skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will scale. But let's say it doesn't.

The global gold market makes something like 1 transaction per day. Global inter-bank interest rates are also on the volume of a few transactions per day.

Deep, core infrastructure (even things like BGP and DNS) don't need all that much scalability. As long as it has a use case in deep infrastructure, it can become globally relevant without scale.

But it will scale.
Morning Thoughts on the Ethics of Interpersonal Violent Conflict
It doesn't make sense to me that we would find a detectable rise on that basis, because in the days of analog phones with high powered radios, it was a very small proportion of the population using them.

Here is a picture of a DynaTAC analog cell phone circa 1983:
https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/cell-phone-old.jpg

I certainly knew what they looked like, before I had my first cell phone, because stockbrokers or lawyers or whatever in movies used them. But I never knew anyone who had one, or saw one in real life. They definitely preceded the current ubiquity of cell phones.
How fast can you parse JSON?
> Also, unemployment benefits end after 6 months no matter what.

What happens after six months if you don't have family willing to support you? You're on the streets?
Who in their right mind thinks it's okay to subject a dying child to severe pain and discomfort in order to keep him alive for a few extra days?

American religious fundamentalists, that's who: https://twitter.com/BarbaraRich_law/status/99200573272698880...
IBM Files Patent That Tackles Challenges of Running a Blockchain on IoT Devices
Oracles's Access Manager Authentication Bypass
How about just sending it to the moon instead? Perhaps then we could use the moon as a giant space ship by blowing up the nuclear waste?
Proof of Work or Proof of Stake? How About Both?
Apparently there isn’t a stick big enough to prevent abuse by employees. What a surprise! This is human nature, plain and simple. The threat of job loss did very little to alter human nature in other settings. How can this go any differently at Facebook?

When a honeypot this big is right there for the taking, there’s no amount of threats that’ll dissuade the bad actors. The solution is refreshingly simple: don’t allow sensitive information to accumulate in such quantities and at such high concentration.
I'm someone that struggles to work from home, and who really likes having the dislocation. It helps me get into work mode, and back out again, it helps me separate my life and my work. I like being in place with everyone working, and much prefer being physically present at a meeting. So basically your opposite.

I think the key take away is that there should be options, what works for one doesn't for others.
Greece's new startup culture: technology and seagrass sunglasses
7 Hazardous eating habits that destroys your skin by 200%
The majority of people who voted did not vote for Trump.
So did (and still do) a lot of political discussions on Reddit. Then we find out that they're heavily being manipulated by Russia. Those people thought those posts were organically, communally upvoted and vetted. Turns out, they were manipulated heavily.

Any heavily manipulated system could have organic and true content for some people. I think the goal would be to have trust in the platform. Reddit, as of late, has no trust with anything of meaning. It has been shown to be manipulated by companies and governments.

I could hire a firm to push my content in your favorite subreddits.. so I struggle to see how Reddit is remotely a good platform for non-manipulated discovering content.

Many people don't like that Google can alter their searches, providing bad incentives. A Reddit-like search now opens up the ability to manipulate your searches to ad agencies, governments, bad actors, etc.
Trump didn't get the majority of the vote. He won the electoral college.
The strength of those signals is very, very low. WiFi around -60dBm or lower most of the time and the cellular signal where I go is usually well below -80dBm. For comparison, the power received from Earth's nearest star Alpha Centauri A is on the order of -50dBm. If I'm concerned about WiFi and cellular signals I should be positively freaked out about natural sources of em radiation.

But having a couple watt transmitter pressed against the side of your head might be something to think about. Still, it is non-ionizing radiation and aside from the possibility of localized heating, which you would likely notice (I think?), what's going to cause cancer? Some previously unknown (to me) phenomenon?
From that paper:

>Our results highlight an urgent need for funding more research into the initiation and promotion
of GBM tumours. This should include the use of CT imaging for diagnosis and also modern
lifestyle factors that may affect tumour metabolism.

There is very little mention of cell phones in that paper, they only seem to reference a paper from 2015 regarding data from 2000-2003 (higher antennae output back then?)[0] They mention:

>a 50-minute cell phone exposure produced a statistically significant increase in brain glucose metabolism in the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole regions closest to the handset

[0]Hardell and M. Carlberg, “Mobile phone and cordless phone use and the risk for glioma – Analysis of pooled
case–control studies in Sweden, 1997–2003 and 2007–2009,” Pathophysiology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2015.
doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2014.10.001. [Online First 2014 Oct 29]
How do you know it encrypts and decrypts on-the-fly? Is there a way to verify it?

