skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRC for whoever is live + good email lists + discipline on wiki|docs + good PM/ticket communications is faster and more reliable than anything in person. Non-remote is a productivity disadvantage to people who need fast communication. A team of people online can say more with no interupt-crosstalk that cripples in-person "collaboration".
Before everyone goes bananas citing Goodhart's law: many universities and academic medical centers in the US don't care at all about impact factor - they care about grant $$, period full stop. (They appreciate the occasional high-impact paper that they can use in marketing materials, but it's really all about the $$.)

And for what it's worth, I've almost never heard impact factors discussed at NIH study sections, where investigator quality is explicitly on the agenda. Reviewers talk about relevant prior publications in the field, esp in marquee journals. [this latter feature is the reason we don't just put everything on biorxiv or equivalent and move on.]
I’m also in Canada and see lots of kids at parks, which tend to be pretty busy. My kiddo loves video games but is also outdoors a lot.

A lot depends on parents to drive behaviour and introduce these days, again, due to lack of spontaneity / proximity that many grew up with.
> they will explain this period as a hyperinflation

No, they won't, because it wasn't.
All of these concerns are handled on client side, in the end all python needs is an http server, it can be actually hosted on S3.
$3MM all things considered sounds like small potatoes to me. That's what, a couple hundred thousand chipped in from every board member?

Put another way, did the CEO have any other choice? It's not like dumping shares would have been a kosher.
Hmm...this article, along with Elizabeth Warren's recent proposals make me think that maybe the answer we ought to be looking at is something quite simple: Provide significant tax advantages to compensating employees with equity. If the problem is that employees are losing at the expense of shareholders...well, let's make them shareholders.
Sorry, I haven't used Tornado's templates enough to compare them with e.g. Django's.

Essentially all I use Tornado for is to publish a WebSocket endpoint, and for that specific purpose it's great. For building conventional web apps I'm very happy with Django and its templates.
When I came to the comments section there was no one hyping the card but already several folks critiquing it.

My other comments were directed not at other comparable cards but at folks critiquing the card for not having the best benefits. I only know of two cards offhand that are straight 2% cash back on everything with no annual fee and no gimmicks, the Fidelity Visa Signature which requires a fidelity brokerage account and the Citi DoubleCash card. And both of those cash back at the billing cycle end, not daily.

The other cards which offer points, you’ve got to go do something to turn the points into cash or redeem the points in some other way. I get that you don’t think this is much hassle. But for some folks it is. For them, there’s this card.

Anyway, different strokes for different folks.
Rain Testing in the Sunshine State
I found the following article quite good (the second half, more than the first half). It talks about the double empathy problem among other aspects.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-autistic-view-of-the-world-is-not...
Previous Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705449
Ask HN: How can a solo founder retain board control?
Solo founder here, raising a seed round with a lead VC who wants a board seat. It seems straightforward for co-founders in this situation to retain control of the board, 2-to-1. As a solo founder, would this be 1-to-1 and an independent? Even if that independent is mutually agreed upon, I'd still be giving up control. How can this be structured without pissing-off the VC? Is there any precedent for this?
Denmark's Jyske Bank to charge wealthy clients for deposits
It's only fraud if all the people who bought long term care insurance actually live a long time.

Maybe GE (a major defense contractor) has reason to believe a lot of people are going to die soon.
Actual GPU use on Talos seems to be problematic from their wiki page. The CUDA use case is supported, but that bandwidth seems too high. Or are you quoting some future number ? The current bandwidth on a P9 system with nvlink is closer to 30 GB/s. And I don't think Talos supports nvlink.
The information that formed the basis of the report was buried.
Interesting the article mentions Robert Bork.

Bork was the first Supreme Court nominee to earn his own eponymous verb. Bork was put through a ringer similar to the one Judge Kavanaugh went through recently.

Per Google, the verb 'bork' means "obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification."
Yeah, checked for permissions in hardware, but not by an IOMMU. Requests from the GPU are forwarded to the "standard" SMMU. See http://www.ieee-hpec.org/2018/2018program/index_htm_files/13...
What are you using that kind of bandwidth for?
You can cancel your USA membership too - just renounce your citizenship and move to a service you find more appealing. Then you no longer have to pay.
Although it's a fair amount of work, you can make it very simple to switch between SoA and AoS by writing a child class for a C++ vector<yourclass> that templates your original class, but returns values of a child class of yourclass that operates on the SoA data.

