skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but memory/IO is a much bigger issue in this scenario than processing power. While running a cluster in VMs, I'm frequently limited by IO (and if your VMs use more memory than it's physically available, you'll quickly descent into swap hell) well before my CPUs register a significant uptick in usage.

And, mind you, my workstation is 4 year old Xeon with 64 gigs of memory and reasonably fast (but not amazing) SATA SSD.

On a side note, I work more and more from a couple of i3 and i5 laptops and only use the workstation to do heavy lifting tasks, such as replicating these more exotic setups.
The most popular ones are the Dexcom sensors and then the Freestyle Libre. Unfortunately you need a prescription for both in the US. Otherwise, if you'd like to monitor your blood sugar, you'll have to do it via a blood glucose meter and just space out your testing. You can buy those over the counter at any pharmacy/superstore and they're relatively cheap.

If you end up buying a blood glucose meter, the best way to get a good idea of your blood sugar movement in your body (if there is any) would be testing at several times throughout the day after specific events (like eating and/or exercising). Waking up (for fasting glucose), pre-meal (to get a baseline), post-meal several times (15 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours). I would also experiment with how it reacts to different types of food and beverages. For example, try drinking a glass of orange juice and testing 5-15 minutes after. Some non-diabetics still experience very small blood sugar spikes from liquid carb sources.
If they built in proper data access controls, one would think that suspending apps would not be necessary. The fact that the apps have the power to grab people's personal data at all is the problem. Why don't they just shut down the leaky APIs, disable all the apps that require those APIs, and make the app devs update them? On the assumption of course that Facebook gives a single lick about actually protecting people's personal data.
Do they really ask whether you've seen a psychologist or is it a psychiatrist?
That's not the whole story and is somewhat misleading. Wind turbines feather the blades at high velocity to keep from spinning too fast; they rarely actually have to lock the blades and stop electricity production, and even then that'd be a very localized drop in electricity, more than compensated by increased production from surrounding areas with strong winds.
Leveraging the power of roaring bitmap in Tinder recommendations
Roaring bitmap works surprisingly better than bloom filter in Elastic-search as skip list plugin, completely beats the built-in skip list function.
> Not sure that's fair. In the conclusion he writes:

I feel confident with my assessment. He showed no indication that he understood the current movement to hold powerful men accountable for their actions. For example, where's the due process for the women Stallman excluded by his horrible behaviour for decades?

Stallman went down for being a creepy perv for decades. He should have gone down for one of the many lines he crossed before today. Eventually, when you give a creep enough passes he'll say something so creepy it's indefensible, Yet here you are trying.
I don't agree. Suspending or revoking someone's driver's license is as coercive as the government needs to be, and state governments has already applied that power for non-driving purposes. "Confiscation" of firearms is wholly unrealistic; what would actually happen is that discovery of unlicensed firearms on private property (for instance, when responding to a police report) would become a criminal matter, just as driving without a valid license matters only when you get pulled over for something else.

But my broader point is just common sense: people are far more dependent on cars than on firearms; regulating access to driving privileges offers governments more tools than access to firearms does.
All scenarious in the latest IPPC report (SR15 - Global Warming of 1.5 ºC) require carbon sequestration, so it's really not optional anymore if we want to stay below 1.5°C warming.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM3...
UN Chief Praised for Move to Block Coal-Backing Nations from Speaking at Summit
NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)
> "Repurposing Top Bits" - don't do that. Honest.

+1

I once shrugged this of as paranoid BS and got bitten by it in the very same project. It did cost me some all-nighters to fix the results of my arrogance.
Not that it makes any difference to your point but one of the A’s was born in 1976.
Folks at FB, is the stress that horrible?
The 11-Year-Old Girl Taking Skateboarding by Storm
Please pay attention to my TEDx talk about how craving attention is bad! ;)

I jest. Given I'm creating free content for a website so I can earn worthless attention points, I'm no better.
I'm definitely way more attractive to women now than I was at 23 (ten years of trial and error)
My dads tiny home is 10x10 feet and has a second level which is really only 4 feet tall mainly for sleeping a tv and a dresser. The place is perfect for a single person. He went with closed cell spray foam and the place can be heated on a candle practically. It has a toilet and shower, mini fridge and sink. I will admit storage is a little tight but as for living space perfect for a single person. It was made to be extremely energy efficient and with climate change I think we should aim to be more like it not have some minimum.
Yea, I'm also curious.
> Have you ever used Uber? Did you ever use Taxis back when they existed?

