skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any recommended readings for ML people from a CS background wishing to get an introduction to Tensor analysis?
Fun solution, but seems like overkill for just about every home user.

I used to use a dual-WAN setup with cable modem + DSL backup. It worked well with automatic failover. I use a pfSense APU based router and, with no moving parts, it's been very reliable, nearly 4 years without any unscheduled downtime.

Then I moved and only had a single ISP to choose from, so my backup is to manually turn on a Wifi hotspot. I thought about using a cellular router with ethernet or a wifi connection to the hotspot for auto-failover, but it just wasn't worth the time and/or money to set it up -- if I'm home when the internet goes down, I can just switch to the hotspot, if I'm not home, then all I really lose is the ability to control the lights and thermostat remotely, not exactly a critical function.
When they have the tall walls, I like them a lot better than open plans.
Too bad he doesn't detail monthly cost. It's likely to be more than $10k/yr.
Probability and Random Variables course
Right then after the state falls into bankruptcy the federal government will have to bail it out or FANNG will snatch it up. Welcome to the state of Google.
The OED keeps track of original usage. Here's the entry:

orig. U.S. A business or enterprise that is in the process of starting up, or that has just been established; a startup company, venture, etc.

They cite these early usages in print:

1975 Chicago Defender 20 Sept. 23/1 The many problems faced by any new start up, but most assuredly by a black financial institution.

1986 Your Business Mar. 11/3 There are the small businesses; the heroic little start-ups in their garages and garden sheds.
I've hit similar issues with new engineers in my closed-source product.

It's more than an egotistical thing; some engineers just don't understand how to write good code. The engineers who treat code review feedback as optional don't last very long.

A code review for a newcomer is not a formality; it is often rather burdensome for all parties until the newcomer is familiar with less obvious parts of the code.
Discord is also a money burning VC funded company...
It has also demonstrated value in being able to bypass the financial choke points that prevented people from (electronically) donating to Wikileaks.
Gotta say, Love in time of Cholera is terrible for the first 80 pages or so, but it one of my very favorite books, and doesn't work at all without those first 80 pages.
another StallmanWasRight moment?
One of my coworkers is a trained particle physicist and he informs me he almost never sees properly designed experiments used by our A/B testers. The result is that the testers almost always find what they are looking to find.
Some trains already to this, where they put in electronic valves in the air lines for in car. Basically, the electronic valve controls if the existing brake is vented or connected to the central air line. This still allows for the fail-safe behavior of being able to brake the train from the central air line by venting it.

This lets them start easier/quicker from a stop, as they don't have to re-air the entire train and less wear on the brakes of the trains in the front of the train as all the cars start braking at the same time. This is particularly useful for trains that have to start on a hill as taking minutes for your brakes to fully turn off can complicate things.
Diagnostic of an unexpected slowdown
> A 30,000 ton ore train in Brazil will take about that long to stop, due to the nature of that weight strung out over 2.5 miles of distance.

I once learned in a physics class that weight has nothing to do with the stopping distance, but rather the steel on steel friction coefficient.
Ran the tests and apparently the C7 is perfectly capable of doing 100Mb/s with cake. But as it turns out I don't really need it. I already get an A for bufferbloat with my provider without it and turning it on doesn't get me to A+.
I think the desire to explain something comes from the data not lining up with expectations. You either want to explain why the data lacks details and reality DOES line up with intuition OR why the intuition was wrong or prejudicial.

I get it, stereotypes can suck and make bad null hypotheses but thats how these things go.
That is a generalization of one instance (chimpanse war) and absolutely not usual, perhaps it is not unusual either, but who knows. Just curious what your comment is based on.
No they didn't.

"Juggalo face makeup is better at throwing off facial recognition software than intentional methods."

There's your headline.

