
If you read with your kids and don't get divorced then you've already done a great job I think.
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Why can't goverment DMCA requests work for blockchains? How is your suggestion much different than bittorrent? The goverment could just as easily take down links to the blockchain as they could takedown links to a torrent.

Exchanging trackers for pow isn't a real advantage. Especially for large datasets (Youtube) where a third party will have to index the blockchain for reasonable to access it.
this might be an unpopular opinion, but I think copyright is a good thing, as it allows for artists to actually get paid for their work
I'm assuming Stratfor doesn't just make stuff up, their connection to the US government is far too sensitive for that. It's not just some random conspiracy group or tinfoil hatter saying that, it's Stratfor. You know, this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor
Couldn’t they do this with a copy-on-write initial heap that all the engine instances clone?
Won't use it unless it's unionized.
also, >very little in capital investments

what? it doesn't require huge upfront capital compared to say, building a factory, but risk in buying mining equipment is insane given how volatile the price/difficulty is.
Given the way they handled this, I assume Equifax actually has no idea what was leaked. The CEO publicly throwing a single sysadmin under the bus for lack of patches indicates they are probably operating in the security stone ages and have insufficient logging to reconstruct what happened in any capacity. Just my guess.
I think LeonM's point WAS that it's unnecessary to qualify "blockchain" with distributed, because as you say, it would be relaively pointless otherwise.
In high-cost-of-living areas, there are two other major costs worth considering. First is the cost of daycare (or equivalently the opportunity cost of having a stay-at-home parent). My wife watches our son, and we're glad that she can afford to do that, but that's $100k of forgone take-home pay we're leaving on the table.

Second is the increased rent/mortgage of a house with an extra bedroom. I pay ~$600/mo more for an extra bedroom and have a substantially longer commute than most of my coworkers to live in a place that can accommodate our family.

Both of those costs far exceed anything else we've spent on our son, which mostly falls into the "optional" category you mentioned.

Both of these factors are much more important in high-cost-of-living areas, which may explain in part why there aren't many kids in San Francisco.
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They do, but they're not very effective. They might have an up-to-date list of domains belonging to the big services (i.e. Mailinator), but you can always just google "Disposable e-mail", open the 10th page and pick the first one, and it's pretty much always guaranteed to work.
I don't think so. Would youtube account for less than 0.01 % av Kodi use?
As a father of four girls ranging from 8 years to three months old, I have to agree with that elderly lady. My daughters are all very different persons, with their own personalities, likes and interests. There's very little I could do to change who they fundamentally are, even if I wanted to. I also believe that as long as you love your children (which is very easy to do), and provide them with a safe environment where they can feel empowered to try things (a bit harder, but still very doable), they'll turn out fine.

There's this trend in parenting nowadays, where we're all pursuing perfection via different techniques / philosophies, but anything involving living things, especially humans, is inherently messy / imperfect. Raising children is no exception.
Then I'm absurd. To me, the interface was better then. It really started dropping off in ~2015.
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Why do you want to detect the difference between a user signing up with one email account twice or two different accounts? It's folly to try to detect this in this manner and you will only piss off regular users.
Id do more digital nomading if the rentals were easier to arrange. Airbnb's often have poor internet, poor desks, and noise. It's also less obviously a business expense for taxes.

But when I'm in a place, I'd rather hang out with locals. Hearing about that goal of Roam puts me off using it.
>(That is, I would expect audiophile-grade equipment to best mimic the monitors on which most recordings are mixed, which presumably is a flat loudness curve.)

Not necessarily, because that assumes the audio was mixed correctly to begin with. The audio will have to be played back over digital and analog broadcasts with varying dynamic range characteristics, not to mention various output technologies, including $5 headphones. And not to mention how the shape of each persons ear affects the response curve in different ways.

There is no way for an engineer to produce a rendition that sounds great in all of those scenarios, making 'mimicking the monitor' a pointless pursuit to begin with - even IF you were an audiophile listening to 400MB DSD files.

>Does anyone know why Apple finds it needed to further apply sound shaping to recorded sound?

I'd say the vast vast majority of people want more to have the audiophile label/association than actually listen to music with a flat curve, because most music will sound like crap.

