skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which doubles the cost of communication equipment and the cops will just use the encrypted channels all the time because it's more convenient than remembering to switch.

Journalists have to learn to do the footwork to researching stories themselves instead of camping on a scanner frequency and copy-pasting what they hear without considering that they may be publishing an innocent person's name in association with a crime. For transparency there's the public releases the sheriff's office puts out that have been written with responsible disclosure in mind. If the public reports aren't detailed enough that's a separate concern that can be addressed without exposing the private details of innocent people or exposing officers to harm.
What about the opportunity cost that he potentially lost by starting his company outside of Silicon Valley? I am not saying that he definitely did, but the fact that OP doesn't mention it at all makes his whole post feel a bit disingenuous. In fact, it reminds me a lot of people who talk about how much money they saved by not going to college and how it is the way to go for everyone, despite studies [of US colleges] showing otherwise.

P.S. I don't lean one way or the other about colleges, there are definitely cases where not going is a good idea. However not even seriously looking into upsides of going and closing eyes on potentially missed opportunities will devalue your argument.
Seems like it will be hard to get it to work in Tensorflow, because it needs to compute the gradient in an unusual way, which afaik don't play nice with the existing architecture.

My guess is it will need some deep wizardry of the same kind as OpenAI gradient check-pointing.

Neural ODE, is a nice trick to reduce the memory usage to O(1) instead of O(nb timesteps). But the implementation cost and complexity cost probably mean we are better using gradient check-pointing on a forward dynamic and pay the memory cost.

It will also probably won't play well with noise.

Are there any implementation of it in tensorflow yet?
Fair enough. But when the choice is a 2080 for 699 with RTX and their new 2080 competitor without RTX for 2080, or no AMD card at all, it's not a hard choice.
Ok, but why should that influence a managed language with no pointers?
I have a rack full of machines like this. Dual sockets with 8GB ram each. Any affordable upgrade would be a downgrade. I'm looking at at least $200 per U to upgrade from hardware that is essentially worthless. I literally got the CPUs for $2 each. There's something really funny going on with prices after core 2.
There used to be talk about how to increase "reuse" of software, and now that systems use masses of libraries, the down-sides of heavy but casual reuse are coming to light.

I'm not sure of an easy answer. Perhaps the libraries can be reworked to make it easier to only use or extract the specific parts you need, but it's difficult to anticipate future and varied needs well. Trial and error, and blood, sweat, and tears may be the trick; but, nobody wants to pay for such because the benefits are not immediate nor guaranteed.

OOP use to be "sold" as a domain modelling tool. It pretty much failed at that for non-trivial domains (in my opinion at least), but made it easier to glue libraries together, and glue we did.
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A quick Google search for 'wikileaks withheld' yields a few links [0][1][2].

[0] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/09/wikileaks-may-have-withhe...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42019835

[2] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-wikileaks-withheld...
In the Loop – January 23, 2019
Do these qualities apply just for human-readable specifications?
It's good to know both sides of the story.
I thought the 'and' was typically used to denote a decimal place.

ex: $270.50 -> Two hundred seventy dollars and fifty cents
Why do all personal finance apps cost a ton of money :(
Is it also to allow other nodes on the network to communicate, especially if they're on the same collision domain?
Epic are considering adding another language between C++ and Blueprints to UE4
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https://proselitegroup.com/buddypress-groups/watchnfl2019-kilmarnock-v-rangers-l-i-v-e-s-t-r-e-a-m/

https://proselitegroup.com/buddypress-groups/s-t-r-e-a-m-free-kilmarnock-v-rangers-live-stream-football/

https://proselitegroup.com/buddypress-groups/live-free-kilmarnock-v-rangers-live-stream-free/

https://proselitegroup.com/buddypress-groups/live-tvfc-rangers-vs-kilmarnock-live-watch-online/

https://proselitegroup.com/buddypress-groups/gamelive-fc-rangers-vs-kilmarnock-live-watch-online-free/
Looks like the URL needs to be plain-http, not https.

