skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like 5-10x better at the same quality vs. h.264. MPEG-1 is 30 years old. The available computational capacity along with the tremendous investment in algorithmic research in that period cannot be understated.
Dark Web Marketplaces Shut Down Following Police Operations
The usual deal is not "you win, I come in second." It is usually, "Let's work together and get to the last 1km or 500m." Honestly, I feel really bad for both the author and subject of the article. Having so much of your life defined by a moment on time where everyone has huge regrets... The author did a wonderful job telling the story.
Aye; this should have been done a long time ago. I wanted to say 'since the beginning' (whenever that was), but maybe there were good reasons 20 years ago that I can't recall.

It probably made sense when disk space was a lot more constrained.
> This probably sounds unbelievable, but I actually talked my group into seeing if we could license the manga we were scanlating. I figured that since it was all obscure stuff (even in Japan) it wouldn't cost that much. So we contacted them and they were very interested. They sent us over a price sheet for various manga and I couldn't believe the cost. They were charging about $1000 per volume with no royalties! And that was for current stuff (at the time -- round about 2000).

This is basically how Crunchyroll got started. They only removed the pirated content after they got the Naruto license.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-17/tv-tokyo-to...
"You" who? I'm Italian, and from a city (Bologna) who suffered hundreds of casualties as a result of being on the actual front line of the Cold War.

Of course all wars are dirty, in one way or the other; but there is a spectrum, and there was certainly an element of honour code in a lot of the spying activities going on in Europe at the time - particularly in places like Germany and England.
While this is overkill for most applications, the HL7 V3 data types used in healthcare even have multiple different "flavors" of null. So you can distinguish between "no information", "unknown", "not asked", etc.

https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?pr...
I wonder if Piketty would happily give up 83% of his newfound wealth.
And the App Store too.

Advertising on the App Store really broke my heart, I thought Apple just made money from us all by selling expensive, high quality devices and apps. These ads are a desperate attempt to now make something over and above by selling my attention, what a shame!
I tend to agree. It’s an issue where people with less money and hence less power get screwed. Stuff like this happens in West VA all the time with the coal mines.
Please count me in ;-)

Can't think of anyone in my direct environment crazy enough to try this.
If you discard regexredux, then Rust is faster than C and C++ at average: see average bar at "How many times slower graph" [1].

regexredux program is outlier in Rust, because replacement of a regex in string is slower in regex crate, because author of regex crate chose to implement safer, but slower algorithm. To fix this, regex crate must be updated or replaced. I spent two weekends on this.

[1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Custom Geo Restriction of AWS CloudFront Distribution Using Lambda Edge
A while ago one of our clients inquired whether it was possible to block access to their web application for users from a certain US state. A typical infrastructure of applications we create at Rumble Fish involves CloudFront, which offers geo restriction out of the box. However, for some reason it only allows to filter traffic based on country, which was way too broad in the case at hand.In this article, we would like to present our solution for that request.
I understand what this article's view, and I share the same frustrations, but every time I go there, it's packed regardless.
I am, yeah; but it’s an infinite regress—if these aren’t the specs of the machine that answers your query, then they’re the specs of the machine that does the spec-work to build the cache.
1929 wants its total disaster back.
html/ css/ a tiny bit of vanilla js/ gitlab/ netlify.
Quality as Team's Responsibility
> Noticing and remembering people's faces, clothes, tics, etc. when they walk up to you and interact is not stalking.

It is when you place yourself in a position to be nearly every one of the hundreds of people that person interacts with in a day.

Quantity has a quality all of its own. You can't property reason about tracking and surveillance through analogies to conventional social interaction.
Unlikely tbh.
Practical AI 42: TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019
The sale is not completed, yet.
Your tone is surprisingly accusatory given the subject matter. You also seem to be assuming that I'm suggesting such a service should be the domain of the United States. It's a global (read: human) matter.

I should maybe be more clear: I see a public service option for code repositories as more of a public library than anything else. I was suggesting something expressly not run by a private company. That's because as we've seen many times over: companies' priorities change over time—products rise and fall.

I think code is important. I think it will be important in the future as well. As much as ancient recorded mathematics and literature is important.

As well, I see a greater benefit to building common libraries than to burning them.

Because I don't favour dictatorships, I see building libraries as the product of agreement. So by default it seems a collaborative effort to me, and not a forced one.

All of this is why I consider the subject worth discussing.
The whole thing is a "nice try" but spending money on something like this isn't green--we're supposed to be consuming less overall and this hunk of plastic will break within six months and then sit on a shelf until it inevitably enters the waste stream as difficult to recycle e-trash.

When are people going to wake up and figure out that all this speculative entrepreneurial-ism is pretty much just money making scams that exist as the cost of the environment?

