skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They keep kids busy and direct their energy and attention to arguably constructive things. Some kids do sport, other kids belong to chess clubs, others do theater. It all keeps them out of trouble.
I think I agree. The DMCA requires you to attest that you have "a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." As far as I know, there is no successful caselaw of accusing a takedown sender of acting in bad faith—even when using automated systems like Content ID. (Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. is the closest but there wasn't any actual consequence for Universal, I think.)

The other problem is that the DMCA safe harbor provision does not (AIUI) prevent companies from being stricter than necessary, and things like Content ID filter posts even before the level of a DMCA action. If YouTube "forgets" to update Content ID to change < 1923 to < 1924, I believe there's no legal recourse for an uploader to force them to do so.

(IANAL and I haven't closely kept up with this so pleaee correct me if I'm wrong!)
What about Bloomberg's Supermicro collusion story?
Women in Tech: Is it overrated?
I see as another datapoint the fact that we've had broadcast radio for over a century, some using several orders of magnitude higher power levels[1] than mobile phones today, yet no corresponding increases in cancer were seen.

On the chance that there is an effect, it might not even be detectable, which means for all practical purposes it doesn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLW
That'll just be a training problem (often translation is driven from example texts that have lots of translations, and we have many of these for multi-national orgs like EU, which necessarily don't include a lot of colloquialisms), and the inconsistency isn't found because the models built don't extend all the way out to real world experiences (training) and recognizing text as a real world experience narrative. I think a much deeper network could do better but we don't know how to train them, we take way too long as it is.
If I'm willing to accept as little as $60, then I should bid $60. If someone else bids $1000, then I get $1000. I don't do any better by anticipating their bid and inflating my own bid to $999. If they bid $61, I get $61, and because I value not-having-Facebook at $60, that means I get $1 of surplus value.

Anyone bidding higher than their minimum price doesn't fully understand the second-price auction. Probably lots of people don't understand it, which could lead to inflated bids. (but that doesn't mean you, knowing better, should inflate your own bid!)
you're assuming he's telling the truth..

more likely:

- policy exists for drivers own packages or is poorly checked so that other packages can be returned for the $$ even though they are not that drivers

- thief is using loophole/lack of oversight in policy possibly along with feigned ignorance to make this excuse to make the theft seem like an accident
Just guessing, but perhaps it's more intuitive to non-programmers/casual users? You read left-to-right.
The CMB consists of longer wavelengths than light (around 1 mm compared to 500 nm, or 2000 times larger), so a radio telescope capable of resolving an angle as small as a small planet 100 AU away would be enormous, kilometers in diameter.
That's the same as the Liberty vs Security distinction for laws in society. Time and again average people with prefer to sacrifice the former for the latter.
WeWork has leverage that they convert into a lot of arbitrage. I'm not so convinced of the value there.
I think this misrepresents the pull vs. push issue.

I wrote something up two years about this that was pretty well received. https://www.circonus.com/2016/06/pully-mcpushface/
From what you say, it sounds like you think, that Brotli has a better compression ratio, than Zstdandard.

According to this chart, Zstandard has a better compression ratio, while compressing and decompressing faster than Brotli: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
>For example, can it...

Yes. There will be a subquery and jsonb indexes need to be thought out in order to make it fast
> WeWork forms a subsidiary to represent each lease deal, which means individual locations could fold without leaving the company itself with much risk. The parent company only guarantees the lease for about six to 12 months on a 15-year agreement, according to documents associated with WeWork’s inaugural bond offering.

So, they sign a 15-year lease but are only on the hook for the first year? How does that work? Sounds more like a year lease with an option to extend?
Fifteen years ago I ran a DARPA Grand Challenge team. At the time, I thought about commercial applications. Starting at the slow-speed end looked better from a safety perspective. Most problems below 25MPH can be dealt with by slamming on the brakes.

The first area to look at was rental car return. When you're done with the rental car, you get out at the terminal, and it drives itself, slowly, back to rental car turn-in. When you order a rental car at the airport, it drives itself slowly to the terminal and picks you up at the curb. Then you drive away manually.

The numbers didn't look good. You're competing with minimum wage labor, and the hardware costs too much. That's still the case. Also, back then, everybody was so paranoid about airport security that getting this past TSA would be really hard.

Second area was shuttle buses. Parking lots, campuses, amusement parks - all slow speed applications. Local Motors and Navya are doing this. Navya had a backup driver on their Las Vegas shuttle bus for the first year or so. Not clear if they finally got rid of them. They have several test installations, but it's not clear that they have trustworthy real autonomy. They have a demo route in Switzerland, but "VBSH has in addition hired and trained three attendants who are always also on board the bus during trips." Their CEO was just fired for underperforming.[1] Local Motors does demos, but still seems to be searching for a serious customer. Baidu has a self-driving bus program, and they've built about a hundred of them. Not clear if they need a "safety driver".