And unfortunately it thinks North America is the entire world. :)
Glad to hear that. Travis is also being used in my company and every build spawns a new virtual machine which takes almost a year to boot up. I heard good things about CircleCI. will give it a try asap.
That's what servers are for.
2) applies to progressive taxation as well. There's no reason to believe that raising taxes on the wealthy is just a free wellspring of enough money to fund huge, nation-wide social programs. There are myriad things that can go wrong: loss of investment pools harming the economy, disincentivising entrepreneurialism, the wealthy moving abroad, the actual collectable amount being less than you'd expect (because "wealth" is a very fuzzy concept in modern economies), the actual cost of these social programs being higher than you'd expect, etc etc.

Not that I want to shit all over the idea, it could equally work really well (I have no idea what the outcome would be), but a lot of the time these ideas don't receive the clear-headed analysis they deserve because they're ideological rather than logical in nature (taxation from the left, government efficiency from the right). I'd love it if we could pool all the ideas for ways to raise the minimum living standard, experiment with them and compare the results in a scientific way rather than just having two sides shouting at each other that their way is better.
For me (Javascript Developer), you have to stand on the shoulders of giants if you want to compete. Any code you re-invent is code you have to maintain.

I've found though, some engineers love to create everything from scratch, and this greatly hinders their ability to hire/fire as everything is proprietary, and usually not documented.

Most decisions are pretty grey, but for me, choosing to handle stuff yourself is never a good choice. In the same way as no-one should ever try and create Unity from scratch, no-one should try to create React from scratch. You simply can't compete with the support and effort of a global development team.

If you wanna learn though, that's a different kettle of fish. Reinvent the wheel all day. Just don't use it in production.
I agree with you there, but I don't think you can say much better about any other news source, unfortunately. They just lack a lot of the 'subtlety' publications like CNN have. They'll never be a paper of record like the NYT, byt they're pretty par for the course. Just right leaning.
And xmodmap is the de-facto solution for X11-based Unix machines. Rebind your keys in an ~/.xmodmaprc that is run at startx by your ~/.xinitrc.
> The idea of labeling "fake news" often emboldens believers of fake news to think of some grand conspiracy to hide the truth.

Well that's what it is - an attempt to bully media into self-censorship, or provide a fig leaf for actual censorship.
I feel like the production environment situation has changed significantly since Perl became popular. Now everything is run in "FROM alpine:latest" or whatever, and if it works once, it will mostly work everywhere. All the bugs that CPAN testers tried to find were platform differences like "debian puts /etc/passwd somewhere other than redhat". Yes, you will absolutely at some point encounter a bug due to some difference between Broadwell and Haswell or ARM and x86_64, so you can't completely ignore the issue. The regex to escape parentheses will probably work on ARM if it worked on x86_64. (I doubt the tests cases are likely to find this bug anyway, though it is sure nice if it does.)
> I also question Microsoft's decision to include the plugin at all. I'd rather not have an arbiter of truth looking over my shoulders, reminding me what i should or shouldn't read

This is such a tricky point. On the one hand I almost agree with you in the sense that it could have a dangerous outcome: ceding control to an entity who essentially influences what content users should read.

On the other hand, the amount of misleading information on the web is having a very real, very serious impact on the world. If used responsibly this might influence positive change.
It's always hard to agree on a definition of fake news, but their tweets are well documented to be extremely biased these days - even the tweet linked above uses loaded language like 'neocon'.
How much are you ready pay for it?
A good question to ask is how many orders of magnitude of what the average person makes do you need to make to be "incentivized" to be productive. Would the current billionaire stop participating in the economy if they suddenly could only make five orders of magnitude more than the average worker instead of six?
Thanks for these insights!

Do experimental (!) particle physicists have any other way of doing research on this than colliders?
I suppose it boils down to why the Feynman lectures are generally considered a gold standard in technical presentations.

