skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> those that are linked in a website footer and purpose to bind you simply for visiting a site, are legally unenforceable.

Before going to other countries: are you referring to a very recent local Florida state law (after Vitacost.com, Inc. v. James McCants, found with a quick search), or is there an even newer federal US law?

> That said, I don’t know much about how other countries’ legal systems treat such agreements, but from what I’ve heard, they tend to be equally or more restrictive of them, not less.

Given no such law existed even in Florida until last year, I'd be more cautious before extrapolating this internationally.
that would seem to explain the "big bang" :) an explosion from an infinitely dense point that is ever-growing, which began in a higher-order universe as a black hole that we now inhabit.

(of course I know nothing of science, this is all just pop-sci in my head, but boy is it fun to think about)
Ouch! The author must have incredible pain tolerance doing this in batch.
But if you get to charge someone it is not so cheap...
A Hierarchical Latent Vector Model for Learning Long-Term Structure in Music
Why do I care about getting more money? Well...
I wonder if the primary driver for buying and offering alternative platforms for EC2 instances was to send Intel a message. "We aren't afraid to go to AMD if you don't make your offering more competitive."
Advances in Continuous Integration Testing at Google
It really depends on the scale of what you're doing. K12 or higher ed, how many students, how many classes, how many students in each class, etc.

I used to work part time as a jr. sysadmin for my university, we hosted Moodle for a slew of engineering courses. From both sides of the equation --- both as a student using Moodle in classes and as someone who was semi-aware of what went into hosting Moodle (wasn't a primary responsibility of mine), I think it's a great platform.

The university at large now uses Canvas. I can't speak to what it's like to host it, but I can say that as a student I think it's vastly inferior to Moodle or Desire2Learn. It has the same problem that a lot of modern websites have: the UI is very beautiful and modern but it requires a million clicks to get anything done, and the organization is a mess. There's no central page to see my grades. Some teachers don't put assignments into the system until they're due, which means that the "upcoming assignment" pages are useless because there are often times where an assignment isn't listed there. It seems very extensible, eg: there's an embedded Piazza tab on a couple of the Canvas pages for my courses, and my math class has a tab that brings up a real-time video chat if students want to work together remotely. These are definitely 3rd party and so the sky is the limit if there's some particular workflow that you want to add onto the platform.
So About My Prediction Last Year That Bitcoin at $16,000 Was Ripe for a Crash
Just remind me of the story about a consultant that got paid a lot of money just to fix one line of code.

The cost is not on the component, but the knowledge to know which component to fix. That's not something that come cheap.
Yes, for now - but I don't think I implied otherwise?

I said Skylake-X/SP. Certainly not all Skylake-SP (aka "Scalable Xeon" or whatever Intel calls them) server chips have 2 FMA units.

BTW, I believe Intel also documents this fact about X chips on ARK now as well.
He had some priorities that are atypical in CEOs which made him better at making the kind of top-down decisions a lot of companies delegate to committees.

It's not particularly rare to have a decent sense of design, but it's rare for someone with a decent sense of design to be in a position to have the final say on mass-produced tech products. Especially true of the 90s and early 00s when Apple was making huge waves.

He was also a dick to a lot of people and petulant if he didn't get his way.

None of this stuff is mutually exclusive.
This sounds like the worst of both worlds. Vehemently pro-choice employees are unlikely to be placated, and pro-lifers are going to boycott the company anyway.
This is actually much more useful than the OP's list, at least for me. OP's list has a lot of high volume, low score stuff taken into account.
> ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR

Honestly, from my perspective those seem like highly biased sources which completely fail to give a fair shake to either the right or the left. They are IMO neo-liberal capitalist propaganda makers. The most egregious examples of this are in coverage of e.g. the completely fake news which provided a fig-leaf for invading and destroying Iraq, or earlier the Vietnam war.