God I'm so tired of intentionally-misleading headlines. Clickbait nonsense.
Invented actually means the same thing as discovery in the original French root it's taken from.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/invention
This guy doesn't appear to be a Twitch streamer. Aside from his rack having stickers for Go, Kubernetes, GitHub, and more, his Twitter description doesn't say anything about that.

If you're asking about in general would this be a good thing for a Twitch streamer... then I would say no. Mostly because most Twitch streamers are not going to know how to maintain something like this and they don't need all the servers.

If someone not so technical, Twitch streamers included, needed the redundant internet I would recommend something more along the lines of two ISPs like this guy (specifically over two technologies if possible: fiber and wifi, but that comes down to bandwidth requirements) but instead of going into multiple switches and having 3 servers running with VMs moving around just plug the two ISPs into something like the Unifi Security Gateway (USG) or USG Pro.
It could be a reinforcement strategy. "Oh yeah I bought Cheetos yesterday and they were really good! I should buy them again soon."
Wow...what a load of bullshit. Cultural appropriation of music? Really? Ok...how bout this for an example. Hiphop and rap were influenced by Jamaican dancehall, which was influenced by ska music, which was influenced by swing and big band music, which was influenced by jazz and blues music. Which was played.using guitars, pianos, drums, homemade instruments etc. The guitar comes from at least the 1200's in Spain and is descended from god knows how many stringed instruments from various cultures.

How is performing a song in whatever style you enjoy cultural appropriation because you're not the correct race that invented that particular combination of beats and melodies, which was likely derived by taking things from older cultures anyway? What a stupid and pointless article...this is completely and utterly ridiculous. Every piece of music out there was appropriated from something else.
Privacy or piracy?
There were large economic incentives in developing air travel and there is almost no economic incentive in manned space travel. Unless we have a reason to go to the Moon, nobody will pay the bill.

Having said that, SpaceX is reducing the cost of putting people on the Moon to values never before imagined possible. If the bill is much lower, someone may consider to pay it and a whole lot of interesting activities become economically viable (even for governments who want to study the Moon). Sadly, for data processing needs, the Moon doesn't look like a great heatsink.
Thoughts on Colocation (2013)
I have an even simpler setup: if my cable connection dies, I simply tether my phone to replace it. There are no UPSes because both the laptop (TP25 w/ 24 + 72 Wh batteries) and the phone (it's a Moto Z Play with a battery mod) have large enough batteries to last much longer than a domestic blackout in downtown Vancouver.

My laptop is enough for me to stay productive (it's a ThinkPad 25! very productive). Everything that needs to be online is on a Hetzner server I rent for all sorts of purposes so the 51 EUR monthly bill kind of spreads out.
"Cyberpunk. The Attitude. Get It."
-- A page out of Mondo 2000
Thanks for the clarification. I think those are fair points.

BTW, do you think Rust would be a good replacement to Ruby for companies trying create an MVP? Or do you think Go and Rust are more for the optimization/scaling phase?
What are ethical lapses against lyft? I googled it and found something about spying.
History doesn’t support your comment. People have complained endlessly about ISPs, various video game mechanics, Google and Facebook tracking; no change, because the people complaining don’t leave. People generally don’t complain about ugly interfaces, stores far away, confusing calls to action; they constantly change and improve, because the people who hit these problems often leave.

When speaking up has made a difference, virtually every time, it was coupled with action, or it was speaking up to people who had no reason not to agree.

Reddit’s community is a means to an end, that’s my point. Asking for something that strengthens the community without harming ad views may be reasonable, but asking them to strengthen the community at the direct expense of the reason they want a community is nonsense.
Are you advocating buying internet service from two different companies and paying for both every month in case one fails for a brief period of time?
AI Podcast: Startup Uses AI to Give Millennials the Credit They Deserve
You can't blame the politician, they were the voter's choice!

You can't blame the voters, they are free to choose whoever they want!

You can't blame the lobbyists or the PACs, they just try to persuade voters!

You can't blame corporations for contributing to campaigns, they are just trying to create the most politically favorable environment to maximize profits!

