skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing other people happy for seemingly inexplicable reasons is maddening.
"Reality", in our case, is based on conversations with a few dozen customers who use our products as well as the actively publishing researchers we know personally. The majority of sampled customers are training convnets of some fashion, the most common being Yolo/SSD and ResNet.
Trains and buses don't solve the last mile problem
This headline would have been true in 1989... not quite today.
Scientific American isn’t aimed at professional scientists or STEM majors. Think bright middle class high school kids.
We used to call this model fishing and regard models that came from places that did it with fear and suspicion (due to sudden failure and poor performance in production)

What has changed that people think this is a wise approach?
Those things don't receive anywhere near the amount of funding that stadiums and arenas do.
"Venezuela’s Maduro under investigation in $1.2 billion U.S. money-laundering case"
https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article215663355.htm...
I wish that security updates consisted only of "Hi there, if you're [GUID] running [VERSION], then you should be apply update [SHA-256 SUM], which hopefully will get you to [LATER_VERSION]. [Cryptographically] Signed, [SOMEONE YOU TRUST]." That assertion could easily live in a kilobyte of data. Then if you cared about that message, you could go anywhere -- vendor site, Bittorrent, IPFS, your classmate's computer via your local network, even the attacker trying to own you -- to get the multi-megabyte/gigabyte update. If the hash matches, apply it. Otherwise, ignore it.

The (slightly contrived) relevance to this post is whether Intel should get to decide whether its updates are redistributable. They should definitely get to declare which updates are authentic. But it seems reasonable that the remaining decisions should be up to the owner of the hardware, who has to deal with the consequences of its software/firmware not being up to date.
It does all kinds of stuff. It is also the SSD/Flash controller running Apple's own software for it.
Sam Peltzman writes about this in "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation"

https://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Pharmaceutical-Innovation-...

And does a statistical evaluation of the effects of the FDA regulations.
It's hard to tell whether something is too good to be true in these unusual news cycles and market conditions. The market wasn't sure either (not that the market is always rational but I digress).

Not only does it now appear to be one of his worst blunders, but it appears to come after a series of self-inflicted blunders. I really thought the false "pedo" accusation was completely awful for someone of his apparent standing, but even that seems to pale in consequence to what could now be ahead.

If he thought things were hard then, they've only just gotten 10 times harder than ever before now. All because of "one"* Tweet.

* More than one Tweet really; there's a pattern of behaviour here.
I find that statement odd as well. The only thing I can think of is he's looking at consumption of purchased products, and I'm assuming that bottled or fountain soda outsells bottled water. If it was actually "all water consumed", tap water would win out pretty handily I'd think.

Either way it's an incredibly misleading sentence, or at least a sentence stated way out of context.
I kind of love this comment. "This doesn't add up... if what you're saying is true, EFF is misleading people".

Yes. I think EFF often does mislead people. They do some important work, and some less well-intentioned advocacy stuff.

I supported my argument with evidence. To wit: if what researchers do is "illegal", consider this year's Black Hat schedule, and ask why none of these presentations generated so much as a C&D, let alone a threatened criminal prosecution: MDM attacks, attacks on self-driving cars (including Tesla’s ECU), breaks in “16 desktop applications, 29 websites, and 34 mobile applications” in the fintech space, attacks on ATMs, industrial control gateways, VPNs, ICS firewall products, antivirus software, “Akamai, Varnish Cache, Squid Proxy, Fastly, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, F5”, a smartphone baseband, every macOS firewall product, mobile point of sales systems including “Square, SumUp, iZettle, and Paypal”, SAML SSO’s, SATCOM, WinVote voting machines, LTE base stations, z/OS for Christ's sake, streaming video watermarking schemes, “a cross-section of smart city devices currently in use today", Toshiba FlashAir SD cards, warning siren systems from ATI Systems, celllular devices manufactured by Sierra Wireless and many others, implanted medical devices, text-to-speech systems, and a hardware backdoor in an x86 clone.