[and before someone says it, yes, in the iMac Pro you can read the data off the NVMe lanes to check if it indeed is encrypted]
Symbolic differentiation doesn't work for loops and conditionals. The expression of the derivative is also exponential in the size of the source expression.
The article says that guests can't attend because of the travel restrictions, so it's moving to accommodate those individuals. Are you saying that the conferences shouldn't be allowed to move because "almost the majority" of Americans made a decision? The tech industry, a very small group with specialized interests spread across a global theatre, and specifically, a particular set of conferences, an even smaller sample, is beholden to the almost will of the almost majority in one nation?
To be fair, I just got to the end of the article and discovered that it mentioned this paper too...

One aspect that isn't mentioned, is that Benter (and Zeljko Ranogajec, mentioned at the very end) got a large edge over over punters by negotiating large discounts/rebates from the betting pools by providing such large volumes. It's easier to make a profit when you are getting (say) 10% back on your losing bets...
Will they have those dislike buttons on the Ads too which FB throws to our timeline?
My mom is still using her fliptop phone and have no plans of switching to new ones.
> Damore and Eich...THAT's why they're EXCLUDING people for their political views

The actual exclusion can be seen by walking around the engineering departments of FAANG companies (or Market Street startups) and seeing virtually all male, white or Asian faces. One in eight Americans are black - where are they? That is the real exclusion. Damore was fired for effectively boasting about this exclusion.

It's illustrative that you ignore the massive exclusion of blacks and others from non-sweeping, non-cafeteria server jobs, and get ALL CAPS semi-hysterical that those who are dumb enough to align themselves with these exclusions and subjugations are the victims and excluded ones.
https://www.welookups.com
I'm calling it now, there's some gene which codes for "sense of direction" and results in some kind of magnetic element embedded in some nerve cells (the way some birds 'see' the Earth's magnetic field), which also makes them vulnerable to excessive EMF radiaton.
America is more diverse than ever – but still segregated
>Outliers, not in any way related to the general trend and a bad argument in general.

Numbers please.
> this proposal implied something strange: that the multiverse is infinite, with endless, uncountable parallel universes existing alongside our own

My biggest skepticism of the multiverse or even an infinite universe is the amount of energy required. Here on Earth energy is finite and cannot be recreated without using more energy in the process.

For an infinite universe or multiverse with infinite mass, you'd need infinite energy, right?

Infinity seems more like a concept than a physical property. It's easy to imagine an infinite number line, but harder to think about an infinite number of intelligent beings (which I suppose would be possible in an infinite universe).
You only get cancer in tissues with active cell division, such as the skin or epithelial tissue.

For the hand that's the skin. Most cells in the body don't divide after your initial growth phase (all the way to adulthood). You are "produced" once and from then on there only is "maintenance", which includes growth of new cells only in tissues that absolutely require it throughout lifetime. Evolution turned it off in as many cells of an adult body as possible because cell division always is risky, especially with increasing (cell/tissue) age.
Thanks! It's indeed using javascript ;-) It also has some support for "native scrolling" that could help a bit in a non-JS environment. Let me know if you have any feedback after the weekend (:
There is no evidence for this (I am not saying whether or not this could be empirically verified, I have no clue), but it is politically incorrect, especially on this website, to claim anything otherwise
I wonder how many people hold their heads close to a running microwave while they are watching to see if something is overheating...
maybe research has doubled.
NN hasn't actually been struck off yet though, it's still on the books isn't it? Pai needs to sign something and for some reason he hasn't. It was in the news a few days back.
As much as I love dunking on Zuck, it might be difficult to detect all unnessecary data viewing, especially if someone is part of an internal security team whose job description includes looking for hackers on FB's systems.

So basically, if the abuse is not egregious (ex: looking up a celebrity's details), they have to rely on someone making a complaint and then reviewing the employee's logs.

I knew someone who worked for the IRS and they had similar issues - it's harder than you'd think to automatically detect this kind of thing, the best you can do is log so you can punish if it's discovered someone abused credentials.
I’ve been in your shoes. Hats off to you for trying to do right by your team. I’ve had success with coaching my employees to refuse any meeting invite that would not directly help them do a better job. We’ve come up with verbiage to help redirect meetings to me so that no hard feelings could crystallize on the other side. This works except in a small minority of cases: some individual contributors enjoy their meetings. It’s not my place to stop them.
I'm curious how much time most people spend actually talking on their phones now compared to pre-smartphones. Also, while I suppose being in an active call probably changes the amount of radiation at play, I'd expect, if cell phones are causing cancer, an attendant rise in, say, testicular cancer.
I suppose you are more likely to die from exercise than from brain cancer... but I think it's also true that you're much more likely to die from lack of exercise than from exercising.
SUI (Schibsted User Interface)
Some days, I secretly wonder if my experience would indeed be better, because I've been blocking ads and tracking shit for the 20 years I've been online. Because frankly, I wouldn't know, maybe this world of constantly being targeted with advertising is really cool. They keep telling me I'm missing out, you know?
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Just to provide a differing opinion, my daily office is the place that I feel most productive. When I'm home, I'm never in work mode because I never (99.9%) work from home.

