skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no one could really explain why exactly they worked

Genetic algorithms work on problems where some subsets of variables are approximately separable (uncorrelated) from some other subsets of variables.

F(a,b,c,d,e,f) ≈ F1(a,b,c) × F2(d,e,f)

So if you have found a good combination or a,b,c it makes sense to try how it works it any promising combinations of d,e,f. Some natural world problems really have this property.
From that description: "Ensure the safe operation of our test vehicles on public roads."

I don't know about current regulations. Are companies now allowed to operate autonomous cars without a driver that pays attention?
Yes, this is really bad, not sure what they want to show.

"The AI is processing your melody...", sure, but it can be processed without AI and you could get a much better output. At least please keep the output notes on the same input scale...
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If you like GP, you might like PGE more (self bias)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.394...
Jackson is REALLY expensive, even for a ski town and even compared to the Bay Area. Plus, there aren't any jobs that would allow anyone to live there for the house prices.
That's a software quality issue, not one of having the right hardware. We went to the moon using pretty weak hardware and clever software.
If there's one organization you choose to donate to to support our industry, please donate to the EFF. They are fighting some very difficult fights and deserve our help.
People say they go heavy now, but when Overwatch came out, they didn't really do anything, and it was a pretty toxic cesspool. From what I've heard, most people are happy that they've started to clean it up.
> because people poorer than you have a safety net so you aren't impacted by their social problems

Well, you are impacted in that your taxes are higher.

I'm not saying that is a bad thing, btw, just wanted to point out that the social safety net isn't really a major consideration for wealthy people. Heck, my wife is Canadian and we considered moving to Canada a while ago—and we aren't even wealthy, just middle to upper middle class—but the math just didn't make sense. Much lower salaries, much higher taxes, plus insane real estate market. It was a much better deal to say in the U.S. and buy our own safety net.
If YouTube could go ahead and also ban all those videos that take 30+ minutes to convey the same information that I could have read from a text document with static images in 2 minutes, that would be great.
The headline is that GitLab adds CI/CD support for GitHub and you are writing about migrating to Gogs which has not nearly as much features. Gogs is a lightweight git hosting solution, so basically the opposite of GitLab. I am not saying Gogs is bad, in fact I use it myself but you are comparing two completely different things. If you only need a simple git solution, you can use Gogs, if you need more and like the features GitLab has you don't have any self-hosted alternative.

You are also not writing if you use their SaaS solution or if you've installed it on your own servers.
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Past a certain level of extreme disaster planning, every disaster plan converges on the same point: build (what amounts to) a space station. Whether your station is actually in space or five miles underground, you ultimately need to plan a fully self-contained, self-sufficient environment that will support human life.
Have you ever noticed that no one ever brings up a company being private until they do something that outrages the public?
I’m just going to note that Illustrator is thirty years old. While you do get the advantage of having a large feature set to imitate, rather than figure out from first principles, there’s still a ton of work there!

Have fun implementing everything it can do from scratch in your “hipster” language that nobody is going to want to touch two years from now when everyone’s looking for excuses to work in the next hot new language.
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It's a game that kinda requires communication and coordination with your teammates. Muting isn't an option.

That, and blaming someone for not muting is blaming the victim, rather than blaming the other person for being toxic in the first place.
History is 13.5 billion years old, till now.
You're probably right. Reading some of the notes below though, seeing how the lead designer of WebOS ended up putting so much of the ideas into Android is a small consolation.

Still, if a talented team like at a place like Essential was to take a look at this... A mobile platform that is PWA first probably isn't too far off a future that iOS and Android would be considering too :)
No easily switchable, fully isolated profiles a-la Chrome, no default zoom support without installing an add on (handy on 4K displays). Epic fail. Better luck next year, Mozilla.
Either that or the cycle stops due to being unsustainable. So instead of gray heads it will be most paid workers. Usually most paid for a reason that's correlated with achievement or experience.
No rent or mortgage, but continued payments for property tax, home insurance and general maintenance.
The displays on Garmin smartwatches are always on. However they're reflective displays so you have to activate the backlight to see them in the dark.
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Keep in mind there are two different types of contention, that I guess you could call "mandatory" and "non-mandatory" (I just made those terms up, suggestions welcome).

Mandatory contention is the contention you get because certain operations _must_ go to a port or combination of ports. The examples in the article were of this nature: if you have a dense series of loads the load port is fully loaded so the throughput is limited by the available "port pressure" is 1.0. Similarly for the BSWAP example.

