skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way is to say every creature has a birth and a death. Even every static object has a beginning and an end. Every mountain. Even every solar system

We can use a loop to say life creates life. But the universe tells us this still began somewhere, and will eventually end somewhere

From big bang to eventual universal heat death dissipation. No physical object we know of can avoid its eventual disintegration

For every object in the universe; to describe its birth and death we need to refer to something outside of the object -- at least if we want to say either event is meaningful, or to provide some consistency beyond the object itself

Since this applies to every object within the universe, it seems reasonable to apply this to the universe aswell

From there we can again say that explaining the universe requires something outside the rules of the universe

For us to have any testable theory about this thing; we will also need to say it continues to interact with the universe. Anything else gives us no evidence to prove or disprove

Invoking pure simulations, random chance, or meaningless; are maybe valid explanations; but they don't give us any way to test themselves

We _have_ to show that something, somewhere is breaking the laws of the simulation!! Otherwise, if not, then there is no reason to say it is not just the simulation itself
No it is a wonder how one of the most profitable companies in existence cannot manage to keep both mindsets alive. Milk the status money without deprecating the quality line.
Thank you! Because of Keystone, I have decided to treat Google Chrome as malware. I won't install it unless I really have to. One reason is that I have to test websites on Chrome. I can either run it on a virtual machine or disable the updater as you suggest.
i'm not against gps tracking or other people tracking, i'm only against irresponsible usage of this data. that people will be tracked everywhere and these kind of features being implemented in such a connected world is unavoidable, and in reality besides the darker downsides it might have of irresponsible usage of the data, it has good potential to do very nice things for people.

the issue is not with the technology, but with people, as always. with the adoption of ipv6, iot and gps_in_everything etc. it's not a question about if the technology can be used for bad things, it's a question about if it will.

people who only believe int he darker side of this technology can easily avoid it by not participating. they should let people who willingly participate do so at their own 'peril' if that's their opinion.

privacy advocates are the new religion trying to push their views on everyone even though it's just a matter of opinion. some people love to be tracked everywhere for the benefits it can give them, other people hate it for the downsides it might have. its all a matter of opinion for users, and a question of integrity for its masters.
To my ear "shit/sheet" are closer to щ :)
Here you go: https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/

tldr: Nvidia V100 and P100 dominate when you look at the number of systems, while the NVIDIA Volta GV100 dominates the performance chart.
In MySQL/MariaDB/Percona InnoDB Galera every writeable replica has an auto increment offset.
There's really nothing in applied machine learning that requires calculus.

1. Usually you're not implementing training, you're most likely using a framework that does training for you while you set up NN structures and data flows.

2. If you are implementing specific training methods yourself, massaging loss functions, new regularization functions and various objectives, and you are explicitly implementing backpropagation, then you're not implementing differentiation yourself, you're most likely using some kind of autodiff library or framework that does that for you.

3. If you are actually doing something with ML that involves you doing calculus, congratulations, you're likely doing PhD research on the topic and yes, sure, you're expected to know calculus at that point. But it's not really necessary even at this stage, an intuitive understanding of the concepts is obviously useful, but much of actual applied ML academic research doesn't really use calculus directly, the methods obviously use calculus but it's used just like CUDA kernels are used - obviously necessary but as a very low level of abstraction that's handled by those who specialize in it and most others can just apply it because it just works and is good enough.

I mean, seriously, you can get good progress and published papers in computer vision or NLP or data analysis without ever needing to directly use calculus; most people doing that would obviously know calculus as it's a basic thing, but it's not really that relevant to the daily work, most likely none of the experiments you'll run will require you to solve any calculus problems.
> Sonya (Command & Conquer)

You mean Tanya? Cha-ching!
If Steve Jobs was alive they probably would have diverged by now, and he would have never allowed the butterfly keyboard.
That was my textbook at York Uni back in 2000, it was a great book. I recently got a new copy and quickly realised that I have forgotten most of the maths that I used to know, so first I need to do a refresher on that :)

That book taught me an important lesson that I wish I'd learned earlier, that for many of my courses reading the textbook would have been a good idea. My lecturer for the ML course was unbelievably tedious, and I realised I'd absorbed almost nothing. I sat down with Mitchell's book for a week before the exam, did all the exercises, and got the highest mark in my degree.

I often wonder how much better I could have done, and how much more I'd have learnt, if I'd put that sort of work into all my other modules earlier in the course.
Could you please elaborate on why do you want to replace MongoDB?
Considering that Dropbox appears to be a CIA tool to enable snooping on people’s computers masquerading as a file sharing service, I would be surprised if there is anyway to completely safely remove it at all.
I ordered pizza to another guy that shares almost the exact same phone number as me, but the kicker is that we've both managed to choose the same PIN-number to log in. I noticed after placing the order that the delivery address was half way across the country.