It's rather disappointing that even the slow speed shuttle buses on fixed routes are not yet really autonomous.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/19/navya-ceo-fired-after-big...
Ya basically what verdverm said. They are much more addictive since you can smoke them anywhere anytime now.
Is Denaturalization the Next Front in the Trump Admin’s War on Immigration?
However there are external costs to sports that other extracurriculars don't have. You also end up spending a lot of the school budget on facilities (stadiums, pools etc) that are a waste of time.
A lot of the fundamentals have actually already been researched and at least in academia, the various ideas have all been out there for quite a few decades now.

The main impetus has been in getting the funding to kickstart everything, and backing from Alphabet with strong financial support plus an intellectual talent from subsidiaries (Google, X, etc.) to pool from is the killer combination here in my opinion.
FreeBSD can bundle it in the installer, and put the root filesystem in a ZFS dataset.

Because of GPL incompatibility with the CDDL, Linux cannot do this. A compliant installer must put root on something else, usually ext4 or xfs. A Linux installer iso putting root in a zfs dataset opens a terrible legal door.
Paypal, Patreon, Slack .. all are just private companys and they are all free to choose there customers.
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Who is Kroger and Nuro's insurance carrier on this if something bad happens?

What's the liability if their autonomous grocery kart runs over someone?
> and integrated

Considering one of thse comes default the base system and the installer can install to it, has jail(8) integration, etc etc

and one of them is an addon which will never be merged to the main kernel (which is only a kernel), and because of this, will likely never be directly supported by the main linux distribution vendors, I'd say the jury is still out on this piece..

lack of base system integration for linuces also leaves the 'maintained' somewhat up in the air too.. if I'm running $linux_flavor and Zfs crashes, and the ZoL devs blame this particular distros particular configuration/build options, toolchain, etc
where do I go for a fix?

migrate to another linux with totally different package mgmt, etc?

but yes, it looks like the zfs core code itself is more actively updated for that portion directly.
Amir doesn't say whether or not he's an Iranian citizen. If so, there would seem to be a deliberate conflation being made here between Iranian ethnicity and nationality. He only says he's a PhD student in Canada. I don't want to be uncharitable and accuse the submitter of playing "hide the ball" with the headline, but I do suspect it.

That said, it's hard to see how sanctions would apply to Iranian nationals working outside of Iran on any type of visa/residency using Slack to communicate with people who are also outside the country. It's also terrible practice to unceremoniously nuke customer accounts along with all their data. Hope to see a response from Slack.
The subsidiary signs the 15-year lease, not WeWork.

So basically if the location turns out to be unprofitable, the subsidiary goes out of business or goes bankrupt and WeWork isn't stuck with the lease.

From the landlord's perspective, yes it is basically equivalent to a year lease with option to extend... not totally clear why the landlord would agree to that.
Because some thief is getting away with it.
Who knows. The definition is vague to the point of uselessness. Pluto, apparently, is not a planet because it hasn't cleared Neptune out of its orbit. But then by symmetry neither has Neptune cleared Pluto out of its orbit, so if we're to have any consistency then we can't call Neptune a planet either. Oops.

The reality is that the IAU definition of "planet" was a very poor decision made by people who aren't planetary scientists. The geophysical definition is much better: an object large enough to assume spherical shape from its own gravitational force acting on its constituent material, and too small to have initiated fusion and be a star.

So Pluto is a planet, as is Ceres, the Moon, and a thousand other known objects.
At 100$ median valuation, wouldn't that mean that facebook's value is inflated (the article states ~250$ per user)?
Uh oh, another overpriced company funded by Softbank. Softbank, remember, is funded by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. They're also behind Uber. They seem to be the world's largest source of dumb money.

I wonder what the big customer lease deals with WeWork look like. They probably don't get the markup they do with little tenants.
This happened to my friend last year, her security camera captured the whole thing: driver dropped off the package, took a picture as proof of delivery, then picked up the package. She didn't report to the police in fear of retaliation.
What I've come to learn from using Go on a number of projects and reading the long mailing list threads on topics that lead to the decisions and development of language features is that Go is a language intended for many programmers (e.g. average) to be successful writing systems(-like) software. Officially, it was meant to be for systems software, but it's since expanded beyond that scope. Given that it's designed and developed by very bright authors for everyday programmers, it's actually surprising how much thought has gone into seemingly obvious language features. They want users of the language to be successful more than they want their users ego to be happy about language features.

Given that, they do also 'talk down' in their official documentation. I had to look back in time to understand the memory model for the sync.atomic operations which is documented:

"These functions require great care to be used correctly. Except for special, low-level applications, synchronization is better done with channels or the facilities of the sync package. Share memory by communicating; don't communicate by sharing memory."

