skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish that the EFF had actually taught people the math of running an ISP, rather than just writing a puff piece.

Here's Comcast's Form 10-K for 2017: https://www.cmcsa.com/static-files/111ba611-eb85-4edc-9000-3...

Yes, the majority of the expense for Internet is definitely the upfront cost of equipment (physically putting in the cables).

Cable companies borrow lots of money in order to do this -- Comcast's Form 10-K shows that they have 64 billion dollars of debt. In order to get bank loans that big, you need to show that you can pay it back. But they only have 3.4 billion in cash; the way they keep their balance sheet from falling apart is knowing you pay your monthly cable bill ("Receivables, net" of 8.4 billion).

Comcast had 41 billion dollars of "Residential" revenue last year, but only 14.7 billion dollars of that was for Internet.

The big expense line item is 13 billion on "Programming" (aka, TV stations from the other conglomerates, for people who haven't cut the cord yet). There's also 6.4 billion on tech support, and 2.5 billion on customer service. If you keep looking further, you see they spent 3.4 billion on "customer premise equipment" (which is probably cable modems and set-top boxes), and another 2.4 billion on "scalable infrastructure", which is the actual "paying money to make your internet better". The balance sheet shows ~38 billion on property and equipment, so maybe Comcast is upgrading, say, 5-10% of their network in a given year?

In my opinion, Comcast's real long-term business risk is the shifting revenue mix from Cable to Home Internet means that Comcast gets smaller cash flows, so there's less money to upgrade the equipment every year. That can't possibly look great for shareholders.
Each time I end up on one of the medium-based articles I get dizzy - I get bombarded with full-screen nag screen and after closing it roughly 1/3-1/2 of the screen is hidden behind fixed navbar (often) and another nag-bar to sign-up.

Really - I do miss old days where blogs/articles were, to put it weirdly "simplistic" (tech-wise)
Exercise for work and exercise done for play may have different outcomes though. I remember reading George Sheehan’s Running and Being and he says dockworkers etc don’t seem to get the same health benefits from their work exercise. There’s something unique about it being for play.
Teacher Expectations and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies [pdf]
NNs Learning to Navigate in Cities Without a Map
Haha I think I know what camp you're in, since no one claims you need to know _all_ the theory to do _anything_. ;-)

Interestingly enough, I don't really think of myself as falling specifically into either. But I'm a pragmatist, so I lean a bit towards the idea that you can get things done without necessarily always needing a lot of theoretical knowledge. BUT at the same time, I think that having a solid theoretical understanding is almost always desirable, and all other things being equal, I'd rather know the theory than not. :-)

I'd be open to consider that maybe our difference in perception is entirely explained by selective memory (in the sense that you're more likely to remember when people rubbed you the wrong way than when they agreed with you).

Agreed. I would think that is probably a big part of it.
GWAS of social genetic effects on 170 phenotypes in laboratory mice
I looked at your description, and compared the requirements myself.

I'm even more convinced this is for publicity (or other political reasons). There's nothing there that couldn't have been done by very slightly altering the CS requirements.

If CMU had done that instead, students would have the ability to take more AI classes, but they wouldn't be at a disadvantage if they decide (or need) to work in another field of CS.
Redshift is a data warehouse. It does not require indexes and handles wide tables--e.g., fact tables with lots of columns--very efficiently since it uses column storage. For data warehouse operations you can only substitute native PostgreSQL if the dataset is quite small.

Assuming you seek wire compatibility, your choice would therefore be a PostgreSQL-compliant DW, of which there are several. However, they have greatly differing cost and operational profiles, which make switching non-trivial. They also tend to support different versions of PG depending on when they forked from PostgreSQL.
It shifts the core of the curriculum much deeper into the statistical mathematics and away from the "how the bare metal works" and forest-of-languages pieces of the CS undergrad degree. In particular, you can't generally get the CS undergrad degree without cap-stoning your experience with either a networking or operating systems course; this new degree omits both of those from the curriculum (but adds machine learning, modern regression, and a cap-stone of either natural language processing or computer vision).
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That's a fair point. I've always heard it in the context of "STEM", but I think it was more referring to the technology area (primarily programmers, etc.). And even then I want to say it was about companies wanting cheap developers or specialists. So there's only a shortage if you're unwilling to pay the common rates.
This doesn't even make sense. Why would they keep a behavior that could be considered a bug when creating a new instruction set?
Up-thread, the proposal is to fix the scalability & energy usage issues by having a trusted authority such as the U.S. government run a database with a payment API on top.

Under such a system - how do you know that there is anything behind the government's numbers? They could be pure fiction right now and no one but the government would know. Also, the government takes a cut. As the whole economy flows through their currency, they become a de jure taxing body. Their taxes drain the economy, and can be used to manipulate the economy to the government's whim.

