skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? Fossil fuel power plant efficiency is only ~30-40%, and the waste is disastrous.

Building solar power generation is now competitive or cheaper than fossil fuel even with the low efficiency of panels. So...yeah, it'd be fantastic if solar panels continue to improve over the next few decades, but we can't afford to wait for that to happen to deploy them on a wide scale. And, hell, they last 25+ years. They more than pay for themselves, even at a low efficiency.
Is there a method for dealing with seams between RTIN tiles of different levels of detail? It looks like it would be complicated to implement.
How A State Plans to Turn Coal Country into Coding Country
I was born in the mid 1980s and pretty much 90% of the junk that was taught to me turned out to be false. It's part of why it took me so long to accept global warming. Just nothing was credible.

* Food Pyramid

* Sex "Education"

* Paper Products come from the rainforest being cut down

* Just get any degree in college and you can get a job

* Don't do well in High School and you will be doomed for life.

* Go to a 4-Year university

* There are tons of scholarships if you are smart

* Recycling is good for the environment (Instead they just shipped it to China)

* ...and more ad-nausium
The onslaught is so constant, I sometimes just want to scream at a clerk, "JFC, what happened to just exchanging money for goods and calling it a day?!" Of course, it's not their fault, the person I want to scream at is well insulated from screaming customers in some corporate office somewhere. But $DEITY forbid the clerk not ask, because someone's numbers will be down. That part will filter right the fuck up to the correct person.

Ignore your twitching knee when I say this, but it's one of the things I like about Apple: "here's some money. Might I have one of those fine devices you have on display?"[0]

"Certainly my good sir! Let me fetch one from the back...here you are. Apple Care? No? A fine choice, sir! Have a nice day!"

No cajoling about some card. If you don't want the extended warranty, it's a simple "no" and done. No popups on their internet properties asking to join their mailing list. I give money, they give me stuff. I'm sure there's some dark pattern I've missed, but for the most part the experience seems to be free of such jackassery.

[0] Admittedly, this part needs work lately at their retail stores.
By that logic, shouldn't you be creating a var for the expression_argument() return?
Great thing about this os that they really have some people thinking they are not bots so they already won. Even here in the thread people are saying they are not bots. How crazy !
How much does electricity cost for you? What sort of blackouts/brownouts did you experience?

It's around 10-20 cents per kWh in my state, for reference.
3000 is not really all that many, given the prime use cases for Lambdas. Though at that point you'll probably be running into lots of other issues as well.
Twist, she is also a bot created by amazon and this blew up as side effect. Ex machina !
Oh yes, quadtree-like structures come up all the time when you're dealing with maps. E.g. check out this algorithm I came up with for finding pole of inaccessibility of a polygon: https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel
Yes I think that's the real question being asked.

Some companies put the TM and/or (R) everywhere, like every single mention of their product name on a single page.

Others put it only at the first mention, or on a tiny corner of their logo.

Yet others never put it anywhere.

Are these just different lawyers' interpretations? Are they a conscious marketing decision to make a product/brand feel more official/important? Does it depend on how close to being genericized a trademark is (and therefore in danger of being lost)? Is there literally no rhyme or reason, people just blindly copying whatever they think is the "done thing" without actually knowing why? Is it all of these?
Ask HN: Can we compare SF homelessness epidemic to Ebola?
A woman was attacked by a mentally ill homeless person in SF and yesterday, he pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance.

Links:

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/08/13/video-woman-attacked-assailant-outside-lobby-san-francisco-building-embarcadero/

And

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/08/14/victim-outraged-man-attacked-san-francisco-home-released/

When I read it this morning, it was clear that just homelessness wasn’t the problem..it was homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction, California, Sacramento, San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, SFPD, the courts, the judge. The whole system.

If we were to compare this to a biological system, I thought it would be just like Ebola. Why? It’s haemorrhaging internally, the immune system that is supposed to protect the body is turned against the body as the virus spreads. And then it becomes an epidemic.

Would this be an accurate comparison?

If it is so..and keeping that in mind...how to solve the homeless epidemic as if it were a virus.
Is it 29MB for production dependencies, or dev and prod?
Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice
Why widely spoken languages have simpler grammar
That's so last week.
Hard to say definitively - double malfunctions are relatively rare, so the sample size isn’t enormous.

More time can increase the likelihood that you can get some piece of parachute fabric above your head. And if you can do that, the odds go way up. There’s a saying I was taught on the first jump: “keep fighting until your goggles fill with blood.”

