skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joking: consolidate and create a religion ETF?
I took the screenshot with the "+" before I realized it'd be easier for now to ignore the "+". This is my fault for being lazy, I'll change it. I looked at a database of lichess games (40,000) to convince myself that non-Queen promotions were worth ignoring for the beta. If promoting to a different piece is clearly the better move, I could run a Stockfish check anytime a promotion move is made to assume the player chose the best non-Queen promotion (since otherwise you'd just promote to a Queen in a serious game)
I agree with your post completely.

An interesting irony struck me while reading your post that many of those potential customers are stuck with PG&E, which has to completely suck. No wonder they focus on sowing distrust.
Could you share a few of them? Only one springs to my mind ...
Thank davismwfl for the quick response! Can you point me to the right keyword I should look for past discussion like this ?

I love your idea about doing 40/60 split to ensure some kind of income. So assuming 40 is the hard cost that you must pay yourself while 60 is the opportunity cost by spending time with another billable client.
The world isn't nearly as dangerous as you've been lead to believe. Not even like within an order of magnitude.
Wow, that was quick, thanks. Though the first example is only two levels deep and also less complex than your code in question, which has a loop in the else part of an if in a loop...

The second example uses braces (as it must), so it's not an example of what I was asking for.
I didn't follow the whole glyphosate-debate for a while. When I did, some years ago, it seemed as if there were mostly studies linking it to cancer etc in vitro or in rodents etc, not so much or even none in humans. Then last year when a judge in the US ruled against Monsanto some people were like 'hey here's your evidence that glyphosate causes cancer' which is obviously wrong, hnce the many replies saying there were no conclusive studies in humans linking it to cancer. So, did this change now?
You are splitting hairs. They were all immigrants. Without immigration these companies would not exist. It doesn't matter if the visa they came in on was called H-1B or B1-H or whatever.

More than half of the most valuable U.S. tech companies were founded by first- or second-generation immigrants. See:
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17385226/kleiner-perkins-ma...

Immigrant Tech Entrepreneurs Creating Thousands Of Jobs In U.S., see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/11/13/immig...
How to Find Simple Treasures in Complex Numbers
That's from 2018.

New developments:
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/2/7/18214228/monster-on-mission-p...
Nick from DigitalOcean here; yes! It's in the bottom of the blog post

>>> Our engineering team is working hard to bring you even more functionality for your databases in 2019. We plan to have additional engines such as Redis and MySQL, private networking with enhanced VPC, metrics, and alerting through Insights.
Productivity: Organization, finishing my work, ADHD and how I figured it out
It is funny because we get cold called by these folks probably twice a year, and once a rep came up to our house and wanted to tell us about solar, so I gave them a short tour of the 5KW system we installed 15 years ago. The one that has literally paid for itself (about half way through year 11) based on actual generation and power consumption statistics. It would have paid for itself sooner except that PG&E has twice updated the grid tie rules which have incrementally reduced the benefit of rooftop solar.

The TPO systems as described are a boon to PG&E who, if you can believe their actions, is really concerned that people will just drop off the grid altogether.
Some of these are from our support playbook and I'm working on getting a few others.

> When configuring a number of standby nodes > 1 what replication topology is used? Are {all,none,some} replicas synchronous?

Trying to get an answer of this one.

> Is the postgres super user available?

At this time only our administrative users are superusers for the database. All other administrative tasks should be possible from the default "doadmin" user provided when setting up your database cluster.

You can see a list of current users in the database (including ours) with this command from the Postgres CLI: \du

If some administrative task isn't possible with the "doadmin" user just let us know and we can report that to our engineering team for review and potential future change. We can't promise anything immediately, but we can definitely look into changes long-term!

> What is the list of supported extensions?

address_standardizer
address_standardizer_data_us
btree_gin
btree_gist
chkpass
citext
cube
dblink
dict_int
earthdistance
fuzzystrmatch
hstore
intagg
intarray
isn
ltree
pg_buffercache
pg_partman
pg_stat_statements
pg_trgm
pgcrypto
pgrouting
pgrowlocks
pgstattuple
plcoffee
plls
plperl (PostgreSQL 9.5+)
plv8
postgis
postgis_sfcgal
postgis_tiger_geocoder
postgis_topology
postgis_legacy (see note below)
postgres_fdw
repack (PostgreSQL 10+)
sslinfo
tablefunc
timescaledb
tsearch2
unaccent
uuid-ossp

> Can WAL (physical/streaming) replication be configured to a non-managed postgresql instance? I'm assuming logical replication slots should be supported.

No, not available.

> Is there in-built streaming backups/point in time restore?

