skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now is the golden opportunity for India to do exactly what they did. Seems like China is trying to wait Trump out and see someone else in the WH to whom they could dictate the terms and tell through which exit of the Airforce One they need to go. But that outcome seems increasingly unlikely as time goes on, so big businesses are coming to Jesus wrt workforce diversification. That's a good thing. India could use some of that sweet, sweet economic growth too.
Cap and trade does in fact make it so that polluters pay for ghg emissions. Why do you say that we can't "conceivably pay for"?
Machine learning brings cell imaging promises into focus
You are looking at the wrong dealers, the non "scam" dealers for say 1 ounce gold coins have a 3-5% difference between their buy and sell prices.
https://www.providentmetals.com/1-oz-us-american-gold-eagle-...
I assume you live in the EU (or somewhere else outside the US), where it is the most natural thing to just send money from your account to another one.

This simply isn't a thing in the US, as I discovered when moving to there for a time. They use third-party apps, cheques, and wire transfers (which are expensive and seem to work via ACH, a pull type system). It's simply not possible to go into your ebanking app and transfer money to someone elses account. (With very restrictive exceptions, e.g. same bank, or maybe the bank has integrated a third party service...)

As inconceivable as the American system is in the beginning for somebody coming from the EU, I guess for many people from the US it's similarly non-obvious that a push system can (and does) exist somewhere else.
Email is hard (I wrote a blog series on it at http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/search/label/email-hard, and I haven't even touched anything beyond the message format!).

Some highlights:

* The MIME and message format specifications are often implemented incorrectly (particularly whenever you deal with non-ASCII text!), so you need a lot of logic interpreting the mess that people think is a valid email.

* IMAP is a database synchronization protocol that doesn't think it's a synchronization protocol, and isn't really well-suited for its tasks. That also means, once again, it's often implemented incorrectly, so you get to spend a lot of time working around server bugs. (There was one message where I managed to get 4 different results from 4 different servers on what its structure was!).

* The big webmail services (e.g., Gmail) often use their own extensions that they really want you to use. So you need to have custom code for big servers. And users demand feature parity, so you have to support it.

* By the way, you also need to integrate a web browser to display HTML email. Except quirks of email rendering abound. And there are severe privacy and security concerns too--you need to disable JS at the very least, and often times be very careful about network access so that people can't leak contents out.
Alternatively, you can make a Camry with the same quality and cover it with glitzy trim, market it as a luxury car, and sell it at a premium...which we call a Lexus.
At RelationalAI we use Julia. We're building a system that deeply merges a relational database management system and machine learning. The system is essentially entirely in Julia and currently is about 85K lines of code.

Our talks at JuliaCon have been on how to use Julia for systems programming (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaQ7XuAR2yY ), which is not an obvious thing you would do.

We sponsored JuliaCon 2018/2019 and work with Julia Computing to fund improvements to Julia.

Let me know if you have any questions!
Doubtless yours is a text from the Indian perspective while the parent's narrative is from the Greek/Macedonian/Western perspective. I don't have standing to say which is more or less likely, but both are probably engaged in some amount of motivated reasoning or selective memory (hence the continuing mystery of Alexander's death).
Yes, I know all of that, was just asking why this would be detectible by weight. Picked plutonium for the lulz.

It looks like osmium or platinum would be cost effective, at today's gold prices.
HBO's Chernobyl wasn't a documentary. That being said, if HBO/Sky want to do a drama on SV40 - I'd probably watch it and enjoy it.
There's also the fact that new PhDs typically rely on recommendations from their advisors and dissertation committees. She's obviously not getting one from her advisor. And that in itself might be fatal.

I mean, what might another dissertation committee member say to counter lack of support from her advisor? And how likely is it that any of them would say it?

Also, it's not obvious why Tufts is at fault.
I would best describe software development at startups as speed jenga. The cool thing is the objective of the game isn’t to build a functioning tower but to instead convince more people to join the game.
This is a fascinating account of a very large-scale advertisement campaign that succeeded in radically changing the views of millions of people over a few years.

I wonder what kind of such campaigns are going on today, changing our thoughts without us noticing.
I've tried that too and agree that it has a slick UI. However one inconvenient design choice is that it stores all the messages (headers and bodies) in a giant sqlite database. Sure, full text searches and Gmail-style multiple labels per message are easy to implement this way, but a multi-GB single-file database is harder to back up efficiently and might be less robust than a maildir-type backend, which other clients such as Evolution use.
But... I've worked with technical writers and PhDs, technical writers (the good ones) can really easily pull analogies out of thin air to help elevate a reader's understanding, I think (maybe due to star trek) that a lot of technical PhDs are quite good at forming comprehensible analogies as well. Usually CS papers are ~40% comprehensible to the vast majority of non-CS people, this differs from more liberal artsy fields where other field pieces are taken as a given and the assumptions compound to the point where education ends up being about familiarizing yourself with all that jargon.

