skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. But I suspect that their sophistication is not so exclusive or far ahead that other countries could not move into their place over the course of a decade.
I've done over 900 jumps so I can fill you in, no references ATM because I'm on my phone.

If you jump with a parachute, you will see chance of death go from 0% at zero feet, to approximately 100% at 35 feet. From there, it will remain near 100% until you reach about 600 feet, which is about the minimum distance it takes a parachute to open. Above 1000 feet and chance of death floors out near 0%
>I absolutely agree LXC has many more features (many of them that I'm jealous of)

liblxc has go bindings now!
They did the math correctly, it was just different math than what they were supposed to be using.

The incorrect ratings were intentional and designed to look like they were correct so that no one would find out. It's easier to make sure no one finds out the number is wrong if you know what the correct number is and how to tweak factors here and there to influence it.
If I chose to sell my key, I’d simply generate a new one and start using it. If you then chose not to trust my old key retroactively, you would be unable to do your job without rewriting my code. Reputation has no material relevance today sufficient to compel a solution, sadly.
> many alternatives to electron do in fact offer markup language like GUI creation and css/html like styling including Qt with its QML offshoot, or JavafX.

> Not to mention that I don't see any obvious reason why HTML would be easier to use than the WPF

Can I use Vue.js or React over QML? That's a point many people miss. You think of HTML/JavaScript as the thing from 10 years ago that maybe you played with in school.

Vue.js/React is to HTML/CSS what WPF is to raw Win32 GUI programming.
I imagine (because there are not that many details on the Mill out there) that the power savings come mainly from:

- A post-compiler compilation step that adapts a binary for a specific chip, replacing a complex hardware control module by a one-time software run, so the only thing actually on the chip is the routing;

- A very nice set of primitives that push the non-determinism into data, instead of flow control.

- Cheap interruptions, cheap memory access, and every other detail rethought to be cheap.
CopyQ is the best clipboard manager, IMO! I used to use Glipper, CopyQ crushes it!
Define "rich".

> It is unbelievable how blank and devoid of meaning, seen from the outside, and how muffled and unconscious, felt from the inside, the lives of most people flow along. It's a dull desiring and suffering, a dream-like tumbling through the four season towards death, accompanied by a series of trivial thoughts.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

> [..] the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making. And I think that, in itself, leads to a good deal of political lethargy and stupidity. It is true that one has to think first and then to act -but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

-- Erich Fromm, who also said

> The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
.NET Desktop/Full Framework’s been fine after some initial missteps when they first bundled it in the OS with Vista.

.NET Core has self contained deployments so you can bundle it with your app in a .zip.

For development or continuous integration SQL Server comes in a container now.
In a Whole Foods plant based diet you eat nutrient dense foods. For instance, substituting date sugar (dates mechanically powdered) for sugar.
The numbers in the article don't add up. I think what it means to say is 2000 employees received 1000 shares per ~$1 USD in dividends they were meant to receive, rather than a fixed value of 1000 shares each (which are not worth $9m!).
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Well, maybe it does if you correct for the obvious errors in the statistical analysis. How did this get through peer review? I was particularly bothered by this sentence: "A P value greater than 0.05 was statistically significant."

Presumably they meant "less than", but it's hard to trust any of their conclusions with such sloppy attention to detail.
Anecdotally I find the slow realization that something is satire to be an integral part of it's entertainment value.
Aka orthogonal vectors won't affect each other.

Does this hold true as an object's ballistic trajectory approaches significant fractions of a planet's diameter?

Granted, the object is constantly being accelerated towards the center of the planet.

But that force vector's direction changes with respect to the initial "horizontal" launch vector as the object continues on a straight path, until they're longer orthogonal.
Note that LXC handles application containers perfectly fine now, and it does so in a pretty simple way. Read up on the lxc-oci template and the lxc-execute command if you would like to play around with it!
"Governments uniting to kill a foreign company. What is the WTO doing? (lol)"

Well, if China is going to us Huawei to spy on us then this is reasonable.

And the WTO? This is sarcasm? China runs perpetually in flagrant violation of the entire set of rules. Doing business in China requires participation by local entities, giving up IP to the gov., state-sponsorhip of direct competition - the list goes on.

If we were to do a tit-for-tat on those things alone, very few Chinese firms would be allowed to operate here.

So we'll buy plastic stuff, not silicon stuff.
"If I'm holding 100% securities, a) SIPC offers me no protection from losses"

Sure it does. The point of SIPC is that if your broker goes under, and you had, say, 100 shares of MSFT and $100 in cash, you get those things even if your broker somehow comes up short. Now, what 100 shares of MSFT is worth in dollars is unrelated to SIPC and depends on the stock market.

