skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. Just keeping the uptime good on our stack is challenging enough. Now I have to add Azure's downtime to mine.
That's just not how it worked with employer insurance. Perhaps they could drop your whole company, but the insurer couldn't unilaterally cancel a single employee's plan.
'Trying' to do what? If you accept that a paper cannot be impartial, then what ought they be trying to do? It seems to me, from what you said, that you wish for them to be as plural as possible. Perhaps that's one virtue.

But there's nothing illegitimate about a paper having a particular political persuasion. Every paper does. What they should be judged by - holding politics equal - is the vocational standards of journalism: sobriety, rigour, accuracy, style, and a refusal to appeal to the worst in humans. I would say the Guardian does very well on all these counts. You say that it doesn't declare its politics, but it does: you only have to read their editorials. Not that it's a secret; everyone knows.

As for The Times, I can't speak with any authority. I don't read it, because it's behind a paywall. I know they're a centre-right paper who sometimes publish those on the centre-left. But my sense is that the former massively outnumber the latter, and that they rarely if ever publish social democrats and socialists.

The graph in this study fits, broadly, with my intuitions:

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/0...
That's a very good point. I currently lean towards requiring every citizen to register for the lottery once every ten or so years (for one year of service). If they are picked, they have to go, except for serious unforeseen circumstances, but at least they would be able to plan for it to some extent. This might also require a cultural shift for people to accept it, but maybe not a radical one.
They still do in many poorer countries where minimizing cost is still important (e.g. Mexico and India), but they’re fading away as people become wealthier and demand (and can afford!) complex integrated entertainment/climate/navigation system.
> The "problem" with your #2 is that only one side wants that.

If this were true, only one side would have wedge issues.
I'm not a WSJ subscriber, but from the Ars Technica writeup[1]:

> The Journal says that paying users would "reward the kind of genuine interaction that Facebook, beset by bots and hate speech, has been trying to encourage." But it's not clear how these payments would discourage bots or hate speech. To the contrary, botmakers would inevitably ramp up their efforts to generate fake traffic with bots in order to earn Facebook's cryptocurrency.

So they're either lying or stupid; probably the former, since they're an ad company, and have years of experience with "click fraud."

Then one is left to wonder why it makes sense to have a centralized cryptocurrency, instead of just a database. I imagine there are tax and regulatory advantages versus just being honest and becoming a payment processor. No chargebacks, for example.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/report-facebook-...
I want to know what 1's CIFAR transfer results are w/o cutout.
So, is there a truly largest one?

Let’s assume we have B(n) bitruncatable primes of length (n)

For B(n+2), we have at most 45 times that number (digit added at the front can’t be a zero; digit added at the back must be odd)

The fraction of them that’s prime is about 2/log(10^(n+1)) (factor 2 added because we already dropped all even numbers; n+1 in the denominator as being halfway between n and n+2 digits; neither factors affect the conclusion)

That gives us the recurrence relation

B(n+2) ~= 90B(n)/log(10^(n+1))
= 90B(n)/((n+1)log(10))
= (90/log(10)) B(n)/(n+1)

That number gets smaller and smaller once n > 90/log(10) (about 39)

So, I think it’s very likely there is a largest one.

This line of thought applies to all integer bases > 2 (there isn’t a largest one in base 2 because there isn’t any in base 2)
The Scott Trust, The Guardian’s owner, will remain a non-profit.
100 'dollars' to spend
To best of my knowledge there are no published papers that use ACO for CNNs neural architecture search. However, I found three published papers that used ACO for different NAS, but they used static graphs and no heuristics.
A nicer, consistent interpretation would be to take sin^2(x) to mean sin(sin(x)) and keeping sin^{-1}(x) as an inverse.
I'll start with my gratitude that a Canadian bookseller has found a way to make their bottom line work and afford locations in high-rent areas that stay open late. Also, I'd say their staff are generally attentive and helpful. Thank you for this, Indigo.

BUT... I have given Indigo too many second chances on their non-book merchandise so their new defocussed focus makes me cringe. I've had to do many returns, embarrassing gift returns, because of poor quality crap. Two "literary" mugs, on separate occasions, whose messages started to wash off after several uses. A "literary" quote pillow whose stitching came undone within months. A smart-seeming not-cheap boardgame with wooden pieces that could have lasted a lifetime time if it wasn't for crappy quality control that left the pieces painted with grossly offcenter markings that you can't unsee while playing. Sure, they sell some highish-end consumer electronics, which seem really out of place, but then that's an area where their staff are out of their depth when I've asked questions.

Too many merchandise strikes for me. So you're out, Indigo. I'll only shop there for books now. Which means I cringe and put on tunnel vision as I'm forced to walk through all their non-book plastic futuretrash.