Only daily backups are available with our managed database service at this time. We maintain 7 days worth of backups for each database cluster. Backups can be viewed and restored from the Cloud Control Panel by clicking on your cluster and going to the "Backups" sub-tab. This will restore your entire database cluster to that point in time.

While the backup frequency can not be adjusted to more often/weekly/monthly, you can take point-in-time backups by creating a "fork" of your database cluster. The fork can be placed at a specific point-in-time (reference your logs to find out when the transaction happened modifying the data you want to get back), or "now".

> Any details you can share on how failover and general cluster management is performed?

Nodes are monitored and failover happens automatically with minimal downtime if a node becomes unavailable. Some more info [0].

> Are version upgrades supported? Assuming that would use pg_upgrade but is there an option for downtime-less upgrades using logical replication?

I _think_ all updates may require powering off but will try and confirm.

0: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/resources/high-a...
That's a bummer. The color display was finicky but it really did help convey information effectively to a suspicious lab TA.
Very interesting topic. Indeed, one way to interpret the neural networks is to design the deep architecture interpretable at the first place. Namely, one can design the structure and activation functions of each layer to mimic one step of gradient descent. Then, K layer of this tailored DNN resembles K iterations of an optimization algorithm, e.g., see [1-3]. But still, one need to prove the convergence of such networks (empirical results show very promising convergence speed).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00797

[2] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=B1lnzn0ctQ

[3] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/8120-theoretical-linear-converg...
ORM design definitely matters — I mostly use the Django ORM which generally feels right and has convenient escape hatches — but I've also seen a fair number of cases where people complaining about the ORM were really reflecting the fact that their project's data model was somewhat off of what it wanted to be and a migration was in order.

The real win for me is once you're doing anything more than just loading an object: once you need to do any sort of reporting, filtering, querying, etc. I appreciate the effort spent on normalization.
Were they wrong? Hasn't Seattle shifted to be more like California over time, politically?
Love this - super well-researched and layouts feel different in a good way.
My understanding is that some folks have gotten in trouble anyway. Good luck to you!
The left abhors facts of genetics just as the right abhors facts of climate change. In both cases there is a lot of virtue signaling going on, they know that the science is not on their side but they can not admit it because to do so would get them cast out of their in-group.
Communities have existed since the dawn of man and CoCs weren't necessary to keep idiots away. When someone is an idiot, you don't need a set of rules to identify that he's an idiot, and to have a basis to kick him out. If you 1) can't identify idiots or 2) can't kick out idiots, then you have a dysfunctional community or no teeth. CoCs can't fix a community or make you grow teeth.
Unless you then proceed to rank the teams and use a team modifier, that's pretty irrational.
It says in the article that they are targeting deliveries for West Coast customers.
It's simple diminishing returns to size efficiency.

There's a saying in aviation that goes something like "it takes a lot of fuel to fly a lot of fuel". Even over the course of a single flight, the fuel consumption rate goes down significantly as that fuel gets consumed. You can fit more stuff in a bigger plane, but it takes more fuel to fly the 100,000th pound than it does to fly the 100th pound, so you only want the larger capacities if you know that you are going to consistently utilize them.
Taking something as lightweight as an lsof command line tool and putting an entire web browser and node.js instance on top seems like we are moving in the wrong direction. It’s like we are going to need a terabyte of RAM and a Tesla battery to run basic apps of the future with even half of the performance we got out of our systems 2 decades previously.
I’ve never seen anything but a quitclaim deed offered at closing. The P&S stipulate the deed is clear, but the buyer runs the title search. If you find something (like TPO panels) attached, there’s a “make right” clause which usually has a maximum amount paid of 1% after which the seller can walk away.

If you want protection for anything after the sale, you buy owners title insurance.
It would be great if they allow to install extensions like PipelineDB and Citus
I can say two things about Lufthansa: (1) Overrated (2) Horrible Customer Service
How does DO compared with heroku and RDS in terms of price, AZs, APIs and etc? And what is the vertical scaling process like (don't seem to find anything on a quick google search)?
You didnt see it’s coming? “Dawn of hardened Windows Kernel”
> Critics will often point at hub and spoke versus point to point as the primary reason for Airbus's debacle, the problem is basically much simpler - not a single United States airline orders the A380.

The second arguments seems like support for the first one, not an alternative explanation.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144006
If you're Latino you are much much more likely to be mestizo. Which basically means it's a confusing mix of Spanish, indigenous american, and African.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo

And I'm not sure it's easy to tell to what degree/how much of a mixture you are.
So you become a carpet-bombing robocaller to fight robocalls? That takes "turn into what you hate" to a whole new level
Tesla Introduces: Dog Mode
I’ve had a number of reCAPTCHA incidents where I could not pass the test for tens of images, it was a very frustrating experience. Please do not use reCAPTCHA.

