skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add, we mostly use pre generics Java at work. The product was built around 2003-2005 and is very successful inside company. It is also most reliable among dozen on or so other enterprise project in our group. So this obsession with Generics or other language feature is by people who are less interested in product and its success.
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Has he done that? Jones is an asshole, I think the Sandy Hook thing was awful (and could be constituted as harassing them himself) but I haven't heard of him 'calling for active, illegal harassment of an individual' before. Not saying he wouldn't do that, it's just that the ban doesn't mention this and I haven't heard of it.
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It could have been AuroraDB, DynamoDB, NeptuneDB, RDBS, and RedshiftDB. At least people would be able to tell that all of those are databases.
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Author here: This is the third post is a series on what was originally just a ray tracer to shade topographic maps, but has now evolved into a tool to more generally visualize elevation and bathymetric data.
There is a heat-shield in the button of the rocket. PICA-X is a technology that SpaceX is working on and have been for a long time.

There is heat coating on the new rest of the rocket.
This site works because of the small numbers of people who are educated and there's sensible moderation.
That pricing is actually more reasonable than I was expecting. I might get myself a 32 core quad GPU workstation. Unthinkable even just a year ago.
There was an article in the NYTimes stating that we have already lost the war, but since climate changes in a continuous and highly complex fashion, I personally doubt there'll be an agreed-upon point where things changed from not lost -> lost.
Though you'd need to know what you consider toxic, what better way to practice identifying toxicity than to identify it in literature or the arts, before it's part of your personal life?
I have a difficult time with this in structured work environments sometimes. I usually problem-solve with aimless walking and a series of messy throwaway prototypes until I land on something I think is a decent candidate. Having a 2-day task where you have to "develop solution for X" where you may not have worked on that before seems rather unproductive.
That is an interesting hypothesis, but it isn't the one I was suggesting.

I was suggesting that the rare great manager regardless of experience will do well over long time periods. Those managers do not pass their experience/knowledge on to those who take over from them.
There's also Samsung hurting intel image a lot. They became the most profitable silicon~ company (due to loads of memory) and they are head to head with intel in transistor process (near EUV ready).
Happened all the time in the dotcom bubble:

"We lose money on each sale but we'll make it up in volume!"
We have nuclear power, but people are bad at evaluating risks, so here we are.
Anyone got any good examples major program written using Numba?
Plenty exist for Cython -- I run into those all the time.
Based on the wars on drugs and terror: no.
One thing I started to notice when I was young that older, wiser, more experienced people were very good at "buying time" in situations like this by asking somebody to repeat and clarify what it was they were asking for. Rather than provide a solution, they would go through a precise definition of exactly what was being asked - and a lot of the time, while defining the problem, the asker would end up providing a solution.
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As far as listening to music and determining there is something wrong with it because you noticed a 5ms difference, I find that hard to believe.

However, when given samples of audio with no delay and a 5ms delay. I, with no special talent and no musical training, was able to start accurately identifying the delayed audio almost every time after a few minutes of practice.

The difference isn't imperceptible when it comes to a single noise when we are specifically told to look for it, but I would bet that its imperceptible when it comes to just randomly listening to music.
Actually, thinking about this, I made a mistake. Voyager isn't pointing its antenna at earth at that instant. It's actually pointing it to where the earth WILL be in 16 to 20 hours. Technically, that is probably no more difficult but my statement is more accurate.
I don't know if the "war against" theme fits here. There is no enemy but ourselves.
There's a happy middle ground between what we have now and those DBAs playing hardass without even trying to understand the need.
I don't see how this is any different from, for instance, AT&T changing their rate plans on a regular basis and charging more for tethered data (which used to be included), or Cox instituting a data cap and charging $50 to remove it (which used to not exist).

Lots of businesses run on a subscription model, and lots of those change their subscription plans with no grandfathering.
I'm an insurance broker. Why this man didn't sign up for Medicare and Medigap ($300 a month for complete coverage of everything) is beyond me.