Their model is obviously working for them and for most people. So I recognize I'm probably just a retro bookstore grouch with unrealistic expectations. And I recognize book margins may not be great. But maybe instead of selling barely-relevant disposable garbage, they could help their bottom line by moving just outside of the highest rent locations? (Multi-story retail on Robson Street in Vancouver, really??)

Books endure. Most of their new crap doesn't. Still feels awkward.
Individually no, collectively (i.e. storage arrays) yes.
Exact numeric nth derivatives (2013)
All I was saying, is that you can not claim, that they are trying to rip you off just because you like to cook at home.
The top 1% own 40% of the wealth and have realized 95% of the increase in wealth over the past decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
"More recently, in 2017, an Oxfam study found that eight rich people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race."
It is a huge disservice to take a cheap shot at 401ks. There is almost no case where someone who has the opportunity to contribute shouldn't do so.
Hi, GitLab employee from "marketing" here. I take a little offense to

> Putting aside valid thing that article was written by person with role at gitlab 'Content Marketer'

A lot of us in marketing have technical backgrounds and are GitLab code contributors, that's what made us competitive for the positions we were hired for. We just write a lot of the blog posts so the product teams can focus on their own work. They're also usually very collaborative.

Sorry if you meant no offense, it's just a bit of a button-press issue for me!
Same, Work switched to HSA medical. Pre-ACA single employee had basically medical paid by work, Post-ACA, they moved to an HSA (almost mandatory I guess) that work kicks in money per paycheck. BUT, now I have to match the minimum and have a high 8k deductible. So everyone just took a pay cut post-ACA, and if we use the medical, we even pay more. No more co-pays, I have to pay full price doctors visits.

Its easier for me to go to urgent care, say I dont have medical insurance, so I get a cheaper uninsured rate, then submit my medical care expense to my HSA for reimbursements, then if I hit the yearly deductible, claim I have insurance.
Datomic is just a Prolog logical layer on top of traditional RDBMS (e.g. Postgres, H2, etc).
Russia tightens grip on its national net
As much as I wish Wolfram would dial back the egocentric tone in places, this is overall an excellent read
The classic way that this has always happened in the past is by solving a specific problem in a hacky-but-cheap way as compared to existing tech. The issue I see here is I can already run Unix on a smartwatch or a car radio, so it seems difficult to understand where new computing paradigms will come from. Google's Fuchsia is a contender, but I wonder how realistic it is that it would ever become 'the standard'. Maybe the future is a world of truly heterogenous operating system design, but more likely we will employ a one-size-fits all approach just like every other industry. All car engines are about the same, all shoes are constructed with similar parts, all stoves are basically interchaneable, it is unrealistic to expect that software will be any different.
Object systems
> Every system is driven by user adoption. At this point, it will be nearly impossible to dethrone the current methodologies.

iOS, when the iPhone first came out, turned many of the entrenched perceptions about computing devices around on their head, and people embraced it.

Even without the celebrity power of someone like Apple, an experimental system could still thrive today in the shadows with a small cult of followers nurturing and developing it, until it breaks out.
Things are relative here - you know they test experimental pharmaceutical drugs on monkeys too right?
I love the term financial engineers. In my head, it defines the person, the procedure, and the purpose.
Thanks, Fixed
Carefully does not peek inside home shop to see tons of crap (aka - "vintage computers and robotics") purchased from hamfests...

/sigh
I was going to say, that irrationality would mean that any power of pi would contain your name given enough digits.
I think for a library an annual 'support license' on top of the purchase fee, would keep your pockets padded - since it's niche say you charge $400 for the library, then $80/year -- if you have enough clients that's some residual on-going income just be sure to push out a few security updates per year which is what the subscription aspect is for -no subscription --what's your motivation to provide support/upgrades?
I don’t understand how it is a point of contention for people arguing for intelligent design. Wouldn’t it fall in the same category as questions like “if God is so good why are there wars and poverty”, where the answer is “to your feeble human mind it would seem like a design flaw, but God knows everything and everything He does is perfect but because you’re not God you can’t understand his brilliance”?
Really important article IMO.
There is no requirement for your employer to provide the HSA. Frequently the employer can get better deals on the HSA than you can individually (like no waived maintenance fees and the like) but you can for sure open your own.

In fact once you have enough money in there that you are moving out of liquid investments then you definitely want to shop around for HSA much like you would for an investment account.
I would have named it golb.
The cost to employers of very good plans massively increased after ACA went into effect. When this changeover happened, I was running a company where we paid 100% for one of the best healthcare plans available in the state for both the employees and their families -- people really appreciated this benefit. This was the polar opposite of a "crappy plan", and it wasn't inexpensive to begin with.

