skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do have to care which OS it's running inside if only to know when to patch it for $vulnerability_of_the_day. It sure is convenient to consider it as a blackbox that you 'just' need to configure, but that's just pushing responsibility to the developer(s). In my short experience, the latter seldom care about security. When a security breach occurs, who is going to take the fall ? The sysadmins that supposedly run operations, or the developers that failed to provided an updated appliance ?
ES 3 / WebGL 2 is patchy, yes, but I've found ES 2 / WebGL 1 to be reasonably reliable these days. (Edit to add: mainly thinking about iOS, Android and macOS. I haven't experimented much with Windows and Linux.)
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Similar, except for this key difference:

> A substring holds a reference to the entire storage of the string it comes from, not just to the portion it presents, even when there is no other reference to the original string.

Rust's `&str` doesn't do that, since the borrow checker will ensure at compile time that the `&str` reference doesn't live longer than the data it points to. At runtime there is no structural difference between an "original" `&str` and a `&str` pointing to a substring of the original.
> After you get asked for the umpteenth time what church you go to, it's easy to get outed as the Company Heathen.

Generally, I tell people to just say "I go to Fountain Street Church". Even if you don't know what that is, even if you've never set foot in the place, just say those words anyway. It's essentially a community shared codephrase that means "you aren't going to harass anyone about their religious beliefs".

It lets the strict Christians sleep at night (because you 'go to church'), but it usually prevents any follow-up questions (because it's somewhat well known as the 'overly-accepting' church, and they usually won't want to get into orthodoxy specifics).

Meanwhile, that same phrase lets most of the non-religious locals know that, regardless of whatever your actual beliefs are/aren't, you are a polite person who doesn't want to face religious discrimination and is claiming not to do so to others.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, it's not right to make people jump through these silly hoops. But that's sort of how the game is played in Grand Rapids.
It would be more profitable to automate both ends of the relationship, so the humans won't even have to look at their phones while sweet nothings are pinging between servers in your data center/ scalable cloud.
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There’s no law of the universe about this, other than the sun exploding and heat death.

One of the plausible catastrophic end states for humanity is an ultra-stable technocratic totalitarian global state, enabled by pervasive super high tech surveillance and censorship. It’s one of the ‘great filter’ possibilities for why sentient beings never colonise the galaxy - they’re all trapped in bureaucratic self serving versions of 1984 where the state only exists to maintain the state. Democracies and other forms of goveenment are never stable, the only stable state is bureaucratic autocracy, and falling into one only ever has to happen once and you’re done.

This is what China is building, and the model they are exporting to the world.
PIPs, at least from what I’ve seen in 12 years at DoE, are a way for managers to retaliate against employees without raising the ire of the (completely useless) union.
I would argue that a fair appeal process is much better than a process involving a union which always sides with the employee. In Canada we recently had a case where a union negotiated a glowing letter of reference and the sealing of a personnel file... for a serial killer: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/long-term-care-inquiry...
I have known several people who have gone through this process, and each of them have chronic health issues related to it. Some of those seem pretty miserable.

I'm not sure how this relates to the overall statistics of long-term success, and I suspect all but one of the people I mention would still choose to do it again.

So I guess by extreme I mean something like: a) a significant amount of weight loss, the need for which is (b) driven by existing and worsening medical problems due to the weight and, importantly (c) for someone who has been seriously trying to lose the weight for some time now and repeatedly failed.

If you aren't in that sort of scenario I am unconvinced the surgical risk and risk of ongoing issues will outweigh the benefits...
This reminded me of a tragic incident from my hometown a few years back (though I don’t think autopilot was involved): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Jalandhar_MiG-21_crash
SF is conservative in some ways, liberal in others, just like.... everything. However, if you look at the money in the area, it’s not hard to see how the culture will eventually clash with leftists.
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Lyft purchases carbon offsets for all their rides. Don't know if they incentivize electric vehicles but it would make sense for them to do so at least as much as it costs them to offset conventional emissions.

https://medium.com/@johnzimmer/all-lyft-rides-are-now-carbon...
I think we'll find that there are a dozen different _reasons_ kids will need/want to code, and each of those will lead to dramatically different environments and ways. For instance, do kids need intellisense? Yes, if they're trying to accomplish a particular application goal, whereas maybe it's a bad idea if they're still learning the basics of programming.
Do you see blockchain developers doing the diligence that any random part of the space program does as a reflex?
What are others saying it shows?
Who says IBM is dying? They aren’t anymore (since a long time) at the bleeding edge of research, but they still have a solid consulting and integration business. They also offer decent salaries and good opportunities for sales-oriented technical people.
It wouldn’t be my first choice of employer, however I can see how some people would enjoy working there.
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Unfortunately ICOs are still a grey area, legally speaking, with regards to the SEC. Some tokens are securities, some are not. Really depends on the structuring of the token and what it represents. At this time, from a risk perspective, I could see going with A16Z being a safer move. Plus, you get access to A16Z resources, which are substantial.
It's in a Handbook of Computing Education, so everything in the book is about "teaching". It would therefore have been especially odd to put that in the title.
This is not what freedom of speech means.