Called the pizza place and it took them quite some time to understand what could have gone wrong. I had, after all, logged in, and was still logged in. We had a good laugh when we figured it out. Sales rep called the guy up, but I don't think he cancelled the pizza. So free pizza, I guess.
Ask HN: What are the most common reasons you fire an employee?
No, they're forging ahead with it. WSJ Today says that MBS wants to float not just 5%, but eventually up to 10%.
You can use epics, stories ad tasks to group issues that have the same overarching theme, like a feature. But if you just do feature tracking how do you handle bugs?
First step for moving email from any provider is getting your own domain name. All decent providers allow it and it’s not hard to set up.

You will never have to update any accounts with new email addresses ever again.
> your narrative of sexism in the software industry being a mostly made-up issue

Is this what this is all about? Stallman has approximately 0 sway in the "software industry".

I'm sure it is a real problem, but Stallman is neither the cause nor the solution to it. I would look into how paying high salaries for unethical work would attract abusive people, and one shouldn't want to work in those industries in the first place.
Azure User? Here’s What You Must Know About AWS
So for Graal we have the situation that Graal EE (Enterprise Edition) has auto-vectorization. However, its not in the open-source version as Oracle holds it back. The implementation in this issue is however provided by Twitter.
Andromeda – Interactive Reverse Engineering Tool for Android Applications
You can create indices in MongoDB on JSON, works pretty well.

And since 4.x they have transactions over shards too!
Tackling climate change with machine learning [part 2] – Transportation
Unless you've never had wasabi before.

I use about a tablespoon (3 x as much) when I eat sushi (~6 pieces) but I like it spicy.
I'm well-aware that tape is still the king for datacenter-level storage, and I'd love to have a tape drive for my ever-increasing size of my personal backup.

Their advantages to me is obvious: its inexpensive price and great longterm reliability beats any alternative choices: hard drives, optical drives, or solid-state drives, and sometimes cloud. Also, it's cool to put my "tape archive" (.tar) files on a real tape! But I found for personal uses, tapes aren't cost-effective, the entry-cost and initial investment of the tape drive is extremely high, it's all enterprise-grade SCSI or SAN. Unless you already have tens of terabytes of data (video studio?), buying a tape drive is unjustified. HDDs are still sometimes the only cost-effective choice for personal use.

Now I mainly use HDDs for large backups (> 300 GiB), multiple Blu-ray disks for medium-size backups (< 100 GiB), and use cloud for the smallest archives. I don't know if Amazon's "mail your drive to the cloud" service is available at my location, but it's also an attractive solution.

I'd like to hear about your experience.
Tackling climate change with machine learning [part 3] – Buildings and Cities
Not exactly the clearest announcement from AWS, but the "instance limit" they are referring to is the limit on the number of server instances you can have running in your account at any one time.

Before the limit was quoted in a maximum number of servers, now it's quoted in a maximum number of total VPUs (virtual CPUs) that all of your servers contain.

Unless you're running a lot of instances, this doesn't change anything for you because you're probably not bumping into this limit.
Using light to speed up computation
MacBook Pro is now overpriced and kinda sad.

It peaked in 2015, and it was a truly beautiful machine.
What MBS tells the press he wants to do and what actually ends up happening isn't always very well correlated.
With the benefit of hindsight the shit talk was pretty spot on?
Tackling climate change with machine learning [part 4] – Farms and Forests
Hypothetically, a benevolent NSA would primarily develop cryptographic security tools for the populace.
My understanding is they are very specific about this not being able to detect heart attacks - hence why I'm hesitant to speculate about the exact sequence of events above
I seriously doubt that.

If I had to guess at a cause, I would say the recent debacle where RMS was forced to resign from two prestigious positions.

People get cranky. They feel threatened. They take it out on a convenient target, regardless of how unjust it is and never mind my track record here.

That sounds like it was intended as supportive. If I've not misread your intent: Thank you.

Anyway, really trying to just walk away from this one.
I have three machines

1) desktop (Ubuntu), main daily use at home
2) laptop (t410s/Ubuntu). For work in apps rooms. Really falling to bits now, but still using it due to things like Ethernet port. The keyboard is now worse than the air so looking how beast to replace it
3) MacBook Air, for portable use

Right tool for the right job. If I want a portable I’ll go for a small air. If I want a useful machine I’ll go for something larger and heavier, but with the ports I need
>yet is able to push the consequences to the consumer.

The bank creates a separate set of consequences for the consumer, but does not transfer any consequences. The bank still suffers the costs of the fraud, the consumer suffers the costs of an inaccurate report.

>we can assume that either the consequences are insignificant to them or they're just bad at business.

It is just not possible for the banks to solve this problem. What do you think they could do?
How trendy. Next up hipster PDA making a comeback?
The most common tape is LTO-7, which is 6 TB (non-compressed). The most common Blu-ray disks store 50 GB, so a tape equals 120 discs, not 50.