OoO can get around this type of contention only to the extent that the contention is transient and it can see "beyond" the contention within its scheduler and reorder buffer windows. For example, if you have 1000 independent multiplications (execute on only 1 port) followed by 1000 independent loads (execute on 2 ports), it is going to take roughly 1000 + 1000 / 2 = 1500 cycles to execute that, because you'll have contention in both phases and they are too long for OoO to do much[1].

On the other hand, if you have 10 multiplications followed by 10 loads, you'll probably see this run in 10 cycles (limited by the multiplications) because the instructions are interleaved in a more fine-grained window so OoO can keep both types of instructions in flight.

So yeah, OoO can hide port contention, but only if there is a relatively fine-grained mix of different ports in the dynamic instruction stream: it can't help much in a long steady-state involving contention.

The other type of contention, non-mandatory, is caused by less than perfect scheduling. Consider a loop of two instructions that can ideally run at 1 iteration per cycle (e.g., because of a carried dependency chain). One instruction can run on port 1 only and the other on port 1 or port 2. In principle the mandatory contention is 1.0 on each port and so the loop still hits its theoretical max of 1 iter per cycle. However, this requires that the CPU schedules the second instruction always only to port 2, and never to port 1. If it ever schedules the second instruction to port 1, you lose a cycle, since port 1 is the needed every cycle by the first instruction.

So here the actual behavior depends on smart the CPU is in binding ports to instructions. In practice, modern Intel chips don't do this perfectly, so in such cases you see worse-than-ideal throughput. The algorithm being used isn't clear, but it seems usually much better than just random assignment to the available ports. This case only arises when instruction to port assignments are _partially_ overlapping as in the above example (this is common in practice).

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[1] This an approximation: at the changeover point between mul and load you'll see OoO help a bit.
> we should do more to penalize hackers

Malicious hacking is already illegal with significant penalties.

> not blame the victims

If the victims failed even basic security measures, I'm quite happy to give them their share of blame. There have been plenty of reports of exposed databases with no password protection, places that stored passwords in plain text, folks running unpatched OSs... You can't just ignore security and pretend that you're not at fault.
>Alphabet (owner of YouTube) and Advance Publications (owner of Reddit) are well-positioned to fight for freedom of speech if they wanted to.

Why on earth would they "want to" threaten their share prices and upset their shareholders?
Except that's not what the bill does. The bill takes an existing law, 18 USC 1591, which provides a narrow scope of liability for "participation in a venture" to perform sex trafficking. I.e. running a sex trafficking business. It redefines "participation in a venture" to include "knowingly ... facilitating" sex trafficking, and then carves out 18 USC 1591 liability from the section 230 safe harbor.

This goes far beyond the backpage situation, which could've been reached with a higher intent standard like "intent to facilitate" sex trafficking.

If Google knows that sex traffickers are using gmail to coordinate their sex-trafficking activities, under the plain text of the statute, they'd be liable for "knowingly facilitating" sex trafficking. This will be abused by prosecutors and plaintiffs' attorneys.
It actually reminds me of regular corporate life in a confused company— and in turn, this: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Looks like a cool project! Only quickly glanced at the code but couldn’t find it: where does this transfer files to on an iOS device? Does it even work with iOS?
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To add. It is hard to get funding for technical debt. Senior management are typically not aware (don't care) that a system is only working because some poor soul wakes up at night to clear caches. Sometimes I feel you might be better off letting the system have a spectacular crash than keeping system on life support. The trouble with letting system crash is may be a career limiting. Technical debt is complicated. Take companies that pay overtime to employees that get called at night to fix the system. They may not exactly be keen to have the calls stop.
Anything is reactive when interacting with plasma.

There should be little of those gases naturally up there (mostly so for water), and even throwing a large mass of gases up there may be enough to disturb everything.
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In phones, at least, I was rather under the impression that display did dwarf the entire SoC+radio?
I backed it, too, but I back a lot, so I rarely focus in on one project's updates. I'm glad you highlighted this. I'll have to tune in.
I think you are using the wrong angular resolution, though.

http://velodynelidar.com/docs/datasheet/63-9194_Rev-G_HDL-64...

Thats the one LIDAR Uber seems to have matching pictures.

5Hz - 20Hz full round sampling rate, lets assume 15 Hz.

The resolution in the horizontal plane is dependent on rotational speed, so at 15 Hz it should be 0,26 degrees.

(0,35/20*15 = 0.26)

For the woman height the angular resolution is 0.4 degrees no matter the rotation speed.

Id est, she would have been atleast one pixel wide from 400 feet and about 2 pixels high and growing in size if we assume 2' wide.

(Not counting bike).