After the ACA, this plan became so expensive so quickly that continuing this plan became nearly untenable financially and now these types of plans have become increasingly unavailable in any case due to that cost escalation. If you were formerly on one of these plans, of course the post-ACA environment seems like a big step backward. This happened in one of the deepest of blue states; the Republicans can't be blamed for the destruction of health insurance benefits here because they were never involved. The cost of healthcare here has not risen nearly as fast as the cost of providing top-tier healthcare benefits did.
I love the Verizon phone ads on there, "Be the first to Real Time!" They really make the point.
> I meant most cases of public drunkenness are punished by a reprimand or short arrest, not most cases of unlawful entry.

And that's my point. It makes no sense to equate an offense, which is usually punished by reprimand, with an offense which is routinely punished with months of arrest, deportation and a ban on entry.
You are absolutely right about lawmaking being a profession, but in a lottery system, I reckon these professional lawmakers would simply be hired by the representatives, and they could stay on for as long as they are deemed useful. The representatives would act more like full-time overseers on the executive and legislative branches, if that makes sense.
And my point is that behind what you think is an altruistic contribution to open source, there is almost always a company with an economic incentive funding the engineer working on the project.
I think I don't understand. Is there something preventing people from experimenting and craftsmanship at this very moment?
I've been trying for a while to figure out what would be a good metric to judge the ACA by. Most of the time it's success is talked about in terms of number of people insured, but that doesn't really capture how well insured they are. Life expectancy seems to be the only well known (at least to me) stat that begins to capture the health of the nation. We've now had 3 straight years of declining life expectancy in the US [0], a single year is virtually unheard of in developed nations. Now there are lots of confounding variables, and it's certainly not possible to say the ACA is the cause. And 3 years of downward trend, isn't historically unprecedented. However, it certainly makes it hard to paint the ACA as a success, I'd want to see some compelling evidence that the ACA had made America healthier, which doesn't exist right now. The question to me is how long we can accept a downward life expectancy trend before we start looking at the ACA as a potential cause.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-life-expectancy...
Was it, by chance, the Sony Watchman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Watchman
The paper reads like it's suggesting moving the burden of complexity in dealing with varying hardware interfaces from the kernel to userland so that userland can take direct advantage of higher performance hardware when it's available.

I could see that for some very small niches, but in general I think it would be a terrible development for the industry.

Hardware vendors don't like to share. They don't share code, they don't share common interfaces, they don't even share documentation. As it is now, these are all problems which most userland developers don't have to care about -- those problems get dealt with in the kernel, by developers who specialize in building support for uncooperative hardware.

The average application developer doesn't want to have to figure out how many queues are supported by a NIC just to open a connection on the network. Further: the average application developer isn't experienced enough to do this correctly.

Given the niche where these tradeoffs make sense, I'm not sure why the paper bothers to emphasize security at all.
There were always objections.

"Unix went from being the worst operating system available, to being the best operating system available, without getting appreciably better."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485

Which isn't to say that those POV were necessarily correct, just that it isn't all hindsight.
The increase in high-deductible health plans (HDHP) enrollment predates the ACA by many years. You can look at the trend here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db317.htm

Their role is to protect against very high bill of $5,000 and up due to major surgeries, illness, pregnancy, and so on. They should definitely be completed by a health savings account (HSA) for day-to-day coverage.
In my previous career, I was an accountant, and I worked for a health insurance company, you are straight up uniformed if you do not think that ACA raised the the cost of insurance.

With that said, as a type 1 diabetic, without ACA it would be impossible for me to get insurance outside of employment, so i think there is some good in it, just needs to be actually thought through, unlike what the administration did that put it in place.
I'm skeptical about why volunteers should work on anything other than whatever they feel like working on? Voting on free labor seems presumptuous.
Amazon Prime in Japan is such a great value. It's about $40/year (was $30 until recently) and almost everything I want has next day, if not 2 hour delivery. Prime now (2 hour delivery) started 2 years ago here. The combination of dense neighborhoods and non-car culture in Tokyo means that the delivery companies have enough distribution centers that last-mile delivery is often done by bicycle or foot. It must have been a good place to trial 2 hour delivery with this infrastructure in place. That being said, it's via a different app which feels like a way to hide the premium price, rather than as a natural extension of the normal prime service. The video selection is also pretty good, but the UI and platform lag far behind Netflix. But, it and the other benefits are just a bonus. I'd be interested to know if for other people/regions, video content is the main value with free shipping being the value adder.
The only problem with elections right now is Citizens United. Does anyone honestly believe that the Democratic nominees on the left are all running because they think they can win? Or can we agree that the ability to raise endless money and garner publicity under the guise of an election could be what they're after?
Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel
Domino’s Pizza Malaysia and Singapore Team Up with DLT-Based SingularityNET
Because you can get your own HSA, it does not have to be employer supplied. I have an HSA with Fidelity, and an HDHP from my employer.
Worth noting that angular resolution and DOF/defocus is related to absolute aperture size, not f-number, so you can also just plug in the values for "f" to compare.

