skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point behind the keras/ TF comment is that the libraries have front ends in both python and R, so its mix mox/ dealers choice on what you like to work in (since the backends of both are identical).

The primary reason to moving these to python is due to convenience/ the community. Most new work is published in python. If we find a new/ interesting model we want to implement, its probably written in python. Rather than reskin the thing in its entirety, its easier here to work in python.

A couple disclaimers: my group works primarily in geospatial data, and principally in LiDAR and multispectral imagery.

The coarse division I see between R/ Python, is that if you come from a research/ academic background (non-engineering), you probably learned to program in R. If you were an engineer, you probably learned matlab. If you are self taught/ coursera/ youtube, you probably learned in python.

R libraries are generally more geared towards academic research, and specifically, working within existing frameworks (handling geospatial data as geospatial data rather then turning them into a numpy arrays). Working in python, there is far more re-invention of the wheel, and its always a pain the ass to get things back into the structures they came in as.

Python has huge utility and is an important tool for certain work. But its really really not faster than R (it def used to be, this isnt the case any more).

R has better support for more scientific programming than python.
Tethering incurs extra charges too.
Remember, though, that the hardware-specific OpenGL library for the user's specific graphics hardware is also a userspace library that has to be provided in a 32-bit version. Even Steam doesn't bother shipping that because it's just not feasible. Without at least some library support from distros it's just not practical to continue 32-bit compatibility.
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The comment underplays the surveillance by using the benign mask to protect its sinister causes. Surveillance has been used to gain economic advantages (as was widely reported), and more importantly geopolitical leverage.

For instance, India, a nation run by English-speaking elites has conducted all the affairs of the nation on Google''s servers - such bumbling idiots, normal as they are, are the targets of such a PR campaign. "Oh, you're don't have to worry about it. You're not a terrorist.."
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Google Maps Littered with Fake Business Listings
A company in my town, https://www.descarteslabs.com/

Is becoming a popular choice for Hedge Funds seeking this kind of data.
> It is really hard to make a financial argument for the value of a stock that makes no profits and is has a low to negative book value.

IMO the best justification for Slack's market value is that its likely to be acquired by one of the mega-cap tech companies in the relatively near future.

Alone it may not be a profitable business, but integrated into a broader ecosystem like AWS or Microsoft Office or Facebook's network, may result in extremely valuable synergies.
Nah, there's better solutions; you can create a window/stride method that converts a sequence into a sequence of sequences and then passes that into a map function that takes a single argument.

array.stride(2).map(|(x,y) ...|)

Both error checking and ergonomics are preserved.
My own claims to be eligible, so I guess I'll be sending it away to Apple camp for a couple weeks. Luckily I don't rely upon it for anything critical. I would imagine if yours says its not eligible that it probably isn't affected... or at least, it's affected but they don't yet fear the legal repercussions enough to offer free battery replacements for your model yet...
You really can't do PTP over the internet, at least not meaningfully. Anyone who needs PTP is going to have their own grandmasters, reference sources, etc - and then a distribution network.

Most telecoms applications use an ePRTC source which tends to be implemented as a GPS/GLONASS/Galileo redundant frequency source, plus a local rubidium source or cesium reference. High-end telecoms applications use a hydrogen maser.

You can't stuff that over an unmanaged network and get the performance you need. Hardware needs to support it hop-to-hop.
You mean creating blog spam that misses the point?
They don't need to. People who park underground, walk or use public transit are close enough to people who park above ground that they get enough data without that. In most cases just one WalMart is enough to infer everything you need to know about them all - if you select the right one for your question. (you wouldn't select just one because then you need to ask if there is something specific about that one, but a statistical sample is enough).

Unless your thesis is people who park underground shop differently. That is a valid idea and you cannot answer it via this study. However you can study it by other means if you believe this is important.
That is the great thing about firefox, when I disable the telemetry which they make extremely easy to do. I can be certain that it is actually disabled. Unlike the shady practices Chrome uses where I never feel comfortable or like they are telling me the whole story. Hidden options and settings force me to not be able to feel safe using their product after an update. I have stopped using Chrome entirely over 3 years ago and have no tried it since. Too many shady and irresponsible practices at play there.
TLS MITM proxies are still doable with your own CA
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

- Sherlock Holmes
It says under 80%, not idle. If you're over 80% in a 24 hour period, you're likely over-utilizing your VPS.
buy the feed from the nest camera across the street from the entrance
We ranked presidential candidates based on their campaign websites’ error pages
Whenever I learn about another of these Javascript foot-guns, I come away with a greater sense of awe at the relentless good sense that went into the design of Python. Not sure if it's a kind of super-human Dutch ability to foresee ramifications of design decisions, or if it's just that Python developed organically over a period of time with healthy feedback from smart and invested users.
I don't think anyone can claim to know for sure. The future is murky. What does seem clear is that this will drastically affect weather patterns that South Asian civilization has relied in for millenia, and will definitely stress already compromised water resources, which I would imagine will cause a significant refugee crisis. I'm not entirely sure where those refugees would even go, China?