The items one is supposed to select often overlap the grids, so it becomes a kind of Keynesian Beauty Contest[1] at that point; I assume they validate based on how much in alignment you are with previous answers, so it becomes a problem of “What nearby grids would a person reasonably select when there’s overlap”, or, you’re tasked at selecting <some_item> and you see <some_item> in the distant background of the image you’re supposed to classify and you need to determine “How visible would <some_item> need to be for a reasonable person to classify <some_item> as being in this image”.

On top of this, when you’re clicking through image after image after image, the additional frustrating thing is that you’re helping train their algorithms; you’re doing work because their service isn’t smart enough to know you’re human, or, you’re seen as a marginal customer they can piss off by forcing you to work for them for free.

It’s a frustrating experience when it fails, and my current strategy is to leave the website when the ‘I’m not a robot’ checkbox fails.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
One of those territories has a population of less than 40,000. If you live there, I'm not sure why you'd have an expectation that people actually know you exist.

It's like a local from Illinois being offended people haven't heard of the town of Peoria. Why would they?
A Data Scientist’s Relationship with Building Predictive Models
> What Karl Marx meant by that is not that religion makes people stupid and compliant (although sometimes it kind of can,) but that people use religion to soothe the burdens of life in an unjust and cruel world... and that the illusory comfort offered by religion often stands in the way of making real societal progress. People who believe that God alone will punish the wicked and reward the righteous and that every event, no matter how capricious or unjust, is part of some divine plan, will simply tolerate the world and trust God to change it, rather than try to change it themselves.

This, a thousand times.
I realize it is not what has been touted, but I always took the "10K hours" thing to mean, "it takes 10K hours to reach your potential". That is still a way too convenient round number, but good enough for a rough estimate.

But it has a flip side: "after 10K hours, that's about as good as you're ever going to get". I've easily got 10K hours on the guitar, but I'm no Jimmy Page, nor will I ever be. 10K hours of running? 40 years, carry the one...yeah, probably. Look through my comments, see anything about the Olympics? A few wins at some regional-level races is all I'm ever going to get.

On the other other hand, if you put the time in, you might not become Jimmy Page/Bobby Fischer/Usain Bolt, but I am convinced you'll get competent at whatever you pursue. No musical talent? Bah, sit down for a half hour a day of real practice for a month, tell me how little "talent" you have.
If anyone lives in a state that is not corrupt, please raise your hand.

Don't be shy. We promise that we won't move in and ruin it for you all at once.

...No one?

Corruption follows the money. Highly paid jobs follow the money. By an argument purely by correlations and assumptions, I'd say that most of the people on HN have highly paid jobs in states with plenty of people, and plenty of money to spend on the tech industry, and therefore also experience some local corruption.

It's easy for a county, parish, or state to be honest when there's really nothing around to steal and no one rich enough to extort. It's only when someone shows up flashing a big wad of cash that people start to think about how to peel a few bills off of it. But then there are also plenty of places that steal as much as they can from everybody, all the time, no matter how poor, because they're the only ones around, and the system is already in place to do it.

So, in short, all rich counties are a little bit corrupt, because they're where the money is. Poor counties are either all the way corrupt, because that's the only way to pay for their corruption, or not corrupt at all, because there'd be no profit in it.

So by this hypothesis, California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Virginia, Washington, Michigan, and Maryland are all at least a little bit corrupt. Vermont, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Maine, Idaho, Delaware, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico might possibly not be corrupt, or might be sickeningly pervasively corrupt, but you don't live there, so how would you know?
Cannot take this article seriously, I think we understand certain features we have can make certain things easier for us and harder for other people, but simplifying it saying it's an IQ thing and stretching implying it's something that only happens at early ages?

Too much factors to understand why someone is successful or not, and there is a lot to practice and how you approach it to become an expert to it... acting like skill has a cap is not really gonna help you at all anyway
You're mixing up two different sets of numbers here. $6,000 is the extra amount that Jug would have paid after being sold the solar installation as a way to save a lot of money over the next 20 years.

The author, who was willing to pay a little more to save the environment, would have been paying an extra $30/month from the start, before the annual increases started widening the gap. Their bills without the solar started at $30/month, so this would start out doubling their bill and increase from there.
FITUR 2019, AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE IRAN’S TOURIST ATTRACTIONS TO THE WORLD
The Google version is implemented on the device.

From the link someone gave in a nearby comment: "Call Screen’s on-device speech recognition lets you see a real-time transcript of what the caller is asked and how they respond." (https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9094888)
He's already stated that he's not going to take another $1M+ job in California again. I wish him the best of luck.
They were unable to fit a degree three polynomial, but were still able to obtain a 97% accuracy with a degree two polynomial.
Shumann – neural network based composer
Makes sense, congrats on shipping!