Don't want weeds? Be a gardener. Or don't be a gardener: This whole dilettante Instagram gardener bullshit is what needs to die.
Your point is that training is computationally intensive, but your question is "why do people obsess over training"? Sounds like you've answered your own question, then. It's currently hard to train networks, so people "obsess" over improving the methods (see, for example, the article we're commenting on) so that it doesn't have to take as long.

But also note that what you say is not necessarily true that the NN's spend most of their time training. Maybe you've got to spend a week on a huge GPU cluster training some autonomous-driving algorithm, but then it runs in "compute" mode for hours a day in tens of thousands of cars.
A deadline 3 days from now and we're still discussing how we're going to approach it? Does it need to be in production? Does it need to be tested and deployed? I think I'd first inform our stakeholders that we've got a delay and are not going to make the deadline unless we drop this feature.
The problem I see with your argument is that you see things done by the rich (mostly white) as "things that just happen" and things done by the poor (mostly white) as "reaction".

The plant did not just "happen to appear" in a black neighborhood. A group of someones decided where that plant was going to be installed in the first place. I'm sure there were lots of other "equally good" candidates.

Your argument would work similarly for the incarcerated. Black people make 10% of the US population yet they make 40% of the incarcerated. They lose the right to vote. There's allegedly forced labor and poor sanitary conditions.

Do you think this is also "likely incidental"? That black people "just happens to be more incarcerated" than whites? Please consider the recent US history before answering.
The US is big enough for the wealthier people to move away to nicer areas.
What is "spiritual use"?
> Pretty colors when running dmesg!

Neat, but a great isolated example of the ancient software people who use RHEL have to deal with. RHEL 7 has dmesg from util-linux 2.23, the "colors by default" feature[1] first came out with 2.24 released on October 21st, 2013, which is around the time[3] the first beta of RHEL 7 came out.

1. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/9bc2b51a06dc9c...

2. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/releases/tag/v2.24

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#RHEL_...
How is that relevant? I would give up 83% of my wealth if all other wealthy would and it would solve inequality. If it is only me that needs to give up 83%, then not only is it not fair, it also does not solve societal inequality.
It would work on killing any motivation I might have to make money.
store pickup is very convenient, although Best Buy and Home Depot have an even better service as you don't have to install an app or use Apple Pay
I have been using Cmder on Windows for a while, but Hyper has also looked really good.

With the announcement of the new Windows Terminal, I wonder if these projects will become irrelevant. The only reason I use Cmder is for tabs, and once I have Windows Terminal with that feature, I doubt I would ever use Cmder or Hyper.
I think the term 'organization' is pretty important here, more-so than pokemon

'Experience with pokemon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex'?

'Childhood experience suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex'?
I'd be pretty shocked if any ProtonMail users used IE.
It's what the law presumes. There is such a thing as an "adhesion" contract, where a power disparity can lead to the voiding of contractual clauses, for instance, the super fine print in a cell phone contract. But, I don't think an employment contract would fall into that category.
Honestly speaking, I started using Hyper again this week after 3.0.0 came out, and I like it a lot.

I'm not really sure if there's any actual benefit to using it as opposed to the regular Mac terminal, but the colors are bit easier on my eyes at night.

The only thing I'm missing is the ability to move tabs around.
1) There actually are quite a few games available that run natively on Linux these days. Usually not AAA titles but lots of indie games. I've got (checks) about 550 games on Steam, largely through various bundle sales, and something like 30% of them run natively on Linux.

2) Steam now bundles Wine and lots of games are tested and semi-officially supported with it now, bumps the playable fraction to more like 60-70%—and you can enable it for all games with a settings checkbox, too, and more often than not it works.
Based on what you described, it feels like the MIT paper and the openai paper are essentially the same thing. The only difference is the masking/pruning part, which I think is just an engineering detail.
Upvoted.

Many years ago, we were installing an ERM system, when we discovered that it would not run payroll--or rather, it would run payroll for every employee except for the two who were in a certain jurisdiction. The very expensive consultants who were overseeing the implementation did not have any useful ideas on how to resolve this. (Though they did have a useless and time-consuming one.) I figured out how to use the COBOL debugger (called an "animator"), and in a couple of hours located the problem. Perhaps if I knew how to write COBOL printfs, I could have done without the animator, but I was all but illiterate in COBOL.

I have since inherited the care of a WinForms system, and without the Visual Studio debugger I'd be lost there.

