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Trump is tearing down NATO right now and the US doesn't even need it anymore since it's focusing on China. I'm glad that Romania is on the Western side this time, maybe we get to be spared from foreign imposed governments for once.

If we get lucky maybe we can sneak in a reunion with Moldova within the next few decades while Russia goes through its usual cycle: https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-e...
How is Uber gaining an advantage by taxpayer subsidies any different than any other venture backed company that is subsidizing money losing companies? Some of those VC funds are also coming from public pensions.
Thank you for posting. I was very interested to know what the modern-day school history books say.

For non-Russian speakers I can confirm that on page 203 of the above-referenced history book for the 9th grade it says that World War II started on Sep. 1, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland. It also contains plenty of info on Soviet invasion of Poland, albeit in such context as “it was necessary to create a buffer zone” etc - but it’s there. The Soviet-German pact is also referenced and so is the secret addendum, and it specifically states that Germany and USSR have divided Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe into “spheres of influence”. Which is pretty much what the actual newly declassified document says.
Why is refusing to support a totalitarian regime considered racist?
There's an ongoing campaign against governance by Democrats which cites homelessness and failure to keep clean streets. Los Angeles has to own its failure and follow the lesson of New York in the 1990s.

If you allow your city to be a shitbox, crime and chaos follow.
Is every VC backed company running at a loss “dumping”?
AlphaZero uses a neural network to represent the probability of winning a game in a given state and a probability distribution of next moves, but it still “just” uses Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to look for the strongest position to play based on the estimated score for each possible state. In that way it is identical to earlier agents whether using minimax, negamax/principal variation search, or MCTS. The primary improvements of AlphaZero are learning without bootstrapping from human play & using the neural network to output the probability distribution over the available moves in each state to guide the search rather than using a static heuristic (like killer move or UCB, etc).

The original AlphaGo paper even mentioned that they tested the bare neural network predictions against the version with MCTS guided by the network and found that the MCTS version won 100% of the time, which strongly suggests that search is an indispensable part of strong AI performance in games.
I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt, though a clear explanation of why the above policy was not followed seems warranted. (It also doesn't appear to have been followed in several other instances reported by other former customers in various HN threads.)

If DO reserves the right to cut off services and access to your own data permanently and without warning (outside of a court order or confirmed illegal activity), that needs to be unequivocally stated, and the triggering factors should be made known. Otherwise, DO is not fit for production systems.

Additionally, it would be nice to see the creation of a transparent, high-level appeal process for customers affected by suspensions. Truly malicious customers wouldn't use it (what would they hope to successfully argue to an actual human reviewer?), but it would greatly benefit legitimate customers to have an outlet other than social media by which to "get something done" in the event of an inappropriate suspension followed by a breakdown in the standard review process.
Just s/Los Angeles/San Francisco/g and it's the same story.
Because the money involved is often not much and there’s still some cred associated with traditional publishers.
Right, but leadership is needed to coordinate that change. The OSI needs to stand up and say "hey, the widespread use of permissive licenses is a threat to the open source community; please try to avoid them, and here's some ways you can accomplish your goals without a permissive license." Most open source projects aren't monetized, and most monetized projects won't be picked up by Amazon, so without a coordinated push permissive licenses are just the simplest way to go.
San Francisco and Los Angeles are the future of California. California is the future of the United States.
How many startups have that been true for? Let’s take YC funded startups, which ones have become profitable? Even Dropbox - the only YC company to IPO - is not profitable.
> What function does this access serve anyway?

Oversight
Above a given paygrade, yes, it offsets, but for most people, especially people working for public services, a fiver per hour more won't offset the extra thousands per month.

Note: one of my former landlord said he bought the property in the '70s we lived in for £25K, when he worked as delivery postman for £500/month. With living on his own in London, he bought the property after 6 years working for Royal Mail. Today, the median RML postman salary https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Postman/Salary is £18K (take-home pay is £1315/m), a 1-bedroom flat rental in the outskirts according to Numbeo (https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/London) is £1215, without the utilities and council tax (which was £92/mo for me) The remaining £100 is enough for nothing. But even if let's say share the flat with an SO and split the costs, it is unlikely you can ever afford a 1-bedroom flat.

The same for my parents' case in Hungary ('90s). My mom was a PA, my dad a factory worker. They were able to buy a flat when they were 20, a year after my sister born. My wife parents (factory workers) bought a small house in a village when they were 19. Both family needed no financial aid from their parents. Both properties had an interest-free mortgage around the 30% of the property value.

