skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lambda will create a function instance to handle concurrent requests, i.e. if 100 requests happen at the same time there will be 100 function instances. It will then however keep them "alive" for a few minutes allowing it to reuse already running instances. Additionally, a function instance won't handle multiple requests at a time.

Given this, using beam is a bit of a waste in terms of individual instance scalability. That being said however, you might be able to use shared actor pools (e.g. caches, etc.) across all your functions. I want to emphasise the might as rapidly adding and removing nodes from the beam cluster might not work well or at all.

At the end of the day, the lambda model kind of supplants the actor model as your unit of messaging and concurrency, and so trying to mix the two isn't the best idea. If you want to use the beam on AWS I'd recommend sticking to ECS/Fargate/EKS. That being said, Elixir might be a nice match due to developer ergonomics, just don't expect to be able to drag and drop actor reliant features.
What's your show?
Why do you think English would be least compressible? Is that based on conjecture or have you investigated this? Why would artificial language be more compressible? That seems completely orthogonal to me (by definition, an artificial language can be designed with whatever properties you choose). Fortran may be more compressible due to its limited set of keywords, but it's my impression that Ithkuil is by design more information dense and thus harder to compress than English.

The most efficient language is the least compressible language only in a narrow and arbitrary sense of efficient. There are many considerations such as what is efficient for the speaker, the hearer, redundancy to noise, efficiency with respect to particular purposes, etc. We can assume that natural languages will generally make a good trade-off across these factors, and searching for the most efficient language in one particular narrow sense is not very useful. Moreover, compression of text focuses only on surface form, completely ignoring the dimension of meaning.
Depends on the Amazon services you use. Amazon Music Unlimited is cheaper than other music streaming services in Canada if you have Prime, so taking that price difference into account, I'm basically paying $40 just for the unlimited photo storage. (I don't use Amazon Video, and always select the slowest shipping option for the environmental efficiency.)
Python on Windows Is Okay, Actually [video]
I'll have to check it out, because this seems to be what I've been waiting for: access to Android and Windows eco-systems, reasonably small .exe sizes and excellent performance.

The other things are just icing on the cake: best in class framework, hot-reloading, runs on IOS (until Apple gets irritated), development on Linux, and a more than decent language to write apps in.
And cost north of $10K.
I avoid using my mobile as much as I can. If I'm at home I use my computer, if I'm out I'd do anything other than watch videos on a 4" screen. I wonder if I'm alone in this.
I started buying household stuff from Walmart.com. I get free shipping as fast as Amazon. The checkout experience isn't quite as smooth but I don't worry about counterfeits. I'm not sure that's 100% justified but I've never heard of people getting counterfeit stuff from Walmart.
Perhaps people will pick it up. I would like to think that people will eventually stop religiously sticking to JavaScript. Right now, they are forced to use it because the alternatives are more or less worse.

I would like to consider it a beginning of something better.
I love YouTube and watch a ton of creative and technical content. I'm arguably the ideal customer for a product like YouTube premium. But I use an ad-blocker and pay creators directly via Patreon (whenever possible) instead.

So why didn't I bother signing up for YouTube premium, even though I was excited to the level of shouting, "This! This is what I wanted!" when it was first announced?

I have zero confidence that Google is willing to keep their experiments like this one alive for more than a year or two. This result seemed obvious and inevitable. Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety, but I'm now far more likely to try out a random probably-not-going-to-be-around-next-year startup with a neat idea than an interesting looking Google experiment.

Google used to have a reputation for being clever and innovative. It was fun to try out their new products. They had features that were original and helpful rather than gimmicky and "me too." Product updates added features without throwing away old functionality that was obviously still important. Products lasted longer than one or two promotion cycles.

These days it's just frustrating.
That's not disagreement with "The field is about the predictable aspects.". You're just listing something you think can't be predicted.
Incorrect. TWC is no more. Everything is Spectrum now, which has been Charter's retarded brand for quite some time, and will remain so.
Sorry if I sounded cynical and bitter. I was, and probably still am. This time of the year really does make me like that.

I just hate this whole huppflah about hiring when I have seen companies miss amazing candidates because of these questions, and hire shittier ones because they 'studied' the right books/blogs. (I work with various startups here and help them with interviewing and building teams)

I will be honest, I am pretty bitter and is probably one of the reasons I am doing what I am doing now, but I do feel my reply to you was very 'directed' and I was venting more in general about the process and 'focusing' on you in particular. I am sorry for that.
Indonesia ranks second in global ranking of digital travelers. India is first
> YouTube Originals was a big-swing idea that had to find out, definitively, if the immense online entity's user base would A) pay for something and B) be interested in scripted longform storytelling

