skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python (with all the bells and whistles that interop with C/C++ like numpy, pytorch, tensorflow, numba, cython...) is very performant

I know. I spend much of my days writing 'high performance' Python, and Python is still my go to tool for just about everything. Julia's big advantage is, kind of like Fortran vs C back in the day, that it's fast even if you're just writing things in the most obvious and natural way for your domain.
LXC feels more UNIXy. Docker command line tools and formats feel awkward in that regard (which helped to popularize the thing by pushing this one specific view).
So the platform would keep data against the wishes of the client? That doesn't sound good.
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It is well known among practitioners that not all models have equal learning capacity and that additional data is wasted on those with lower capacity - if you plot a performance metric vs dataset size, you can see it just saturates and stops increasing. The point where it saturates is a proxy for the model's learning capacity.

One of the pros of very big models like as deep networks was that they never seem to saturate in this manner - more data always gave better results, because there are ways to increase the model's learning capacity.

We've recently learned that deep nets work in deep overfitting mode, beyond the usual U-shaped regime of bias-variance tradeoff that can be seen in the empirical risk curve. See this post for a good overview:

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2019/03/14/are-deep-neu...

It was a surprise to me that adding more data could lower a performance metric tough - that's counter-intuitive.
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I like the idea of such "shame list". The question is though, how would you prioritize and incentivize those websites to change?

My quick idea is that it would be good to have a way of reproducing those cases somehow; not sure how though, because registration is something that is difficult to automate, so we'd probably need some browser extension to do this research. Once we could automatically test (or semi-automatically, waiting for a user to verify) whether this is still an issue, we could create a website where one could sort by most popular / annoying / old flaws, maybe also arranged by communities so that changes would happen.

Either way, I appreciate kicking this off. It's definitely a good start. I just wish we could transition from this to actually changing this deliberately, as opposed to just shaming and hoping for organizations to eventually fix their things.
Do you still need a cookieless domain for your assets?
You'll for sure start to hate your life as soon as you start messing with UE4.
This is excellent news. The FAA has lots its credibility by rubber-stamping whatever Boeing said in recent years. This will both mean an independent review (and re-certification of what is a effectively different airplane) and additional pressure on the FAA to actually do its job.
AAAI deadline possibly overwhelmed Overleaf
Mac System 7 wasn't so much an operating system as a collection of utility functions (half of which were burned in ROM on each machine). There was no kernel, everything was completely cooperatively multitasked - software ran it's code and then called a function that would jump to the next running process.

It was designed originally to run off a 400K floppy drive within 128K of RAM. "Copying files" originally meant swapping back and forth between two floppies in the single internal drive and the system had to evacuate as much code as possible from that 128K RAM to minimize the number of floppy swaps.

It took Apple a long time to try to bring that early primitive OS to modern standards while keeping software compatibility, and eventually they gave up and bought NeXT

The Lisa, before the Mac, had a proper multitasking OS, but it cost 3 times as much as the already-expensive Mac so it had the luxury of 1 MB(!!) of RAM and a MMU. It was an utter flop.
Sure, after all I used HP-UX vaults back in the day, however in the context of Java and .NET application servers they hardly bring anything new.

And we can use native containers if we actually need them, so I see such tooling more as yet another consulting wave.
Boeing I guess, maybe FAA. Why would ESA loose people from this?
I think it answers the question pretty well. They said it doesn't do anything different, and it was a missing product in their lineup that customers were expecting. Since that product is bundled to your payment processor, if you were with Stripe instead of Square or PayPal you didn't have access to those kinds of loans/cash advances.
People who seriously use this feature will put their secret crushes on the list, and then forget about it.

I come along a few months later, and rotate all my friends through this list, and so I discover which of my friends have secret crushes on me, because I'm not using the feature like you're "supposed" to.
Free Software Guru Richard Stallman Speaks at Microsoft HQ
Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
The proof is theoretical. It doesn't mean that Hawking radiation must exist, but it means that if the theories that the proofs are based on are sufficiently correct, then Hawking radiation must exist.
https://www.openhub.net/p/go/contributors
Sidenote: isn't it a bit odd that they have a merchandise page?

https://www.cafepress.com/deadmalls
Yes. Hormone injections, "strange" diets, taking supplementation to extremes etc. As with any group there are people who follow it to varying degrees.

