skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether he was an up and coming drug dealer, or not, or had possession of an illegal firearm, he didn't deserve to be incarcerated for that many years if he didn't pull the trigger. I wonder if he had a relationship to the victim or a vendetta of some sort as well. There was mention it was over a dispute about a girl.
I would have agreed with you before I got a job in the public sector. I'd say a quarter of the people in the buildings around here are gone by 3, with hardly anyone still here by 6. Some of those people start their day at 6 too, but there are also some "in by 10, out by 2" kinds of people. Nearby DC seems to be the same way from their rush hour traffic patterns.
> His take on the Tesla scandal is hilarious.

If you are curious as I was, here is the link:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-13/funding-f...
And faked live-feeds. But that is an inherent risk of technology.
This library? https://andreaferretti.github.io/patty/
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Microsoft has always been very supportive of the developers in all the technologies they put on the market (Remember the "Developers!" from Ballmer?). They have the expertise in tools and company long-term requirements. Now that they are combining all that with a more open approach, we get Visual Studio Code, the Language Server Protocol, the buying of GitHub, etc. Interesting times for the developers!
We have a ~25c deposit here, and it really does help reduce the amount of waste. There are also "deposit shelves" on most public garbage cans, so you can leave the bottle for someone else to deposit, if you can't or won't. That way they don't have to rummage through the garbage for it.

Local music festivals have also started introducing a ~$1 deposit on plastic cups. It really helps clean up in front of the stages.
I find the framing of “no big backers” kind of weird, considering they do have one big backer in a crypto currency startup that is providing the overwhelming majority of its funding. Sure it’s not the big coffers of Google, but it’s concerning that the entire language seemingly depends on the fates and desires of an incredibly volatile field.

https://nim-lang.org/sponsors.html
https://mobile.twitter.com/W6VA/status/1043181935667761153

Interesting exchange in the comments…
That is very interesting, because I don't think the constraints of natural selection and competition for resources are going to be the same in every environment on every planet. Most of what we are is determined by our biology.

Take ants or bees or termites. They have conflict between different colonies, but cooperation within a colony is guaranteed.
Sounds interesting that a book about "game" saved you from "game playing". Not sure what sort of game you're exactly referring to, though IMO video games that let you grind against scripted NPCs indeed could waste one a lot of time. However games that pit you against human opponents, when practiced adequately, can actually teach you a lot. There was a piece about how chess playing is being taught in the Wall Street to train decision making under pressure. Many video games can also help you achieve similar effects. So it's not all negative.
Wouldn't that suggest however that AI is not the best tool for the job? AI should be the great equalizer if the tech actually was useful, but I have seen precious few examples. The usual triumphs are almost all actually human sourced and then delivered by algo. (google image, etc.)
Just an introduction to standard hyperparameter optimization algorithms, nothing specific to deep learning.

In fact, the methods mentioned are _not_ practical for deep learning since fitting the model can take days or weeks, unless you have a "few" GPUs at your disposal.
https://fqxi.org/community/podcast
Seems like you're just ignoring all his points because you don't care about the consequences. Plenty of us do happen to care.
No assembly involved. You launch a 20 ton tungsten rod with minimal atmospheric steering ability to LEO. Deorbiting the rod to a target will result in a 0.1 kiloton impact, which due to the directional nature of the strike will be far more locally destructive than a nuclear weapon.
I think Zig is the most promising of these - they've been able to do very cool stuff early on, such as outperforming C for certain problems, and generating absurdly small binaries.

Last time I checked though they hadn't quite nailed their memory-management model and things were still in a state of flux.
True but now all that stuff is pretty much produced in the private sector by government contracts with these big companies. DARPA doesn’t have better scientists than MIT and there are a lot of extremely intelligent scientists who have moral issues about working for the military.
Tell me about it. That point when you realise that fiction and comedy really are not exaggerating all that much, if at all.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

See also; the appointed Liars of the Zoon tribe of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
What Crystal is for Ruby devs, Nim is for Python devs, I guess.
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Is there a way that a person could create a QR code made from one-way private key? The QR code would contain date and time and other Metadata that is decrypted with a public key that proved the QR code in the video was made by, for example, the person in the video? This would "prove" the video was real? I guess the speech would still be manipulated. So the whole transcript would have to be encrypted in this way...
>As for taxes - they are one of the lowest in europe, specifically regarding softweare companies.

I researched Bulgarian market when we were looking for a place to open an EU branch.

Nominal taxes are low, but a dazzling assortment of different welfare charges effectively amounted to extra tax. That's not much different how it's typically done in other ex-bloc countries.