Hermann and Chomsky covered how this works w.r.t. the Vietnam war, and if anyone wants to know why conspiracies seem plausible, it is because of the distrust which the "official" outlets have earned by these methods of media manipulation.
A flexible simulator for benchmarking of Quantum circuits on real hardware
It only muddles things if you think people want to be tracked by default. Otherwise it just implements the default everyone already know and advertisers bullshit about.
facial recognition is probably worst because it is harder to avoid, unless your are Muslim, but cellphone tracking is very bad: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/05/mobile_users_can_be... (bluetooth and wifi are also pretty bad)
> gasoline/diesel for vehicle transportation is a lot more failure-resistant compared to a power network.

It depends on the disaster. Some disasters favor electric vehicles. Like charging your car from solar panels.

Also, petrol's only advantages are energy density and quick refueling. Once those issues are surmounted, petrol will be worse on nearly every front.

> The last thing you want to hear after your house has been blown out by an earthquake or a tsunami is that the first responders can't get to you

So keep those emergency vehicles petrol powered. They are a drop in the bucket of fuel consumption vs cars and semi trucks. Progress in the latter needn't be held back by the former.
A Dataset and Architecture for Visual Reasoning with a Working Memory
I just ran some tests on CNL and indeed the behavior is very different than earlier chips. I am seeing ~15 cycle divs with no pipelining (i.e,. the latency and inverse throughput are both 15), versus 36+ cycles latency and 25+ cycles inv throughput on Skylake.

Interesting. I found only a few other changes beyond that, so far.
Wow! I already love the bread, but now I love the company too.
First, it would be personal tragedy. I'd never voluntarily go back in time. EVER! That said, I'd go ahead and invent modern real analysis (along with the rudiments of abstract algebra) and give the math aficionados of 18th century run for their money. If nothing I'd write simply mind-blowing political and science fiction that takes place in the future (every day life in 20th and early 21st century.)
No, it probably wouldn't. One, he didn't get "attention". He got suspicion and aggressive questioning. Two, in the US there is easily demonstrable bias against black people. If you are interested, I recommend going to Harvard's Project Implicit, taking some of their tests, and reading the research results. And the bias extends well beyond the visual; it's enough to have a black name, as is shown by the classic paper: "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873
3 is huge, if you're a renter, why would you buy a car where you have no idea if you'll be able to charge it should you move. I'd also add on the fact that you still can't reasonably take road trips with an electric car in the same way you can with a traditional one.
The DNC looks like they still have not got the message. The only question really is whether the left can take over the party machinery or would be better off third partying.
Techniques for language model integration in encoder-decoder speech rec
I thought it was already established that anything sweet-tasting stimulates an insulin response, which is an energy storage (fattening) hormone.
Maybe I'm a bit too cynical, but I guess MS isn't that heavily invested/successful in facial recognition technology, that's why it can posture like that?

Because this feels a bit reminiscent of the "G-man" campaign, which might have been fun and had a point, but a point that seemingly got lost along the road of "Windows 10 as a service/storefront".

At least gotta give it to MS PR: They seem to know what's on peoples minds and are rather good at trying to appeal to that.
I'm hoping he'll do it the other way around next time. He should try to create a useful service and then discover that there was a great game inside it all along.
I use the refactoring features quite a bit. The dialog editor is pretty easy to use as well.
Fruit trees already exist and are up to 20 feet tall and especially citrus trees produce significantly more calories per acre than grains.

Vertical farming is unsustainable because then you will have to cover 10x the land in solar panels or use fossil fuels.
My fastmail calendar experiences:

- timezone support is great and an explicit feature. You can pick the time zone when adding events and there is a dropdown at the top to view the calendar in the respective selected timezone.

- you can scroll the calendar view flexibly and not just switch from month to month. You can for example scroll to see half of previous and half of current month. This fills me with so much joy and I can't understand why no one else does it.

