skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same about Azure Functions but I think its all dependant upon which provider you're in bed with at the time. If some one has plenty on AWS and is happy with those resources on AWS they will likely try or use Lambda
Many coal plants in the US are fined both for existing and for operating. Energy companies do what they can to mitigate this by running these plants only when necessary.
How to Send Messages to RabbitMQ from SQL Server
My suggestion is to study the works of great photographers . A lot.
BW: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, John Sexton,...
Color: Ernst Haas, Harry Gruyaert, Saul Leiter, William Eggleston,...

Also study non-photographic books as well. I'm mostly interested in shapes and patterns, that's why I read architecture books as well.

BTW, for this learning purpose, I made a decision to only shoot film (mostly 35mm, sometimes medium format). I usually have the Nikon F2 and Minolta spotmeter ready in my bag. Whenever I feel bored at work, I grab my camera and wander around, looking for anything interesting.

By interesting, I mean anything. It doesn't have to be socially profound. It doesn't have to be 'decisive' ala Henri Carier-Bresson. It doesn't have to be dramatic like golden hour scene. Sometimes certain patterns in the window or a small crack in the well can be interesting too. You just need to see them carefully.

If I'm shooting 35mm, 10 out of 36 frames is good enough. Or if I'm shooting medium format, perhaps 5 or 6 out of 12.

Never immediately throw your bad photos. See if you can notice any mistakes/improvement possibilities.
The role of a college has expanded far past just being a collection of faculty, dorms and classrooms. Modern universities and colleges are expected to provide an "experience" with accommodations on par with a fancy resort or spa. And eventually Pournelle's Iron Law takes over.
I would rather have a system that people not in a position of power can abuse (setting up systems to get intentional "wrongful convictions") than one where people in power can abuse it (the current bail and prison system).
Good. Cargo ships are absolutely terrible for the environment: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/18/dirty-diesel...
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.
I have to say I rather enjoyed the snide, "Determining how those accounts were able to make such an impressive recovery is left as an exercise to the reader." in relation to users that saw large number of bot followers previously banned, followed by them rapidly gaining huge numbers of new followers... somehow.
This seemed especially worrying:

> Tracking was generally good, but objects occasionally shifted or jittered. A few times, animated objects seized up altogether, which might have been an issue with tracking, Lightpack performance, or something else.

I tried a HoloLens last year[0] and, whatever its other fauls, the tracking was perfect and objects moved smoothly like they were actually real. If Magic Leap is behind Microsoft's two-year-old tech, that's a bad sign, especially when they've pitched themselves as being categorically better than all other AR.

[0] My thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14106028#14107939
Here we look at how we can send messages from SQL Server to RabbitMQ by using SQLCLR assemblies.
Ask HN: What companies use Probabilistic Programming?
What are some unexpected employers of MCMC engineers/scientists and technologies (Stan, PYMC3, Edward, Anglican, etc.) or other probabilistic programming methods?
>1) Given the current balance of trade between the US and China, each $1 of retaliatory Chinese tariffs has a larger impact as a percentage of trade flow than each $1 of US tariffs.

That doesn't benefit China. What you are saying is that China has less total trade that they can tariff than the US.

>2) The Chinese economy is much more nimble and diverse than the US, and – especially with government intervention – may have an easier time developing domestic alternatives to US goods.

Source? It's common knowledge that the US has the most largest and most diverse economy in the world.

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/usa/

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/chn/
It would help if you have some additional context. Use case, volumes, cost objective...
I wonder how people get the time to work on things like this.
Amongst the best and ost efficient energy storage options, but very limited suitable sites.

The Balkans region, along the Adriatic coast, offers an interesting prospect: using the sea as a lower basin with mountaintop reservoirs. This is a rare topology, particularly near large populations.

What the results of localised salinisation might be is a concern though.
Why talent is both overrated and underrated
You are paying for the option of retrieval. That is what you want as a user. That’s what these systems are designed for. The words “paying for storage” are just easier to say.
Rough algorithm:

Study 10-20 new facts today. Review them afterward (same day). Once you feel you “know” them push them to tomorrow.

Review old facts. If you still know it, approximately double the time until you see it again. If the last review was 1 week ago, next would be in 2 weeks.

If you’ve forgotten it either restart it (you really don’t know it) or use some easing factor to schedule it.

Real answer: get Anki and let it do the work. Tweak it as needed.
> because it's become so esoteric and challenging to run the critical experiments.

