skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a partial answer to this in another thread, but here is a response to your specific point:

It depends what you mean by inference. In statistical machine learning and deep learning, inference means predicting things using large amounts of data. Philosophers call that inductive inference.

But there is also deductive inference. Given some general knowledge (e.g., "All men are mortal") and some facts ("Socrates is a man"), you infer other facts ("Socrates is Mortal"). There is a huge amount of work in AI that has developed algorithms that do very complex and powerful versions of this kind of inference. You can use those to infer from a brief description of what you want a computer to do what the sequence of actions the computer can take to achieve that goal. You can use these kinds of methods to generate software behavior without explicitly programming the behavior in advance.
So because you drive longer, which of course produce more Co2, you should have a lower price? l/100km or mpg is not really the most important, what count is l or g per year. Last time gas prices where high sales of SUVs and trucks in US did go down, as soon as the gas price did go down sales of cars with terrible mpg ratio did go up
Who is surprised?

To the contrary, it seems that you are the one who is surprised about the idea employees should and can put pressure on management.

You write "suddenly worry about the morality of their employer", but presumably most of the Microsoft employees didn't sign up to work for a company which directly worked on weapons development, because:

> The employees behind the open letter say that even with these contracts, Microsoft itself was never engaged in weapons development; it was selling general-purpose software that others then used and adapted. The IVAS contract is perceived to be different, with Microsoft, rather than third parties, working to increase battlefield effectiveness and lethality.

Perhaps that's the surprise? Should all employees expect that their employer can become a weapons developer, and not give any pushback should that happen?
Prata, pratha, and paratha all seem to be accepted transliterations of the word.
Weather forecasting is difficult problem but it's problem that as far as I know has been worked on intensely for quite a while.

Weather forecasting is based on physics-based models that, so far as I know, are essentially correct with the fundamental barrier to prediction being a combination of random effects and the difficulty of solving the complex equations numerically.

Deep learning involves training a heuristically approximate a system based on past data. It has been used to emulate various human-learning behaviors like recognizing images or recognizing good or bad position in games. Essentially, the visible successes are in "we don't know but can extrapolate roughly from data" (or we "know" but can't easily program it, in the case of image recognition). So I'd be surprised if deep learning do a good or better job in situation where we do know how things work, we already running algorithm which is correct - the situation with weather.
So they decided to put some maths behind the new Spec to simplifies the branding.

USB 3.2 Gen 1 = (3 + 2) x Gen 1 = 5Gbps

USB 3.2 Gen 2 = (3 + 2) x Gen 2 = 10Gbps

USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 = (3 + 2) x Gen 2 x 2 = 20Gbps

Pretty Clever ( Or Dumb ).

To make matter worst they still have not make USB-C mandatory for USB 3.2. So you could have a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Host with a USB-A Cable that didn't not support the previous USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ( 5Gbps ) so it will fall back to USB 2.0 Speed ( 480Mbps ) , Or a USB-A Cable that did not support the USB 3.1 SuperSeed+ ( 10Gbps ) which is also called USB 3.1 Gen 2 and is now called USB 3.2 Gen 2 so it will fall back to USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ( 5Gbps ) and was called USB 3.1 Gen 1 and now called USB 3.2 Gen 1.

You also have crappy USB-C cables that does not confirm to the USB-C spec. And the consequences depends on the quality of the cable. [1] And in some extreme cases, you could have a USB-C cable that do not support USB 3.2 Gen 2 x 2, because some how only pins on one side are working as intended.

Although things has gotten better since his post and Google has been putting some pressure into fixing it. USB-C is still a bloody bag of hurt. So in case anyone is still rooting for iPhone using USB-C without MFi. I seriously hope people will reconsider. Using MFi will defeat the purpose of USB-C since you will need a MFi Cable, which is one way to say current lightning to USB-C cable spec and cable are fine. And in case you are wondering about iPad Pro, you should take a look at the controller size, it is roughly 5 times bigger.

Or we make USB 4.0 that standardise on USB-C and force a much more stringent specification on Power Delivery, Speed and Quality. But as we all should be able to tell this isn't a technical problem, more like political, design by committees, marketing problem.

[1] https://bensonapprovedcom.wordpress.com
Anyone remember the Plame affair? Not in the same category, but blowing the cover of a CIA operative in retaliation for their husband not following the party lie on Iraq.