His explanations focus on the most important bits (which he has skillfully prioritized based on his expert knowledge) and avoid highly domain specific nomenclature i.e. he gives a thorough-yet-concise explanation in a way that a reasonably intelligent lay person can understand.

Does that make sense?
Synopsys bought security scanner Brakeman and removed its open source license
There's nothing new about rich people wanting to kill off government. Fortunately it hasn't entirely worked yet, and our current safety net (as paltry as it may be) is still somewhat protecting the vulnerable margins of our society from being mercilessly swept up in the maw of modern scorched earth capitalism. This new generation of politicians like AOC will be our savior from the last three decades of self-serving grifters picking away at what was once a great nation with a sense of civic duty.
No idea why would would security.debian.org make a redirect. Can you paste the whole error message?

Regarding the other error, jessie ≠ stable. You want "jessie/updates", not "stable/updates".
s/(Fox News|CNN) browser/$1 app/
Similar things can be said about starting a company with a fully remote team. I’d estimate we saved much more than $1M for our thirty-person company. An additional benefit is that you can recruit the best talent from anywhere, so long as they have experience working remotely (it’s a bit of a risk to experiement with someone who hasn’t done remote work before). With this setup, I’ve been blown away how easy it is for us to recruit amazing people. It would be much harder recruiting for local engineers wherever you are based, whether that’s SV or Philadelphia.
No it's collective action vs individual self interest. Or actual politics versus consumerism. Not the same thing at all and should not be confused. If you think a charter or private school is the best for your kid right now and for you then that's one thing. And what is best for other families and teachers in your community may be another. You can support them politically.

Also who gives a shit about the hypocrisy of protest attendees anyway? It has no bearing on the what is right.
I had a medical issue with incredible pain in France, I have not been given an addictive pain killer, they started with the most common (Tylenol), then went one notch up (Acupan) when it became ineffective (I think I am very receptive because I rarely take medicines).

But doctors have to be willing to spend the time to follow the patient and do the gradation instead of going straight for the strongest thing in the toolbox and avoiding coming back to the issue (which I feel would be a given in the country where they have the highest pay).
The way I see it, our over-dependency (sorry for overloading the phrase) on Javascript as the de-facto web language has the pendulum far in one direction. How much longer can we keep this up? What's the maximum capacity of a developer ecosystem before dependency-hell and framework churn reaches critical mass? This is still a complicated information system - how far can it scale? What's the breaking point?

There's so much amateur work and muddied merit-sense-making of what's good software, who to listen to, and how to move forward - my feeling is that pendulum is just about at peak.
I used to do in-house development at a shop that had a great policy on that front: Developer machines were always a generation behind the workstations of people who would be using the software they write.

And a strong culture of belief that, if a developer couldn't get something working well enough in that kind of environment, then that should be taken as a reflection on basically anything but the developer workstation. Inefficient code, excessive memory usage, just plain trying to do too much, bloat, whatever.

But I realize that's a hard thing to sell. A lot of developers don't really appreciate being reminded who works for who.
You are 100% correct. I remember wrestlers getting it in high school and it was easily treatable.
I'm not sure what you mean. CBLAS includes this function to multiply two rectangular matrices:

void cblas_dgemm(
const CBLAS_LAYOUT Layout,
const CBLAS_TRANSPOSE transa, const CBLAS_TRANSPOSE transb,
const MKL_INT m, const MKL_INT n, const MKL_INT k,
const double alpha, const double *a, const MKL_INT lda,
const double *b, const MKL_INT ldb,
const double beta,
double *c, const MKL_INT ldc);

gsl has a higher-level interface:

