skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikidata is structured.
Here's the entry for Apple: https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312
oh interesting I did not know this... Is the code being integrated from Neuron?
If you have an iPhone and a debit account linked to Apple Pay, it's as simple as using your thumbprint to authorize a transfer. The fees are minimal and the money, converted at close to the market rate, sans a tiny fee, shows up in your account in less than an hour. really a revolutionary system when you compare it to opaque wire and bank transfers that I had to use 3-4 years ago when last traveling abroad
Yeah. I did some googling and it seems that all non-steam options are in the "technically you can, here run this cmake file and then hand-calibrate the coordinate mappings in this json file" stage.

It might be that we get to a point where it's more open, but I hoped the same for a bunch of other products (lytro comes to mind) that never made it.

It's not like I don't have steam installed on every computer I own, but it's more of an on principal thing. I don't buy razer mice because I don't want to spend $50-100 on hardware that doesn't work properly if the vendors download servers go down, and razer mice have very strange profile defaults if they can't talk to the razer desktop program. If razer goes under it won't really be possible to move razer mice to new computers after a while.

Similarly, I'm really not keen to buy $800 worth of kit that could become a paperweight if I get VAC-banned. I'm a big fan of separation of concerns on this front. I might part with $100 with a dependency on steam because that's throw-away money, but not $400 and certainly not $800.
Looks like it's landed in Intel ARK now - i5-8210Y:

https://ark.intel.com/products/189912/Intel-Core-i5-8210Y-Pr...
one thing for sure is the higher level abstractions you tend to use in functional languages, but a big thing about clojure is that it's very flat and generic in terms of datastructures.

You basically have maps, lists, vectors, functions and not much in terms of hierarchy. A lot of code in Object Oriented languages simply exists to manage the hierarchies and structures you build and that's something that clojure largely avoids.

There's also of course the macro capabilities of lisp that can save you a lot of boilerplate if utilized correctly.
There is a fine line in spycraft. Stealing secrets from companies for commercial gain is just pathetic. Can't innovate, just hack it and steal it.
Can a fabric be engineered that doesn't get darker when wet?

One example is retroreflective fabric, which reflects light back where it came from and therefore shouldn't be affected by internal reflection of a water layer. But retroreflective fabric looks weird.

One idea is a dark material with lots of little pits, each with a white bottom. Any light reflected by the white bottom and not hitting the walls of the pit should be perpendicular enough to the surface that there won't be internal reflection. The overall albedo should be insensitive to wetness.

It could revolutionize clothing for people who sweat too much.
The first diagram labeled "Normal Topology" shows Master in East and no other master. Later they acknowledge that lots of stuff doesn't work if Master is not in East because of latency. So then there's all this Orchestration, and it never could have worked in the first place?

That seems incredible - what am I missing?
Spinal Stimulator Implant Gives Paralytic Patients a Chance to Regain Movement
I agree with you that it is extremely polarized, but disagree that it follows the left/right divide in politics.

I have many friends and family on all sides of the spectrum, and there are many conservatives that have opinions like, "it's not for me, but I don't care what you do with your body" (not a typical conservative position IMHO, but becoming more common). I've also been hearing the "I support medical, but not recreational." Even here in Utah, a very conservative state, we are close to legalizing medical cannabis with prop 2.

On the progressive side I've been starting to hear people saying more and more that the evidence is incomplete, and therefore the government needs to consider regulating it much more heavily or wait to legalize until more science is done.

Of course, those are not the stereotypical views, but it's one of the issues that seems to cross left/right divides a lot more than others.
> unless you only have three nodes

Interestingly enough this seems to be how managed sql solutions do it. You just have one primary and one failover replica in another zone. So a quorum write is just a synchronous write to both (2 out of 2). You don't have the split-brain problem because the original primary can't make progress if it can't contact the replica.

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/high-availability

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Conce...

Github's problem is that they were trying to be too smart and allow any of their replicas to be candidate masters without increasing their quorum size. In theory this is higher availability than the managed sql solutions (they can be available even if their entire coast gets nuked) but they do it at the cost of consistency in the more common failure scenarios.
Laptop Repairability Scores
$330k gets you goody looks when considering a purchase of a home, or outright laughter. On the other hand your $330k home is not going to yield sufficient ROI to make up for the double (or more) savings and investment rate my salary affords me. I can save almost as as the $110k earner in the suburbs has as his disposable income, and I have access to a diversity of culture, well maintained parks, good (private) schools and such that the suburbanite can only dream of in most cases.
Cisco Systems and Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
This doesn't account for the labor costs, but Planet Money had a great explanation of how shipping rates across borders work (and don't reflect true costs): https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
You're definitely right that you sometimes need to know the exact details of how an embedding is produced, especially if you're doing cutting-edge work. That's one of the things we really need to improve documentation-wise. I'd like to have a page for each embedding that talks about how it's generated, what to watch out for while working with it, etc. etc.