What prosecutions would you put on the other side of this scale to balance it out? It sounds like the best argument the thread has seen so far is Aurenheimer, who dumped a database and bragged to the media about his "theft". I don't support that prosecution and didn't at the time, but if that's the best evidence you've got, I'm not going to be up nights worrying about this.

I work in this field. Cory Doctorow's relation to it is that of a gadfly. I'm saying outright: I think this article is misleading.

You'll have no trouble finding vulnerability researchers to take the other side of my argument, that we're all a threatened species ready to be pushed underground at any moment by overzealous prosecutors. We've been saying that for literally decades, and I think it has more to do with us wanting to feel exceptional and daring than it does with any real risks we face.
i.e., highways in Jersey are a quagmire of poor planning.

Actually, that applies to pretty much all roads—not just highways.
Real world programming does not involve much data structures or algorithms, much of the time. So lots of SWE internships you'll do just fine as long as you know how to code.
I think the RTX 2080ti FE might be the first card worth the 1200. I’d get one and never get another for 3 years probably.
Personally I have no interest in making soda at home as I’ll only indulge in a soda once or twice in a year. For me, I’ll buy it at a restaurant or a vending machine, and that’s the end of it
>In the past I was addicted to pot.

Pretty much anything that lights up reward or adrenaline/reaction parts of the Brian can be addictive. I think its important to qualify if we are talking about innate physiological addiction (as seen in opioids or alcohol) or the kind we can get from anything. After all there are people with food addictions and yes, they need help, but that isn't about to change the legal status of food.

I respect people making their own choices to use or not use as they see fit and be warned of the experiences of others, but we need to be clear when the substance we are talking about causes innate physiological dependence, cannabis for example does not.
>I smoke about everyday, but I don't have any problem pursuing my goals, producing creative works, or excelling in my career.

Same, no issues. I have no issues with responsibility. I procrastinate more, but I don't feel like I'm missing or harming anything.
How John Muir's Brand of Conservation Led to the Decline of Yosemite
> Because of copy-on-write fork magic, many multiprocessing configurations (including the default) can "send" that data to child processes in constant* time, if the data's already present in e.g. a global when children are created.

Have you tried this or got it working ? The fly in the ointment is the reference count. Add a reference and BOOM you suddenly have a huge copy. It can be made to work efficiently in certain cases but takes a lot of care.
1080 FE $699 USD
2080 FE $799 USD

That qualifies as about the same price in my book, and not a 70-90% jump.

As for the Ti price when 1080 series was released, there was none.
I just wanted an updated mac mini...not a "pro" model. Whenever Apple attaches the word 'pro' on a product it usually means "a fuck ton more expensive".
What would be the odds that it could be an "eGPU built-in", ie: ability to easily swap.
I bet the scope of such names is pretty narrow, no more than 3-4 lines? The narrower the scope, the less descriptive your names may be, and such math-like conventions make sense.

In a 50-line function (which you should avoid but sometimes can't because of long lines wrapped for readability), using a name like `f` throughout is a harder sell.
It took about 20 years just to complete the interchange between I5 and I405 at Alderwood. It was constantly being torn down and rebuilt. The cost must have been incredible.
I assume it's based off of Pepsi's sales figures (and therefore only pertains to their beverage selection).
Chemically, cannabinoids are not really antidepressants (which mostly affect the serotonin system) or pain killers (opioids affect the opioid receptors). Cannabinoids have a variety of effects due to the endocannabinoid system, which is naturally occurring in the human physiology and does affect mood, memory, etc. However, it's simply not chemically accurate to call them pain killers or antidepressants, cannabis lies in a separate category.
A small but important update to the Primer: after seven years there is now finally a section that explains how you can find a y coordinate, given an x coordinate, for functions that "look like they should just be normal functions".

As parametric curves, Bezier curves are notorious for being loopy (heck, it's _the_ reasons we use them in all manner of graphic design) but there's plenty of cases where they're not: CSS transitions, audio EQ, image leveling, etc. can all use Bezier curves as their control function, but that frickin control variable means you can't just get y, if you know x.