It may shock you to learn that not everybody trusts the U.S. government. The growth of cryptocurrencies worldwide is largely fueled by the fact that the set of people who don't trust the U.S. government is larger than the set of people who do - and in fact, they've seen their biggest up-take in societies like Zimbabwe and Venezuela where trust in civil monetary authority has completely collapsed.
you mean that blind optimization of a black box might run into problems that can't be solved by "adding more layers"? I would never have guessed.
I wonder if this API can be coaxed into providing a method of authentication for "the other" 99% of people and use cases, without a hardware token and in a device-independent fashion, using passwords only.

That may sound contradictory or that it misses the point, but let me explain. The password can be used to locally decrypt a secret key that is stored on the server at registration time, and that is retrieved based on the username provided. What this achieves is a login system that covers the way social login/Facebook/OAuth is used, without giving any power to a 3rd party. The password never leaves his machine and the user is not dependent on any particular hardware or keyring.

So for all those "I can't trust this website with a secure password / I can't be bothered to signup" cases, you will have a strong authentication scheme that is as secure as your (salted and stretched) master password, and where you are guaranteed that a compromise on one of the sites does not spill over to the rest. Unless you choose to reuse a username, your identities will be independent and unlinkable, unlike any social login scheme, preserving privacy.
The user complexity is similar to what regular people already know, usernames and passwords - you can even safely reuse a strong password. The essential difference is that you should trust only your device / browser with the password, not the site.
>How much did newton or einstein's father exercise? Were they body builders?

Why would that matter? Are they the only smart people? And why are you conflating exercising with body building?
Be aware that actual biologists wince when epigenetics and related phenomena are described as "Lamarckian evolution" (much like physicists do when quantum effects are claimed to be "proof" of non-materialism or New Age woo). They are superficially similar in their effects but the underlying mechanisms are very different and (as far as we know) epigenetic changes rarely persist beyond a few generations and probably can't impact populations very much.
No. Culture moves in waves. You hit the right part of the wave and it's a great ride. Time it just wrong and you wash out, but you might still have fun, especially if it's your first time out and you don't know what a good wave feels like. I don't agree with the sentiment that every time and place is equivalent to every other time and place, and that comparing them is a meaningless exercise in nostalgia, if that's what you're implying.
There are two problems with this control (QE) that the citizens are concerned about:

1. It reduces their cash savings by the ratio of the amount of new money injected to the total supply

2. It is unfair, as the first receipients of this new money get free money. (Inflation increases as that money flows through to everyone, however, the first receipients of this money don't get to face the inflation).

The second issue is solvable. The money should be distributed equally to all citizens, via some tax break or something.
It's obvious there will be some sort of incentive. Apple Pay currently gets bonus discounts for various online retailers. Like Amazon gives 5% back on Amazon/Whole Foods purchases, expect Apple to do something as well.
Yeah fair (and that's awesome, I think mine went out of calibration after like a year)... but like I said in another comment. If devices are inconsistent it doesn't really matter.
AGW skeptics, like evolution and spheroid Earth skeptics are their own audience, no one else is really bothering to tailor their speech to them. We’ve entered the casually dismissive phase of the relationship. The ROI for dealing with people who are in denial is rarely positive after all.
Never had the chance of studying it. I'll give it a closer look. Thanks.
Unity wasn't perfect but I personally really enjoyed it after the initial adjustment period. I mostly switch between a web browser, a terminal, and a text editor. I like how Unity let me run the applications I needed while staying out of my way and taking up mininal screen space.
«Cryptocurrency is slower than card networks»

Not inherently. If you compare apples to apples, accepting a credit card transaction is equivalent to accepting a zero-confirmation cryptocurrency transaction, which is just as fast as a CC charge (instantaneous.) And it is technically safer for a merchant to accept a 0-conf crypto tx because a CC charge is trivial to reverse (via a fraudulent chargeback) while a tx in the mempool of thousands of nodes is typically (not always!) hard to make disappear.

«It's more expensive than practically any other way of sending money»

Far from true. Average remittance fees are around $7 per $100 sent. Meanwhile Ethereum has fees typically under $0.50 per tx: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-transactionfee... Of course there are periods of fee surges (over $5 per tx!), but it's not common.

«a full record of every monetary transaction performed with such a currency»

That's technically not needed. There have been proposals to implement what we call UTXO commitment sets, which is basically a way to revamp a blockchain so that it can discard old transactions and just keep track of current balances. (This is different, but roughly the same principle as "pruning.")
As a Russian, I don’t understand how Americans can “get into” Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. The cultural background required to understand them is simply not there, so you’re getting maybe 50% of what’s there, and that’s an optimistic estimate.