The purpose of SIPC is to protect against a breakdown in financial abstractions at one particular level.
Outline is a service which bypasses WSJ's paywall. I believe it does so by imitating a web crawler. The idea is that WSJ can't paywall a crawler otherwise its SEO will be destroyed. Thus it is a reliable way to capture the information.
I applaud the technical community rallying against the bill like this, but I fear that technical solutions are ultimately useless for this issue.

If the political climate stays the course, all the technical solutions for overcoming surveillance will eventually become marginalised and labelled as terrorist materials. Access will be blocked, anyone in possession may eventually face jail time.

AU customs is already searching the phones of people entering the country, it's not hard to imagine they might start denying entry to people with strong crypto capable apps like Signal.

I think this is a losing battle if it can't be fought at the legislation level...
Did you turn off "Show Apple Music" in iOS settings?

Making this change hides all Apple Music UI including what seems to be all the nags related to subscribing.

This isn't really totally made obvious, but it's completely possible to mix purchased music (synced via iCloud Music Library) with manually synced music files that the iTunes store is unaware of. You don't actually need an iTunes Match subscription for this to work, it's just that only your purchased music will sync via cloud, and you sync the rest of your music the "old way" via iTunes, manually.
This is a huge step forward into the solar system. Finding water in a nearby shallow gravity well will greatly advance our ability to further explore the solar system and make use of its abundant resources.
cuDNN's autotuner is only making local decisions; If layer X is connected to layer Y is connected to layer Z, simply choosing the fastest algorithm to implement each layer does not guarantee optimality. That's because the different convolution algorithms work best using different data layouts. For example, winograd convolution is usually fastest using NHWC layout, while patch-matrix based approaches like im2col are usually fastest using NCHW layouts.

When two connected layers disagree about the tensor layout, you have to do a data layout transformation, which is expensive. The key to the performance we're getting is that we benchmark those data layout transformations, and we make a global decision about the network, where the optimizer is aware that the cost for selecting algorithms for connected layers is the total cost of algo A + layout transform + algo B, not just the cost of algo A + algo B.

So in a nutshell, the optimizer is making use of global information, while the autotuner is only using local information. If you have a squint at our paper, we actually model what the autotuner is doing; that's the "local optimal" bar on the graphs. We always beat it!
Your link is wrong because there's no space between the project URL and your adverb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-finger_error#Examples
Just read about this a few days ago in the local news, they caught one in Aloha/Beaverton, Oregon (about 30 minutes west of Portland, OR)

https://www.kptv.com/news/deputies-delivery-driver-for-amazo...

This is where a lot of Intel employees live as Intel's headquarters are here, just to give a picture of the area.
Thanks. Rather than just post random links to unheard of sites, it would be great if those links had a short description of what the link is.
OK, I'll bite. Inner ear disorder?
The reason is that a bcc'd message doesn't stop people from replying to earlier messages in the thread, whether or not they are using a threading email client. Threaded email reading interfaces probably make your strategy more effective, but they don't eliminate the possibility that people will respond to earlier messages, defeating your "firebreak" message (the more addressees, the more likely it is).
I recently read a non-fiction book, Patriot Number One about this. The main subject of the story pretty clearly deserved asylum but it goes into detail about how people who weren't really persecuted go about getting asylum as well. Really interesting story about small-town Chinese politics and different ways people immigrate.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35575186-patriot-number-...
This title has been editorialized from

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

to

"Parachutes prevent death when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"
Do you know why google allows WSJ et al to serve one set of content to a crawler, but another to an actual user? I thought they punished that kind of behavior.
Will jumping from high enough without a parachute ever decrease the odds of death than they the odds of death at a lower altitude?
i guess removing unused rules on deployment would reduce the file size. But a few kb is not much today - with auto playing hd videos on Facebook et. al.
It’s a perfectly fine assumption when talking about cannons, which are typically earthbound and have low projectile speeds.

I discuss orbits in the next paragraph, where I hope it’s evident I don’t assume a flat plane :)
Given that it says "randomised trial", it's implied that there would be a control group — a group of people who are sent to die for the sake of an experiment.

Given that nobody would ever do this, it's quite obvious that there's some tongue-in-cheek angle to the story.

It isn't misleading if you can read between the lines.
Well, to put some of my cards on the table - I have followed Byrne since Remain in Light was issued, and I greatly admire his music and indeed his larger persona and work. I attended a small lecture he gave on his photography, many years ago, and he visited my wife's studio -- he is really quite unassuming in such a 1:1 context (she tells me).

I'm not 100% sure what you're saying in your second paragraph. One does get the feeling that part of his promotion of the music of Brazil, Cuba, and elsewhere in his post-Heads career might be Byrne paying the debt forward, and attempting to bring other flavors of music to people's attention.
Does the machine learning field have different nomenclature for this sort of thing than, say, econometrics?