I'm going to narrow in on the question of how to go about tweaking a model that uses an embedding, since I think it's a really interesting topic.

To use your first example, let's say you're doing the image similarity task. You probably wouldn't be computing the cosine distance on the embeddings directly. You'd probably normalize and then do PCA to reduce the number of dimensions to 200 or so.

If you weren't getting good results, you'd have a few options. You could fiddle with the normalization and PCA steps, which can have a big effect. You could also include other handcrafted features alongside the embedding. But let's say you have a fundamental problem, like your similarity score is paying too much attention to the background of your images rather than the foreground.

There are two major approaches to solving that sort of problem with embeddings: preprocessing or postprocessing. You could preprocess the images before embedding them to de-emphasize the backgrounds (e.g. by cropping more tightly to what you care about). You could also postprocess the embeddings. For example, you could label which of your images have similar backgrounds, and instead of naive PCA you could extract components that maximally explain variance while having minimal predictive power for background.
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It sucks. Just to provide a bit of background on these kind of decisions: usually it's quite hard to support a plenitude of platforms, so what happens is that you end up supporting the most recent ones first: the ones that have strong authentication baked into the OS.
It's pretty simple. Your claim about LGBTQ not being able live places without fearing for their wellbeing is simply wrong and to the extent it's true it applies to most other people too.

So no you don't HAVE to be in politics just because there are horrible attacks on the LGBTQ community.
Question: How is it sustainable for a forest if you advise people to take all the seeds?
Can we not conflate sexual harassment with inappropriate relationships at work? Schmidt and Brinn both have their demons, but their personal lives aren't at issue here, particularly when they don't involve violating the law. That is not the same thing as sexual harassment.
My summary: he worked at Google in the early 2000's (when there were indeed many astonishingly productive progammers), and he saw them being super productive in languages like Python. And he himself became productive in such non-Lisp languages.

He uses the hash table as an example, and I think it's apt. Lisp does feel "old" to me with respect to having 10 different choices for hash tables in 10 different dialects. (I briefly worked with Julia's femtolisp a couple years ago and felt this.)

I also felt it when trying OCaml like 5 years ago. I loved the language, but having to "choose" which hash table to use felt odd.

Newer languages like Go and Rust (I think) both have Python/Perl-like hash tables built-in, or at least close to the core where all libraries can interchangeably use them. I think this is here to stay. Hash tables won :)
We’re heavy users of LOTS of languages at Netflix to be fair. Clojure included.
I'm not an expert on this though my father is, and from my recollection of our conversations I believe schizophrenia being latent until some trauma 'triggers' it in young adulthood is a quite common pattern, especially in men. Drug use is just one of many events that can induce this, and I don't believe it's in line with current clinical understanding to say that "door" "may have stayed shut otherwise".
Does anyone know much about the tech on this? I assume when they say persistent they mean across VM restarts, but are they actually doing some sort of disk persistence too?
They didn't "remove vowels" as much as started out without them! We're talking times when writing itself was utter novelty, a curiosity performed by a handful of scribes primarily for accounting purposes, and of no great importance to daily life at all.

By contrast, cuneiform (of Sumer origin -- a traditional rival power to ancient Egypt) did have vowels.

A surprising amount of history—writing, speaking, war, splitting the world into objects, naming them, whatever—is pure chance, turned tradition, turned myth and legend. That's the power of beginnings.
> What are you referring to by

Apparently I was remembering Pedestal. See my other comment.

> Many of the things Om tried are more relevant to things like Redux

> And as a counterpoint, React just introduced the State and Effect Hooks, but those are both things that Om and reagent (the most-used Cljs React lib) have been able to do for years.

These are great evidence for my point, that Clojure has worked as a testing ground for features which more mainstream languages and frameworks then adopted.
OK, I'll bite. Do you live or work in an environment where you could call someone ignorant and be understood to mean only that there is some specific bit of knowledge they don't posses, without making a larger accusation of intellectual incompetence?

Where?

I try to be sensitive to issues of usage like this because civility does not come easily to me, and I have to be careful of what I say lest I inadvertently offend. And I am confident that when I have heard the word used, it is almost invariably in the larger sense. Use in the narrow sense tends to be by foreigners, who seem to be looking for a translation into English, and could easily not know the broader implied meaning.
> elevator conundrum

Interesting, I've never heard about this before! But isn't it basically just the question of private vs public transport (cars vs underground), but in vertical dimension?
> Alphabet CEO Larry Page, who was aware of the allegations and the investigation’s findings, did not disclose publicly Rubin’s reason for leaving, saying in a statement at the time, “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next.”

