skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>IIRC, the book posited that the Aztecs were cannibals because South America had no native animals like cows or sheep that fed predominantly on grass. Thus they were chronically short on protein and this helped make them a very war like people.

the corn/maize/squash dietary kit was remarkably complete in nutrition (eg, all necessary amino acids/"complete protein"); it's one of the reasons that tenochtitlan was one of the most densely populated places on earth upon arrival of the spanish. this thesis is completely bunk.

in fact, cursory googling found this:

> In the late 1970s the anthropologist Michael Harner suggested that the Aztecs had resorted to large-scale, organized cannibalism to make up for a supposed protein deficiency in the diet. This idea gained limited support from some scholars, but has been shown to be based on unfounded assumptions about eating habits, agriculture and demographics, making it a highly unlikely scenario.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_cuisine
Nice! I made an SVG animation myself, but I used embedded CSS animations instead of SMIL:
http://nin.ten.dog/img/shibe.svg
The big difference is that Connection Machine enjoyed being developed in programming languages that were better suited to distributed computing, whereas current chip design we still need to drag system developers away from C.
Then I can have the opposite case all to myself. Excellent! :-)
Personally I have observed that people generally misunderstand passion and confuse it for aggression, or even outright anger.
Driver in autonomous Uber fatality was reportedly watching TV
Peertube has other advantages, among which interoperability. A relevant quote from the main developer:

“Where it gets really, really exciting, is that when you respond to a video status on Mastodon, the message will be sent to the instance of PeerTube. Your response will thus be visible beneath the video, in the comment space. And yes, if another person at the other end of the world responds to your comment via their instance of PeerTube or Mastodon, you’ll see it as a response to your status in Mastodon. If tomorrow Diaspora (the Facebook alternative behind Framasphere) implements ActivityPub, it will work in the same way. We’ll have plenty of platforms that are capable of federating comments.

Free alternatives are criticized, often rightly, for not having added value compared to centralized platforms. With ActivityPub, we now have our first big advantage. Because on the centralized platforms, you’ll have a hard time viewing, under your YouTube video, the reactions of people who commented on Facebook, Twitter, etc. ”

source: https://medium.com/@chocobozzz/peertube-a-federated-video-st...
> They’re more likely to fight for what they believe in, challenge the status quo, and push the organization to make painful but necessary changes, he says.

A long time ago, I had a new employer that wanted me to hotfix non-critical code changes to a live, popular website via FTP with no version control, no nothing. Like a single typo could crash a high traffic site. I told them this was extremely dangerous and irresponsible, and refused to do any changes until we got the system under version control with a reasonable way to deploy changes. This caused a huge standoff and I basically put my foot down and told them that I wouldn't be deploying any changes until I got the client's website under version control--they could dock my pay for the extra time it took, I didn't care. Anyhow, I set up version control and a deployment strategy that we could rollback (this only took a day or so). Then I made the changes and educated the team on how to safely push changes to the site.

A month or so later they decided to not renew my contract, but by then the feeling was quite mutual.

I told this story while interviewing at what would be my next employer and it worked as points in my favor.

EDIT: FWIW I consider myself a generally agreeable giver until a certain threshold is crossed. One such threshold is stuff that moves into what I consider to be ethically irresponsible behavior. Perhaps you would call this a "selectively agreeable/disagreeable giver." There are "disagreeable givers" that pick their battles wisely in terms of when to apply friction and when to go along with the team. On the flip side there are those that will apply friction to every little thing and might relish in complaining and "I told you so"s and cowboying up their own solutions for every small disagreement.

EDIT2: Clarifying that the "hotfixes" were non-critical, normal code changes.
The paper wasn't about deep learning
I think this anti-newbie culture has been around far far longer than SO. It's probably just human nature to deride the rookies.
Probably a non-user-serviceable Li-ion. I dislike that trend, especially when there are Li-ions in standard cylindrical form factors that could be just as easily changed as AA or AAA.

Possible counterpoint: getting a Li-ion 14500 confused with a AA and putting it in an incompatible device is bad.
Most orgs favor takers IMHO.

It is more compatible with how project managers run things: "Here's your tasks, tell me when they will be done, don't do other tasks (like helping your peers) or the deadline will slip." That way of working is almost antithetical to givers.

These places prefer agreeable takers-- that's why people always say stuff like "I have a lot on _MY_ plate!"
I always do that with toilet paper, soap, etc. If Amazon kills brands, that is a great thing.