Maybe more people would be able to run the experiments if papers detailed how to do so. The knowledge would no longer be esoteric.
>China is a sovereign nation and has every right to Govern itself the way it wants to

Exactly like North Korea does, but that's not a valid reason to approve whatever they do.
That is absolutely not the argument I’m making. I’m pointing out that if you objectify yourself for consumption people get weird. That doesn’t make what the men do okay either—far from it—but it doesn’t make it new and it also doesn’t make it sexism. As has been said elsewhere in this thread, celebrities have been dealing with this kind of behavior since forever.

Is this an outcome of making oneself in a fantasy relationship with ones viewers? Absolutely.
Do you see actual BTC usage in the retail space in canada soon?
It means that if your product is affected, upon entering China a 25% levy must be paid, effectively making it's price 25% more expensive.
An increased supply of high skill workers? An increased supply of people who are economically secure, and thus not interested in "eating the rich"?
Thank you for sharing,
Fun read
>I wouldn't call car engines, cell phones, memory chips, television sets, game consoles, etc 'low tech' but the US imports a good deal of them.

Making them is pretty low tech, there's a team of people that design machines, robots, and human processes to manufacture the parts. That would be high tech but it's not that many jobs, and many of those jobs were already here. Then, there's a few people to get the stuff the robots can't do, and a couple guys to grease the robots, and a couple guys to maintain the conveyors and such. None of those are really high tech jobs. The senior machinery tech and the senior robotics guy and a sysadmin may be 'high tech' but most of the work, even working with the robots, is swaping parts, lubing and calibrating. And that, while it pays more than the floor workers, is still far below what we would think of as a high tech salary.
> China is a sovereign nation

Is this how you justify concentration camps?
We actually sell more to China than they do to us. The deficit is an accounting game and basically a lie from the layman's perspective.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/the-1-4-t...
1639 lines of code actually isn't bad at all. I think that's less of a selling point and more happenstance, though. I certainly wouldn't want to reject changes which split it up in the future as it gets more unweildy on the basis of "but being in one file is a feature!".
I'm willing to listen if you can explain your original claim of sexism or your new claim of hypocrisy (I've never been immune to it in the past so I wouldn't be surprised by it now).
Like anything - they make the time.
Why not link directly to the FB Research page?

https://research.fb.com/publications/hhvm-jit-a-profile-guid...

Or the paper itself?

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/hhvm-jit-...
Anki is a shortcut to muscle memory. Learning-by-doing is great, but inefficient. And when you stop, you forget. Anki cards space themselves out based on your responses, so there's almost no cost to maintain memory.

Part of how I got the job I got (an amazing dream job) is because the interviewers were flabbergasted seeing me live-code flawless idiomatic code like it was the back of my hand. Difficult to achieve that without SOME sort of systematic study. Most master pianists don't get there by just doing lots of casual play.

I should also mention, one of my main language is kdb+/q. Try mastering THAT without flashcards ;)
The FPS Russia video is a fake video / joke that you apparently failed to get.

Your reading comprehension is poor. I'm only using the image as an icon/illustration to prime the discussion. The actual device I discuss is quite different.
american high schools aren't proper schools in the sense that they educate their students for life ahead, they're day care. they encourage rote memorization and regurgitation of data instead of critical thinking and processing of the world around us.

While this is anecdotally common, I can't say it's universal.

Where I went to school we were taught to think. I didn't appreciate it fully at the time, but I do now.

We were taught that knowing things is great, but it's equially important to know why things are the way they are. To this end, we had a lot of classes in history, geography, philosophy (a little) and civics.

Even in elementary school, we went through endless drills called "Fact or opinion" where we were presented with everything from single sentences to headlines to paragraphs, and learned all about weasel words and hidden meanings in the English language. At the time I hated it, and it was one of many things I never thought I'd ever need as an adult.

Today the schools need to teach that more than ever, but I doubt any still do. Even the ones I went to.
Step 1: read your employees a children's book (https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-childrens-book...)
My father, a Systems Analyst, had the misfortune to spend 18 months in the late sixties working on a site where a new Air-Conditioning system was being installed and lagged with Chrysotile (White Asbestos.) Thirteen years later he was dead due to mesothelioma.

His "regular job" did not involve working directly with the material and Asbestos continues to kill hundreds of pople each year who do not directly work with this material. https://www.teachers.org.uk/edufacts/asbestos
I exclusively watch e-sports and other competitve gaming on Twitch, for the same reasons someone might tune into the World Cup or the MLB playoffs. You said it better than I could:

>there is something not only interesting but inspiring watching certain people that are the best at what they do compete against others

Does that make me someone to be pitied, in your opinion? Do you question my morality, or the way I was raised?
Are you joking? It's the other way around. Most of our manufacturing infrastructure and knowledge has deteriorated while China's knowledge has only risen.