I suppose it's unlikely to happen in a game serious/slow enough that people are bothering to record it on paper and upload it, but I've tricked someone into stalemating me by promoting to a queen before. Long term I don't think assuming people made the best move is the right decision.
We are all peasants now: The student-loan crisis is destroying the middle class
It's sad that the resolution of the contractual dispute involved removing the solar panels. That's a lose-lose for everyone -- the company because they have to spend additional labor, the new owner because they would've preferred them to stay at a reasonable price, and of course the environment.

It's too bad the company couldn't come to terms somehow; surely accepting less money in a buy-out offer would have been better for them than having to come out and collect all of their equipment?
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
Intuitively I feel like there is vastly more context involved in any biological neural network learning, but particularly in the human brain. You might be inclined to reduce the learning process to just a sequence of images, but the internal reference system brings in an enormous amount of other information that can get attached: sounds, smells, touch, taste, feelings, desires and so on. These all shape not just the way the new information is pre-processed but also how it is stored and in turn that newly stored memory influences future learning. The amount of feedback loops and indirect inputs is staggering.

Perhaps I'm naive, but the difference in apparent complexity and capability between artificial neural networks as we use and understand them today, and their biological counterparts seem vast.

I'm certainly not doing research into new forms of ML and AI algorithms, but I have used the existing concepts to some degree and just intuitively it feels like what we have today is still a very primitive approximation of what nature has achieved over the course of evolution. It feels like it's not merely a question of more data and more computational power, but we are missing fundamental building blocks to actually go beyond fancy curve fitting.

Note that I'm not making an assumption that fancy curve fitting cannot eventually give rise to human level AI, but certainly at the moment I see zero evidence that it can.
I can see a way that the Mormon church goes down that path, but the proselytize is typically a one on one nature by going on a mission rather than billboards. It does happen I've seen Ads for the LDS Church before (you'll never see one for Mormons).

I think the "moral duty" portion comes in on an individual basis within the church so it's a character building exercise to spread the faith as well as a moral duty. I can definitely see what you mean though there could easily be some interpretations that lead to Ads.
History of Valentine’s Day – from patron saint of epilepsy to Chaucer love tales
What is a quantum field?
Candid does not mean brutal. Not at all. When you confuse brutal with candid, it is likely that no one was on position to tell you off or cut your crap.

Which very much means that communication was not consistently open.
Have they fixed their IPv6 support yet?
Yep, I've been mulling some DIY work on replacing the headlights and adding foglamps... Despite appearing bright on my garage door, the actual street visibility of the standard headlights is pretty awful on this car.

I'm not sure about 2015 Mazda 3, but I know 2016 and later cars can be upgraded to support Android Auto for a fee at the dealer (I want to say ~$500, which may or may not be worth it).
>As such, the actual figure for deaths (at present, over 30 years since the incident) resulting from the Chernobyl incident is somewhere between zero and one per year.

and that can't be farther from the Belarus reality. For example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16506213

" In addition, a significant 2-fold increase in risk was observed, during the period 1997-2001, in the most contaminated districts (average cumulative dose of 40.0 mSv or more) compared with the least contaminated districts"

Breast cancer in general is the most frequent one - 1 in 8 women will get it over lifetime. Now double that. That is the reality of life in Gomel and Mogilev regions which took the brunt of the Chernobyl accident.

Russia and Ukraine have the same cancer rates, while Belarus - same people, same habits/lifestyle/etc. - have 1.5x cancer rates of Russia/Ukraine resulting in about 15000/year extra cases and the majority of those extra cases are in the Gomel and Mogilev regions. The cancer mortality in Belarus is 30%-50%. Do the math.

>According to the WHO (https://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/20110423_FA...), a "large fraction" of 6000 thyroid cancer cases (to 2005), of which 15 were fatal, are attributable to radiation exposure. No other health impacts are supported by evidence.

that is a lie. The minimally honest WHO report would at least added something like this:

"There is a significant increase in cancer rates in the most contaminated districts. WHO sees no evidence connecting it to the contamination. Correlation is no causation. Pure random distribution. What are the chances!"
Because natural is uncool. The most "educated" ones promote artificial (because they created it, duh!) and the hippies and ludites promote "natural". See how human psychology works? If you want to be cool on the internet, you DO NOT go against science. (Except of course, when the science is disproving science). It's that simple. Carefully observe this for a while on similar subjects and make yor own conclusion abput what im saying. Good luck! Im gonna go take mud bath now.
Absolutely–if you wanted to get an FC layer that satisfies Conv layer constraints, you would need to perform gradient descent subject to those constraints; normal gradient descent won't do that unless the actual optimum is of convolutional form. That's why I said (with respect to expressive power) :)