- you can't give someone else write access to your calendar. This is my major gripe with it and the reason I'm still actually using the gmail calendar in the fastmail interface.
I think you might have thought that I meant LMS or learning management system. I'm really just looking for a good content management system for a small K12 school district. A district website you know. We've been using WordPress which isn't terrible but I'm just wondering what the options are. Thank you for the great comment though. Alot of good information in there.
2.6 cm larger waist doesn't seem very convincing. I probably go up/down 2.6cm on any given day.
This kind of gloating is lame, because it's the same sort of empty words that the Bitcoin bulls of last year were spouting off. If you really wanted to bet $10K that the price of Bitcoin would be less in a year, you would've shorted $10K worth of Bitcoin on one of the many exchanges that allowed it last December, and you'd be up about $50K today. Similarly, if you want to bet $10K today that it'll be higher in 2019, just go buy $10K worth of Bitcoin. If you're ultra confident do it on margin, and then "not having $10K to bet" is no impediment.
Really? Elon Musk has been making such calls for quite some time - although it has been regarding AI in general and not just facial recognition.
The last time I heard him talking about it, he seemed rather disheartened by the fact he'd been unable to have any impact.
Electric cars could have gears (e.g. Formula E)

Also, the koenigsegg hybrid uses the paddles to control things other than the gear (Since AFAIK it has a CVT)
Is the refusal to care in relation to a parent not wanting their child to be vaccinated, or solely due to not having been the primary care provider since birth?

Edit: I guess my reasoning for this question is based on new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatricians regarding refusal of care to those who refuse childhood immunization. I can't say I agree with that sentiment, and I would also argue that the majority of pediatricians in the US do not refuse care to families who refuse immunization. Why? Because it makes far more sense for a physician to continue to follow up with patients to continue recommending they get immunized. I assure you that most doctors, including pediatricians, don't want kids to die, so most don't refuse care just cause of a family not wanting to vaccinate their kid. It's unfair to a kid that likely doesn't have the competence or capacity to make decisions for themselves. I can't speak towards any pediatrician refusing care, or their reasoning, because I literally have not met one that does.

Edit 2: here is some explanation from the AAP as to when they would recommend dismissal of a family. Note that they specifically note that dismissal should be "a very last resort".
ARMs biggest problem is software, while some software are just scripts, and some can be recompiled. It's not that easy with everything. I don't see the change happening unless there is some pretty significant advantages.

AMD actually makes arm processors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opteron#A1100-series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12
"without seriously reducing its usefulness" -- can you describe more clearly what the usefulness is that you are attempting to retain, and why that is important to your customers?
A surprisingly interesting read about the mechanics of the profession; the part about the psychology of male viewers was particularly insightful (not to mention a bit depressing).

Though the topic is indeed NSFW, there are no photos; it's a just long-ish text article.
> With Microsoft turning it on by default

I've checked the setting in MS Edge on 2 PCs and it was off on both.
> but I think they use different battery chemistries but use the same cell size (18650)

I also read something like that. I suspect it is more of a tweak than anything major. No doubt it is the same basic chemistry but perhaps with minor tweaks to the various ratios and material thicknesses and so on. The Tesla batteries are a single-application cell, so you know exactly the maximum discharge current, the maximum charge current, the temperature parameters, and so on, whereas a generic 18650 has to balance those for a "typical application" or whatever. See for example the Samsung high-discharge INR18650 cells which trade off capacity for higher max discharge current.

OTOH the other hand I also heard the early Teslas were using exactly the Panasonic 18650B cell. They could both be true: maybe it was a stock cell in the early days and they tweaked the formula later in concert with Panasonic as their volumes rose. There was no big evident spike in capacity vs weight though...
In theory, you're absolutely correct.

In practice, the replicating the composition of food (proteins, carbs, fats, vitamins, minerals, bacteria, fiber, etc.) is a huge feat. Especially because we don't understand enough about human diet. (See: 1 gazillion articles about dieting.)