This new section explains exactly how to get around that. I should have written it years ago =)
The package maintainer system doesn't add additional people to share the same work, it creates additional bits of work for different people to do. Upstream can release a fix, and it doesn't get propagated to people on distro X because the package maintainer for X is busy with work, or is a parent now, or just isn't interested in the package any more. And if one proactive maintainer patches an issue, it doesn't help users on all the other distros, or users who get it directly from upstream.

You're explaining how this works in response to concrete examples of where it hasn't worked. I understand how distro packaging works for some packages, but I've seen it fall down too many times for others, especially more niche things.
> determine the conviction some people have about an outcome

But in order to do that, wouldn't you also have to know a lot about those people?

If you bet $1 and I bet $50 that could just mean I have a lot more money than you. Or for a million other reasons, I'm pretty likely to have not exactly 50x your conviction. I may even have less conviction than you.

And even this is assuming good faith, because I might have reasons other than "winning" for placing my bet.
SolidWorks and AfterEffects are probably the heavy hitters as far as workload goes. Everything else you mention is (or should be) very lightweight for a modern computer.

For reference, my typical workload for my 2018 MBP is:

* At least one Windows VM running
* At least two web browsers running, sometimes three, depending on what I'm doing.
* Python as needed
* At least one large Java application running
* The usual office-y applications - Outlook, Adium, Teams, OneNote, Word, Excel
* Opening large text files in Sublime Text is a regular occurrence.

Even though there's a lot of stuff going on, there's nothing that routinely makes the machine spin up the fans, let alone overheat and crash.
It means they'll put a touch bar on it for selecting emojis
Thanks for the words, and I'm excited to have this conversation in such a productive lense.

I would agree with your statement about not being able to fully understand the situation if the observer is constantly under the influence, in fact I would think it's an understatement. I myself am guilty of assuming a situation to be all fine, when a sober and detoxified version of myself wouldn't agree.

With no offense to you, I'm glad my crutch is marijuana and not alcohol. I grew up with addicts as parents, one with alcohol and the other with pot, and I've witnessed first hand the dramatic and disastrous effects of long-term alcohol abuse. I'm very happy for your ability to keep the addiction at bay, and wish you the best of encouragement.
It's a miracle Zoox has gotten as far as they have. Their vision is crazy, but even if their prototype robotaxi concept crashes and burns, their autonomous OS is still very good, and I believe worth their (speculative) $3.2 billion valuation. Others have spent more and accomplished less.
(486958) 2014 MU69
It’s very strange how AMD reveals so much of their roadmap.
1/4 to 1/2 oz per week, depending on what's going on and the strain of pot.
> Ehhhh, not really

Ehhh, yes really.

1080 FE $699 USD
2080 FE $799 USD

That qualifies as almost the same price in my book. By and large, not a 70-90% price increase as being suggested.

Unless you want to explain how 700-800 is a 70-90% price increase?
This process sounds similar to seasoning a cast iron pan. Does that mean using a seasoned cast iron pan can play a factor in diabetes, since you're in taking more rancid fats?
But that's about covered by the difference in exchange rate.

A few years ago prices where mostly 1:1 in USD before taxes and EUR after taxes. So the situation got worse.

I think the main reason is not that anything makes selling the cards there more expensive, but simply that they try to charge more.
They do it by taking up the role of a PBM. This is for some other discounter, but you get the idea, they process the prescription using GoodRx's system:

https://www.discountdrugnetwork.com/what-rx-bin-and-group-nu...
Not a billionaire, but Martin Shkreli is coming to mind right now.
FireHOL Language (& a program to run it) which builds secure stateful firewalls
This is a really great question, in fact. Normally, people go with what's available. Without connecting the dots.
> I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

Take a look at the Mini's modern competition: Dell's Optiplex 7060 mini or HP's Prodesk 600 G4 mini, which can use Intel's i7-6700T (6 cores / 12 hyper threads) and hold 32GB of memory and, IIRC, are even slightly smaller than a Mac Mini. Not quite a modern workstation but still a lot of computing power in a small package.