(I'm not an "antiaging enthusiast" other than eating healthy and regular exercise but I have done some reading on the subject)
Ooh, also FIDO keys. Nice. This is 100% the best option listed (possibly not for actual US government employees, your employer issued token might arguably be better) because FIDO is strongly incompetence resistant, and when combined with the use of login.gov over each site having a separate login that's a huge security win.

- FIDO keys don't have identity. Each FIDO key is different of course, mine can't be used in place of yours. But an activist can use the same key for their Facebook "Smash Exxon" page where they are never shown without mask and also for their login.gov ID where they sort out government affairs using their true full name and address, yet even if the government and Facebook and Exxon all work together they can't tell those are the same person from the credentials.

- FIDO keys don't move secrets. There is usually a "secret" random value baked inside your key to make it unique, but everything sent back and forth is public, so if it leaks that's no big deal. login.gov could literally paint all the FIDO credentials it has on the side of the Capitol building for everybody to see and it would make no difference to security.
There are so many small C compilers, I never know which one to choose, although TinyCC seems to be the best. To me it allows 2 things:

* Use C as a fast scripting language. This can be useful for game programming, where you don't want to recompile your engine, but you can't tolerate the sluggishness of interpreted languages.

* Use C as a compile target. I would love to build a "pythonic lean C++", without the hard stuff, without template or backward compatibility of C. Just python indenting, strongly typed, maps, set, geometric types, python-like standard functions... I guess that using C as a compile target allows one to avoid the hassle of building a low-level compiler... Not sure though.
In an ideal world, yes. In practice this almost never happens. Architecture evolves as the code is written.

I don't think this is a good way to do things, but it's mostly what happens IME.
Sean Carroll had an interesting podcast recently https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/08/19/60-l...
where the guest put forward the theory that a lot of prehistoric monuments (e.g. Stonehenge) were actually memory palaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci which the builders used to remember all their cultural knowledge.

Wonder if this horse was one of those?
I agree, my role of thumb is to only review code if I was asked by the author to do so, and never offer to review someone's else code.

Code is a bit like music, there is very little right or wrong, but a lot of flavours and opinions.
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I'm just waiting for the new version of Reminders in iOS 13 which will largely kill the need for tools like Todoist/Wunderlist/Things.
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Or the fact that Boeing determined that the lack of a functioning AOA Disagree (by mistake, it was only operational for customers that have the AOA indicator) did not constitute a safety issue.
Whales move over $1B worth of Bitcoin to a single wallet
And it’s been a major catastrophe for the average user for the last 40 years.
There a button to hide all editorials?
Is is reasonable to think the rate of change will increase?
From the way you're brandishing the word opinion, you must be using it with it meaning of "a view about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge", in an attempt to discredit my statements.

That's not the case, my view is based on facts:

1. According to their own privacy policy, Google is collecting data to "provide personalized services, including content and ads".

2. This privacy policy applies to all their services, which are used by billions of people. According to the same policy, the data includes search terms, watched videos, content and ads which are seen and interacted with, speech and audio data, purchases, contacts, activities on 3rd party platforms which use Google services, Chrome history, etc. They also collect phone call info including caller and receiver, etc.

3. Google's data collection practices have been investigated by several organizations. Here are some quotes:

"As demonstrated throughout this chapter, the ways that Google has designed its Location History and Web & App Activity settings are problematic in light of European data protection requirements. In this report we have questioned the legal basis Google has for collecting and processing this location data. It is questionable whether users have given free, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent to the collection and use of location data through
Location History. It can also be discussed whether the user can withdraw his or her consent, since there is no real option to turn off Location History, only to pause it." - Norwegian consumer council.

"The combination of privacy intrusive defaults and the use of dark patterns nudge users of Facebook and Google [...] toward the least privacy options to a degree that we consider unethical". - Norwegian consumer council

They were already fined by CNIL for GDPR violations and are under investigation in other countries.