If you need to wear expensive clothing to show how rich you are, donate 10k to the top ranked give well charity, buy a five dollar t-shirt and I will sew your reciept on it. Much more efficent than throwing more money on Raulph Lauren.
If one company did it they'd lose all their good managers. If all companies did it then all the engineering managers with IC experience would stay in IC roles, and the managers you'd end up with would be much much worse.
I’d love to hear someone’s analysis as to why these things happen. Like these major, major fuck ups by some super national organizations and governments. Is this due to scale? Lack of accountability? Perverted incentives?

I feel like some sort of super national government is needed. I hate the idea but like there needs to be some sort of counterweight to supernational organizations. Local governments trying to punish them is like a game of what-a-mole.
I don't think machines are yet considered a "protected class".
Yes and what I mean was that the next one to have any chance of winning will be the one that stops trying to win. YouTube already exists and has features a startup can't compete with.

It's like trying to compete with Amazon on price and delivery speed, you're going to run out of money before you make a dent.

Look at Twitch for example, it's keeping its head in the game by starting out so different YouTube is now trying to keep up with it
Are we now accusing Facebook for not having enough censorship power?

Their response to the ordeal is way better than what I would expect, and I blame humanity more than the platform it uses to communicate.
Those who pave streets you walk on and fine you when you're speeding... So uh... How about Aliexpress?
One way, like you say, is to set up a listener on a public network and have it spawn a different event, which gets handed down to your private server through a specificly-punched hole. But there's a lot of things to pay attention to: the public listener is fully public and will probably attract all manner of hostile traffic -- DDOS attempts, scans, canned exploit attempts -- which you have to be resilient to, and filter out. And even if you receive a properly authenticated payload from your webhook, you're going to want proper input validation (e.g. whitelisting expected values and discarding anything else, so that your lower program isn't directly executing unvetted output from the outside).

There is tooling that makes some facets easier (e.g. API proxies, which handle in-software rate limiting, authn/z), but the inherent complexity of the problem remains.

An alternative that comes with much less exposure and much less runaway complexity is to poll from the inside.
USB C cables are built from micro coax assemblies https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1057/0966/files/JUCX01-Str... in order to make even this short distance viable.
Thank you for the insight.

I was just saying this was a possibility but I totally see what you mean, which probably results from human nature not being necessarily "good".

Does anyone other than me think the guards should also be prosecuted for this behavior

So yes, and

who are the sort of people who apply for these jobs, behave like this all day and then just go home at the end of the day to have a nice evening with family

Normal people? :/
don’t get why everyone’s pretending you need to live in silicon valley or a major metro area to tinker for 6 months. i saved enough from a year in silicon valley to support myself multiple years in other parts of the country.
That's not the sort of variance that was discussed in the article, where an explicit mapping function is applied, not an implicit subtying relationship.
I think that it'd be enough to store some kind of fingerprints (eg. selected frequency components after performing the FFT), not the whole samples.
When I feel like some mindless entertainment I'll hit r/documentaries. I prefer YT links because I know it's reliable. I tend not to follow links to other sites because they tend to be spammy. If PT establishes itself as something that will just play the content I asked for without being spammy then I'll give it a click even if its CDN isn't as good as Google.
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If the following quote from the article is true, it seems like Firebase is not making security easy for developers: "One of the most popular backend database technologies for mobile apps, Firebase does not secure user data by default. It does not warn developers when data is not secure and does not provide third-party encryption tools either. To ensure data is secure, app builders need to specifically implement user authentication on all database tables and rows, but that rarely happens,"
Disagreeability is itself a form of taking. You had better be amazing at what you do if you want to be grumpy.
We do think about JVM bytecode and CIL, but that is when the time comes to do low level optimizations, or integration issues between languages on the platform.

Silverlight was developed by a major browser vendor (Microsoft), and Dart was developed by another major browser vendor (Google), which also had NaCl and PNaCl on their browser.
I'm surprised that the comments are so critical here. Regarding the dataset criticisms: these are canonical datasets in ML research, I see no problem with using them for evaluations here. Using canonical datasets helps with reproducibility and should be encouraged.

Secondly, there was no claim that polynomial regression is better than NN in all cases, or is more effective than SOTA boosting techniques. The claim seems to be that PR is more simple, scrutable, and effective, for certain datasets when compared to NN. This seems like a non-controversial finding to me, given that it's common knowledge. I appreciate seeing results like this.
Ok, I'll bite!

About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that on a regular basis, and it was clear that doing it manually, on a regular basis, was not gonna happen.