Manufacturing goods is the root of an economy. China is the root, the US is a leaf.
> AR will be the future of modern businesses in 10 years

Agreed. 10 years from now, AR will still be the future of modern business.
My first thought was tabletop gaming: imagine real-time visuals for a D&D session à la the chessboard on the Millenium Falcon. Price point is too high for that at present though.
> China is a sovereign nation and has every right to Govern itself the way it wants to

Who has granted the Chinese government this right? God? The "consent of the governed"?

> Ignoring the fantastic abuses that the US commits everyday against its minority and poor folks... I think ethically you shouldn't be making judgements about another country when you clearly know so little about it.

Is this... a hard cultural relativist stance?
Can someone remind me what serverless does better than existing tech?
Sure, but teamwork isn't everything. Or studios would hire cheap communications grads and there'd be no need for CS programs.
Cite the laws, cite the history of the dates implemented. Civil remedies did not exist.

I have provided you with actual legally traceable citations to law and their implementations. You cited a propaganda poster.

You are conflating a regime of arbitrary censorship with specific and nuanced legislation that was implemented as a direct result of Nazism. To argue that the basis of Germany's contemporary hate speech laws, including the most recent legislation regarding social media, is not a direct result of Germany's experience with Nazism is delusional.

http://www.ecaj.org.au/2014/critics-of-section-18c-get-histo...

> there was no equivalent of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Weimar Germany. The only laws against hate speech were criminal offences, not civil remedies. Weimar Germany had nothing equivalent to the framework which currently exists under the Racial Discrimination Act within which complaints of racial vilification have, in the vast majority of cases, been successfully conciliated through the Australian Human Rights Commission or resolved by direct negotiations between the parties.

> In Weimar Germany, the absence of civil remedies was made worse by the fact that the relevant criminal offences were honeycombed with immunities for members of the Reichstag, the German Parliament. Nazi members of Parliament became the nominal publishers of single or multiple antisemitic publications. This facade meant that no one could be prosecuted for the hate crimes perpetrated by the publications. The Reichstag could waive immunity for its members, but did so rarely.
Emergency stops for trains can also "flatten" the wheels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_spot
Yeah... that guy totally asked for jail time. It sucks because everytime I've read the whole case I missunderstood that it wasn't Microsoft specifically hunting him down and sadly others will make the same mistake as me. I'm someone who respects Microsoft, I cannot imagine people who already distrust Microsoft misunderstanding this completely for years to come.
Right. Wouldn't they have to find a buyer for the bonds? That'd likely increase the yield quite a bit, which would descrese the value of China's holding a lot, right?
Oh yes, because the US (not we, I'm European, thank you very much) has a trade deficit with China it's inherently bad for the US?

Where are you going to get a good price for steel (and not only steel) when you add a 25% tariff on it when it comes from China? It'll lead to American products also being more expensive and it'll lead to a lower purchasing power in the US.

Other countries can also higher their prices for the US because why wouldn't they? The US isn't gonna get it cheaper from China... This leads to an endless price war that is not good for anyone.

Edit: also see thinkcontext's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17716933
I think you've just invented Google+'s Circles.

I also think that system would work well as long as you're interested in the people in the system, and not in topics in the system.
It was the most logical thing for her to suggest

That's far from obvious without knowing the specifics of the case; putting $25,000 of tuition on a credit card with a 24% APR, could get mighty expensive.

A student might be better advised to take a leave of absence, or finish up their degree part-time, or transfer to a less expensive or in-state school.
Book by ex-Apple engineer explores first iPhone software keyboard design
Elections? The least violent outlet for social unrest?

Yeah, China doesn't have to worry about elections.
Canadian Startup Sells Bottled Air in China, Sells Out Immediately
As a former Phoenix resident, I completely understand the resistance to speed cameras. They are always touted as a public safety measure, but widely regarded as little more than a revenue machine. In my experience, the trigger speed was always perilously close to the natural flow of traffic which (at least in the places where I have lived) is consistently the speed limit + some amount. The net effect was always a sudden, dramatic slowing of traffic in the camera zone followed by a return to business-as-usual.

Edit: I should clarify that these were freeway speed cameras. Maybe they are more effective as a safety device in pedestrian-heavy areas, but I have no experience with the cameras is that context.
From what I've read, it was a deal with the Saudis. Iraq was reportedly planning, with Russian help, to modernize its oil industry. And to out-produce Saudi Arabia, and break OPEC. And to evade US sanctions by selling oil in other currencies.

