skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's quite sustainable i'd bet. banks traditionally make money by lending most of its deposits to other people and earning interest on that lending.

as long as the deposits are large enough, that interest should cover the fixed costs (employees, infrastructure) and the variable costs (paying out interest, referral bonuses) of providing the accounts. internet-only banks also lower their fixed costs by foregoing expensive retail square footage.
A future administration may be much friendlier towards tech.

Unlikely. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-03/the-next-...
I somehow doubt that the review of the major telcos, which are tech companies, will be all that involved.
I'm not sure what you are expecting. I'm describing the algorithm used, so yes, I used the terminology of the algorithm.

Wang tiles doesn't say anything specific about the arrangment of tiles as there are many tilesets that have the Wang Tile property.

And Diablo tiles aren't wang tiles, it would be inaccurate to describe them so. It's not to do with the shape, it's to do with connectivity. You can have a floor tile north-west of a wall tile, you can have dirt north-west of a wall, you can have floor north-west of floor, but you cannot have dirt north west of floor. Wang tiles do not permit restrictions like that.
According to this analysis of Q4 2018, AWS has twice the market share (32.3%) of MS's (16.5):

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-...

I would call that "distant."
Interesting that Salary is the second most important. I think there might be an explanation for this.

I've always interpreted "Personal Growth" as basically meaning "I'll have a higher salary in the future". So perhaps "Salary" is still the main motivator.
The main breakthrough in the last 2 years is increasing success in unsupervised/self-supervised pre-training on very large datasets transfering to other tasks, e.g. ELMo, BERT, XLNet.

Have a look at the BERT & XLNet papers, they have results on a wide range of datasets, including SQuAD 2.0.

I think it's worth keeping in mind that all of the headlines about "surpases human performance" are 100% bullshit regardless of whether they are about vision, ASR or NLP. Performance on a dataset is not the same thing as real world usefulness.

But this takes nothing away from the fact that ELMo/BERT/XLNet make it far easier to pull a model off the shelf and fine tune it for your task and get good performance.

And the gains here are so broad and not task specific that issues with individual datasets are not really an issue, it is the massive gains in pretraining that are the real story, and if that even helps you overfit a test set, it shows that they now have enough built-in linguistic knowledge that we previously didn't have to even overfit a bad test set.

This is obviously bad news for you if you thought that these tasks were basically solved, but it's completely irrelevant if you were building systems since these methods all result in relative gains on whatever language task they were pointed at.

The bigger issue IMO with many recent NLP papers is not that they are expensive to train from scratch, which is a one time cost, but that they are expensive to even do inference with, which makes it hard to actually deploy them in real systems.

But if your question is "is recent progress in NLP illusory" I think the answer is clearly no since the gains were across a broad range of tasks, and frankly I've used BERT and it makes my application better, the main issue I have is the runtime issue.
'Schrems II' ruling on EU dataflows could have unintended consequences
I think you have some confusing typos here, perhaps some missing negations?
IIUC it is more general, and operates at a lower level.
My first question would be: Based on what set of ethics? What's the underpinning set of ethical philosophies?

If you could give me a link to an answer, I would appreciate it.
> Adds a pretty big extra layer of thought [..]

I don't think the average <employer/line manager/assistant actually making the phone call> cares about it nearly as much as one might think they would:

Boss: "we need to reach $person urgently, get them on the line for me..." <walks back into office>

Assistant: "Sir, yes, sir"* <looks up numbers, calls $person's wife>

* or local equivalent
An interesting solution, but I probably would have tried a Penske box truck first. I wouldn't entirely trust a U-Haul to make it the full 300 miles without some kind of a mechanical problem, even when the box is empty except for my suitcase and carry-on.

Moving truck rentals are better set-up to do one-way trips than the airport car rentals. Also, you won't get the airport surcharge. Might be a little more expensive than a car rental or the Lyft, but I guess you could always fill up the truck with Chicagoland-specific goods, if you wanted.
There are several places where I feel proper regulatory oversight would improve the situation, however they can all be reduced to a single phrase.

Proprietary platforms that don't inter-operate are problematic.

Email is OK because like phone service providers anyone is free to run their own, and choose to use the services of a competitor while still inter-operating on a shared communications structure; much like actual postal delivery.

IRC is OK as a protocol (from the fair and inter-operable test), but was never designed to scale up to operate at this level.

Proprietary platforms, like Facebook, Discord, etc flavor of the week which have strong market dominance but which are closed are actively problems. That's an area where monopoly is clearly being used to keep out competitors and restrict innovation.