I'm not sure on what you mean on the feces contamination question. Water contaminated by human waste is not safe without treatment for consumption in the slightest.
Florida court sides with defendant who fought giving iPhone passcode to police
Alternative data and analytics providers tend to fall into two categories:

1. They are just trying to ride the ML hype train and they sell effectively polished turds to board member buddies. This is the vast majority of the alt data and analytics firms. They have flashy dashboards and allow you to drag&drop together models and data. The whole thing looks very fancy during the sales pitch. It's all animated and shows charts that impress CEOs. Then when your quants get hold of the data they discover that it's real world predictive power is zero.

2. They actually discover valuable data or build models that genuinely produce an edge on the market. These either turn into hedge funds or are bought by an existing hedge fund to run the model in house. You rarely hear of these because their offering is public only briefly or not at all.
Well they can't use Intel or AMD so the options are kind of limited. If they can get full control over the rest of the platform then they can make it more difficult for a compromised chip to remain undetected.
The same thing has been done with mobile data for many years, with higher fidelity. Unlike with satellite imagery, the measurement is almost continuous, you can accurately characterize which subpopulations are changing behavior, and you can sometimes characterize the change in behavior e.g. shopping more/less, spending more time at different retailers/competitors, etc.

Remote sensing like satellite is excellent for other similar types financial modeling applications, but I wouldn't use it for modeling retail as it is much too coarse.
It probably is confused.
You can count cars going in and out.
I used to use a different email address for placing orders, requesting info, etc. and then I'd just check that inbox when I was looking for something or just wanted to skim to look for deals, etc. However, as tends to happen with filtering, I basically just stopped looking. And I didn't really mean all of this mail to go to dev/null.

These days I tend to find that Google tabs work well enough that I don't really get overwhelmed by all the email going to the Promotions tab.
Seriously.

I wish that I at least liked the one thing that was what the whole world apparently decided all at once was the only way to do things.

I'm not even that snobby but I think these films are garbage from the perspective of what I've liked about movies over the last 60 years.
There's some problems with this:
1) What if they want faster shipping? I'm not going to pay for 1-day express shipping for everyone; that's very expensive when you're not Amazon.
2) What if they're in another country? Even Amazon doesn't do free, slow shipping to other countries from their US site, nor do any Ebay sellers.
3) If they only order one small item, the shipping cost is a very large percentage of the total cost to the seller. Shipping in the US has gotten pretty expensive lately, if you're not Amazon. If they order multiple items, it's much more economical, but you've now priced all your items with the assumption that they're only buying that one item, so you're not competitive with other sellers who do combined shipping.
Not all probes are active at all times. They are all defined in the descriptors that I’m including links for. [1][2]

They all include expiry dates, and probes with perpetual lifetimes require devs to take responsibility for them.

All probes need to go through the data collection process outlined at [3].

[1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone...

[2] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone...

[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection
Because they're Xfinity Mobile. Their plans are $12 per GB of data.
The hilarious thing about the get-good arguments is that it's proponents don't realize that they're talking about expending effort _for nothing in return_, especially in cases like the server-side where nobody is forced to use Javascript.

You can say the same thing to Pythonistas who are fussed by memory management, but the tradeoff of that intuitiveness is performance (which is being somewhat obviated by newer languages like Rust, which have their own challenges to learn). The actual task you're trying to do is more complex, so the knowledge required is too.

In Javascript's case, the thing you're becoming an expert in is the path-dependent history of dumb language decisions by people who never should have been let anywhere near a language. It's beyond me that people don't understand why this would bug some, at the very least because it was so easily avoidable.
Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows
> I find it somewhat interesting to what lengths traders go for profits.

