skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence my first sentence. I am not opposed to topic but I am opposed to the media bending over backwards to pretend like this totally different then what Obama did.
Is the desire to inflict suffering worse than actually inflicting suffering ? Interesting !
Sorry it's a blog: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-...
Each generation has like 10~20 candidate websites. The better the conversion rate, the more likely it is to get chosen as a parent.

With your example, let's say two parents with top/blue and bottom/red are chosen, then their offspring will either be top/red or bottom/blue because we make sure the same website isn't tested twice.

More generally each feature of the offspring will be randomly picked from the features of the two parents.

So two parents A/A/B and B/C/B can give the offspring A/C/B or B/A/B. There is also some random mutations that are possible with a low likelihood.

link to the product: https://www.ascend.ai/
Well, if you mostly use it as an address book of sorts, you can use something like Sync.ME and pull data from LinkedIn or Twitter instead. You'll get (somewhat) updated information if you're connected with them directly and whatever public information they reveal about themselves if not (same as Facebook). It even syncs contact photos!

This is what I do, except I also use Facebook as an information source, since people post their "fun" contact photos through there.
There was a good John Steinbeck novel in which beans were often mentioned, probably tortillas too. It might have been Cannery Row or another title. Enjoyed reading it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannery_Row_(novel)
Really smart. Was also worried it would be tranfered via some random web server but it’s a really elegant solution. Well done!
I'm really not trying to be facetious,

> If Google knows that sex traffickers are using gmail to coordinate their sex-trafficking activities, they'd be liable for "knowingly facilitating" sex trafficking

Is that not...good? If Google is reading my emails to sell me stuff (and I've given them permission to do so by using their service), and sees (reasonable) evidence I'm engaged in illegal activities, don't they have a responsibility to report that? Is that not the same thing as a GeekSquad technician stumbling across child porn on a laptop they're fixing?

Further, if Google doesn't want to knowingly facilitate, then they shouldn't know -- give me the ability to e2e encrypt my messages and stop reading my emails. Haven't they opened Pandora's box here by going that extra step further and data mining my email?
This site lies on the approach route for Sky Harbor airport. I'd imagine the street lights are intentionally designed to reduce light pollution at the expense of "on the ground" effects.
Also, be wary of the scammers; Upwork has a lot of them. I was taken in by one or two that sounded legitimate, and now I'm super careful.

They typically try sucker you in with an almost-real sounding job, then try to get you to accept a check via email (photo deposit) and then pay for some equipment within 24 hours before the check clears. Or they find some other way to obtain your financial details or login credentials. These people are clever and evil, and Upwork apparently doesn't seem overly concerned about getting rid of them.
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Start by turning all those "I don'ts" into "I do's."
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Perhaps browsers just need to ask users if they want audio before letting sites play it. Like a permission.
Pssh. Gitlab was obviously just tallying the individual sentiments of whether the users were generally in favor of Github continuing to exist as an organization. How could you have missed this?
Commercial child porn is extremely rare. In 2010, for example, not a single federal distribution case in the United States involved commercial activity. The majority of prosecutions are against people downloading it off peer to peer networks for free; the rest are against people trading it for more child porn.

https://injusticetoday.com/new-doj-report-demonstrates-stunn...
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I love how every time there's a discussion about car operating costs here, at least someone mentions oil changes as if they were a substantial part.

Many European cars with a long-life oil change program have oil changes as far as 18,000 miles apart. While I haven't averaged quite that high, for me oil changes still account for only about 2% of the fuel costs. With any new car the depreciation in value dominates most other individual costs anyway. (Also, a modestly sized car might only need one brake service if you use it for, say, 12 years, although this is more dependent on driving habits.)
All of the linked files there 404. Anyone who has it wanna make a torrent and post the magnet link?
MOFs aren't mass produced, but it is possible to produce large quantities of them. BASF has been able to make double-digit tonnage quantities of MOFs per a single production run[0]. It much simpler to make MOFs than other nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes and graphene. The MOF used in the paper is somewhat expensive as it uses zirconium, but it is possible that MOFs based on other metal ions could be used.

[0]https://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i51/Materials-Chemistry-Meta...
It was 2005. The web was a different place back then. Although it's a bit earlier, ICQ used monotonically increasing user IDs as its addressing mechanism.
Couldn't she be sued even after declining severance ?
I think TC screwed it up, the MIT article (linked in the article) says milliliters.

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> The test device was powered solely by sunlight, and although it was a small proof-of-concept device, if scaled up its output would be equivalent to more than a quarter-liter of water per day per kilogram of MOF, the researchers say.