Scooter Libby was prosecuted during the subsequent investigation and of course pardoned by Trump.
Sure, but the US hasn't had to stand and fight since WWII. That's a lot of unnecessary wars. An unbelievable amount of wasted resources and wasted lives. Chances are any war this technology will be used in is going to be an unnecessary war and therefore an immoral war, simply based on our history. If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't even debate whether Microsoft should be giving this to the government. In a WWII situation we'd want any advantage. In today's world, moral people do and should indeed try to limit the damage of the immoral wars the US fights.
Oh. So that's what they meant by "variables support" in the ssl directives. I didn't realize the significance of that change when I read the changelog earlier today.
Op said that "public will is an impediment to progress".
That is much more arrogant statement than the one you claim to defend: "public will is an impediment to solving traffic congestion"
I didn't know about calculation marks, thanks for sharing! I use org spreadsheets to keep track of my D&D party's character sheets, so this should definitely come in handy :)
There are a few difficult aspects to the reality of war. One is that wars are fought for strategic reasons, such as continuing campaigns against enemies, controlling resources, or maintaining the "petrodollar" status, etc. The other is that since war involves risking one's life or killing other people, only moral justifications are adequate.

This is problematic because the real motivations for war are practical and strategic and not actually moral. But since military personnel require moral justifications, there is no choice but to fabricate them. For this reason, information control is a key aspect of warfare.

The reason people are blind is because they have been inundated with propaganda. US intelligence must require large outlets like NBC, NY Times and Wall Street Journal, etc. to toe the line when it comes to certain key war propaganda. If they do not do this, then soldiers will not fight. Soldiers are not going to go to battle if the president gives a speech saying "well, the oil executives say that if we can't maintain the status quo for pipeline protection then we can expect 8% higher oil prices next year". They are not going to risk their lives for something like that. They _will_ happily go kill an "evil dictator" and his "evil minions".

But the bottom line for control in our world is deadly force. If we want to get away from that then we need everyone to start following an entirely new paradigm.
How many separated Latino children are in indefinite detention these days?
Who can help me identify redis timeouts in azure mvc core project?
An interesting difference between this and "traditional compilers" is that since it's targeted to user-facing applications and the output is intentionally hands-off, there are incentives for dry to subvert developers. Imagine inserting unrequested ads or silently reselling end-user analytics for extra money. The developer might never even know, let alone be able to fix it.
Doesn't that very wikipedia article point out that Steel has an endurance limit, below which the stresses can be cycled indefinitely?
I don't think the objection is a pacifist one.

Two facts (or conjectures maybe) lead to a third: [1] Civilian technology is increasingly critical militarily, sucking tech companies into this market^ [2] The military industrial complex(es) are a global force unto themselves, with a potentially frightening influence on war and peacetime policies... possibly more influence than the banking sector.

So... are we going to see SV pivot into a major military income stream? You are what you eat and the military industry is a large plate.

There's a lot of daylight between pacifism and an objection to MSFT entering the wider arms producing market.

In any case, it's Satya that opens the door to this discussion by calling it a principled decision and stating the principle. Is democracy the only standard? An absolute standard? Do US interests play? Many of the US' allies are not democracies and some of its rivals are not.

^The advertising-espionage dovetail is especially weird and worrying.
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

That's a link to a widely-used AI textbook. The methods that most people today associate with AI (i.e., the learning-based inference methods), are only a fraction of the overall content.
Heh. So Amazon gets to mine your product browsing event stream and conversion funnel, and use the insights to guide their own purchasing and manufacturing, and on top of that they'll charge you for giving them all your data. Brilliant!
Frankly if Huawei tech is at risk of being compromised, so can any tech, even US-based ones. Shouldn't be putting that much trust in the manufacturer regardless of where they are from.

The fight then ends up being a squabble over power and who should have it. The US government is only saying what it says because it simply wants more power in its hands—nothing more. Same goes for the China side, although they're just trying to sell something. There's no way China can win this argument since it's just about power (unless they bend over).
It was actually identified that most of the green areas are now farming land/cropland and NOT forests.
Firefox Still Does Not Support Hardware Decoding on Linux
The fact of the matter is that China and Russia are building their weapons capabilities, including in the cyber realm.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-is-poised...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_Russia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_China

https://m.mic.com/articles/26889/cyber-war-china-is-the-cybe...

Both countries have shown an increasing tendency to use armed force either to sabre-rattle...

https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-missiles-challenge-us-in-s...

... or to directly challenge the sovereignty of other states.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_...

There is plenty of room for disagreement about policy in the various Western governments generally and the U.S. in particular. But of the potential superpowers, there is only one that respects freedom and democracy, and there is only one that doesn't wage wars of aggression to expand their borders.

Either U.S. software engineers can help the U.S. catch up in this realm, or they can allow these two totalitarian states to lead. There is no third option.
I think we have very different ideas about the problem docker is the solution for.

From the docker.com website ( https://www.docker.com/get-started ):

> Building and deploying new applications is faster with containers. Docker containers wrap up software and its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development that includes everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools and libraries. This guarantees that your application will always run the same and makes collaboration as simple as sharing a container image.