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Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced antigay bias
Hello Rob, thanks for the post! Has your company performed an energy return on energy invested (EROI) accounting for your process? Few companies provide comprehensive and transparent EROI and/or CO2 emissions accounting for their product(s). I know you explained that the inputs are low-carbon; however (1) “renewable” energy is still anywhere from 10-50 gram CO2 per kWh (effectively), and (2) the CO2-intensity of your capital equipment can be depreciated over the useful lifespan of said equipment and allocated to each effective unit of energy generated (kWh or gallon?). I’m genuinely excited about your technology; your low capital costs, inexpensive materials, flexible/intermittent operations, and hopefully low maintenance cost — all sound very promising.
I think the semantics of the language is also important.

Yes. I suppose I’m arguing here that the importance of semantics is much greater than the importance of syntax. It’s not that syntax doesn’t matter, but these days I find myself much more concerned with what features a programming language offers than exactly what they look like.

A ternary operator in a C like language probably is frustrating because it's some magic that was just shoehorned into the language with no rhyme or reason behind it.

I’m not sure I can agree with that. The big difference between the ternary-if operator and if-else statements in the C family languages is that the former is used in expressions while the latter is used with statements. Sometimes that distinction is useful.
Pretending that rates like these are unheard-of madness is either ignorance or an attempt to deceive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
Yes, but trace scheduling [1] depends on finding important traces. You can do that heuristically in the compiler but it's more accurate to do it empirically with LBRs.

[1] http://people.ee.duke.edu/~sorin/ece252/lectures/6.2-static-...
I'm not sure how confident wealthy individuals might be that giving up 83% of their wealth would solve inequality.

I'm not sure how many wealthy people care about inequality.

I used to work with a multi-millionaire who thought everybody that was poor just didn't work as hard as him / wasn't as smart as him. He thought everybody should work 2 jobs and go to school in order to better themselves.
I live near an Apple store and frequent it every few months when I need to fix a phone or laptop, or buy a dongle, etc.

The store near me gets lots of foot traffic, but the experience is just fine. There are usually at least 2-3 employees who will come up and ask me how I'm doing and what they can help with. Given the size of the store, the number of employees is surprising actually. And it's as easy as ever to book appointments, in my experience anyway.

I think what's changed is that the novelty has worn off. When Apple Stores first became a thing, it was new and sexy. Now, they're everywhere and don't have that wow factor, because it's become a feature of our lives that you go there every so often if you want to try out, fix or buy an apple product in person. And with the novelty factor gone, people find things to complain about if their experience isn't perfect, even though Apple's customer service is still light years ahead of most anyone else [0].

[0] I say this as an Android and Lenovo X1 user. I personally prefer non-mac products, but my wife has a Macbook Pro and an iPhone and I'm always jealous that when things break, she can get them fixed right away, while I worry that a fix will entail multiple unpleasant interactions with phone agents, followed by a multi-week repair process.

EDIT: I want to add two ideas here in the hope that someone here finds them helpful. When I make laptop purchases (for non-apple products), the first place I look is Costco. They offered the Carbon X1 laptop with pretty good specs (16gb RAM, i7 processor, 512GB SSD. Similar specs on the Dell XPS 13 that they sell) at a great price, with a 90 day, no questions asked return policy and an extra year of warranty included in the already great price. Even if you aren't a costco member, it's probably worth joining for this deal if you are looking to get a Dell or Lenovo laptop. And in my experience, Costco is very easy to deal with when problems arise.

A second idea is to buy using a Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card, which also add a year on to the manufacturer's warranty. Usually, they require you to get a quote from a repair shop and they will reimburse you. In some cases, they will just replace the product straight up. And they are fairly easy to work with. This is the only card I use to make purchases that I know have a chance of breaking.
As I have said, it would very least avoid spam looking real from real domains, which is half of the issue. The throwaway part could be fixed by making spam illegal and actually cracking down on it.
Google Launches AI Platform – An End-to-End Platform for ML Projects
Do you think that there should be separate platform-sh interpreter for system shell scripts, and so on? That kind of strange for me. Probably difference is that shell is "complete" program, while Python is not.
L3 went down per core, but total L3 only fell by 3 MiB. While total L2 flew up from 2.5 MiB to 16 MiB in a single generation for two processors that target the same segment at the same price.

Per core you're correct, but I was looking at net cache available, as that had been remaining static, usually just seeing an extra 256 KiB of L2 per core with little L3 change.
Gender-biased protein may play role in autism
Before 2007 mobile gaming might have been pennies for AAA studios. A wise business move isn't about closing doors but peeking through them, the next stage might very well be gaming on the cloud and cloud rarely runs on windows.

This is just my few pennies about that train of thought.
>There is value in scarcity

I'd argue that for easily digitized works, there's no such thing as scarcity.

Certainly publishers have the right to sue and limit legal distribution, but it does seem at least naive for them to believe they can control illegal distribution. Perhaps that's not the rationale; maybe it's a purely principled stance.