Maybe Google could invest in his next venture, like they did with Andy Rubin...
The state of UI testing at Mixpanel
I mean both are correct given the literature at this point. Maybe the use of embedding captures the notion that you are mapping through a NN which is a variable function of sorts instead of a single or set of linear or orthonormal functions.
Yeah, I agree. The number of new nouns per year is kind of ridiculous.
I've been trying to close a french bank account for years. I haven't been able to do it because I need to do everything either by going to my specific attributed branch, or I need to send them expensive letters that are every time rejected because I'm missing something. So I keep paying a monthly fee of a dozen bucks...
word2vec[0]:

computer programmer
- man
+ woman
---------------------
= homemaker

Basilica?

[0] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06520.pdf
I'm from the UK and I use my credit card for 99% of my discretionary spending, mainly for the perks, but also section 75.

So the features in these challenger banks are largely useless to me, and I track all my finances elsewhere anyway

However, you can't put everything on a credit card in the UK, like household bills and rent, so you still need a current account for this. I use my Starling account for this and it works fine.

Some people don't have financial discipline so I'd imagine the credit card might lead to temptation, so they stick with a debit card to know exactly what's going on.
U+130B8 translates to d80cdcb8 in utf-16 hex. On mac, switch to Unicode Hex Input, hold down Option key and type d80cdcb8
a decentralized ponzi scheme. that's what I said : )

but I am curious to see how it functions in times of crisis. does it go to shit, explode, or nothing.
Feel good compromise: Eminent Domain a spot of Zuckerberg's 750-acre property.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuck...
Incorrect. What is being discussed are the applicable rules to citizens today, and the cumulative legislation states that there are exceptions. We do not follow only the constitution and bill of rights, otherwise what do you think the thousands of other laws are doing exactly?

Real exceptions exist, regardless of whether they are written in the original amendment text or in rulings afterward.
Indeed. IIRC this topic is covered directly in Meyers' "Effective C++" book, including the trick to use pointers + forward declarations in headers to avoid including other headers.
Unless the competition catches up, Monzo is going to conquer the world.
There is no evidence that marijuana is addictive or has lasting deleterious effects on intelligence. Your anecdata is not evidence.
Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten?
Staedller, the most stable graphite lead pencil brand across Asia (not colored pencils) were black and yellow striped hexagonal, and of wonderful quality (iirc, better than Faber Castell for art pencils).
Half of the FAANGs don't even have such a title and the title even among those companies varies quite a lot. Google principal >> Amazon principal, for example.
A few questions for the Lisp fans out there:

1. The summary here seems to be "modern high-level languages, used, well, are just as productive as Lisp." Does that seem right?

2. One of the tensions for me in technology is between love of simplicity and love of complexity. An example of the latter is Enterprise Java, where the tendency toward a FactoryProxyBeanMutatorFactoryInterfaceImplementation is well known. Is the perceived superiority of Lisp perhaps because it attracts people with strong simplicity bias?

3. Every "Lisp is super-productive" story I hear is about a lone individual. Is Lisp's suite spot that of the solo programmer? Since the rise of the Internet, I think most software has shifted to be about teams, and I'm wondering if Lisp is less suited to team collective ownership or projects where many teams are involved.
> > No, you're generally not throwing out precision when you round in this case. You're throwing out error.

> That's not always true from a numerical analysis standpoint.

This isn't about numerical analysis, which is what you seem to not be getting. It's about the medium have specific attributes, and floats being incapable of perfectly representing the value. With respect to the currency being tracked, any difference smaller than one hundredth of a full unit (depending on currency) that results from simple addition or subtraction of accurate values is an error because it's not possible in reality.

> 3. The cumulative error of a chain of a million operations, each with an error in the 9th digit place, can at most only affect the 3rd decimal digit. The 2nd decimal will always be correct

Cumulative error is irrelevant. It only takes a single error that causes a value to be less than the correct value by a very small amount and then if there's any place where it exits the system without rounding, that error may be increased to a full minimum difference of the medium ($0.01 in this case).

> If introducing extraneous rounding to a much lower precision magically 'fixed' errors, then how could long floating point calculations themselves be inaccurate?

By nature of the actual thing being represented by a the floating point value. There is no point talking about floating point without talking about what it's representing. In this case, it's currency, which has very specific characteristics.

You can argue that a sphere is the best container shape because it maximizes volume to surface area all you like, that doesn't mean it's the best container shape when what you are storing is shoe boxes.

> Rounding is often appropriate if the rounded value is the actual source of truth

Yes, nobody is arguing that you shouldn't round floats in this case. I'm arguing you shouldn't use floats so you don't have to round at all.