I really see no exuse for Uber messing this up that bad. The LIDAR can't have missed a potential "obstacle" when it got closer, even if the car wouldn't classify it as a human.
Some people consider their children their first priority. Why the US education system is failing above average children is a different argument. I send both my kids to private school and consider it a necessity.
I really don't understand why corporations are taxed on profit. It produces weird effects such as where a company is better off paying interest on debt rather than dividends on stock.

Having the tax be payable on revenue of a corporation in that jurisdiction rather than profit would be simpler to understand, easier to administrate and avoid the current tax avoidance we have have.
if you are going to bite the bullet and get this game, Id recommend the 2nd iteration of the game, think they call it Universe Sandbox^2 (squared) . Nicer graphics and speed improvements in the second version.Its got a steam VR version too for those with VR hardware.
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Nope, they're very different flavor profiles. Japanese curries may contain cocoa, but they don't highlight it - it's very much a background flavor.
Once you've got a company with no product and you're committing fraud to stay alive, what would the point be of staffing a board to tell you to kill yourself? What would you get out of that?

Do you think Theranos just didn't realize anything was wrong because the board didn't tell them?
Once owned outright, a home also serves as insurance against economic downturns.

Rent, 4 or 5 year economic slump and people are out of a home.

Ownership doesn't lead to this. Even mortgages have more forgiveness for late payment than most rental agreements.

Multi-generational property ownership also helps. Buy a good house now, and your kids/grand kids have insurance against economic downturns.
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What's your opinion on Tesla? Many people who read their financial documents say their situation is really bad.
To add to this, I've seen that stupid hosts file blacklist from SpyBot cause some Windows network service get locked up for 40 seconds every time the laptop was resumed from suspend or booted up in Windows 7. Parsing the hosts file took a relatively extreme amount of time for exactly this reason, massive hosts files are a kludge at best.
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The title is a bit deceiving since it is what might be coming in C# 8.

Here is an interview with the PM of C# language development about what could be coming in C# 8.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/A-Preview-of-C-8...

Not anything earth shattering, but interesting nonetheless.
This bill worries me greatly. INAL, but could one interpretation allow the US government to go after anyone running technology supporting the BitCoin blockchain, if BTC is used by hackers, drug dealers, etc., along with the many legitimate uses?
> Power 9 is IBM’s first to use standard DIMMs, opening a door to other standard components that are, overall, cutting system costs by 20% to 50%

Glad to see them throwing in the towel on a pricey and proprietary component. Competition is good.
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"With a properly run automation program, an entire category of jobs can be eliminated in < 1 year now"

That seems..not right. Robotics companies like Bossa Nova have been at this since 2006-2010. That's a good 8-15 years and multiple changes in political offices.

Even still I think its a decade till we see any effect on the labour market. We still have time to act....for now.
Did anyone try downloading the actual paper? My browser opened and then closed a tab. Kind of odd.
It's narrow in the sense that it only applies to sex trafficking. It's not narrow at all in terms of the relationship between your online service and sex trafficking. From your link:

"(Sec. 5) The bill amends the federal criminal code to define a phrase related to the prohibition on sex trafficking. Currently, it a crime to knowingly benefit from participation in a venture that engages in sex trafficking. This bill defines "participation in a venture" to mean knowingly assisting, supporting, or facilitating a sex trafficking violation."

It "facilitates" sex trafficking to be able to use gmail and Google Maps to conduct sex trafficking activities.
Fiverr.com, mechanical turk or something similar should get these typed in for less than $5 per page. Throwing money at the problem might be easier than sacrificing time.
That's the point. Almost anything is possible with the right team. Once it's communicated in terms of cost then the assessment is made whether it's worth it or not.
This isn't the first automated car fatality though right? Hasn't Tesla had some?
Out of curiosity, would you mind telling me about your day job?
A cartographer might disagree.
The legalities are beyond me, but the core principal seems pretty simple: if Uber isn't willing to cooperate fully with the NTSB to make autonomous cars safe drivers, then Uber doesn't get to make autonomous cars. Full stop.
Well then so are instructions for ripping DVDs, in that case. There are legitimate reasons to rip DVDs and make cookies.
It depends, but I don't think general statements like that are necessarily true. Most methods allow trade-offs between converging quickly on local optima vs finding global optima. The mutation aspect of genetic algorithms is just one way to do this. With well tuned mutation parameters, genetic algorithms can definitely be successful at finding global optima, but similar measures exist for most methods.
For reasons I've never understood, many Americans seem fixated on viewing poverty and homelessness as MORAL failures, which deserve punishment.
I give this information to my friends, I do not expect them to share it with the rest of the world. If someone who knows of me from a common friend wants to contact me they can ask that friend to pass on their contact details to me.
That's a problem with the model, though, not math itself. People who attribute divinity to mathematics aren't considering these types of things as its the application of math into another field, not an intrinsic truth within the field of mathematics.
Also interesting is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisometer
Was that how much you were charging? One would naively assume that you could probably have charged a lot more given the amount at stake for the fund.
Yeah, what I mean is that, if you compare like to like, it's at insane California levels. So, in the city in Vancouver is comparable to SF. In the suburbs of Vancouver is comparable to suburbs of LA/SF. Rural land anywhere in BC is comparable to rural land in CA.

