skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jade Empire had a gambling minigame you could save-scum like that. Except if you won 20 times in a row, the NPC that ran the game would explode on you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26DsrylKKl8
Terry Pratchett riffed on a very similar theme in The Fifth Elephant about a 900-year-old axe: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/217710-this-milord-is-my-fa...
I translated this for you:

Breaking into houses shouldn't be a crime in the first place.
Stealing things, breaking stuff, or photographing ID's are
crimes that people can be charged with, but I don't think
that breaking into houses should be counted.

See where this falls apart? I can easily get into your home without damaging anything by picking the lock, and if someone was in my house, I'd want them out as fast as possible, and the police saying I have no right to do anything to them until they do something first is a bad idea- if they shoot me, how to I fire back? If they break my valuables, how do I react?

Similarly, while hacking things doesn't directly endanger people, doing anything with the information does, and this includes reconnaissance for a later hit.
I mean, as a romantic I identify with that dreamy fantastical novelty of immersion in a foreign culture, but pragmatically (and less solipsistically) it will bring immense utility to decide on one language to use as we approach globalization.
Am I the only one who hates reading grammatically incorrect pieces of text?

For me this technology is still in the "unusable" phase, and urgently needs more work.
I quoted something linked in [1] (Huffpo not science either; trash mostly) and I don't think [2] says what you think it says.

If there were statistical evidence for "psychic powers," you'd presumably be able to present some. It's not like there aren't enough fruity people out there who REALLY WANT to believe in this sort of thing. By now, after ... literally centuries of people trying this sort of thing, you should have at least one example of unexplained phenomena.
Having a veto on whether the UK can leave is control.
Yeah, it really is a blessing. I'm sorry to hear they've got a stranglehold on you. Their customer service is really terrible, and they can get away with it because they know you're stuck.

I am in Minneapolis and Century Link has managed to become the primary secondary option to Comcast. Some neighborhoods are lucky and have US Internet's Fiber as a third option.

On top of that, Century Link has been pushing hard to expand their fiber. I am relegated to only 40MB connection on the copper connection in my neighborhood right now, but the technician that came out to do the install said that (unofficially) they're hoping to have Century Link's fiber be an option in the next year.

$45/mo for 40MB. Will be $65/mo for fiber. Still a fraction of Comcast's insane rates.
So, then you'd kill 6 billion to save your own child.
I always read the comment section first, for this, actually I'm not going to read the article.
At the end of the spillway the water is send upward. This is a way to dissipate the energy of the water coming down and avoid digging a hole or eroding the river itself. This appears to be a common feature in most spillways.
This is very similar to how TLDR-bot on reddit summarizes reddit posts or linked articles: https://smmry.com/about

The results can be surprisingly good, even for such a basic algorithm.
I've always thought on the moon would be more interesting than "beyond" the moon. A ground-based dish on the dark side of the moon, isolated from a large majority of the noise we're pumping into space by the body of the moon itself.
Why would we believe them either way? They've overplayed their hands, and now they're panicking. Even if Assange actually cracked the password, it would only have given Manning access to material to which she already had access. The reason she wanted to use a different login was because she didn't want to be caught. With good reason, because once they caught her they tortured her for years. The primary reason for the torture was to force her to falsely implicate Assange in actual crimes, which she steadfastly refused to do. Now they've charged Assange anyway.

Protecting an anonymous source from the authorities is a basic journalistic duty. Journalists these days have spent so much time protecting authoritarian sources from the public they've forgotten how it's supposed to work.

For these reasons, Assange will not be extradited from UK. Those who now cheer Trump's attack on journalism will soon complain that it's not a more effective attack.
That makes sense, but I can't help but note that the "sweaty and smelly" that would be less socially acceptable are (to me) more masculine traits. Could you argue that the business world (and academia) is already feminized? Compare the behavior you might see on a sports team (yelling and anger) vs what is acceptable in an office environment. I am not sure, but your comment makes me wonder.
Which perfectly illustrates how important being free and open source is.

