skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are segmenting the universe, which is the right thing to do. The main storyline is meant to onboard kids, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future, so you can expect more of the same there.

Where the interesting stuff will happen is in the “underworld”/“legends” line that started with Rogue One and now continued with Solo. That’s where directors will be given enough freedom to write movies for grown-ups. Some will be good, some less so, exactly like the books and fanfiction that have been written over the years - riffing on an established universe can actually be harder than building a brand new one from scratch.
Why is there irony in that? Anyone can go build a crawler and scrape the web the way Google scrapes it so they can compete with Google. Google protecting its site from scraping means you can't compete with Google using Google's own resources.

That said, automated research fascinates me, I wouldn't want to scrape Google to make my own Google, but rather to make private repositories of information that I can then query efficiently. I would love to find any kind of scriptable search engine access, paid or free. Not entirely sure how to look though.
It's definitely targeting Python and R to the same extent as MATLAB, in the sense that it claims to solve the two-language problem that is so apparent in these languages. MATLAB, Python and R are easy scripting languages, but as soon as you have to do heavy computations, you're forced to call C / FORTRAN libraries. Julia on the other hand is prove that we can have a high-level scripting language that runs as fast as C and Fortran. Combine this with Julia's generic programming and type system, and you can easily run your algorithm with floats, complex numbers, arbitrary precision, etc etc.

Even if Julia wraps a library like Tensorflow, its API is looking really nice compared to Python [1]:

using TensorFlow

sess = TensorFlow.Session()

x = TensorFlow.constant(Float64[1,2])
y = TensorFlow.Variable(Float64[3,4])
z = TensorFlow.placeholder(Float64)

w = exp(x + z + -y)

run(sess, TensorFlow.global_variables_initializer())
res = run(sess, w, Dict(z=>Float64[1,2]))
Base.Test.@test res[1] ≈ exp(-1)

[1] https://github.com/malmaud/TensorFlow.jl
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dnscrypt-proxy also supports DNS-over-HTTPS and is probably the most popular DoH client.

You can use it to connect to Cloudflare or other DoH servers, and this will not be limited to queries sent by Firefox.

On iOS, use DNSCloak.
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Classic 9 year olds comment! That made me laugh. Thanks.
It would be cool if movies could be forked :)
Does a compiler exist with the same certifications?
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> See maybe this is why I never understood the supposed all-important-ness of Events. I still just hang out with friends or family or by myself rather than going to "events".

It's not so much all-important, but it's the one feature that impacts Facebook-abstainers the most. If someone's planning a party and is lazily using FB events, you'll probably be left out if you don't have an account.
"And that's the core of the issue, and that is why these political comments are on point... By cooperating with the imperial US military Google is directly supporting one of the most evil forces in the world"

Do you mean the US military is one of the most evil forces in the world or the US itself as a geopolitical actor?
Facebook already has been trying to "copy" YouTube for several years now. I remember a couple years back FB touting videos and how much time was spent on FB watching video. This news, seems to indicate they have not succeeded in denting YT's market share.
As a tech lead in a Scrum team, this shield causes more problems than it solves in my experience. We often get questions missing context or find out about a decision too late to provide meaningful input on a technical level.
There's a joke to be made here about the cargo cults, but I'm having trouble coming up with anything sufficiently witty.
SW always felt empty to me. Where star trek always dealt with deep philosophical questions of humanism, consciousness, sentience, and took scientific plausibility seriously SW dealt with very shallow concepts and eschewed scientific realism in favor of hyper space or whatever. Just not nearly as interesting.
> That is assuming the raw materials cost $0 and there is no value to assuming the risk of the sales price.

Yes, it was a very simplified model.

> If you pay the worker $800, but it turns out the market only values the widget at $500, does the worker return the difference? Usually not.

In that case the worker is the one being unethical.

> If you are not providing any value, why is the worker not just cutting you out of the deal and making and selling widgets directly?

Each person involved in making the product and getting it to the customer: marketing, distribution etc. would need to get paid their share of their contribution.

I guess my example was too simplistic, but that's simplest way I could make the point.
Aquariums tend to be pretty expensive. Those types of rates are about par for the course. I assume that operating costs are high.
> Not all of this money was given with the intention of maximising human welfare. Take, for instance, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which helps children stricken with life-threatening illnesses, by granting “wishes”, such as meeting celebrities or visiting theme parks. The typical wish costs the foundation around $10,000 to fulfil—heartwarming for the recipient but of little help in improving health generally.

This pretty much captures my main complaint about EA. Being mindful about your philanthropy is a good thing, but EA seems to turn into shaming people who value things differently.