I like being around lots of people and having face-to-face conversations to work through problems.
I recall reading that this data was self-reported and, if taken at face value, would suggest that using a cell phone on one side of your head actually prevented cancer on the other, relative to base rates (in other words, the self-reported data is probably not accurate).
Your article is correct that Java/C# performance is unpredictable. But, per the OP, C/C++ performance is also unpredictable, because C/C++ doesn't reflect what a modern processor actually does; there are cases where e.g. removing a field from a datastructure makes your performance multiple orders of magnitude worse because some cache lines now alias.
Its useless to modern scholars because of how difficult it is to access the original texts, because they must be carefully preserved. All of that is explained in the article.
Those tissues might not be as susceptible to damage by radiation, or have more corrective mechanisms to deal with the damage.
Why Is Everything So Hideous?
Ah, I don't have kids and have never put in a car seat, I thought they all used seatbelts. Damn my assumptions! Probably one of those problems that might be best served with a simple human solution, like the "bag in the back".
Wait, what are suggesting the tech conferences do? Stay in the US? Isn't it also their freedom to choose where to operate? And if operating in the US makes their conference inconvenient or impossible for some of their attendees, doesn't it make sense to move it to another country?
One conference that I have never heard and now it is "conferences" -- as in more than one are moving north?

Also at first glace this conference looks like it was setup by big players just to have their "own" conference. You see, real conferences where where real innovation and tech happen at are not concerned with being "the fastest growing". Looking at the lineup this is clearly for something setup for what I would assume to be mostly executives to be brainwashed by much larger companies to use their products. Nobody wants to go and listen to the rubbish a bunch of CEOs have to say about stuff their engineers should actually be talking about. Just really feels like somebody figured out money influence and market control can be had with hosting a conference and so now we have "Collision" -- which sounds like a complete knock off of "disrupt"

But who knows, maybe somebody here has gone and will correct me.

EDIT I did not read every line of the article, and yes, 2 other conferences were mentioned, but the blurb about collision still stands.
That, like fusion power, is something that has been said for decades now. I like to think it'll happen, but for now we'll probably get partial ray tracing to enhance reflections and such; full ray tracing will require several generations of graphics processing still. And even then it will depend on what resolution it has to be done on; graphics cards needed years to render HD resolution and are now again struggling to do 4K and / or VR graphics. Ray tracing will be another order of magnitude more resource intensive.
They probably don't do that making direct contact between their heads and the machine for an hour at a time. Seems like a bad comparison.
Spectre Next Generation vulnerabilities affect Intel processors
The telcos write the rules.

AT&T's lobbyists include Joan Marsh and Robert Quinn, and a few others:

Wayne Watts, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, James W. Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President—External and Legislative Affairs, Robert Quinn, Jr., Senior Vice President—Federal Regulatory, David Lawson, Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Hank Hultquist, Vice President—Federal Regulatory, Michael Paradise, Vice President—Global IP Operations and Infrastructure Services, and Gary Phillips, General Attorney and Associate General Counsel, of AT&T; and Richard Rosen and Maureen Jeffreys, of Arnold & Porter LLP.

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/60001116224.pdf

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-342942A1.p...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1011263448484/Status%20ATT%20ex...

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521067059
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Still though, I always have and always will prefer to use my headset when talking on the mobile.
Most people I see leaving voice messages do that by just holding the microphone towards them to be able to still use the screen (for Whatsapp you had to keep pressing the button until recently). That keeps the phone away from your head. Same goes for Skyping or using headsets.
Virginians know about spellcheck, but it may not have permeated the rarefied bubble of UVa. Mr Jefferson probably spelled "research" that way back in the 19th century when planning his Academical Village. Or perhaps this was written by a thoughtless mere first-year.
I really like the website (on mobile).
In fairness, GBM is brutal and has a life expectancy measured in months, not years, even with treatment.

On the other hand, it's a subset with ~15% proportion of all brain tumors. The article's title suggests that all brain tumor rates doubled and I am clarifying.
> Before you say "but it's not about excluding people", let me remind you about James Damore and Brendan Eich.

Bingo.