In spite of not having commercial support and versioning shenangians, people still choose Python over the commercial alternatives.
I had a similar gripe: I’ve tried several times the trial versions but 14 days is way too short to get up the learning curve far enough to see whether it’s useable or not. And even then, if I only need it a few hours a week, I couldn’t justify the costs.
Talking to myself
Crying out loud
Only I can hear me, I'm
Stuck inside a cloud
Intel Launches Cascade Lake as Xeon X200
Europe, at least the EU has settled on 24GHz, that's pretty close to the 23.8GHz.
True. Infocom games were largely fair, but difficult as they grew out of MIT geek culture where the level of puzzle solving was high. It's the lesser efforts from companies like Sierra that used "moon logic" puzzles that literally nobody could solve other than either by luck or by buying expensive hint books.
Ah, I see. You and I are just valuing things differently. Personally, I don't care about cost/MB nearly as much as I care about the "Amount Due" line of my bill.
Theory P: The Philosophy of Managing Programmers
Trying to help someone evade detection whilst committing a crime is not really 'attempting to save someone from terrible treatment'.

To save Manning from being punished Assange could've guided her to only expose documents related to specific wrongdoing. That would've at least given Manning a plausible whistleblower defense. That defense may not have succeeded, but it probably would've led to a much, much shorter sentence if it failed than what she originally got.

But by trying to help her gain illegal access to an account for the purpose of enabling her to steal more classified information, Assange now has to content with conspiracy to commit hacking charges himself.
Nuts! I must have had a typo somewhere. I could've sworn it was 4 times. Thanks.
How to Get Started with Chaos: A Step-by-Step Guide to Gamedays
Perhaps, but the pessimist in me suspects that this natural legitimacy, which we all wish our politicians would have, is not near as effective as advertisements. Somehow, we have to come to terms with just how good advertisements are at affecting our decisions.
Maybe you can’t comment but it was neat (and huge time saver)to see something like sqlalchemy’s reflection.
Turns out there's a topical section on a wikipedia Brexit page about this very issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_Brexit_on_the_Europe...
"No True Scotch" fallacy?
The best you can do in most scenarios is to research comparable projects and calibrate against them. "They shipped in six months, therefore we can ship in six months."
Assassin’s Creed Could Save Notre Dame
It counts to me :) That's one of the things I love about that game too, and it makes me want to do the same.
I just saw a recent article touting the benefits of 5G for smart traffic signals.... but it's not clear why those same traffic signals couldn't use 4G, or even 2G, it's not like traffic counts need a lot of data bandwidth.

Or, you know, it's not like traffic signals move around on their own, so they could just be hardwired.
It's a winner-take-it-all situation, though. R is already struggling as a strong second-placer.

What's more: the numerics stack in JavaScript is being modeled after the Python style, so when we're all dragged kicking and screaming to node (UMAP is already implemented in js and that came out when?), those who have cut their teeth on numpy and pandas will be a little less stranded.
It is. Denmark is allowing the phone companies to use their existing 2G/3G and 4G frequencies for 5G. The 700MHz spectrum is also being opened up for use with 5G.

I'm not sure if it will result in dramatically more bandwidth though.
I would second this, there’s no way I can deploy APIs to your cloud and meet compliance requirements for data protection.
You shouldn't sell your company for common stock
I'm guessing the one time payment might be of large enough size that analysts could figure it out based on quarterly statements, but I'm curious what the patent royalty agreement looks like.

For Apple, I'm sure they'll still a) work on designing their own modems and b) source modems from Intel.
Disposable Pattern (Disposable Design Principle), Part 3
Not sure what is the motivation behind this library. There are already several array GPU accelerated array libraries -- PyTorch, TensorFlow, ArrayFire, it even looks like pycuda has a small array class.
About the Invites for S2019
have anyone received any invites or other information regarding S2019?
To me that trend sounds of a kind with the slow influx of anti-vax, conspiracy theory, etc. mindsets in Internet communities; facts don't always win and the bringing together of people invested in some untrue belief provides validation and normalizes the existence of such communities.