[edit] I would add that the Make-A-Wish foundation has a very significant quality of life impact on the kids AND their support network

[edit2] EA = Effective Altrusim (the term was in the original post title, but has been edited out)
Dask is another choice for distributed out-of-memory data structures but still within the python ecosystem
How to remove the pagination from the website?
>> ARM needs to get some skin in the accelerator game before RISC-V et. al. commoditize its cash cow.

For their own sake sure. I look forward to RISC-V taking over a large part of the world ;-) The Esperanto chip looks so promising even without proprietary extensions.
Do not sign anything. Tell them that you are having this reviewed by your lawyer (even if that is not true). Drag it out as long as possible until they just give up. You are not liable for any of this shit. If you feel like you want to claim ownership of your IP then call a lawyer and decide on what to threaten-than-sue them with.
This further reinforces the notion that the modern left has embraced essentialism, moralization, and Utopian ideology:

* reducing people to (for example and more commonly than ever) ethnic and religious identities

* turning every issue into a moral issue where decisions are separated into right and wrong with a distinct lack of nuance and thoughtful consideration

* attacking those that don't share in your Utopian ideology as irredeemable sinners that must be isolated and neutralized, lest they detract from the overarching "perfect future"

The top-most comment in this thread is obviously an extremist that lacks any interest in critically examining the multiple variables that have brought us to this situation and instead reduces it to "the American government is evil and anyone that works with it is evil by association." There are ways to affect the direction of this country (and of Google) without resorting to wholesale rejection of it on a basic level.

We are entering a dangerous territory where pogroms and cannibalization of moderates are the norm, and where extremists of all stripes are given a platform with violent oppression imposed on those calling for moderation.
Do no evil*

*conditions apply
The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders
It's for high-performance numerical work. The language of choice in scientific computing is still Fortran, and for good reason. Julia has become my go-to language for new codes, but Fortran still has its place. In particular, Julia is slow to be adopted by supercomputers.
Deprecating TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 – 2018-12-01
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Brevity is a virtue, but I just want to expand slightly: if you have paid for the car, then you have paid for he source code. That's what the license says. It is your legal right. There is a lot of talk about copyleft, but it is at its simplest a consumer rights issue. Not everybody is entitled to that source code, but if you've bought it, then you are.
> I believe the only reason American civilians like us have been able to enjoy peace is because we dropped a ton of bombs to blast tiny countries out of the sky

This is completely ludicrous. There is no military threat to the US beyond nukes. Nuclear weapons have obsoleted wars between great powers. Tiny countries are zero threat to the USA. They cannot invade; they can do almost nothing. At best, they can kill a few hundred individuals at a time by sponsoring terrorism, far fewer people than are killed by vehicles in an average June.

The reason the USA starts wars in far away countries is to maintain a sphere of influence and protect a philosophy of government and running economies that keeps the USA affluent via trade. It is not, in no way, about defense of the USA; if you really think that, you've been deeply hoodwinked by some military warrior code bullshit. The USA's military program is foreign policy for, ultimately, economic reasons.
This. My 9 year old has basically stopped playing Minecraft and now only watches Minecraft players on YT.

This seems to be her favorite: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1hvCOA0eQXwSAsW3jKs8IQ

I've tried to counteract this by purchasing the PC version (for her and her cousins), helping her with mods, encouraging her to "cast" her own gaming sessions, gaming with her (this works the best) - nothing has really worked. I'm not going to lose sleep over it but I'm also not giving up with trying to encourage her to be a "creator" and not just a consumer.
Renewables which have jitter in their throughput can be made consistent with batteries

https://thinkprogress.org/colorado-wind-batteries-cheap-12e8...
What were the previous alternatives?
That Emptiness has been apparent event since the 2nd film, and is simply continued by Disney. Disney is milking a dead cow, to the delight of the Star Wars fans who have been sucked into this drivel for nearly 40 years. It's a fucking space cowboy western with Buck Rogers quality sets, acting, and direction. Beyond the metaphors lost from the original film, Star Wars has been decades of childish marketing and quality story line missed opportunity disappointments.
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What do you mean that it's "third party"?
Python does not make these assumptions. There are Python tools that exist to solve these problems that are equally as powerful as other language's solutions. The two that I believe right now address these problems best are dask and mpi4py. Mpi4py can achieve very low latencies but given that it's based on MPI it can be complex to use. dask is the most user friendly and as a Python user is clearly easier to use than spark. Paired with numba you can get equivalent performance to distributed C programs.
Of course the backing service is not PHP. That would be a particularly poor choice for a high volume messaging statement. They originally wrote it in Erlang and later rewrote it in C++.

https://www.quora.com/When-did-Facebook-switch-away-from-usi...
Facebook will keep collecting data for organizations like the NSA and it's silly to think that they wouldn't. At best, they won't be sharing data or storing it in the EU. Most likely, they'll be gathering and sharing data with EU governments for surveillance purposes but not for public organizations. And really, my concern is more with governments building digital profiles of everyone rather than advertisers.