Before that, during my years freelancing, ePAM systems tried to bring me there on a very competitive package, comparable to what I had in Canada.

When the talk came to taxes, I just got that "don't worry, we have good tax consultants," and then when I persisted on getting to know how it all is gonna work, I was told of a dizzyingly complex scheme where they were to setup 2 companies on my behalf and "lease intellectual property" from one, while I would've been getting near zero interest loan from another, owning a stake in it.

After hearing that, I firmly changed my mind.

My advice to Eastern European taxmen would be to stop disguising tax as welfare charges. Plainly admit that the net tax rate closes on to 40%, and work from there.
That would more than double the current average income. Right now the average family of four makes about 60k.
I'm not sure that was very good acid.
[video] humans grow linearly technology grows exponentially
There have been many articles on this topic. There isnt any evidence to suggest that static guarantees makes your code better. Ofcourse what does make your code better is immutability. But complete immutability isnt practical and even Haskell people understand that but they continue to pretend that programs are about mathematical purity. If that isnt enough claiming static typing removes the need for testing is complete bunk.
When an employer will happily use up your most productive years and let you go as soon as it isn't constantly profitable... A job might as well be for a lifetime.

It's not an uncommon story, true. But it's a pretty shitty one.
Ad hominem is easy to fall into if you don't know what to look for, we all do it unless we are trained/train ourselves otherwise, it is just human nature. The reason it is taboo is that it is really an emotional appeal rather than a rational one.

As always in western press, bad news is much more visible than good news, leading to an appearance of bias against China when it is really just a bias for bad news that readers will take note of. The CPC is exploiting this exactly with sixthtone, realizing that their feel good only propaganda approach doesn't translate abroad.

Also, certain reporters do feel good articles, others are better at critical ones, it doesn't mean that the reporter has a bone to pick with China, just that they have a job to do. In reality, she is probably less salty than the average long term laowai.
Creator here.

The idea behind InboxKitten is to provide an open-source serverless disposable email service, that you can launch for free on top of mailgun free tier API. And possibly rebuild it from scratch in a 24 hour hackaton.

All you need to do is send an email to `some-unique-name@inboxkitten.com`, go over to inboxkitten.com, and search it up. And Nyow, your email will be there. No signup nor passwords needed. You can use this for either email testing, or to access website content that insist of collecting your email.

Unfortunately, when our actual testing email services went down, it went from fun idea, to a real project. And the Prototype was done in 14 hours, with several more hours put into refining to what it looks like today.

Finally if you need your own private secure (not @inboxkitten.com) domain, and inbox. You can fork and deploy adopt your own inboxkitten, by deploying it for free on using your firebase, and mailgun api keys.

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You provide five links to back up your claim that

> Most animation is visual spam. The proper way to use animation is to NOT use it except when there is absolutely no other way to communicate something.

But they don't back up that claim. They don't come close to backing up such a sweeping statement.
> delay on sharing new photos with other users until after permissions changes would have propagated.

And then you'd maybe have to map the ux of changing permissions on an existing permission to a three-state: user makes change;ui shows change in progress;change takes effect and is reflected in ui.
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Pains in Social media management
These days SMM(Social media management) has become too important for any brand. Gone are the days when you would ignore social media. I have seen unlimited brands spending huge amount of money in social teams but s till fails to hit their targets.
So my question is,As a social media manager what do you find most painful in managing social media?
what do you think, if done, can work wonders for your campaigns, increase engagements and helpful in your social media strategy. What are top pains in managing social media.
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This is enough to make me keep using C++ for the use cases where Nim is meant to shine, or choose Rust instead. If I'm to learn a modern language, I really expect it to support modern paradigms.

I can see why it'd be interesting to someone with no C/C++ knowledge to get into systems programming though.
Honestly I'm also quite skeptical, I share your view.

Though I believe the deciding factors aren't very technical. For public projects it all depends on what people want (in reaction to government control, surveillance, financial and capital controls)

And for private blockchains in my experience (in finance anyway) it all depends on the regulators and what they will allow. They are also reacting to whatever is happening in the world.