You can, ie, argue how death penalties should be applied to politicians who violate a certain rule.

You cannot and should not be able to threaten one specific individual. If anything, we need more of that kind of enforcement. So many deaths could be prevented if only all jurisdictions handled this matter as seriously as the Secret Service does.

EDIT: wording
That same one, yeah.
For me, one of the best interviews I heard, at all.
Sure hope that system is bug-free.
ICOs have become a self-mocking joke, considering how many are outright scams or contain huge technical flaws, or some combination of the two. The latest season of Silicon Valley parodies it pretty well.
Yeah, most states are "at-will" employment, which means outside any specific contract, either the employer or the employee can terminate the relationship "at will".

No specific reason needs to be given. And this is important. Neither side should be beholden to the other. Employees are not beholden to their employer to stay any length of time, and neither should employers be beholden to the employees to keep them employed indefinitely.

Now, no matter what, there is going to be a power imbalance. Currently, the power lies mostly with the employers. Employees are generally replaceable. You can find someone else to do a similar job.
> What about that manager "sounds like a dill-hole"?

If one of your team members is under obvious stress - and is asking to leave for the day - fucking let them leave for the day.

If you don't do that - if you continue to poke at someone who's obviously having a hard time - then yes, you're a dill-hole.
China investing into US companies is completely separate from the IP issue. For all intents and purposes, once you've bought a company, you've bought its IP.

Buying a company is about the most legal way I can think of, for acquiring IP.

Again - how does allowing foreign ownership of companies in your country harm your country? You mention IP - but it's not your country's IP - it's a particular company's IP. If its owners want to sell it, why does it matter if they sell it to an American, or a Chinese investor?
And it would almost certainly fail.
Indeed, he's guilty of all of the above.
If I squint and ignore the fact that personalities like Oliver have been doing their ideological-driven (rightly so IMO) comedy perspective bits for years I can see how how you could naively call that “propaganda”.

However, the logical side of me can’t fathom how the reported events are anything remotely “propaganda”. They are legitimate things that free-press nations can discuss how they like, including laughing at them.

You can’t call things that rustle your jimmies propaganda just like you can’t call news you don’t like fake.
There aren't any regulatory issues with taking investment from the a16z crypto fund, where a public ICO can bring attention from the SEC and other bodies. It lets founders and developers focus on getting their token network off the ground instead of figuring out how to do a legally kosher token sale.
Azure credits.
Sometimes it helps to read the text, not just the references.
Is material in China harder to pirate than material in Australia is easier to get legally.
Rain?
For one, raising money through an ICO is a legal gray area without much legal precedent. So even with a good lawyer, you are taking risk with the related securities laws. You might prefer to avoid this risk by raising money the traditional way.
Teleport SSH Server supports U2F.

https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
https://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/admin-guide/#fido-u2...

Disclaimer: I work for gravitational, but not on teleport.
> It's hard to see why expecting managers to be "more just" is any more reasonable.

The purpose of the stated policy isn't to be "more just" it's to ensure management can control the outcome.
And the US has 25% import duty on trucks, why do they have that to begin with? You can play that back-and-forth game quite a bit.

I'd be a bit more sympathetic if the US government had asked the EU to remove duties before creating new ones, but that doesn't appear to be the case. And at the same time people complain that it's totally unfair that the Canadians seek to limit imports of some goods from the US...
A bit OT, but over 20 years ago, I asked Chuck a n00b question on comp.robotics.misc with my flamesuit on and ready since that was often the tone of responses on some of those newsgroups. He carefully considered my dumb question and gave me a polite, reasoned response. If only the majority of Usenet was like that.

So, yeah. I think he means it :-) I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that username pop up here a few years ago.
HTTP protocol & normative references don't actually mention DNS at all.