James Damore may be the tipping point where people start pushing back against this bullshit. To me, he's Galileo to Google's Catholic Church. He's the heretic that dared to defy the high priests of PC, and he got put on the rack for it.
My learning resources in 2018
"Dominant side of the brain" is actually on the opposite side. If you're right dominant, it's left hemisphere.
No. Block 1.0.0.0/8 due to internal use. That block includes both of those addresses.
X is not faster than well written Y, for all X and Y; that's not a particularly useful comparison though. I've seen a project pick Java over C/C++ because, based on their previous experience, the memory leaks typical of C/C++ codebases were a worse performance problem than any Java overhead.
Still half the price of the smallest Digital Ocean droplet. But Do just sent me a $100 voucher...
What name calling? Totally against name calling.

Deepmind is Google but only one aspect. Much of the best research does not even come from the Deepmind unit.

Nvidia had zero papers at NIPS accepted. Plus GANs, Capsule networks, AlphaGo and so many other breakthroughs come from Google.

But maybe I am just unaware. Can you provide some breakthroughs from Nvidia? Maybe I am just unaware?

SDC will be winner take all and Waymo is literally miles ahead of everyone else.

We have recent benchmarks done on Nvidia versus the TPUs and the TPUs are about 1/2 the price of using Nvidia for the same amount of work. That is a big advantage for Google.

But also that was gen 2 and suspect we will see a gen 3 soon which will be another step forward. Nvidia will constantly be trying to catch up.

"I will bet you that 2 years down the line, Nvidia will have abandoned its own TPU project and all major players just buying Nvidia chips "

This does not make sense to me and think you had a typo?

BTW, Unless Nvidia makes major advancement Google just could never use Nvidia for their own stuff. The cost would just be way too high. Perfect example is the new Google text to speech using a NN at 16k samples a second. There is just no way Google could have used Nvidia and offer at a competitive price. The joules per inference is just way too expensive with Nvidia.

Google would have loved to buy chips for their stuff from Nvidia. Problem is they just do not have anything they could use at a price they could offer at scale.

So unless Nvidia catches up you will not see Google use Nvidia for their services.

The big new advancement I suspect we will see with Gen 3 is different memory architecture to better support dynamic routing with Capsule networks which came from Hinton.

Then it will be a couple of years before we see the same from Nvidia.

BTW, what is different is nobody is going to be tied to any chip architecture like we had with Intel. Those days are gone. The common layer will be TF. Now has over 98k stars on GitHub.

Besides K8s what else got to 100k stars faster.
Me: "This project you've assigned me is asking me to implement a basic REST API with 2 endpoints. Well... you could take a look at my github profile, I have at least one project that includes a RESTful API considerably more advanced/complex."

Them: "We have to be fair to all candidates, so you need to implement the interview project like everyone else."

I've never had an employer short-circuit an interview process (as in skip some/all of the BS tech screening) based on having actual, real work samples available for review.
Block 5 rocket launch marks the end of the beginning for SpaceX
Thanks for the reply. The docs say "only trusted users should be allowed to control your Docker daemon". Presumably this means that the Docker daemon can be coerced into doing all sorts of nasty stuff. Is that right? If so, doesn't that imply that it's badly written?
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How I wrote my book using Markdown, Pandoc, and a little help from the internet
This is pretty much my setup, and one of these days I'll convert the rest of the family.

The odds of your local backup and cloud provider going down simultaneously are slim to none, and at that point I'd start looking out for the Four Horsemen.
Could Artificial Intelligence Solve the Problems Einstein Couldn't?
Apple does not seem to want you to open the phone, but they are easily the most repairable phones available. Most repair shops will repair any iPhone, and you can stumble through it yourself using YouTube or iFixit.

According to this 2/3 Apple devices sold are still active today: http://www.asymco.com/2018/02/27/the-number/

I believe Apple gains directly from the longevity. People know that Apple products last long and hold resale value; where I am the iPhone 5s from Sept 2013 is sold second-hand for ~$150CAD

Devices with high resale value mean customers can upgrade frequently.
You mention a key key point: "once the tumor gets started ". Cancer does not start immediately, the effects leading up to it accumulate over long periods. That was OPs point, although I disagree for the reason mentioned in the other reply.
Ok, I got it. Just as a clarification, Conal is talking about auto differentiation also. This was my mistake in presenting his work.
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I've seen a project pick Java over C/C++ because of the memory leaks they saw in the latter in practice. You can call that a correctness issue rather than a performance issue if you like, but the practical impact was the same as a performance problem.
Some countries' job centers put jobless people into bullshit training courses that do nothing for them, but being in a course means you are not counted as "looking"/"available" for a while. Other countries do not do this.

The "same restrictions" apply, but countries in the first category will have fewer "unemployed" people even if they have the same number of discouraged/underemployed/jobless/whatever people.

Is that apples to apples?