With a public-data-heavy class that might run you into a performance problem with allocating the extra unused memory, but you can always pull out the interface as a virtual parent of both to avoid that as well.

I would rarely be afraid of using SoA over AoS if it can lead to significant performance improvements. Done well it can hide all the complexity with some clever use of interfaces and classes.
Most definitely.

If, for example you've got a vector of structs (which is a basic tabular store, that is row major). Depending on the operations you're performing, you may see huge performance benefits from instead using a column oriented data structure. Especially with very large datasets. A large part of this because of cache locality and prefetch.

I see this in finance often. For querying large, slowly changing datasets, column store RDBMS destroy traditional row oriented stores. Column stores can be colloquially an order of magnitude faster for some operations, such as computing aggregates grouped by a date (but theyre significantly much slower for inserts and even more so for updates).

As usual, when it comes down to optimizations, depends on the use case, and experiment and measure, measure, measure.

Also, another big caveate is that it can change arbitrarily with different hardware or even OS revisions.

Edit: spelling
Expand supply of money with money that didn't previously exist. Recipients gain access to the new money mostly from borrowing, and pay back the money with previously existing money. When recipients fail to reach previously existing money due to limitations of the size of the market, new debt is no longer available, and the recipient's remaining resources are taken instead.

Expand, contract. I think it is a great way for the state-sanctioned stewards of the economy to understanding the size of the market and the current limits of global resource distribution by having so much data.

I wish there were entertaining videos on this concept that weren't also trying to "wake people up" to something "bad". Where is the "here is the effect of the business cycle", "here are the tools to play this game more effectively".
Hence the relatively easy in the comment you are replying to.
The history of the Spanish Conquistadors successful search for physical gold in the new world has been written and it is a period of inflation in Spain. Instead of focusing on bringing back real wealth from the new world (coffee, chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes), they brought back useless yellow metal that just caused inflation.

The idea is to match the money supply to the real wealth in the economy. I don't disagree with your assertion that we are seeing a decoupling of money from real wealth, but the gold standard is no guarantee against inflation - or worse, deflation.
The problem isn't the like button, that's a symptom. The problem is human nature; specifically confirmation bias. The internet has enabled people to find what they want to find and see what they want to see.

We are a species that survived because we are social. That said, perhaps we are getting too close, too connected? Maybe we're wired for less "engagement"? Perhsps occasionally being quite and/or lonely has benefits?
The position of the committee given in the guidelines on Article 14 appears to be completely untenable and fundamentally conflicts with the Article 10 right to life. Unless I have profoundly misunderstood their arguments, their position is that someone with a mental illness or intellectual disability may not be deprived of liberty on the basis of that illness or disability (or risks following from that illness or disability), ever, under any circumstances.

That interpretation would forbid the carer of someone with severe intellectual disabilities from stopping them if they tried to run into traffic. It would forbid a care home for people with severe dementia from preventing patients from wandering off, even if those patients are agitated, disoriented and non-verbal. It would forbid a paramedic from tackling someone who is distressed, delusional and trying to jump off a rooftop.

There is a perfectly legitimate argument to be had about the legitimacy of institutionalisation - even brief, time-limited institutionalisation - but these guidelines make a nonsense of the CPRD. It seems to me to be self-evident that some people lack the mental capacity to act in their own self-interests at least some of the time and would, left to their own devices, be at serious risk of death. I do not understand how the right to life and the absolute right to liberty can be compatible.
Build Tools That Assist, Not Mediate
Ex-Apple attorney named as panel judge in Apple patent hearing
Obesity also impacts the impoverish more than those financially better off. Gentrification is pushing many of these peop!e further and further out. The automobile focused design of the areas they move to combined with less access to private automobile ownership confines some of them to their homes with trips out being limited to only the most important errands as it costs money to hire transportation.
1. Why does bisecting a square (I assume you mean diagonally) create an irrational number? If matter, and space-time itself are not infinitely divisible, then wouldn't that mean any diagonal line is kind of a zigzag when you look at it closely enough? It's not that the sides aren't integers, it's that the diagonal isn't strictly possible.

2. This is not my logic nor what I wrote about someone else's argument. I didn't say that all infinite decimals store infinite information. Obviously you can talk about how much information is stored in a given infinite string but I didn't go there and it's not relevant. It doesn't matter whether you think all real numbers store the same amount of information or not.