In Google's defense in this area they did try XMPP, and (as I recall) that experiment ended up as a failure since other platforms intentionally implemented a very poor baseline minimal interoperablity in ways that made communicating between platforms a very 'red headed step child' experience. That's why I believe whatever does come next has got to check all the boxes AND make them requirements of inter-operating, not 'extensions'.
Maybe is the US the college debt is a problem but they are a lot of countries where education is not as expensive. I attended engineering school for 200€ a year plus help from the government for accommodation.

That degree got me my first job. And the next. I started with zero debt and I do not come from money. I am very grateful for that. I would probably not have attended a 5 year college if I had had to get into debt.
That seems like normal this-world Hertz incompetence to me. The best and brightest people do not sign up to stand behind a booth at a car rental agency.
Management is an art of creating motivations to your subordinates. An art, sic!

Each of us is different. Of course we can draw charts outlining average patients temperature in a hospital... with the same informational value.

I wish all of us to experience joy from what we are doing. Let it be in the number of happy members of your team, beauty of your code, amount of salary you bring to your family … It can really be anything. Just keep your mind out of Procrustean bed of common stereotypes.
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Some consider the App Store to be monopolistic, as it is the only way to run on iOS devices, and they will charge you a 30% fee and make you go through their acceptance criteria.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-agains...
Apple -> Right to repair, and strict control over distribution of software allows them to easily compete on i(Pad)OS.
They should first take a look at the Telco/Cable companies and the lack of competition and upgrades. Plus they need to look at the laws these companies are writing to prevent municipal Fibre etc. from seeing the light of day too.
>The only mainstream languages with this kind of composable parallelism are Go and Erlang, both of which target writing servers, rather than high-performance computing, and which therefore optimize for I/O throughput rather than CPU throughput.

Rust, while perhaps not as mainstream and not necessarily targeting scientific computing users, has data-bound parallelization like this via the rayon library.
I never said that it didn't.
Consensus is NOT about everyone agrees on the solution... it's about everyone agrees that they have been heard and understood.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282
What does make a self-taught special?
> they have been quite good about allowing different views to be expressed by content creators.

Not really. They've been removing, censoring and burying conservative authors for a while now. If you do some googling, you'll find plenty of articles about it.
The very first question is "I felt that porn is an important part of my life", and the options are "never", "sometimes", "always", etc. Is it asking for how much of the time I have that feeling (meaning if I say anything but "always" or "never", I'm saying that my opinion changes with regularity), or is it asking how much of the time porn is an important part of my life (which doesn't make sense to me because either something is or is not an important part of the whole of one's life - it can't sometimes be an important piece of your entire life and other times not, unless you've had a gradual change of heart that you want to reflect in your answer). In other words, this immediately feels like a meaningless question.
>The President can… prevent it from being prosecuted in the first place

No.
Nor should they make it: any company that does could be sued for giving someone autism or something. It doesn't matter if there's zero scientific evidence for such a thing, as long as some lawyer can convince a jury full of morons that someone's kid got autism because of the Lyme vaccine.

Our society clearly does not deserve this vaccine.
I have a project right now that I am thinking of building a prototype for on my own time and pitching to my company, because the company will basically have to sell the idea to another business. Why would I do this? Because then I can say how much I want to be compensated for my idea getting the company new business.
But a big reason they lost their top spot was due to the antitrust proceedings.

Thanks to antitrust, they weren't able to force (as much) their garbage IE and Bing. The market was able to confidently invest money in creating other browsers which created better products.
> However Apple? They have the best record on privacy and clearly iPhone and Mac are not a monopoly.

They have a monopoly on fruit named phones at the very least :-P
One split that comes to mind is:

1. Google Search+search ads

2. YouTube

3. Chrome

4. Android

5. Content ads
so you fully understnad what it takes to start a crusade against the pHp religion.
I don’t really know what your point is. The fact that some researchers or doctors were more diligent, scientifically principled, and didn’t fall into the “no evidence yet == psychogenic” trap, does not free those that did from the criticism.

Those that do label illnesses psychogenic without any evidence do harm to patients. They cause grief, delay or hinder access to further research, and so forth.
Why did she take a job as a tester if she was a CS grad with developer aspirations?
I don't know about the USA but here in The Netherlands things being said during elections certainly aren't set in stone. To name two examples: empty promises get made, and rhetoric gets used. Now I know the latter is true in USA even far more but I am not sure on the former.
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'Major distraction': school dumps iPads, returns to paper textbooks
I have been freelance for years, recently I did some interviews for full time positions and I can't agree with you more. Companies that need freelancers are primarily concerned with can you do the job, there's a deadline, there's a contract, there's some urgency.

Most companies I have interviewed with for full time roles advertise that they are a hiring for several roles but often are just hoping that someone who speaks at a lot of conferences or is a ex-FANG higher up will apply (I've heard this from friends on the inside).