The FTC has been corrupted by tech lobbying, but a long time ago they did take notice of Google: "FTC Charges Deceptive Privacy Practices in Googles Rollout of Its Buzz Social Network".
Thanks I'm really glad to hear that!
Banks don't offer a suitable alternative. As a SMB, applying for a loan takes ages in comes with a boatload of paperwork. Same as in the US, where you can probably also can get better terms with a traditional bank.
I still don't see it. There are sci-fi guns like blasters, historical guns like flintlocks, and there are guns used in superhero sets, but nothing for Lego City or any other set that claims to represent real life.
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As someone who did a code review for a colleague and left over 100 comments... I would say that leaving those comments is handy as it's a single place I can check to see what comments I left and the state of the fix, or if it's not fixed yet.

If I just ended up talking to the guy, I'd have no record and he would have no record (unless he took notes) of all the places he has to fix.

The reason for 100+ comments was a junior developers code and far too large a changeset.
Might be, on large organisations we just make out an order and get our VM.

I have more experience with VMware and Hyper-V, as type 1 hypervisors, VirtualBox always felt a bit underpowered.
That one smacks of character encoding issues or badly sanitised inputs.
> I said that if someone is consistently told how, when, where, and what to do, or what to wear, then they're an employee.

I'm sorry this is simply not true. I work for one of the largest Health and Hospital Corporations in the States (They own 25 hospitals and have 60,000 employees) and sub-contractors Are Always told "how, when, where, and what to do, or what to wear,". Always and Without Execption.
Similarly, Android has a generic "intent" interface you can use to jump out into another app to get data from the user (take a photo, open a file, scan a QR code, etc.), while iOS has a bajillion different UIWhateverViewControllers that cover only the use cases Apple thought of and can only launch system apps.

Apps has had that since iOS 8. Thats exactly how the share sheet works.
Please don't underestimate the privacy implications as once you have signed into the app store, you're signed into all the other apps too. I would much prefer to have a regular exe with a serial.

The credit card being in Microsoft's hands is just another surface that my card is exposed to, perhaps I'm being over zealous worrying on that front.
Each time I use google translate from chinese to english, I am also surprised by the good quality. French to english is really bad in comparison.
Sure, but he's also saying that paying any ransom should always be illegal. To completely overexaggorate - if after hitting the first tower of World Trade Centre the terrorists said "pay us $100M or we'll hit the other building" then the logical solution is to make sure they get that $100M immediately. They have already demonstrated the ability to hit one building and kill hundreds of people by doing so - whatever price they name for preventing the second attack should be paid. Of course, we need to apply good sense to this - whole paying ransom to save human lives is a good idea, we can have a discussion about paying ransom to save computer systems. I can see an argument being made that if it isn't paid, the city's welfare system stops working and the people in most need do not get the support they require - so resolving the situation quicker by paying the ransom can be the moral thing to do.
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It is better to pick names with actual words. An attacker can otherwise say that the answer is just a bunch of random characters, and there is a risk that a naïve customer support representative may accept it.
> Over-engineering is a trap that very good developers fall into all too often.

I would not call them 'very good developers' in that case.
I seem to recall that back when I used Windows back in XP era when memory was limited, the page file would sometimes grow to a few hundred MB without GUI responsiveness suffering too much. Does Windows or Mac protect certain processes from being swapped?
Not on Windows at the moment, but I agree that it looks really useful! I wonder if it combines well with http://taekwindow.net/ so that dragging windows around becomes a mere Alt + drag operation.

(I haven't used Taekwindow since XP so I'm not sure if it still works with modern incarnations)
Not wishing to defend Facebook, but wasn't there a study recently that disproved this once and for all?
Little to gain in restoring from backup if the same attack vector is still open. So it was really just a bit of misdirection.
It is explained at the top-level document: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/#terminology
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I had a niche site like this back in the day, and I also has a merchandise page built on Cafepress. I didn't sell a single shirt, but I had fun by the idea that I might. Cafepress pages take at most 30 minutes to create.
Retail Archaelogy is another great YouTube channel on the same subject: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2LNeZSqINp0WTd_eWCIGg
Here's what a real wind production looks like: https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1153626109814202368, spot the problem.

Wind turbines obey Betz's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law and are already close to maximum efficiency, the only thing you can do is drop the production cost.
The main reason Dropbox exists (along with WhatsApp) is that Apple is unwilling to support its "unique" ecosystem features (iCloud, iMessage) on other platforms (they only make it a "feature" of their own platform to increase its perceived value and attract users). So if you want cross-platform, you have to use 3rd party stuff (Dropbox, WhatsApp).
> We do control climate change.

