skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would a Chromebook slow down after a year? They're not Windows computers and don't have magnetic drives.

I doubt an iPad without a case is more durable in the hands of children. Plenty of vendors selling Chromebooks offer warranties, at least to institutions, that are longer and better than AppleCare. AppleCare for iPads is limited to two years, not two additional years as it is for Macs, two years total [0]. If a kid breaks a Chromebook, they turn it in, get another that they can immediately use just by logging in, and the school's IT can get it repaired or even replaced under warranty.

If by "ecosystem" you mean "App Store," sure it's better but Chromebooks are mainly used on the web, no store required. The Chromebook management ecosystem is decidedly better than the one for iPads. You can make management better for iPads by paying for a 3rd party MDM like Jamf but that significantly adds to the total cost of ownership.

I generally like Apple and Apple products but I also think keyboard skills are important and what Google has made with Chromebooks, G-Suite, and the hardware management are really nice and have room for a variety of hardware designs and price points.

[0] https://www.apple.com/support/products/ipad.html
Ok, the former is a pretty obvious observation that I doubt anyone disagreed with. One of Trump's media strategies is to constantly hammer home some obvious point without offering any specific solutions, so that other people take the blame if their ideas fail, but he can take credit if something works.

So yes, Trump was right about China. I don't think a trade war will help the situation, but if it fails he can just say all his idiot predecessors dug a hole too deep for anyone to get out of.

I don't agree that he's being particularly consistent, I think you're just forgetting a lot of his unfulfilled promises because he made so many vague and sometimes contradictory ones. Not sure how up-to-date it is, but try this site for some examples: https://trumptracker.github.io/

Even a lot of promises from his uncharacteristically specific Contract with the American Voter are unfulfilled: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...
"Further, people have tried to get usability fixes into GIMP, and been shot down"

Just gimme the facts, please.
I used to live in Arizona. The traffic lights and crosswalks are an insane distance apart. There are bright streetlights basically everywhere. All the roads are straight.

It's all designed for cars, and not for pedestrians. And it's really tempting to j-walk if you're ever stuck walking somewhere.
I didn't choose to mingle those things. That's just plain what the facts are. I get that you don't like them, but that's tough beans.

The case goes into discussing this directly, indicating that Google's cleanroom efforts give it evidence that it proceeded in good faith, but good faith alone does not intrinsically absolve you of admitted copying (which is an infringement) that's found elsewhere.

Now if you did an ACTUAL cleanroom and didn't take chunks that you thought were trivial, the argument to demonstrate infringement in the first place would need to be localized on the SSO level, where single-option design choices would again be exempted through the doctrine of merger, and we'd have a much different set of considerations.

As per the jury award to Oracle, you'll be happy to know they're going back to first instance to have another trial to determine the quantum. Maybe Oracle will get $1 again despite winning due precisely to the mitigating factors you've raised. Who knows. This case wasn't about that. It was about fair use.
How?!
One anecdote from my life. In university one of my best friends at the time found the browser function "view source" and was convinces he can now hack the website.
Have they fixed the cantseeshit issue where environment would always occlude the player and items and enemies?

I remember that this was an issue on initial release and the devs where adamant on not fixing that or even acknowledging the issue.
Everything costs something.

Won't this also reduce performance, or decrease discrimination, increase potential error?

Curious minds want to know.
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The sad part isn't that CA mined the data or that Palantir helped build models, it's that those 50 million people believed in the campaigns they were fed. If a few powerful people can influence the masses to achieve their objectives, what good is democracy bringing to the table? More importantly, how different is mental manipulation compared to physical manipulation as commonly seen with dictatorship?
What year is this? Just kill the pod and wait for the scaling to kick in.
The reason for that is that I chose a particular brush from the set of available brushes ('dry brush'). Since MNIST digits are quite sharp and opaque, the agent tries to achieve this by retracing the contours. I guess the remedy is to pick an appropriate brush style or make the agent choose it.
It's pretty common for people to play both sides so as to be ingratiated to whomever wins.
Look into macros 1.1 to see how they're use for `#derived` they're not particularly super magical. Though unstable stuff rocket uses is a bit more magical.
100 GPU rig of 1080ti’s would have 1.1TB VRAM overall though. And most jobs don’t scale well beyond 4 GPUs anyway.
Many do so because they don't have a choice - they cannot afford it. Even if they can scrape together enough money to pay $10,000+ annually in premiums, that doesn't account for the $5,000+ deductible they have to pay out of pocket before insurance starts paying (some!) of the costs. Most Working people cannot afford to shell out $15,000 a year - it isn't a matter of choice. This is yet another stain on our country when, per capita, we already spend far more than ever other nation in the world - many of whom have universal healthcare and all of whom have far better national health and longer lifespans than we do here in the USA. We are below Costa Rica, Chile, and Slovenia in lifespan - 31st globally! One of just many reasons people are sick on tired of the neo-liberal garbage rhetoric spewed by the criminals in Washington DC (and why they are willing to vote for against them no matter how corrupt or despicable the "outsider" is).
Then publish it you
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> Regarding democracy and authoritarianism, keep in mind the the country was super poor and uneducated. Ceding power democratically across the country would have probably resulted in massive corruption.

