skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monkey patching is not good engineering practice.
The point is they knew it would be bad for business and did it anyway in a rare case of corporate empathy.

EDIT: Okay corporations aren't people therefore cannot have empathy. Can we say "forced empathy?" There's probably a real word here. Either way Starbucks budged under some moral compass forced or otherwise.
People just don't know the horror of the plague. I think it's just that simple. A lot of people have no living memory of a bad outbreak. We're victims of our own success.
There absolutely is deployment. Getting code to run on a cluster under MPI is not easy. SLURM is that world's kubernetes. Even viewing the results is really tricky with complex volumetric data.
Mulch. They grow fine at 100/acre. We're not talking growing timber for harvest here. Its an urban forest.
That was just Teller.
Its rather funny that the US did this to the UK over the chinook fiasco years ago.
The rules says that it must, and yet clearly some parts of the gov want to help out Boeing’s financials.
Sure, I guess you do have a choice to not try to fight potential criminal charges. You are free to choose to just go to jail.
It's also fun to consider that most neural network architectures are mostly piecewise linear: relu(Mx + b) for standard feedforward or convolutional layers... So one would expect a lot of knowledge and folklore from (piecewise) linear optimization to carry over nicely.

IIRC, ResNet was a good example of that: It's more efficient to learn relu(x + Mx + b) than relu(Mx + b)

One difficulty, though, is that proofs generally /don't/ carry over, and IME a lot of 'classical' methods constrain themselves to provable operations... So at times it can be hard to tell the difference between 'useful folklore' and 'tweak that makes the proofs work.'

I've been delving into sparse coding literature from about ten years ago, and there's a lot of this kind of difficulty... Interestingly, the best sparse coding architectures ended up being very very similar to shallow neural networks. There's a nice 'deep ksvd denoising' paper from a few months back which improves handily on the older sparse coding architectures by bringing in a smattering of ideas from the DNN age; the rant at the end is makes the case for building these 'blended' architectures to get the best of both worlds. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13164

I tend to think that the DNN architectures beat the provable-domain architectures for Good Reasons, but the USEFUL response is to build awesome blended architectures that maybe go a long way towards bringing down model sizes and complexity, while increasing explainability.
I suppose that is quite possible. I still like the idea though. Like, if they are going to engage in scoundrelism it needs to be as blatant as possible. Now we are stealing from the sick. That kind of thing.
This sounds really cool! I've wished for something like this many times. I am mostly attracted by the fact that it would be mostly automatic. I am hoping it lives up to the hype.

Signed up for the beta. All the best!
_That_ is the question we should be asking. If not, is it because geofence warrants have a higher legal bar if issued to a phone company? Or is it about the level-of-effort?
When both parties leave a representative but not show-stopping amount of money on the table intentionally, this can potentiate exponential growth like nothing else.

Effectively each group gets to focus on efforts & shape the outcome in pursuit of mutual growth, with a non-lopsided good-faith buffer to start with, compared to predatory terms.

The reduction in risk and increase in functional leverage is phenomenal.

Alternatively, with a ruthless arrangement, there will be opportunity-sucking or destructive imbalances for operations across a financial spectrum, whether prosperous or underperforming at the time. Greedy ars'les thrive making surplus look & act like shortage.
No. There are multiple levels of regulation.

Internationally the rule is that you can have "slots" if your airport is busy enough. IATA classifies airports into three levels with only the busiest class 3 "Co-ordinated" airports having slots. A relatively small number of generally very globally important airports qualify, very few of them in the US - but of course these seem notable because you've heard of them. My local airport (which is a ghost town because the airline that ran most flights from there recently collapsed) does not have slots. If you had told them last year you wanted to take off and land six planes a day there they'd just say that sounds great, let us know when to expect them and where to send the bills. London Heathrow on the other hand obviously doesn't have capacity to just have you show up with six extra planes and not cause chaos.

But, the international rule doesn't say how you get slots. IATA organises conferences to discuss strategy, but it's completely legal for, say, Russia to decide that all slots in its major airports are for Russian companies. The EU has its own regulations which say if you're a EU member state with an airport that gets slots, you must meet certain EU criteria that aim to create a competitive marketplace, keep unsafe carriers out of European airspace and make everything efficient.

The UK implements those regulations through a private company because of course it does the Tories (party presently in government) love private companies, and that's what Airport Coordination Limited is for.