I described the claim that if you could physically realize an arbitrary real number you could store unlimited information in the tiniest piece of matter. Which goes against the intuitive idea based on experience that more matter is required to store more information.
It’s only insider trading if the company is improperly using information to trade. 3rd parties can discover and trade on non-public information as long as they aren’t breaking other laws (ie, stealing information, bribing, etc).
> CEO Tim Cook saying that he hopes it will someday be Apple’s “greatest contribution to mankind.”

Well, almost. Healthcare may be mankind's greatest contribution to Apple.
no more than any of the other patients/victims of the mental health system
Increasingly, it seems like Indian restaurants where I live are including southern Indian menu items with lentils, and I was happy to see something beyond the usual at first and then disappointed that stuff like dosa, medhu vada, etc, seemed pretty meh.

Indian food in the United States has, IMO, fallen into the same trap that Mexican food has. You get one or two items (e.g. chicken tikka masala or burritos) that represent a small region of the source country and that's about it. Or maybe you'll get some more unusual regional stuff and then half hearted burritos.

So what I'm saying is lentils can be anything you want, it's all in the execution.

Apropos of nothing there's a co-op restaurant in Sydney named "Lentils as Anything". It's named after an Australian band but hey it works here too ;)
I wonder if theres any danger of walmart being declared a vexatious litigant, since this amount is clearly nonsense. If their concern is damage from public opinion, aren't they required to quantify the damages? I don't think the court appreciates being used only as a tool for public opinion.

As is probably obvious to those with any legal knowledge, IANAL
If you can't see what makes him an asshole, then you probably agree with his opinions about all the groups he's insulting. There are a lot of them in there.
(I don't write the following to impugn your choices; I'm only drawing a contrast between your view of the world and mine so we can discuss the differences.)

It's interesting to me that you wrote the payment is important to you because it shows that what you are doing is important. My outlook is that the thing I am paid to do is arguably the least important activity out of any I do in the world. I'm paid to ensure that a particular set of bits are turned on and off in the appropriate way so that other people can manipulate those same bits to influence how data is represented elsewhere. In essence, I feel as though I'm the digital version of a paper-pusher, merely moving reports from one end to the other. It's not bad, as such, just not something I imagine as an important thing. But, it's what the market / society / the invisible hand has decided is deserving of almost outlandlishly wealthy levels of pay, so I do it.

On the other hand, the things I find most important are the activities I either don't get paid to do or I actively pay to do them. Volunteering at my library showing kids and older adults how to read and find information. Being a guide at the zoo, hanging out with animals and encouraging others to see them as worth conserving. Knocking on doors for my preferred candidate in local elections. These are all things that, should I deduce some way to continue to pay my usual bills without having to digitally-push-paper, I would happily do for the rest of my days and let someone else occupy my chair at work. That I don't get paid to do them is almost part of the charm, though I wish society valued the work highly enough that I could get paid to do one or more of those instead of dealing with the latest wrinkle in "site reliability engineering."
That’s an overly wide definition of living with your customers to be useful. Apple for example was selling people kit computers at the start, they did not really have much interaction with or feedback from their customers. Nor could they do much to adapt their product with customer feedback.

I mean if all you mean is have even a tiny amount feedback from a few of your customers. That’s going to include almost every company.
Whoa, it’s remarkable how well that paper holds up for being nearly 60 years old. I wonder if it’s just a timeless problem.
I can’t get more than 430/430 wireless with either my laptop with 802.11ac or my iPhone. My old 802.11n 5ghz laptop gets around 100/100. I have the bundled modem from AT&T with gigabit internet.

Not that it’s a big deal all of our bedrooms, living room, and office are wired for gig-e.
I've worked remotely for 9 years. It is the single biggest factor in what I love about my work.

If I ever change jobs, the ability to work remote is going to be very high on my must-have list.
And yet, somehow TSLA is only down 1.6% in after market hour trading today (this news broke after mkt close). TSLA, appears to have irrationally exuberant investors.

A (nearly) irrelevant comparison; WMT, a profitable enterprise, is down 1.53% at mkt close today, didn't experience any negative news today, and a core aspect of their business model doesn't explode into flames.
I miss being able to see up vs downvotes per post. With only the total displayed, it feels like only the hivemind opinion wins out.
Vote with your wallet, pay for good quality and ethical treatment of manufacturers.
It's a conjecture indeed, as many defense things are classified, but you can bet good money it is true.

