skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
couple that with some mirrors edge like free running mechanic. maybe a team vs 1 chase so all players would be running toward the same thing. reminiscent of a chase scene from a movie through an unfamiliar city, where a dead end could be just around the corner.
What company hasn’t had layoff during a downturn?
In my experience, certainly a large number of jobs advertised at 'data scientist' would be exactly as you describe. Emphasis on the 'cleaning' part.
They can get a "geographically diverse team" without paying anyone in NYC or SF.
Organic matter is composed of molecular compounds. Things like oxygen, glucose, cellulose, etc. When scientists at Monsanto change the genome of an organism, they do it so that it grows larger, or is resistant to a weedkiller, or resistant to a virus. When these GMO plants are then harvested, they can be tested for any toxic compounds such as formaldehyde or arsenic. Since there is no evidence of toxic compounds above what you might find in ordinary food, you can conclude that GMOs are safe. It is impossible that there "could" be something in there that is toxic, or something we don't know about, because we know exactly what compounds are in the plant and we know that those compounds are not dangerous.
Could be done with XML easily. But someone needs to do it ;-) and even more would need to accept it.
This happened in Scotland a few years ago. Scottish Enterprise and the embryonic Scottish Parliament enticed Hyundai's semi-conductor business to set up shop in Dunfermline. Millions were spent on inducements on Hydundai for them to then pull out of the deal and go somewhere cheaper.

Ironically the building is now occupied by one of Amazon's distribution centres, no doubt funded by more public money and employing staff on zero hour contracts with terrible conditions (which the Scottish press reported on).

I wonder why we can't spend these vast sums of money nurturing local indigenous SME's and startups (and I don't mean the sort that involve glorified ToDo lists).
I think you mean 'forward-deployed' engineer.
That's rather the point: when all actors are behaving rationally, yet the outcome is not something that is good for society, we need to change the rules to change behavior.
There's a book called "Possible Palladian Villas" which gets into procedurally generated houses (in the style of Palladio), and that kind of thing came up—they'd run their algorithm to generate some houses, and then notice details in what was generated that were just... off. Not impossible, just... not quite right, either. Things you wouldn't think about unless you saw plans for a house that didn't consider it. So they'd tweak their algorithm, and re-run it, finding new details to fix. It's a cool book.
I agree with you in general.

However, it feels there should be a "fair" amount to pay.

What is the fair amount to pay for blog hosting? Free is too cheap and surely subsidized by something else. $20/month seems like too much for a blog.

The odd thing is that the marginal cost goes down with the popularity of the site.

Something like $5 feels right (svbtle is at $6). I think if you hit scale you might be profitable at $3 or $4.

I am not talking about the value I get, but about the cost + profit threshold for the provider.
EU is slowly progressing towards it anyway. Why else did European Army works start?
> But the ideal solution would be a copy-on-write filesystem supporting snapshots, rather than A/B partitions.

NTFS is already that via Volume Shadow Copy. They just don't use it in the way we're discussing, but the tech is there.
Well that's one way to interpret what I said...
Deja Vu all over again
> I want the device to be perfect so I don't have to think about it. Some devices should just work and not be thought of. (I include the refrigerator in this group)

Yes, but you are speaking in ideals. In the real world, that is incredibly rarely the case. So the choice is between a locked-down, heavily imperfect device or an open one that comes with that risk, caveat emptor.
I thought about running a Mastodon instance in my VPS since i do not really like the idea of relying on others to decide what i should or should not be able to see, but i ended up changing my mind once i saw what it actually needs to run... for a service that is essentially flinging short pieces of text around every now and then, it has way too high requirements and too many dependencies. I run a web site, a bunch of repositories, email, gopher, ssh and a bunch of other stuff on my VPS yet i barely scratch 200MB of RAM use (and most of it is spamassasin) whereas i'm not even sure it fits Mastodon's minimum requirements. If i try it i have a feeling it'll take over the entire thing.

If there was a server-only (no web-based client), super lightweight version that talked the Mastodon protocol and didn't require much in terms of functionality, i might have tried it. It kinda sounds like Go was made for projects like this, so i hope someone eventually makes one :-P.
Tech companies are so constrained to the West Coast that the HQ2 talent show was a big deal in the first place. It's incredibly doubtful that they have the capacity or the will to move outside the U.S.
>>If we believed that Amazon is actually creating 25,000 NEW jobs, as well as jobs that otherwise would not exist, it seems pretty reasonable to say that the state and city come out ahead net-net.

From NYC's perspective, many of these probably will be new jobs, because many knowledge workers who wouldn't otherwise will move to NYC because of an Amazon job.