I wouldn't compare that era with the current one , because neither my landlord, nor our parents could afford holidays abroad or a car. But neither had to worry about where will you sleep or whether your family can afford fresh, quality food if you have to find an other job.
Indeed, MusicBrainz contains the names of songwriters, but not the organisations they belong to
Yeah, I would expect the XY problem to be more common with Arch more than anything else. You can go from trying to make sound work to scratching your head at GCC errors very fast in Arch world.
only related by name, but a classic: https://youtu.be/oW9f04Dctz4
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Not to me, but they have to coworkers. We have a lot of seasonal low-wage workers whose lives are...interesting. There was a non-fatal shooting in the parking lot several years back between a woman and her ex-boyfriend.
Exactly! This is an example of the many cognitive biases.

To people live outside of China, that event is all they know about Tiananmen. But to a Chinese person especially a local resident, it's a place of many memories - a big playground for kids, a hub for changing buses, the entrance to Forbidden City/Zhongshan (Sun Yat Sen) Park/National Museum, a pathway to a shopping quarter, and of course a place full of annoying tourists.

No one is trying to hide anything. It's simply a wonderful venue for olympic games. The view would have been amazing! You will never get an opportunity like that again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGQke3dJdNU&feature=youtu.be... (again please ignore those awkward tourists)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNYf_OsxLeM
That's when that artist should tweet the story, along with an admonishment to definitely NOT steal their music

"Definitely do NOT pirate this material just because I won't be paid either way, it's still illegal! I cannot be more clear on this to you, my fans who normally pay for my music"
This used to be true 30 years ago but is no longer true.
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I know books have ISBN numbers, is there no similar system for CDs? (Or is that model outdated in an age of buying singles on iTunes)
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In terms of a general statement, its a bit misleading to state that sintered metal gears retain the improved strength of traditional metal gears. They are a lot stronger than plastic gears, but in the majority of cases (particularly in hand power tools), they do not have the strength of traditional machined gears.
Pretty elaborate if it is a hoax. More like a longshot in the "last mile" space.

It rents for $18/hr and a good adult stick is about $100-200. If this was smart last mile method, why doesn't everyone have one, carry onto the subway, and hang on a pogo rack at your destination, next to the umbrellas?

Also there's no insurance ("in the unlikely event" yada yada) event though this is not a universal skill and you really are likely to fall while you're learning how to pogo. Watch some youtubes.

I hope this "takes off", but...
If you really want to, make it AGPL and most companies, especially large ones like FAANG, won't touch it due to the virality of the license.
You don’t need to pay any engineers to get behavioral tracking for your ads. This feature is provided by an ad network like Google, the publisher (like WSJ) just enables it. Google sees 4% across their entire revenue, so it’s definitely worth it for them.
While I am a fan of DeepMind’s research (Alpha Go and Alpha Zero blew me away - I wrote a commercial Go program in the late 1970s for the Apple II so I appreciate the problem, and I used to work with DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg at Webmind), respectfully, I do have a criticism:

I would like to see them use their talent and financial backing from Alphabet to tackle the hard problems of common sense in AI and in general the science of what it will take to reach AGI.

Deep learning is brittle, as can be seen in the good science of finding adversarial attacks on trained models. I would like to see less accuracy on dev and test sets, smaller more general models, and especially not see convolutional models as the basis for vision systems in self driving cars. My intuition is that discarding information of relative positions and relative relationships of large features in an image is a bad idea for the self driving car problem.

They have really pushed progress for an old technology (reinforcement learning) and achieved fantastic results but in my experience if there are not many failures along the way, then perhaps goals are not being set high enough.
Speaking as another O'Reilly author, I'd agree with this and add that for tech books the publisher is even less necessary. If you've written papers with Latex/MD/asciidoc, and drawn figures and tables, you're already doing most of what you'd do with your publisher's toolchain anyway. Hook up with Amazon's on-demand publishing service and (except for the nice cover) you've got it almost end-to-end.

[I assume you can write and organize thoughts decently well, and have some people who can proofread for you. If not, a publisher really won't help too much with that anyway.]

So what does a publisher provide? Marketing, promotion, distribution, reputation. No matter how good of a book you write, having a name publisher like O'Reilly gives you substantial credibility that nothing else will. They can arrange promotions through conferences and email distribution that you probably can't. I wouldn't underestimate this, but I also wouldn't necessarily think it's worth their 80%-90% cut either.
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> ...this was already a problem solved in the 90s. Sure you won’t get brownie points by those indoctrinated by the GNU propaganda...

The “indoctrinated” industry has created a massive community and even more massive ecosystem of interoperability which almost certainly wouldn’t exist under the walled off from everything else and “fuck everyone” nightmare of the 1990s.