Let me make this very clear: we do not control climate change.
Or just an inability to deal with character encoding.
More like it would include a more elaborate, person to person process.
A better interpretation is that there might be multiple channels used for different identification purposes (a la 2-factor authentication) and the provider can ask for confirmation in a higher security channel. Whether this is done/feasible in practice is debatable.
https://warehouse19.se/images/normal/1-1981-.jpg

Admittedly a revolver and not a semi-auto, and I don't know if it's from a current or recently discontinued set. But it's definitely from a modern set.

edit: link to the specific piece: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=1356...
I doubt they can have such high margin while there is so much competition : https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-mechanical-turk/competito...
I think the problem of finding an "optimal" match is much harder than that. Younger people don't know themselves so well, or know what's best for them. Yet they are very flexible and could adapt themselves to lots of very different people if they happened to end up spending a lot of time with them.
M'turk doesn't seem that hard too replicate, yet I am not aware of notable competitors (outside of specialized niches like design or captcha solving). If there were massive margins surely there would be highly advertised competitors trying to get in on these massive profits.
It's not, it's just robbery.

When everything is terrorism, nothing is terrorism.
So how do you rate the quality of such editorials? How do editorials from likes of NYT differ from some "garbage, third rate" editorials?
> But it's less of a hassle than the various "tools" [...] which always have horrible browser based configuration interfaces and stupid limitations.

Can you share what exact "tools" you are talking about?
Redhat's "Command Line Heroes" podcast has a very insightful episode about COBOL and Go, talking about legacy languages, and how all languages may or may not become legacy, and their impact on new paradigms like the web (and vice versa).

https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/the-i...

My takeaway is that particularly with COBOL, there is a vested interest in the finance industry to find and retain COBOL talent, and making efforts to popularizing a language for the web is essentially a recruiting tactic more than anything else.
Not true at all. Bitcoin Cash could for example process around 20x to 30x the amount of transactions as Bitcoin, with the same low fees as today.

There are scaling challenges of course, but Bitcoin is not a good example of that. The technical issues come at a much higher usage.

> accumulate hard drive space

The unbanked, like 99% of all others, should use light wallets or SPV wallets so they don't have to store the whole blockchain.
It just needs galleries, I'm not going to read a blog post about a defunct mall without any pictures..
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Some unexpected racism in the story for the Harding Mall in Nashville, TN:

> Throughout the many years, this mall really saw the tenants come and go. It was no big deal until foreign language people and gangs took over this part of Nashville.
Not resolution so much as size of the pits that pick up photons.
It's defined as GDP/man-hours worked in the country in a year.
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Just use an ultra secure password schema such as September2019@$ . They obviously want you to use it considering that policy
What's the difference between software U2F and software password manager that auto-fills TOTP tokens?
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I've only ever seen or heard it used positively and even affectionately. If that's not usual, it's high time it be reappropriated.
Hmm hmm...
I will translate it to English. Be wary of the machine translation -- using the neural network they learned how to write surprisingly natural sentences but that doesn't mean their translation is correct.
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The YouTuber Dan Bell has a series where he explores dying or abandoned malls, juxtaposed with archive video from when they were alive and vaporwave music.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx...
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Facebook and Google are both sources of "free" news these days (the quality and neutrality may vary though.) This represents a major challenge for newspapers which are struggling to monetize their content. Adtech has also impacted their ability to earn from ads. It's easy to see why they might have such a bias.
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Now, that simulation software went through a couple of iterations and got more and more powerful as I extended it for my needs. Finally, I decided it had enough value to release it for others.

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It's technically possible, yes. But there are a lot of other considerations which may not "stop them" from doing it, but can still make it look like a bad idea.
> And who pays the ransomware when it happens, if not the taxpayers/stockholders?

considering the order of magnitude of place that do not receive a ransom compared to places that get ransomed, the cost is probably on the security side.

> These are all strawmen. I'm not asking for uncrackability, merely due diligence.

but you apparently define due diligence as "not getting cracked," which while different from uncrackability is still an unfeasible demand.
Disagree, even Ancient Rome had graffiti. As did caves. Are you trying to say that humans in caves had “profoundly sick societies?”

Graffiti is a natural instinct. REPRESSING that instinct signals a sick society.