skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely is not.

ASN.1 PER encodes data on a bit-level (that is, it represents integers using minimal number of bits they can fit in) and doesn't waste space on tags if not necessary. It is used in all kinds of telecom protocol, particularly mobile protocols such as LTE. Obviously, it needs to be both space-efficient and efficient in processing.

You can find more about ASN.1 uses here: https://www.marben-products.com/
Deep learning generally doesn't run on AMD GPUs, but it runs on a lot more than only Nvidia GPUs.

If we're only counting model training, it runs on CPUs, Google's TPUs, FPGAs, whatever other secret datacenter ASICs are out there, various DL-specific mobile chips, etc.

Way more than 5% of the world's hardware can run inference with deep neural nets, which is the important thing for mass adoption, and definitely more than only Nvidia GPUs can run training.
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Unless crypto mining picks up again.
We can do horrifying things, too.
Sure, but when you're talking about a military house inside a military base owned and maintained by the military you have to assume that the military bears some responsibility for it.

Just waving your hands and walking away because it's old is a bit short sighted.
It’s as recent as anything built before 1986 when it comes to lead pipes: https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-exposures-lead
Nah. Just turn off all notifications outside of mentions. If people want to reach you they can mention or message you. I do this and don’t check Slack for hours or even a whole day.

Most problems people have with Slack are people problems.
The Russians have done it since the beginning of space capsules.
I'm not a full-time programmer (recently retired of sorts), and these days it's mostly personal hobby hardware projects, tinkering with various online projects, and just a bit of everything. I don't think I could do this if I was still coding all day every day like I used to, but for my purposes, it works fine.

I do Arduino projects using an OTG cable to plug the Arduino directly to my phone, then Arduino Droid for the code.

RPi projects are done using Termux to SSH into the RPis and write code in VIM. I also do some general daily tasks this way, SSHing into a dedicated RPi where I run various services for myself.

I use the GitHub editor to edit/write code there, but I'm not a heavy GitHub user in general other than via commanding in the RPis.

iA Writer to write formatted documents in Markdown, synced to Dropbox for sharing (and various online services can sync Dropbox folders to blog posts, or other things).

Dropbox editor for general text files (my personal notes, brainstorming, etc).

The rest is just using Firefox, as most of our interaction with the world these days is just through the browser, and I find Firefox Mobile to be incredible thanks to the tab syncing and tab forwarding (wife can send me a tab, etc).

All this is done with a cheap "RK61" Bluetooth 60% mechanical keyboard, which is honestly the thing that made this all possible (including this post).
Omg, I've been looking for an open source version of something like this for a long time. Thank you!
You mean it MAY not hold true 30 days from now. Last year around this time the cryptocurrencies started spiking. Perhaps demand for graphics cards will go up again, and this time, maybe the demand for the 1080 Tis won't match the demand for the newer, shinier 2080 Tis.
That's likely. The question is how much the future consequences will be like the past ones.

Honestly I didn't look at your numbers for a couple of years, so I don't even know if you got out of that deflation already.
Thanks. It seems like the title changed during our conversation and I didn't know what it used to be, or when.

If the title displayed to me had been "Same-sex mice genetically engineered to reproduce asexually" I would have thought it implied that the new, artificial mouse genotype could reproduce asexually without further human intervention, which would be clearly incorrect.

Edit: Does sexual reproduction formally require sexual intercourse? At this point I'm out of my depth. :p
IANAL but I think in the UK if a contract has too many restrictive and unenforceable clauses a judge will sometimes toss the whole contract.

Lawyers are thus incentivized to be careful about what they put in.
Hey Michael - have been following your story for several months. Disappointed to hear that the recipe parsing idea didn't work out for you.
Learning from a war
If you follow the AWS best practices you have nothing to worry. Hint: use multiple availability zones and regions
All of the OP's vehicles have specific versions, which are (mostly) the latest flying iteration. They just use different nomenclature.
Our policymakers have a rationale for that opposition though.

Now that rationale is probably foolish in the extreme.

But they do have a rationale.
The purpose of my reply is to explain how there can be equilibrium and competition even in the face of a seeming monopoly.

The critical thing is that threat of competition is as effective as competition when there are low barriers to entry.

"Undercut and then raise prices" is not a terribly creative strategy - no offense, but you are not the first to come up with it, nor will you be the last. Since it is an obvious strategy, it is always a hanging threat to any restaurant or food truck proprietor. Artificially high prices are not a stable long term equilibrium.

If you are so certain that there is a neglected middle in the restaurant market, then open a restaurant and serve medium-quality food at prices a bit higher than medium-quality prices. It seems to me that if the world you posit that we live in exists, that there should be huge profit opportunity in such a market.