Give it a couple years and there'll likely be a leak revealing that nothing has significantly affected the main meat of the mega corps' data gathering, someone will say "mistakes were made but we're looking into it", a year later some investigators will say that they can't really do anything because it's technically outside the scope of the law, and it'll vanish until another leak happens the next year.
An open-source Git extension for Excel workbooks that supports diff and merge
Roll your own while following the regulations to get the safety certification.
WAMP is just websocket, so basically any web load balancer can offer redundancy, like the would do with another web service. I haven't done it, but I'm pretty sure you can spaw 4 crossbar instances, put nginx in the front and it will work.
Lush 'anti-spy cops' campaign criticised
"Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people."

Show me an industry not already over-saturated with rent seekers?

"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom."

Okay, but this is essentially what having a job means, it's just not the same kind of "equity" as the owners have, which is the basis for the age-old struggle between owners and labor.

I don't know how it looks in the part of the world where the author lives, but in my part of the world, the "booming economy" doesn't seem so booming. I don't really think the developer job market is even that hot in the midwest, and although I have plenty of capital, going out on my own to do _something_ seems like a great way to just end up broke. I thus have no way of applying what resources I have to anything that is going to build more. I'm thinking of leaving software development completely because of it. I just think the world of "write code, make bucks" is saturated in kind of the same way that the market for any electronic gadget is completely saturated.

And I beat myself up over this every day: "Why am I not succeeding with such great resources at hand? Am I just a really shitty entrepreneur?" Perhaps.
Not sure I'm reading you right, but here are my two cents.

Also living in Scandinavia and I would disagree with this advice. To be dependent on the welfare system is not exactly being free and have security.

Like the Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson said: "One who is in debt is not free".

And living off of the welfare system is in my view to be indebted to society. I would not be able to shake that feeling if I was, at least not if it was voluntarily. Add to that the social stigma, even from close friends and family. This would limit your freedom of having an agency in social interactions.

Also I would not consider it secure, since the rules of the welfare system changes quite a lot over time. Which you have no way of impacting, meaning you are dependent and not free.

EDIT: Just realized the question was about "security+free time". I guess you would have free time, which is not exactly the same as being free in any meaningful sense.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. But for clarification I can add that I think this applies if you voluntarily would live off of the welfare system, thus leeching from the ones who really needs it. It's of course a totally different story if you are involuntarily need to get welfare to survive and live a decent life.
In my opinion, the decades of novels in between star wars movies where much better than the prequels and sequels we eventually got. At varying times, different novels were canon then not canon. But in the end, Lucasfilm jettisoned the lot. Maybe there were IP issues involved I don't know but the Timothy Zahn novels were epic.

Unfortunately, Lucasfilm didn't embrace them and mine them the way Feige is mining decades of Marvel comics for the MCU.
The irony is the "do as I say, not as I do".
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Is the conference and/or the schedule of talks directly relevant to my job responsibilities or am I going because my employer wants me to be there to learn something specific or doe a bit of passive recruiting? In that case employer pays.

Do I just want to go to a particular conference and my employer doesn't particularly care about the conference or I can't make a convincing case for a specific business interest that this conference serves? No, the employer does not pay.

Next time make sure that you add attendance at a conference that seems somewhat relevant into your employment contract. I have found that this is one of the better times to make the ask (e.g. "I want to make sure I am on top of my game and delivering best practices and new techniques to the company, so I think we should add PyCon attendance to the list of benefits/duties and I will also do a bit of recruiting there for the company...")

As far as what refusal means, it could either be that the department just doesn't have spare discretionary budget to fly you somewhere to sit in a hotel for a week or else they have the budget but just have no interest in sending you because they do not think it would be worth it. For the latter you can plan ahead a bit more and spend 4-6 months reminding the decision maker about some interesting talk at conference X and how it might apply to some activity the company cares about.
Yes YouTube growth is off the charts and surprising for how big it is. Heck yesterday we had

"YouTube Is No. 1 Internet Platform Among U.S. Teens, While Facebook Usage Has Plummeted: Study"

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/youtube-teens-popular-...

It does have to slow down at some point. Google now has over 1.7 billion hours consumed on YT a day. That is about 100% growth YoY and has been accelerating. But there is only 7B people on the planet and so there is a limited numbers of hours.

So right now Google gets 10 minutes of every human on the planet with just YT and would expect that to continue to grow but at some point further down the road slow down.