The hand-wringing evidenced by some about the difficulties of introducing a new behaviour seems pretty feeble when you consider that Google has successfully intruded both a new transport protocol (QUIC) and a new application layer protocol (HTTP/2 i.e. SPDY) in a few short years. Rolling browser updates are now the norm and enable these major changes.
Seems it's five individual agents with no communication, just a reward function that shifts towards team-based rewards:

"OpenAI Five does not contain an explicit communication channel between the heroes’ neural networks. Teamwork is controlled by a hyperparameter we dubbed “team spirit”. Team spirit ranges from 0 to 1, putting a weight on how much each of OpenAI Five’s heroes should care about its individual reward function versus the average of the team’s reward functions. We anneal its value from 0 to 1 over training."

So pretty much like pubs.
I think it's safe until we mention Winnie the Pooh. Woops.

Context: in his China segment, Oliver asserts that China has banned Winnie the Pooh from the internet because it was used to mock the president. And then he (Oliver) used tons of Winnie the Pooh references.

We already are seeing a lot of partisan arguments in this thread (as one could have expected, I guess). For my part, I don't care about the politics on this topic, I'm just glad someone stands up against internet censorship. Making tons of Winnie the Pooh references is the way to go, we must prove censorship doesn't work.
"IBM Watson Marketing Automation" being another I was made painfully aware of recently, which was the result of the Silverpop acquisition at least in part.
Not MY forthcoming book (-: — "Handbook" means the chapters are written by many different people. The main chapter that deals with PLs is this one, though. What do you think it's lacking? (Did you actually read it? <-;)
One good reason is that money doesn’t buy you connections, but an a16z investment does. Another is because ICOs typically turn your currency into a security at least temporarily so you might as well play that game properly. A third one is that, rather than the reputation that comes with an ICO, you’re instead getting the reputational baggage of being a16z alumni.
They list out the reasons on the bottom of the site.
Which may mean that all the statistical techniques ML would use are fairly rudimentary for them.
This uses HIBP for the underlying dataset. I'm not sure what's added though. Convenient UX? They claim to only send anonymized data out, but HIBP already supports the underlying hash range queries -- that doesn't appear to be new here.
What does "absolute freedom of speech" mean exactly? I'm well aware that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean you can say anything to anyone at any time. But the parent is referencing something that I'm pretty sure does not exist.
Which is funny, because US television systematically erased pro-Republican reporters and asked John Oliver to publish more anti-Trump topics, which, by the way, are the only ones made available on Youtube and, despite tremendous success on Youtube, doesn’t help enough recovering the audience of the late shows which have become overt Democrat propaganda so Americans have grown tired of... of US television altogether.

Now this privileged establishment of journalists are surprised that the Chinese censors wants to choose their programs? «How can they do that!»
Ok Tait the Destroyer. It's not literally meant to be read as a single person living for hundreds of years on a bread diet.
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To assume those code bases don't contain bugs or go through multiple revisions and iterations is just naive. Just because bugs have not been exposed does not mean they are not present.

Smart contracts have people actively snooping and trying to exploit bugs for gain. Oh, and they are publicly accessible.

Also, IOT...pwned many times over ;)
I think most people would assume it was just a heavily photoshopped photograph.
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Probably for similar reasons the US charges a 2.4% tariff (on a muuuuch higher dollar value of motorcycles since Harley is about the only US motorcycle maker).
Libertarianism is only really considered fiscally conservative in the US.
Is it possible to dehumanize the firing process any further than the words, "Resource Action"?
Too late to make changes, I'm afraid.
The chicken you buy in the store is likely plumped up with a salt water solution.
They look surprisingly similar to electricity substations, with the key differences being style (substations are usually older) and the vehicles parked in front.
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If your 20 you have up to 100 years worth of investing horizons to consider. Money put to retirement really is something you can lose while young. Investing in low enough to be zero yield instruments like CD's or savings accounts is terrible advice. As is treating investment savings as actual savings you can spend.

Sure, keeping ~3 years income outside of the market if your actually retired is a good idea idea. But, just because the market tanked does not mean you lost money. You have the same share of the same companies if the market goes up or down.
That doesn’t change or invalidate what I wrote: to discriminate against still means to distinguish. Simply grouping humans is already going too far in discriminating against them, no matter the conotation.
Yeah but how many of them arrived broken? I suspect you've gotten lucky so far and/or haven't had a buyer like me that would hold you to the phrase (or whatever variation you use) of "tested and working".
Maybe this from gcide is more appropriate:

> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

> [...]