That's not too surprising. Isn't that the entire motivation?
It's harder to publish papers that attack a system that is already secure.
The Gender Gap in Computer Science Research Won’t Close for 100 Years
I have a mid-2015 Retina MBP I'd be willing to part with... i7 2.2GHz, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD. Fair warning... there's apparently a battery recall active for this model. It is, however, commonly referred to as "the last good one", just prior to the touchbar and butterfly switch keys.
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See all the examples of explorers dying in places with ample food because they didn't know how to access it. Scott Alexander recently reviewed a book covering this:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...

Information was critical for survival, so it's no surprise we seek it out.
Researchers synthesize healing compounds in scorpion venom
Why does the article link say (google.com) when it's from the Financial Times (ft.com)?
Have you ever noticed how some people crave the resolution of simple lack of relevant information?

You can say “Hey, I was goin to tell you... ah nevermind” and they will pester you, “no, tell me!”

I have also found there is also a difference between male and female psychology. Women are much more interested to know the details of something emotionally salient that you’ve indicated you care about. Men let it go and seem to focus more intently on abstract things that may have wide applicability.
Why brilliant people lose their touch
> When a company insider uses private company information to trade (or colludes with an outside party to do so) they are stealing material non-public information from the company for their own benefit.

I must be dumb, but I don't understand this statement... How is that a "theft"? You knowing that I eat 2 eggs in the morning when I don't want people to know is not you "stealing" information from me.
Both R and numpy use BLAS, and if both are linked to the same library, say OpenBLAS or Intel MKL, then performance is in fact almost identical for expensive operations like matrix multiplication. (R also ships with its own internal BLAS implementation, which is reliable but not very fast, and I believe is still single threaded, so the first thing you should do if you are using R and care about performance is to swap it out.)

For more sophisticated linear algebra algorithm, such as SVD, both will use typically LAPACK, and again, both will exhibit essential identical performance.

There is one important difference though: when R is compiled for 64-bit machines, it can only use 64-bit floats! While numpy can support 32 and even (through software emulation) 16 bit floats. This can halve memory usage, which in turn halves cache misses, which results in a significant speed up in cases where 64-bits of precision is not needed.
If you follow the linked articles, the estimate of water shortage being an actual problem is on the timescale of roughly 80 years. That's more than enough time to figure out solutions or coordinate emigration to less arid places. So I guess we could say the current generations of people are not super screwed, but their kids will be pretty screwed if no one has taken action in ~50 years.

From what I understand, the solid part of feces breaks down pretty quickly, but the bacteria and viruses that actually make people sick can remain a dangerous contaminant in water for some time. It ends up being a question of concentration - lots of water with only a few people = not much of a problem, but lots of people with not much water = big problem.
Don't judge this article without reading ti. Fascinating system of game & market mechanics in an organization. It would work well for many people. One interesting thing is that they put in a penalty system for too much overtime to even try and use it to benefit employees.
Driverless Cars May Be Coming, but Let’s Not Get Carried Away
If the author's setup can only statistically determine effects of 30% or higher, saying "there's no significant change" means "there's no significant change of 30% or more".

Nothing can be said of changes of less than 30%, and that's a hell of a lot of uncertainty. One of the variants could give you 25% more results and yet, those experiments would not see such a result.

As such, it is clear that the experiment is simply not thorough enough to imply the two alternatives are equivalent. Not in the least.
Some even earlier directx games are damn near unplayable anywhere but real hardware, last time I checked. Heavily tied to a handful of video cards from a span of just a few years. Looking at you, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. I don't think VirtualBox even works in those cases.
You can't treat memory, even arrays, as singular memory locations in Java. Stuff moves around because collectors are cimpacting.. If you want to "write in place" in Java you need to either use a non-moving garbage collector, use sun.misc.Unsafe to read write memory directly, or mayyyyyybe take advantage of humongous allocations (arrays big enough that the JVM won't move them).
Where did you get this anecdote from? Googled it, couldn't find anything
> in Python forever under the name of "splat operator"

The name “splat” is not commonly used in Python. That name comes from Ruby (or Perl?). In Python it is usually called “star” or similar.
I disagree, there have been politicians that go through the trouble of setting up their own email server in their basement because the official way is too arcane or not comfortable.
$10/hr that comes with high liability to your personal belongings doesn't make for a good "supplemental" job. Plus, as mentioned in the Twitter thread, most of the money Uber pays out is in incentives which are absolutely targeted at full-time drivers.
The numbers don't bear that out; there are far more orgs than Mozilla writing significant amounts of Rust.
Is this suggesting "plutocrat" donors are secretly fueling the pseudo-science social science programs and all the identity politics nonsense that comes from them? And for what purpose?
It happens in Australia, too. But it's not common.
I don't really see any issue here.