The iPhone 6 has f=4.15mm, a lens with similar FOV on an 8x10 has f=200mm.

200mm / 64 = 3.1mm -> the size of an f/64 aperture on a 200mm lens.

4.15mm / 2.2 = 1.9mm -> the size of on f/2.2 aperture on the iPhone 6.

Although the 8x10 will often have less defocus due to movements (photographer control of focal plane).
Totally agree, especially with larger companies there are integrations to ERP, data ware houses, partners etc. and then it's often a good idea to have communicated lengths on your domain data (title, email, ...).
I had a heck of a time getting it to build under Ubuntu. It was simple under OpenSUSE however (I followed the instructions both times)
Isn't the core assumption of MVT that there exists a one dimensional spectrum from which to calculate a median in the first place? Voting for candidates is hardly one-dimensional; even a particular ballot measure may have multiple choices, or another question on the ballot of a related but somewhat conflicting nature.
roughly 2700 bytes, from a bit of googling.

(off the top of my head, the most likely use case for 2+kb text fields would be things you would be using pg's full text index on anyway, not the usual btree type indexes as you'd want to speed up a join or whatever.)
It really is.

Originally, schema normalization was just about logical consistency. But that was before query optimizers were invented, and long before they grew to be so very optimized for working with normalized schemata.

Nowadays, even someone who cares 100% about performance and 0% about data integrity (And is somehow still using a relational database, yeah. So what? It's MY hypothetical.) still has good reason to default to something like 3NF. Insert famous Knuth quote here.

Caches and indexes and all that stuff may technically count as denormalizations, but, insofar as the definition of 3NF doesn't mention them, that's a tangential issue.
> In the USA, just because we have the first amendment doesn't mean you're not responsible for your words.

Translating into English: "your words incur a great debt that you will pay dearly for." Being responsible for the consequences is just a euphemism for debt collection.
So he's comparing his eponymous programming language to the arrival of mathematical notation 400 or so years ago, and the advent of written language.
Yes you can, go to Fidelity and sign up for one. Takes like 10 minutes. Transfer money, buy a fund, away you go. Just like an IRA, except never taxed at any point. Besides employer matching it's the best freaking retirement deal there is.
I had the same reaction. Done!
Illegal today, in 2019, yes.

But were these laws on the books back in the 80's when this item would have been newly on the market?

Since laws often occur in a reactive manner, it is very likely these laws were not yet on the books, and when it was new it would not have been illegal at that time.
Your eyes adjust focus moving from object to object, so you won't see defocus the same way a camera will. If anything, things will usually look sharper with your eyes.
From https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html:

> The alignof operator has been changed to return the minimum alignment required by the target ABI, instead of the preferred alignment (consistent with _Alignof in C)

> Code which uses alignof to obtain the preferred alignment can use __alignof__ instead

So, there's an alignof and an __alignof__ function, which do similar but subtly different things? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
CMU's Andy Pavlo is probably at the forefront in this area, here's what they were working on (they're re-doing it all over again now as a yet to be announced project): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14391523 Also, I'd encourage you to go through their Advanced Database class: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYutVzTeAds...

Michael Stonebreaker, a Turing awardee, called for complete destruction of old database order in 2008: https://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-... post which, I think, they created VoltDB (H-Store) and SciDB.

Interesting to note that Andy Pavlo worked on Stonebreaker's H-Store.
If you were designing a society starting from scratch today and said, "I think we should make having health insurance largely dependent on having an employer.", you would be laughed out of the room.

I think we are running along some tracks that were laid long ago, and rather than all jumping off, some people in comfy Pullman cars are content with letting the train run off a cliff.
You know the story of the boy who cried wolf? The villagers committed several type I errors first, and then a type II error second.

(Yes, the terminology is stupid and should be changed. But as long as we're stuck with it, this helps.)
See first paragraph in section BUGS. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select.2.html

If you google for select 1024 file descriptors, you will find a ton of issues affecting a ton of libraries. The correction seems to be using poll(), but in our case was to remove the routine that wasn't needed anymore.
And `guix challenge`, which is very interesting to avoid MIM attacks:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoki...
Believe it or not there was a system at Sony Pictures Imageworks that worked like this - no idea what it was doing under the hood though. Worked great in practice though - every possible production resource was a URL that started with spref:// iirc.
Is this exclusive to the Democratic candidates? I think this was the case for the Republican candidates of 2018 as well.