That's how far behind the times the Mac Mini is and Apple would be foolish not to catch up.
Arguably, most of the work there is to do on software is maintenance. The percentage will only increase as more and more of the software that people find useful or entertaining has been implemented to an MVP level.
Distill Update 2018 [editorial]
>But why reduce the size? Apple

You answered your own question.
> if you're measuring a surrogate marker (that is an accepted proxy for clinical outcomes), you don't need a comparator arm

Why is this the case? Wouldn’t there be concerns that a study population might be different from the general population and thus require an internal control?
Welcoming Tim Buzza, the 5th Employee of SpaceX, to the Relativity Space Team
I feel like no matter what Apple does, people will never be happy.

If it was a “consumer” Mac Mini, you’d complain “Apple has given up on Pro users”.

I recommend waiting until they come out with pricing and the details before writing it off glibly.
My suggestion is: Don't do the HR job. Basically, if there is some overlapping between your skills and some of the requirements you should apply anyway. The HR people will decide if you're suitable or not for the job.
Coca-Cola Should Stay Out of the Home Device Business
Ancestor of all life on Earth evolved earlier than we thought
One.one.one.one a record is 1.1.1.1 (and reverse)
Which is faster: rsync or rdiff-backup?
I enjoy it as well, but I would rather work for fun as supposed to a paycheck. Retirement means doing what you want to do, not what you have to do. :-D
This was likely the entire intent of this change, to allow email tracking by default. After all, Google tracks email opens too.
All it took was an increased copay when I switched healthcare providers for me to stop taking ADHD pills. Really wasn't a big deal. I'm allegedly slightly more irritable.
This is a good point, but road use tolls don't have to be the same all day long. Charge more during rush hour, and poor drivers will find ways to use the road at other times.
>Most everyone who meets me or knows me wouldn't believe I smoke pot, but I smoke more than most pot heads could even imagine. Pot has been a miracle drug to me, much like Prozac is to others, without the liver damage. F those who diss pot smokers, there are many more of us than you can imagine.

I was going through 2-3 .5g 80-90% THC concentrate cartridges every week, and nobody would never know. It is a miracle drug for me as well, and took me off of many highly addictive prescribed benzos I would've really preferred to not been on. I cut down and switched back to flower now since concentrate doesn't really give me the full spectrum of effects like flower does. I have so much more money in my bank now too!
The obvious advantage of using parallax is that you effectively use for the measurements an "instrument" of the size of 300 million kilometers (190 million miles). Which is really needed when the nearest star is 41 trillion(!) km away.
I think it's much more likely that the diabetes epidemic is linked to the insane levels of carb/sugar intake and obesity of so many adults.
What does the blocktext and link have to do with your supposition?
Metro service is the key. When frequencies get high enough the timetable exists only for the benefit of the operations personnel, customers don't care about it because their experience is like with an elevator. You don't ask for a timetable for the elevator, you just go to the place where elevators arrive, and wait, and very shortly there will be an elevator.

Very high densities are both the problem and the solution. They're the problem because under very high density private car ownership is infeasible, and the solution because public transport becomes fast and affordable. If you let it.
You don't need a PhD to do data science.

It sounds like data science is more in line with your experience and interests.
I mean, that's why the article is titled "America's Invisible Pot Addicts" (emphasis added). It's harder to quantify when the harms are mostly psychological/relating to QOL decreases, rather than explicitly medical/criminal outcomes. And because it flies in the face of the pro-legalization/decriminalization narrative.
What incentive is there for them to unify against the name-taker if the name-taker was being fair? N-1 people aren't just going to cry wolf in synchrony, because they don't trust each other. Can't a set of untrusted nodes still achieve consensus assuming more than half are good players? It's unlikely that over half of the class consists of class clowns.
Try for both. Only when you get offers for both do you really have to choose.
I normally imagine tunnel warfare as a World War I thing, but it actually played a huge factor in the Syrian Civil War: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-36961912/syria...
Yeah, properly written Python is at extreme worst O(1000) times slower than speeding it up code with a Numpy/Numba/c/Fortran/etc. implementation. Brute-force loopy code in Python I've seen is 100x slower than the compiled alternatives. So I agree, these extreme numbers are the sign of writing the worst possible Python implementation of a thing and saying Python sucks.
The Genetics of Cousin Marriage
Too little, too late. I bought an X1 Carbon earlier this summer and have been pleasantly surprised by Ubuntu.