Anyway, the EU level regulation means you can't "just" buy more slots, you need to qualify to even be allowed them. If Big Airline A buys Small Airline B, it would not be unusual for the rules to say that too bad, the resulting company still named Big Airline A doesn't get all the resulting slots, some of them must be auctioned off to competitors.
Is there a study showing how much business they lost from the backlash when they didn't let people use the bathroom? This may be the better business decision.
Makes sense. As the saying goes: "Tax the inelastic".
Starting a company is a lot like starting a fire
Because the earth remade itself several times. Any previous life would have surely been erased. The assertion was that life arose just once. That's hard to prove.
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That's true for flu and others. Instead of closing schools people at risk should be very cautious. The question is how much more contegious it is than flu. Unless it's order of magnitude higher, there is no reason to close schools and ban travel.
hate to be that dude, but that is why I don't enter starbucks in the hood. If there's a drive thru I stop. But the people loitering inside and the bathrooms are cray cray. seen my share of police called to Starbucks more than a corner store. No thanks. (also thinking maybe I go to starbucks too much lol)
What do you mean we're no longer compute bound? Why don't you try replicating Microsoft's Turing-NLG 17B parameter model: "... trains with only 256 NVIDIA GPUs compared to 1024 NVIDIA GPUs needed by using Megatron-LM alone."
Its an import from other languages - trouble is use "codes" or god forbid "learnings" automatically marks you down as probably a c lister.
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One of the things that bothers me about this study is the use of SafeGraph, which provided "anonymized" data that included GPS location, race, and income.
And that's an adequate justification for polluting the environment?
Instead of one program
All the "aid" to Israel (as well as to many other countries around the world, including many Israeli rivals in the region) consists of this vouchers. It "helps" Israel much less than it helps congressmen keep military jobs in their districts.
Sounds like you’re describing a range extender attack on the keyless start. Almost(I don’t know any that aren’t) all cars with the feature are vulnerable to this.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/labour-market/quality-of-e...

https://www.etui.org/Topics/Labour-market-employment-social-...
Busses run empty at odd hours, because its necessary to have a regular schedule to keep customers? Not so crazy...its a fact of scheduled transportation.
I would if a post/talk about why you should be considering language X showed up on the front page once a week.
Hm, I had it turned on for NYT since it would break a bit ago, but it seems to degrade properly here.

I'll poke around and see if NYT is now usable with JS disabled.
Twitter bans posts that 'dehumanize' people in connection with diseases
Interesting that A3 is American English and B2 is British English.
Your understanding may be legally correct but is pragmatically incorrect.

“Normals” in no way understand they are consenting to this, and further, your employer continues to tighten the noose on users who did understand and turned it off, that products will no longer work without this data.

To be clear, Google has the right to demand location data as payment for services rendered.
It isn't, though, it's an still an order of magnitude less in Oregon.

4.2 million, 40 tests per day
60 million, 5700 tests yesterday
Doing some more order of magnitude approximations, in order to scale this black hole down so it were the size of our observable universe, define "the diameter of the universe in millimeters" (approx 10^30) as mmU. There are mmU * mmU * mmU * 0.5 mmU universes in the diameter of this black hole. For each millimeter in this scaled-down black hole, there are mmU groups of mmU universes, with another half layer of nesting, but then you can divide that by 1000. To fit the number of universes in the whole volume in a line end to end, repeat this process again, except without the extra half layer and division by 1000.
I think that is a problem with ads in general. Most of them are generally designed to mislead.
> we also haven't had another thalidomide yet

I recall approval for some diet drugs was removed because they were causing fatal heart attacks. I recall recently some cholesterol drugs were causing unanticipated problems, too. Tylenol is now known for causing liver problems, even failure.
Not quite. Its not going to be ok if this is 'just as contagious', because outcomes are likely much worse. We'll want to be 10x more careful; closing schools is then a reasonable strategy.
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Not widely accepted in industry, but widely accepted (or at least known) among HN readers
Thanks for the feedback.

While Fluxo lets you automate a bunch of tedious things, it's still on the user to create the whole business logic of the model.

The idea is that you can build a model exactly as you would in Excel, just easier. Some examples:
- instead of copying and pasting data from other places, integrating through an api
- instead of duplicating entire sheets to create multiple scenarios, just add a scenario to a dropdown
- instead of having to create separate tables for monthly, quarterly, and annual views, select how you want aggregations to work and change the view with a toggle.
Try zooming in on something outside of the table and then scrolling to it. Worked for me with the same setup.
I'm chronically ill and had to fight for medical accommodations
Similarly the Azur Space are roughly $200 for the 8x4cm cell, and they are also space rated.
Meta: I tried submitting just the updated Twitter policy page, but it got caught in the dupe checker: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2019/...

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20394653
Does anyone have any reliable information on the risks of flying right now? I took a couple flights this week, seemed to be status quo. People of all ages flying with no one practicing any special hygiene measures.
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You can't fault someone for not being raised or inspired to try living in the woods (or wherever).