Further, $109k/yr/employee is way too low for NYC Amazon engineers; this is likely ignoring the equity grant which is taxed as ordinary income. The average will skew much higher. It seems that each new employee will very easily generate over $6100/year in state+local tax revenue.

Further there are synergies and network effects from NYC having more tech jobs and these nth-order effects will also generate tax revenue.

You can argue that this charade wasn't good for America, but it certainly was good for NYC.
To expand on this point, check out this talk by the CockroachDB VP of engineering[0]: they used raft but found out that it's approximately as complicated as paxos. They also do non-quorum reads, all through the leader replica)

[0] https://atscaleconference.com/videos/scale-2018-run-your-dat...
It took me so long to find the pricing. I actually cannot find it anywhere on the site and had to give up and do a google search.

There is no reason for that. Why would anyone sign up without knowing the pricing?
That is exactly the reason. I updated the site https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/5833b6f0...
This is exactly the approach of newer application formats in the Linux world such as flatpak and snaps.

The problem, though, is that all the libraries are duplicated on disk. Flatpak and snaps get around this by recognizing when there is a shared dependency and only downloading it once. But if you "bake in" all your dependecies into a single executable file, that would cause pretty significant inflation for program sizes.

This may be less of an issue now as disk space gets cheaper and cheaper, but it still feels like a step in the wrong direction.
Honestly the best part of shared libraries in my opinion isn't that they save space and memory. It's that when there is a security bug in libc I don't have to update everything.
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Approximately the region between Quebec and the Midwest, except before they were called by those names :)

I have genealogical and genetic evidence of my American Indian heritage, but wasn’t raised with any of the culture, and neither were my father or grandfather.
Start again. This time don’t take that dirty VC money. Bootstrap.
It's cool that accounts that want to sow discord and divide our society are being taken down. But I would also like to see the same standard applied to the media. Dividing society and causing pain is how they made their millions.
> we would love to hear from people when we’re far off

... Oregon... entire state is same modifier?

I can rent a 4 bedroom house 2 blocks away from the university in La Grande for $1200/m.

I can rent a 3 bedroom house 2 blocks away from the university in Portland for $3900/m.

Does not compute.
>>But let's not pretend that tax revenue is "free".

Oh, in NY and similar cities surely it is not free: you pay a substantial state tax AND a city tax. Not to mention a fat sales tax and fees on roads and bridges. But if you rent in X neighborhood and live there you generally paid your dues on services.

Let's not forget that people (especially AMZN /GOOG / FB employees) also pay fed taxes, that trickle down to states for infrastructure etc etc. Not crying about NY state fat cats wanting $500K pension after "working" for the state.
Also, I might argue if you have talent with programming, and already a mechanic, the better trajectory might be specializing in automotive electronics repair. I keep hearing about the parts costs to replace electronics in cars, and that's only going to get more and more expensive, and often a bench repair might be replacing a blown capacitor (after drilling through the epoxy). If you can get good at troubleshooting electronic problems with cars, and can save people from having to buy entire new replacement boards, you can capture some of that savings.
Firefox on UBUNTU , there is nothing to see.
If possible, I'd love to be able to run it on a Mac, too.
> which function is non-differentiable at points?

Sorry, this was referring to the construction provided in the paper referenced.

I do agree that the title is somewhat misleading, since, when I first read it (and thought, "this is probably wrong"), I imagined that it proved that given any resnet, you can show convergence to the global optimum via GD, not just "a resent of a given size converges to a global optimum, via GD, for a specific training set."

That being said, the paper does not prove (nor claim to prove) general, globally-optimal convergence of GD, which is what I think you're saying (given, for example, what you mentioned about finding the factorization of a semiprime in the GGP and your specific function construction)—which is what I was pushing back against a bit. In particular, even in the title, they only claim to prove this for a specific class of problems (i.e. NNs).

> Still I think the approach by others is more interesting: by looking at the absolute error between a fixed underlying NN as "ground truth" and observing the error of the training NN (of same architecture as ground truth NN) trained to match the underlying NN

I'm afraid I haven't seen this approach, but it would be interesting. Do you have references?
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The app can tell the webview: open this URL. That's pretty much it. Injecting could theoretically happen, but only by showing a page that looks like the original but isn't.
Rust has a Clone trait which provides the .clone() method, which isn’t a shallow clone or a deep clone, due to Rust’s ownership model—the terms “shallow clone” and “deep clone” actually don’t make sense in Rust.

For completeness, I must mention that when you get to types like Rc<T>, deep cloning becomes a meaningful operation, but even there it’s not exposed as a deep clone method, but rather via make_mut (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#method.make_...) which skips the deep part of cloning if there are no other references to the inner value.