...

> The next step, Wang says, is to work on scaling up the system and boosting its efficiency. “We hope to have a system that’s able to produce liters of water.” These small, initial test systems were only designed to produce a few milliliters, to prove the concept worked in real-world conditions
This area specifically is bad due to it's proximity to Sky Harbor airport.
Hrm...yep...you're right. I read the first comment and could have sworn the quote from the article said milliliter. My eyes are playing tricks on me!
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That is a much broader reading then is used elsewhere. In general specific knowledge is required.

> The word “knowingly” in law means consciously or with knowledge or complete understanding of the facts or circumstances.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/k/knowingly/
I have family members who think that fb is the operating system of their ipads, and that google search is the same thing as a URL on a browser. And when you say targeted ads is a problem, they think of focus groups and demographics a la Mad Men, not natural language processing on everything you've ever posted, analysis of every app you've ever used either on your phone or in fb app marketplace, tracking URLs across the web to track non logged in fb users and non users, and social login providing even deeper analysis of your content habits through partnerships with various media companies.
the reason the pay is so low is that it’s part of a PhD, usually, so the TAs tolerate it. i don’t think you could hire someone to just be a TA full time at those wages.

you can’t admit more PhD students, necessarily, because to graduate they need to do research under an advisor, and access to grants/projects won’t necessarily grow along with required teaching staff.
I don't know if it's still the case of this year, but for our computer architecture course we learned SPARC as well as x86. Was pretty neat to explore the different ways of doing things.
The MIT team explicitly addresses the limitations of refrigerated dew collection systems and claim that their system does not share those limitations.

In what way would this particular device not work as advertised?
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That is not true. Only Android phones from the absolutely shittiest manufacturers have malware pre-installed.
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I was addressing the comment "they knew it was illegal" and the response "what .. was illegal?".

The two links suggest awareness by Facebook of the illegality.

So, where is the irrelevance of the two links with regards to the privacy concerns highlighted by this whole story?
I meant after processing. The stuff that comes out of the monitor end of the graphics card isn't going to be affected by processor speed or memory, its just raw data being sent to the monitor (unless my understanding is way off).
Where Power8/9 really shines is memory bandwidth - it's orders of magnitude faster than leading edge Intel stuff currently. But if you're not memory constrained, Intel machines can still have a bit of an edge.

That makes Power sound very appealing. I've never met a real life scientific simulation that wasn't often constrained by memory bandwidth. I'm sure they exist, but they aren't all that plentiful. I'd love to try running the code that matters to me on Power. (For one thing, I don't even know if it would pass basic regression tests; numerical code is touchy. Are gcc/gfortran reliably adequate on Power like they are on x64?) Unfortunately, as everyone else is commenting, entry level x64 is dirt cheap and entry level Power isn't.
Higher priority should be to mute websites that don't have media content.

Two ideas: Either make it permission based like location, or have a master volume setting for sounds like rely on javascript (excluding html5, flash, etc.). I'm not 100% sure about the details for the latter, but that'd be very convenient.

I'm almost always caught off guard when a customer service widget pops up on the bottom right corner of the screen with an annoying bell sound.
It sounds like the issue here is more an issue of work conditions and rates, rather than a problem with the actual work.

A counter-anecdote: A couple years ago I decided to freelance on the side, but went the other way - I charged triple my day rate, and set a simple rule: no stress allowed. If the client had tight deadlines or a stressful personality, I didn't pursue them.

It's been a massively fun few years, and I've been able to pad my bank account while working when and if I want. It was hard to turn down some great opportunities that would have been stressful, but the biggest enemy isn't free time: it's burnout.

High rates and optimizing for lack of stress don't guarantee lack of burn out, but they go a long way.
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Apart from the Weberian Protestant Work Ethic mentioned in other comments, it's also a consequence of the converse of what you wrote, to whit: "My success is a result of my efforts (in isolation) and thus if you are unsuccessful it must be due to your poor efforts".

In other words, you don't want to believe that someone else's misfortune might not be (only) the result of their actions, else it calls your own belief about your success into question.

This is why Obama's seemingly unremarkable comments in 2016 about how we all depend on the roads and the work of others offended so many people.

Myself it seems blindingly obvious that I was lucky to be born in a rich country, to have moved to another rich country (USA) and have the benefit of huge investments (physical, moral and financial) by others.
Not saying it's different for engineers, but most of the examples in the article seem to be sales and marketing.
Why you should really care about the C++ distributed build systems?
The actual MIT press release has much better information than the Techcrunch article:

The test device was powered solely by sunlight, and although it was a small proof-of-concept device, if scaled up its output would be equivalent to more than a quarter-liter of water per day per kilogram of MOF, the researchers say. With an optimal material choice, output can be as high as three times that of the current version, says Kim.

http://news.mit.edu/2018/field-tests-device-harvests-water-d...