> Excel's a pretty common tool that they use for basically everything right? It must be sporting some fancy arbitrary precision or decimal machinery under the hood, right? ... Nope, just floats all the way down!

Excel is a system to represent values of all types. Their requirements necessitate an amount of flexibility that makes Floats a good choice. Even then, they will be handling all the rounding and representation automatically for you. When you use excel, you aren't using floats, you're using an excel numeric type which is implemented underneath using floats and some very specific behavior. The fact that it automatically deals with floating point errors and rounding is what makes it not a float.

In the case we are discussing, the same requirements are not present. We don't have to worry about representing any conceivable value, just the ones allowed by the type. A float provides more flexibility than we need, and at the cost of error that needs to be cleaned up at all the edges of the system.

Again, I ask you, why should we choose an underlying type that doesn't fit the needs as well as another option? In all aspects, integer containers either have a less problematic error case or do not suffer the same problem.
You probably need to try Monzo to understand how good it is. A lot of comments here explain exactly what is awesome about the app.
Vaporizing is better than smoking because it creates fewer carbon particles. Also there's fewer carcinogens (we're pretty sure on this one, but people like to argue about it) in pot than in tobacco. Another point is that you don't need to inhale at all, you could ingest since THC is alcohol and fat soluble. Many people find this to be a good way to imbibe because it's a more controlled dosage (if I use 1 LB of the same type of weed to make my edibles, each cookie should have the same effect on me vs smoking which is always some level of guess work)

The packaging would likely exist as it does for all drugs/controlled substances with a lot of warnings about health risks and impaired driving. There is MUCH hand wringing about making sure everyone is WELL aware that just because it's legal doesn't mean it's good.
I found Cambridge salaries weren't wonderful in general, though I'm aware that's probably changing, and there are exceptions. How have you found Edinburgh salaries compare? Obviously I don't expect data, just an anecdote would satisfy my curiosity.
Do you have a NOC or similar dedicated group? Both initial engagement and their escalation path had a ~2 minute response time. Paging oncall team member, vpn connection, etc, takes ~5-10 in my experience. Similarly their incident manager apparently assessed the situation and further escalated in ~2 minutes as well. Thats pretty dang fast for coming up to speed on a as yet to be diagnosed major incident.

WRT to public communication, yeah. Overly onerous and adhoc seems to be the norm. But we do have “analysts” publically using status post count as inverse evidence of reliability. Creates some real bad incentives for the actual customers.
Title is incorrect. The current title of the article is “Apple Event News Hub: iPad Pro, Macs, much more”, not “Apple Released Macbook Air and iPad Pro but Not Macbook Pro”.
You can't impress developers. So don't try
Got a better chair years ago and it consistently works. When I'm traveling etc the first thing I miss is having a comfortable chair.
In her words on the record, "... the deal made with the D.A. was to perform 50 hours of community service, to not be arrested in Massachusetts, for an entire year, and that I had to issue a public apology to Boston."

https://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html
I completely agree with this. Throughout my career people have always spouted the same crap about "cost of living" for an area. Unless you're barely surviving paycheck to paycheck, or your household is poor to lower-middle class (which imo should not be a common case for a professional Software Engineer), the majority of your spending should not location specific. Rent/Mortgage monthly payments are often recommended to be limited to about 28-30% of your gross income. It is almost always in your best interest to go for the higher income number (and location).
How does this compare to NVMe based AWS EC2 instances like m5d, c5d, r5d?
CAREERS AT TARGET
Or, also in the ML family, F# ?
> I think prohibition is dramatically worse than any negatives from people smoking pot (similar to alcohol, etc).

Alcohol has been an integral part of Western civilization for quite a while now. Prohibition on alcohol is in no way comparable to prohibition on pot [in terms of its impact]. Why do you think its prohibition is "dramatically" worse than making this mind altering substance generally available?

[secret handshake disclaimer: I liked Spliff and I don't mean just the band.]
clojure has an out of band type checker. have another look
Looks like the original "unrar" has some licensing restrictions (for compression purposes, not decompression). The "unrar-free" version was created as pure FOSS in response, but the performance isn't quite up to par. If there are any compatibility issues, it's likely the latter version that's having them. No idea what "unrar-nonfree" is, I'm guessing it's just another name for the first "unrar".

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2012979
I had this experience when I visited Madame Tussauds in London for the first time after about 20 years and I was like : "Who are all these people?".

What I remembered was a good mixture of artists and scientists from different epochs. Now they have crammed a few scientists in a dusty corner and the rest of the museum is full of people I don't recognize.
> Nobody cares

Obviously, FB thinks someone cares, otherwise they wouldn't be selling a tale about their efforts to improve validation of campaign ads.