I have been very open about what my experience is and what I'm looking for. Somehow every full time job interview feels like getting picked apart to pieces while most freelance interviews feel like someone genuinely trying to assess if you can be useful to them.
I just finished the Eric Weinstein/Peter Thiel podcast, and came away mostly agreeing with their assessment that we’ve really stagnated when it has come to progressing scientifically.

I definitely feel like there’s this illusion of tech innovation coming from these big companies that suck up all the tech talent, but at end of day the best and brightest are working on optimizing ad clicks (FB, Goog) or getting people to buy crap (Amazon) or working on incremental hardware improvements (Apple).

If anything, I would hope any outcome against big tech would level the playing field when it comes to attracting talent, and create an environment where working on true “moonshot” tech was not so risky.
There is an argument to be made that, since Apple is fairly restrictive of what software can be made for their platforms, Apple has a monopoly on... software for Apple devices? App stores for Apple devices? Something of that sort. It is difficult-to-impossible to make, distribute, run, or sell iPhone software without giving Apple a cut of your earnings and a hook to force changes, and this has been claimed to lead to anti-competitive effects (see Spotify's recent complaints).

I've seen the argument made here and there, but I am not a lawyer and I don't recall well enough who I saw it from, so I don't know whether this is a good argument. But it's an argument being made by at least one company that presumably does hire lawyers, so it's probably not a terrible one.

Their record on privacy is unrelated as far as I can tell to antitrust, though; I'm not sure why you brought it up in this context.
People in desperation tend not to think things through, especially when customers are the ones telling them that there's an issue. After the second occurrence, I explained to the relevant parties that my wife's phone cannot be used as a secondary contact for myself, and it didn't happen again after that, so I chalked it up to a misunderstanding. It was annoying, yes, but no one was pestering my wife on purpose.
Something I've wondered is why people don't turn abandoned big-box stores (and smaller malls) into flea markets. There wouldn't be any problems with the weather. The merchants can rent by the month and not have to tear-down their shops on Sunday evenings. Bathrooms would be available. Power could be run.
Hmm...as I remember it xmpp federation with Google worked just fine for us until Google turned it off.
The cable companies are a natural monopoly, just like electricity providers et al. It doesn't make sense for two companies to lay two separate sets of cable in the ground.

ISP competition isn't going to happen, at least not in the wired/cable space. They need to be regulated with that reality in mind.
It’s interesting to me that the dietary part is almost exactly a description of the diet that greatly reduces psoriasis symptoms for me.
I recognize your name from the Rust community. Have you checked out the rust-headless-chrome library yet? It is essentially our puppeteer, in Rust. I added the print_to_pdf feature a few months ago. I haven't touched the other functionality yet. The project isn't feature complete, yet, and also would benefit by an asyncio refactor, maybe when async-await releases.
> Google requires all apps that are on Google Play to use Firebase, which is baked into the OS, for notifications.

Only for apps on the Play Store. This is much less restrictive than iOS, which requires you to use APNS for notifications without any workarounds. Also, Firebase is not "built into the OS" and doesn't exist at all in AOSP.

> The current versions of the stock keyboard, clock, calendar, contacts manager, and even phone dialer all have Google Play Services as a dependency.

Those aren't "stock." Those are Google's apps. Many devices don't even use Google's by default. The AOSP implementations don't use Google Play Services at all. It is trivial to install replacements on even Google-flavored Android devices that don't use Google Play Services.

Compare to iOS. Apple knows every app you ever downloaded, and there is nothing you can do about it. Every time you click on an address link, it sends the address to Apple, and there is nothing you can do about it. Any time an app looks up your GPS location, that location is sent to Apple, and there is nothing you can do about it. If you want to write apps for your own device, you need to give card details to Apple, and there is nothing you can do about it. That is what data collection built pervasively into the OS actually looks like
There is a big difference between joining a startup in growth phases vs an existing player.

* Startups have less with financials, but more with growth. Stock options are a big deal, as you are betting on that growing. It is a gamble, but it can pay off...or go no where.
* Existing players need the 401k with matching and other incentives. There is often very little growth there, you need the long term investments.

But I really have no idea why I need a union contract. Dealing with HR is bad enough, now we have to throw in another dump-ass manager into the mix?
The Firefox end of this is being led up by :ato at Mozilla.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=protocdp
Money on the Edge: Designing for Extremes in Venezuela
Of course porn isn't a real substitute for sexual education or exploring with another real human. But you appear to claim that it's practically useless because it doesn't provide everything. That's a false dichotomy: porn can be helpful in some ways, as the GP mentioned.

> Porn is to sex education as war movies are to combat training.