I recognize all the math, but the verbiage used is different.
I see. Thanks. Can you suggest the quickest and most relevant learning path if I define what I seek more precisely? My relevant experience includes building WinForms apps in VisualStudio (where you just drop a widget on a form, click it and code what it does) and writing simple websites with vanilla HTML+CSS+JS. I've also tried some WPF and loved the MVVM model (AFAIK Angular is somewhat close to it but I also love functional programming so perhaps Reason-React or Elm can make a better choice) but didn't stick with it as I want my apps to run everywhere. I'd like to build a desktop-like (but reasonably webish-looking, responsive and mobile-friendly) single-page app that would be hosted on a static hosting, work in a browser and interact with the world by means of web services (some provided by 3rd parties, some coded myself in Python) and browser APIs. The idea of using a graphics editor like Photoshop or whatever to draw my UI scares the hell out of me, I want all the look&feel pre-designed "out of the box" the way it is in desktop widget toolkits like Qt. I've once studied Bootstrap and it seemed like a toolkit that can make the kind of UIs I want but I feel like I should probably pick up a modern SPA framework like React or Angular rather than code vanilla JS if I want to build a reasonably complex application.
I agree, and FYI, if you click the 'web' link which is under the article title on the comments page, if you click the first result, you will have google effectively do what outline.com does for you.
Indeed! Which is why find() is not a member function on vector (so my snippet above is wrong - I just missed that part). It's a global function, so you need to do:

if (find(x, v.begin(), v.end()) != v.end()) ...

For maps and sets, find is a member function though. Same principle - if it is implemented in some optimized way, the class provides it directly, but not otherwise.
Photos also prevent customers taking advantage of companies who are ready to refund or replace “stolen” packages.
Or we could actually support journalists so we don’t end up in a dystopia where we have to get all our news from BuzzFeed and Mashable.
Use Hooks – A Collection of Reusable React Hooks
Good job shooting down that argument, can you point me to where someone made that claim?
That was really informative, thank you. Given the same rendering on browsers across platforms I imagine you could achieve the same effect as PDF, but it would be a spec on top of html+css, not inherently built for documents like PDF is as you said. There may be some differences in important edge cases, but PDF would still exist for business that relies upon it in that manner. I'm talking more of a replacement that fits the 90% of cases that don't deal with signatures and legally bound documents and such.
I don't know about that. RATM are a festival-headlining, mass radio-played, commercial band, who wrote the same "protest song" over and over again.

Killer Mike, Tom Waits, Bikini Kill and a lot of others on the list are less vanilla than RATM.
Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure
There is obviously an element of satire, but are the authors are also trying to make some sort of statement about clinical trials?
One nice thing about the photos is that when they deliver to the neighbor's house by mistake, you can see from the photo that that's where it is and that it hasn't been stolen.
Missing all the non-anglophone protest music :)
> .NET Desktop/Full Framework’s been fine after some initial missteps when they first bundled it in the OS with Vista

They first bundled (1.0) with xp, and every OS since. I don't know why they bothered considering practically every app has had to bundle newer versions with the installer. They could have at least pushed newer versions with windows update.
You also need union types. But yes, you can make it work (the original lambda proposal for Java tried to do that). Of course, once you push it to the point where it does, then it is practically indistinguishable from having a single return value that is a discriminated union.
Not for humans. You're thinking of cats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome
" In California with Prop 47, it might not even be a crime to steal packages."

Good thing California doesn't make laws and regulations related to packages and mail, the USPS does, so it is still a federal crime to steal packages.
I know this is a boring response, but I feel like there’s a formalism here to consider why a RCT would be “obvious.”

Let’s say you’re going to use some causal model, like a regression adjustment technique. You could for example assign people to the treatment group (receives parachutes) and the control (no parachutes), and then observe who lives and dies, as well as a bunch of potential confounders like altitude, age, fitness, whatever.

Fit a logistic regression to predict the outcome (survival) based on the treatment (parachute) controlling for the other characteristics. Then read off some effect size and ststistical significance.

Or better yet, and here’s the important part, you could make it a Bayesian logistic regression by considering prior distributions for the regression model’s fitted coefficients, and sampling draws from the posterior distribution of coefficients using the data set and your priors.

So what is the prior on the coefficient for the treatment term (parachutes)? Well, probably pretty damn high. Definitely some strongly informative prior, take your pick of historical data or effectiveness rates of physical safety equipment, whatever.