Those 90s walled off isolated companies were significantly more cult like and significantly less effective than the system which won out in the open market—the “GNU propaganda” as you refer to it.
That seems like a pretty solvable problem - even for daycares. First time you’re late, 5$, second time 20$, n + 1 time = (n+1)*10. The incentive is not to make a habit of it at the very least because the costs will add up.
Agree that tfa is clueless. However even second price auctions cannot explain the data they claim to see. Any ad exchange these days has data showing publisher revenue delta of far more than 4% for cookie-able browsers.

It's not just oba... much of the non-oba demand running through programmatic requires a "cookie" for frequency capping or just basic anti-fraud.

Disclosure: work in industry; am biased.
Thinking about this a lot, university at the end of a school cursus to develop “human capital” seems a not so great idea.

People live close to 70 years, and the world changes a lot.

So many things that we took for granted 10 years ago are just mistaken now. Anyone
wanting to be well rounded can’t stop learning when getting out of school, whatever school they went to.

Do they learn less by themselves, reading papers and lectures while having a good sense of the how society and the world works from an adult point of view ?

What would happen to someone who only focuses on work related education at school but keeps reading and getting lectures about whatever subject picks their interest ?

Wouldn’t they be in a better place than whoever spent crazy amount of money on a “well rounded” education and goes to the world with the impression they now know most of what they need to know ?
I wrote technical books through traditional publishers, and one reason I can tell is that they do some of the difficult parts of the process, which I consider extremely boring: proofreading, formatting, book cover, indexing. All of these are activities that can be better done by specialized people and are boring as hell. Even if you have the patience to do this part, most probably the book design will look amateurish. On the other hand, self publishing will only be financially rewarding if you are willing to do the marketing, in other words, if you want to make this a full-time gig, which is not the case for most technical writers.

As for your last remark, most technical publishers are already nimble operations that connect professionals and designers. It just happens that these small companies are owned by large corporations in order to benefit from the access to market channels.

So, unless you're willing to make this a full time job, I don't think it is such a great deal to self-publish your technical books.
As I understand it, the legendary Sturmey Archer bicycle gear hub used sintered internal components, as early as a century ago. Those hubs have extreme longevity. Of course a bike is not a super high power load, but still it's impressive.
There are a lot of different types of algorithms. Some algorithms don't have any math at all. Consider an algorithm for sorting a list; it just tells you which elements to swap and how to know once the list is completely sorted. An algorithm for computing the roots of a polynomial just has to do arithmetic on a few numbers (it would just plug them into the quadratic equation), and computers are quite good at arithmetic. More complex algorithms are mostly just more involved arithmetic on larger sets of data, and more bookkeeping to keep track of what the numbers mean. For example, if you were simulating electrodynamics for a small set of charged particles, you would need to know the positions and velocities of the charged particles, and the current value for the electric and magnetic field at every point in your simulated space. Calculating the new value for the two fields is then just a matter of applying Maxwell's equations. It's again just simple arithmetic, but this time applied over and over to every point in the space.

Your question is quite broad, you might try narrowing it down to one specific, concrete question.
I can't understand why the model of "build an outstanding App, then reduce engineer team to < 100" is not a thing. If they could do this, they'd be profitable. And I think they could do this, if their codebase wasn't a mess.

Heck, I bet 25 excellent googlers could make a run a service like this with 99% uptime (obviously there would need to be a large support staff still).
This is a fascinating part of linguistics that I never knew existed. I wonder if it would be possible to get a whistling system like this to work for English. I wonder if the feasibility of these systems to represent their respective languages is tied to how many sounds are in those languages. I looked it up, and both Spanish and Turkish have fewer sounds than English, but in the case of Turkish, it isn't too many fewer (36 vs 31 according to the source I found).
There were a few publishing startups that only published electronically and let the author keep 60% of the title's price. I can't find them anymore so perhaps the experiment failed.
Not true. One of the commenters on this thread was nice enough to post the modern-day history book for the 9th grade. Unless you believe he went through the effort of redacting it, you will see that it contains details of USSR’s invasion of Poland in 1939, German-Soviet pact and its secret addendum, nature of the agreement to divide Poland and other countries between Germany and USSR, and so on. Factually it seems to agree pretty well with Western sources.
> Side note: Saying "fraud is rampant" as an argument for blockchain solutions is pretty funny.