Most employers often encourage seniors to go take Medicare asap. Someone failed this man, this is basic information.
Yeah, I mean, that's a even the standard narrative; the idea that they were lost due to Muslim conquest and rediscovered by Jesuits I've never heard before, and it isn't even superficially plausible since there was no general Muslim conquest for them to be lost in, and the Jesuits were formed too late to rediscover them and spark the Renaissance.
Given a software product with a modicum of market fit and or an established user community, AND a competent engineering organization, there is no reason to have technical debt in 2018.
No, I'm talking about actual Nazis, racists, climate change deniers, conspiracy theorist and other idiots. I'm more than familiar with their "typing" - I don't need to see it at the bottom of every story I read.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_600#PowerPC_615
> so long with a model that made no financial

The radical $9.95 model is just under a year old (11 months 22 days). I thought I would mention that because although MoviePass is much older, most folks only learned about it with the acquisition by Helios and Matheson and the subsequent drop in pricing which led to a surge of registrations.

Honestly, they should have just capped the registrations. I think a gym-membership style could have actually worked for them. I was an excited evangelist and early adopter, but I quickly found myself not seeing more than one movie a month if at all. Just like all the gym memberships out there that rely on you signing up and then not coming back regularly.
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I asked this on Twitter, but maybe folks here can answer better: how important is nonlinearity for deep neural networks? This method's output seems to be a linear function of its (complex) input. Does that put important bounds on performance?
https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewGYork/status/10228414045888...
"If we were to continue offer our product at that price, MoviePass would be no more within a month, and we couldn't bring you movies at any price. We continue to offer great movies at an exceptional price, and look forward to working with you for years to come.

Love,

MoviePass "
I downloaded this while it was in beta to see whether they'd fixed the scaling issues with mixed DPI setups in XWayland, or better yet, moved to native Wayland. Alas, this is not the case.
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An informal HN survey on what some feel is the future vs. over-hyped:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17129481
Maybe, maybe not. Smartphones & touchscreens were "here" for decades by the time iPhone launched. Or, take a look at the timeline of "social media": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media
To be fair though the corporate tax rates in the US are relatively high. I dare say anyone company in their position would do the same. Another point to mention is that I don't think they're as profitable as the other giants Apple, Google though their revenues are humongous...I hear some big corporations sitting on stockpiles of cash are waiting for the rate to come down before re-repatriating their profits :-)
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is there a proof somewhere that these wild fires are linked to climate change?

For example the really bad one in Greece happened because someone decided to burn some wood.

(I'm convinced that climate change is real and we're responsible)
Facebook wasn't profitable until what, like year 8 of their existence?

Similarly SpaceX now is being awarded more than 50% of all commercial space launches, but burned money in the beginning.
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Isn't the problem, then, that these companies are Monopolies? Why are we talking about whether private companies should ban content or not, when the real problem is that Facebook and Apple have built monopolies around lock-in and network effects, and that consumers don't have a meaningful choice to go elsewhere.
Good way to trigger a bank data run, where customers remove their money & data en-masse from the bank that leaks their info to Facebook.
I get where you're coming from. Yes, sharing and mixing of ideas between people is important. But so is solitary, quiet, away, alone time.

The difference in rates and understanding of our internal and external informational exchanges is particularly crucial, as noted in the passage quoted above. It's far too easy for bad or extraneous inputs to derail the creative process.
Do we know what will happen if we keep burning all fossil we can find, at today's rate?
Not exactly the same because at some point climate change will make the planet uninhabitable.
@elfakyn Please submit a follow of the funniest answers. I imagine you're going to get some jokesters .
This sort of sarcasm obfuscates your message. Frankly I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Surely it’s best to just come out and say it without the noncommittal “it’s almost as if” deflection.
> people are bad at evaluating risks

People are easily emotionally manipulated. Show some pictures of cancer or disfigured babies and you can get everyone to rail against nuclear. Media does it all the time to skew our priorities. Think medical malpractice and healthcare is a big source of death in the US? Think again, bump stocks and crappy 3d printed plastic guns are the types of killers you should be worried about according to the media. Rinse and repeat.
I do agree that the Facebook news is bigger than both Apple and Spotify combined. And InfoWars seems to agree as well, as they've published a video complaining about Facebook's decisions almost immediately.

However, I don't think that's the biggest damage they could face from a single provider. I'd say that YouTube could absolutely break the entire thing down to pieces.