Are you claiming China's government isn't massively corrupt right now?

> The country is not a dictatorship though

Never claimed that it was (at this moment).

> Believe it or not the population of China overwhelmingly supports their government. The authority and legitimacy of a government does not come from democracy per se (nor from opinions of people half-way around the world), but from the people. Democracy is a great way to represent the power of the people, but as long as the population approves and delegates power to the government (by not rebelling), then it has legitimacy.

I too have seen that state-published English-language book about the survey that "shows" the Chinese people want a "moral" government before a democratic one. It's right next to a similar title about "true history" of the Dalai Llama (or something like that) in the bookshop in the international terminal of the Beijing airport. On some level, I agree it's true.

But the question of, "do the Chinese people support their government" is a complicated one that I don't think is even answerable at a meaningful level right now. The Chinese information environment doesn't permit it, since it doesn't give the Chinese people the necessary ideological framework or information about alternatives to even form an independent opinion. I'm sure some people do so anyway, but it's a much harder task. In the west people benefit from concepts like "you can love your country and hate your government;" relatively unbiased information; and more varied, competing, opinions.

> So you think the Chinese government's motivation for protectionism is purely because they are undemocratic evil-doers hell-bent on preserving their power.

> I disagree and believe they have other motivations behind protectionism, limiting democracy, and authoritarianism.

And those motivations are? The historic national humiliation thing? To be honest that reads as more of a convenient "surface" justification akin to American evidence-laundering via "parallel construction" from evidence obtained by illegal surveillance. It's not supported by the history of Google in China, for instance. They had a large ~30% marketshare until they refused to play ball on censorship, they then they were blocked, but not before.
Why are these people not creating spaceships, exploring the deep of the oceans, or curing cancer?
>If Cannes gives out an award, you can't go see it in an independent cinema, you can't buy it on disc, you must subscribe to Netflix or Amazon.

Why must you be able to see the movie in an independent theatre?

Instead of paying the $10 ticket isn’t it the same to pay the $10 monthly subscription?
I had read Marco Polo's story as a kid. It was somewhat entertaining, IIRC, whether made up or not.

What are some other good travel tales from classical or medieval times?
First "Aphex Twin Face" post! http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

But also, I love secret messages and easter eggs - even if they aren't mathematically secure! I try to smuggle in an easter egg or two to everything I touch. Does anyone have go-to resources for entertaining ciphers, hidden messages, or interesting stories like this? I think it's fascinating.
We’re just baffled, I tell ya! It’s a real head scratcher! Sorry about the dead lady, LOL!
Alphabet X is exploring new ways to use AI in food production
What a load of rubbish I see in the comments. The US has been using all the tricks in the book, for decades, to further its economic dominance, including shaping international law in its own interest (copyright & IP law) and other niceties like invading countries, corrupting democracies, supporting dictators, and lying in the security council. All while polluting and laying to waste the planet.

And now you are complaining because China is, adhering to international trading agreements, improving the quality of living of their citizens, and winning in some areas? Whiners! What a fitting president you have ...

It would be good for you to realize that the planet is not only populated by americans, that other people have the same right as you have to improve their quality of life, and that you do not have any divine entitlement to affluence.
This is what happens when devs are presented with a very complicated problem, extremely short deadline and enormous amount of pressure.
There's a much simpler plan for a moon-based telescope: ship a big vat of mercury to the moon and spin it. The centrifugal force would curve the mercury perfectly and elemental mercury is a really good mirror on its own.
Pure Storage Teams with Nvidia on GPU-Fueled Flash Storage Solution for AI
Rush's "YYZ" is another example I think is pretty impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YYZ_(instrumental)#Title_and_c...
never heard of anybody ever considering escalating to firepower

I'm referring to domestic violence and partner homicide.
Amazon likes to have control over what is available in the app store... so they made their own.
Yes, as others have mentioned, this is steganography, not cryptography. Basically, encoding a second message inside, in this case, a piece of music. If we want to talk about cryptography, we could say this resembles more simple, classic substitution ciphers.