Because many companies using a blockchain are frauds? Many fraudulent companies use the internet too, but you likely wouldn't laugh at an anti-fraud solution based on that.
> If you break it down to two sub-demographics, I suspect there'd be an even larger disparity within e.g. 18-25 than there is with 26-35 for reasons such as student loans, but 18-35 would seem appropriate for what's perhaps an overgeneralized view of when most career trajectories and preferences plateau/harden.

My point is exactly that I don't think it's likely that 18-25 would show an even larger disparity, since my suspicion is that the disparity is driven entirely by those who began their career during the Great Recession. 18-25 year olds, who began their career as the economy was heating up, wouldn't show the same. But I'd love to see the data to know if that's the case.
Cool story bro. Except that the real reason for most problems California is facing are of Republican making, it's called Proposition 13 and it's been an unmitigated disaster on the state.
No disrespect intended, but none of this proves anything. A few super-low-res videos that could be faked by anyone with an installation of Blender on a computer made sometime in the past decade? Scratchy mumbly pilot voiceovers that could be performed by anyone with audio recording technology made sometime within the past half-century? An article co-written by a frequent Coast-to-Coast guest? Alien visitation would indeed by exciting, but I'm going to need more tangible evidence. Preferably from more objective and dispassionate authors.

On a related note, we live in an era where billions of people are within arms' reach of internet-connected HD-or-better video cameras, 24/7. If ET is indeed visiting, it'd be front-page on Youtube within minutes.
I’m not sure if CC is meant for software either (except for CC0 perhaps).

For instance, does non-commercial mean (1) you cannot use [the output of] the program for any commercial purposes, or does it mean (2) you cannot sell the program itself (and its derivatives).

The difference is subtle but AGPL permits (1) whilst practically forbidding (2) by enforcing copyleft; hence it fits the OSS criteria whereas CC NC wouldn’t if both (1) and (2) are true.
What does reasonable policy regarding homelessness look like? I'm not trying to be snide, I'm genuinely curious. I don't live in California btw.
There's this fun thing now where American conservatives - popping up in the comments here - want to paint the dangers of unbounded capitalistic success - more high paying jobs! more high paying workers imported! more increases in rent and property values! more low paying workers displaced! more people with nowhere to go but the street! - as outcomes caused by left-leaning policies.

Cause, you know, less regulation and more indulgence of those of us who are pushing out existing residents and effecting negative change is obviously the answer. Obviously California isn't ruined for the economically successful class, or the prices would stop going up as the people with the means wouldn't pay them. So if you want these side effects fixed, don't look at what that group of people - myself included - would benefit directly from!

Housing is a policy where you can see this agenda hit bipartisanship. The solutions pushed the most - top-of-market new development - favor the wealthy, higher-income, and incoming-new-residents the most, and help the already-there, low-income, at-risk-of-being-kicked-to-the-street the least. This is acknowledged, but handwaved as "eventually top of market housing becomes cheaper housing," ignoring the lack of much help from that today. Rent control? Fuck that, that will make it harder for new people to move in to help fuel the hypergrowth and growing top-of-the-strata class!
Specifically to desensitize people. “Look! Cameras are ok. Everyone should stop worrying.”
Indeed. The article makes it sound like a foul-up late in the design process, but this plane was corrupt from the very beginning when Boeing set out to dodge the requirement for re-certifying the airframe.
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It doesn't seem correct to you because they might have been trying to be sarcastic. Using two sensors would admit that they might disagree, and that there might be situations where the MCAS could not work. But there cannot be a situation where the MACS doesn't work if the MAX shall have the same type rating as previous 737s, so the sensors cannot disagree, and so it would be useless and wasteful to use two sensors. Issuing that disagreement warning would completely undermine the very reason for the existence of the MCAS.
It's not meant to be a competitive engine, after all, it's written in 111 lines of python.

I think it could be very useful for didactic purposes, or for getting started. Not having all the extra complexities needed for efficient board representation, position evaluation, move generation etc... makes the big picture much clearer imvho
AdSense pays out $2-$3 CPM

Other ad networks pay out $20-$30 CPM

Add are, sadly, a good way to monetize
That's a typo. It's a 2019 paper. See the link elsewhere in the thread
Huge +1 to leveraging SQL as much as possible during ETL.

We recently moved our data warehouse to Snowflake. Along the way, we adopted an ELT paradigm instead of ETL, where you load your raw data into the warehouse and then perform any transformations in the warehouse. A tool called dbt (https://www.getdbt.com/) has made this a joy. You write SQL select queries in SQL files, and dbt creates a DAG based on this SQL so it can efficiently create tables/views in parallel. dbt also comes with some nifty testing facilities to validate your data once it is transformed.

This is a great article, thank you for writing it!
No, my clients are unwilling to build against LGPL software.