Anecdotally, in my travels everywhere I have been has multiple food options. This spans from small towns of a few thousand to large cities. These options tend to span a price range that is reasonable based on income demographics of the locations they are in.
Does anyone know of a recent-ish description of the DDG infrastructure? Only posts I can find are 5 or 6 years old.
This is kind of my question also. I used to live in Springfield, Mass. And when I did there was not that much of a tech scene out there. From 97 to 2007. I was wondering if it was better now. When I left NYC I choose to come to Delaware and not Springfield because of family and the amount of tech jobs available. Between here, Philadelphia, DC and a commute back to NYC if I really wanted there are a bunch of tech jobs available. When I looked at Western Mass there were barely any.
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> Perhaps the solution is to give workers the right to have employment-related contracts reviewed and negotiated by an attorney of their choosing at the employer’s expense.

This is one of the key reasons that unions are helpful to workers: each one of them doesn't have to go through this on their own. One expert does it for all of them.
What did you switch out for Gmail?
Raising the wages of humans so they are the same cost as machines doesn't make the machines cheaper. Amazon could keep workers wages low and still buy machines and create the market. One doesn't necessitate the other.
The number is still very low - I'm probably responsible for 30 of those searches myself, so at most there are a million like me.

As long as they're getting enough traffic to survive and grow it's a good thing, though. They just have to exist and have enough mindshare that when Google hits their major stumble, that media story that terrifies the general public, that public will know they have the alternative and take it.

Search isn't facebook; if it weren't for Google's manipulation of its monopoly power, there'd be absolutely no friction in switching search.
Normalizing commits number per author is not difficult.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/lsi/sigir04-cf-norm.pdf

Goodhart’s law is not applicable to scientific management because metrics have different purpose.
I'm failing to find out why the US would find Iran to be a threat -- to the point where they would support extremist Islamists in Syria and smile when mentioning Saudi Arabia. This is excluding the sanctions that have crippled the country for years, backtracking on the nuclear deal and various other pointless actions.

It is most definitely irrational, because there is no rational reason why the US has that position.
Cool idea, kind of like ProductHunt meets Quora?
I think in order for people to spend money you will need some well known experts, but I like the free offering and I put in a submission of my own. Congrats on the launch!
While I understand your mindset of, "If you are not experienced, you should not use root, because it's dangerous. Your experience confirms that. When you need to use root, plan for disaster." for a network-based terminal at a workplace or public facility, I disagree for a home user's computer. When we error-proof a computer against an average user, we lose the ability to silently teach that user what NOT to do. We lose the ability to empower that user to control their own machine. If you type in "format ." or something like it, then yes, you should expect a great deal of trouble; especially if you didn't have good backups. That's a big part of my problem with Windows 10, Linux, OSX, Chrome, Firefox 52+, and basically most "modern" software. By demanding that the OS, the browser and even videogames must be able to be updated at random by the whim of some "upstream" group, and the user doesn't actually have the authority to decide what is or is not on their machine, or what data is or is not being sent to wherever, we lower the standard of the average user.

I'm not talking about accessibility, mind you. I'm talking about the silent education that takes the starting computer user and makes them into someone who is confident around computers in general. Someone who understands the appropriate niche for each type of computer (i.e. in roughly ascending order of generality; mobile cellular device, tablet/iPad, Chromebook/netbook, laptop, desktop, server), and recognizes both the minimum and maximum range they need. For example, I certainly can read ebooks on my laptop using Calibre. But the fact that iBooks can benefit from the built-in screen reader makes things so much smoother than trying to find an audiobook; and I can read along with it or turn off the audio if I want. I can use a Chromebook/netbook to connect to HDMI displays and make presentations smoothly, but if I want to use a Smartboard or a projector, I probably need a laptop for VGA support - and the fact that my current laser presenter uses PgUp & PgDn to switch slides (Chromebooks don't have those keys and Google Docs doesn't seem to support them from the Chromebook). The list goes on.

As you said, learn from your mistakes, it's the price for performance. But what many groups are trying to do is take away the capacity to make those mistakes.
I suspect they've mentally prepared for far worse outcomes. Space is cool, but the Kazahk wilderness sure beats the third option.
At night, I simply invert all the colors with "xcalib -invert -alter"
>random samples.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

>The US also has the greatest opportunity and socioeconomic mobility in the world

Hahaha no. We are lagging behind Canada, Australia, Spain, for example, and not by a small margin[1]

>we already track measures for what you're talking about

Yes! That's my point!

>and they all show great improvements.

No they do not! They do the opposite!

See the little numbers in square brackets, like [1]? They refer to footnotes. There are links in the footnotes. There's data there, data that supports what I'm saying.

Try arguing in the same way: make your statements quantifiable, and follow up with references that support your statements. It's fun, and we all learn something!