There are some terribly complex CS concepts (try and explain how a hash function produces essentially random output - or how private and public keys are actually computed in a manner to make private keys non-trivially derivable from public keys) and some terribly ingrained jargon (Oh, how's that SSL cert was it SHA signed?) but the effect on your topic of how these jargony terms work is usually easy to express, you don't need to know the history of POSIX to comprehend that CS people have a tool that checks if a string sorta looks like an expect format that we use everywhere, and you don't need to explain positive lookahead zero width assertions to convey that point.

Having a single clause stating "ACH (the preferred US method for bank-to-bank transfers)" would instantly clear all this up... it's also insanely relevant because the topic of the article is about what happens when bank-to-bank transfers have a recipient who is dead.
Wow, universities arent job training programs that churn out cattle for people farms, who could have guessed
Georgia Tech- definitely not a second rate school - is $40K for four years for instate residences not including room and board. They also have 2+3 programs where you can go to an even cheaper state school and transfer credits.

Not really relevant overall, but if you meet the requirements to go to GT and you meet the state residency requirement, you probably also meet the requirements for the state funded Hope scholarship that should take care of 80% of the tuition.
> We didn't understand that the Sino-Soviet split had happened until decades later, and still thought that China and Russia formed a united communist bloc well into the 80s

This is not true. See e.g. the 13 August 1969 Presidential briefing:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005976931....

Choice quotes:

"The potential for war between them clearly exists."

"A climate of high tension, marked by periodic border clashes, is likely."

"Peking, which appears to view the USSR as its most immediate enemy, will face stiff competition from the Soviets in attempting to expand its influence in Asia."

The USA actually held discussions with the USSR to bomb China's nuclear missile facilities. Moreover, this knowledge aiding in reaching rapprochement with China in 1972.
I think that at an even more basic level than hard skills, some graduates lack knowledge in things like basic problem solving, abstract thinking or the ability to switch between languages quickly. It's interesting to see how straight-A students who study well and test well don't make the transition from the academic environment to a job.
> Now I wonder: what should the central planners give as metrics? Is there anything that works?

No. You can't set a metric and let the metric do your governing for you. There needs to be a human in the loop. In other words, the system has to be run by people who are making a good-faith effort to achieve the real objectives.

Markets partly solve the problem. You can have a market economy that optimizes the production of nails and other widgets according to the metric of profit, but if that's all you have, you will end up with corporations that produce lots of widgets at a huge profit, but in the process burn out workers, pollute the environment, and fill news channels with scandals about how Acme knew for the last thirty years that its products were poisoning consumers, but kept the truth hidden. So you need regulations to mitigate these problems. But this in turn requires that the regulators are acting in good faith instead of trying to game a metric. There always needs to be someone in the loop.
This graph comparing 20 year total returns suggests another reason gold is considered by some to be a worthwhile “investment”:

https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/116655914552655052...
I mean, early stage startups fit your description, sure ... but I can't imagine many startups surviving much traction if those things don't start being looked at soon enough. Of course, some do (see twitter's Fail Whale), but I'm guessing the vast majority of startups that fail to scale ... well, they fail
Transactions aren't the only solution for that problem space, and using them can introduce other (likely even harder-to-solve) problems with distributed systems.
Judge blasts “intentionally false” testimony by supposed Bitcoin creator
Add all countries that are available in the APIs you are using.
I like community banks. They don't fuck you in the ass like big banks.
The list definitely is long but I don't see Debian or Archlinux there: https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/community-of-licensees/
The skills startups want are taught at coding bootcamps, not universities. The degree is called computer science for a reason.
Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
Yes, I know those are Git tags. Click on them to find associated binaries. For instance, https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.71.44. Not all tags have binaries, but most do. Those that reach a build channel always do.
Pretty similar to my list:

- Woodworking

- Car maintenance

- Gardening

- Baking

- Painting miniatures

- D&D

- Home Brewing

I currently don't have time to engage in all of them on a regular basis, but tend to cycle through them throughout the year :)
> Thunderbird is at 1% marketshare, although the sparkchart is weird suggesting measurement difficulties: https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

Analytics is usually counted by displaying invisible remote HTTP images and looking at the user-agent of the HTTP request. Thunderbird blocks all HTTP requests in email by default for privacy reasons, which means it's systematically undercounted in these surveys.
The point is that Ryanair is the best.

They are smaller than Southwest on most (not all) metrics, but in the same ballpark.