> 4. A member of a group of either sex, usually a friend or comrade; -- usually used in the pl.; as, tell the guys to come inside; are any of you guys interested in a game of tennis?. [Informal] [PJC]
Methinks your kids are predicting Sharknado 7: Kilauea's Revenge!
Quite a good read!
Impressive results, it seems.
Still think much more useful to research learning complex things without absurd compute/sample inefficiency/various hacks eg reward shapring (which, lets be honest, this seems to have a lot of), but still interesting results.
As a manager, I know for a fact that PIPs are almost never survived in any organization I've ever been in.
> One good reason is that money doesn’t buy you connections

Time for a crypto LinkedIn?
Well, there are certainly some non-cynical reasons. But one obvious one is that if you sell 10 Million of your token to A16z I bet you won't have much trouble selling billions of your token to the masses. I'm sure A16z is perfectly sincere about being long-term focused investors, but they're so perfectly positioned for pump-and-dump style schemes they may wind incurring their ill effects accidentally.
Having been in possession of more than my share of "used" panels, there are a few practicalities you need to be aware of:

•Used solar panels are off-spec and can't be teamed with other used solar panels properly. They become like two drunks trying to help each other down the street.

•Even used solar panels need mounting/racking hardware.

•Even used solar panels need inverters and wiring (frequently in values that are out of production).

•Used solar panels are a b*@#% to ship.

The glass, if intact, is the most valuable part of the solar panel for recycling purposes. This is followed closely by the aluminum frame.

The EVA (clear rubber) that encases the solar panels is garbage by the time the panel gets recycled. This is the part that turns brown and lets in moisture. I imagine incineration is the best path forward for this stuff, because after 30 years of cross-linking in the sun, it's not going to melt into a liquid.

The solar cells themselves are so enmeshed with the EVA that they turn into inchlong irregular shards attached to tabbing. There's no realistic hope for getting a commercial-grade panel out of them, even if you melt them down.

The tabbing is a valuable mix of tin, copper, and silver, as is the metallization on some cells, though you'd have to be talking tons of crushed cells to get a pound each of the metals. This should be a straightforward matter of crush and dissolve in chemicals, then throwing the stripped silicon into a smelter somewhere.

The "J-box" doesn't count for a lot of weight and is probably too old-fashioned to reuse, even if the plastic hadn't broken down and the contacts hadn't corroded. Best off cooking off the plastic and remelting the copper/tin metal portions.

You might find yourself in a position to say, hey, I'd gladly accept a used 3 ft x 5 ft solar panel that worked 50% as good as new, and was ugly. I doubt you would be in the position to take on 100 more, especially not being able to team them together.

It's not unusual to see brand-spanking-new panels at prices near $0.50/W. Shipping is starting to dominate the cost of panels, used or new.
And? That's the decision of the person who owns the business. Not yours, and not the HR person's.

The person who owns the business has decided that this is the process by which he wants employees vetted because they do not have the time to personally oversee every decision.

See, you've actually moved the goalposts here and you may not have realized it.
I coming to this topic from utter ignorance, but if longer term data might be considered more reliable, then might it also be reasonable to preferentially weight the more reliable, longer term data, all else being equal?
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Can't respond to the person below you, so I'll have to do it here - the EU doesn't actually make many motorcycles, and people who buy them don't want a harley - they want something fast and reliable, not loud and showy.

I would suspect it's a general 6% tarriff on things that haven't been included in a trade deal before, and thanks to WTO rules it'll be the same for Japanese motorbikes as well.
What benefit does a16z give you?

Beyond the legitimacy of being backed by a well-known venture capital firm, the most obvious is from the article:

"We provide operational support to entrepreneurs. Our crypto investments have access to the same 80+ person a16z operating teams as do our non-crypto investments. Our operating teams have deep expertise in executive and technical recruiting, regulatory affairs, communications and marketing, and general startup management. We are responsible participants in the governance of companies and the governance of networks."
The US has long engaged in protectionism as well - do a search for US protectionism if you think the US is somehow unfairly treated in this respect and need a list. For a long time the consensus has been that lower barriers are better for everyone, until Trump unilaterally ripped up several free trade agreements and declared (trade) war on the world.

This is a dangerous escalation from Trump which will lead to a global trade war and recession at the very least.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_...
1) Fox News 2) No one has to ask John Oliver to publish more anti-Trump topics
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I've the tenacity to work through understanding it, but when there is an obvious configuration issue which has been overlooked or not spelled out clearly - that's what irks me.
The blog article on HIBP goes a bit into more technical detail:

"We're Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password"

https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...
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