Currently it all looks pretty bleak indeed.
Lumped L2 Projection
It’s not such a problem that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found new physics
I think I did something like this with vim when I first encountered it. Now I like the damn thing (but still prefer VS Code).
Thank you for sharing. I think too often we assume the concept of an "afterlife" implies some kind of supernatural or religious phenomenon. Since we don't have proof of it I can't say I definitely believe such a thing exists, but I certainly believe it's possible. If there is an "afterlife" I believe it fits into our natural laws and can be explained and observed scientifically - we just haven't discovered all of the information we need yet.
I like Nim, although I don't think it's great for everything and I do think it fills a particular niche. For me, that is a systems-programming language akin to Go or Rust with a familiar syntax. Coming primarily from Python, sometimes I need a language that is a) safe b) fast c) easily capable of producing a cross-platform executable. Nim provides all of these with a Pythonic syntax and style, and that is really the main reason I like it. It lacks the sponsorship and audience of the other two, but is still a well maintained language with an active community and all the core functionality you would likely expect. That being said, a few years ago I was a strong proponent of Nim, while today it is clear that Rust and Go have captured the mindshare and continue to grow momentum. In fact it becomes hard to recommend Nim when I think of where these 3 languages will likely be in 5 years.
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Nayghty America:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17763278/deepfake-porn-cu...
You might care if you've chosen Expensify instead of another company in the same space out of expectation that human eyes will not look over your expense data. Of course Expensify's obvious defense will be that they don't explicitly give that guarantee...

But you might also want to care about this on general level. So many bullshit companies doing fake-AI create perception that the technology is much more advanced than it really is; this influences public opinion, and political decisions. Consider e.g. the coming wave of AI-induced job loss, that was such a hot topic just a year or two ago (for some reason it seems to have died down recently). After "Humans Need Not Apply", I expected we'll see significant effects in a decade. These days, I'm much more conservative about the timeframe, because I've learned that most of the immediate fear was based on hype and false advertising of a new statistical gimmick (deep NNs), that in reality only sorta, kinda, works, for some very limited tasks.
I gave my generalisation in terms of frequency, and not in terms of "number of rectangles" in the Riemann sum, which I conveniently assumed to be infinite.

A better generalisation: if a function is thin-tailed, and its Fourier transform is thin-tailed, then it's Riemann sums converge to its integral at an exponential rate. In particular, this applies to the Gaussian function.

I'll check out what you said.
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Also feel free to ask / clarify anything here =)
Burning Man is in Nevada, 100 miles north-northeast of Reno.
You can also mix GC-managed and manually allocated types in the same codebase.
I refer back to what I wrote. I wish you would have read my comment instead of being in "auto-reply" mode, because it sure looks like you completely ignore 100% of what I wrote. Seems to me like you just wanted to say your prepared talking points that you picked up elsewhere.
I feel the same way. People complain about microtransactions and other bad design practices in gaming, but while I make every effort not to give these companies money, millions of other people do. People defend these companies all the time.
This is simply untrue.

MongoDB is a much better JSON store. It's ridiculously faster, has much richer update semantics and it's simply not comparable when it comes to the ease of clustering.

As for time series unless I am confused but PostgreSQL doesn't have any OOTB capabilities.
1. 250ms is not quickly, on Firefox Windows a default page down animation is closer to 50-100ms (estimating), it's so fast you hardly even realize it's animating. There are websites that override this with their custom slow animations - those type of page downs suck yes, hence my inclusion of quickly in my first post.

2. Page down doesn't always scroll the same distance when you hit the end of the page, unless you have over-scrolling like some code editors do but websites and browsers don't.

For media naturally represented as pages, like PDF or images, and when one whole page fits on a screen there's a different story though, there it's nice to be able to jump pages instantly without animations, because the page boundary itself can be used as reference. But for reflowing endless wall of text media like web pages and code you kindof need to follow your previous position as a reference.
I use Nim for Cuda, OpenCL and cache-sensitive/memory-bound multithreaded computation.

You can mix and match manual memory management and GC-managed types in the same codebase.
I don't know why you're talking about QR codes and transcripting/encrypting the audio when you can just sign the file?

gpg --sign video.mp4
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would services that learn from recaptcha be considered as utilizing machine learning or no? I mean, it is humans who power that technically...
Most CLIs can be exited with "quit" or "exit". Many trap Ctrl-C, so those two are the first things I try. Didn't know about Ctrl-D before now, and I've worked as a sysadm.
That's a fork of PostgreSQL.

So it doesn't help you when it comes to using cloud hosted services e.g. AWS or Azure. It's also a commercial product that isn't exactly cheap ($890/node).
What algebraic datatypes is Nim missing?

It has generics, tuples, tagged and untagged unions, it even has C++20 concepts.
No, the point is that dishonest marketing distorts the market. The companies use human labour to deliver useful services, but falsely advertise as AI-driven to capitalize on the novelty factor. This makes life more difficult for both companies delivering the same service, but advertising honestly, and for companies actually trying to deliver the product by means of AI. The result is that money flows to dishonest people, instead of honest people and/or people actually trying to push technology forward.
It isn't just about doing business in China, but the nature of the business (and propping up the Chinese regime).