That's not to say psi investigators deserve personal attack for their efforts, it's a harmless belief. But i think it's also ok to dismiss unsupported ideas without engaging with them. As another commenter pointed out - if there is a real phenomenon there, somebody will use it to do something.
Thanks, I'll check for amino acid packets at my local café.
Did you see the « NumPy compatible » part of the title?
And for that, more bandwidth is needed...
That is patently ridiculous and taken to the extreme and you know it. We are talking reasonable possible situations (not world events) that you may find yourself in. And yes, if I had a choice to save an entire building or just my kid, it's my kid every time. I fail them morally if I do not. I'm not responsible for other people's family, just my own. Now... if I could save my kid and everyone else, then yes. But my kid first.
Seems to me that both 8k and ray tracing capabilities fall into the category of better to be prepared than not, because upgrading consoles beyond the HDD isn't really much of a thing – you just replace the whole thing. Maybe they could do a PS5 Pro thing much like they did with PS4, but why not just include the hardware right off the bat if it's available and fits within the cost parameters?

As a very happy PS4 Pro customer, I'm definitely also in the optimistic camp. Heck, I don't even care all that much for the hardware, but I absolutely loved Horizon Zero Dawn and given its a PS exclusive I'll buy the PS5 just because of the next HZD installment.
Thanks! That's useful. Although I assume it aggregates the settlement payment and some other payments associated with the new agreement. (Although, I guess you could call the whole package the settlement?)

I guess I'm just looking for the amount of money Apple agreed to pay—beyond the value of services/chips they will receive—in order to settle this lawsuit. If the accounting can be done that way.
It's nice to see an article like this provide a lot of source links, but it seems to be written to actively misrepresent a lot of that information. The crash test dummy section is badly misleading, and in places objectively false. The text is defensible rather than informative, so pervasively that it's hard to accept as accidental.

> It wasn’t until 2011 that the US started using a female crash-test dummy

"The US started using" here is at best misleading metonymy for US regulatory tests. The standard 5th percentile female dummy mentioned in the article went into production in 1988 - by a US company, on North American measurements, for North American carmakers.

> For a start, this dummy is only tested in the passenger seat, so we have no data at all for how a female driver would be affected – something of an issue you would think, given women’s “out of position” driving style.

"Only tested in the passenger seat" is accurate only with regard to the linked regulatory tests. The 5th percentile female dummy is used in driver's seat testing, and was in fact upgraded back in 1997 specifically to provide more accurate data for "out of position" driver's seat testing. The claim that "we have no data at all" for female drivers is again accurate only for these specific EU-mandated tests; the general statement in the article is simply untrue.

> And secondly, this female dummy is not really female. It is just a scaled-down male dummy.

Again, this is flatly false.

Perhaps the writer was attempting to say that the dummy is not required to be specifically female, or that some of its unformalized ratios aren't proportional to women. But the standard Hybrid III 5th Female Dummy is not a scaled-down male dummy. The dummy's gross anatomy is visibly different and its formal technical specifications (e.g. height, chest circumference) are those of 5th percentile women. More importantly, it's been specifically designed (since 1991) to better assess gendered risks like 'submarining', where seatbelt force falls on soft tissues and causes injury.

Much of the rest of the crash-test discussion is similarly bad. A dummy of a pregnant woman was created in 1996, but the failure to mandate its use was based on the conclusion that the dummy was inaccurate and wouldn't provide valid data. The ongoing lack of a pregnant dummy is a problem, but it's a matter of insufficient data and unsolved design issues. A legal mandate passed today would optimize for the safety of dummies, not humans of any kind.