int gsl_blas_dgemm(CBLAS_TRANSPOSE_t TransA, CBLAS_TRANSPOSE_t TransB,
double alpha,
const gsl_matrix * A,
const gsl_matrix * B,
double beta,
gsl_matrix * C);
I'm going to be frank, this looks incredibly pretentious. That said, I'm a really big fan of these new online only banks popping up and once I read the fine print, I might give it a try.
as a former customer of idera (and a customer of their competitors), even their core products don't really get much ongoing development attention. they _were_ quite good for what they were, when they were current. after a while, though, they do just become subscription streams.
You put everything in a way that someone with high school physics can mostly understand the issue. Would it be possible for you (or anyone else) to explain what is merging of forces? Or is it beyond high school?
The title of that article is some serious sensationalism. I wonder if journalists during the race to the moon wrote articles like that back then, telling NASA that working so hard was unsustainable even if everyone believed in the mission.
The opioid epidemic is directly caused by the OxyContin manufacturer's desire to sell a pain drug that "lasts twelve hours". These patient instructions almost couldn't be better designed to foment addiction. The big selling point was the "twelve hour" length of action. OxyContin was often not effective for the full twelve hours, causing a whiplash between under-treating pain and taking the medication at the prescribed time. This lead patients to be in pain for several hours every day, watching the clock as they waited for their next dose to alleviate said pain. If they take their medication early to combat this, they run out and have to deal with untreated pain until they get more. If they increase the dosage - as suggested by the manufacturer - then they now over-medicate at the start of the curve, build tolerance, and eventually become under-medicated again nearing the end of the twelve-hour period.

Psychologically, the risk of addiction comes from the brain getting trained that taking a substance causes a stark and rapid change in psychological state. If you have a consistent level of a medication, you tend to not become addicted to it. You can develop tolerance and physical dependence, but the addictive behavior doesn't get trained. To do that, you'll want a sharp and dramatic onset of effect associated with the drug-taking behavior, and negative reinforcement of the drug-taking behavior via the unpleasant effects of withdrawal.
I always assumed the valley focus was because, yeah VC money there, and VCs wanted people close by to help (well if they help), and just generally there are a lot of good people there. By no means are those bad reasons, but not everyone will have those reasons.

A calculator seems a bit simplistic but I would generally agree that if there isn't something outright drawing you to that area, you don't have to be there and there are costs.

I worked for a really large company a while back. They bought some smaller company and discovered a support center ... that I worked at. They thought they'd try doing support at that site as they suddenly had support there.

For less than half the cost per employee we managed to do twice the workload, higher customer satisfaction, and we often were requested by customers who quickly realized we wouldn't just shut down cases on them. Almost immediately there were tensions. I'd go out and visit and oh man it was tense. There was this idea that support just had to be in the valley because straight up the managers and folks working there didn't know there were technical people... anywhere else (this was before we had other islands of tech in the US).

I even bought it for a bit thinking I was going out to meet some high performing folks and found ... way not that.

It was amazing that they had (including some management) convinced themselves that stuff only happens in the valley and if they hadn't seen it they wouldn't have believed it was possible outside (and some did not, oh the excuses).... and that was just for a maintenance type task like tech support. (granted this was some high end stuff so it did take good people, but they're everywhere)
Clearly we should make your drive take 3 hours 15 minutes to make public transport competitive. /s.

Unfortunately it seems some people actually believe this.
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
Wow this is from early 2017, I’m falling behind the curve thinking this is clever for today!
Hi! I'm from the EC2 team.

The fixed performance EC2 instances (in contrast to instances with burstable performance) all have dedicated physical CPU allocations, and 1:1 affinity from vCPU to the underlying CPU. Similarly, memory allocations are fixed, pre-allocated, and are aligned to the NUMA properties of the host system. When combined with both our Xen hypervisor and Nitro hypervisor, this provides practically all of the performance of the host system with regard to memory latency and bandwidth.

See: https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1045032259189760000

With our latest 25 Gbps and 100 Gbps capable instances, EC2 to S3 traffic can make use of all of the bandwith provided to the instance.