Likewise, I’m not sure I fully understand Hemingway, Steinbeck, etc. I enjoy their work, to be sure, but I’m afraid not to the extent Americans enjoy it. Thus far I have not found an American novelist who would be anywhere near Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. My favorite US novel is “Grapes of Wrath”. Absolutely beatiful work when read in the language it was written in.

My favorite Russian novel is “War and Peace”. Russian school children are forced to read it when they’re like 15, and they don’t get it, of course. After re-reading it at 40 I was blown away. Such immense depth, such masterful pacing and character development.

I have recently re-read Crime and Punishment, another one of those books Russian school children are forced to read with no hope of understanding. I was likewise impressed with depth and sheer brutality of it. I wouldn’t say Raskolnikov hated the world. That’s not quite right, too black and white. Dostoevsky operates in the gray area. Raskolnikov was, at his core, a kind young man (see eg his empathy for Sonya), but an extreme nihilist, and he was stuck between a rock and a hard place, from which his nihilism offered him no escape. Struggling to reconcile his ideology with his humanity, he commits a stupid crime, for which his humanity makes him suffer immensely. If he really did despise everything, he would sleep well.
Or you just peg USDC to the dollar so traditional monetary controls still apply. I don't know how exactly you'd do that but I'm sure you could figure out something clever.

The advantage here is triple-ledger system, not the mining/anonymity features of other crypto. Having a pseudo-dollar cryptocoin creates a digital cash that is inherently traceable and avoids all the nasty bits of international money changing. It's a governments wet dream.
I feel that if you put this in front of a CEO of an ISP he will really not understand it. It is so very, very common in business world that you find an argument to ask for more money, which is why you will ask for more money. The question for business people is not the truthfulness of the reason, but how believable it sounds.

And if you try to counter that with truth and succeed you will really irritate these business people. Because now they need to go and find another good-sounding reason to ask for more money.

Truth or not, that is really invisible to them.
Fortran is still going strong with Fortran 2008. And even better, it’s backwards compatible still with Fortran 77.
As a CMU BS-CS graduate myself, the most obvious and startling shift is no OS or networking requirement. That alone makes it "not the Computer Science undergrad track" as far as I'm concerned.

(Not to mention the notable lack of the utterly gigantic forest of higher-level discrete math concepts and programming language theory. Were I in a place to re-do an undergraduate career, this would have been very appealing to me relative to what CMU offered).
A large percentage of the articles are ads.
In 2014, my prediction was illegal due to net neutrality regulations, while limiting Netflix based on usage was possible.
I still wish for this in Austin. :(
Get more done at the Linux command line with GNU Parallel
Frequencies : Music Theory :: Logic Gates : Computer Science.

See my other comment.
They certainly are at UT Austin! But UT Austin has a separate Computer Engineering degree that's very similar to EE.
Askalono: Rust tool and library to detect open source licenses from texts
And ActiveX was basically Electron!
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Add random crashes, windows not refreshing until you restart the app, app being slow as hell in general or my personal favorite - the "feature" that if you unmute your microphone within first couple seconds of joining the call, you're dropped from it (it's 100% repeatable across the whole company I work in).
They should both be important is his point. And measurements for IQ (and EQ frankly) aren't very reliable. His point seems to be that "smart" is not really measurable as we don't include EQ and our measurements of IQ are poor as well.
Thank you - I'll check it out.

We exposed the AST and ASTMatcher libraries of Clang inside of Clasp and we use it to analyze all of the Clasp C++ code to build an interface to the Memory Pool System memory manager.

I want to have something that can include C and C++ header files and automatically expose them to the Common Lisp - that would be neat!
Maybe we can steal some ideas like the includec function of Terra.
Where's the vouch link?
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The community decides by flagging stories they think don't belong.
I can't find the article, but there was a post where someone turned on the Audible Alert of when it was listening and it began listening for a lot of times.

They also said they found a lot of recordings in their Google History that really shouldn't have been there.

Here's another article about the history: https://qz.com/526545/googles-been-quietly-recording-your-vo...
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I disagree with you on almost every point. But I wish I could double upvote your effort and insanity.

I think your perspective has value, and things may appear this way from your point of view. But from another point of view that Rich White Girl with the Alvacodo Toast is getting slammed. She isn't immune from criticism, its just that different groups have a problem with her.

McDonalds didn't become disgusting because they marketed to minorities. Their food has mass appeal, and a great flavor per dollar ratio. McDonald's just didn't keep up with high end burger chains like IN N OUT, which charge more but offer a objectively different product. This is the consumer cycle in every product, it doesn't have to be racist.