Gender bias in design, particularly in safety-critical settings like cars, is a topic that deserves more discussion. It's frustrating to see pieces on the topic choose emphasis at the price of systematically misleading readers.
Netflix is actually probably the most common source of 4k home video for most people. Nearly all of the Netflix original content is 4k, increasingly in Dolby Vision. Unfortunately (and bizarrely, to me), you do have to buy the most expensive monthly plan to have access to the 4k content. I don't understand why they would choose to make video quality the main object of price discrimination (it seems like associating Netflix with great video quality would be extremely advantageous to them), but hey, it worked for them to get the extra bucks from me.
Here's a (pre-repair) photo of those energy dissipator blocks at the bottom of the spillway, including people for scale:

http://media.fishreports.com/reports/img-20170303-78a7bb40.j...

Hard to comprehend how massive those blocks are...
That's how I studied for my exams:

1. Read through (and understand) West's book.
2. Go to qrz.com and take the practice tests until I could pass with a 95% multiple times in a row, and I had answered every question in the test database correctly at least once. You only need 85% to pass the real exam but I wanted a margin of error.

I passed my tech, general, and extra exams on my first tries. That's the most prepared I've been for a test in decades.
> Is there a bullet point of what these laws prohibit/require?

I can only offer my bullet point: true consent should be required for anybody to collect or use data that relates to me or my equipment.
I imagine it's easier to sell higher resolution over higher framerates.
I was hoping there would be a big API rethink in this area for version 12 :-(

What I don't get, is that long term, making Mathematica useful for actual server based production environments would open up an order of magnitude larger revenue stream. Yet all I see is a fragmented, difficult to use/understand/license environment. There seem to be a dozen, slightly different initiatives, some basically unmaintained.

I mean, what the heck is all this?

https://www.wolfram.com/engine/

I should seamlessly be able to prototype something through the notebook interface, and then deploy it, in a standard generic way, and on a server I control, that can be consumed by anyone who can read through a OpenAPI (with auto generated docs and schemas).

Setting Alpha aside, what you seem to offer is
a) a prototyping/notebook environment, like Jupyter (yes, I know you came first)
b) a programming language tightly coupled with a really nice stdlib

The programming language itself, realistically, has no use outside your libraries.
And there seem to be very little third party Mathematica libraries.
The notebook environment is only useful for prototyping.

So the market you should want to grow into, is, "How do we allow people to build something really easily, and then deploy really simply, in their own server/DB environment, with reasonably standard API interfaces?".

The attempts to integrate with Python are a good start, but seem to be more focused on the prototyping aspects.

Something like https://www.django-rest-framework.org/ should be built in.
For 50M Americans on workplace wellness treadmill, health claims not holding up
Are public companies required to show which organizations / think tanks they are a part of and what role they play therein as part of their periodic financial updates (quarterly or annual)?

The thing with money and speech in politics is that speech must be loud enough in order to be an effective agent for change whereas the effectiveness of money is considerably more independent that. By loud, I mean a quality more like the amount public awareness and genuine understanding a given issue has.
Radio astronomy has never had a better moment to push for its interest than now - just fire up the PR machine, and say: "Seen that black hole pic? Want more things like that? Better pics? Well, then let us keep our spectrum!"
It just amazes me how the attention to detail in a video game could help reconstruct a medieval Catholic cathedral!
Yeah, there were a LOT of grammatical mistakes in the linked article:

"Text summarization it is the technique"

"With the presently explosion"

"there is need to develop"

I'm not trying to be funny here: I'm genuinely skeptical about somebody who's claiming to have some expertise in machine learning as it applies to textual data but didn't apply a grammar checker (MS Word would catch this stuff).
YouTube also blocked two PewDiePie videos and their comments sections in India on behalf of the high court following a corporate defamation suit. Lately it's not unusual for Indian courts to censor specific media productions and platforms.
I can relate to your heuristic. The current project I've been working on is close to completion and somewhere between 2.5-3x of its initial estimate.
Cool I wish that other libraries like tensorflow could get cudnn installed automatically like this library!
how do you want this wrapped?
How Cluster Analysis Works?
8k piped into a next gen VR headset would be epic.
> you willingly give up information about yourself when you go to public places.