Stating that I have difficulty grasping a mental model would, to me, imply that if I can't grasp it I can't fault it, either. Pretty sure I hammered that point home in my comment. Regardless, if you can't go a weekend without a cell connection without undue stress, head to Methow, WA with my blessing. But do me a favor: first thing you do when you get unpacked, drive a little wedge or two in that axe handle before you use it. The wedges are probably still Scotch-taped to the axe handle, and could literally save someone's life.
I agree theres nonsuch thing as smart money, but there probably is a distinction between dumb and not dumb money - like someone putting a part of their savings in an index fund versus someone putting their entire net worth on far out of the money AMD calls
Regexp to validate email addresses according to the RFC 822 grammar
We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing
There was an interview with the new Boing CEO quite recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/business/boeing-david-cal...

He pretty much blamed it all on the previous CEO.

Asked whether he believed American pilots would have been able to handle a malfunction of the software, Mr. Calhoun asked to speak off the record. The New York Times declined to do so.

“Forget it,” Mr. Calhoun then said. “You can guess the answer.”

Does it mean that Boeing maintains its position that the MCAS was not "that bad" and it's on the pilots for not handling the Boeing's mistake? Is he suggesting that we should avoid Boeing Aircraft unless the pilots are American?
Thanks, the most relevant case for signal appears to be Delfino v. Agilent Technologies where imunity was upheld for an employer whose email system was used by an employee to send a threatening message.

It seems strange for something like this to hinge on section 230 though, were emails providers liable for such things before it was passed ? What about cellular carriers for SMS content ?
We can drill down. Let’s take moronic point poker. Let’s say I want to give a task to a new developer. He decides it’s tough and gives a high estimate. The rest of the devs give a lower estimate. Ok, what got achieved? We just pressured the new dev into what exactly? He gave his estimate. I don’t know, you’re all brilliant so fill me in.

Most likely the new dev will lie under pressure and give a lower estimate. This is what really happens in real life. These mechanisms are so unrealistic. It’s ritual at this point.
>>it can be argued the tech has improved people's lives.

I have a problem with general cynicism toward technology. I believe the core problem we have with tech is all about privacy.

We are on the fringe of a golden era, and we should resolve these issues about privacy and dark UX that deceive users.

We don't need to "argue" whether tech improved our lives. It already did!! When did we ever in the history of mankind had the chance to communicate, and access information in real-time?!
Based on URLs that's just a whitelabel widget of another ( https://www.aviasales.ru/) travel search engine. Can be setup with minimal effort. https://support.travelpayouts.com/hc/en-us/articles/20395575...
Latest BMW, Audi, VW and Ford (or at least some models from these manufacturers) key fobs stop transmitting after X amount of time (based on motion).
Well, the logo is stylized after PornHub
Good way to get your CV dropped in the bin or vice verse to have people ignore or even (put on a do not call list) a potential employer.

It reads reads to me from the uk as a "How do you do, fellow kids"
I've seen anecdotes from a few projects that were rewritten (Quake was one, I think?) and some ancient bugs were found only after the translation
Is it empathy, or is it the realization that the decline could be worse if they develop a Nestle-style reputation and inspire boycotts or something? I won't rule out empathy, but it's not the first thing that jumps to mind for me.
Amazing that a web browser actually pays you to use it.
> AIDS was a public health emergency.

I.e. there was enormous political pressure put on the FDA to do something. If you suffer from a rare disease that is not on the 6 o'clock news every day, that's not likely to happen.

(I remember those days - everyone was talking about AIDS, everyone was terrified of it.)
Hi Kurt,

What are usual cold-start times you see with firecracker?

What other VMMs or Unikernels did you consider before settling on firecracker?

Was the firecracker documentation good enough or did you have to go digging through emails or code to figure out certain things?

What was the hardest part of using firecracker in production?

Thanks.
Never heard that, why would they in planed economy?
If you live paycheck to paycheck, your choices are to stay home and starve when you run out of money, or to continue with life while making sure you wash your hands a lot and don't touch your face.

Sounds to me like the choice is pretty obvious. I suppose the government could step up and provide to replace your paycheck while you stay at home with your kids, but honestly, this isn't that bad of a virus to warrant that.

People that are high risk should stay home. Everyone else should wash their hands and avoid their face and avoid crowds.

> The streets should be deserted right now.

You're probably overreacting. And let's hope all the health care workers decide that work is more important than staying home.
I was replying to this:

> At the low end it’s worth considering Fargate distinct from EKS.
Well at least one of the demo is NSFWish so perhaps that was intentional.
The total price is just a hair of $9.7k ($13,290 is 2020 dollars)

It's interesting looking at the breakdown, because in some cases prices are similar, and I think in some other cases, the smart money has changed.