Nevertheless, their work will be spread digitally, and it seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face to not have some legal form of distribution that the publisher can make money from.
Good luck manually writing a program that achieves state of the art performance on any typical machine learning task... we'll see which "training" method takes longer.
>Well, basically trading in your health, knowingly, and risking death in exchange for a salary in private industry is kind of weird to say the least.

If you're a not in a wealthy nation that's not necessarily a bad deal.
It is almost impossible to pay in person but the Apple Store app offers ability to scan the barcode on almost any accessory and pay on the spot for it without ever seeing staff. I do not have many issues with this model, in fact it makes visits to the Apple Store for the odd cable quite easy. However, I did find that sometimes specific accessories are simply not presented and one must flag down staff to have one pulled out from storage.

It is the repair/service story that has really deteriorated over time and Apple would bode well to remember that although PC vendors need to play catch-up they will eventually become good enough.

I did find Joint Venture invaluable. Essentially it is a Pay-to-Play scheme which allows you to book same-day appointments and access the Business Team (which gives a slight discount).

Anybody remember the good old days when you could have AppleCare send you a box and a return label?
It's all about politics where timezones doesn't mean it must be matched with geological.
Upholding principles only count when it's uncomfortable. Otherwise they're not principles.

Of course the things getting pushed away are unpalatable, that's why they're targeted.
Teachers, medical professionals and pilots are a few that immediately springs to mind. IIRC teachers comprise the largest union in the US.
why not use iTerm if on OS X?
You would live in a city where everyone was doing well. Everything you make is as conditional on the world around you as it is yourself. If both thrive you might finally, actually, not just symbolically but truly thrive.
I’m interested in when American politicians (and citizens) became so obsessed with NEW JOBS. Are you familiar with any studies on the topic? It seems to dominate all of our political talk and part of me feels it wasn’t always the case.
The point is gather information on whether it's ready for a full scale rollout. The Firefox developers might know that it might be ready, but the sheer number of software and hardware combinations out there might reveal unknown issues. So instead of rolling it out to 100% of targeted users, you roll it out to 1% of targeted users, and measure regressions to your metrics amongst that group.
I'm pretty sure it'll be via a Group Policy setting set by your Domain/System administrator for a list of sites/tools that require it.
Surprised to see it being written in Haskell.

Edit: Pleasantly surprised.
If that's the only thing that motivates you, I don't think it would be any great loss to society that you stop doing whatever it is you do.
I don't know how much wealth you have but you could probably find 2-3 people in your circle of friends who if you gave 83% of your wealth to it would seriously improve their lives.

Why not do it? Why does everyone else have to do something first?
Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity
I was able to get an appointment next day at an apple store to fix my keyboard . After I arrived I got it done within 15 min
Well, where did "thinking differently" got the Chandler team?
Then what do you do when you realize you’re not the smartest, or best athlete, or good looking? There will always be inequality to some degree or another.
isn't that tableau.com ?
And also illegal.
Skype. SIP. Video Games. Bittorrent. Cryptocurrencies.

There’s lots of stuff that HTTP isn’t eating.
Confused… https://store.apple.com lets you buy anything, pay any way you want, and pick it up at a store, no?
Once you get into top 1% territory, any scheme you have to make more money is likely to just be fleecing any workers or consumer public that you have under your thumb. This is a feature rather than a bug.
It feels like a way for Apple to claw back even more than their 30% cut. Even if you have a successful app, now you have to take some of your money and buy the search ads for it, otherwise somebody else is going to be the first result when potential customers come to the store looking specifically for your app.

You can try and drive traffic straight to your store page from outside sources to bypass that search, but that sort of marketing costs money too. And word of mouth searches are going to be through the App Store search regardless.

It was nice when Apple's search felt like it was just trying to help you find what you were looking for. But it's 2019 and we need to put ads in everything now.
Many States (or at least some legislators in those states) are pushing for permanent DST because of the perceived benefits.

I live in the north and the concern about DST always makes me laugh - the relationship between the time and diurnal patterns is meaningless up here for at least a third of the year.
The real question is what was the effective rate? Did any significant portion of those who were in those brackets actually pay those rates, or was it mostly theoretical on paper rates?
Lenovo's onsite service is inexpensive and, in my experience, excellent. I've used it a few times over the years and it's involved minimal interaction with helpful, focused staff and techs.
Of course. Not that I agree with that idea, but no one should give up the wealth that they built up without sufficient guarantees (and the guarantees need to be enormous) that everyone else will and that it will be used for the greater good.
For example, in Western Europe after WWII such taxes could be raised effectively. Right now, governments have more of a trust issue to effectively make policy like the above. But being impractical does not imply it is a bad idea as of itself.