Sorry for the rant :P
... for inference. I don't know of anyone who takes training on FPGAs seriously. They tend to get crushed by GPU/TPU/other ASIC in throughput, perf/watt, and perf/$.
> All it does is fuck with your head, so just take a cue from other parents around you.

A parent you make insecure by gaslamping the hell out of them, suggesting there's something wrong with their child if it doesn't conform to xyz is going to spend a lot of money on solutions to problems that don't exist.

We made tons of these mistakes the first time around. For the rest, we just bought diapers, formula and toys and let nature take its course. They turned out fine.

Baby books are the Fox News of childrearing-- lots of bold opinions and advice, most of it dubious/inapplicable.
In this regard, it is similar to how natural sciences are done. The hyperparameter space of possible experiments is immense, they are expensive, so one has to go with intuition and luck. Reporting this is difficult.

I'd agree it's done in a sort-of scientific way. But I don't think you can say it's done the way natural science is done. A complex field, like oceanography or climate science, may be limited in the kind of experiments it can do and may require luck and intuition to produce a good experiment. But such science is always aiming to reproduce an underlying reality and the experiment aim to verify or not a given theory.

The process of hyperparameter optimization doesn't involve any broader theory of reality. It is essentially throwing enough heuristics at a problem and tune enough that they more or less "accidentally" work.

You use experiment to show this heuristic approximation "works" but this sort of approach can't be based on a larger theory of the domain.

And it's logical that there can't be a set theory of how any approximation to any domain works. You can have a bunch of ad-hoc descriptions of approximation each of which works with a number of common domains but it seems logical these will remain forever not-a-theory.
That is 1) to prevent fraud (see "check kiting") and 2) so the holding institution can collect the interest for the day.

This is not a technology problem. Blockchain won't change either of these.
Isn't blockchain useful for tokenizing VC investments that would normally be illiquid? I've read that there are a few companies that are doing this with "security tokens."
I always understood ~20Hz to be relegated more for inaudible movie effects like you mentioned. Usually contributing to the feeling of dread, fear, and anxiety in horror movies, etc.

It’s news to me that one might need 20Hz for purely an audio track, especially in the home. I would understand at a concert or something but to demand it from a single small self-contained unit like that sounds like looking for love in all the wrong places.
Same bug happened to me on Chrome stable, though only on the first load
Again when it comes to the USA copyright law, it is about distribution.

A person who copies a specific work and does not distribute it is not breaking the law as far as I am aware.

That is why I'd be interested in seeing what laws have been broken.
Back in my day we ripped dvds to our systems.
Does anyone else think that Equifax will suffer long term consequences and be acquired by another reporting agency ?
I've found RDP to be a better protocol, personally.
What do you consider isolationism? Having the US scale back its meddling in other nations' affairs is hardly xenophobia. If anything, it is a great improvement. Think: Not having CIA goons meddling in political and commercial affairs.
Yes there is a version of Visusl Studio for the Mac and Visual Studio Code. There is also the excellent JetBrains Rider.
This makes no sense, the V100 has more memory bandwidth than both the TPU and TPUv2
Anybody know a worthwhile open source social network alternative?
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The holdout’s subjective experience might be ruined, but their land value would skyrocket.
Hah, you beat me to it, I just wrote this up in Rust.

fn main() {
let mut seq_mod_3 = [false,false,true]
.into_iter()
.cycle();
let mut seq_mod_5 = [false,false,false,false,true]
.into_iter()
.cycle();
for i in 1..101 {
let divisible_by_3 = *seq_mod_3.next().unwrap();
let divisible_by_5 = *seq_mod_5.next().unwrap();

match (divisible_by_3, divisible_by_5) {
(true , true ) => println!("fizzbuzz"),
(true , false) => println!("fizz"),
(false, true ) => println!("buzz"),
(false, false) => println!("{}", i),
}
}
}
The perception of equal loudness changes with both sound pressure level (SPL) and frequency. Are you playing the music louder or quieter than the SPL it was mixed at? Then the balance changes.
The reason why for me, someone with a netflix and amazon prime account in Germany, bittorrent is neither dead nor declining (for movies and TV shows):

a) Being on time. If you want to take part in the online discussion about tv shows, you have to watch them on time. For a ton of shows I can't even buy episodes on the day they come out. Torrenting is still the far superior choice.

