skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are interesting precedents for the court to choose.

Music and video download sites (and apps) that get blocked are presumably ones where the majority of music and video downloaded are done so without the permission of the copyright holders. There is plenty of unlicensed music and video on YouTube, but it is a minority of the content available because of YouTube's filters, so the site is usually not blocked.

In the other example, sanctioning a student for copyright infringement only affects the student that has been found guilty. I can't imagine a university disconnecting all students if just one student is found infringing copyright.

So, while these precedents do show the technical and practical feasibility of the blocking, they are not examples of long standing practices where the not-protected speech of a minority is sufficient grounds for restricting the protected speech of a majority.
Also would recommend books by Harry Lorayne (The Memory Book is the most well known). I've not yet read Moonwalking with Einstein to see how it compares, but it likely has the same techniques (loci/memory palace, different mnemonics, peg lists, etc).

https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/...

Personally, though, beyond using mnemonics for numbers, I never did master the techniques. I think it's a lot easier if you start at around age 10. By the time you're in your 20's you have a lot of habits around memorizing that you have to unlearn.
"...the endowment eventually grows to fund 100% of tuition. At that point, the question "why do they need more?" becomes obvious and unanswerable."

This is a very good articulation of my points, thanks for laying it out so crisply. Worth noting that this is already a reality at a select few places. While there is continual agitating in America for our Gov. to provide free college, it turns out that some elite private institutions are already in a position to do so, or will be in the next decade. Food for thought, including the follow-on social implications of the headline: "Tuition Now Free At Harvard! Still $50,000/year At Your Local State University Though"

Regarding agency effects / moral hazard:

Someone asked me on another forum what predictions, if any, I would be willing to make in defense of this article.

I tried to rattle off a few off the top of my head with low conviction. One that I comes back to me still is:

"Professor Salaries will have an increasing Gini coefficient vs. today (i.e. profs at Harvard make a higher multiple of Profs at State Colleges 25 years from now)"

Given that the Top institutions will be competing for talent with Compound Returns while everyone else must compete with Tuition increases, I think this would be interesting to study & observe. I have zero data on this unfortunately, so it's just an unsupported hypothesis for now...
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There is no "JPEG instruction set" as such --- and what you may be referring to by MPEG2 is MMX, which is just a SIMD extension that certainly helps with JPEG and MPEG decoding, among other things.
echo '#include <stdio.h>' > fb.c
./fizzbuzz > buf
xxd -i buf >> fb.c
echo 'int main(void) { return fwrite(buf, buf_len, 1, stdout) != 1; }' >> fb.c
as someone not familiar with compilation, what's the purpose of moving from GCC to Clang ? especially if performance aren't better ? (I think it's what they are trying to do)
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Was this comment meant pejoratively?
Define "catastrophe". Is a thousand people dying a catastrophe? A million? Or does it take a billion?

If it's a thousand (or maybe even a million), we're already there just with air pollution. Forget CO2, particulates are already that level of catastrophe.

For just CO2 or global warming, there are projections (or, less charitably, guesses) about how much CO2 will lead to how much warming, which will lead to how many deaths. Pick your level of what constitutes a catastrophe to you, and then pick which projections you find most believable. For actual answers rather than projections, we'll have to wait until after it happens (at which point it's a bit late to try to do anything about it).
I agree, and the "don't want to talk about morbid stuff" shows an overall immaturity in thinking about risk and controls. People die, people get sick, people leave for other jobs or roles, people steal. The institution has to be able to survive.

That's not to say folks should be callous about it. But failing to think about things like this is also unfair and stressful to employees who are not dead.
very interesting read. US Postal service had some rigorous requirements and these trucks are definitely an engineering feat. Here in Canada, the Canada Post trucks are similar looking too.
I said something similar to a girlfriend once. She didn't take it too well...
Make a conscious and overt decision to forfeit those accumulated benefits.
I don’t think the posted article is referring to non-lethal bus collisions.
As a natural person, our interest payments are NOT tax deductible.

Corporations get to deduct interest costs from their taxes. So PE firms are incentivized to load up the firms they attack with debt.

Additionally, PE firms are allowed to use a firm's own money as collateral for the loan used to take over the firm. This includes the pension funds.

So any public firm responsibly run is subject to attack. Its almost irresponsible for a firm to fund the pension fund as it will be used against the firm.