Right, but the options aren't only "war movie" or "real combat training". For some folks the options are porn or a vacuum of information. You can find plenty of regular, non-porn-actor folks having regular sex online. Are you saying this can't be valuable, especially when someone knows next to nothing about sex?

To use your metaphor: as a young and untrained person, would you rather be dropped in the middle of a battlefield with no explanation, or would you rather have watched some videos of real combat first?
According to OpenSecrets [0] the "Communications/Electronics" sector spends significantly more than "Energy/Natural Resources" on lobbying. SV has a big presence in DC.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=c&showYe...
When I can (often):

1. Write SQL to automate

2. Put SQL with output in Metabase

3. Have it manually checked alongside day-to-day operation

4. Iterate 1-3 (you often will get a lot of feedback)

5. Replace the manual work, now that the SQL it checked on a lot of cases in production
>There's no downside to them personally (and very little for the DOJ itself) for getting a backdoor.

There is if the people in the DOJ suffer from identity theft and get their bank accounts cleaned out because some nefarious people exploited the backdoors.
Fast Parallel Testing at Databricks with Bazel
It sounds like tech. hasn't bought enough Republicans yet. That's all these investigations are about apparently. Otherwise Sinclair media, for example, should be investigated for having an actual monopoly over US local news TV stations.
> Proprietary platforms that don't inter-operate are problematic.

The fediverse is coming along very nicely. Gab's joining of the ActivityPub network is a strong demonstration that you don't need to be part of a bubble to participate, and you don't need permission from anyone to join.

I think if Facebook, Google, and Twitter keep up what they've been doing, the fediverse has a pretty good chance of growing into something that can be used to reach sizable audiences.

I've been looking at ways to get my local, provincial, and federal government agencies to join the fediverse as well, as I think that's probably a better way to do public status feeds than relying on some opinionated Californian megacorp. I'm thinking maybe a slick publishing system that also proxies Twitter.

(INB4 “hurr durr spoken like a smelly nazi, flagged!”)
Former USAF here, with no knowledge of any of this. My guess is the F-35 program sucked up all the funding for UCAVs.
Another example:

>When I vowed not to watch porn anymore, I could only do it for a short period of time

How are you supposed to answer if you've never vowed to never again watch porn...?
So many toilets, and it completely misses the Dual Flush Toilet used universally in Australia & New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_flush_toilet

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIQYYogQ8A
TikTok Acquires Jukedeck
My first thought is wondering what data FB hopes to acquire from making this tool available.
Ha, I got the same model 5" portable TV from Goodwill - the composite input work perfectly with the Raspberry Pi's composite output (some basic soldering is required on the RPi Zero).

My plan was to make it a self-contained old-school PC (with green cellophane film on the monitor for aesthetics) and internally mounting the RPi inside the shell, but I'm being held back by my fear of the high-voltage circuitry of the CRT, and a couple of stripped screws.
As some wonk deep in the machine that wants to get their project pushed through, generate a fantastical story, mark it super extra unbelievably stop secret, and then parade around the politicians that have clearance. They _feel_ it, but can't share it and they use those thought terminating feelings to push through kooky-dooks legislation. Preferably using secret laws.
There is at least $40 worth of BOM cost from additional Antenna, baseband Modem and other RF Related Component. And it is not only Qualcomm which collect royalty on LTE, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE and many others all collect royalty.

I do remember the royalty fees for Non-Smartphone ( Or Devices with only Data line ) were cheaper. But together it would still easily be $30+.
I disagree, I am a customer of a unique not quite municipal network called Utopia. I pay Utopia a monthly fee for my dedicated fiber connection, and I have about 10 ISPs to choose from offering speeds of up to 10Gb/s. It feels like this model is spreading like wildfire here in Utah. I hope it catches on elsewhere.
The problem with XMPP is that it set Google's IM products back by a decade in terms of features. Google IMs still blow chunks.

It may now be possible to make an okay XMPP experience, but proprietary/custom protocols continue to be simpler to implement, better-performing, and less hassle overall.
We need something completely unlike XMPP if we want good federated IM to become a thing; something that isn't a bloated, exotic, "extensible", "well-formed", streaming XML protocol.
This is completely subjective, but I wouldn't consider a 16% difference all that distant, myself. ("Twice" can be misleading; 2% is twice 1%.)
Exactly. I started going through the SICP book recently, not having used Lisp all that much. After several exercises I see why Lisp is useful for teaching: the syntax doesn't get in the way.

If JavaScript was used, the code wouldn't be as straightforward to write and read and you'd have to spend time going through the language's syntax for the reader (or assume the reader knows it already), all getting in the way of just teaching the algorithms themselves.