The final word on what 'great care' means is that Go doesn't actually have a memory model for this part of the standard library. The discussion thread around it has a different tone than the official documentation. They agree on how they want implementations to operate, but don't feel that it needs to be officially defined or documented. I would have been happy if they at least referenced the discussion thread rather than merely label it 'great care' meaning 'not for you'. The other thing you find is that the performant parts of the standard library often does not follow "Share memory by communicating; don't communicate by sharing memory".

One of the betrayals when working with I/O was finding that standard library routines can return a value AND an error, and that sometimes a non-nil error is not an error (EOF is not the only one of these).
Remembering the chain rule is useless sure, but concepts like how integration works, Newton's method, Bayes rule, and a comfort with calculus-y concepts help me in my job all the time, when reasoning about problems and understanding systems.
ah, never mind then, I get it. I was thinking about backwards, or maybe sideways, but either way not right side up. Thanks for the explanation.
No, because the average value is what we'd use in that calculation, not the median.

They also left out those who wouldn't leave for any amount of money, ostensibly, which is tricky because they probably valued it tremendously.
Hey, at least it's a type of problem rather than a problem itself.

I haven't studied enough myself yet to know the answer to this one, but what are the differences between AlphaZero and the OpenAI 5 DOTA team's approach? Would it be possible to apply AlphaZero to DOTA?
Businesses love to throw money at a problem so it Just Works and they don’t have to think about it. This shouldn’t be surprising: a large percentage of the enterprise software industry, including most cloud computing, runs on this tendency. WeWork is just extending this idea into the realm of physical office space.
> C# has a strong static type system, right? Well, it has dynamic features and is hardly strong compared to, say, Haskell.

Well, we can say that C# is a statically-typed language with reflection, some degree of support for dynamic typing and very limited degree of support for type inference (variable declaration only). I've chosen to omit detalising this in the question but I in fact meant typing discipline can be described with a number of fields/tags rather than one field. Needless to say this kind of description of a language can not be 100% perfect and deterministic so some degree of subjectivity and imprecision is implied as acceptable.

> Wikipedia has all the hard facts, though not in an easy-to-query format

Exactly.

For example I'd like to find out if there is a statically typed language with type inference that supports partial function application, type classes, pattern matching and allows you to include imperative code inside your functions (the only answer I know is Scala yet its type classes implementation is not an integral part of the language).
Microsoft Releases Out-Of-Band Security Update for Internet Explorer RCE 0-Day
Do people really not realize that there are reusable K-cup inserts that you can put your own coffee in, it's nearly just as fast and can be cleaned in the dishwasher? We've been doing this for years and basically use the Keurig to waste less water and energy when we need a single cup. I mean the insert isn't perfect as it's still plastic, but it's significantly less waste.
On a related note - could someone please develop a mass-produced stirling engine for low-temp differential residential use??
I was going to bring up the quaternions if no one had. When I was asked to bring in a fictional approach to the Riemann Hypothesis for the film "A Beautiful Mind", the quaternions were my first thought.

There's a pecking order here.

I was at a tech party in Berkeley last fall. When various gamers (such as the founder of "Second Life") learned that I was a mathematician, they fawned over the octonions.

I'm sure there's something there (the octonions seriously screwed with my first research idea in college) but I can't say what it is.
It is a cherry picked data point, and not representative for brotli. There, facebook shows numbers with quality 0. However, when they compress for the web, they use brotli with quality 5 for dynamic content and quality 9 (or 11?) for static content.

At higher quality settings brotli wins in compression density, and particularly so with quality 11 or with short files.

Quality 0 is an irrelevant corner case of maximal compression speed, and is completely impractical for most uses.

If you plot the whole curve, brotli's density is above that of zstd's for compression speed/density -- when both algos are used with same backward reference window size.
> Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft disabled VBScript execution in Internet Explorer in the Internet Zone and the Restricted Sites Zone by default

I'm very surprised this hasn't been done a decade ago.
I will do it for free... Wait, I already did...
I would expect them to be more worried about Winnie the Pooh given the impact of China and Xi's sheer irrational hatred and sweeping bans over the one image comparing the two.
cool, just that most zstd benchmarking against other algos that I ever saw was with -22, i.e., disregarding memory use and multi-processing performance

would be wonderful to see benchmarking with real data and with realistic (and same from one algorithm to the next) window sizes
Huh?

That's not what I said at all. I was explaining how the US system is very different than the Scandinavian system. That's all. You can't compare them at all.