Now, about encoding messages in music... I think there are many more interesting possibilities. For example, instead of words, you might encode more music itself. Digital music formats specially offer quite a lot of new ways to write 'secrets' in your music. Pitch and rhythm are related [1], and even though current digital music formats are not designed for this, you could technically write songs with other songs inside, at very different time scales. Surely someone will write hidden tracks like this in the future. Other possibilities could include encoding messages using specific frequencies (for example, inaudible frequencies, but not necessarily), which would be fun because you can encode messages in more traditional ways, not associating notes and lengths to letters, but numbers from specific frequencies (I think this would be currently feasible as long as files are not compressed/modified), so you could translate to more traditional, actual cryptography. Sorry if I went a bit off-topic, but I find all this so interesting!

[1] https://youtu.be/_gCJHNBEdoc super fun and educative video by Adam Neely, his work is worth checking out!
Here in Europe they are largely ignored at a corner in most consumer chains, being sold at increasing discounts until someone takes them.

You can watch this effect, by finding a shop with one and then visiting it regularly afterwards.

Most parents just get a regular notebook.
Privacy is indeed the main motivation. But you're missing the threat model. Facebook,Google, Target, etc all run sophisticated customer tracking programs. Target was predicting if their customers were pregnant based on spending habits 5 years ago[0]. If blockchain payments go mainstream, customers will use them and those companies will build profiles based on that data. If 10 grad students on a shoe string budget with ethics/IRB restrictions can break a system, so can many people you should be worried about far short of goverments.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
It was funny that I just found your typo after using text-to-speech on your comment :)
This is the approach I try to take. It requires discipline but it has helped on several occasions.

The biggest benefit is that it makes code reviews easier for others because the reviewer can step through each commit. This makes the refactoring changes much more obvious.

Splitting the commits also makes it much easier to roll back a functional change that goes wrong or isn't needed while still keeping the refactoring improvements.
That's "Better Days" by Natalia Gutierrez Y Angelo - https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian...

https://soundcloud.com/michael-zelenko/better-days-by-natali...
The Dickey Amendment does not prevent individuals from funding studies. Start a community-donation campaign to fund such a study, you cannot be stopped.

>Previous studies have showed that owning a gun increases the odds of injury by gun

No they haven't. The studies show that people who own guns have higher likelihood of being injured. It does not show that owning a gun /increases/ odds of injury.

Places that have wet streets have a higher likelihood of it raining recently. Does that mean that wet streets cause rain?

You are assuming that the non-gun-owning population and the gun-owning population are the same. This is illogical. Perhaps it's the case that people who buy guys are just generally risk takers/more reckless than the general population (which is reasonable given that they're purchasing a gun in the first place). The problem with your logic is that its vulnerable to Simpson's Paradox[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
John Bolton Is Not Dangerous–the Hysterical Reaction to Him Is
"Thompson manages $25 million"

Does that even count as "hedge-fund manager" these days?

Although, I gotta hand it to him, this does seem a bit absurd:

"As a reality check, Tesla is worth twice as much as Ford ... yet Ford made 6 million cars last year at a $7.6 billion profit while Tesla made 100,000 cars at a $2 billion loss"
Whether the US's support of Taiwan is aggressive is immaterial; nowhere did I suggest that the US has taken no aggressive actions against China. I responded to a claim by 'coldtea that China has taken no aggressive actions against the US and I make no claims regarding degrees. US aggression towards China does not reclassify actions by China as nonaggressive.

China's actions regarding Taiwan are nonetheless absurd because it was basically a colonial possession of the Qing Dynasty, having not been part of China before the 17th century, so China has no serious "historic" right to claim it aside from nonbinding agreements between the US/RoC during WWII. That the PRC would wish for those agreements to be binding is ironic considering their characterization of the RoC as a US puppet state.
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Google used to at least generally support the idea of the open web

Yes, but history teaches us that they are terrible at product management. I mean, they could at least just call it "Chrome TTS" or something until they put the whole thing together.
tl;dr? Could someone please explain what this website is in 50 words or less?
That's not all it said. The license had field-of-use restrictions, meaning you couldn't use your implementation for every purpose. The Apache Foundation published an open letter to Sun on that regard.

And specifically, use of a J2SE implementation in mobile devices may have been forbidden.
What kind of robot arm is that btw?
Yes, I'm from USA. And to be honest, I'm just trying out some new ideas here. I half-expected to be skewered here for proposing speech controls similar to gun controls, but it's actually becoming a mainstream view. The recent gun control marches have really opened up my eyes to this.

I used to be a proponent of free speech, gun rights, drug legalization, and all the other internet libertarian ideas about freedom. I realize now that the culture is changing rapidly around me and that those old ideas about freedom put you on a path toward isolation, public scorn, and possibly criminality.

You may need to reconsider your ideas about freedom before you get shunned in a way that hurts your family.

