skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as there will be Russian subs sailing under the nose of the Swedish authorities in Swedish teritorial waters then I’m pretty sure every Swedish government will play by the rules dictated by the US.

A country like Switzerland can afford to act a little bit more neutral because they are located in the middle of Europe, with no close enemy in sight, but when you share the same sea with the Russians things are different. Come to think of it even the Swiss had to renounce part of their famous banking secrecy when the American IRS came asking for questions.
And if there's one thing that spammers are bad at, it's flooding systems with unwanted data...
Damn. That's a neighborhood I'd be moving out of.
I don't understand why you posted this.
Can you name companies?
Thanks for clarifying.

I don't know that "a trained AI" is "applying a heuristic", like you say. Usually, "a trained AI" refers to a machine learning model, which is an approximation of some function. A heuristic is not the same as an approximation. A heuristic is a shortcut, or a rule of thumb, that is often guaranteed to work under certain conditions but not others. An approximation is a function that is correct up to some margin of error with respect to some other, true function.

Heuristics are more common in hand-crafted systems, rather than machine learning systems. For example, the A* algorithm is a search algorithm that uses a heuristic to estimate the cost of a path to agoal.

In short, no, I don't think you're right to say that "trained AI" is applying a heuristic, etc.

As to whether what us humans do is applying heuristics- well, maybe. It's plausible, but how can we know for sure before we actually, well, know for sure? We don't yet understand human intelligence.

Edit: Actually, it's obvious that many things we learn to do are not heuristics. For example, learning a foreign language as an adult (with instruction). First you painstakingly learn the rules and then at some point you can use the language without explicitly thinking about the rules. Did you suddendly develop a heuristic to replace the rules you learned with such effort, or did something else happen?

>> No, just because the trained AI can play a game well does not mean it will outdo humans at any task. But a lot of human behavior is not that exceptionally special either, I think.

That's a strange thing to say. Yeah, what we do is pretty exceptional. Otherwise we'd have been able to reproduce it with our machines. And even if AI like AlphaZero or the Quake agents in the article can outperform humans- it doesn't mean that they're doing what humans are doing.

For example- a calculator is better than me at arithmetic. However, we know how a calculator calculates and it's not how I, or most other humans, calculate.
The API doesn't actually run on the CPU, it's just metadata.
Life! :)

He still uses PS and chimes in on some issues, but doesn't really have time to work on the compiler anymore: https://twitter.com/paf31/status/941745900426215424
Boy have I got a surprise for you. I was an engineer at a web analytics firm a decade ago and yes, ISPs have your web browsing data and are selling it left and right. Also apps, Cell phone companies, etc. Our company bought all that data. and when that wasn't enough, we created apps that collected even more. Every click and ajax request, etc.... timestamped.

Yes, there are analysts sifting through your browsing data (if you're lucky, vaguely anonymized). Yes, I heard countless stories of this data being abused and misused. I simply can't imagine it has gotten much better by now.
I can attest to that, elm-format is an excellent tool and it is great to have a standard code formatter, one less thing to worry or argue over when writing code!
My grandfather fled a certain regime decades ago in order to avoid prosecution. His horrible crime was being born in the wrong race. Sadly my great-grandfather did not have the same luck, and his whereabouts are still unknown to this day. Not fleeing did not really help in proving his innocence. Remember, being innocent is in eye of the beholder.

Anyway, he might be accused of sexual assault but he actually did nothing immoral. He just visited a legal site and had consensual sex with someone who claimed to be an adult at the time, and is in fact an adult now.
I enjoyed the book Old Masters and Young Geniuses which explored this subject in relationship to art and creativity.
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Not a point about the article, but I love how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come to be referred to primarily by her mono-acronym.

Are there other individuals who have been primarily known by only their initials? (Excluding authors like J.K. Rowling, etc. where pen names are more common).
I'm surprised this is so far down. I'm assuming most people commenting didn't actually read it and are just agreeing with the sentiment.

Perhaps the author is not a native language speaker? That being said, I'm not sure why you'd write an article about the importance of writing if your writing is... below average at best.
I'm starting to think that "in order to lose weight, you should eat at a caloric deficit" is about as useful an advice as "to create quality software, write fewer bugs" or "to defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies". I mean, it's nice that someone takes time to debunk myths about weight loss, but that doesn't tackle the problem of helping people keep up with a healthy diet in long term.
No, for the same reasons that it's not infringement to write code like:

def full_name
return self.first_name + " " + self.last_name
end
There is already a long list of amici curiae filings at SCOTUS asking them to look into this case and helping inform them:
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/google-llc-v-ora...