Yes, and yes, but (at least where I live), the Uber/Lyft "experience" is not superior to the taxis at all.
This is why I much prefer the Lab color space over HSV or HSL— it's much better suited to interpolation and mixing.

The critical properties are:

* It's a vector space, so mixing colors means mathematically mixing the components. There is no polar angle that can "go around the wrong way", or suddenly cause the interpolation to change when one color coordinate crosses zero degrees.

* It's perceptually uniform, so that taking mathematically even steps in color space means the result will be perceptually even as well (compare to color spaces which don't account for gamma, and small change on a dark color make a huge difference, but the same step in a light area is invisible).

* Because of the perceptual uniformity, there are no luminance dips or peaks in interpolated colors. In RGB, for example, interpolating two saturated colors which are far away from each other on the color wheel will result in dark grey or black in the middle of the gradient— not so with Lab. Also, consider an HSV rainbow: If you desaturate it, it isn't a uniform grey– some parts of the wheel are randomly brighter than others, because the human eye is more sensitive to yellow and green light, and very insensitive to blue. A rainbow with constant L coordinate in Lab space will have constant luminance.

* Because chromaticity is a 2D vector space in Lab color (rather than a single coordinate), interpolating between two distant hues won't put crazy unrelated hues in between them, but HSL and HSV will. Saturated, complementary colors will appropriately interpolate through a neutral grey in Lab, instead of through a "random" saturated hue.

Here's [1] an image of some constant-luminance (i.e., constant "L" coordinate) slices of Lab space, to give a sense of what it looks like.

Here's [2] a little color picker (found with a Google search) which shows you the results of interpolating in different spaces— you can see that RGB is pretty bad, but in HSV or HSL it's not hard to make something look extremely broken. Those two spaces are definitely the wrong choice for interpolation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space#/media/File...
[2] http://davidjohnstone.net/pages/lch-lab-colour-gradient-pick...
To clarify, I happen to be technically sophisticated enough to know that yes, unless I use a VPN, websites can guess what city I'm in based on my IP. But I'm saying rhetorically, as someone surfing the Web, it doesn't feel like part of my contract with HN that they know my location.

Everyone knows no one reads terms of service, but even if people did, they don't generally specify location, just that they collect "information about your visit". Or they might mention that they collect your IP, but most people don't know what an IP address it is, much less have an intuition for how specific of location information it reveals (some probably think you can backtrace the IP and send the cyberpolice after them).

That's why ad targeting profiles shouldn't be built on that kind of incidentally-provided behavioral data. As per the Six Fixes, ads should only be targeted to the content of the page I'm looking at, just like a dead-tree newspaper.

Note that this can be achieved either technically, i.e. anonymous browsing, or legally, e.g. requiring my permission to track me to build an ad targeting profile. That's not a conflict, that's anonymity and control over data about me as two sides of the same coin.

Btw I highly recommended Maciej Ceglowski's other works, e.g. https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
> The code assumes equal odds

This is stated explicitly in the problem: Each day you select a pill at random
Since Uber will predict the fare, I can occasionally AB test in NYC. The rates are basically the same as taxis now, so far as I can tell.
Kennedy wanted "to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." Some suspect this was the true cause of his assassination.

It's plausible, but any government evidence to disprove it would be suspect so it's kind of stuck as permanently-epistemologically-ambiguous.
That's my whole point. I fully understand not wanting to air everyone's laundry. I'm just suggesting that nobody is buying their silly lies, so if they think they are "controlling the narrative" they are sorely mistaken.
>to simply say "hey Ramses was a bad guy" is much easier,

But the article doesn't say this.
I've had to get a very invasive jaw surgery in order to try to "fix" my apnea, which was not weight related, but instead due to how my head was formed. Its still mind-blowing to me how maladapted my genetics are to something as "natural" as sleep.
Last time I used Uber? this week.
Last time I used coworking space? This week.
Last time I used Oracle? ...
Do your local cab companies offer the equivalent of uber pool or lyft line?
Does anybody understand why some of the numbers are so out of proportion with the length of time spent in the study? They say they lost 0.2-0.3kg of muscle mass in the lower half of the body. But that's a very large change; when you exercise and train properly, the maximum amount of muscle you get is like 0.5kg/month (the study's reduction in activity was two weeks long), and when you gain weight some fraction is always muscle (they didn't gain weight but they gained fat mass and lost muscle mass, IIUC from Table 2).