It's like gene editing. There's a lot that theoretical possible, but the real sci-fi stuff is way out of our reach right now.
Audi - or more generally the VW - have enough money and other reputation to completely fuck up their electric cars and then either reprogram the public using advertising or (as you said) start a separate company
It's very complete. We have many kinds of builtin Modules (rnns, conv{1,2,3}d, batchnorm etc.), optimizers, a data loader, a serialization format for checkpointing and similar things you need for training. My hope is that any model you can train in Python you can now also train in C++.
The Untold Story of ‘Back at It Again at Krispy Kreme’ (2016)
There are high switching costs.

Once everyone in your 1000+ company is using it, its hard to get them all to switch to another chat product. You got saved conversations, workflows, integrations, etc.
Tech companies would tend to disable them. Non-tech enterprises like things like that.
Flickr very early on targeted mobile, and pioneered the concept of a photostream. My first smartphone photo upload to them was June 2005. And my use case was basically what I use Instagram for today: to regularly share interesting photos with friends and family. So I strongly believe that if Flickr had kept its founders involved and continued to innovate, it could have been the dominant social photo application today.
The best solution for that is to still keep politics out and ignore the complainers. They only have any power at all because companies and organisations listen to them. The more people ignore angry Twitter mobs, the quicker said Twitter mobs become ineffective and people realise screaming at anything that offends them won't get them their way.
France: Academic Stabbed to Death for ‘Insulting Mohammed’ During Lecture
Who says they're for sale?
Why not? It's not like their communications product lineup would be any more confusing if they added another service.
Wouldn’t this dilemma ultimately end with server middleware rejecting requests for anyone savvy enough to us a custom TOS header contract?
Both can be problems at the same time. I think you raise a valid concern, but I don't believe it dismisses the yield/density problem in any way.

I don't think there's any reason to vilify agricultural businesses in particular for being profit-seeking capitalist corporations.
Webos is just linux with specific wm.
Uber lays groundwork for IPO
That already exists for Android but it only fixes those not doing CID spoofing. I get a lot of calls marked as spam but it won't and hasn't fixed the problem of spoofed caller ID numbers though which are those calls that match the first 6 digits of your phone number. Those they just constantly rotate and change to match the number they're calling at the moment. I've had a few people call me and even my work desk number after some cid spoofer has used those numbers.
Firefox is much easier and faster to compile but still complicated enough that you need to follow their build guide. Chromium is held back by Google's overzealous build systems that assume everything is built on a unified build server and permanently cached somewhere on their corporate network which results in actual build times being unoptimized.
Very interesting and well done. Something seems off for the 'ask' page though. "Top Ask HN stories from the past year" but most only have a few points.
This isn't necessarily the case in NYC the further out you go, and really many of the older parts of the north east. Tons of streetcar suburbs only really have street parking.
Facebook is known for over-paying, which alone accounts for its continuing popularity with engineers. I worked my ass off trying to get through the multi screen hiring process there and despite being ex-Google still fucked it up at the end. It didn’t help that I got concussion the day before the on-site and wasn’t 100%.
It seems more like 2FA using body parts instead of a phone.
If the electric car gets cheap enough you may find yourself motivated to pay an electrician to run a cable under ground to the curb, and install a receptacle in a locked box there to prevent vandalism. It's just a question of how cheap the electric car has to get before you do it.
The most mind-boggling thing to me is that Google interns get re-interviewed before getting a return offer.

You don't go through the whole process. I can't remember the exact numbers, but iirc the logic is that offer decisions are made on 5 pieces of feedback. If you interview at Google you get a total of 5 interviews. If you're an intern, your intern manager and two peers write feedback, so they need 2 other people to interview you and give a thumbs up.

If you think about it, this is kinda nuts. They're hiring someone to do a job. They have them do that job for 3 months. Yet, rather than fully basing their decision on wether that person is good at the job they will actually be doing, they instead opt for also putting you through coding interview questions.