I pay for YouTube content. YouTube just doesn’t get a cut of it. I pay for it on Patreon. There is so much great short-form educational content waiting to happen, but instead we get more long-firm scripted crap.
Is wired connectivity still that much of a problem in parts of the US? We have data caps in the UK but they only kick in at absurd levels of usage - to the point it's never occured to me to check. I rather assumed that there would be a gradual improvement in the situation over there.
Perhaps more interestingly than why is how. Smarts are always useful but how do they manage with such diferente and disperse nervouse system.
The problem appears to be is that anyone who can't "get along with their peers", or otherwise "social game", is not getting close enough to attempt to do any kind of science/serious project/study in the first place.
How does it prevent you from being exploited? By only helping coreligionists who are not supposed to exploit each other?
Why use one of the trashiest languages, when we have so many good and effective languages outside of web browsers?
The good news is that if you can get milkweed to grow, you'll never be able to kill it. I believe it's capable of propagating by runners, so it might not be vital for the seeds to be viable in your climate.
My uni did this weird thing where they put all the math courses into the first year (except for one stat course in the second year). The first semester had highschool basics like calc and trig, followed up by another two courses the following semesters that covered linear algebra and ... something else. I don't remember, I because I was too busy with girl problems.

Looking back, that first year was brutal with each successive year getting way easier and way more fun.
Do you think your internet would be faster right now if no one had ever managed to make video streaming work?

I think it's quite the opposite.
Does it allow precision input of sizes, quickly like sketchup? I'm looking for sketchup replacement.
It's unfortunate because the people operating the ship and deriving profit from it aren't the ones who built it. Truth be told, I don't much like the people who work for Google now. There's still plenty of good people there, the median person is still a very good engineer and a nice person. It's the people who don't care and are looking for profit and promotion, and even the people who are just careless with the immense power and data that Google has, who scare me.
If life (microbes, spores etc) can be carried on interstellar comets/asteriods, maybe the distinction between "alien" and "terrestrial" is an artificial human construction.
I'm betting everybody at mission control was sober when they lost both shuttles. Temperance didn't save anybody in the Appllo 1 capsule.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
If the jail cell is as comfortable as the unlocked room, there is absolutely no difference—until you try to leave. Any sane distribution should come with built binary blobs—and an option to rebuild them at will. But forcing you to build everything from scratch is pedantically impractical. But what do I know, I only do this on regular basis at work!
I would definitely fall into that percentage. That mixed with myopia was a definite no-go for me, trying to wear the headset with glasses was too much of a hassle for me. If I didn't wear glasses the screen would be blurry and I would start to get a migraine after 30 minutes of playing. I am still interested in what AR has to offer.
How to Code: AI Chess Bot
A persona is a heuristic model, that’s all. It seems you feel like it’s dehumanizing. Would it make you feel better if we called it “human behavior model 748263”? There is nothing inherently bad about saying “if you like video games, you likely own a gaming PC or a console”? What if you call that association “748263”? What if instead of that number you called it “Wendy”? Does any of this make any difference to you?
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There is a portal for everything...

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/
My first reaction thought would be to ask airline.

My last reaction would be to ask hacker news.
Detect Parkinson's in 10 lines of code with XGBoost
My understanding is that there is a protocol that sources and journalists follow concerning “on the record, “off the record,” or somewhere in between that is negotiated before the interview begins. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/reader-center/off-the-rec...)
From the bit I've read from https://pimbook.org/pdf/pim_first_pages.pdf it seems to be very very poor.

* 19 pages of droning before you start with something concrete. Much talk talk talk about your experiences before you get to the point. I can't put into words how much it frustrates me when I'm expecting to read something interesting and the author takes 3 paragraphs talking about nothing (usually with lots of overexcited exclamation marks).

[sorry if I am being blunt, but it's how I feel]

* Imprecise definitions. This defeats the purpose of learning mathematics. Like Leslie Lamport says, rigour in mathematics is not a hurdle or a chore one must endure, it's the whole point of learning the damn thing. You give imprecise definitions, and then obscure it even further with neverending paragraphs of confusing explanations. This to me kills the whole pedagogical value the book might have. Here is a rule of thumb that in my experience applies well to almost everything in mathematics: the simpler your explanation is, the better. Your goal is to explain a concept as succintly and beautifully as possible. This exposes the idea behind it. A long and meandering explanation only serves to obscure the idea behind. Less is more.

* Attempting to shoe-horn programming "lingo" into mathematics. Sometimes, the best way to explain something, even to programmers themselves, is not to force an awkward analogy with Java programming. EDIT: 5 pages later: "The best way to think about this is like testing software." oh boy...

* The graph in e.g. page 8 (20 of the pdf) is terribly typeset. The axes text is way too small to read and in a font that doesn't match the rest of the content.
I learned it in more than five minutes - over the last couple weeks - when I rewrote an open source UI Componenrt library in TS.