But if you cannot get a parachute out for some reason, a longer freefall will only give you more time to contemplate your fate.
It's a conversation with Amazon "Fulfillment Center" ambassadors, who defend Amazon and say they're very happy. But their Twitter accounts don't follow anyone, they're corporate-branded, they all recite near-identical messages, and they're being paid to represent what it's like working for Amazon, and they "happen to like working for Amazon". The way they speak sounds very scripted and forced, a la The Borg.
I agree that it's not a credible statement. I do not think that their primary interest is the public good, even if the public good is ultimately a beneficiary of their possible discovery of fraud and shorting of GE.

Releasing the statement is meant to fight the implications of the saying, "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." In other words, they want the market to move faster toward the correction they believe GE should undergo. They are not disinterested, they need people to believe them.

In fact, this type of statement in retrospect has been the biggest sign that Enron was a fraud that should have been discovered earlier. Typically a fund that has a black box producing returns trades at a lower price than its yields alone would justify. You get punished for not showing your work. Enron on the other hand claimed that their black box deserved a premium.

GE could be a fraud, but when the messenger says not showing their work is a feature, there should be a presumption of shadiness.
If we stipulate that whiteboard interviews might be useful for evaluating candidates in some cases, a good whiteboard interview would have specific criteria expressed in some sort of rubric or other document. That document would be shared with the candidate and evaluator(s) in advance of the interview. This ensures that the candidate and evaluators have a shared notion of what constitutes success before the interview. An opaque process, unfortunately, can cultivate the type of suspicion that you're expressing here. It sounds like your whiteboard interviews did not give you a good sense of the types of skills they were looking to evaluate during the interview.

I think it's great that you have such high self-esteem and aren't doubting yourself just because some other people don't see your value. That said, I think more data is needed before concluding that whiteboard interviews in general are tantamount to an age filter.

Edit: please note that I have said "if we stipulate," not "if we accept as an a priori truth" that whiteboard interviews are good. It's simply a rhetorical device for evaluating whether or not your whiteboard interview is at risk for evaluator bias.
Indeed I probably would, just didn't want to distract from the central point in that post.
I'm not agreeing with the previous poster but GE is anything but small potatoes nowadays. They have over 100bn in debt and there's a very real case where they get downgraded to high yield which is a near death sentence for an industrial company of their size.
>Shorting GE before making the accusations is profiteering in my book

It's also how you call companies out on their bullshit and counter their PR deflection game.

And yep, if I do a shit load of accounting research, figure out one of the biggest conglomerates has about $38 billion in fraud, you bet your ass I expect to get paid for the effort. I'm morally on board with the authors getting the first shorts in.
This statement confuses me, what are you proposing the call center employee empathize with me over? The reason I'm even calling, or the authentication and account verification answers and random bits of string that I enter into my account when signing up?
I wonder why the design tools makers are still only building for Mac/iPad/iPhone. I get why Sketch did this 10+ years ago. But in 2019, with all the new web technologies available — why would you do that?
Some people are running around to new frameworks, but most are with React. Imo Vue and Svelte are going backwards.
Even if you can only fill in the blanks of this sentence, that would be really helpful:

"I'd be surprised if the retail price ends up being less than $___ or more than $___"
Enforce Dangling Commas for Multiline Statements
Or convince other employees in your workplace that that union is bad and decertify them (perhaps replacing them with a new union that you and your coworkers form, either independently or affiliated with a better parent union.)
You seem to suggest the paying-late is a symptom of the org, my experience is different : I happen to know certain big corporations have departments making sure bills are paid as late as possible, including haggling the invoices down.
Very ironic article on a site that requires you to log in via social media just so you can read it.
Before becoming too concerned with the fact that the author of this report is compensated based on the performance of the sponsoring fund's short position, one should note that it has been argued that allowing Enron insiders who knew of the irregularities to short Enron stock would have supplied a downward pressure that may have saved Enron employees millions of dollars. Many of those employees were investing 100% of their 401k into the stock at its peak.
They actually don't prevent you from running a Linux kernel on their hardware, though.
Society has its own moderation for public discourse, ie laws, social norms, and accountability by virtue of being exposed in public to name a few. So no an unmoderated medium is not a representation of society or at least not an accurate one.
Also GE has been putting executives in jail with the help of the American government in order to put pressure and takeover foreign companies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/-the-amer...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/behind-ges-takeover-...

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/17/how-the-americ...
First, for this vector, they would have to know before hand that it's random numbers. I don't tell anyone I do this.

I also use a random combination of words instead of just characters;
Yellow Mountain Bad Hernia 13

Call center employees will generally think it's my own connotations (if it's school they will think there is a yellow mountain nearby and maybe I had a hernia... words tend to have associations)
Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’
Indeed.

Basically, by buying this stuff, you're saving on having an actual engineer come out and install standard PoE cameras or similar. (A techie would do it themselves of course, most won't.)

The downside is that Google owns you.