Please send me more information about the interaction you had on the EBS side, msw at amazon dot com. All writes to EBS are durability recorded to nonvolatile storage before the write is acknowledged to the operating system running in the EC2 instance. fsync() does not necessarily force unit access, and explicit FUA / flush / barriers are not required for data durability (unlike some storage devices or cloud storage systems). Perhaps there was confusion about the question that was asked.
Why would you "start up" unless you already knew your market/customers?
It was formerly under an MIT license and Synopsys bought them and changed it to CC-NC-BY, meaning only allowed for non-commercial usage, and so explicitly not an open source license. Also note that Creative Commons recommends against using their licenses for code: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

Brakeman is an extremely capable and important security scanner for Ruby on Rails.
15-inch, 4K OLED laptops are coming thanks to new displays from Samsung
Meet Scout: Field testing a new delivery system with Amazon Scout
penny wise, pound foolish
Yes, but if I remember correctly, it was because she died before they gave the prize and they have the rule not to give it to dead scientists. To date there should have been only one exception were they gave the prize to someone that died only a few days earlier and they didn't knew it, once they knew they didn't felt like taking the prize back so this should be the only exception.
SSD's really help a lot too. SSD's and a reasonable chunk of RAM (whether reasonable is 8 or 16 gigs depends on what you're doing, I've never needed more than 16). Anything else is not so important for normal development. A fast SSD definitely helps as without one, IMHO waiting on the disk I/O is typically the bottleneck.

Hell, I did a lot of (hobby, not work) development on an eee PC netbook a few years ago. Besides the discomfort that a small screen and sub-normal keyboard brings, it was a reasonable experience. I didn't have to run slack then though.

Obviously it depends on what you're doing though. Processing data? Running a ton of tools all at once? Differing workflows and requirements have different hardware needs.
Stolen Artwork Is All Over Amazon, Creators Want Them to Do Something About It
Tabstops are really old concept and were never really a set number of spaces wide. Used to, you had physical stops on the typewriter that a tab would advance to.

So, that world was and is a long time ago. We just don't typically give a way for people to set tabstops in most environments, therefore it was chosen that tabs would advance a certain number of spaces.
I remember that third party developers for BeOS had machines (BeBoxes, PowerPC 603) with 16MB (not GB) of RAM, but internally Be engineers had to use 8MB systems. It did seem to have positive consequences at the time...
Is anything new really needed here? The problem that the kernel etc. solves with ifdefs and function pointers doesn't seem that different than what one can do with interface inheritance in just about any OO language. With smart inlining and LTO it can even be efficient. The problem is how to do those platform/feature checks at build time instead of run time, but I'd say that's the build system's problem ('make' or equivalent) not the language's. Ifdef there makes a lot more sense, even for languages that use modules.
Nothing. These plans aren't put to voters for approval on the ballot.
Do you have a better term for that late '00s phenom? Because that really was an Eternal September shift, although not in September, and not in '93.
> Here's a really nice diagram about how sub-prime mortgages were packaged into MBS (with AAA tranches), whose lower tranches were packaged into CDOs (with AAA tranches), whose lower tranches were packaged into CDO-squareds (also with AAA tranches)

It's a helpful diagram! What it doesn't say is each of those AAA tranches actually [erfpr,ed. When you look back at how the AAA tranches of CDO-squareds circa 2005 to 2008 paid out, they pretty much all behaved like AAA securities.

Those tranches were solvent. In many cases, their junior tranches were solvent. What none of those tranches were was liquid. I can hold a security that will pay me $1,000 indefinitely, but if nobody will buy it for more than a penny, it isn't useful if my trading group is busy diving into a liquidity crisis. (Granted, ratings don't say anything about the liquidity of a thing. Just its solvency.)
Not sure that I agree.. I think a news aggregator that works with snopes could be great though. In the end, I don't think that a single news entity will cover things as well as multiple news sites. Some are better with political coverage, others better for given localities, others still outside given localities, etc. In the end, no news source is perfect and those that are better still have a LOT of bias.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018: Skills from Videos paper (supplementary video)