Rust’s ownership model is absolutely delightful to work with. I miss it all the time when working in Python or JavaScript, and encounter and write bugs that would have been structurally impossible in Rust from time to time—to say nothing of inefficiencies that would have been either inexpressible or unreasonable in Rust.
> do we expect these jobs to generate $6100 a year in additional tax revenue for the state and city

The answer is probably not. Most state income taxes are pretty low and property taxes aren't much better for the city/county level kickbacks.
Thanks. Mind if I link to this comment from our handbook?
>I think "someone sitting in the pilot's seat will always be able to crash the plane" is a pretty reasonable assumption.

The English language is a bit poor on existential and universal quantifiers, which renders the above sentence a bit ambiguous: it could be interpreted as 1) "For every flight and prevention method there will always exist some opportunities for a pilot to crash the plane" (with which I tend to agree) or 2) "For every flight and prevention method, the pilot will at all times be able to crash the plane" (with which I don't agree)

>(How do you prevent an intentional cartwheel on takeoff or landing? There are regions of the flight envelope where 2-3 seconds of pessimal input are unrecoverable. ATC override won't help you there)

I tend to agree.

>So given that, we aren't trying to prevent the pilot/copilot from intentionally crashing the plane

This doesn't follow. We can still limit the attack scenarios to say situations like landing and taking off. It doesn't need to be binary, a reduction in threats is still desriable. For example if Lubitz had been even more antisocial in his destruction by suicide, he could easily have crashed the plane into the surface storage for nuclear waste next to a nuclear power plant. The reactor itself does not house that much nuclear material, while the typical surface storage next to it tends to contain a lot of nuclear waste. He might still kill the passengers on landing and take off, but as crude as it sounds, it's still better than losing the very same passengers and having a nuclear contamination on our hands!

The 2-in-cockpit rule sounds rather weak in my opinion, as it becomes a matter of who is stronger or who strikes first, the element of surprise etc...
They forgot Amazons package delivery company. Not Amazon Flex, the other one were the delivery people have to buy a franchise.
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oh it's not? is it at least deterministic on the same architecture (ignore float precision) or is just inherent to the implementation?
Buying millions of machines, running in 100 data-centre, has the same capital of building a factory. I doubt a startup can compete with a giant without a lot of money for hardware and people to code
I can bounce that right back. Do you have solid data proving beyond reasonable doubt that task saturation is not a major factor in airline crashes (considering pilot error is cited frequently as a root cause)? And would you reject tools that reduce task load because of that?

You bring up a fine point: aviate, navigate, and communicate - in that order. Very sensible when everything is manual and you are task saturated to drop tasks in that priority; which is what this is about. If you automate communication and remove most of the task load related to that and navigation, it frees you up to let the auto pilot do the aviation bit.
$29+ a month is steep for a personal blog. They make it clear personal bloggers aren't their target audience on the pricing page by listing how many staff members you can have. It's B2B.
Is there also a possibility of an incalculable factor which will yield a return on investment given that this project would bolster a middle class thus creating an increased likelihood of higher education for the next generation? My point is that something like this is never fully thought out and the future isn't written yet. These projects could boom or bust.
...or Websphere
someone explained above that it’s just a bunch of “tiles” (assume they’re premade), so it’s a fairly simple matrix. it would be much less to transfer than custom maps for example, where clients download a large payload at the start of the game.

or, you don’t really care about tiles except that are directly around the players, as long as there’s a reasonable path between them. the city between them can regenerate and it wouldn’t matter; it’s not like they’d compare notes (and if they did, it’d be an odd coincidence rather than broken)

or, you can always use a map seed so the PRNG that makes it non deterministic (assuming that’s the only thing that does) generates the same numbers so that it is deterministic. the age of empires (old yes, but still relevant!) team wrote a great little piece about their multiplayer, and how they kept all their PRNGs in sync so that the games remained the same across hosts
State and local governments who submitted proposals and who were rejected should charge them with quid pro quo bribery in each jurisdiction.
You're not considering the negatives that come with 25k new jobs suddenly appearing in a city. The Denver metro area in particular is already struggling to manage the influx in transplants - this would only make it worse.
as if it wasn't already confusing enough. should i use tensorflow hub? TF slim? keras applications that import tensorflow?

should i still use those outdates TF slim models that are for some reason kept in models/inception?

please, tensorflow team, make this stuff easier for us non-Phds.
We do offer stock options.

Do you mean this pay scale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_(US_civil_s... ? It would be interesting to see if that would improve our date. I don’t think we have to go more granular than metro area, or did you mean something else?
Ah, the "Scientists are greedy liars in a giant conspiracy to get rich on research grants" argument.
These are good reasons and I’d find them fairly convincing as having thought of unintended consequences.