I have mentioned in another message that the breaking point is around 75 TB or around 50 TB, depending on how many copies you store, i.e. around 1000 to 1500 Blu-ray movies.

I agree that many people, probably most people, do not need to store so much data to make tape storage economical, but for those who have a large enough data archive, like myself, the tape is really radically cheaper to have changed my life.

Obviously, there is a vicious circle, few people buy tape drives because they are too expensive, so that tape drives are expensive because few of them are sold.

If they would have been mass produced, tape drives should have been 5 to 10 times cheaper, and then tape archives would have made sense even for the smallest movie collections.
> But using the word 'using' is unfair.

The point the author is making is summed up here:

> Greta Thunberg finds herself advising those she castigates.
My understanding is that it is harder for engineers to estimate how long a job takes, than to do the job. That is to say, that the complexity of doing a time estimation task is higher than the complexity of task you are estimating. I read this in the book "Making Software: What really works and Why we believe it" [0]. The assumption in the article is that an engineer can produce reliable estimates for complex work, and appropriately guide their managers, and don't think that's true.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Software-Really-Works-Believ...
Typically you define treason in terms of the needs of the state, not the populace. You can come to your own conclusion how well the state interests align with its peoples’.
Most shopping centres have entrances near the front and are designed to make you circle out toward the far spaces. So everybody ends up prudent or optimistic (== those that circle back hoping someone left since they last drove past the entrance)
Some might use it to test stuff still works for their users/customers.
An interesting project Convert CSS style to flutter style
Hmm, okay, last time I read anything about it it was a big hoohaa over how they want 800B but it's likely doesn't worth that much, and how much transparency they would need to provide, which they are unlikely to truly commit to, so getting the funds together is so an uphill battle, that they are likely abandoning it.

But maybe they'll "settle" for less. After all there is money to be made, the haggling is just about the price.
> We are looking to a Jojo effect.

Why? Why would it not simply stabilize at say 20% higher than now?

> This is actually the reason why we will never run out of oil.

That is either word games or nonsense. People will keep extracting oil and there is only finitely much available at reasonable prices. Note that "run out" here does not mean there is no oil left. Just like a country "running out of food" does not mean that there is nothing edible anywhere in the whole world.
the 2015 Macbook Pro is the best made so far for me. Right mix of ports, good weight, good keyboard and I feel like the aesthetic is actually superior to later models.

Have a work 2019 macbook pro and don't really like it.
On a related note, I just got an email from Atlassian, that they will stop supporting IE11 sometime early 2020.
Incredibly hard to do when you have the full weight of management on your shoulders. Especially if they back you into a corner in a meeting where you are the only technologist facing a whole hierarchy of management types.
The moral of the story is that hard-to-please idiot customers/employers don't want to pay more than realistic, normal-to-please customers/employers. So there is absolutely no reason why anyone would work for the first when the second is available. And believe me, the second is out there.

I've seen plenty of (experienced) businesses and individuals that refuse to work for toxic clients, because there is plenty of other work that pays exactly the same but without all the shit.

P.S.: According to your story, you sound like a good manager :).
> You're sort of beating a strawman to death. I just said close relative without specifying how close. And you picked that to mean "same taxonomic family'

I didn't pick anything, I just looked up what the qualifier you picked meant. They're not the same species, they're not the same genus, they're the same taxonomic family, which also includes all the stuff I listed in my original comment.
Snowden's revelations proved once again that conspiracies are all false, because it is literally impossible for large numbers of people to keep their mouth shut.

Exactly as we're told on forums, exactly as we're told on TV. This is how you know Epstein is also innocent and why it won't be investigated, because we know people cannot keep silent about committing crimes, therefore we know no crimes were committed.
Sounds like the Secretary Problem, which involves optimal stopping theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

The naive answer is 1/e (where e is the base of the natural logarithm). If you have N applications, reject ~N/e applications and choose the first applicant who is better than every previous applicant.
With futures and options you have to be right about both direction and timing. If you trade on the belief that oil prices are going up significantly in the next 6 month, but it actually takes 8 month for the oil prices to rise significantly then you've still lost money.
You keep getting basic facts wrong. A jump pilot on LNI 043 recommended stabilizer trim cutoff, not the flying pilots. That flight also didn't exhibit nearly as aggressive MCAS upset as the crashed flights. The action you credit to LNI 043, is the same action taken by ET302. The MCAS induced mistrim was so quickly severe they could not manually retrim, reenabled electric trim to get assistance to retrim, and in an instant MCAS activated and shoved the nose 20 degrees down. It was so aggressive flight recorder data shows negative G forces. They were literally lifted iff their seats.