What’s scary is the number of bugs in the original implementation! I made the comment on Reactuflux’s #typescript channel that I’m afraid to use code not written in TS now.

Anyway, it’s been interesting coming from the land of Python, and surprisingly quite enjoyable.

The Bulma library I’ve re-written and released on npm is https://www.npmjs.com/package/rbx
From a while ago, thought I'd give it a share since the dataset is seeing a lot more use now (from Irvine's ML repository). It's a very basic use of XGBoost/how-to.
So now you are saying that climatology is literally pseudoscience.
You are right, the vast majority of loops should be left without unrolling. In fact, the majority of code should be compiled for size, not for speed. For a typical application you probably have 99% of the code not being very performance sensitive, and the remaining 1% is where the time is spent. Still, people regularly compile for speed to good effect, because it's so important to compile that 1% for speed that you are better off just compiling everything that way if you aren't able/willing to profile and figure what code falls in the 1%.

That's nothing specific to unrolling though: it applies to all optimizations which trade off size and speed.

About dependency chains and ILP: of course the compiler is in the perfect places to be aware of all of this. They have detailed machine models updated carefully as new CPUs come out (in fact, some of the earliest details about new CPU models often comes from compiler commits from insiders where hardware details are necessarily leaked).

A compiler could certainly statically analyze a loop using an approach similar to Intel IACA or OASCA [1], and then unroll the loop a few times and run the analysis again and see if it improves. So it doesn't need any kind of sophisticated analysis, just try-and-measure. Of course, compilers don't actually work like this. One of reasons it is not so easy is that optimizations is done in layers, against a machine independent IR, and you might not be able to carefully evaluate the impact of unrolling until some later time, possibly as late the machine-dependent instruction emission. This issue is pervasive across many compiler optimizations, and leads to many cases where a compiler generates bad code where a human wouldn't.

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[1] https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/OSACA
It's hard not to be uncharitable to people who claimed that meat production produced more CO2 than cars, which is insane, and also completely false.

I also find the methane argument interesting, but not convincing. For certain methane production from cows isn't nothing, but it's not like we haven't seen masses of bovine like animals on this continent before. There's about 94m cows in America today, which is a lot, but not in excess of the 50m-100m Bison that inhibited the continent before we killed them all. The Bison did not warm the earth, and presumably they farted.

There are for certain problems with grazing cattle in some ways, especially in countries where they're cutting down forests for grazing room (looking at you, Brazil). I'm not saying that we should just ignore everything and keep on as is. I'm just fed up with people imagining that the solution to global warming is the crazy moonshot plans (let's milk spiders!) rather than the boring incremental stuff (walk more, focus on effective land/animal management). The EPA for their part recommends more judicious use of fertilizers, using higher quality pastures, and more careful manure management as the path to reducing CO2 emissions from agriculture.
>I’ve read case reports where a users friends maintain CPR for an hour plus until they started breathing on their own.

Were they doing CPR or Rescue Breathing or both?

I'm not a doctor but an hour of chest compressions to someone with a functioning heart seems bad.
Well, support will be yanked at the end of 2020 :-P

... in keeping with Google's disassociative identity in chat apps. It's seriously now worse than Microsoft and syncing applications.
If anything, I think the practical value of mathematics is generally undersold. It seems OK if some people tend to oversell it.
White and Christian, white and Christian, and white and Christian. That's all that matters. :)
Come on, I also use JS for web, it doesn't mean I have to love it. Even it's creator admits low quality of his creation - it was made in a hurry.
Try to be objective - if not monopoly in web browsers, JS would never exist or gain popularity.
I have a PS4, but if I can I prefer buying a game for PC.

In part because I have more control over the hardware, but specially because games do not die when a newer console model is released.

I can still play many PC games from 10+ years ago, but I have a box of PS3 discs that I cannot use because the PS4 does not have backwards compatibility. Some of those games have been ported to the PS4, and I'd have to buy them again to play them on the PS4. What will happen with the PS5?
I would like to keep one for a pet but they only live a few years. Been through that with a rat, won't do it again; even kits and pups only last 15 years or so. too soon
Having a dose that wears off quicker seems like it would be a feature for the dealers.
See! Whatever is actually deadly (even if it's not by its nature but because of too people doing it wrong like in this particular case) people will stop it themselves. People buy and sell psychedelics because these are, unlike strong opioids, not deadly and there is little if any reason to ban them yet governments all over the world do and insist it is more important than education, violent crime prevention and everything (in many countries possession of some doses of LSD is enough to put you in prison for much longer than a murder).
Nothing deceptive about pushing your own brands over third parties then letting third parties buy back those sales with advertising then deceiving the users to click on those ads...
This might be a stupid question but in the mosquito create video, what are the blue smudges he draws in the left portion of the image for? What are the blue lines dragged down in the GIMP? What exactly is going on in that part of the video?
Are there no compilers which attempt to look at that code, decide 'that looks like 1<<(num-2) when n>=2', and replace the code entirely?