From this prior, and making some neutral assumptions via the priors on other weights, you could figure of what the effective sample size would be for a data set to disconfirm your prior (e.g. a posterior with a mode on the parachute coefficient far away from your strong prior). Sort of like a power analysis, but assuming a fake data set that shows nothing but failed parachutes. How much of that silly data would you need based on your prior?

What this would tell you is that you’d need some insane, physically ludicrous amount of data that flies in the face of an obvious prior, that what would be the point of running the study? You’re just going to confirm your prior.

So the real question is how often is this a realistic description of other situations when you want to study a treatment?

That’s the thing, right? That the author kind of wants to be snarky about.

But really, it’s pretty fair to say you don’t have such a strong prior that the study would be futile, even in cases when you sort of do feel like the conclusion is obvious (e.g. taking Tylenol leads to less pain, college kids prefer drinking instead of homework). While it passes some gut test of what’s obvious, that’s different from really betting on such a one-sided prior that a study is futile.

To me it suggests most of the sort of “duh” RCTs carried out are pretty much fine. Whether or not the study is worth it or is informative would be based on other priorities like cost, licensing or certification requirements, whether it’s of value to specialists who care about splitting hairs on accurate effect size measurement, etc.
No, the X in DirectX is used as a sort of variable with X referring to the many subsystems of DirectX (e.g. DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, etc).
Not that I know of. Maybe, if you jump from high enough that you pass out due to lack of oxygen, and you land in a manner that benefits from you being a ragdoll vs an actively bracing person, then it could help, but that seems unlikely(you'd probably also wake back up before you hit the ground, as I've heard stories about this happening to WWII pilots).

But overall, I believe it is better to be conscious. If you are falling from 3 miles up, you can glide to maybe 1 mile in any direction. This gives you the chance to try to land in a snow drift, in some mud, maybe a hay bail, or even a thick shrubbery, etc.
Are you saying gigabytes or gigabits?

GCP is 2 gigabits/second per core up to a max of 16 gigabits/second for a single VM. Persistent disks other than local SSDs also eat into this network traffic as well.
I didn't/can't downvote; I only made fun of the term LARP -- did you mean lark?

The article you link to doesn't mention D-Wave.

It links to a more detailed summary[1] which does reference D-Wave, but it happens in a curious way.

> While various strategies for building quantum computers are now being explored, an approach that many people consider the most promising, initially undertaken by the Canadian company D-Wave Systems and now being pursued by IBM, Google, Microsoft, and others...

> On the hardware front, advanced research is under way, with a 49-qubit chip (Intel), a 50-qubit chip (IBM), and a 72-qubit chip (Google) having recently been fabricated and studied. The eventual outcome of this activity is not entirely clear, especially because these companies have not revealed the details of their work.

Very curious indeed; they mention D-Wave in passing, but don't mention the pesky 2000 qubit machine that Google & NASA have bought and analyzed in peer-reviewed journals. They go on to list some vaporware, presenting a narrative that the entire industry is vaporware. D-Wave doesn't fit the narrative, and it was omitted.

Even curiouser, Rigetti has made their own quantum computer, and they beat D-Wave to a public cloud offering -- doesn't fit the vaporware narrative, didn't make the list. I'm accustomed to seeing bias towards gate-model in discussion of QC efforts, but Rigetti's erasure is very curious indeed.

Of course, I'm accustomed to getting downvoted whenever I speak of D-Wave or adiabatic QC. Since the computational models are equivalent[2], I might go so far as call that a religious stance. But there's one issue with gate model; it needs error correction to scale, and NOBODY implements it. IBM has a cute proof that shallow circuits can show advantage on certain problems, but the problems are just as "real-world" as Google's billion-times-speedup using D-Wave hardware: there's no evidence you'd see that performance solving a problem you need an answer to.

So my question for you, a person with experience in simulated annealing algorithms who claims equivalence with D-Wave's hardware: do you know the difference between adiabatic evolution[3] and the annealing that you're simulating?

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-agains...

[2] https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-adiabatic-and-quantum-cir... (and... their adiabatic model is just as possible as error-corrected gates right now)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_theorem
It is terrible, but it's the system we have here in the US. I'd like to see it changed, but in practice, if I'm at a restaurant that expects a tip, I am nearly always going to give a 20% tip unless the service is really subpar. Some people would argue that's too high, but I've been out with one too many people here who have a "well, the waitress took too long to get my check to me or misread a menu special item, so cut her tip in half" attitude.
This isn't just for giggles. It's evidence that when there's a high perceived risk, "normal" people don't sign up for trials and it skews the results.
I don't have any information that isn't public, no. Just building off of previous discussions of outline.com in HN threads.
Is your commute worth the pay?

Calculate how much your time is worth, taking a job closer to home may very well be worth a pay cut.

Figure at least $50 an hour, that is $200 a day in commute, $1000 a week.