Their only accident is a bird strike causing 8 minor injuries.
That's literally true but it's also why we need spies and HUMINT more generally rather than relying on mass surveillance and remote exfiltration.
FWIW, having worked with the Stripe API for ~5 years and put all our sales through them for the lifetime of the business, I wouldn’t have guessed they used MongoDB. The API is mostly excellent, and it has always presented a consistent view of the world to our side.

The same cannot he said for a number of other services we use, including those from some companies with supposedly very good tech credentials. We’ve had to back out of integrations due to the clear evidence that they are non transactional and/or eventually consistent.
This is a valid reason to consider a trade school model ("coding bootcamps") to fill this niche. Let Computer Science programs focus on the Computer "Science", while trade schools focus on fulfilling direct company needs.

Of course, we need a _ton_ more oversight involved to ensure that bootcamps are actually graduating people with a job-ready skillset.
If I know it's crap, and you know it's crap, but I don't know that you know it's crap, I may think that it still works as a social signal. Once it becomes common knowledge, the jig is up.
The Man Who Shared Our Voices
Including error bands on the plots unfortunately makes them extremely busy and difficult to interpret. The regions of a colormap that are particularly problematic can be seen as dips in the weighted average (except for linear colormaps, where problematic areas are deviations from the "V" shape).

I agree that CAM02-UCS is not necessarily accurate over "long distances." I'm also not completely convinced that using color vision deficiency simulation to shift colors and then using CAM02-UCS to estimate perceptual distance is all that accurate either, but it's the best approach using currently published models. It's my understanding that modern color appearance models were developed using matching experiments, e.g., asking a subject whether or not two colors are the same; for "long distances," it would probably be better to show two color pairs and ask which pair is more similar. If you're interested in how such appearance models have been developed, I'd recommend [1], which is fairly comprehensive (but also quite long).

By my metric and others, I agree that Turbo is certainly better than Jet. For normal color vision, the metric I developed is fairly flat across the colormap for Turbo, which is close to optimal as far as rainbow colormaps are concerned.

[1] Fairchild, Mark D. Color appearance models. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Folks do realize that paying 1% to speed up a transfer by 1-2 days is equivalent to a 180%-365% interest loan?
I think the movement's already started to some effect with modern homesteaders.

https://psmag.com/environment/opting-homesteading-matter-tod...

https://www.literallydarling.com/blog/2016/11/04/millennials...
As far as I can tell It's compelling because people tend to dislike uncertainty and making up stories and hypotheticals can feel like knowing.
I don't have an issue with that per se, but the pretend "knowledge" tends to get intertwined with all sorts of claims that actually matter, and that bothers me.
I've gotten some real gems, but also some really irritating stinkers. Recently YouTube recommended a newly uploaded song with ~12 views listed and that was fantastic, but at the same time they recommended a "this is what <game co>'s planning for <game>" video... that I'd already watched... from two years ago.
election rigging through orchestrated social media campaigns?
Well in fairness, Toyota tends to have a very good reputation, so this is hardly a scam.
What the World’s Top% Testing Teams Are Doing (That You Can Do, Too)
> Things don't go immediately from unethical to a moral imperative, there is a substantial gap that needs to be crossed.

I would accept that in the general case, but since you let your utilitarian views slip, I have to ask: what's the difference?

When something is immoral, it means it has a negative utility, and therefore it should be avoided. When something is moral, it has a positive utility, and therefore it's something that should be strived for, barring any other activity with greater utility. In my eyes, that makes every moral thing a utilitarian's moral imperative, with the only gap being things that have no moral value.

How does my view differ from yours?
i think in todays world humanint is often overlooked. but sigint does take care most of the stuffs.
What exactly would that look like? The article talks about guardianship, but with 18 they aren't your guardian anymore either way (at least in most states). Or is it about not listing you as a dependent? Doesn't that have negative tax implications for the parents?
This won’t happen until the signalling that comes with hiring from [elite school] diminishes and/or the signalling that comes with hiring from [code bootcamp] surpasses it.
The biggest reason is that fast money is almost never needed, and usually indicative of a problem.
Rare 3.8M-year-old skull recasts origins of iconic ‘Lucy’ fossil
(ii) and (iii) evokes parallels to amazon.
SEPA can be free for customer but participating banks and payment institutions pay per transaction.
> One big downside is that is has a margin of error which is very often unacceptable.

You should look at the paper they mention The Case for Learned Index Structures[0]. It covers B-Tree-Index and how to use Hybrid Indexes to bound the errors so that "bad" answers from the model perform no worse than the standard data structure.