This is still in certiorari phase (i.e., SCOTUS hasn't decided whether or not to hear it), but there's already 15 separate briefs filed all urging SCOTUS to hear the case, and only Oracle is opposing it. There's nothing you can do at this point to urge SCOTUS as to whether or not to hear it.

Assuming that SCOTUS will hear the case (which is probably pretty likely--this is a Big, Important IP question which means the only reason not to hear it is if there's a better case coming along soon to hear it), the best chance at influence is an amicus curiae at that point. Talking to your company's legal representation is probably the best bet to get on one of the amicus curiae, but if you don't have any legal experience, you're probably not going to be capable of writing an effective amicus.
I think you may mean gallium based compounds, not germanium. Germanium semiconductors are only good for sounding like Hendrix. The RF biz debated sticking with Si or moving to "wide bandgap" materials like Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) or Gallium Nitride (GaN), because the wider bandgap means the devices have much higher breakdown voltages and better power density. That means you can run them at a higher baseband and lower power without a die shrink.

It's my understanding they're important for 5G devices, and they've been in the wild for awhile. But the kinds of circuit they implement are like demodulators and filters, not so much something with the transistor density of a microprocessor. I think the fab processes are well more than a decade away from reaching the die sizes of contemporary Si, even if hypothetically they could run at ridiculous clock rates and low TDP.
Fair warning to anybody thinking of using Librem Social: it's a Mastodon instance whose management seems willing to tolerate speech that most of the rest of the Fediverse finds objectionable. Don't expect that you'll be able to interact with users of other Mastodon instances, as their admins may refuse to federate with Librem Social.
I like this idea on the surface. The flipside though is that if everyone's reading the doc for the first time right before discussion, it doesn't allow for much depth of analysis. Do you also send the materials out beforehand?
In that analogy, Google used the blueprint at the level of "living room goes here; closet is next to the bathroom". They then redesigned the plumbing and electricity from scratch.
Maxing out credit cards has nothing to do with it. Nobody is forcing you to do that. How much you buy is depending on you, and it should be an amount that you won't need in the coming ??? (4 seems to be a good guess) years.
To play devil's advocate, video evidence is already not very strong. Can't it already be faked enough without this technology such that we should never trust it as irrefutable proof of anything
I think that's a decent analogy, to an extent. Of course there's always Reason, which is actually ML.

https://reasonml.github.io
> But disabling ad block?

That's the fear. The reality is they want to use the AdBlock+ (ABP) model of getting a trickle cashflow of adblocking users (and allowing so-called "Acceptable Ads").

If you are seeing this as the thin edge of a very hard wedge into the concept of adblocking, you're in good company.

Google/ABP need to start small, offend as few users as possible then make it acceptable and move the conversation to "which ads should/n't be blocked" instead of "all ads should be blocked", all while preserving their revenue stream.
> I really hope that there's a real market out there for people who want to own their phones and control their destinies.

If there is, I haven't found anyone servicing it. This is why I've been reduced to building my own smartphone. That appears to be the only way I can keep control over my own machine.
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>Some people make loud noises cutting wood and doing personal projects with heavy machinery in their garage. Money exchanging hands is not the problem.

I assure you there are plenty of people who think that loud noises, odors and "unsightly projects" are an issue even if no money changes hands. These people have far less leverage over tenants than they do over property owners so they seek to ban tenants

The zoning you speak of is enforceable enough. It doesn't need to be enforceable 100%, just enough to make the risk/reward not worth it. Remember, a large part of the busybodies motivation is "neighborhood character" (or some other shit like that). They don't care if you break the rules so long as you do so in a way they find agreeable. They want the power of arbitrary enforcement so they can screw you if you have tenants that throw loud parties (or whatever). It just so happens that it's easier to get draconian punishments attached to the zoning code than it is to get them attached to the petty crap the busybodies care about so they get rough proxies for the stuff they care about prohibited via the zoning code.
reading "The State of the Carbon Cycle" 2018 USGCRP it is not so easy to sum up.. basically, there is "flux" which is the activity of both uptake and production.. the coastal zones have a lot of organic matter, so the flux is very active, while open oceans are different. Rivers carry carbon to the oceans and dump it in sediment, mostly.. do you count that ? and, the differences between anthropogenic sources, which are changing, and the base rates, which are changing more slowly, are hard to separate because we can only observe total activity as best as possible..
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> 1 million grads are defaulting on their loans every year

Source?

That is astonishing!

About 20 million people are expected to attend a college this fall [0]. With the expected graduation time of six years for undergrad [1], that means that each year's 'class' is only 3.33 million people. So, that means that about 1/3 people with an undergrad degree will default on their loans (yes, fast and dirty stats here). Couple that with the fact that only about 70% of people take out loans [2], and you have a default rate per class of ~43%.