Oops.
Hinduism is/was the culture of the Indian subcontinent. Western society defined religion as a matter of faith. In India faith was not exactly part of your culture. That was in addition to your culture.
Your transformation has introduced a bug: the loop body will run once after success turns false.
Not sure how this will evolve but I will leave this with you

https://www.apple.com/apple-card/
There's usually more verification than just that. There's an automated system that asks about old addresses, employers, loan amounts/dates, etc. It's probably fairly easy to get that information but enough of a bump in the road to prevent massive fraud.
TIL! Thanks for sharing this!
So maybe people should cool their homes while away at work, assuming they’re insulated enough to then need less cooling after work.
Good luck with that. It will simply connect to a neighbouring open WiFi and transmit your data anyway :)
No cameras must mean no goodies, then?
TIL:

> NodeGUI is powered by Qt5 green_heart which makes it CPU and memory efficient as compared to other chromium based solutions like electron.

I can't tell you how happy this makes me
I use React Native so there is no difference in touch features etc. It's native components bridged by JS.
I talked to someone yesterday who didn't trust Amazon enough to use an Alexa device after the recent audio recording publicity.

Imagine their surprise when I let them know who owns their Ring doorbells and security cameras.
This is a perspective I’ve been taking recently as I’ve been investigating next-gen DL frameworks like Julia’s Zygote and Swift for Twnsorflow. So it’s very nice to see this articulated so well here by someone who has been thinking deeply about it for so long.

I’ll add some things that relate to this perspective: there is a follow up paper to the DL via Hessian-free optimization paper by James Martens that develops a variant of AD which calculates a special curvature quantity which is useful for efficient second order optimization. This emphasizes that AD is just one of a family of program transformations, most of which are probably waiting to be discovered. For example, would it be useful to have an AD-like pass that calculated trusted regions for gradient updates? And: why do we not do more iteration during DL in which we interleave forward and backward for a single layer only? (rhetorical question, there are many reasons but asking this question forces you to think deeply about a lot of things)

Also, if you generalize VAEs to be arbitrary differentiable programs you immediately run into versions of message passing. For example, vector quantized VAEs are a precisely a soft version of the EM step in k-means. So how would we develop more advanced variational programs in which this process is better managed? There may be very different forms for the inference and generation phases that are not related by a program transformation, or ARE related but only in a high-level way best captured by functional programming primitives.

Any other people nerding out about this stuff please say hi!
PoE cams and a solution like Zoneminder is like <$50 per camera to set up, assuming you have a home server, which I'd think most hackers would anyway.
Then you used it wrong, sorry.
That’s not a good use case for lambda.
The first part of this comment is accurate and important. The second part is pretty much always what fraudsters claim when caught: "I could make it all back given enough time, I just need that one big score!"
It’s hard to swallow but after switching from Windows to Debian to Macbook, from Android to iOS, I'm now an unwillingly Apple Fan.

Knowing Apple is willing to protect my privacy is one of the main reason I stick to it and not to Android (despise the fact I love the unix/linux like ecosystem) or (f@ck@ng) Windows.
I don't see how you could say it doesn't miss the mark of being a heroku level PaaS competitor. Heroku is leaps and bounds simpler to use and configure for most use cases. I mean getting started its either heroku new; git push or just point it at an existing public repo.
And this introduces another bug: it'll run the loop body even if syscall fails the first time it's run.
this seems like bank factoring - getting a part of your future account receivable now. some banks do that, not sure if the rates are any good.
I think we need to slow the pace of immigration, to preserve our culture.
Short selling - the bug bounty hunting for the stock markets. Also no smoke without fire?

If their accusations are correct they already made a hefty profit with shorting the stock.

If their accusations do not hold water SEC will fine them for the market manipulation - would be quite hard to dispute it in this point.

Why would anybody take a risk of getting SEC coming after them?

But then it gets quite murky if some of the claims are true and some untrue.
I like the historical characters reference.

Personally I include many literary/media characters. Even my name on this site.
This only works on units manufactured before Nintendo fixed some of the SoC vulnerabilities. Finding older unpatched units is becoming increasingly difficult.
I think I've seen a rather pragmatic hack that has been used in Google Earth for their stitching of terrain: They simply add a kind of skirt at the boundary of each square chunk [0], so that there aren't any white/black pixels. There may be some artifacts between LoDs but they soon disappear when the next chunk gets more refined.

Edit: I think the Google terrain skirts were slanted, rather than falling straight down, so two neighbouring skirts intersect in a V.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-terrain-chunk-a-withou...
> The cynic in me thinks, if unions were such a bad thing, why wouldn't the owners let them form, burn the employees, and decertify?

Because unions gets more powerful than any company and can leverage said power against both workers and employers.