The solution:

1. Require that any loan be based on the assets currently controlled by the PE firm.

2. Eliminate tax deduction for debts that are not directly tied to capital purchases.
Might be interesting if all the tests used the same library for output. After all both D and Rust can use C libraries.
Romanization is a nice way to input characters but very slow to read for native speakers.
That's really tough. Sorry to hear about that. It's all abstract until it actually happens and then suddenly all those lessons bear fruit. You of course hope you'll never need them, but just in case you (or those that take over from you) do you will be very happy (insofar as the situation allows) that you were prepared.

It is an interesting phenomenon that I hear several times per year 'but what are the chances of this actually happening?'. The chances in any particular case are pretty good. But with 43 companies we looked at in 2018 and 100+ over the last years there are multiple such instances that I can refer to so even if the chances are not super high they probably are a lot higher than you think they are!
...Yes, the guy in the video is Eric.
This. I pivoted by finding applications of ML in my day-to-day engineering role, until I got enough internal traction to justify a title change from "____ Engineer" to "Data Scientist." About a year later, I jumped ship to a startup applying ML to my domain, and I am contemplating making the move to FAANG next.
I'm one of a couple domain experts on my team. I am well respected as such. The reason I "sit ... coffee.. think things through" is because I am doing a mental impact analysis. How are the suggestions going to affect the system as a whole. One simply cannot know these things off the top of their head in a meeting for a system of any meaningful size.

It is precisely because of my experience that my team is OK with me taking an hour to ponder.

Edit: Let me clarify one thing. I'm not talking about situations where, say, the PO comes and asks, "Hey, JustSomeNobody, why does the system do this under these conditions?" I know the answer to this. If they want logs for that specific instance, I can get them. What I'm talking about is, when the PO calls a meeting and says, "I just got off the phone with <Entity>, they want these changes to the system. What will it take?" I don't answer these questions, definitively, without thinking about them. That does NOBODY any good. I'll sometimes give a few initial thoughts for the sake of the meeting, but that's it.
Re: I'm guessing they have a protocol to prioritize data from different instruments as well as prioritize data purging if there is an opportunity to look at something more interesting before everything could be sent back home.

I suspect if a new nearby target were discovered, they may have to send back just thumbnails and summarized/compressed data, review the summaries back on Earth, and only request the more promising full images and data snippets.

I just hope they already have such compression/summarizing software onboard because sending significant new software that far can be a bear. I wonder if they planned for such a "rush job" scenario?
A lot wordier than "hit by a bus" though.
> I would. Iowa and Tennessee are much, much smaller economies. It's truly remarkable that California, with an economy ten times larger, can nonetheless grow at a comparable rate.

No it's not. California's economy is larger simply because it has more people. That doesn't make it any harder to grow the economy further. According to the same BEA data, the Great Lakes region as a whole (which has a population comparable to California) grew faster than California. If your theory were correct, it should be much harder for the U.S. to grow than France, and for France to grow than Sweden. But that's not borne out by the data: https://snbchf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GDP-Per-Capita...

(If California's economic production per capita were much higher, you might hit "diminishing returns" effects, but that's not the case.)
Fully funded pension plans are assets that a PE firm uses as collateral for the loan to do a hostile takeover of the firm.
Interesting! Are there any resources or books that you might share that delve into this kind of reasoning towards UI engineering?
According to wikipedia, it is the same vehicle. It looks like we've chosen a different replacement than USPS, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
I was puzzled for an instant as to why on earth would they be RHD, until I realised that this enables the driver to deliver mail without having to get out in the street and walk around the vehicle, thus being both safer and more efficient.
Despite many technical reasons, I think license is also one of the biggest motivations.
Hm. I guess if you read it as a euphemism for getting a better job offer elsewhere, winning a medium-sized lottery prize is more accurate: you can, in theory, contact a former employee, buy them drinks in exchange for getting their advice on a thorny problem, counteroffer them either now or in a year, etc. (And with a larger prize it's not impossible they'll use the winnings to start their own company or maybe even split the winnings with a coworker they're friends with.

Winning a lottery prize large enough to never talk to anyone again, and getting hit by a vehicle, are both very low-probability events. Employees (especially good employees, and perhaps in groups) leaving is a much more pressing risk.
There was no single "Paleolithic diet," different peoples in different geologic areas ate different things in differing amounts.

Even if there was, the foods that existed in Paleolithic times no longer exist due to both natural genetic changes combined with selective breeding.
This piece gives a hint where Trivago as a company went with Holacracy. The lack of focus is so obvious and seems to let individual developers create some work which is not just poorly worded but also nonsense:

Why should anyone test a format which is used by just two browsers with a very small market share and which will be never adopted by the company with the biggest market share (because Google has WebP). JPEG-XR is DOA and nobody should care and waste time on this (except the OP gone astray).