No, I really don't. I just can't do anything about it. I would agree with some form of this "implied consent" argument if going outside were an optional activity, but it's not.
I've never cared that I have to pay for service uptime monitors — in fact, I want to pay for services like this. I'm not sure why being free is such a big selling point, for me at least.
Before reading the article, I was thinking that many Triads tattoo women in their family with large dragon tattoos (I dated one of these girls when her family moved to Los Angeles). It was weirdly explained to me that if a man tried to hurt her and saw those tattoos he would be afraid of the Triad and leave her alone. I found the entire concept a bit repulsive, but it isn't my culture.

The article's claim that tattoos are associated with gangsters lines up with this.
On the surface, this looks more positive to QCOM. However, I feel a good long term play for APPL would be to negotiate a cap on royalties for all LTE shipments through litigation like this, then fade in their own silicon in some developing markets whilst keeping their eye on 5G deployments using modems from the best vendor(s).

My 2 cents.
Is our reality just a simulation? Elon Musk asks
Would they pay it / qualcomm account for it in a single quarter?
I'm curious, would you mind expanding on the ITU thing? Is this a 5G band allocation issue or something?
The one time payment is likely just what they've been withholding for the past few years during litigation plus interest.
Virtually all existing market designs are crappy. Maybe CBOT is an exception. Michael Lewis' book is a big giant marketing document for a shitty market design, FWIIW: not a preconception; I read and panned his ridiculous book.

I didn't think you made the case in your sections 5-7. 7 in particular looked like speculation to the point of paranoia (which, admittedly, is justifiable in blockchain, but for the kinds of dollar amounts you're quoting -rather unlikely). I'll read it again to make sure.
Not sure if this matches my definition of 10x-er ;) No, but there is certainly some truth to it, those who routinely push a lot of code tend to be less stringent on following best practices. I think it's smart to keep changesets small but efficient without being neither too pedantic nor too sloppy. After all coding should still be a fun activity, even with all these crazy processes in place...
> timing component

wow. I also nearly finished but not quite. I bet most people got this far.

Now to burn the next 40-80 hours ...
Doesn't 4k content both cost them more to deliver and generally go to a demo that is more price insensitive? Seems like an obvious play.
Just because people and organizations are donating to the rebuild does not mean they are not also donating to other causes.
Watch the MIT researcher, Lex Fridman, interview with Elon Musk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI&feature=youtu.be
I've only seen it done to stop traffic to pick up a hazard on the road. I'll have to pay more attention now and see if I can see them do it for moderating traffic flow.
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Why doesn’t this category of bugs exist for Rust programs? Simply
because you cannot write a program that contains a null-pointer error.

Hate to be that guy, but this is strictly not true. Observe:

$ nl -ba nulltmp.rs
1 use std::ptr;
2
3 fn main() {
4 unsafe {
5 let p = ptr::null::<i64>();
6 println!("{}", *p);
7 }
8 }
$ rustc nulltmp.rs
$ ./nulltmp
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Raw pointers exist. Unsafe Rust exists. Any large enough Rust project will
end up with some unsafe code. That doesn't mean that the things OP is doing
aren't great—they are—but merely that, when considering tools to be used
for real-world Rust, people shouldn't assume that their tools will only be
used in a shiny rainbow unicorn world of Safe Rust.
I've worked at some rather large companies with insanely relaxed security and auditing standards. I think it's even worse now than before because cloud providers make setting up a database cheap and simple. So today an individual or small team can throw together a production-scale MongoDB in a few hours and start filling it with potentially PII; whereas 10 years ago, something like that stood a good chance of having at least one external DBA/IT-person consulted before going into prod.

My line of thinking is to assume auditing and access controls are lax unless the data in question is part of the company's secret sauce, or is regulated by the government.
Those tools are worthless, though. I wonder if Oracle's is any better.