I remember reading that when you start/stop exercising, your muscles retain a different amount of water depending on how much work they typically do. So is what they got an actual change in body composition?

When they report lowered VO2max of 2.2ml/min/kg, that's ±4.7 according to Table 2. Isn't 2.2ml/min/kg an improbably large change for two weeks, compared to how quickly your VO2max will improve if you, e.g., start running? And why is the SD on that so large?
Millions take to the streets as climate strike protests hit cities
Because you'll find that when you have to explain what's causing your problems that it's not nearly as bad as it seems when it's just nebulous garbage rolling around in your head.
Also, if you talk to the right person, you might discover that you don't exist and that Life is a dream, and that the point of it is to become infinitely loving and utterly selfless ...
30 isn't old. I'm 38, and I'm more active and exploring life than ever. "Old" is only what you are when you stop pushing yourself.
It can, but the change can be a good thing. For instance, enough off-shore wind can reduce the intensity of hurricanes (in places like New Orleans).

Farmers plant trees for wind-breaks in the Great Plains to reduce erosion of the soil. Wind turbines can serve the same purpose.
These guys are like Theranos if Elizabeth Holmes had never bothered to hide any of the shady stuff she was trying to do. It's such a blatant con game that I honestly kind of admire them just for their moxie. I mean, I'm not going to give them any of my money, but still.
Search Encrypt is malware[0], and it's install base are generally not consensual users. I've seen it around for a very long time, and Google isn't doing anything about it.

New Tab-hijacking extensions are incredibly pervasive in the Chrome Web Store, and often installed via malicious websites which use arrows and audio cues to demand a user click the "Install" button Chrome pops up in order to resume web browsing.

MapsGalaxy is another particularly pervasive malware offering: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mapsgalaxy/ijjnmdp... (Just adding this one here in case someone from Google sees this comment and can nuke both from orbit.)

[0] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/rogue-searchencrypt... and any search result should give you some idea: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search+encrypt&t=ffab&ia=web
The biggest problem I see is that you now have to protect those trees for basically forever. Fires will only become more problematic, and the push for more usable land as well. Also, trees take decades to grow, which we don't have.

Better than nothing yes, but not enough.
AWS EC2 instance running basic Ubuntu,
Amazon RDS running MySQL,
Nginx for SSL termination and proxy to application server,
Lets Encrypt for SSL cert generation/maintenance,
Apache Tomcat for said application server,
Java codebase for REST services ( Jersey/Jackson and the odd Servlet ),
Materialize for some visual JS conveniences,
Plan ole HTML and JQuery for the rest of the front end.

It's a minimal stack with intentionally dead-simple architecture. Its the lowest common denominator in Boring Technology.

Someday when we scale beyond One Developer I don't want to be trying to hire the best Blockchain Rust DevOps Cloud Engineer Stanford CS produced last year ... I want to hire a contractor who knows SQL, HTML and has seen Javascript and Java.
And yet, until the early 2000s (I wonder what happened right around then...) that was exactly our policy.

Even today, +80% of families released show up to their immigration court hearings after being released[1]. (edit) Here's data going back to 2001 showing +90% appearance rate[2]

The idea that we have to hold them indefinitely (and thus split children apart from parents) or else they might slip away and get lost in the system is based on an assumption that the people we're detaining don't want to do the right thing. The vast majority of them do. The reason they're crossing illegally is usually because they are fleeing a time-sensitive problem (domestic violence, gangs, etc.) that they can't wait for our immigration bureaucracy to sort out and let them in "the right way." Once they're here, they seem very willing to be in the system if it means getting a chance to stay.

[1] https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/562/
[2] https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/fact-check-asylum-...
There's no need to get sarcastic about things. If I said at work what you posted about 36bps not mattering I would get fired on the spot. It shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the topic but for whatever reason you are asserting very strong opinions on the topic.

ON repo usage outside of FICC [1] members is quite often used to finance leveraged low margin transactions. Given information provided so far and what has been observed in the markets, one of the common theories of what caused ON to spike is Treasury basis [2] trades. Given the magnitude and speed of the ON spike and current positioning [3], this theory makes a lot of sense. If this is one of the causes, a spike in ON absolutely matters and isn't just a rounding error.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/ficc.asp
[2] https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/introduction-to-t...
[3] https://www.cftc.gov/dea/futures/financial_lf.htm
You clearly can't trust yourself.