b) Languages. Yes netflix, I know that I live in Germany. That does not mean that I don't want to have the option of watching anime in Japanese with English subtitles. And Amazon, it's great that I found out you are now showing advertisements before every episode, but it's also in German. While everything else on amazon.de is in English for me.

c) Quality. I don't care that your algorithm thinks my network is not fast enough for HD. Just let me tell it that it's wrong. Or I could torrent and download something in actual HD within just a few minutes.

The worst thing is that all of those are completely artificial. There is no technological reason for any of those problems to exist. And ignoring if I want to or not, in most cases I don't even have the option of throwing absurd amounts of money at them to make them go away. Because of greed, laziness and/or stupidity, torrenting is still the superior option in most cases. For me.

PS: Mostly thanks to Bandcamp.com music torrenting is completely dead for me.
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Where in https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... does it say that?

65917.7.b.4.A and B both impose minimums on the maximum height limit that can be imposed. They do not impose a minimum on the height itself. This bill allows for building higher, it does not force it.
The blank media tax is probably a compensation (i.e. not a tax) for the right to do private copies of legally acquired media. At least, this is what it is in France.
I don't know where you are looking, but I have no problem getting fully digital rips of current run TV shows in 720p/1080p that are wonderful - excelled only by BluRay rips from the box-sets when they come out.
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Because you are changing the volume. If you read about it further, it's adjusted on the basis of how loud you turn it up.

Long and short of it is that if you turn the volume up, and your want it to sound the "same" but louder than before, you need to turn different frequencies up more than others, to account for the human ear's varying sensitivity to different frequencies.
Superficially, this may be the case, but when it comes to land use, entrenched interests tend to win - and those interests are the current homeowners who block new growth.

In short, it's a lot easier to not do something than to do it and in an environment of diverse, competing interest, the easiest route is the likely winner.
It's a pointless and stupid point.

It is extremely easy to setup extra email accounts, so preventing people from doing so with slightly less work is pointless.

It is stupid because it could prevent someone from using their real, valid email address because it matches another, different, valid email address.
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Start fining companies when user data is lost. News would report on companies getting fined for shitty security practices, which also makes it clear that the problem isn't hackers. Plus companies have an incentive to spend money on securing their data.
I think a better alternative should be, a de-centralized distributed open source social network.
It's certainly a DMCA violation if you broke any DRM to make that copy. That does not require distribution.
I don’t think they did, but if they used Time on Target (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_On_Target), they could have created a localized peak of incoming arrows per second that is significantly higher than the rate of fire.

I would guess that also would make it harder for defenders to dodge incoming arrows. Rationale: if you can see it, one incoming arrow is relatively easy to avoid, ten per square meter almost impossible. Also, the arrows would come in from different directions (the ones fired earliest almost vertically, the last ones fired almost horizontally), making it harder to see all arrows heading for you.
I think that's pretty close to what they're doing, really. Though usually COW refers to doing things on a page by page basis, which probably would not be as effective (since it would copy entire pages, when only a little was needed, so unless you were careful to put related function close together, you'd copy a lot more of the heap than you really want).

You're probably right though. I bet they end up closer and closer to that. Possibly even sharing pages that can't be modified, like code objects. That's what the last sentence or two seems to allude to. Eventually, they'll pretty much be reinventing shared libraries for the JavaScript world. Not that that's a bad thing.
>What if intelligence, both animal and machine, is purely random trial and error and "this thing seems to work"?

Then you apply statistics. Which are the foundations of machine learning.
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How many users are just hanging on?

I use FB very occasionally for some events, but mostly never login. I get nagging notifications about how much I'm missing, but it doesn't feel like much.

I suspect there is a growing population of people with similar usage patterns. Are we really monthly active users?
Article claims Facebook is losing market share to Instagram (with individuals under 25). With that in mind, doesn't seem accurate to state they're losing users.
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No potatoes until well after the longbow had mostly exited the battlefield. Probably more like porridge or coarse bread.