There are dozens of YouTube videos on their channel with millions of views, often multiple hours long. Hosting multiple hour long video files in a way that millions of people can stream them reliably, that's going to take some effort (and a non-negligible amount of resources).

Since YouTube offers them both discoverability and unlimited video bandwidth, if YouTube made a similar decision to Facebook, they would most probably be destroyed in an instant.
Maximum mathematical is not the same as maximum achievable
I use TeamSQL and have been finding it pretty good so far
History is written by the victors.

However, we already lost it - in a very real sense - because we failed to convince enough humans that it's important, that they ought to demand tougher legislation, policies, treaties, mandates, cleaner air, better waste management, more energy efficiency, instant order of nuclear and renewable plants to phase out CO2 producing energy sources as soon as possible, etc.

We should be building 20km long hydro T-s, electrifying more and more railways, capturing as much emission as we can (chemical plants, big freighter ships, etc.)

Instead we are building walls on borders, blabbering about secession, killing/jailing/maiming/kidnapping/torturing each other in an organized fashion all around the planet.

We're simply late to efficiently manage a lot of things.

But humanity is very likely to survive, so in that sense as long as someone can ask that question we don't have to use past tense.
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If you look at global power sector emissions from 1998 to 2018, you'll see that while we have dramatically improved upon the energy intensity (energy/capita) and even are making improvements on carbon intensity (carbon/capita), but the sad reality is this: we are still using around 35% coal power in 2018, the same as we did in 1998.

And the power sector is the easiest sector to decarbonize, by the way. If you look at electric vehicles, even if we had the most rapid, insane ramp-up that's beyond even Elon's crazy predictions, we'd still have massive fossil fuel use for non vehicle uses of petroleum for chemical industries, airplanes, plastic production, and for the numerous numbers of legacy cars that will be leftover that are not EV.

We need massive innovation across all our uses of fossil fuel. We can not rest on our laurels, saying PV and wind are so cheap now. They are still around 4% of total energy consumption, and when you factor in the decline of nuclear and relative decline of hydropower in the ever-increasing industrial energy base, we see that fossil fuels are basically the same % of our energy mix as they were before 2000.

For an energy realist, I recommend checking out Vaclav Smil, who has long been predicting 21st century as the century of natural gas, and who has been skeptical of renewables taking over instantly. It will take us until the 22nd century to truly decarbonize, and by then the seas will have risen over Miami and Shanghai on a regular basis.

It's a truly scary future. Get innovating, in your personal lives and in your professional careers, everyone!
I wonder if future generations will think people were even serious about solving the problem. In this respect the war was lost long ago.

The vast majority of people who believe climate change will have large negative consequences make no major changes to their lifestyles. As someone who rides bike for transportation largely to save money and stay in shape (I think climate change is a lost cause), the environmental crowd seems to think I am doing something saint-like. But it really isn't anywhere near as difficult as they believe. They rarely adopt cycling to work, and at least part of the reason why seems to me that their environmentalism is not entirely sincere. This is speculation, but I think most people stop at signalling that climate change is bad. They rarely take effective action.
presumably a combination. Most parts on the rocket don't actually see that much stress. Find the parts that take the most stress. Then either make them stronger; or make them quick/easy to replace quickly and cheap to manufacture.
Nonlinearity is very important and is the only reason why neural nets can approximate arbitrary functions. You can’t do that with linear transformations alone. Though from briefly skimming the paper they do seem to achieve similar effects through phase modulation. Otherwise even MNIST would be out of the question.
How? What does that mean? Habitability is not a binary thing.
I remember those blogs. Somewhere between Usenet and Facebook. I found the ping back things annoying. If I remember rightly it was four or five pages of a copy of the first line of the article plus a link to someone else's blog but with no reason given for why I'd want to roll my sleeves up and start clicking on them.
Ah, yes. I recall the first time I encountered this in the form of a trigger warning placed by Wilder Publications in Kant's Critiques (which collected Kant's Pure Reason, Practical Reason, and Judgment). It advised parents to talk with their kids about the way we believe differently today than Kant did two centuries ago before allowing them to read the old German philosopher.