You can't blame the shareholders, they just want a return on their investment!
Why? Do you like having everyone see everything you do?
I’ve recently switched most of my old gmail account to ICloud. Extremely easy to use with the iOS and Mac system. I’m (currently) ok with apple handling my email data, much more so than google. Have had no issues whatsoever.
I have some questions about LVT, as I don't really understand how it is practically different than regular property taxes.

For instance, if housing is already at the zoning maximum for an area, would this tax be effectively the same as a property tax, because the best land value for this property would be the same amount of housing (assuming it is not completely run down) as currently exists?

Interestingly, my area is zoned at X single family homes per acre. Lots are smaller than an acre, and recently a pair of lots was combined/split and 5 (close together) houses are being built there. Does the land value of the neighboring houses go down when the area hits peak zoned requirements? Like, they could have potentially built another house in the 'backyard' of the first one, but now they would run into zoning because of the next yard construction. So now is the land value lower (and thus lower tax?).

People also say that they like LVT because they don't get taxed on improving their home. But wouldn't the LVT already factor in an improved home value (if the standard for the area was larger/improved homes)? Thus you're effectively penalized for not improving your home (ex: "The best value for this property is a 3000sqft home here, not a 1500sqft home"). I know the land value is supposed to 'avoid' improvements, but if we're taxing on what someone would pay for the land (if it was devoid of improvements), we would have to factor in what they would then build on it, which might be a much nicer, larger home than what currently exists. (Someone might value a piece of empty land highly if they expect to get a big payout by putting a large house on the property).
Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)
That really stinks.

It's not the original Aroma, but there's often a certain odor in the air in the morning.

Not that other major cities don't have issues there too.
I'd say it is a very confrontational way of asking for elaboration.
Same thing happened to me [1], with a slightly different rationale for pulling the extension.

This happened despite tens of thousands of users, years of good reviews, and an extension so useful that Google's own accessibility team demos it at conferences.

I was only able to get the situation sorted because I know people who work at Google on the Chrome team. Even with all this, it took weeks to get the previous version restored, and after that weeks more before we could push an update without having it get automatically rejected.

The only "good" news is they didn't uninstall our existing user base.

1: https://medium.com/@BeeLineReader/google-yanked-my-chrome-ex...
Mmm. Similar issues can arise.

I never thought much about fishing until the day I had a large catfish flopping around on my kitchen floor (catfish live quite a while out of water). Having been mainly a catch & release type, this would be the first fish I ate in quite a while and I was acutely aware (obviously) that I had to kill a live animal before I could eat it. So I said a short prayer to the fish gods and plunged a knife into its brain and it died instantly.

Tasted pretty good.

Fast forward two decades or so later. Neighbor dogs broke into my chicken coop and killed most of the flock. Now I have a handful of bloody chickens lying around slowly dying. The only humane thing to do is to kill them quickly. So grab each one carefully, quickly snap its neck and it's dead.

Although one of the situations was clearly not initiated by me, the feeling I had in both cases was essentially the same: regret, but that's how life goes sometimes.
The Thanos subreddit is gleefully heading for mass slaughter
I'd hardly call it hyper-literalism, since he's the one not using the English language properly - that is, he failed to communicate his ideas accurately.
Hmm, I'm not 100% sure, but in traditional options markets, I believe it was the exchange that backed the trade:

http://www.options-trading-education.com/34/counterparty-ris...

"In option trading on stocks risk management is handled by trading through standardized options contracts listed on futures and options exchanges. These markets provide accurate, up to date information, and back all contracts."