There must be so many examples of bubble sort where quicksort would be better, and other code patterns which can be identified and replaced with something orders of magnitude faster.
P-values are not good measures for reliability, because they absolutely are not the same thing as the chance that a result is wrong. This confusion, and ignorance of the prior probability of hypotheses is the reason why replication rates are so bad.

In physics you can get away with not caring about the distinction, because of how accurate the measurements and precise the theories are. That doesn't fly in most other sciences, though.
Please tell me you wrote it in LaTeX. It would be another reason to buy it.
Inability.

One of the foundational problems with the soft/social sciences is that many of its practitioners have such weak analytical thinking skills (Note below) and the educational requirements for Psychology majors typically just include a few semesters of statistics courses designed to be understandable for them.

Peer reviewers in Psychology generally don't expect authors to go much beyond the basic statistical tricks students are taught in undergrad. From prior discussions with professors in these fields, it's my impression that most are unable to understand just how flimsy such methods are.

Personally, my prediction is that this won't get better until we have more AI-guided analytical analysis software packages that make more robust analysis accessible to those in soft-science fields. This is, something to replace reliance on stuff like R^2 and p- values.

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Note: Just to provide some numerical evidence for the assertion that Psychology practitioners tend to be weak with their analytical skills, here's [a PDF of GRE scores](https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/gre_guide_table4.pdf). GRE test-takers planning to study "Psychology" had quantitative reasoning (QR) mean of 149. This is pretty bottom-of-the-barrel; even people planning to go for grad school to do "Arts - Performance & Studio" did a little better, with an average of 151.
> Why use one of the trashiest languages

This isn't about C++.

ECMAScript has garbage collection.
I think so. Fckeditor changed its name after some debate [1].

I remember the first time I came across it as a wysiwyg plugin for vBulletin and thought fckeditor had an edgy name. It immediately comes to mind in this context.

I felt some pause introducing fckeditor into an internal wikimedia install for a big company filled with old people I was working for at the time, just because I didn't want any waves whatsoever with those folks.

I definitely would not have gotten up in front of them at a weekly meeting and trumpted how great of a tool "gimp" was.

I sort of think people who keep names that are known to be problematic in FOSS are doing so somewhat to passive-troll and to keep normies away. Though my view of this is quite english-centric.

[1] https://ckeditor.com/old/forums/CKEditor-3.x/Should-FCKedito...
Short for Noureddine, a common male name. Source: several North African friends with this exact name.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_al-Din
It appears the ebook is in PDF format[1], does anyone know if an EPUB will become available?

[1]: https://gumroad.com/l/pim-book
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-three-...

In 1995, after a struggle with mental illness, Galland committed suicide. That same year, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright published an article in the New Yorker shedding light on a disturbing psychological study. The scientific inquiry, masterminded by prominent psychologist Dr. Peter Neubauer and his Child Development Center, set out to answer the fundamental question of nature vs. nurture. Through the now-defunct Louise Wise adoption agency, an unknown number of twins and triplets were placed in different homes and secretly observed for years by researchers who diligently made home visits. (Parents were told these visits were standard, to track the adoptive children’s progress.)

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...and suddenly Reddit falls to 249 employees...
Convnet was inspired by Fukushima's Neocognitron, which itself was inspired by Hubel and Wiesel work on visual cortex. Here's more on convnets vs brain:

https://neurdiness.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/deep-convolution...
>This year’s steep drop is probably due to extreme weather, at least partly resulting from climate change. Late rainstorms in March, as well as an intense, extended wildfire season across California, have battered the species. The state’s forests have yet to recover from the record-breaking drought stretching from 2011 to 2017.
Did anyone read the article where the cops were contacting the customers to make alleged welfare checks and to tell them it was dangerous.
If you are using the dark web you are pwned .
Use the clear web instead or voluntarily visit your local methadone clinic. It will save you from a lot of legal issues
Engineers need to ask a startup why the position is open. If you find out there were 3+ engineers in that position in the last 2-3 years then run away.
Funny joke, but I have doubts about garbage collector in the world of Embedded Software.
Wow. The first two comments on HN are anti-vax propaganda, obfuscation, and racism. It’s not a logical stretch to say that lower vaccination rates leads to higher infection rates. And it’s pretty well documented that herd immunity drops off pretty quickly with vaccination rate.

And the HN ideal should be to rigorously investigate even a logical inference like that. Yet when a post does just that, it’s met with a racist suggestion that middle eastern migrants are causing the uptick. No citations.

Very disappointing reaction.