I haven't heard of another company that does this. I know others also want several opinions, so they just assign more peer/manager reviewers.

The sad part is I know interns who suspect this might well be why they didn't get a return offer-- interviewing is nerve-wrecking for some people, and it can be hard to get up to speed especially because towards the end of the summer recruiting season and early school to-dos start to pile up on top of finishing your intern project.
The story of GEOS is quote interesting too. From 8bit OS for c64 in mid 80ies to powering Nokia Communicator and a bunch of random Japanese products in mid/2nd half 90ies.
Uber files confidentially for IPO
Hungary scanned my fingerprints when I applied for a residence permit.
How could a publicly traded company not be up for sale? As I understand it, a takeover attempt could be either friendly or hostile, but my understanding is that anybody with sufficient money could make an offer above the current market price and the board would be obliged to consider it. They could say no if the price was too low, but I think their fiduciary duty to public shareholders would oblige them to accept a sufficiently good bid.
Spring Inversion-Of-Control vs. Guice Dependency Injection
You should read the story about the founder. It is an amazing company, and product! I wish more companies would give some felons a second chance. Not everybody is "bread" (hah!) to be a felon. Not everybody is hopeless, but as a society we sure stack the deck against them by denying them decent employment after they've paid their debt to society. Companies like DKB are much needed. They've changed a lot of lives for the better, and I'm sure have kept more than a few criminals from returning to their former "profession" by giving them skills and paying a living wage. http://www.daveskillerbread.com/our-history/#our-history-1
the two most populous regions

Silicon Valley (even San Jose proper) is more populous than SF.

And San Diego is more populous than either.
I’ve heard a lot of people talking about MS Teams. Is it as easy to use as Slack?
All I could see on this website were the tweets and things I don't really care about. We seem to have very different goals.

But after talking, I'm curious to see what kind of market data they have. I asked for a small sample.

I am still waiting for reply from electic.
For me the main problem with NTFS is the file locking.

With Unix you can pretty much delete any file at any time (sudo ftw!) but not with WSL. Opening a file in an editor on the Windows side is often enough to lock things up.

(The case sensitivity is another sore point, but that can be averted by using only lowercase.)
What if you have low LDL? Do good vascular health and healthy diet protect from the virus?
SKX is what Zen competes with, for now. I don't think Zen 2 will arrive for Epyc any time soon, and when it does, maybe Intel will have a new part out. The current timeline for Zen 2 is desktop parts maybe 1Q2019, server parts traditionally lag. We have to look at what's actually in front of us.

No one has announced 256 AVX in Zen 2; while I'm sure it's possible, I'd think AMD would be advertising that at some point if it were happening. On the other hand, they've doubled the chiplet per socket count, which may compensate somewhat for the reduced AVX width per core.

For the record, I'm firmly in AMD's camp here; I appreciate both the underdog aspect and the renewed competition in the x86 space. I own a first-gen threadripper myself. But it's still important to acknowledge where Zen falls short compared to Skylake-X.
Never criticize the company or their products during the interview. Whatever company it is. Have some common sense.
My favorite rejection story is the one by Adam Sontag
> Reverse global deforestation for grazing cattle

Have you read about the deforestation from palm oil, canola oil, and coconuts that feed vegans? It's not clear to me eating meat in the USA, especially local meat where I am in New England, is comparatively worse.

(Ironically I'm "deforesting" a former field of small pines to restore it to sheep grazing this year. But I do not think this ecologically destructive: ultimately it would be building soil.)
tcpdump is a wrapper for RAW sockets and eBPF. You can use WinPCAP, but it's not possible to use something like fanout(It's possible to make multithreaded tcpdump for Linux) or you can't use interface "any"(it's a Linux specific layer). The worst thing is that you can't trace your kernel IP/TCP info, like sk_buff tracing in Linux.
Keeping weight down reduces risks across the spectrum, probably linked to the immune system. So nothing specific to Alzheimer.