I like that there is a tl;dr right at the beginning though.
Lasted longer than an iPhone 4 would have.
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The state of Illinois, the state of California, probably most other states, too, all in the same bad situation. If you look at the budgets for school districts, same thing--a lot of $$$ going to pension obligations, starving the rest of the organization. Our taxes keep going up, but no level of tax can fill this void. Pensions were pretty much a ponzi, they spent the money and what they invested failed to perform as projected.

Every city, county, local municipality, and school district over-promised on pensions while underpaying salaries.
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I enjoyed the article but I see two overlooked aspects that significantly weaken the author's argument:

1. Statisticians are substitutes for data. You don't necessarily need new / more data if you have a statistician.

2. Data often contains a lot of redundant information. Big data may simply be duplicative.
16 bytes isn't always enough to store an IPv6 address. Depending on the requirements, you may need to store a fully scoped IPv6 address, such as fe80::1%eth0.

Edit to note: I store the fully scoped IPv6 address in a database as part of my CMDB mechanism.
I think people are internalizing what is essentially a macro issue down to the personal level. In reality, individuals are likely to be fine. We're not going to wake up one day and be instantly vaporized.

The section about people not wanting to have children because of climate change is really shocking. I find it crazy that people would literally weed themselves out of the gene pool on the idea that the planet will be uninhabitable in the very near future.

Humans are resilient, humans solve problems, humans have technology. Maybe this will push us to go to space sooner than we would have? Maybe we'll create underground cities? This is an opportunity to advance human technology and society, not the time to throw in the towel and commit genetic suicide. Thankfully I think most people wouldn't do that, it's just that doesn't make for compelling clickbait so those thoughts didn't get included in this article.
I haven’t inspected it myself (I’m on mobile atm) but usually that kind of thing is an animated SVG. You can animate SVG nodes with CSS just like HTML
As far as I can tell, nobody has ever made it easy to fix this problem. I don't believe there is any webpack (etc.) plugin that will just recompress images for you. You have to do it manually. As a result, people don't do it, even those that have a proper "build process" for their website.

Maybe I should write one, I guess.
Guess it depends on what kind of non-lethal. There's lots of ways to be functionally knocked out of commission for a long time.
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I don't care what the case is about. We already have laws on threats, its not the Universities job to hide or block those threats. Even if they did somehow block the sites these "credible threats" were posted on it still does not stop the fact that the threats were made.

In fact I argue that if the university prevented a threat from reaching me that they could be held liable for any damage done to me should that threat come to fruition -- by blocking my ability to be aware I was in danger.

Moreover, even if the Universities did so on their own networks that does not thing for the rest of the internet that lives in each and every students pocket.

If somebody makes a credible threat you report it and take action. Banning sites that some people use to make threats is not the solution -- if it were, you might as well ban the entire internet.
>Vitamin D does wonders.

Except in studies, where it is still inconclusive.

For general supplement research, I tend to look at:

http://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-s...
> It should be a separate company that exists solely for the purpose of paying the benefits at retirement.

Yes. S.O.C.I.A.L. S.E.C.U.R.I.T.Y.

Look how well Americans will fight for and defend Social security benefits.

We really should just force an expansion of Social Security like most civilized countries.
When groups of friends are already engaged in a long-running iMessage group chat, the introduction of an Android user is disruptive. Suddenly, the group chat gets separated into a million individual SMS-MMS threads, until you get each individual person to fix the problem in their settings.

yeah, that sucks. I also see a lot of one person's texted witticism, followed by multiple instances of "laughed at" messages in response (e.g. "Mary laughed at 'There better be cold beer at goat yoga this time...')
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Other examples:

While I couldn't find a source quickly, I'd guess the typical brown UPS truck is a custom design, as are their newer, electric(?) variants?

German Post/DHL couldn't get the car industry to make them an affordable electric delivery vehicle, so they bought an electric vehicle startup out of RWTH Aachen and made their own (now also starting to sell these to others, although I think they're teaming up with Ford to produce more of them)
So the pitch is that you don't have to do feature engineering... but then instead it seems people do network structure engineering with featurish things like convolutions.