Yeah, ~2/5ths of people that take out loans will default on them?! Is that anywhere near the defualt rates of other types of loans (auto, home, etc)? This seems crazy.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=569 (this is pretty complex data, well worth the dive)

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/heres-how-much-the-average-s...

EDIT: Yep, it seems to be true [3]. Home and auto loans are a bit harder to google, but they seem to be at about 4% and 6% respectively. Honestly, the default rates on student loans are really high compared to other loans of a similar timeline and monetary value.

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/twenty-two-percent-of-studen...
Is there a language spec and examples anywhere? I can only find one example of what the language looks like in their insurance policy case study paper.
Manufacture, certification and launch are still quite expensive. You'd easily run a couple extra billions building a fleet.

Having said that, I'd be delighted to have a fleet of them.
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>There is no reason anyone should ever default on an IBR loan. That’s the whole point of the income-based repayment.

Again that’s right in theory and what the banks report, however, individual law suits uncovered intentional efforts by the banks internally to force deferments and resetting the clock on IBR loan payers. Literally bank communications turned over in discovery on a number of lawsuits show instruction not to process annual financials, place the students in forebearance for a month, then process the documents so the clock reset.

Case in point the banks at no point inform loan holders when the IBR discharge clocks reset (sure student knew they were in forbearance for a month every year, but in these cases the students timely submitted the documents and students have no control over the bank processing times), it’s only when the students went for the discharge and were the students informed there clocks reset annually. Further bank communications showed this was also intentionally done so over the years the banks counted on the student losing their records and proof they timely submitted their annual financials.

And I’d argue that 98% (it’s actually 99.5%) of loan holders being denied discharge in IBR programs is proof the program is broken, but again the individual lawsuits against the banks/loan services broke this wide open. Then again we don’t need to look at the individual lawsuits either multiple state attorney generals have brought charges against the largest loan servicer for these acts and worse (continuing to collect on loans that were actually discharged), still it doesn’t seem that will help these students (like billion dollar fines against the banks didn’t help homeowners post 2008).
Same issue on Firefox 67 on Mac.

Another issue is the left-side list of algorithms isn't scrollable so when you open up a big list like "Brute force" it just cuts off.
I think that's normal and indicates growth over time.
In many places, especially places with a climate like Hawaii, you just cook outdoors. A grill or a small gas stove is probably sufficient, supplemented with rice and whatever else you can cook on a hot plate.
If that's an option, yeah I think that is a really good route.

It wasn't in my situation, mostly because everyone sucked at meetings at an astounding level. But I'm not there anymore thankfully!
> As far as I'm concerned, it's a huge failure that, over thirty years after computer programs were explicitly added to copyright law, it isn't clear to what extent APIs are copyrightable, and we have to watch lawyers argue over strained analogies to chapter titles in Harry Potter books.

It was pretty clear, until this case. What's different here is that Oracle initially had both patent and copyright claims, and appeals to cases involving patents go to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) instead of to the appeals court that normally serves the district court that came from (9th Circuit, in this case).

When an appeal goes to CAFC because of patent claims, CAFC handles the entire appeal. Result: instead of this being decided be an appellate court that has extensive experience in copyright (9th Circuit) in this case, and even with similar issues within copyright, it ends up at CAFC which is not nearly as experienced in the relevant areas of law.

CAFC is supposed to follow the precedent from the circuit the appeal came from in matters like this that hitched a ride with a patent issue, which is why there was so much surprise and consternation at their ruling. As far as I can see, most lawyers and legal scholars though 9th Circuit precedent would result in a win for Google.

Personally, I dislike the way other things piggyback their way to CAFC. Besides the problem mentioned above of it putting issues before CAFC that they are not experienced with, it also makes for weird precedent.

Whenever CAFC goes in a different direction from one of the regular appeals courts, you then have a situation where you effectively have two different rules in that area in that circuit, one for when the case also has a patent issue and one for when it does not.
Saying "I think everyone who disagrees with me is an outlier" is not a particularly helpful way to further a discussion.

Would you care to present evidence?
Interesting article. It suggests trying paint or Kapton on fog lights when trying it out at home. Would that achieve better results than leaving the fog lamps alone and wearing polarized driving glasses with selective yellow tint?
It's much better then the traditional design review, where 80% of the participants spend less than 5 minutes reading the doc before discussion.
Abortion legalization has a concrete start date in the US (and a number of other countries), and it's during a time where we were collecting plenty of statistics to measure correlations with other things.

Contraception's harder to pin a start date on.
Perhaps in a competitive/demanding culture, this is the best you can get.