There's also reporting about close ties between the Bush and Saudi families. Same private schools. Kids vacationed together.
Because those are technical literature that aren't easy for most people to understand.

The linked page gives a layman's explanation of the research, which is going to be accessible for the general HN audience.

Why not just link to the source code directly if you're that hardcore and don't care about any higher level description? Or how about a hexdump of the binary?

Commentary is useful.
I wouldn’t focus my medium term career prospects on Xamarin, but if I could quickly ramp up and do mobile development using it, I would.
What's wrong with prositution if a women chooses to do it? The huge problem with it is generally is that people are forced into it through various means.
At the moment, the way they are trained is not a good theory. But that is the compact human interpretable way of thinking of these models. It seems like if we keep iterating on this then we could arrive at a compact description of the neural network which is its learning rules, architecture and environment. Why is it important to have a compact explanation of the trained resulting model if the learning rule, architecture and data are a fairly compact description?

It seems like for vision there are a few simple theories of learning:

having layers of nonlinearities

weight sharing across space

and some way of doing credit assignment on the loss from a visual task

Which taken together are enough to explain a large amount of the explainable variance in the neural data. I agree that the models could get more biologically realistic in the way they learn, but I disagree that it's important to explain how the learned model functions in a compact way, since there may be no such explanation better than the one based on learning.
It's interesting that brain damage or impairment reliably causes "liberal" and atheistic feelings in the laboratory.
I live in a world where I have to interact with non-technical people, and I need to produce documents that are editable by those non-technical people.

Non-technical people can take a document produced by pages, MS Word, and OO Writer, and load them up, make changes and send them back. The cloud has not yet caught up with my part of the industry I work in.

I'd love to be able to work in Markdown (or even groff) and then feed that to something to produce nice looking documents - in the end I use word, because its the easiest way to get passed the post. PDF is my most favored document interchange format, provided that edibility is not a prime desire.

What I'd love is a word processor, that allows me to use PDF as the prime document format for saving, editing, etc.
I said this here before, but this is exactly what is going all over the world whenever "affirmative actions" are used.

The only difference is that in this specific case, they decided to use a clear different required test score in order to apply the unfair advantage at selection.

In most other places, specifically in the US they use soft, improvable information (such as an "essay") to cover their base and make it non-obvious that the selection process is unfair. The most famous case would be the Asian discrimination case at Harvard, weirdly everyone is mostly ok with that one
> Some women never recover.

Can you explain the supposed implications?
Grad math student here. I'm always amazed when I hear other people use such stuff - I tried it out a long time ago, but hadn't success (if I have to learn hundreds of pages of math, there is no other way than creating my own lecture notes, basically).

So I'm curios, if you cram a piece of knowledge that is so interconnected as math is in flashcards and you rote learn all the definitions, theorems, proofs and examples - are you then capable of seeing the connections between them? What happens at the exam, if the professors asks you to prove a new lemma, where you have to combine previous knowledge, does that work?

Also, some proofs are pages long. Do you put them in one huge flashcard?

Since I've never use Anki succesfully for math, as I said, I'm keen to hear from someone who has.
You can't even compare the two, the US is still dealing with systemic racism, but we are dealing with it, China is institutionalizing it. For example, Chinese citizens can be _tortured_ for political views, protesting or religious beliefs, real torture, they apparently use electrocution.

China is not allowed to do what it wants to its citizens, that is the load of crap.

Read the wikipedia article and then tell me how ignorant I am: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China

Or this one if you need more: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34592336
It’s not often that the public gets to look behind the curtain into Apple’s design process. I find it fascinating to see how many different and seemingly crazy things were explored for this.

After 10 years of use (actually, after the first week) it seems like what Apple shipped was the ‘natural and obvious’ keyboard, but it’s cool to see how much got thrown out developing it.
Well, they can sell their holdings of US bonds on the market. That's a matter of indifference to the US government, because it doesn't affect the repayment schedule at all.

It might affect the price of the next sale of Treasuries, but that's the limit of its impact.
So now we're not looking at fines in relation to income but lifestyle?

I just think you cannot scale fines in relation to income/lifestyle/anything else financially. You can scale it, but you can't hit people with different incomes, assets, etc. in the same fashion, which ultimately smells of a bad system to me.
Zillow to Buy Mortgage Lender to Help with Its Home Flipping
And what dependency management or package system would you use to install that library? Distributing the source, especially for self contained libraries, is easily managed with the rest of your source code.
We can and do. California already has many active cloud seeding projects.
I cannot disagree more. This will be relegated to certain segments of business, but no more than that.