So, rural land on Vancouver island is more affordable in the sense that there are less economic opportunities that come with that land, so the land costs less to buy. Which might be a good tradeoff for somebody who doesn't need to be near a job, but is not super useful to the majority of people who do.
"and I have always seen these antics as mostly miniscule and harmless."

Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean that it shouldn't bother others. I've talked to gay people who play games, and they want to do so as an escape from the world, like everyone else. But it's really hard for that to happen when they constantly have these slurs hurled at them just like they do in real life.

"Are we so easily offended "

Why do you find it acceptable to blame the targets of this, instead of blaming those that are hurling the toxicity.

"Do we all need to remember the sticks and stones rhyme our parents taught us?"

You mean the one that has never, ever been true?

"Aren't we better off by learning how to be unbothered by this stuff?"

Again, why do you seem to want to encourage toxic people to be toxic?
In T-Mobile Account Settings you can choose to disable T-Mobile's selling of your data to third parties. It's on by default.
I think Microsoft has turned the corner.
> Two, what the heck does "knowingly facilitate" mean?

Historically this has been rather clear.

Take the Silk Road. Arguably just an eBay clone on the dark web, right? Except the proprietor specifically marketed it for the trade of drugs. There was no question about what its intended purpose was; he created it to sell drugs, internal documents show he knew drug trade was going on; by all accounts, he knowingly participated in the venture.

There was a small ISP somewhere in NY. Authorities notified them that they were hosting child porn provided by a customer. No biggie, right? Section 230 and all. Except they didn't take action to remove it, which put them in the camp of...knowingly participating in its possession/distribution. They got fined.

Backpage is in the same camp. They know what's going on, even contributing to it. They knowingly participate in the venture.
It's not really about that. It's about making expression, where there's limit, so that there is art.
Hi, thanks! Yes, it works on iOS, it works on every device that has a QR reader and a regular internet browser.

The workflow is easy:
1. the tool spawns a disposable web server
2. the tool prints a QR code that encodes an URL that points to the server
3. the device scans the QR, the scanned text is the URL
4. the tool turns off the disposable server as soon as the transfer is complete
Code running on Intel proc is much faster than anything else, I'm not sure how long it would take to catch up with the performance they provide.
Example: My company makes 100M in revenue. To sell my goods, my cost is 99M, I only have 1M in profit. If I were taxed on my 100M revenue, I would just lose money and my business would have no point and I would have to close even though I am profitable. If it costs me 99M to sell 100M worth of goods, why wouldn't I be taxed on the 1M?

Why should two companies who have 100M in revenue at 99M costs vs 15M costs to pay the same taxes?
You realize that some judges are elected by the general public right? If they won their election on a hang 'em high, and let god sort 'em out kind of platform then guess what they're gonna do? Hang 'em high. Because if they don't they'll loose their job next election. They can literally loose their job for caring too much about whether the accused is actually guilty. This is one of the reasons why we have a problem with over aggressive prosecutors and police, because they, and/or their bosses, are basically politicians who often have much stronger incentives to appear tough than to be fair or effective. If you want to think of it in programming terms, imagine working at a place that does performance reviews and promotions based on LOC generated. That is the judicial system in some states.
Judging from the gif it just makes a webserver and makes a QR code pointing to that url. That should work on any platform.
I’m guessing that “photo” is in fact a mock-up? Because it appears to show a screen that is able to occlude the background with both light and dark colors, which is not consistent with the description of the technology.
Concerning 40 - “sorok” was a name for a unit of measure for fur. One sorok was a bundle consisting of 40 animal furs.

As for 90 - devyanosto - I think it comes from “9 to 100”. Its strange though its 9 and not 10.
Amazing how any Europeans bend over backwards for these companies and the USA. What reason is there to oppose taxing what Faceboook generates off of European users? Are they still under the delusion that Apple and co. isn't bringing all those billions back stateside to enrich Wall Street? A continent with no backbone!