I don’t work at Gitlab, use it, or anything.
It feels like false advertising to me, and I'm surprised that people aren't making much noise about it. When Amazon first announced HQ2 they said that it would "be a full equal to our current campus in Seattle". I'm not sure how this can still be true given that it's half the size.
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Thanks for this detailed article, for someone like me interested in Ddos this is super interesting, Cloudflare network and expertise is really impressive! Wow
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Holy crap, you're not even exaggerating... 460 requests even with uBlock and Ghostery.
I understand that Facebook is in a very tough position, trying to deal with very sophisticated and well-resourced propaganda organizations out of Russia and who-knows-where-else.

But still, I find this post more than a little creepy.

It's mostly, I think, because you could change a few names and this post would sound very much like a press release from state-owned Chinese media, about how they shut down the Falun Gong or some dissident group in the interest of national harmony.

Maybe it's the Orwellian language. "Inauthentic"? If Facebook banned everyone who's inauthentic on their site, they would be left with hardly any users at all.
someone mentioned that it’s random, but i feel like a PRNG seed would make it deterministic?
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> someone sitting in the pilot's seat will always be able to crash the plane

yeah, in the Airbus A300 just kick the rudders a few times fully left to right (see American Airlines Flight 587) [1]

> 2-in-cockpit rules (as mandated by the FAA, and not implemented by GermanWings)

Just to clarify, GermanWings was not under FAA jurisdiction, so the 2-in-cockpit rule did not apply.

Also, EASA implemented the 2-in-cockpit rule in 2015 after the GermanWings accident [2], but withdrew it in 2016 and replaced it with a more flexible rule [3] after consultation with stakeholders, as "the rule to have 2 persons in the cockpit at all times introduces additional safety and security risks." [4]

As I said somewhere above, there's rarely scope for a pareto improvement in aviation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

[2] https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/news/easa-rec...

[3] https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/news/minimum-...

[4] https://www.eurocockpit.be/news/end-2-persons-cockpit-rule-s...
I think they should really consider making a clean JavaScript/typescript api first — use that and test for awhile - then port that design to python for a 2.0 of the python api...

The worst thing about tensorflow is being locked into having to use python for graph description and training (in my opinion) ...
That's not the key difference here. The key difference here is that the content author has control of the output. In the app in question, the app is scraping the content and the app developer is choosing how it's outputted. That's why the app is in violation.
Municipalities have no influence over H1s. But even then, providing choice access to H1 programs is not the problem here. That might even be beneficial, moreover, that's a national program.

Its an example that shows how a law that is meant to limit an actor (in this case a company) that does not truly limit that actor.

??? The law. If it's illegal for a city or state to give money to private companies that there's not much need for populist oversight, because it's against the law.

Is the city going to pass that law? Is the state? No. Neither will limit their own power. Maybe a citizen passed initiative would work.

You do realize most government officials generally follow the law right?

Someone has to pass that law.
Note: libc is not a part of Redox's future. Instead, a rewrite in Rust (relibc) will be used: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc
I think that the educational content on YouTube can definitely outweigh any and all of its issues, as long as we are seeing YouTube for what it is. I am incapable of describing the breadth of knowledge that can be accessed on that site, so I will not. I can definitely see the argument that YouTube is a net-harm for children under some circumstances, but I would definitely be sad to see that amount of useful information be unavailable for everyone because it is bad for children. It is not a babysitter, and no one should trust it to be. I reject these "think of the children" arguments for something that is not designed for children to begin with.
It would be cool to have a filesystem that unique'd storage of identical objects under the hood. E.g. even though the user sees a particular filename, it's actual stored using a SHA to detect duplicates.

If you edit a file, it could do a copy-on-write, to ensure you're not inadvertently changing a different file.
I'm not suggesting anything, but more asking how feasible it is for a modern OS. Rust is definitely capable of producing dynamic libraries, but it just doesn't by default. Given that the Rust ecosystem tends to prefer static binaries, I was curious about whether something in the OS space would run into unique issues from this approach that wouldn't apply to the application development currently being done.
I have zero problem with good scientists doing good science that is at odds with the consensus.

But the people to whom my comments apply are not scientists, by and large. And yes, I am dripping with contempt at people who reject observation and reason because they don't like where it leads. I don't think that's disgusting, I think that's rational.
> The socialists want...

Few substantive comments start like this. Would you mind refraining from injecting ideological flamebait?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Brooklyn resident here ;-)

But I think you may have missed my point: there are expenses for city residents. A non-zero percentage of these new residents' tax revenues will be spent on the residents themselves.