skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it won't. Because it looks like there's even a magnet on the Korg's tube. They might be leveraged that same research, and listed it as a prior art or paid him as co-inventor.
He doesn't work for Google, nor did he implement the YouTube feature the intern called out. He implemented something similar in his own project. This was clear in the article.
Yeah, obviously people who don't care about their friends aren't interested in Facebook. You're no more the market than I am for a curling iron.
There's also API (https://developer.github.com/v3/migrations/users/), which doesn't involve web UI or email.

The docs says it's "only available to authenticated account owners"; I hope it means you can't use a token for that, but I'm not sure.
I launched, went through Y Combinator and raised 1.8m within 9 months [podcast]
Another thought. Most companies have absolutely no idea how to select the technology. A lot of people that are in position to decide don't have all that much hands on experience with the new technology and so they will decide based on other factors like whether his manager would like or would like not see new technology, what other companies are doing, etc.

Another example is "Agile". Everybody is doing it yet I still wait to see a single company that understands what the term means. My current boss is big promoter of "Agile" which in his language is synonym to "Scrum". Yet when asked he has never heard of Pheonix Project, The Goal, theory of constrains or basically any theory at all. So what the people are doing is fighting fires almost 100% of the time with not much project work done for the effort and absolutely no improvements. Yet, because everybody complies to do daily standups and Jira updates we are 100% agile.

Don't even get me started on devops...
Interestingly, I see a pattern of a strong anti-network effect in play.

Network effects are premised on the value of the network increasing in value as more users join. By definition then, the value of the network drops as people drop off.

While the speed of adoption might always be > speed of deletion, there is certainly an auto-catalytic effect to people deleting FB, or not using/posting to FB as much.
I would, at the very least, say "perceived benefit."
Let's start with those underground coal fires that were discussed this week. The article said the total C02 production of underground coal fires worldwide is greater than all US automobiles.
Companies cannot usually capture all the value they create.
It's not, it's a strategy to improve the performance of a particular query or access pattern, and is usually the last resort after things like proper indexing, aggregations and materialized views.

JOINS are fast and it all comes down to how much data you're moving. If it's a large table joining to a small set of values, then the joined data is quickly retrieved and applied to the bigger table, with great performance.

If the join is between two large tables where every combination is unique then that's the unique case where the joined table is just adding another hop to get the full set of data for each row and is a perfect candidate for denormalization, although in that case it probably should've been a single table to begin with. Of course there's a spectrum between these two scenarios but it takes a lot before denormalization makes sense on any modern RDBMS.
So think of it in terms of food then. We don't have "food insurance," yet food is a short-term need and it works pretty darn well as a free market.
Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal
Aside from the Vox MV50, I've never seen this in the wild. I hope someone proves me wrong, since the MV50 sounds great and I'd like to see what else is out there.
Nothing is changing with FROM - not sure what gave you that impression. We're simply offering some new base images people can choose to use if they want to.

These also happen to be the ones that have been in use by some of our "more serverless" offerings, where users don't get to supply a Dockerfile, for some time now.
I haven't read much to suggest that the Bay Area's lack of tall buildings is the result of earthquake fears or "lazy engineering". Besides the fact that SF's tallest building, the Salesforce Tower, started construction in 2013, SF historically has had tall buildings, before and after the great earthquake. SF's and the rest of the Bay Area's lack of tall buildings seems to be a result of local dictate, in the same way that Kyoto lacks tall buildings. Similarly, it would be foolish/overly simplistic to blame the Bay Area's housing shortage on "lazy home builders".
I too find the mantra of personal responsibility alluring but when people have been getting more and more obese you need to either accept people are getting “weaker” or the world is getting shittier, with larger ad campaigns for worse and worse food, etc.
Even planets like Jupiter and Saturn are unlikely to have been found around other stars yet (with the transit method) because their orbital periods are 12 and 30 years respectively. We simply haven't been looking long enough to see multiple passes.
I echo this.

Not only does Nestlé put above average coffee in those capsules – the aluminum encasing ensures that the aroma doesn't evaporate. It's not espresso, but it is by far the best taste at an reasonable price.

And don't forget the space a serious espresso machine usually takes up (10k €). Grinder not included.
So I was just looking for the Simon Sinek video and came across this instead:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2017...
I will be doing it for free, soon. Thanks very much for the offer though, and a fantastic trend too. If only it would catch on. (I need to use thier messenger for the next 2 weeks as I transition employment, no other reason to keep).
I take huge offense to this article. They claim that when it comes to AGI, Hinton and Hassabis “know what they are talking about.” Nothing could be further from the truth. These are people who have narrow expertise in one framework of AI. AGI does not yet exist so they are not experts in it, in how long it will be, or how it will work. A layman is just as qualified to speculate about AGI as these people so I find it to be infinitely frustrating when condescending journalists talk down to the concerned layman. This irritates me because AI is a death scentance for humanity — its an incredibly serious problem.