I am personally -- NSFW SPOILER ALERT!! -- a long time Windows/IE user, and I knew that IE has a comprehensive automation interface. In literally a few lines of VBScript (say), you can programatically start IE, navigate to URLs, parse the DOM, create new local documents, and so on. But although those interfaces are very simple, they're not robust against failures, and have various weird and wonderful corner cases that will sometimes trip you up.

So over the next 10 years or so, I created a robust, general-purpose IE automation wrapper, and wrote some applications on top thereof. The result is that at any time, I can click a few buttons on a handsome user interface, and enter a single master password, at which point my application will automatically log into each share registry and online banking website in turn; download all new and amended data therefrom; transform all data into common formats; store it in a local cache, so it doesn't matter if it later disappears from the website; then creates a single share holdings document, showing all share holdings from all share registries, and a single online banking document, showing all transactions from all accounts at all banks since the start of time. Both documents have dynamic, user-defined sorting and filtering. They also hilite significant changes; check all share holdings against banking credits to confirm that all expected dividends were received; and so on.

In other words, I've completely automated various important financial checks that I simply couldn't do by hand on a regular basis. The downside is, I'm tied to IE - and - several hundred thousand lines of VBScript! If anyone would like to re-write all that code for Chrome or whatever - for free - you're more than welcome to contact me!!!
Because it is still evidence for what I claimed and the best I could find. I couldn't find anything showing for or against what I claimed. I think that's because it would be really hard to get good data.
You're absolutely right. A good way to tell if a paper is legit is search it on Google Scholar and see how many citations it has: this paper has none. If it's an arXiv preprint (not in a peer-reviewed journal) and also a low number of citations, definitely take it with a grain of salt.
“Not So Random Randomness” in Game Design and Programming
If that works, then why hasn't Apple done it and ended the scrounge of fake chargers?

EDIT: Or Anker for that matter. Anker is a better example because their main business is chargers/batteries, so the should care a lot about branding and making sure there are no fake chargers under their name.
Aren't most biotech or drug companies are probably looking for scientists in biology or chemistry. Not run-of-a-mill medical doctors. And becoming a 600k-worth neuro surgeon is probably as likely as running a decent startup, if not less.
I think the author left out the other side of the argument...maybe the Wharton professor didn't in the original presentation of the idea.

How does the company treat the employee? I've found that the employee will generally try to mirror how the company treats them. If they feel the company is taking advantage of them, then they might start acting like a Taker just to balance out the relationship.

If they freely give to the company, and the company gives back, then that could start a positive feedback loop.

Sometimes, the company is structured so that the company can't give back, i.e. rigid HR policies about raises/promotions that limit a meritocracy. If the opportunity cost of switching company's is higher, then the employee is probably going to milking the company for everything it's worth to try to even out the relationship.
Most of the devices that I use batteries for are not high drain, not even my flashlights (because LEDs). I would prefer always having a stack of batteries to having to buy more (because they are always in use) and remember which are charged.

My camera, laptop, smartphone, kindle, etc all have their own rechargable battery, so what is left is mostly my Ikea tradlos, kitchen scale and car keys (plus associated stuff that i forget and which therefore can be assumed not to need all that much recharging) which all runs on the super small batteries (2032? 3220? something like that), that I haven't seen as a rechargeable model.

No doubt this will change with kids, but until I have them they won't matter.
I've tried using rechargeables a few times and it never works out over the long-term. They get thrown away by people who don't realize they are rechargeable, you end up with one less than you need, you forget to charge them, it's just a pain compared to having a supply of disposable batteries that have a good shelf life and are always ready to use
Good point. Perhaps use only parts of the material (not the entire clips). This should be covered by "fair use".

And perhaps using the clips for other purposes than "viewing" may in fact be fair use. Especially since you are trying to find a method for not viewing them.

(IANAL)
Pretty much, although they’re also good at making false associations for the same reason.
Indeed it seems to be the best option.
Moving goal posts here? I thought the subject was desktop software.

Yes, Linux won the server side, it is hard to fight against free beer.

Now getting desktop software companies to invest in such market is another story.
Nim Community Survey 2018
This article talks about two issues at the same time: the first is Facebook's insidious "free basics" plan, which I'm 100% against, but the second is Facebook's role as an "accelerant" in Burma, for which I can't really blame them - censorship is pretty hard and you'll always have someone complaining.
Or burns down the house. (This may be worse with batteries than chargers, but both can be a fire hazard)
I found assholes regularly got good grades.
I generally try to go by this approach as well, which I have found to create for some interesting situations after moving country.

I come from Norway, where speakig up if something is wrong is highly encouraged, and you will most of the time be able to directly jump org levels with your conserns without anyone getting sour. People seem to genuinly want to contribute in the best way available, and work to that end.