Besides, very few people in decision making positions have time to study all the prep material beforehand. I sure as hell don't do that when I have back-back-back meeting schedules.
I'm sorry but this still sounds like the same game to me. Why is it not called Beach 2-by-2-ball, or somethign similar, if the number of players makes it so very different? If I get a couple of my mates together and we bounce a ball over a net counting points when the ball hits the ground- how is what we're playing not (an informal game of) volleybal?
I clicked the article link just because I was expecting to see this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel#/media/File:Steve_...
>The number of IRC users is probably higher than it was in the late 1990s/early 2000s. But back then only geeks used internet, and only they were on irc..

Rumors of IRC's death have been disproven fairly frequently, but at least when I was active on IRC everyone I've talked to had the impression that IRC as a whole was losing users throughout the early 00s.

I suspect services such as slack and discord killed off a lot of IRC users as of late as well.

Wouldn't mind being disproven, but at least personally IRC has fallen out of favor except for very specific use cases (like Linux distro support) rather than just chat in general.
That's Oracle's too.
If you don't want poor people to have kids, then conservatives need to get off their high horse and accept that they must help make reliable fertility control cheap and accessible.

No matter what you believe, think, or say: poor people are going to fuck whether they're married to each other or not, because being poor doesn't stop people from getting horny and lonely.

Incidentally, the whole point of organizations like Planned Parenthood is to ensure that having kids is indeed a choice. Refusing to fund it because they sometimes provide abortions is inhumane and counterproductive.
State Department will now ask visa applicants for social media accounts
The initial question of why did you make something iteratively better (in terms of size). It's only 20KB. Can be used to stop progress in any field by replacing the keywords.

I would hate to use something built by people with the attitude that compromising on performance when you don't need to is OK because it falls in line with current expected ranges.
While it's nice that this approach worked out for you, this is bad advice in general, - read Cal Newport's "So good they can't ignore you":

http://www.calnewport.com/books/so-good/
Most software isn't about performance. And when it does become a problem, then the goal is just to fix that quickly to the point of being good enough, even if it's a hack, like caching a very inefficient operation. I don't see anything wrong with that. Software is written to solve a problem, not to run as efficiently as possible.
> But there is insufficient evidence to show he didn’t commit any bona fide crimes under U.S. law.

Assange is an Australian, currently in the U.K., and was accused of rape in Sweden. We shouldn't let the apparently global reach of U.S. law go unexamined.
You've got it backwards. There will be a header in the Medium post saying "the original source for this content is on this other blog, I'm just a repost". Google does pay attention to that and ranks the canonical source higher.
> 5. Write in active voice. Look up the "by Zombies" trick.

This is something I struggle with so I took your advice and found this:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/a-scary-easy-way-to-help-you-...

Thanks!
Can you expand on what "actually run" and "metadata" mean in this context?
I have my own blog but also use Medium, I like what they do and wish they could be better at making money
> The original post is a hot-take, it's pure opinion.

Sure. And it's also an essay.
Will Bruce Wayne sparkle in sunlight?
Is it patent encumbered?
I'm sure those things are interesting; however, you don't learn about them by cherrypicking sources and studies to suit a particular agenda. In particular, by challenging TFA's overt agenda pushing, the parent isn't advocating a different agenda (except perhaps for more objective science journalism).
It is section 4
Your boss, or his boss. They are a gate keeper, in the sense that they can choose whether or not to fund your idea - or, if they are already on board with funding your idea, they need some concrete document that they can show to their peers, to get them to help you/agree with this prioritisation.
I'm currently staying in an AirBnB with two induction hot-plates and a microwave and can cook 90% of the meals I do in a regular kitchen.
From the thread, the email author says:

> This email was intended only for Oleg and a few of our other authors. I have messaged him asking to delete it. We are focused on the future and want to move on from this.
Do companies use school pedigree for filtering? Yes. Are there other ways to stand out from the crowd? Yes.
> Why should we draw the line at the code level of abstraction

Because code provides a concrete, complete, formally understandable semantics. Code is not an "abstraction" over different concrete implementations; it is a specific, concrete implementation. While compilers may substitute the code for another variant that preserves the same behavior, they are required to ensure that this substitution preserves observable behaviors (unless those are undefined behaviors), and the behavior that is to be preserved is defined entirely by the execution of the original code.
I am wondering how this will impact gun fanatics that don't sell guns. I can easily see this costing Salesforce more then just companies that sell guns. Companies owned by pro gun rights people will likely leave as well.
I cook a fair bit and all I really need to get by is two gas burners and maybe a toaster oven. In a pinch one burner'd go a long way, with a couple extra gadgets to help (rice cooker, say). I'd lose out on a lot of baking, which'd suck, but I'm not into much oven stuff anyway, personally. Four (plus) burners and a full-size oven's kinda overkill, I'd seriously consider dropping to separate two-burner and half-height oven built ins to save space for more storage, counterspace, and other appliances if that weren't a lot more expensive than just buying a full-size normal stove.