Where do you think it will slow? 30 minutes? Could it ever get to an hour?
The entire premise of this paper is complete nonsense, and serves only to demonstrate the authors complete lack of understanding when it comes to the subject of markets.

"Trading is ultimately a partial information, sequential game with an unknown number of participants whose payoff functions (and utilities) are also unknown."

Markets in general are essentially an infinitely-armed bandit problem where everyone plays whether they know it or not, and resources are allocated over time in a manner not unlike evolution.
> The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

These are some of the least accountable people I know.
If it's possible someone can come up with a small UI that only lists and launches games.
> In reality FB events are extensively used by ages 16-30 as well for bigger group gatherings, such as going on holiday, going for a weekend somewhere, or something like that.

I don't understand why you'd use FB events for "going on holiday, going for a weekend somewhere." Those things would entail a smaller, tighter knit group with much more communication and planning. Group chat seems like a better fit.

IMO, FB events are really only suitable for things like parties, with an large invite/smaller rsvp dynamic, with mostly broadcast messages from the host.
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Could people in heavly-restricted regions, like China and such, access blocked sites if they use DoH to DNS outside the control of the censoring entity?
Is there really no good “just the events” app or site?

Personally I hear about the things I want to attend anyway, but I have the same feeling of not knowing nonetheless.
or a positive privacy impact depending on where you live :)
I'm not saying it's just. I'm just saying it was more than saying "Sorry".

I don't think any of my colleagues at the time would have complained if the people responsible for the money laundering went to jail.
On top of that, the argument rests on the kind of error you expect to see freshmen making in a discrete math course:

> The basic argument is as follows. For simplicity but without loss of generality, assume there are n past price changes, each of which is either UP (1) or DOWN (0). How many possible trading strategies are there? Suppose we allow a strategy to either be long, short, or neutral to the market. Then the list of all possible strategies includes the strategy which would have been always neutral, the ones that would have been always neutral but for the last day when it would have been either long or short, and so on. In other words, there are three possibilities for each of the n past price changes; there are 3n possible strategies.

There are 2^n possible histories of length n. If a strategy maps each history to one of three positions, there are 3^(2^n) strategies that consider n bits of history.
E-commerce: come costruire la giusta strategia digital?
Intervista a Mattia Sistigu, Fondatore di Xtribe

Oggi il confronto con giganti come Amazon è impietoso: come faranno dunque le PMI italiane a reggere il colpo?

Se guardiamo alle PMI di casa nostra è sicuramente vero che c’è la necessità di uno sforzo in più, una maggiore apertura al cambiamento. Infatti, attualmente solo il 5,1% delle PMI italiane vende online.

C’è bisogno di innovazione, solo una spinta digitale può aumentare la competitività: questo è ben visibile se guardiamo i dati relativi alla produttività delle aziende italiane. A fronte di un numero di aziende maggiori rispetto a Paesi come Francia, Germania e Spagna infatti, il livello produttivo è più basso.

Tuttavia, va anche detto che l’e-commerce non è la panacea di tutti i mali. Il mercato dell’ecommerce puro è dominato da colossi come Amazon, Zalando, Ebay e Yoox, che limitano la penetrazione di nuovi e-commerce.

Come costruire, dunque, la giusta strategia digital?

L’e-commerce resta uno strumento molto importante, ma non va preso sotto gamba. Per funzionare in maniera proficua ha bisogno di margini di guadagno sul prodotto, investimenti importanti e trovare le giuste competenze. La soluzione per le piccole medie imprese, soprattutto in campo retail, è quella di sfruttare la loro risorsa più preziosa, ovvero il proprio negozio.

È quello che tenta di fare XTribe: l’e-commerce non sostituirà mai le attività sul territorio, ecco perché è importante agevolare il contatto venditore-cliente e generare fiducia, che sono poi le basi del commercio.

Dal lato dell’azienda dunque, è necessario avere un approccio aperto verso il digital, valutando tutti gli strumenti a disposizione e focalizzandosi su quelli veramente utili per la propria attività.
If you child gets a serious disease, can you take a year off from work to comfort him/her and give the best possible assistance in recovery? Can you take your child to private facilities that have individual rooms and private tutoring so they don't miss out on education? If the best possible treatment with a high success rate and a low-impact recovery is in Sweden, can you arrange medical transport on a plane to get your child there?

Insurance is just to cover not dying. Being rich makes it a comfortable experience.
I agree. The academic is in too deep and looking to spread the liability around. Best to just say you are talking to your lawyer and never respond again (lest the academic try to find new "academic" ways to blame others).

Also: academics are generally not business people, nor are they generally lawyers. Something to consider.