For a lighter read this paper was also covered by Adrian Colyer in an issue of the morning paper[1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/08/the-case-for-learned-ind...

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Parent is clearly a PM in Excel looking for ideas
The speech was in April, and there was an impact from it, but on the chart the stock didn't start plummeting until September. What's the real story?
More than 400 police forces working with Ring to view doorbell cam footage
It always puzzles me why sudden deaths in antiquity are always thought of as suspicious. During a time with very little medical knowledge, sudden illness followed by death was probably very common.

Just from the short description in the article, something as simple as his appendix bursting would have resulted in similar symptoms. Sudden pain followed by a systemic infection (fever).
While Wall St. Talks of Recession, Bond Investors Make a Killing
Really? Cause it seems, based on my interviews, startups couldn't care less about my background in leading customers through beta demos, collaborating with scientists, participating in sales presentations and outreach, writing documentation, or any of the issues described here.

They do seem awful interested in whether I can find all matching subtrees in a binary tree, though. Which, now that I think about, is the one thing I learned in college but haven't done even once on the job once in 20 years (I have had to find minimum cost paths in a tree, though. I couldn't have done it on the spot at the whiteboard, but my data structures and algorithms class was helpful in researching and figuring it out years later).
30 days seems exceptionally long, unless that was driven by your timeline?
Director of Medellín's beloved cultural center in legal battle with city
You said:
> it seems to me that it is less ideal from the perspective of the animal for their entire bloodline to be terminated

I think if you compare the utility that livestock farming provides, with all the externalties and all the suffering it produces is indeed unethical.
It certainly was the narrative then. I was in college at the time and there were weeks where Linda Tripp was mentioned more than Monica.

I got the direct impression from the news that Monica Lewinsky was this pretty young thing, very innocent, who had a tryst with the POTUS and was freaking out. Linda Tripp came along and under a false veneer of sophistication and helpfulness, instructed Monica on what to do, move-by-move.

The story was of an ingenue who was, in turn, under the thrall of the POTUS and then Linda Tripp.
Story-->Provenance
I disagree with this. A good Computer Science program must have enough software development curriculum that people actually learn to write code.
We already have one, it is just that few know we do:

Universal Disk Format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format).

I can confirm it works on Linux, and works on Windows (at least W10). The wikipedia article indicates it works on newer MacOS'es, but I can't confirm that fact.
Some highlights that I felt were very on point:

> Students are taught formal testing methods such as static analysis, which checks code without actually running it. This helps them understand how to test software programs, but it doesn’t address the testing of distributed systems, web services, and infrastructure resiliency. Examination of these types of user interfaces and back-end systems is essential, Devadiga says.

This is a good observation. In my experience, the biggest hurdle new grads have to overcome is to learn to develop in a context where users and co-workers are going to depend on the projects they build, and need to be maintained. I didn't learn how to set up instrumentation, deployment pipelines, outage alerts, and other important pieces of infrastructure in keeping a web service online in my university classes.

> Because startups are heavy users of cloud computing platforms, it’s assumed that most software engineering students understand how these systems work—but that’s often not the case, Devadiga says. Students need a practical understanding of infrastructure architecture design patterns, DevOps, and cloud platform services like compute instances, object storage, and queueing services. The ability to create applications that can execute in services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is important.

Another one that I think is on point. I did use AWS in a networking class, but that was just because the class instructors didn't want to deal with building dev environments for windows, mac, and linux. I didn't really get exposed to deploying and running a web application on a cloud computing platform. For how universal cloud computing is nowadays, it's surprising how little I was exposed to it in university.

I think it'd be great for universities to offer a "practical software development" class that didn't really focus too heavily on any one particular academic topic, but was more emphasized on imitating the kind of work that developers do in industry. It'd be cool students went through the whole class building, maintaining, and extending a single web service over the course of a semester or quarter. It'd be neat if grading was based not just on application functionality, but also uptime, average latency, and similar metrics - though that would probably be too variable to be fair, a student's site might go down while they're away on a sports competition or something like that.
I cringed at the 'fit for animals' phrase too. Imagine if the author had used it regarding, say, some other group.

That said, it's certainly possible to live in a simple, low-resource way without being disorderly and unclean. I think along the lines of those rural places with a whole bunch of shit strewn about the yard when I think of 'living like animals', as opposed to a small, simple cabin in the woods.
Almost all seasonal marketing campaigns:

- Modern consumer Christmas as invented by Coke

- "Back to School" made a lot more sense when you were actually sending kids off to boarding school
Seems the author wants to discredit the intelligence service, but then backtracks at the end to indict Trump's collusion with Russia b/c "it's obvious that Trump is colluding and the intelligence is not telling us anything we don't already know."