As I have stated before, AI is the end for us. To put it simply, AI brings the world into a highly unstable configuration where the only likely outcome is the relegation of humans and their way of life. This is because of the fundamental changes imposed on the economics of life by the existence of AI.

Many people say that automation leads to new jobs, not a loss of jobs. Automation has never encroached on the sacred territory of sentience. It is a totally different ball game. It is stupid to compare the automation of a traffic light to that of the brain itself. It is a new phenomenon completely and requires a new, from-the-ground-up assessment. Reaching for the cookie-cutter “automation creates new jobs” simply doesn’t cut it.

The fact of the matter is that even if most of the world is able to harness AI to benefit our current way of life, at least one country won’t. And the country that increases efficiency by displacing human input will win every encounter of every kind that it has with any other country. And the pattern of human displacement will ratchet forward uncontrollably, spreading across the whole face of the earth like a virus. And when humans are no longer necessary they will no longer exist. Not in the way they do now. It’s so important to remember that this is a watershed moment — humans have never dealt with anything like this.

AI could come about tomorrow. The core algorithm for intelligence is probably a lot simpler than is thought. The computing power needed to develop and run AI is probably much lower than it is thought to to be. Just because DNNs are not good at this does not mean that something else won’t come out of left field, either from neurological research or pure AI research.

And as I have said before, the only way to ensure that human life continues as we know it is for AI to be banned. For all research and inquires to be made illegal. Some point out that this is difficult to do but like I said, there is no other way. I implore everyone who reads this to become involved in popular efforts to address the problem of AI.
I interpreted your comment as a joke, but could see how that could be unclear. Tone is hard on the internet, probably best to explicitly say when you're being sarcastic. :-)
I've been looking for something like this! I'm trying to play around with it but can't seem to get the selector right. How do I grab a table `td` by its nth selector (tried `td:nth-of-type(n)` to no avail)?
Not in all cases - it varies significantly for everyone. In my case the hospital, surgeon, anesthesiologist, and some of the assistants were all billed under different systems and as separate entities. The hospital has nothing to negotiate because they're in-network so I had no balance due (meet my out of pocket maximum).

The surgeon's assistant was the out of network provider and he was also part of a different practice, so it was his practice billing department that would not budge because they deemed their costs as reasonable and "already discounted".
Concerning easily compostable output: you mean like diapers?
I have an AKAI AM-2850 amplifer older than me. Its VU meters a bit lazy, but otherwise it's still shaking the house.

I'm no way getting rid of it!

P.S.: I generally dispose any of my devices when they let their magic smoke out. Computers stay at least five years and upcycled. Mine -> Family -> Extended family -> so on.
I think you and the decision-makers were entirely sincere, but good intentions can still result in market failures.

As a side note it's baffling tome that a firm like Apple would go all in on touch ID given the numerous demonstrations in movies and TV of how that would likely be abused, many of which have made the jump from fiction to reality.
And the Vox amps at least sound really great IMO.

I had the "Clean" one for a while, which mimicks a Fender circuit. It sounded pretty darned close to a "real" tube amp. The only reason I got rid of it was I got a Fender Super Champ x2 with USB out for recording more easily.
Insurance companies are very different types of customers than uninsured patients. They're effectively averaging their price over a large number of patients. Most are probably slightly more expensive than necessary, but that difference helps subsidize those that experience complications. Furthermore, individual patients fail to pay at a much higher rate so that is reflected in the cost as well. A hospital can't just give the "insurance price" to uninsured patients as this may put them underwater.
I mean, you've been able to brick hardware on Linux before in earlier versions of the kernel, where the firmware would get mounted, causing the user to blow away parts of their firmware when they wiped their drive (figuring it was just a recovery partition).

Relevant Ubuntu bug report from when it was happening: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147
I've learned that Keurig is really trying to get more municipalities to even recycle at all, because so few can accept recyclable resources, even the #5 polypropylene that they make their recyclable cups out of. Compostable cups are not really realistic as well, since so few municipalities offer pickup, there's basically no consumer interest.

It's the sort of thing that made me sit up and realize what a bubble most of the tech world sits in. Composting and recycling is very much a "liberal urban thing" in the US. It seems like the culture is against cutting down on waste in any significant way.
In the past, fire companies would show up and demand payment before putting out fires. If a payment couldn't be made, the company might negotiate the purchase of the burning property at a steep discount.