Do you have an iPhone? Is it ok to say that old school flip phones aren't as good? Or are we being racist, because generally people in poverty can't afford the latest phone?

But I will say that your dog whistle argument has made me think. Food is almost impossible to separate from culture, so we should be careful how we criticize what we think are unhealthy eating habits. I'm a big advocate of the KETO diet, and I know when I traveled in Muslim countries the perception that pork is unhealthy is extremely pronounced. Also my family in India thinks that beef is the major cause of obesity, even though my diet is mostly beef and they can see I am 50 pounds lighter after giving up rice, and my favorite Indian foods.
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Looking at the curriculum CMU has put together (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu...), I see statistical fundamentals in the Math and Statistics Core. I expect it should handle the why and the how.

(... though I get the sense from the outside looking in that a lot of machine learning at this point is still a little bit alchemy, so there may not always even be a firm "why" answer to give. All the more reason to give students firm general fundamental groundings so they can seek out those answers).
Yes, but you may as well choose the credit card with the most advantageous reward scheme. The fact that you need a credit card to establish history doesn’t make reasonable to choose a card with suboptimal rewards.
GAE wasn't brand new when it increased prices; it was three-years-old - the same age as Aurora today.
This is specific to my jurisdiction but one can get a DUI so long as their BAC > 0. The .08 threshold exists because it's presumed that anyone with a BAC > .08 is too impaired to drive. The authorities have to demonstrate that individuals with BACs between 0 and .08 are impaired.

A person driving around my local roads with a .07 BAC isn't necessarily innocent, they may well be impaired and a danger to themselves and others on the road.
I generally use either a wiki page (if there is an agreed upon common wiki), or a short memo document. A wiki is nice because it's easy to include a URL into a commit.

The diagramming tool is a minor consideration except it should be easily editable by someone coming along later. The important thing isn't the tool, but that there is a common, known place to look and collect the info for the team. It could be as simple as a shared folder as long as everyone agrees.

In general, I write and try to encourage "tech memos" that are short of capital-D official, complete Documentation, and instead focus on capturing the high-level view of some scoped aspect of the total system. Memos that cover say a walk-thru of one type of operation through the entire system, how a single feature interacts with the larger system, or a tricky bit of analysis, logic, or assumptions on some key point; all tend to be popular reading. Whiteboard pics are often included just for convenience if needed too.
ML models (depending on how implemented and the scope thereof) can be _massive_ (as in gigabytes to terabytes).
Maybe its when they realize that in order to continue to grab deeper market share they need to optimize how their business is impacted by consumer's access to credit?

The problem seems to fit because younger companies' concerns are about how their business is impacted according to consumers access to their product.
Apple is almost everywhere here in the states. What else could be preventing other consumers/holdouts from accessing Apple's premier products?
I think it could make sense for the US government to provide a way to hold existing dollars in digital form, directly with the government. So I could go to a bank (or specially designated federal institution), deposit cash, and have that cash turned into a balance of 100% reserve digital cash held on the government's books. I could then make cost-free, instant transfers to other people or other accounts. The government could support people outside the US holding accounts. It could have API's that allow people to build transaction systems on top of the digital currency system.

What I don't understand is:

1) Why the US government would make a brand new currency rather than just support holding existing US dollars in digital form.

2) Why crypto-currency is needed. The crypto aspects of bitcoin are needed to support the fully decentralized processing. If you the currency is centrally controlled anyways, might as well just use an ordinary database with good transaction logging.
I would be curious to hear how different this proposed CMU curriculum is vs what you had in the early 2000's.
Given the proliferation of ApplePay, the revenue streams from things bought or transacted over the iTunes store, and it's massive cash stores, at which point does Apple start to look like an actual bank as it begins to underwrite credit, offer investments, transact to investment platforms, etc?
Which makes WAY more sense than a range outside of human hearing that OP implicated ("inaudible").

Expecting TV's to play tones outside the range people can hear is ridiculous.
A couple of commong APIs I can think off the top of my head:

- HTTP client

- CSV parser/generator

I know Hyper and rust-csv are popular. But having an stdlib that's much more feature complete would be great.
So I like this concept based off what I can see (basically like a RSA or similar w/o the generated token, or rather having to enter said token manually). Question: Microsoft was pushing hard that they're going towards passwordless, and if memory serves, it was through the FIDO Alliance stuff. So how do we get there with this? I'm assuming this is supplemental to that (a "second factor"), but what else gets us there?
Is it possible to match the end of a slice with slice patterns? Something like:

fn foo(s: &[char]) {
match s {
['a', 'b'] => (),
[.. 'b', 'c'] => (),
_ => (),
}
}