Edit: And the underlying paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7
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No, this device is explicitly not one of those:

> The system, based on relatively new high-surface-area materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), can extract potable water from even the driest of desert air, the researchers say, with relative humidities as low as 10 percent. Current methods for extracting water from air require much higher levels ... above 50 percent for dew-harvesting refrigeration-based systems
> These were executive orders, not legislation. It is quite common for new administrations to rescind or override executive orders of previous administrations.

OTOH, the US having both a weak party system and a separation of power system makes it so that, to return to the upthread question about modern democracies, it does a lot more through executive orders than many modern democracies, which often have a strong-parties parliamentary system or a weaker Presidency, so that the executive has either less ability or less motivation to issue executive orders for matters that might be directly addresses by legislation.
A few channels are legitimately backing up their content to PornHub. The largest serious contender is Full30.
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What's a tangible example of someone "knowingly..facilitating a violation" of laws punishing "those who use force or coercion to cause someone to engage in a commercial sex act" that you would consider excessive?
On the other hand, the third picture is what you get at M if you are lucky.
Does this mean that gitlab doesn't generally employ people to simply learn their competitors products, to keep informed of their offerings?
Volume per unit of collection area per unit time at a given absolute humidity.

It might be a bit too technical, but anything less really can't give you a sense of scale.
I was surprised to visit the Computer History Museum and see VAX computers I had to work with on my first job right out of college... in 2005, for a defence firm. 1MB of RAM was a square foot of circuit board. I had a lot of questions about my future.
> As Musk said, technology doesn't advance as a function of time but as a function of R&D investment.

Sometimes. Technology is very path-dependent; to invent z, you need to have invented w, x, and y first. And even with infinite resources that takes time. We’ve been working on fusion for half a century and it might be ready in another half century. Will more investment help? Yeah, but tokamaks take time to build, and you don’t know how to build the next tokamak until after you’ve done all your experiments with the current one. You can’t have iPhones in 1986 no matter how much money you throw at it because the underlying processor and battery tech isn’t there.
No reason to disagree with that.
Is this so with a fresh profile and no addons enabled? Is this so without the 2-3 different antivirus a lot of windows people seem to run for no reason?

Note that as firefox isn't capable of suspending or resuming a computer I'm going to continue to assume that your OS is partially related to bad resume performance.
I wonder how Rice got this data.

The more interesting story is that if you can get this data (MITM or some other means), you could front run a fund by figuring out who they’re researching.
How do they quantify complexity?
Good point. Lets see: transmission, clutch, ignition, catalyst, exhaust, radiator, fuel tank, oil tank, possibly urea tank, ICE engine. Thats worth something.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/22/mits-new-device-can-pull-w....
When you live in an area where basic homes start in the $1M+ range and it seems that everyone else is richer (not necessarily wealthier!) than you, it's easy to feel like you're "barely" getting by. It fucks with you...badly. That's the disadvantage of living in "luxury" neighborhoods: you need to have massive self-control to prevent keeping up with the Joneses.

I felt this way often when I worked in Finance. My and my wife's combined total income was great at >$200k, but it felt like tons of people were way ahead of me despite us being well ahead of the national average, especially for our ages. This felt even worse with the burden of student loans over our heads.

I bet that leaving the Valley was a great decision for them. A lot of these feelings went away when I left NYC as well.

That said, deciding to send their children to private school was 100% on them. My wife has several friends and acquaintances who teach at private schools and charters. They aren't necessarily better, curriculum wise.
SPARC?
Of course other companies do this. Look at all the different permissions an Android app can request. Go look at the Google+ APIs. Go look at Microsoft's Xbox Live APIs.
I implemented some of the TOS requirements at Zynga, and we did a lot of TOS vetting with the legal team. I personally nulled out some fields that TOS changes forbade, and AFAIK Zynga never had any interest in sharing or selling the data.

However Facebook itself seemed willing to expand the TOS to extremes. At one point it was possible to get games that the user's friends were playing; I was amazed at whoever got them to agree to that.
In your experience, are GA/EA suitable for combinatorical problems?

My domain is basically a combinatorical problem on large, sparse graphs. I am currently focused on DL with lots of custom feature engineering. I am making progress but its slow.
GeekSquad actively searches for it, so they would probably be in the clear under this law.