The performance is still better in most cases but I often have to wonder, are people just doing feature engineering once removed and is the better performance just the result of having WAY more parameters in the model?
Grumman became informally known as the Grumman Iron Works for its rugged airplanes.
Why is it always a bus?
To quote that reddit post, which I think has some good interesting details about why:

“I believe the problem with ..= is that x..(y + 1) is not identical with x..=y. They are nearly equivalent on most values for x and y, except when y == i32::max(). At that point, x..=y should still be able to function, while x..(y + 1) is allowed to do nothing.”
This article trended on flip board unexpectedly. Is AI a threat?
>"glory" days of employer-paid pensions

Furthermore, the structure of most of those pensions was oriented around long-term (i.e. decades-long) employment at big, stable employers. Someone who moved around every few years would probably end up without much of a pension.
Part of the answer might lie in seeing statistics for what percentage of congressional candidates have been women, over time.
You mean send a Telescope to the Kuiper Belt? I believe resources would be better spent sending a probe to one or few of the bigger Kuiper Belt objects, such as Eris and Sedna. New Horizon's "target problem" is rather specific to that probe. Pluto was its primary mission. Other bodies were considered a bonus, and the probe doesn't have enough fuel to target the bigger (known) objects. Perhaps that was a mistake; but many of these were discovered after the probe was budgeted.
If there were credible threats of violence, that would be criminal assault: something for the police to investigate. Universities don't have power of subpoena so there is nothing they can do here.
the problem with 'wins the lottery' as a metaphor to me is basically that one is calling the winner a jerk..

if I suddenly could retire without a care in the world, I probably wouldn't mind dropping in for a day or two every now and again for knowledge transfer, even if I didn't like the company overall, to help my teammates..
Those of us who have compute-bound workloads (scientific simulations in my case, but this often comes up in gamedev and elsewhere) often complain about how unusably slow debug builds impede our workflow in C++. One fairly common solution to this in extreme cases is sticking to a mostly C-like subset of the language or just using C. I don't have much experience with Rust, but judging by the results here, debug builds in Rust are effectively useless, even compared to C++. How do Rust programmers deal with this? Do you just give up and resort to printf debugging, or are there ways to improve the situation?
I've been looking for an example that shows how pattern matching can make code much both compact and readable. I think this does nicely. Here's an example in Scala:

(1 to 100).map(i => (i % 3, i % 5) match {
case (0, 0) => "FizzBuzz"
case (0, _) => "Fizz"
case (_, 0) => "Buzz"
case _ => s"$i"
}).foreach(println)

Compare that to the rest of the examples on the page. The only one that comes close in either readability or compactness (in my opinion) is the Rust example, mainly because it's syntactically almost identical, just a bit more verbose. I'm really excited that C# 8 will support similar syntax with _ discards.
So, what would have happened if they UMW had blocked Yik Yak on their network and students continued to use it (since its a smartphone app) on their phones using cellular data?
To be fair there is a lot of domain knowledge embedded in the use of a convolutional architecture. There is a fascinating paper where the authors don't even train the weights of the convolutional layers and are still able to achieve good performance.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.04801v2.pdf
Reread the article. Clearly the PE owners have figured out exactly how to get all their money out before bankruptcy.

Sears, Toys R' Us, Marsh .... all brought by PE firms. All drained dry by interest payments, until there is nothing left.

The vampires have already gotten all the blood out of the body before bankruptcy occurs.
europeans do not even know the meaning of the word europe since the current suggested etymologies are all just pleasant nonsense

anyone who studies sanskrit and knows a bit of history will be able to figure it out

so western claims of ownership of sanskrit via these steppe theories seem laughable

no doubt it helps some people sleep better at night but you really should strive for the truth instead
Do you fancy chatting further about this? I've been toying with writing a hacker's guide to spectroscopy, and it would be interesting to know what sort of experiments schools would find useful. Feel free to get in touch at josh at iayc dot org.

> Food inspection is silly unless that is your job.

Nevertheless, that's what the majority of the consumer devices are going for. Ripeness detection, "quality" measurements (eg measuring brix) and so on. SCiO also mention things like pill identification and body fat measurements. This is the problem: these are all gimmicky things that get VC funding but aren't all that useful in the real world.

This is the AMS sensor btw https://www.digikey.co.uk/product-detail/en/ams/AS72651-BLGT...
I guess one upshot to the SVM approach is that there's math for quantifying how well a given model will generalize, subject to some assumptions.

Is there anything like that in the ANN world?
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I was wondering about testimonials myself. It sounds wonderful for people with physical impairments who can't use a keyboard or mouse. But in terms of productivity or ease of use for most developers, are there any benefits to using voice over a keyboard and mouse?
Reclamation does not un-concentrate the materials found in the impoundment. Typically a "Mine Plan of Operations" which includes the reclamation plan is a contouring of the topography and vegetation. Some mines require indefinite groundwater treatment due to leaching from tailings ponds or other mine activity. The cost responsibility for this _indefinite_ process is sometimes borne by the state following bankruptcy of a mine.