If you're right, then the counterparty is not LedgerX, but some internet rando. Not sure that this would make me more complacent about counterpart risk.
Seattle’s Mystery Soda Machine Has Gone Missing
That seems unnecessarily reactionary, but ok. I agree with the post you're responding to that having a completely separate token for inline assignment fixes the majority of issues that have historically come up with it (which mostly come down to forgetting an = in the ==). Might be worth feeling out the trajectory of the feature before proactively banning it from codebases you control.
Not entirely true. You can setup your experiment to be user keyed (as it should be) and can run it for a long time, or can run the hold back for a long time

Something as basic as mod(hash(experiment_group_id or layer id, userid), 1000) would give you a user stable experiment distribution that you can analzy long term impact on.
Kinda similar here in Oregon. Doesn't really get passed on when the property is sold but if you were lucky and got a place when it was cheap, the recent value jumps haven't screwed you. Assessed values can only increase 3% per year. Not only that but we effectively have a 1.5% cap on real market value (if I understand it right, taxes are confusing as hell).
That is a generalization of one instance (chimpanse war) and absolutely not usual, perhaps it is not unusual either, but who knows.

They very regularly patrol the borders of their territory. If they find an interloper, it's not so unusual for them to kill it.

Just curious what your comment is based on.

The dual nature of Japanese society (feudal/communal) is commented on in the West. However, there's nothing there which isn't also present in western societies. It's just easier for westerners to see it in a different culture.
https://i.imgur.com/vxDfNBQ.jpg

yikes
If you are lucky, that is. Other places will give 6 weeks at reduced pay, but many others give absolutely no paid time off for maternity leave and fewer give paternity leave. I think FMLA allows for around 4-6 weeks of unpaid time off if your employer is large enough to be covered by it. Otherwise, your results could very easily vary.
Yeah but there is already solution for that in C: put parenthesis around assignment when using its value as bool. The compilers warn if you don't so making this error in C can only happen if you don't use warnings.
Heh, I remember one gig where they had cubes, and one guy was right next to the window. But they still had to put the back of the cube up, so he couldn't enjoy the window.
> No more waiting 3 months to see a specialist

I don't want to start a universal vs private debate, it's been done before. But private insurance as a job benefit exists independently of a government run program (mostly).
While that may be true modeling certainly doesn't fall into that category of professions.
I've been using Protonmail for quite a while. It's excellent.
> yes it is - the aim of academia is to prepare people for what they will do in the future, not some reality-disconnected curriculum.

They already do that. The fact that some people believe going in class and doing nothing on the side will suffice is the issue here, not academia itself.
Boffins want to stop Network Time Protocol's time-travelling exploits
What's the alternative to A/B testing? Everywhere I've worked, design teams hate A/B testing, but suggest "trust us we know what we're doing" as the alternative.

A/B/n testing let's you explore a search space. There are issues that can come up from that, but IMO it's a better option than this Dilbert comic[0].

[0] http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-10-27
I do agree that tensors are much more then just an array of data with N-indices and that numerical methods are oftentime forget about that.
I am using it as 2nd device when doing linux stuff. I would have preferred to be able to use it as the one and only main device.
Here are some "anecdata" from my 6 years working in the Netherlands:

* 4 day weeks are very common: I worked for a Dutch Bank for 3 years. Virtually all the Dutch "full time" staff worked 4 day weeks. The deal was work 10% less (36 instead of 40 hours), extend the working day a notional one hour on Monday to Thursday, and take every Friday off. Not bad for a 10% reduction in salary. And since everyone does it - even senior managers - there is no loss in promotion prospects.

* High levels of self-employment as independent contractors - "ZZP-ers" - zelfstandig zonder personeel (self-supporting without employees), often from mid-career professionals taking redundancy packages and setting up for themselves with greater flexibility for work-life balance at often slightly lower take home pay.

* Strong social net, health system, pension provision, social housing, etc, mean most Dutch people have very little to worry about. They can afford to prioritise enjoying life over being a slave to their employer.