Apple have had plenty of stick about their practices too. I think they just have too many diehard followers that the negative information gets drowned out by the positive.

I think there's a perception that Google is the one company that many people are (or were) supportive of, because of their past stance with regard to China. Google's former motto of "Don't be evil" convinced a lot of people that they have strong ethical standards. This may have been true in the early days. To me, it has not been true ever since Schmidt became CEO. I've been actively avoiding Google as much as possible since around 2005, because it was glaringly obvious even then that they were out to destroy privacy.

I also avoid Apple. Never liked their software, and they have pretty much the same problems wrt privacy.
Holds true only if you convert your currency to INR. The dollar denominated deposits (FCNR) have far lower yield around 3.4% still better than what the US banks offer.

https://www.icicibank.com/nri-banking/RHStemp/rates.page

But I think you need to hold an Indian passport to open these deposits. I am not sure though.
An example of Obama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0
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Just as coal is a declining industry in Kentucky (as mentioned in the article), so too is tobacco... and there are some tech companies looking to turn all that tobacco know-how to use in a substitute crop, for example industrial hemp (https://www.anandahemp.com/the-ananda-difference/) which uses the same assets and infrastructure as tobacco.
So are you sleeping 5.5-6 hours per night? Is this just on work days or all the time? How long can you / have you sustained doing this regularly?
Bulgarian here. It is probably a long story but the IT industry is one of the very few not-heavy-regulated here and it flourishes. There is a growing start-up culture, companies are fighting over talants and people with various backgrounds are just pouring in the industry. I know a few dosens of architects, layers and medical doctors that made that step. Also a flat 10% tax certainly helps :)
Indeed, that’s why no one ever learned how to hunt, gather, smith, knapp flint or make pottery before the rise of literate civilisations.

The first appearance of anything resembling schools in the historical record are for scribes in Mesopotamia, about 5,000 years ago. Many very complicated things have been and continue to be taught through the apprenticeship model, otherwise known as be useful to me or get out. It doesn’t make sense to take an apprentice unless you’re going to get some advantage from it so the learning generally proceeded slower than it could have if instruction was the sole aim.

Activities as complicated as architecture, engineering sufficient to build cathedrals and aqueducts and painting and sculpture sufficient for the renaissance were taught in this manner.
In theory yes, in practice it's not that clear.

You make a fast Rails in Crystal and a large percentage of Ruby community will jump in. In Python you can't do that, the community is fragmented. And you have already Julia..
> If your mind is caused by the enduring structure and you experience its presence at death, that would be physically indistinguishable from you becoming that thing.

'You', 'experience', 'presence', and 'thing' are far too ill-defined for this to have meaning here.
I believe with the combination of native functions ("NIFs") in rust and some work on the nif interface (to avoid making it so easy to take down the whole beam VM on errors) - you might get more of best of both worlds today - than you used to. As you say erlang itself is rather slow wrt compute.
Actually even i am not sure about that. There should be some route though, Foreign Institutional Investors do invest so there should be some legal route to circumvent this.
I've also heard lack of an MMU and/or FPU as the difference. Though you can run ucLinux, freertos, etc on some of those.

I don't think there's any real definitive measure for microcontroller vs microprocessor.
> A simple example, the performance of a simple un-indexed DISTINCT on a single string column on a single table, is still quite bad for millions of rows.

Why is this surprising?
> Propaganda and misinformation. Now you can get your enemy to say and do whatever you want, on video.

This could open the market for video propaganda-detector applications.
> I researched Bulgarian market when we were looking for a place to open an EU branch.

Which EU country did you end up choosing, if you don't mind me asking? Or, at least, what were the top three / five?
Is it the best?

I read Rust is basically a safer drop-in replacement for C.
The TimescaleDB plugin is extremely promising: https://www.timescale.com/

Natively without a plugin, it's not possible though.
He’s not 36 years old, he’s 66 years old. He’s a 36-year veteran.
Stored procedures are plaintext code running on production servers and is, in general, never cleanly redeployed. So by default they discourage source control. This is my primary problem with them. Also that (at least MySQL) has shitty error messages when you're trying to build/debug the things.
Note though that "the news is racist" is different from "the model we learned (from the news) is racist". Maybe the first can be false while the second is true.
Anyone have experience with mainframes when it comes to this level of cost/performance? I suppose 500k USD is still too "cheap" to consider more special hw/systems - but where's the cut-off when getting a monster running db2 and Code in a Linux VM or something?
Hmmm, sounds like they went with a competitor instead of using your certsimple then?
That's not the one I meant, he's also talking about Tesla in his newsletter. Probably still worth reading.