Basically I understand that as "write it on my machine, deploy it anywhere". "Everything it needs to run" are the dependencies in my lingo. So for me, all of this is dependency management. I have never asked for a way to drive a file system to a particular state, in the same way that I don't particularly care how a 'node_modules' folder is structured, as long as I can `require` whatever I want inside my programs.

(My point is muddied by the other task docker fulfills for me: Software configuration by creating a directory structure with the following access rights here, writing an nginx config file there. But for me, the ideal scenario would be to reduce the accidental complexity involved in the configuration (I don't care where exactly my program is stored and how exactly it is called, I just want to run it at much reduced privileges and the way I know how to achieve that is to create a custom user and run my program under that user) and define the rest declaratively.)
I believe that you are not the target audience here.

Isn't the point of dry.io that a business analyst can replace a developer? :)
If (for example) half the employees leave in protest, causing shareholder value to drop, then the decision was a bad one, yes?

If that happens with Microsoft, should the shareholders file suit since the management decision to do weapons development caused the shareholder value to decrease, yes?

That is, by protesting and potentially quitting (or 'work to rule' or any of many well-known practices), the employees have the ability to determine what "maximize shareholder value" means.
I don't agree with the tweet. I think that on the contrary, it brings attention to the permissions that are granted.

Way too many people blindly accept those without reading.

Putting a joke there might draw their attention so they actually read what's in it..
Ramen has become the black-market currency in American prisons (2016)
Try inserting more that 30K elements in a key which is a sorted set and watch the insertion time, memory & cpu usage. Now try doing this to millions of keys simultaneously.
>> WWII was a thing, the Nazi party came to power and started pushing their agenda, and the holocaust actually happened

Indeed it was, but many people act like the whole thing just sprung up from a vacuum. There was an entire history which went before, and at least libertarians seem to attempt to dig a little deeper. If you don't want to hear out the prologue to these kinds of dastardly events, there isn't much difference between your acceptance of propaganda and your supposed adversary's.

"Because the politics of Europe so clearly had nothing to do with America, it took a massive propaganda campaign to solidify American involvement. This allowed an overwhelming victory for the allies and the disastrous peace agreement that followed. So much of the ensuing horror of the 20th century, Scott and Woods contend, resulted directly from Wilson’s foreign policy."

https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-12-18-tom-woods-on-wor...

Yes, I am sure someone will come and point out some nutty thing some or the other libertarian said. You don't have to be in complete agreement with someone's viewpoint just to hear out their views.
I guess Russia is part of the West now? Funny thing is Snowden first went to Hong Kong, a part of China, for that protection.
Okay, so we're talking about genocide not as an acceptable loss in exchange for sound environmental policy but rather as an environmental policy in its own right through its active reduction in the number of living humans. Glad we cleared that up. What do you think the chances of us having a lively planet in 200 years are without your proposed mass killings? What is your ideal target number for how many humans would be left after a purge, and how does it affect your guesstimates for how likely our planet is to survive? If you're willing to suggest mass killings, I suspect that you've given those sorts of questions some thought. It would be hard to justify mass killings if you didn't have some strong opinions about how likely ecological armageddon is in both scenarios.

Edit: typo.
Intellisense for JSON and YAML in vs. Code
For some use cases, I like the approach of having a fixed number of main, long lived threads/processes at runtime (which matches the number of CPU cores on the machine to minimize context-switching). Where possible, the threads/processes are themseves responsible for picking up the work that must be done. Each thread/process can use hashing/sharding to figure out which portion of the state they are responsible for and only operate on those parts. These kinds of threads should be handling the vast majority of the work. But of course, for this to be possible, the work needs to be parallelizable (servers/sockets make a good use case).

If you have occasional I/O tasks which don't require much CPU (e.g. disk I/O), you can use a separate threadpool for those since the context switching penalty will be minimal. Context switching is mostly a problem when all the threads/processes are using a lot (and equal amount) of CPU. If a very heavy thread/process has to share CPU with a very lightweight thread/process, the context switching penalty is not significant.
Doesn't change the fact that it is the currently accepted term in SV. See how viciously I was voted down and flagged for stating a fact and informing the OP about it.

I don't care for the terminology myself and sure Antirez was pressured into it which is sad in itself. But atleast call a spade a spade. SJWs want to govern the terminology as well.
My middle school — ca. early-, mid-90s in „safe“ suburban a Minnesota — had punitive policies about letting students go to the bathroom. My seventh grade math instructor allowed maximally one pupil to visit the bathroom per session. Thereafter all bets were off. It was hell. Thanks to biological rhythm, I nearly always wanted to vacate my bladder during that class, but — nope — no relief.

My highschool expressly removed doors from the toilet stalls. Worse was the fact that the wall partitions were about 1.25-meter tall cinder blocks, so anyone could stand over and leer onto someone doing a bowel movement.