I've since seen and heard about so many more instances of this, that I wonder how on earth any allegedly adult college student can make it through a philosophy course anymore. Or history, psychology, sociology, literature, etc. I can't think of many significant figures in the whole of human history who didn't hold some kind of position that was a byproduct of their time that could be judged objectionable in some way by today's standards--and that now seems to be used as all the reason needed to completely disregard engaging with someone who is recognized as having had a transformative impact on history and thought. It's all very disheartening.
Customer acquisition? In some cases it might make financial sense to lose a small amount of money per customer if the cost per acquisition is more than the amount they're losing.

Network effect? I'm not sure this would apply to a clothing retailer, but there are lots of services out there that have a marginal cost per customer but can't effectively monetize until they have a sufficiently large customer base and therefore have access to enough data to be marketable.

Exit strategy? A company with x million customers, even if unprofitable and unsustainable in its current state, is worth more than a company with x/n customers that is marginally profitable in many cases.

As for this case in particular... I don't know. I suspect that a case could be made that the money they're losing has them in the media enough that they're basically paying for advertising by being unprofitable. I doubt I would have ever heard of MoviePass if not for them being constantly in the news.
As an end-user, am I responsible when you create a business with an unsustainable business plan? I think even the most educated consumer would look at that and think "great deal to be gotten while I can".

Moviepass probably shouldn't have any right to complain if they lose users, but users should definitely complain because they are being screwed, at least until the new plan becomes the new normal.
Good god! Why on earth you need 32 core quad GPU workstation?
Look up "wet bulb temperature".

ELI5: if the temperature of a wet thermometer(which would normally be colder due to evaporation) in a given place goes over around 31C this area becomes uninhabitable for almost all mammals.

Burning all the known fossil fuels would be enough to make it so for some places on earth, but the big unknown is what about the other sources of GHG's like thawing permafrost or clathrates lying under the sea?
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Is it common? Or is it just common among your peer group? There's a difference.

I know a lot of "woke" people and none of them would advise against reading the classics, you really need to find different people to converse with.
It is a bait and switch. You can't just tell customers "you should have known that this deal was too good to be sustainable". It's your job as a business to figure out if you can afford to deliver what you are selling before you sell it, not afterwards.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I've been open about this on Twitter and to a team that wrote a profile of him in the wake of the election. That a newspaper publisher would participate in an administration that labels the press the enemy of the people is a total betrayal of the journalists and other media professionals who worked hard for him for years.
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Imagine what'd happen what'll happen once AMD starts competing with Nvidia (for AI stuff).
Here's an archive of the blog post the broken link points to: https://web.archive.org/web/20100307015535/http://www.infini...
We should switch to a carbon/anti pollution based crypto currency that is mined in a earth friendly way. All goods and transports and all other pollution is such a system should be accounted for.

As it now with the current economic system it is too easy to offset the cost on somebody else.
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Basically the answer to all of those is SpaceX's next gen BFR rocket. It is scaled up significantly which makes second stage reuse practical. The challenge with a rocket the size of the Falcon 9 is that added significant fixed mass to the second stage (heat shielding, parachutes, etc.) will significantly Affect payload mass / performance.

By going to a much larger class of rocket, those concessions for re-use become a smaller fraction of the total stage 2 mass.
I'm not sure where one goes in the AWS web interface to view these icons. Poking around the EC2 menus for a while, I don't see an icon anywhere.

I wouldn't say the icons are _good_, but I wonder if part of the reason the quiz is so hard is that Amazon doesn't really care if you know what the icons mean anyway. Seems like they're mostly used for branding and marketing, not anything users will see regularly.
As a longtime supporter of Remote Desktop Service in Windows, seeing AWS RDS took a while to get used to.

They could have named WorkSpace as Remote Desktop Service, which it is. Instead, many of my co-workers think AWS means only Amazon WorkSpace.
I'll see if I can get some citations later -- but the general idea of wildfires and climate change is that climate change has caused more intense periods of drought in ares that haven't experienced those sorts of conditions before.

As such - when wildfires start (regardless of origin of the fire), they tend to spread more rapidly and more intensely.
Paper. We print it out and cross off the stuff we don't need.
That is already being done for Peta and Exabyte scale data. Check out https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ for example.