JS map behaves sanely - It adds extra params, but I've had them be useful every now and then, and I've never had them cause a problem.

Arguments behave... Like arguments behave in JS. Arguments have ALWAYS been variadic and accessible through the "arguments" variable within a function. That's not the "wrong" thing, it's just a thing. If you want named arguments - put them up top. Otherwise you'll get an array-like with everything passed. This is entirely consistent with the language.

Finally - These two things conspire together to do what exactly? This isn't a subtle bug where it works correctly 99% of the time and blows in prod late on a friday. This is an obvious error with even dead simple test cases that clearly show the dev has messed up.

Unit test your shit, or hell, just run it once or twice before using it and you're fine.

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Basically - you should know how your std library works. That includes JS. I think this is pretty trivial. Worse, I actually find this behavior far more intuitive than something like ConfigureAwait(false) in C#, for example.
The Indus, Brahmaputra and countless other rivers rise in the Himalayas. I'm not sure what proportion is glacial melt rather than rainfall, but I imagine the probable implications are catastrophic for Northern India, Pakistan and Nepal.
> Trump is a sort of left leaning libertarian.

Trump is a corrupt, opportunist that is probably more of a kleptocrat than having any coherent ideology, but the Trump Administration is a right-wing authoritarian regime in its concrete policy actions.

> He doesn't align socially or fiscally with the Republican Party

In the 2016 primary campaign, while there was still any significant Republican Party in the electorate or in government that hadn't aligned itself almost completely with Trump's actions, and when one could only assess Trump's position by trying to construct a narrative out of a mass of ambiguous and conflicting statements (both during the campaign and prior) rather than concrete policy and personnel actions, this was a defensible position, but it no longer is.

> He could have credibly run as a Democrat

Perhaps before he burnt Bridges with the Democratic electorate by (among other things) jumping into birtherism, he might have—he did have a long history of seeking influence with the New York political establishment (dominated by Democrats) by feigning support for Democratic policy positions that, had he not started showing his true colors as he did several years before running for the Republican nomination, he might have been a non-ridiculous (though still doomed) 2016 Democratic primary candidate, even with his even longer and well-documented history of racism and sexism which Democratic 2016 primary voters would probably have been less forgiving of than Republican primary voters the same year. Of course, he would have had to run a very different campaign with a very different assumed persona.

> probably won the nomination,

No, and to even treat that as even semi-serious requires not understanding the situation and rules in the Republican nominating process Trump exploited to win, the ones in the Democratic primary that Clinton exploited to win, and how the rules of both are engineered to be different than each other or a simple election.

> He's to the left of both of the Clintons and Obama on gay marriage (well, Hillary changed her position two years ago, but otherwise).

Rhetorically on that narrow issue perhaps, but his substantive actions are far to their right on LGBTQ issues generally. This is particularly dramatically clear when it comes to policy on transgender military service,where both Obama and Trump made active policy changes to the policy which was in place prior to their own respective presidencies, in opposite directions.

> He's to the left of Bill on fiscal responsibility. etc.

To the extent that there are ldleft and right positions on fiscal responsibility, the left wing position is that “fiscal responsibility” is a reason to cut defense and security spending and/or raise taxes on the rich to pay for government spending, while he right wing position is that fiscal responsibility is a reason to cut social programs or cut taxes on the rich (because tax cuts obviously increase revenues) to pay for government spending. Trump is not to the left of, well, anyone in the Democratic Party Cli on this issue.
A good cop, and a bad cop. A buddy and a taskmaster.
I almost worked for a satellite imaging company that does this stuff. It kind of bothered me that rather than providing farmers or the government with this extremely rich agricultural data, they were just contracted out to specific hedge funds that would use the data to give them an edge in trading. I feel like that's not the best use of that kind of data to society
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Mozilla's purpose is political. We don't just make widgets for the sake of it nor to make money.
I'm glad the author recognizes the danger of trackers and the value of Firefox blocking them. Unfortunately, the rest of the Washington Post hasn't gotten the message. When I try to read the article just get a message that I have to disable tracking protection first.

https://pasteboard.co/Ikt16xy.png

https://www.washingtonpost.com/steps-for-disabling-firefoxs-...
I don't get it either to be honest. If the software is free (as in freedom) then there's practically no lock-in or lock-out. NTP people could also provide roughtime watchdogs/time to get their time to more people.