One final anecdote concerns my local cafe in Amsterdam... In Melbourne, the equivalent cafe opened at 6:30am and was busy by 7am. The one near me in Amsterdam opened at 8:29am (yes, not 8:30...). When I asked why they didn't open earlier, the owner said the staff didn't want to start that early, and neither did he.
I think I'll use this exactly to avoid duplication in while loops:

bytes = next()
while bytes:
# do something ...
bytes = next()

It's possible to use while True and break, but that isn't very elegant.
not being able to think critically for yourself however, is not an adequate preparation for working as a software engineer in any organisation, though...
"In addition I hate staring at a grey wall the whole day. It feels like prison."

You can cover that up with stuff. One of the benefits of a fabric covered cube wall is that you can use pins to stick things up. I went to a fabric shop, got a bunch of the remnants that they sell cheaply, and put them all up over the gray.
That isn't necessarily because people are working less hours per se, but easily because more people are under-employed now, working part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs. This brings your averages down.
Why is Juul worth $16B? It’s more like a cigarette than you think
All you need to do is remove the first 306 bytes to turn it into a normal zip file.

tail -c +307 in.crx > out.zip

Credit to this guy in the comments. https://superuser.com/questions/139190/how-to-unpack-a-chrom...
Question about terminology: is superconvergence that particular schedule for LR/momentum updates, or is it a desirable emergent property that can be achieved by that LR/momentum schedule?

I've been assuming it's the latter, but your usage sounds very much like the former. Is "1cycle" the schedule itself, or some other training policy?
This is a lot of expense toward high availability while only having 30-45min of backup power.
They aren’t application they extend the environment on which the untrusted application run, as such they’re more like kernel modules in regard of security and threat modelling
It helps tremendously. But is it sufficient in getting you a job? No, you have to work on the side in order to practice what you learn. Employers often care more about your GitHub than your degree.
> 1. Why not?

It's becoming more common to distribute applications with orchestration software like Kubernetes. The technology around PXE booting is quite old, and mired in enterprise cruft.

> 2. Who cares if it's not modern if it does the job?

Developers love new tech, especially if they can get a Medium post out of it. This doesn't make it a good reason of course, but if this is the tech that more developers are familiar with, that's a good reason.

I personally wouldn't want to learn how to boot 6000 remote machines off built disk images over the internet, I'd rather use the skills I already have around Ansible or learn Kubernetes.

> And they wouldn't even need to make a special app, they could just make it a webapp ergo make a 1-time image with a browser...

I've never been to a Chick-fil-a, but if the setups are anything like my local McDonalds, that's a complex 5 screen setup showing a fluid mix of static images, videos, animations, and applications, not to mention that other stores have different setups/layouts/display types/etc - I don't think you'd be able to _reliably_ do this in a browser. My guess is that it's a multi-screen aware wrapper around video components and web views. That will need re-deploying regularly I would imagine. And that's not to mention the kitchen ordering system, the self-service machines, the tills, etc.

On-site machines totally make sense, smart applications deployed locally, frequently, make sense.
It does if your only choices don’t represent you. And because of FPTP, the choices you do have are incredibly “sticky”

There is also the problem of when a group is very upset with the government but constitutes a minority. I see this as a problem with the government effectively being a gerontocracy
Apache Syncope 2.0.9: managing digital identities
Can't you do something with a key-stretching system [0] maybe, to turn 112 bits of IPV6 into 2048 bits of RSA input, though, since you definitely have the right amount of entropy?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching
The Americas were only several months of travel from Europe though, much more desirable and nowhere near as hostile.

Scales for all of those things will be far different in space. Venus, Mars, Ceres, and Titan are quite cozy by those standards. Travel to Mars in 3 months may become routine in our lifetimes.

Science fiction and especially science fantasy tend to be pretty inaccurate when it comes to predicting anything.

Yes. You wouldn't spin Ceres for "gravity" and Epstein drives are just as fantastical as Warp drives if you start to account for waste heat.
HttpComponents Core 4.4.10 Released
You might search for subdomains using CT if they have certificates registered for them explicitly: https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates