skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP meant "reducing balance sheet". When the fed buys long term bonds it issues short term debt thus increasing its balance sheet and incidentally reducing long term rates. During the great financial crisis, the fed bought a lot of long term debt increasing its balance sheet to levels not seen since World War 2. It is currently in the process of reducing its balance sheet which should have the effect of increasing long term rates, but they aren't responding as much as predicted. This is why some people fear a recession.

There are many other factors, but it should be noted that this is the longest time of a financial expansion (time since the last recession) in modern history. In the 70s and early 80s there were 4 recessions in a 12 year period.
> You probably want the vehicle to ditch where it will do least harm.

Not if it's a military aircraft with classified equipment over enemy territory.
Reinforcement Learning Progress
Graphs are here: https://tse.gratis/aArray/#details

And you're completely right, benchmarking is hard

Edit:
To expand on that: I use someone else's benchmark since they have put effort into it, and already received feedback

For std::vector and binary search I performed multiple runs on several architectures, and did things like randomizing the benchmark order (which can have a big impact)

Complex struct is a good question
Chaos Engineering at LinkedIn: The Failure Injection Testing Framework
The knockout documentation is a thing of beauty. One should start with the framework for that reason alone.
It will take few years for people to realize, but Ember.js is the silver bullet for building web applications.
Oh you know what, maybe you're right. I was basing my comment on this reddit post and the timestamped video it links to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/788v15...
If you rewind that video a bit turns out she's talking about something else, circadian rhythm/time restricted eating, no idea.
I happened on this post just the other day, that's why I replied to your comment in the first place. It's funny my wife and I were going to start trying out IF and I've been railing on her about how it's gotta just be water until we eat or we lose all the benefits..haha I gotta loosen up. Too much information out there, easy to get lost in the weeds.
That could happen, but if it did it would very much be the exception rather than the rule :)

Heartbleed and shellshock (and others of course but those two have memorable names) very much laid the general case of "many eyes make all bugs shallow" to rest.

The unfortunately truth is that a tiny percentage of source code gets reviewed by a competent reviewer.

In this case my feeling is that it being crypto+rust the chances are even smaller than usual..
Lifting 5lb weights -- unless you're starting out not strong at all -- won't do much to increase strength. You know how, say, a crane can lift a 20,000-pound rock 10,000 times before it breaks, but lifting a 20-pound rock doesn't stress the crane one thousandth as much? Your muscles work the same way: lifting a 5-pound weight is not going to make you stronger at all. If you want to get stronger, you need to lift something your body thinks is heavy.
Scaling Network Automation at Facebook Using Zero-Touch Provisioning
The cost/benefit analysis of comparing before an assignment
Because controlling all of the resources of the galaxy, or at least having that option, shields your civilization from other less civilized/hostile civilizations?
To reduce the heat in what could be an overheated economy. Many economists look at the employment rate as being too low which could signal inflation.
Perhaps you shouldn't discount the entire content of the article based on what could be perceived as a minor mistake. There's quite a bit of corroborating material in regards to the core theme of the Intercept piece (AT&T/NSA collaboration); for example, the engineer who's quoted in the Intercept article has been speaking out about NSA surveillance for several years. He's been referenced in similar articles in various publications going back to at leat 2007. The San Francisco address in the article was Mark Klein's former workplace and he ostensibly witnessed fiber splitting equipment being installed for use by government agencies. So if we are to take him at his word, then his account certainly lends credence to the Intercept article.
Then a year after the lows it was back over 1200, and it's basically been straight up since then. Unless you timed things very accurately you were better off simply holding.
Thanks! The restrictions are a WIP, and will be significantly lifted even by our July match.
This is the same organization that switched precipitously to unstable CephFS in 2016. Recklessness doesn't seem to be a problem at GitLab.

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/
btw, this was announced in April, before the GitHub acquisition.

Credit to detaro (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393538) for this tidbit.
> Automatic cancellation rather than actual deadlock detection is going to be one hell of a footgun.

Well, this would be in keeping with MongoDB's track record, sooooo
All of optimization, stats and theoretical ML involves solid grasp of calculus over the reals
Do the start-ups that they invest in get discounts/credits/a better rate though? They might not push GCP, but they may give incentives.
Historical correlations from before 2008 cannot be taken as predictive for the current environment.

Long term rates are low because the market expects that any economic weakness will be met with quantitative easing and that long term global interest rates will be negative.

The market is not predicting recession. It is predicting more interventionist economic policy to prevent recessions, which is a good prediction.
Not surprising at all...the paper mills from the last century in Kalamazoo (South of GR for those who want context) has rendered the Kalamazoo river pretty much unusable for the foreseeable future.
You know MP3 is kinda like a FFT right?
They might still collect them, on the chance that they'll be able to break the encryption later
Indeed. Right there alongside acknolwedging OCaml (albeit capitalized incorrectly) as a functional language, no less.
The core of the sun is 15 million Kelvin [1].

The surface temperature of the sun is approximately 5,778 K (5,505 °C, 9,941 °F) [2].

I can guess what the insane pressure means ("estimated at 265 billion bar (3.84 trillion psi or 26.5 petapascals (PPa))"), but I don't know what millions Kelvin means. It should be kinetic energy. So maybe it means the ions vibrate very fast?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Sunlight
The questions are styled to use courier, though.

.question {
font-family: Courier;
}
I definitely did not mean to minimize either of your first two threats. However, using them as explanations for the Fermi "paradox" would imply that they're impossible for any civilization to fix. Personally I don't think that's true.
Is it?

When you are losing weight for more than a month, I guarantee you, if you are a reasonable person, you wouldn't be losing a donut with those 500 Kcal. You'd instead be giving up 500grams (almost 2 pounds) of tomatoes + 80 grams of cheese + slice of wholegrain bread. That's a meal right there.

BTW, training during weight loss (by caloric restriction, at least) is mostly done to keep your existing muscle mass + keep metabolic rate up. You wouldn't train to create a bigger deficiency. So every calorie you burn through training (even low-intensity) you should intake back as food.

I will be walking for about an 1.5h tonight to "gather" some calories for dinner. I spend my rations for a bit more caloric lunch and now I will have to pay for it. :)
Most products don't trash data and ignore almost every real-world usecase.

MongoDB is a marketing meme that slowly has had a database built around it.
Agile Doesn't Delegate Responsibility
Show HN: Just-API, testing framework for HTTP APIs
I just don't see enough cost benefit from rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of working code at this time. I can't see IE going away, any time soon, due to corporate tie-in. Hopefully VBScript ditto. If it all falls over down the track, I'll review my options then :-)
First announced in April.

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
That's right. You basically won't be able to do a cardio effort to your body's capabilities. Anyone that has ever run an ultra marathon is essentially operating in ketosis like state. You just burn more energy than your body can absorb so it is a combination of stored fat and incoming carbs/fat/protein that keep you moving.

edit: Your body also slows down its nutrient absorption rate during any exercise as it diverts blood to your extremities and core body functions. So digestion is more of a challenge.
The unwind of QE is just getting started. It’ll be interesting to see the impact.
Without silently dropping transactions, how could it ever be web scale?
I hope you read the last line of the article too :-

> "Everything I wrote above is what worked for me – that is not to say it will work for everyone. I am also not a doctor, I’m an engineer, so none of this is medical advice – please consult your doctor."

This is just a person who wants to show HOW they did it. You can read all the scientific papers you want, but ultimately you have to put that knowledge into practice. You'll find that people have lost weight in various ways, including what you call "unscientific" or bro-science.

We have a very fuzzy understanding of human metabolic pathways, and an incomplete knowledge of their interactions with each other. If you want to dismiss somebody's data you have to first understand and explain the data, and then add your point of view.

Its a bit like telling Usain bolt hes doing it wrong because he has technical imperfections in his form, but meanwhile hes still winning races.
To be fair, AKS wasn't generally available until about a week ago. And while in preview, there were some significant issues with AKS (they themselves recommended not to do production deployments on it for the preview period).
> When the fed buys long term bonds it issues short term debt

No. When the Fed buys bonds it issues MONEY.
Mainly to prevent inflation from getting too bad. We've got very low unemployment (among those actively looking for work) and still have excess amounts of capital sloshing around combined with the tax breaks. They're trying to keep the economy growing at a steady pace instead of taking off like a rocket only to crash land later.
As long as the apps from the appstore are installable, this is a non-issue for non-technical users.
Peppermint OS Version 9 Released with New Features
Yep. "We're due" is my perspective on bear markets. We've had a bull for a long time now, and there's adequate macro factors that a tipoff into a bear is a fairly reasonable expectation.

In other words, it's quite time to make sure your holdings are prepared for a recession.
The point is that the reason that there's so much diet advice out there beyond calories in < calories out is that accomplishing calories in < calories out on an ongoing basis is HARD.

The advice (aside from the scams and a little bit of idiocy) is on how to achieve that deficit in a way that minimizes the willpower required - because humans suck at willpower and one's biology is constantly trying to undermine that willpower in order to achieve the "store more reserves" imperative.
You are right, and in case you don't have access to it, I posted the paper at http://ge.tt/3d5wVJq2 for further detail. It's a fairly short meta analysis but they do point out its shortcomings.

My point wasn't that VLED are superior to HBD, but that the "VLED necessarily causes rebound to original weight" is a myth. It can work and has worked for many people, provided a behaviour change is performed after the end of the dieting period.
This sounds like a giant red flag to me.

I hope you at least disclose your methods to people you contact.
We've updated the link from http://thesoundingline.com/map-of-the-day-the-population-of-..., which points to this.
if gaming is an issue: desktop. Laptop in the other case. Or both, you can get cheap laptops for 300€ which will work just fine because of the reasons in the parent.
Tencent becomes a Linux Foundation platinum member
> If you have a very hard problem for which you have a simulator, our results imply there is a real, practical path towards solving it.

Are there that many domains for which this is relevant?

Game AI seems to be the most obvious case and, on a tangent, I did find it kind of interesting that DeepMind was founded to make AI plug and play for commercial games.

But unless Sim-to-Real can be made to work it seems pretty narrow. So it sort of seems like exchanging one research problem (sample-efficient RL) for another.

Not to say these results aren't cool and interesting, but I'm not sold on the idea that this is really practical yet.
Add a link to it in the main page next to the 1/3 faster claim, something like "see the details".

(Moreover, I'd add the graph in the overview page with a link to the complete discussion. I like graphs :) .)
Compared to a dyson sphere? Maybe.
Good question! I'm sorry I left out the details. Yes, it is the caffeine and the book I followed (The Renegade Diet by Jason Ferrugia) recommends 1 cup about 30-45 mins before the workout to burn fat even faster.

Even though I now rarely work out before going to work, I still start my day by drinking a glass of water and then a cup of coffee and it still feels good :) If you drink decaf, I think it would have no positive (but probably also no negative) effect.
My startup is being impersonated all across the board, help?
But we don't have ranges. It's not like a physical measurement where we know that the actual value falls in a certain range with a Gaussian distribution. In history we have disparate sources, often contradicting each other when you have more than one and historians try to figure out which is the most reliable. So all you can say is that you have approximations. It's not "frivolous", they are figures that are interesting for themselves because you can still see trends (like which Empire was dominant, or how depopulation starts to creep down in the late Roman Empire), with the caveat that the figures are "to the best of our knowledge".
I suppose - they are not certain outcomes. But there's always option #3.
I'm annoyed that the top answer is basically saying "well that wouldn't happen". So what? The question wasn't about how likely a thing is, it's what happens should it occur.

It would be like if someone asked "what would happen if a C program tried to access uninitiated memory?" And the answer was "Good programmers would never do that".
Open-source identity design for Simple
Yeah there is interesting "math" you can do. But, for most people, your liver stores about 1200-1500 calories of glycogen. You have some in all of your muscles, etc. Marathon is right at the distance you can run and stay under "the wall". In fact, that is a key part of pacing. Finding your race pace to basically operate on glycogen for all but the last bit of it (1-2 miles) where you can just push/suffer through on will power. If you go out too hard, you burn glycogen too fast, hit the wall at 6 miles out... that is the suck. 6 miles can be an actual eternity when you hit the wall.
In 1998 I was a big fan of Ultima Online and I had just gotten my first rack in a real datacenter (as opposed to an office server room, etc.) with a real backbone connection.

So I loaded Windows 98 onto an old desktop, installed PCAnywhere, the UO client and a macro utility.

The result was a lightning fast, never interrupted connection to UO with a macro'ing character running 24/7 on a headless PC in a datacenter.
Of course they bury the most important part in the last sentence of the article.

> So if long-term rates were pushed lower by central bank bond buying, and now short-term rates are being pushed higher as the Fed tightens its monetary policy, the yield curve has nowhere to go but flatter.

“In the current environment, I think it’s a less reliable indicator than it has been in the past,” said Matthew Luzzetti, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank.
I suggest "The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati". A great book about the meaningless of everyman planning about leaving a successful life. Mr. Paolomar by Italo Calvino is another last century Italian masterpiece with the reflection of a math teacher about the world and life in general.

wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tartar_Steppe
Sometimes I wonder what we’re going to do with all that farmland when ethanol and industrial livestock isn’t a thing anymore.
There are GLSL exploits.

"Vulnerability analysis of GPU computing"

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&http...

"Grand Pwning Unit: Accelerating Microarchitectural
Attacks with the GPU"

https://www.vusec.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/glitch.pdf

Just two random papers, there are quite a few others.

Ah, and as usual when discussing 3D APIs, games console also use their own flavours, XBox is not the exception.
btw, a tool for quickly counting unsafe in dependencies: https://github.com/anderejd/cargo-geiger
This is true, which is one of the reasons why this writeup is misleading.

You almost certainly need to exercise, because your body will adapt to simply eating less. When it can't adapt, you're probably starving yourself, which is unhealthy and ineffective for long term weight loss.
That's a strange use of the word.

Would you say that e.g. warfare and agriculture has been 100% automated because it's manual labor performed by people who aren't you?
Re variance, the argument is not entirely bullet proof, but it goes like this: we know that the variance of the gradient of ES grows linearly with the dimensionality of the action space. Therefore, the variance of the policy gradient (before backprop through the neural net) should similarly be linear in the dimensionality of the combined action space, which is linear in the time horizon. And since backprop through a well-scaled neural net doesn't change the gradient norm too much, the absolute gradient variance of the policy gradient should be linear in time horizon also.

This argument is likely accurate in the case where exploration is adequately addressed (for example, with a well chosen reward function, self play, or some kind of an exploration bonus). However, if exploration is truly hard, then it may be possible for the variance of the gradient to be huge relative to the norm of the gradient (which would be exponentially small), even though the absolute variance of the gradient is still linear in the time horizon.
I've played both games extensively and imho calling dota simplistic is not fair.
Over the long run, that is always true. Just hold and grow, until you are within 10 years of retiring. Then move to a more conservative position.
At the very least GitHub acquisition is pushing them to do it faster.
I have some troubles with colloquialisms.

I was abroad in the UK, and I need a bag to go around my waist. So I asked for a fanny pack at the local Tesco.

The saleslady started giggling. This is joke?
I view it as more of a consequence of "fail closed" thinking than a lack of versioning. As we've seen recently with TLS [1], even protocols with explicit versioning suffer from middlebox brittleness.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17298747
Swift Package Directory
Probably Cortex-A53. And it isn't fast
For a Yubikey, you don't even have to dick around with the PKCS11 mess. Just use gpg-agent, it will use the GPG key on your Yubikey as an SSH key.
That wiki link, did you read the section on psychology in it? It pretty much reinforces my opionion. Seems like most of the real understanding of it is coming from biological factors.

Now it seems that those initial psychological theories were all argued with similarly low sample and methodologically wonky studies. Just paraphrasing the wikipedia link. In effect, that probably hurt more then it helped and that's why we're starting to see things like Denmark declassifying it as no longer a mental disorder.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-transgender...

Edit: I know I'm making a big blanket statement. As someone who does not read about all the latest psychological breakthrough, I'm saying in honesty that with my limited knowledge, the impression I get from psychological research is that its not very thorough. So I'm open to hearing that in the last 40 years this has changed, an example would be great, so that I can start maybe changing my opinion.
Investors Love Etsy’s CEO. The Artists Aren’t So Sure
It’s Time to Learn about Quantum Computing
...And then at the end of the trip, you've got to slow back down to 0% of c, if you want to do anything useful...
I thought with military craft, as soon as the ejector handle is pulled the onboard computers are wiped/destroyed before the seat even exits the aircraft.
Cal Poly’s software engineering class builds MySQL capture and replay on AWS
Stuff like this is what puts me off React:

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html
https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-dont-need-d...

It's at v16, and they're still making major changes to the basic component lifecycle, deprecating things, and then almost immediately having to write articles to teach against anti-patterns that already arisen in the new APIs!

A programming model that is so unintuitive people still cannot use it right, even after so many years, does not seem like a great bet to me.
> crypto+rust

Well, security_protocol+rust. The actual crypto comes from https://github.com/briansmith/ring which just calls hand-written assembly crypto code copied from BoringSSL.
Have you run into issues with compaction due to always mowing in exactly the same lines? I ran into that issue so now I have two different patterns I use (for the record: I am not a wire guided lawn mower.)
Contestants on the "Biggest Loser" have massive changes to their BMR burn rates making it very difficult to keep weight off long-term. [1]

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig...
I've made a 1 cent purchase including shipping from Shenzhen.

China is not "siphoning money out of our economy". Chinese companies are passing their logistics costs to Western postal systems. There is a difference.

We honour the postage on packages from other countries. China's "One Belt, One Road" is being paid for by other countries' postal systems. Chinese companies need only get their products out of port.
Facebook Says It Has “No Plans” to Listen in on Your Conversations
Sorry if I was unclear. I know that it's all about diet for losing weight. But lifting weights is necessary to prevent yourself ending losing lots of muscle during calorie deficits. Especially in the case of the OP - having a calorie deficit as high as his is likely to cause the body to burn muscle mass at a much higher rate than a lower deficit would - so lifting helps to prevent this among other clear benefits
Who knows about the future. And considering the amount of energy feasible via fusion, it can be insanely cheap in terms of price per kwhr
Arcade Scam Science [video]
Not all resources are of similar quality and profs aren't going to let the students judge that for themselves. I imagine a prof wants questions that specifically walk students through what they are teaching.
I left Facebook for 10 days–and the social network wouldn’t let me forget it
This is why my favorite coffee table book is the “XKCD What If”. He only spends a few seconds on “why it probably wouldn’t happen”, then fully digs into what would happen if it did.
You don't have to eat the same thing every day, but you DO have to cook food yourself. You cannot trust the cooking practices of restaurants.
Designed by Koompi in Phnom Penh - Assembled in China.
We could just be a pet civilization from an nearby advanced civilization that blocks all signals coming to us.