Watch the gun control movement, the people trying to solve "fake news" with regulation, and other social movements. They're having great success at trading in freedom for security, and it seems inevitable that the same types of controls will be applied to speech.

It's probably better to adapt early to the new normal and be on the "progressive" side than it is to side with hate mongers, gun activists, and drug addicts to promote freedom. You might think you can protect your family from societal change with critical thinking and appeals to classical liberal ideas, but I believe those ideas are the most likely to get you ostracized in our current environment.

I think your best bet for protecting your family now is to conform early and often. We're going to sacrifice freedom for perceived security anyway, so you might as well get on the correct side of it before you become an outcast. Your comment about what "history teachers hid" from a generation and your need to "protect my family" place you somewhere near "alt-right" in the current landscape. You have to ask yourself if that's really where you want to be.
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Assuming you’re talking “phone with hotspot”, I use an iPhone 5S on Tmo for this purpose. They are cheap and tethering works decently from them.

I also have a mobile hotspot, but the 5S works better. Our use case is a food truck type of setup.
a wise men once said, and I can't find the quote, something like 'don't chase customers, attract them, and delight your biggest fish' ?
My understanding of the article is that the page table itself was writable. So you an attacking process could map in the entire memory of the computer and read everything, regardless of what was in the kernel's version page table.
What do you mean by "UI is still a largely unsolved matter"?

The way I see it, UI was solved somewhen in the 70s. Since then, we're only redoing the same building blocks with more or less glitter, and composing them in the same usual ways.

The problem is, really, that user-hostile interfaces are designed on purpose, to trick users.
Google deleted G Suite of Startup because of a missed email
The global inventory of tritium is estimated around 20Kg, that's barely enough for research purposes and ITER. Fueling DEMO, the first commercial fusion reactor will require about 10Kg, and at 2-4GW thermal it will require about 300g of tritium per day, completely depleting the existing stockpile in a single month of operation.

So the existing stock is insuficient for even a single commercial reactor. Talking about container sized fusors without ensuring tritium self-sufficiency is a particularity distilled form of insanity.
This top manager seems to miss that Musk can raise a couple of billion whenever he wants.

How did he get to manage his own fund if he doesn't even get that.
Is it just me, or would a demo really make this posting much more interesting?

Edit: There is one, on the actual Google Cloud Text-To-Speech page, so a few clicks in and you'll get one.
Same argument in Asia.

1gb in Philippines is not even 50 peso. it's $10 USD with fi. 50 peso is $1. Prepaid.

in Japan 6GB pocket wifi is about 1500JPY, prepaid. With Fi, 1gb is $10.

In Malaysia, unlimited unthrottled LTE is $14 USD.

They're profiting like bandits.

I just run up the support and get what I want usually.

Fi created their own arbitrage opportunity out of convenience and brand image.
Coincidentally, this was announced 40 minutes ago: Moody's downgrades Tesla debt to B3, fearing liquidity pressure
I wonder what a total Tesla collapse would mean for Tesla vehicle owners. I assume they'd be purchased and service centers would remain open, but the aggressive timelines on the Roadster / Semi / potential Model Y would be scaled back.
Disagree with your first note, as rovers are only able to cover a very small area over their lifetimes and there could be a large benefit to exploring more locations in general (higher chance to discover new compounds/geology, able to explore more areas around caves and poles and learn interesting things). And of course for probes we could definitely benefit from having a dedicated orbiter for each body in the solar system, or even multiple if it let us e.g. build a GPS system for Mars.
A decent blog.
You could also have nation states express the supremacy of their computing power through Beatcoins(tm).

sha256(my_awesome_nonce) where the bit pattern of the output is the sixteenth-note rhythms of the melody from the beginning of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth. (zero = note off, one = note on)

So instead of going to war, China, U.S. and Russia sign their awesome nonces and we see which one ends up with the most Beethoven in their output. The winner wins the war.
The district court found APIs to not be copyrightable. The Federal Circuit disagreed, and ordered the district court to hold a trial under the assumption that APIs are copyrightable—that's when Google's fair use defense became necessary.

That Federal Circuit decision has not been reviewed by the Supreme Court, does not establish binding precedent outside the context of this case, and is widely seen by outsiders as being in error for not matching what the Ninth Circuit would have ruled.

It is incorrect to make any categorical statement that APIs are copyrightable. That question is still pending. All that's been settled is that this one case is being conducted under the assumption that APIs are copyrightable, until such time as the Supreme Court decides to review this issue.
Rest assured that there are others who think that the nuclear weapons of the USA are equally indefensible. We must bannish them globally.
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs.

Take one down, patch it around...

127 little bugs in the code.
Ask a Delorean owner
That creates a circular argument.
That closure syntax has been around longer than Steve.

So I take it you would like to be able to declare your references as `&life of brian`?