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...
Debugging Mental Models
I'm surprised this isn't being talked about more, given hostility to China from the current US administration.
I kind of wish somebody would make a website naming and shaming the companies that have awful contractual terms.

It would be a good aid to finding decent companies. I've noticed that the companies that have ridiculous "fuck you" contracts tend to be as awful as their contracts tend to imply. "company xyz claims 100% of your IP" is a completely objective measure you can judge them on.

Shining a light on it will probably help put an end to it too.
Shorting SNAP via puts was one of the best decisions I've made this year.
is it possible to get personalized search results when using duck duck go?
> print(*more_numbers, sep=', ')

This alone makes me appreciate print as a function in py3.
310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved
I don't think this is Amazon trying to trick anyone. Even though it's the same brand, it's two different sellers. The sellers make the listings, not Amazon.

The reason one shows the price breakdown in ounces and the other doesn't was because it wasn't set up in the listing to show that.

The shipping time is different because each listing has their stock in different warehouses.

My biggest gripe with Amazon is the third-party sellers all selling the same item they're importing from a Chinese company but rebranding it (poorly). As an example search for gaming headsets and you start to notice that the headsets being sold under different brand names look exactly the same. If you look even closer at the images you will see they don't even remove the original brand name from the headsets themselves.

To me the biggest erode in trust when I search for something and every result is the same item but rebranded and they're all at different prices with their own collection of reviews.

I've bought many items on Amazon trying to find the superior version to find out they're the exact same thing but rebranded.
Can we have

#include <stdcontract>
#include <boost-clause>

int main() {
specialCase = "we fire you for any reason whatsoever and eat your baby";
return 0;
}

And then it's much more clear? More directly, can we have libraries of contracts, i.e. convert spaghetti legal code into properly factored legal programs?

Or are we doomed to copy and pasted, IOCC winning EULAs that say that you can only use Apple if you don't nuke stuff.

Dude I just want to program a thingy, without reading 1000 pages of "WE OWN YOUR SOUL", trying to figure out which percentages of my soul may or may not be enforceably eatable.

Fuck off.
It is absolutely useful if you're trying to measure the size of a football field. What in the article precisely does your analogy refer to?
> propaganda has significantly more impact when it is perceived to come from "just another normal person" rather than an anonymous bot.

Yes. Exactly.
In that approach, eventually the engineer dies of old age, at which point costs go to infinity.
I installed a DDG Chrome extension and said I'd try it for a week.

That was a month ago. Haven't found a need to switch to Google yet.
That would only be true for non-traditional loans (ARM etc). I don't believe you could have obtained a CD APR > 3% two years ago.
I may have to try it then. How does OpenBSD name drives? Logically, like A:\ & B:\ for floppies or removable media, C:\ for main HDD, D:\ for main optical media or second HDD, E:\ for second optical media, etc? Or does it name in the incomprehensible method Unix & Linux use that have no application to what I'm trying to do with my life?
Show HN: ETL Data Pipelines to Google BigQuery
I have been a strong advocate for spreading this fact to both my direct reports and to my colleagues. I will never discuss other people’s salary (especially my directs’, that’s against company policy) but I will discuss my salary and encourage others to do the same.

If the guy next to you is making 1.x times your salary and you think he’s dead weight, time to discuss it with your boss or move on. You have to be your own advocate, and you’re actively hindering others from being their own advocates if you keep to that anti-union, salary secrecy bullshit.
Facebook mistakenly deleted some people's live videos
It would be good to see it compared to a TPU...

I feel like thats becoming tensorflows 'native platform'...
MYOB, Mind Your Own Business

PR pull request

SMH = shake/shaking my head
The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch.

For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years.

Edit FYI: If you want google results, add '!g' to the end of a DDG query and it will route to google. I use it sometimes, but not that often given that DDG is usually good.
It's useful for working with permutations. E.g,

[f(a, b) for a in some_list for b in some_list]

or even

[f(a, b) for a in some_list for b in some_list if a is not b]
NASA has little say in the matter, this is a congressionally mandated project. NASA didn't want it, but it turns out to funnel money into mostly the same companies that were getting money for the Shuttle program, and congress loved that so now NASA has to make do with what they are given.
Frankly, I find Iran to be less threatening than Saudi Arabia. Of course, I don't actually live in the Middle East (and I'm sure our Israeli allies disagree with my opinion).

But the Saudi / Iran relationship has always struck me as odd. The main issue is that the US truly messed up our relationship with Iran in the 1970s and 1980s (and they reciprocated: Iran-Contra affair and all that).

But as bad as the hostages / attacks / etc. etc. got between the US and Iran during the Cold War... Al Qaeda literally launched the 9/11 attacks from Saudi Arabia, and the infamous hijackers were primarily from Saudi Arabia. The militant form of Wahhabism was Osama Bin Laden's religion and is strongly based in that area.