For instance, a really high end motherboard (X570 or threadripper) will still be in the $500 range, but there are now available options going up to $800.

The closest CPU option is 32 cores 3970X TR, but it runs $2000, not the $2400 they spend (again, 2020 dollars)

256GB of DDR4 ECC RAM (instead of 4GB) will cost about $1200, not the $1350 spent.

GPU options, however, will run into $1200 for an RTX 2080 Ti rather than the $800 they spent.

SCSI cards are no longer necessary, as NVME is the smart play, and PCIE 4.0 is the high-end play.

They only spend $600 on the system drive ($827 if you include the controllers), but for a God Box, I'd put in an Optane PCIE card for $1300.

For $1440 in storage drives, you're either looking at dual 4TB SSDs if you want SSD speed, or an external 4-bay NAS with 3 8TB drives.

Optical drives are out, which just leaves backup and case. I know nothing about tape storage, so I won't comment on that, but in the case world, you now have interesting options like the TureMetal UP10 which allow you to run this system entirely fanless, but for somewhere in the $700-$1000 range.
also genes are influenced by a ton of context ecm, womb. if dna is code i'm still looking for eval semantics
I had read the parent comment as sarcastic. Not 100% clear though.
The problem here is calculating in dollars and cents doesn't take into account what costs are externalized by businesses and borne by the population.
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Do people use Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive or one of the specialized services? If so, which one?
Especially since the data collection is pretty opaque to begin with:

> According to SafeGraph’s privacy policy: “We obtain information from trusted third-party data partners such as mobile application developers, through APIs and other delivery methods. The data collection and use is governed by the privacy policy and legal terms of the data collector and the website using the data; it is not governed by SafeGraph.”
> Our military is correct in not purchasing something that they cannot fully vet. The shocking part to me is that Israel truly thought they could make the deal work without providing something that could be vetted.

But US doesn't provide source code too. Many defense deals with India could not proceed because of US denying transfer of technology [1]. Especially with F-16s. Which is why India decided to buy Rafale. I am sure this is how every country would like to operate anyways.

[1]: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2016/09/08/us-air-force-tech...

[2]: https://theprint.in/opinion/f-16-never-stood-a-chance-to-be-...
I have been a customer and follower of CF from almost day one. I also know a couple employees. While they haven't been perfect over the years, I tend to trust him on his word.
What's the externality here?
Everyone involved would have been better off if Starbucks just started a charity to help homeless people. Political correctness and feelings (vs logic and foresight) just cause more problems.
The US is the same. All major ISPs refuse to peer with any independents at all; refuse to be on routeservers; and demand some minimum of like 50-100 Gbps for a peering session, with insane requirements.

I've seen numerous ones also demand things like RPKI/ROA and good filtering - while themselves having everything ROA and IRR invalid, announcing customer space with no IRR records whatsoever, etc.
Right now rates are very low.
My doctor explained to me that it is not possible to shutdown Italy by asking nice. They closed the schools, people went to hang around the down.
When you say empathy, what do you mean?

I'm not a native English speaker and I am confused when I see this word used in political conversation a lot in a way which is not clearly related to the dictionary definition.
> I think demand would increase dramatically if customers didn’t have to plan ahead

I think customers won't be a fan of showing up and waiting 17 hours or whatever until the next flight has enough people to fly.

> This will definitely happen when the industry gets disrupted by cheap autonomous and electric mini-planes

Battery energy density is a looooong way from matching jet fuel, especially since the weight of the carried jet fuel doesn't have to include the oxygen to react with. And smaller planes are less efficient. I don't see this happening.
Not a lot of people vote primarily on issues regarding criminal justice or technology (e.g. backdoor encryption) and yet I do think we should care about those things.
One of the Starbucks I frequent in downtown Houston is .... not clean.
Not empathy, that's for sure - you can reasonably assume that a company as big as Starbucks looked at every possible scenario, made a risk/benefit assessment (across several areas including PR) before deciding on this policy.
Whats the best way to backup old yahoo or gmail accounts?
Yeah, this is what AWS does....
> Bo Winegard is an American hereditarian psychologist[2], nationalist[3] and pseudoscientist[4] associated with the online "race realist" community.[5] He writes discredited racialist pseudoscience articles for the right-wing online magazine Quillette[6][7][8] and surrounds himself with white nationalists, but complains if he is labelled one.

What are some specific claims that Winegard makes that you consider false?
The flaw with private companies providing a public service is inevitably the erosion of demand for public goods and standards. The public sector should be held to higher standards considering how large their budgets are and most of it is spent wastefully. Europe and other developed countries have a far superior public goods availability, service and outcomes with similar GDP going to the public sector.

In the US one has to compare all taxes including federal, state and city/county levels with other countries.