Mexico is my new home, which can be best generalized and summed up as a macho culture where people mind their own business and don't want to rock the boat (might be a regional thing, tho. The south where I live is very mañana mañana). Being afraid of speaking up is not encoded in my genes, so I've quite a few times called out injustices when I see them, and peoples reactions are a funny mix.

I luckily have found a company to work for that has one of those dreamer bosses that OP mentions, and I find myself having a lot of influence on the business simply because I speak up.
I'd suspect you'd have a hard time building it for other platforms, but once you got it to build, it'd work. It only uses the standard library and parquet-cpp. From what I can tell, parquet-cpp has a documented build experience for both Windows and OS X.

I may be overstating the difficulty of building it for Linux. I hadn't written C++ code in ages prior to starting this, so I'm sure I was tripping over things that others would sail past. I was also simultaneously trying to build a version of pyarrow that supported some bleeding edge features. However, I _definitely_ had an incorrect mental model of where the libraries were getting installed, which led to some wasted time and frustration.

With time and some emotional distance, I'd like to take a stab at cleaning up the Linux build so that it can hook into travis-ci and codecov.

I think once that happened, getting the OS X build to work shouldn't be too difficult. I don't have an OS X machine, though, so I'm not in a great position to test that.

As for Windows... if I know very little about building C++ code the right way in Linux, I know nothing for Windows :( I do have a Windows machine, so I'm sure with enough goading I could be convinced to take a look at it. Feel free to open issues for an OS X and/or Windows build, although I can't guarantee a timely resolution to either of them!
You just modeled a data structure that would normally take an infinite number of lines of JSON in three lines, so that's kind of neat.
This is clearly a bad way to tell if a paper is legit, seeing as this particular paper seems to have been published a week ago and will therefore probably not have any citations for close to a year.

Judge papers based on their methodology, evaluations and findings (at least).

For some fields, you'll find the most cutting edge research on arXiv.
Right but this was NOT the most historically significant application of computers in WW2 by a long shot.

That's why I'm wondering if this is a visible example of how history tends to redefine significance and refocus on different events over time.
relevant username.
In healthcare the pharmaceutical shoppe gives you what your insurer defaults to - the cheapest. Neither the insurer nor the pharmaceutical shoppe are manufacturing the drug (neither the brand name nor the knock-off).

Amazon - the shoppe - is the one making the decision, and it’s decision is to default to the item that Amazon manufactures.

In one instance the payor is choosing a manufacturer and the shoppe is fulfilling the order - all manufacturers are on equal footing; in the other the shoppe is both choosing the manufacturer (itself) and fulfilling, while disadvantaging the other manufacturers, and making the decision without asking the payor.

I hope you see how these situations are in no way analogous, and only superficially related in that the customer ends up with a knock-off.
Well shit, there goes the originality of my topic idea (probably already wasn’t so much).

But anyway, should not be surprising that function approximation can be done with polynomials. Regression has big problems though, as the problem size increases, which SGD/backprop seems impervious to. That’s kind of the mystery behind neural nets.
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Amazon picks successful high margin items and knocks them off.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazonbasics-house-bra...

https://www.amazon.com/Rain-Design-mStand-Laptop-Patented/dp...

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-DSN-01750-SL-Laptop-Stan...

Interestingly though, the amazonbasics version doesn't hit the first page for laptop stands while the Rain version still does.
This is true, over my career as my companies have grown I've naturally taken a tech lead and then manager role because it was the most effective way to help the team and it turns out I'm very good at it. But if it wasn't compensated better then I'd simply stay in my lane as an IC, and the companies would suffer due to having to bring in inferior management lacking technical skills.
That would be the UN but with policing power.

I'm not opposed to the idea either. I'd also like it to hold government ministers/officials personally responsible for a states breaches of basic human rights. But the problem lies in it's structure, accountability and execution. It would be very hard to make a stable system that was objective and neither corrupt nor possible to subvert in some way.
I wasn't able to use the google search, but the link works on archive.is http://archive.is/As0p5
Compiler fuzzing with AFL
You don’t act “cool” when someone attacks core of your multi billion dollar business. This isn’t high school popularity contest.
I mean it might be completely obsolete in five years. It has caused a great deal of innovation, even if much of that doesn't come to fruition.
If 10 million poor people with no employable skillsets move into Europe, they would be withdrawing vastly more from the tax pool than they would be putting into it. People who do not contribute to production would just move wherever the local government will give residents the most resources.