I don't think I'll be in the market again for another 2-3 years and by then I may be fully sold on Linux.

I was a hardcore mac enthusiast from 2006-2018... But the past few years have resulted in a lot of disdain for the company.
That is perfect, thanks so much. Interesting bit here is what I would expect from Target:

The issue instead was that their employer, Jim’s Maintenance, was failing to fulfill its obligations to keep proper records, including records of I-9 compliance. This failure to fulfill its contractual obligations ultimately contributed to Target’s decision to terminate its contract with Jim’s Maintenance.

So company offers services to Target, uses workers that are undocumented. Target severs the relationship as soon as they "know"[1] that the company is a bad actor which puts this company out of business.

This is how it is supposed to work, which is that people do things that are bad, they get discovered and they end up losing more than they gained from their bad behavior.

But to my original point, Target understood the legal risk of hiring a firm that hired people who were not authorized to work in the US, and once they were made aware of it they stopped. In California this is something the SEIU does, if they suspect a company is using illegal workers they will go tell people who employ them that what they are doing in a paper trail sort of way (registered mail etc). That forces the company to break that relationship. As a result, it is quite difficult to run this sort of thing and harder to make any money at it. All this has the appropriate chilling effect.

[1] I realize that clearly someone inside the Target stores knew this was going on, but in this case it is once the corporate entity knew. I'm curious if the store manager was fired or not.
Plastics should be taxed.
for a non ti card?
that's just a name.
you have a very wide array of cards, at a wide array of s prices, that can do various amounts of maths per second. pick the one you want.
> Are Debian and Kubuntu separate distributions?

yes because Debian (stable) and Kubuntu have different KDE packages

> Would RedHat switching to apt make Debian redundant?

- no because they apply different patches
- yes because I think that both Debian and Red Hat and any distro which applies patches is already redundant with Arch
Did Uber figure out that if anyone can buy self-driving cars that their golden utopia vision of booting all drivers and simply maintaining a fleet of self-driving roving vehicles doesn't make sense? Did they figure out that someone else can run servers just as well as Uber and offer people the opportunity to lease out their self-driving cars, utterly destroying Ubers market (they would have to charge far more to maintain the whole lifespan of the self-driving car where someone only renting theirs out for a few hours a week would happily take far less)? Or have they just generally realized self-driving cars will never work because no company in the software space is capable of dedicating the years of testing necessary to make a truly reliable product, while those willing to cut every corner will be first to market.... and will proceed to destroy the market by turning society against them after some of their poorly-designed vehicles smear a few toddlers across the sidewalk.
Are you developing for iOS 11 with it?
Oh fantastic, I want to do more with the data but the spreadsheets are designed for people rather than machines. Will have to check this out, thanks!
1981 1KB Computer vs. Modern PC: CHESS [video]
>I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

Honestly a version of the "trash can" Mac Pro with regular, consumer level internals would suit the Mac mini use-case just fine.

Give it a very good single video card rather than whatever strange 2x Firepro thingy, a regular i7 or i5 instead of a Xeon, and regular memory instead of ECC RAM.

If they can get it in at the $500-$1,500 ranges we'd be good. The cost of the novel industrial design has probably already been paid for by the Mac Pro version of it.

Some sort of novel integration into an eGPU enclosure might be a cool addition. (Although defeats the e in eGPU I guess). But it would certainly meet a lot of peoples' needs for upgradability.