Usually credited to Marcus Licinius Crassus, who had a fire brigade for just that purpose. Contemporary of Julius Caesar.
Der Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius sacked over 'invented' stories
I don't.

But if we're talking food in general, I have a relatively simple algorithm: I try out various price points of any given food category, and then settle on either: 1) for few cases where I care about taste, on the item that tastes best; 2) for everything else, cheapest one that isn't plain disgusting.

So e.g. for soft drinks, I have a strong preference of Pepsi Max > Coca Cola Zero > el cheapo diet cokes, which is based on trying them all out, and which changed over the years (e.g. couple years ago, I used to like one of the cheap brands the best). For cheese, I'll take the cheapest thing you've got that's yellow and is called "Gouda" or "Edam".

Brands are nothing to me beyond a way to distinguish between different tastes.
In short, we work with individual teams and projects to evaluate their priorities, and select or build the compression scheme that best addresses their needs. Some of those cases are described in the post, but we wanted to summarize the general kinds of results we see.

I did spend a fair amount of time working on a graphic for the post to try to capture the distribution of improvements we've seen across different use cases at Facebook, but it ended up being very hard to interpret / glean anything meaningful from.

It's difficult to present rigorous conclusions: the reality of data compression is that every use case is different, with different priorities and data characteristics that cause different compressors to behave differently.

Some data (random noise) is totally incompressible, and zstd will do just as poorly as any other algorithm. On the other hand, with highly structured / repetitive data like JSON, zstd can do enormously better than zlib. It all depends on the specific context.

Another example of how benchmarking is hard: we recently spent a fair amount of time improving zstd for highly-contended memory scenarios [1]. This work basically won't show up in a standard single-threaded single-workload benchmark. But we saw meaningful improvements in the real world at Facebook.

Ultimately, if you are evaluating using zstd (or any other compressor), the best predictor for performance will be a benchmark you run yourself with your own data. And hopefully you like what you see!

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.6
The most intuitive explanation is simply that in the complex domain sinusoids can be represented as exponentials, and a phase shift becomes a simple multiplication by a constant. Thus sinusoidal signals can be manipulated according to a fairly simple algebra.
Opening up easier ways to modify firmware? Yeah, I just can't see how that will ever be abused...

Ransomware/cryptominer worm writers are probably salivating over this news.
BTW, the VFD used on the first link happens to be Noritake, that is, the same brand associated with work for the NuTube project, and the inventors of the VFDs, so this might not me new for them at all.

And also, by the way, almost the only brand still manufacturing VFDs that are easy to find on the market (at least buying one by one).

And also, they make pretty tableware :D
So Redis, HAproxy, MongoDB, ect .. should feel good that nowdays multi-billion $ companies take your product and put more people on it that you do internally, sell it and give you nothing?

Explain to me how a startup of 10-20 people can compete against AWS once they grab what you're working on to make an AWS service?

Changes Mongo, Redis made to their licence were made to protected against those practices.
I'm not sure how much of relationship there would be between the convenience of complex numbers in signal analysis and the appearance of complex numbers in the Schrodinger equation.
I disagree. If anything, it shows that when average students are given top-notch instructors and surrounded by highly motivated peers, those average students raise their game.

The exact same thing happens in amateur sports and is why athletes with any hope of making it to the Olympics/pro will go to great lengths to find the best coaches and best teams to play on.
I'm not saying the ER prices are reasonable, but an ER has to keep a lot of expensive staff and equipment sitting around until they are needed. OK, some ER's they are sitting around. But there is a price to have all that service ready for an emergency.

As for high drug prices like the $60 ibuprofen, you are mainly paying for it to be delivered to you by a nurse.

ER's have an average profitability of 7.8%. Higher than Walmart but lower than Apple. So if they became non-profit in some way, they could cut that percentage of costs. That's some, but still very expensive.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/7-things-to-kn...
Australian resident with a UK passport checking in here. Australian's are fucked too. And we pretty much copy/pasted our new laws from the UK ones, so UK residents are as well. If Canada/New Zealand have not already passed equivalent laws or are not in the process of doing so, my paranoia about Five Eyes might be a little miscalibrated. But realistically, I suspect its more likely that I'm not paranoid enough, rather than too paranoid...
Only if they get hit with a notice to comply and then they have a grace period in which to comply, so that's how.
Pretty much the same as Aus and UK, though I think some level of subsidised healthcare for visitors though surgery, etc. will be charged in full, and full coverage for permanent residents, where as Aus tends to charge full price for everything, I believe (still cheap compared to the states though).

Doctors (GP) visit typically costs me around $40-50NZD, thats likely on the high side, Children are free / fully subsidised.