I mean, we somehow kept a good relationship with the Princes of Saudi Arabia, and I understand that the leadership of that country does cooperate with us. But for all the bluster about "Islamic Extremist Terror", Mr. Trump bowed down and participated in swords dances last time he went into Saudi Arabia... never once bringing up the issue publicly the last time he had a chance.

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All in all, I'm happy that the general US Population is waking up to the fact that our "ally" in the middle east deserves far more scrutiny than we've been giving them so far.

I don't necessarily want our relationship to go sour. But we need a serious and stern talking to Saudi Arabia in general, that we the USA do not approve of a lot of the things that country does. Frankly, those princes have far too cozy a relationship with Wahhabism for me to be comfortable with, and their human rights record is pretty bad as well (see the primary story about Jamal Khashoggi)
And ummm, money...
This release shows how desperate wikileaks is. Very old and outdated data that is far from secret. We should all simply ignore them nowedays, thank them for what they did in the past and tell them to move on.
The only reason I see why they published is: get some new media attention because tomorrow they might get a contract with Y who we dont like blabla.
Even !g does some masking for you, although you still wind up on google.com
Spoilers: Trump is not, in fact, good for anything.
I don't think saying "work from home friendly" is very honest. I applied for the Seattle DevOps position (which is still open months later), and was told I'd have to work from the office because that's how the teams worked in that location. So the Seattle office is not remote/wfh friendly at all.
Agreed. Emotive contemporary documentaries and cinema paint Hypatia as an early feminist martyr for science but actual records of the political/social dynamics surrounding her death are sketchy.
I don't get the slack hate. It's just a chatroom, if your team is using it in a way that impedes productivity that's on you. Noone is forcing you to look at it immediately every time there's new conversation happening.
This reminded me of a recent story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169514
I haven't had a great experience using anything else than CUDA, e.g. OpenCL. Then again maybe I just lack the skills :x
I want to do something with AI/ML and recipes also but monetizing a passion is not always possible. Have you seen the NYTs open source recipe ingredient parser?

+1 for moving to a less expensive area and ‘buying back’ some of your own time. I did this a long time ago and have seldom regretted it.
Comprehensions have some other benefits too, for example, they're much less likely to be accidentally stateful. My general experience is that for complex logic, a comprehension is harder to write initially, but much less likely to have bugs when I get it right.

That said, I usually won't use deeply nested comprehensions, but sometimes it actually is the clearest way to parse something (e.g. extracting a field from nested JSON.)
you may jest, but yeah, charisma is not an absolutely positive quality, and Democracies depend too much on emotion
Incredibly, the segment below is valid TypeScript.

@inline
function rot(x: u32, y: u32, v: u32): void {
var a = max<i32>((v >>> 24) - BIT_ROT, 0);
set(x, y, (a << 24) | (v & 0x00ffffff));
}

You must be working on a different set of problems than me to be able to identify this as vanilla TypeScript.

Not given the context of a file extension, I would forgive anyone for mistaking this to be some kind of low level driver code and be confused on source language.

It is so impressive that this is valid TS though!

[edit: code formatting]
The whole point of DDG is that they don’t personalize results.
4chan does ok
Is it possible to make an app that intercepts phone calls and becomes a self hosted question / answer bouncer?

This is something I have wanted for a long time, but had always assumed that it would have to work with like a voip solution instead of on the handset itself.

I'd like to have something similar to this feature with my own customization, but without handing the info to google to process anything, including the metadata.

it could be as simple as, do I already now you? press or say one. You are calling during a time in which I am normally napping, is this important enough to push through a call and interupt, or perhaps do an sms or voice message to be delivered within the next 3 hours?

It's been a dream, but not one that would have me giving up more data other more parties just to live a few time in real life. If it can be coded to run on the phone, or even with some twillio type service, I'd consider getting a new phone number, but not another data vacuum.
You are on social media right now.
The rational reason is due to an irrational relationship with Israel.
600 seems low - I earned a lot more than that back in the day, and that was a long time ago. A quick search of jobserve.com for just "java" found roles quoting up to 750 on the first page, and if you're any good that'll be negotiable. And if you get into even slightly niche things (Oracle Coherence, in my case) the rates are much higher.
>"Which reminds me of the article on HN a few months/years back about how you could identify most spies because they all appeared the same way in embassy listings (which was all public information)."

Might you have a link to this post?
A lot of Anti-American statements with no supporting evidence. The scant examples it gives for China's rise are the facial recognition algorithms China uses to subdue and control its population. As if that's somehow better than what Facebook and Google do. The entire article is hollow garbage.
> Old houses have lead. It should be assumed to be that way unless there's reason to believe otherwise.

Lead paint was more expensive (it was whiter), so buy an old house that was cheap for its time :)