Seeing the article is giving me bad flashbacks. I never want my children to endure such caprice.

Let’s name the bullies:

Hey, District 621, I hope you‘re reading this:

https://www.moundsviewschools.org/
Indeed. Americans are quick to point their fat fingers at others while they drive their humongous vehicles to the drive-through.
Apple really doesn't like putting all their eggs in a single vendor basket.

It was my understanding that when Apple started using both Intel and Qualcomm modems that Qualcomm started telling Apple they would have to pay "full price" for patent licensing on the Intel modems, and things deteriorated.
What if it is a scam to get the free content of the site without watching its ads?
Unfortunately the customers also bought section is not really "recommendations" as much as a table join.
Innovation Platforms – Not Software-Only
Have a look at this intro video about history of Nazi: https://youtu.be/RgsaXooC6AE

Full video (3hrs): https://youtu.be/jiHm2S0w3_Q
Amazon Receives Patent for Package Retrieval Robot
Enzsft/CLI a new library for building CLI tools with a nice approach to testing
Building Trust in Teams – Why It’s Important and How It’s Done
Fresh water will become a commodity that only rich people can afford in abundance.
So you wanted the headline to be more dry?
Nope. It's not trolling if you state a fact.
Statistics with Julia: Fundamentals for Data Science, Machine Learning and AI [pdf]
Myths About Programmer Motivation
Can you cite evidence of Chinese dissidents having family members held hostage? Genuinely curious if this is true, because it doesn't sound like it's true as even the Chinese government is accountable to public opinion to a large degree.

For an accusation like that you should always provide substantiated evidence, otherwise you're just flaming the anti-Chinese racial flames. Because as terrible as you may think the Chinese government is, it still has the legitimacy and support of a vast majority of the Chinese population.
Are there any technologies that can reinforce ads on a site?

I know a site owner can track visitors with ad-blockers and show them warnings, but that is not it.
When 1.2 Billion people are saying to Pakistan to stop supporting the terrorist and to stop providing them safe heavens, they are denying that there is no terrorist in Pakistan despite the fact that Osama Bin Ladan was captured and killed on their grounds and numerous other terrorist organisations broadcasting terror from their base in Pakistan. India has always been a country that has never attacked any country first. The current government came in to power saying that they will fight the war on terror. And when they do it all the Indians are with them irrespective of the religion or political ideologies. #PMKB is a hashtag trending in the social media which literally translate it to the above-mentioned meaning. It is the rage against terror.
I was super excited when I read the headline and saw that deepmind published the article. I was hoping for something along the lines of applying reinforcement learning on the turbine or park level to optimize power output. Finding the optimal pitch angles, better yawing algorithms (yaw misalignemnts are one of the most common causes of underperforming wind turbines), or finding optimal yaw directions for the entire wind park (downwind wake effects can have a negative impact on other turbines)...

Unfortunately this is really only about predicting wind speeds to then forecast power output. IIRC, grid codes in some countries are starting to require 24 hour, 15 minute interval forecasts for renewables? I've also seen this feature being advertised by other companies over the years as well, although I don't recall seeing any numbers on accuracy for any of the models.
When in operation the cost of the hardware and development returns in just a few days or weeks at most.
Seconded. I do the same. I also do this whenever I have to explore a new domain of interest, to quickly find my bearings and some high-quality sources to continue with.

This works especially well if the domain is not niche, but has wide general-population applicability. Say, dieting. The amount of content-marketing bullshit on the general Internet makes general topical searches near useless. Whereas just browsing the collected knowledge (pinned posts, wikis) of various dieting subreddits let me quickly find one appropriate regime for me, and then its specific subreddit taught me how to apply it safely.

(Yes, it was /r/keto, and yes, it worked.)
Those are widely counterfeited items on Amazon.
i've done pair programming for everything for 2 years... now in my new job i feel very unproductive without a pair
> Google, Amazon, Microsoft will always do business with them

Really? Always? What about the Project Maven cancellation?
Suggesting that HK is "a part of China" vastly simplifies what's going on there to a point of uselessness.
The issue isn't that China is doing bad things, it's that as someone who is not in China sitting in probably an armchair, providing opinions and guidance across the world is a terrible way to provide well-thought out political advice. One should stick to where they have legitimacy, and that's usually in their local politics.

As a non-black person, it'd be like me criticizing black people for things they do. Since I cannot truly understand the black experience in America without being a black person, any criticism I levy against them would be wholly unfair.
Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2019 Release
Slightly OT, but on my browser, dry.io is not on https. Big red flag for me. Chrome shows a 'Not Secure' tag for me, plus there is no favicon.

Small things but important. You might want to fix that
Don’t form a C Corp unless and until you have people with a 6+ figure check lined up.