Whatever racist undertone you heard there was your doing not mine.
vi, cvs|svn, C, bash, awk,sed, python and tcl.
Linux (rpm based) or FreeBSD. Firefox or lynx.
Haven't changed much in 20 years.
> In this post, I’d like to focus on a question that any “explanation” for QM at some point needs to address, in a non-question-begging way: why should amplitudes have been complex numbers?

I will take your word for it that

> The question in the post is "Why is the universe this way and not another way?" not "Why do we choose to use complex numbers in our description of the universe?"

but why then does he so prominently raise this question at the beginning, answer it later, and title his post "why are amplitudes complex?". I must be really out of the loop. Did I really get the subject of this post so badly wrong? Sorry about that. Is this not a very confusing way to go about discussing why the universe is this way and not another?
Sounds like drug addiction.
The point is that the range of human achievement is graduated, and even if we are all given equal abilities and have equal drives, we will not all see equal success. This is a dangerous fallacy.

It's obvious when you look at people and conclude from, say, physical stature, that a person is exceedingly unlikely to succeed as a professional linebacker. But somehow we do not even allow for the possibility of our cognitive limits being set by a combination of our genes and our experiences.
It feels cheap and nasty to ride on compared to a train. Still better than a regular bus for speed which means you're not on it for long (usually).
Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice
No it wouldnt mean that

The silicon valley user-currency ponzi scheme is just for show, and to be able to afford a home

Facebook derives a lot of value from its users but it isnt solely proportional, it is a multinational with many revenue streams
If you have a Walmart nearby, there's a good chance you've got a place to recycle plastic bags. They generate a ton of them and as part of their greenwashing they usually have recycling stations available for the plastic bags.

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2018/05/...
Wework Brooklyn #22 LLC signs the lease with the landlord and thus is responsible for the lease obligations. Wework LLC (proper) guarantees these lease payments for only 6- 12 months of the lease. After this time the only party responsible for the lease is the LLC that was formed.

Landlords are likely agreeing to this only because Wework would never be able to sign a lease with any owner if they defaulted on a location.
I'll see your snark and raise you two, throwing Emacs in for good measure. ;)

Have you heard of org-export-json? [1]

Have you heard of json.el? [2]

[1] https://github.com/mattduck/org-toggl-py/blob/master/org-exp...

[2] http://tess.oconnor.cx/2006/03/json.el
To elaborate for you, I was saying that with enough words anything can be justified.

Ergo, in response to your previous post, one of two things is true. (1) There is no true evil in the world. Or (2) one should be suspicious of elaborate arguments, because they're often coming from people paid to defend profitable evil.

The counterargument to (2) would be "Well, 'good' has PR too." But I think it's objectively demonstrable that evil pays much better.
I've sadly been to hospital via ambulance quite a lot for seizure activity and that kinda carrying on. The biggest bill was when I received my $54 bill for the ambulance! Oh no. (St John is a volunteer ambulance service). So, I went and paid it and then paid them $80 for an annual househould membership - meaning if anyone in my house ever needs an ambulance, it's free!

I'm aware however, with the rescue helicopters there can sometimes be complications because at the end of the day, someone needs to pay - but as an accident, everything's covered under ACC anyways. (and: http://www.police.govt.nz/faq/if-i-get-lost-and-need-search-...)
stealing packages is so much more personal than, say, shoplifting

When it occurs at my house, and my name and address the thief clearly knows, it magnifies personal risk in a way that shoplifting doesn't.
My guess is the grandparent is (mis-)remembering the kerfuffle[0] around mongo shipping a copy of PG as a "BI Connector". But yeah, the timeline is off, that was in 2015.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10697692
From the blog post:

> Malta’s solution is to store electricity as heat in high temperature molten salt and cold in a low temperature liquid for days, or even weeks, until it’s needed. The key insight behind Malta is that electricity can be stored as heat in high temperature molten salt and cold in a low temperature liquid for days, or even weeks, until it’s needed.

The key insight is an oft forgotten energy storage fundamental called ‘tautology’.
The "this" was referring to dynamically building queries (the GP comment by me) in Ecto (the parent comment by QuinnWilton). What you've said is a non-sequitur in the context of this little discussion. My whole original point is that raw SQL isn't right in all situations, and you appear to be arguing that I just use SQL instead.
By "first half" you mean before Iowa, and by "second half" you mean after Iowa.
Anyone know if there was a change in quality when it was named "Extreme" vs what is now called "Very high"?
It does. The old cities have combined systems, storm and sewage together. To accommodate rainwater and maintenance, they are essentially brick corridors. Some are huge.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/why-not/11621489/sewer...

More modern cities have separate systems for sewage and stormwater, and these are contained in small pipes that people cannot walk around in. Upgrading from a combined system is a massive project, well beyond something like 5g imho.

https://www.thames21.org.uk/combined-sewer-systems/
Size isn't sufficient though. It also needs to have cleared its orbit.