A&E visit would be $50-100NZD

Most all injury related medical costs are covered or subsidised by ACC.

Specialists Appts typically cost ~$200 per visit

Private health insurance, while in no way "required", is still offered by the bigger employers and will see better outcomes for elective and non-urgent surgery and is priced in the hundreds of dollars per year for "basic" coverage if you wish to purchase as an individual.

Edit: clarified coverage for visitors
That is a pretty bold claim, can you cite someone more authoritative than your wife?

Kaiser, who has a plausible claim to expertise in this field, puts the overhead cost of Medicare at 2%. The raw number is more like 1.4% but Medicare does get to piggyback a lot of the administrative workload on Social Security so perhaps that is why Kaiser's number is higher.

Insurance industry advocates, who are incentivized to provide the lowest number that can be defended, put private insurance overhead at 17%.

The rest of your suggestion -- that Medicare doesn't even pay for the actual cost of service -- is hard to really reason about accurately. Prices and costs are so completely distorted now that I am very skeptical of anybody's estimates of 'actual value.' Things will change dramatically if we eliminate the insurance industry and medical billing field.

Having just experienced first world level healthcare in another country and paying for it out of pocket at 1/20th or less of what it runs in the US, I am certain we are getting shafted.
Isn't this sort of like estimating the value of Ford by paying users not to use roads?
Oh they’d happily increase their price by 10 cents and then continue as normal.
And now you know why Google is _really_ shutting down Google+ earlier than planned. Someone should also take a look at Android, where there are some insane permissions available, like accessing your messages and call log. I wonder how much those have been abused by third parties far less trusted than e.g. Spotify. Granted, you have to consent to all of this crap, but 99% of users perceive this as a speed bump and click OK without reading, and the remaining 1% won't touch Android with a 10 foot pole after seeing one of those permission dialogs.
>Why would someone choose SQL Server when options like Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB exist?

Because they're in an organization where they're already invested in Microsoft technologies, so it's much easier to just use MS's DB instead of something entirely different that doesn't integrate as well.

It's similar to why many people use Apple software products that aren't as good as alternatives: if you already have an Apple platform/device, it's easier and better integrated and likely already installed.
“No one is spying on you, they’re selling you like a commodity”
Also of course very relevant in the tech world. Superficially egalitarian and non-hierarchical, but in reality dominated by strong in-groups and out-groups, business decisions made on the basis of favouritism and personal connections, including bizarre stories about byzantine sex orgies involving corporate executives.

Even the feminism angle is relevant here, because more often than not women are made worse off in these laissez-faire arrangements.
As an aside, the author, Derek Lowe, is a great writer. If you haven't done so, check out his "Things I won't work with" series on the same blog. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...

It is very informative and funny.
That's simply false.

Both Medicare for all and Medicare buy in plans wouldn't eliminate private health insurance.

Private health insurance would still exist under both plans as supplemental coverage that people could buy that would cover things that were not covered by medicare.

The markets would be potentially reduced (drastically with medicare for all, moderately with a generally available medicare buy-in), but it's totally false to say they would be eliminated under those plans.
Addicts aren't addicted to the dopamine; they're addicted to the thing they do that causes their brains to release dopamine. There's a healthy way to get that dopamine rush; just as there is a healthy way to use social media.
I fixed it. Now, you can search for "hello, dude!"
Working on ideas related to Minsky's "Society of Mind", the old "Blackboard Architecture" idea, and Multi-Agent Systems. Within that context, I've also been doing some work on abductive inference, specifically using PCT at the moment.
Some combination of 2 and 4 or 3 and 4.
for audio, Korg has a gallery of examples: https://korgnutube.com/en/gallery/

the tech uses the same manufacturing line as a traditional vacuum fluorescent display. VFDs are technically vacuum triodes where the plate has been painted with a phosphor.

the device is probably not fast enough to be used as a video amplifier.
I think the US has better cancer survival rates in areas than other nations, but if that is all-around significant one would think that would reflect out in better life expectancy overall. However, the US is a huge negative outlier in life expectancy and child mortality with universal healthcare nations outperforming on those measures too.

https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...

The most recent life expectancy numbers are the hardest to interpret, the US has the only three-year-running negative life expectancy growth in the first world nations - but some argue we should separate healthcare from the suicide numbers that are a big contributors. I don't know that I agree with that as there is a fuzzy line between healthcare and social care efforts.
Being overweight is a choice that makes our healthcare system enormously more expensive. None of the things you mention are remotely comparable to it.
What were the issues? You're the first person I hear complain about cassandra for this. Agreed that any database can do that type of data at that volume.
Seems like you can also buy them (nut very cheap) and make a DIY project.

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/design-of-a-korg-nutub...