> It seems ridiculous that the US would rely on the fact they can control GPS satellites as form of missile defense

The US most certainly would not entirely rely on that. It would only be one tool in the toolbox. Nuclear ICBM attacks are so dangerous, that the defense by necessity uses a multi-pronged approach. It starts from diplomatic pressure, and technology export controls (see for example the Wassenaar arrangement [1] that lists the controls for inertial and celestial navigation in chapter 7. The limits on the GPS receivers exist as well, unfortunately I can't point you to the exact source). The actual physical defense options against a moving missile are listed in [2], such as the Ground Based Interceptors, the Aegis system and the THAAD system. It's all but certain that in case of credible intelligence of an imminent hostile ICBM launch, the US has pre-launch options as well (the current NK ICBM used liquid fuel, and the launch facilities are known and monitored; you will notice that one or two days before any NK missile test the press already writes articles about the likely launch).

Considering all this, would the US neglect the possibility of altering the GPS signal in case it detects a hostile ICBM launch? For example, the reentry vehicle travels at many km/s. Early detonation by only half a second can reduce the impact of the bomb by a factor of 10 easily. If the missile has not GPS signal and only relies on less-than-state-of-the-art inertial and celestial navigation (which may be ok for horizontal coordinates, but not that great of altitude) that may make a huge difference. So my bet is not only that the US will promptly alter its GPS signal, but will have means to spoof the signal from the Russian and Chinese systems as well, and agreements in place with the European Galileo system too. However, as I said before, the problem is more complicated: the Russian and Chinese are not dumb, they most likely have their counter-counter-measures too.

[1] https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2018/12/WA-DOC-18-PUB-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_national_missile...
A dating/carpool app. Your first date is the carpool.
the baseline photogrammetry software is already 'mostly good' if you're scanning something featureful & matte like a wall of graffiti

where it chokes is specular reflections, curves, 'wobbly bits' (leaves on trees), lots of duplicate features (leaves on trees), and things in parallel planes (leaves on trees in front of a brick wall)

these are all solvable with better scene models, object models and feature stats

looking forward to the next gen of structure from motion tech
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lack of clearance between panels. if a roof settles a bit after construction it might flex down reducing the space between panels. (i think)
If that was the case, would you expect anecdotes such as https://i.supload.com/HJ_QEC-rg.png ?

The internal narrative of those sites is that without the ability to appeal to popularity (no scoring) nor the ability to appeal to authority (anonymity), all ideas must stand on their own merits. Rationality means you don't get to believe what you want to believe (hence the hurt-box). Is it really surprising that a radical search for the truth would produce radicals?
Solar City was a terrible deal for Tesla shareholders. I'm surprised it happened.

But back then the koolaid was stronger
How does output compare to Mozilla TTS or Google's new customizable TTS: https://sample-efficient-adaptive-tts.github.io/demo/

The latter requires a few minutes of audio to tune it to clone a voice.
Flask, and only Flask.
Not a Nobel prize winner (somewhat shockingly, given the contribution), and he wasn't (to my understanding) so much ridiculed, but when The Great Debate occurred, which was a debate about whether or not galaxies besides our own existed,

> if Andromeda were not part of the Milky Way, then its distance must have been on the order of 108 light years—a span most contemporary astronomers would not accept.

the size and distance of these objects (galaxies) seemed far too absurdly large to one side of the debate to be accurate; it would mean the size of the universe would be absolutely enormous. Of course,

> it is now known that the Milky Way is only one of as many as an estimated 200 billion (2×1011)[1] to 2 trillion (2×1012) or more galaxies[2][3] proving Curtis the more accurate party in the debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy) — I think it's an interesting read, and a good example of how sometimes the right answer can seem absolutely wrong.
> People just really need that dopamine hit of seeing their points go up.

In other words, people are naturally vain.
Ethan Zuckerman: On Me, and (Leaving) the Media Lab
Walmart’s “controversy and criticism” section on Wikipedia links to its own page (which I’ve never seen before): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart

> Criticisms include charges of racial and gender discrimination,[1][2][3] foreign product sourcing, treatment of product suppliers, environmental practices,[4] the use of public subsidies, and the company's spying on its employees.[5]
The Great Debate
This looks ridiculously like PHP back in what, 2011ish? Kohana, Cake, Zend, etc etc etc. Ultimately they all collapsed into Laravel or Zend.