Facebook knows many drug purchases are coordinated openly on college groups, even though their intent is not to facilitate them, by not searching out and reporting them they would be liable once this law is naturally expanded upon.
IBM's genius was to take Logan's Run, and make Carousel into the promotion policy!
My thesis was on Generic Algorithm. I stopped and started working on Deep Learning mainly because like you said, GAs don't really have a strong mathematical foundation. Ironically, no one could really explain why CNNs work mathematically either. I've heard a lot of hand-wavy arguments about local search, local sensitivity, etc. However, no one could really prove anything meaningful. There are some papers around certain types of architecture is invariant under certain types of affine transformations. But all of them sounds like trying to convince ourselves rather than putting a firm mathematical framework to guide our research. Maybe that's why natural inspired algorithms are getting attention, the community is throwing stuff on the wall to see what sticks. It's funny to me because Genetic Algorithms were once frowned upon by majority of the community. I guess the moral lesson is stop chasing what's trendy.
They might be learning more from 'optional' homework though. For instance, my dynamics professor didn't issue any graded homework, although the homework in the class was my largest time sink last semester. The homework was scored so you knew what you did wrong, but the entire course was graded on tests (which were difficult enough that afaik nobody managed >70% before the curve). After the first test, it was pretty clear that the homework wasn't 'optional'. While this did help w/ teaching self-study, overall I think it was a poor way to run the course, since then the tests became overwhelmingly stressful for nearly everyone. I think that grading is necessary, and at the college level quizzes are typically pointless, but without homework there is little left to judge comprehension on.
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"Most smartwatches"? I can think of only one, and that's the primary reason I have a Garmin instead of an Apple Watch. Other than Apple, I can't think of another smart watch that requires one to make a wrist motion in order for the time to be displayed.
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>Google must be sweating bullets right now

I doubt that very much. You also seem to ignore the lack of runtime permissions in desktop OS's such as Windows and Mac OS that could easily do the same thing.

>Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing

This is a lie. The majority of apps ask for only the runtime permissions they need to work. Regardless, you're still in control of the permissions you grant and if you believe an app is asking for permissions which it shouldn't have then you shouldn't grant it.
There was even Firesheep at some point.
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I was in Colonia last weekend - Uruguay is great!

At this point, it's a question of time to build in additional systems. Stripe Connect let me (the solo engineer) build a marketplace quickly. However, it doesn't have great international support.

We are looking at other options, such as Payoneer. The main priority right now is on growing the client side of the market. However, after that, we will likely return to the contractor side to work on some projects such as expanding payment options.
I think your idea is more practical, given the state of spaceflight technology - BUT, should it succeed, then little incentive would exist to leave Earth.

Given the impulses of people in power now, coupled with whatever steps the future takes to make Earth sustainable, it's hard to imagine a future government allowing people to leave. It would, after all, be setting up a competitor. Paranoid, you say?

Imagine an English king c. early 1600s having a vision of the descendants of his loyal colonists rebelling 170 years later. And the nation founded by the rebels eclipsing England 130 years after that. History might have turned out differently.

The good news is that thanks to France and Spain, the English king had little choice - he had to oppose France and Spain everywhere he could, or risk losing strategic advantage.
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> companies (for multiple years) that were bought & sold a few times, so two employment stints can easily look like five

You can make it clear on your own resume that corporate changes differ from changes in your role.
Though wouldn't it be far more interesting to compare the latencies at these rates, than the throughput? Roughly similar price and throughput, but very different energy efficiency and possibly latency could be rather significant for quite a few applications.
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FOSS projects are not "vendors". Nobody sells a smartphone that meets the criteria described.
I mean, Internet Explorer and Safari are pretty much named the same as Konqueror.

Only Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera and Vivaldi manage to be even farther away from any sort of association with the internet.
That's a good observation. Managers should be maintaining a reasonable balance.
I'd be interested in this, too.

One problem is that I've already lost accounts to time. No matter what I do, I can't recover my first gmail account, which means there's a little time capsule of my teenage self just hanging out in the ether, assuming it hasn't been hijacked by a botnet or something.
Our plant still runs mission critical VAX VMS TDMS applications.

We junked our VAX 7000s about a decade ago and moved to the Charon emulator. Played with VAX VMS on Simh, but everyone was too scared to put any real data on it.
I sympathize with your position but bad management/toxic culture are also systemic problems in the software world. It could be that the person just had a string of bad projects and was trying to avoid getting burned out. It would suck if someone got locked out of a good job that might have helped their career due to that.