Lets take SAG-AFTRA as an example, a union many here at HN says the software industry should mimic. Their contracts with their workers states that the workers are not allowed to work at non-union shops, and their contracts with shops states that they are not allowed to work with non-union workers. This means that you as a worker has to join the union if your workplace unionize no matter if you feel it benefits you or not, and as long as the union control most workers any larger workplace will be forced to join or they will lack workers.

Why would workers not just stop being in the union, since it costs $3k to join and 2% of your salary to stay? Because the entire workforce at a union shop has to quit at once, at the same time the shop has to decide that they are not a union shop any longer. Do you think that will happen? No, of course not, weeding out a union in such a situation is way harder than starting the union in the first place. And even if they organize, the union could organize a picket in return to harass the shop and its worker into compliance.

Edit: Also PR and propaganda could easily make workers believe the union is good for them even if it isn't, kinda like how poor whites think that Republicans are on their side.
As one of the larger production users of Rust, it has been great to quickly the language and the ecosystem are growing.

Small things like Option::xor() or default cargo run are signs more and more people are using it "for real".
You can read Twitter.com in a browser.
I take 500mg first thing in the morning, but this dose is in the lower side.

My rationale here is to midly uncouple complex I of the electron transport chain to induce mitochondrial biogenesis of my wild type mitochondria.
Well duh. That's why the top level comment is saying, "That's where Fargate comes in...".
> nor does it expand the program into a mathematical formula.

Meh, this is not entirely accurate. Sure it doesn't expand the program into analytic functions whose derivatives are easy to compute; but it still handles the program symbolically. So, in a way, it still transforms the program into a known set of mathematical primitives of which it can then construct a program that computes the derivative in compile time.
The point of the story being...?
The Executive Mindset
K8 is a software suite that allows you to partition and use a set of resources (eg, partition CPU/Memory/Space to run docker containers). Naively, it consists of a master app and a bunch of agent apps. Each agent app needs to run on the resource you want to put together as a cluster. If you want to run your own k8 cluster, not only you need the actual resources (eg a bunch of computers), but you need to run the master app and the agents on each computer you want part of the cluster, with all the work required by this, for keeping things up to date, making sure the master is available etc.

EKS and GKE are the "managed" k8 solutions offered by Amazon and Google. Not sure how much of the management they do here, never researched the subject, the advantage being that your automation that uses the k8 "language", can work with both. I repeat, I don't know the low level details, eg how do you get some resources in such a cluster.

ECS is the pure AWS alternative for K8. Eg, is a software solution to manage docker containers. Is not compatible "language" wise with K8 tools afaik. But, surprise surprise, is very well integrated with a host of AWS services.

ECS can work with two different types of resources, EC2 clusters and Fargate clusters.

EC2 Clusters are sets of EC2 instances, you start them in whatever way you want, make them as big or small as you want, you just need to run the ECS Agent on them. If you use the Amazon AMI optimised for ECS, this is trivial. The drawback is that you need to manage these instances, software update, you need to start new ones if you need more capacity, stop them when you are wasting resource etc. Obviously, AWS has a bunch of other services you can use to make this easier (CloudFormation etc). The advantage is that you can customise the AMI if you need to and you can leave data behind, after a container terminated. For example, all my tasks in this particular ECS Cluster need access to the same S3 bucket of data. So I'm precaching it on the machines and then simply mount a volume in each docker container that needs that.

A Fargate cluster takes away all of this complexity, you just need to specify a name. Then you tell ECS to start tasks/services (services are just tasks that need to run in perpetuity) on the Fargate cluster and the thing will scale up and down, and scale your price up and down, as you need it. Two drawbacks: you can't customise the underlying host and you can't have persistent data left on the host after a container exits. Therefore, the project I'm working on atm would end up costing more to run, since I can't cache the s3 data and every container that needs that data will end up re-reading it from s3.

Best I could do :)

/edit: GKS -> GKE
I do believe they are actual fulfillment center employees like they say. What's astonishing to me is that Amazon thought this was actually a good idea.
We have roommates who leave messes in the kitchen and blame others, have overnights guests more frequently than its allowed, etc.

Don't even get me started on the uses for kids.
I just hope they never start embedding mobile radios in TVs to circumvent people who know better than to connect their TV to their network.

I would imagine they can exfiltrate their tracking info with very little network traffic over LTE.
Did you leverage this approach to optimize terrain rendering/add detail on devices where hardware tessellation is not supported? Lovely algorithm in any case. [Edit: Just remembered the limitation is with WebGL itself, doh.]
Isn't it more the reverse? They shorted GE, so now they're well positioned to reap the benefits of convincing other people to short GE, regardless of the truth of the accusations.