Put someone else in charge of ensuring quality and make sure they've got the ability to spot when you're not delivering and the authority to bust your chops for it.

In my place, this is often referred to as "QA". He makes sure requirements are identified, tests are agreed and suitable, processes followed, design and code reviews done properly, code source controlled correctly, builds done properly, automated test suites are good, all that sort of thing.
In your area, do taxi companies operate a service "Lift Line" or the uber equivalent, in which you share a taxis with strangers who are going in a similar direction?

I have never seen a non-app taxi service do this, and it's a real genuine technology enabled value add. Is it 50 billion bucks worth? Probably not. But it isn't 0 either.
>The thing about history is that there isn’t a whole lot of factual knowledge.

I find this statement very odd. We know a vast amount about the past through normal historical methods. Lots of historians are (probably) doing crap, pointless or silly research, but that happens in all academic disciplines.
Even if you do, in most cases you won't use them on all your workloads. This means not all your boxes need to be Intel.
Judges should have to sign off on warrants to access data, and there must be a process to (at least retroactively) sue if the basis of the warrant was fraudulent or fabricated.

Further, the 'gag order' component should be temporary and of minimum necessary duration. The arrest of a target should automatically invalidate the gag order because keeping this information from the defendant is a violation of due process.
Ok, what you said about lower res images makes sense. Lower variation of images maybe means you could get away with less weights/more quantization-- you could afford to lose more information in the model. Maybe 1GB can be sufficient then.

There's no reason to use an SVM over a (C)NN nowadays though.
I refuse to make the effort to refute bad faith articles any more.
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Taxis in Las Vegas were adding a $3 fee for paying with credit card. That was so frustrating.
I do have a moral code. And under my moral code, I'm happy to provide software to ICE
I guess it depends where you live.

I used (15y+ ago) to go to work and back by taxi every day for years. Recently (last 2-3y) I got taxi on occasionally; also living in a different area. No real difference with app based ones except for the payment methods. That's it, no need to pay anything for app-based ones (not uber) in the taxi, immediately. That makes the ride shorter and I don't need to care if the taxi will be equipped with a POS terminal as I seldom carry cash.
Hiring: 100% Remote Angular 2 Developer in Ontario, NY, or Florida
As the title says - we're looking for 1, maybe 2 frontend developers to join my team

100% remote job but we would prefer the candidate to be located in Western NY or Florida (for payroll / benefit reasons). If located in lower Ontario, it will have to be contract to hire until we figure out how to pay an employee in Canada as an employee.

We develop SaaS software used by salesmen / saleswomen that helps convey purchase value and ROI.

Job responsibilities are: develop new features per customer request or in house improvements, bug fixes, help develop new shared components, code clean up.

Skill requirements:

experience with Angular 2+ (currently using version 8) a must.

Experience with bootstrap good. Experience with PrimeNG preferred.

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Samples of code / portfolio website very nice to have.

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It's also good for performance. The blocking can happen immediately in the browser/network process, instead of waiting for the extension code to run in its own process and tell the network service what to do.
If anyone really wants to poke the tiger, they could get a bunch of cheap data by sending out fake National Security Letters.

Good way to go to prison for a long time, but one person's success could force the system to overhaul.
https://www.google.com/search?q=WSGI+vs+ASGI
Maybe, but how often do people compile their software?
Calvin Johnson Doesn't Regret a Thing
i.e. a subset of the FSM that want to keep alienating women
You are right, a settlement has been made.
The linux kernel has patches for it submitted now, ready for when the hardware arrives https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-De...
Wasm is a step in the right direction, but it's not the same as machine code. Also the API's currently pretty limited. For instance, if you want to talk to the GPU you still have to go through javascript.
Correctness proofs of distributed systems with Isabelle [video]
Not really, unless you consider, "Person X kept a written record of their experience with Y" to be factual knowledge. What Person X writes about an event can definitely help historians piece together "what really happened," but people lie, exaggerate, and sometimes just get things wrong even when they were eye witness to the event. Think about the old saying, "History is always written by the winners" for example.

This is just one example of why history is a game of trying to figure out what is reliable and what really happened.
Solvency = credit risk in this case. If my counterparty doesn't pay me back, I can just liquidate the collateral which in this case are Treasuries. Given that these are overnight transactions, I'm probably not exposed to too much price volatility if I had to.

People aren't worried about getting their money back. There just isn't enough money floating around to lend out.