You have blinders on, fixated on unproven relevance of experience, while being resistant to available facts showing a deadly aircraft design flaw.
Yea that scene was bonkers. Is that even legal, to demand resignation of an employee if they admit to disagreeing with a decision of yours? I hope I would have the courage to speak truth if I were ever put in that situation.
A number of witnesses came forwards?
You can add your social network ideas, and also see similar ideas and opinions, in a repo that I maintain:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan

Social networks are challenging to create and maintain, both in terms of user participation and growth scaling. I believe that any new social network, that aims to be large, will want to tackle the ideas in the above repo.
It's not really the same here. Both SW trilogies made rounds of moneys worldwide (ep 7 is in the top 10 I think). But the latest movies, which are brand new, and were somehow successful are already deprecated. It's like processed food, taste doesn't last.
stackprinter.com ?
I carry two. And power leads. And clothes for upto 2 weeks (three at a push). And a 10 port mikrotik, a few cat 6 cables of various lengths, a supple of lc-xx sm fibres and an sfp. Sometimes a pi or two as well.
IMHO a big part of "controversy" surrounding the idea of purely biological male vs. female predispositions comes from people not really understanding how statistics work. People feel that results like this are somehow limiting to them individually so they argue emotionally against it, but statistics don't really deal with the individual outcomes. Statistical researches are never about you, me or any single individual. Just because on average sexes seem to prefer different things doesn't mean that every and single person of that sex has to feel that way, there will always be a spectrum of different results on the individual level. It's like saying that males are taller than females, that doesn't imply that there's no short men, or very tall women, we all know that there's a lot of them.

Now, that said, I personally don't buy neither just "everything is predefined by biology", nor the "the society shapes everything" positions, both seem like crude over-simplifications.
As someone who lives < 30 minutes drive from LHR, it's something I do appreciate. It's kind of cool being able to get to most places in the world within a couple of hops.
Why couldn’t you?

I had the Apple Watch track me during my hour long bike tours, GPS and heart rate sensor on and all, without any problems and with battery left to spare at the end of the day.

Seven to eight hours is probably the critical mark, but anything below that is no problem at all.
Sorry I am not aware of EE and its features, I should have added that my comment was about the FOSS edition.
Hopefully "Spending too much time on HN" doesn't make the list.
Nono it's not my tastes. I'm speaking about youtube pricing. Even they realize that new sequels don't hold much value, even though to most of their audience (new generations using youtube often) has no reference to favor the past movies from the new.
TeamViewer has the biggest German tech IPO since dot-com crash
The const keyword has absolutely nothing to do with state mutability, that is a misconception. const in es6 is a keyword meant to explicitly prohibit identifier reassignment and it does indeed reduce bugs because it communicates developer intention regarding how a variable reference is expected to behave in a section of code. Further, use of const by default is a best practice because it leaves less room for error in cases where a reassignment must never occur and increases readability by convention of the let keyword signaling that a reference will behave in a volatile way in proximal logic.
Yes, I want thinner even at a cost. The 2015 is heavy. The 2017/2018 model is way better because carrying it is less of a hassle. If it was 1/2 thickness and 1/2 weight that would be ideal.
Fuel subsidies in a lot of developing countries are politically weird. They mostly benefit wealthier people, but are most ardently supported by poorer people. It's difficult to disentangle.
I have a US-issued card.
The Apple store used to have an actual physical software media section with Mac games and such. Seems quaint now.
Why Online Shopping Sucks
> full dehumanization of the other sex is always going to be impossible

<gestures to entire history of sexism> .. I mean, the Saudi king has lots of wives but until recently wouldn't allow any of them to drive?

For a closer example, there are plenty of married Republican politicians who are willing to make statements on abortion that imply they have no idea how the reproductive system works.
No a stamp. A real stamp that you show to the immigration officer. And you have to buy a new one every time you travel.
The BBC article says "Every time the game is played, a reliably navigable maze is pumped out. Were the table’s values random or even slightly different, the maze would likely fail to be drawn with a playable path through it." <- the example in fig 5 IS in principle playable - the point I think is that the maze is not drawn in a way that would leave a player stumped even if they had a make-break at their disposal. i.e. Endless wall in the way.
I am not suggesting it is voluntary but no, it is not a matter of an old number. I had this number for over 13 years and the problem only started to occur 2-3 years ago.
British Labour party backs broad uptake of electric cars
I am into tech and I stopped using Android for the same reason. UX is what keeps or alienates users.
I will - just as soon as our Sharepoint installation properly supports other browsers.

That ain't going to happen though, is it?
Solid state keys with force feedback on each key like the key(s) on the trackpad would do the trick.
> when faced with billboards on the highway

I've always had a problem with this, who thought it was a good idea to allow large colourful structures literally designed to capture the attention of people operating heavy machinery next to places where they are travelling at high speeds?