skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem dubious, but I can see the argument that the government shouldn't be adjudicating which work resources are or aren't costly to allow. (Internal phone calls don't cost anything either, but I think it's fair to say union organizers shouldn't be allowed to ring up all the desk phones in an office asking them to support some labor action.)
There's a free form introduction page, as well as extracurriculars, as well as you can simply make a job called "Independent".
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For anyone with more legal knowledge than I have, how does scraping and processing social media and other image sources deal with copyright license, especially ones forbidding commercial use.

I feel like there's a meaningful legal difference between a totally public, open to be downloaded image of you from the internet, even storing it forever, and then using that in a product.

It would be like taking something with a GPL license - totally legit to download and use and modify and repost, with the original license/copyright attached - and using it in a closed source commercial product.
Reading some of the comments on this thread, would like to ask if anyone knows the right term to research something that has long bothered me. There are of course people who disagree on science, data and facts. What I'm curious about is people who claim or are science and data-driven but believe that only certain scientific fields are engaged in organized collusion or mass delusion. For instance, a biologist I met who thought archeologists are covering up young Earth, an astronomer who thinks the NIST/ASCE 9/11 Study was complete fabulation (although they admitted they'd never read it), and engineers I know who insist climatologists are all just in it for the money.

While I understand why the general populace may hold such views, I'm curious as to if there have been studies concerning how a population of those who believe in scientific method can so strongly believe their peers in selective (usually other) fields are so differently motivated.
Well, I don't really want to destroy my MacBook to find out.
Not in HDDs... there's been quite a bit of improvement in SSDs and new memory media in the past several years.
I think it's provided by iTerm: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-status-bar.html
The University of Minnesota has done a bit of research and put out some guidance on constructing deep winter greenhouses: https://extension.umn.edu/growing-systems/deep-winter-greenh...

They use a similar method in that thermal mass is used to store energy, but instead of trapping the heat with soil/straw for a season the daily heat is stored in masonry, stone, or water. On sunny winter days it can be -20°F outside while the greenhouse is 80°F, though a string of dark days can mean that supplemental heating is needed.
> People still use hardware RAID? Windows exempted, as there's unfortunately nothing better available for Windows.

I've always wondered whether anyone has gotten fed up with this, and decided to just virtualize Windows Server under Linux in order to feed the Windows Server VM a virtual disk that sits atop all the Linux storage-layer tech (but where otherwise the Windows VM gets all the rest of the computer's resources passed through.)

(Come to think of it, I've considered doing the same for a Hackintosh at some point. It got too contrived, but I'd like to come back to it one day.)
That's not who the OP was talking about, not-Einstein. He's talking about the idiots who idiotically polarize needed conversations that need nuance. a-hem
Right, that's my point. Not really feasible for 300TB databases or 50TB vmfs datastores.

Obviously those things can be worked around with complete re-architecting of, well, everything, but I'm considering that out-of-scope.
Covid-19 has HIV RNA -Luc Montagnier,Nobel Prize winner, man who discovered HIV
Spot on.

Amazon was able to hire over 100k employees in the last month. They did that by providing the best possible choice for those people -- the people wanted to work there.

Sure, all for transparency, but let's be real. This job is a lot better than flipping burgers or mowing a road ditch. People are still lining up to work at Amazon.

It's easy to be like, "Hey look at the big evil company!" but the truth of the matter is Amazon is one of the best places for low-skilled workers to find employment.
Andrew Alexander Anthony Aadien Arthur?

edit: I know this is nonserious, but hell, if you wanted to do that and you live in the UK, you only have to fill out a deed poll and get it signed by someone :)
IMO it isn’t really relevant how much they’re paid or what the educational requirements. It’s never okay to treat people the way Amazon treats warehouse workers. If you (and the government) consider your business “essential” you simply have to take appropriate precautions to protect the health and safety of those people who are carrying out essential duties. I understand there are supply shortages around the world but Amazon isn’t even trying to make a good faith effort to protect their people. They’re doing the opposite, it seems. Fighting their employees every step of the way.
Apparently Microsoft hired SandboxEscaper, notorious non responsible disclosure 0day dropper, proving my point rather succinctly. https://twitter.com/SandboxBear/status/1210133985478791171

No tedious 3 day whiteboard interviews there I bet.
I think people should probably stop using what we cutely call “the open web” when really it’s just another closed social network of financial interests distracting people from their lives

It’s essentially a filter bubble for finance ideas

You’re all doing it again, making “too big to fail” ideas that filter the benefits towards a minority (aka TV, and religion to an extent; utilitarian value aside, bubbles controlled by a minority, rent seeking on attention at scale)

Stop being a market for human rights abuse at scale

Name ONE facet of human existence Facebook has improved? Or Instagram? Other than generating wealth for a minority?

Did we have a huge problem organizing birthdays before?

I for one am excited to have front row seats from my cushy biotech job as the attention economy collapses

I don’t owe society my time in promise of a future it can’t honestly guarantee

Still waiting on my nuclear powered car, personal helicopter, and AI that does my job for me
Resellers Using Checkout Bots Are Driving the Nintendo Switch Shortage
There are in fact about 7.8 billion of us. I believe we will have to change from this <1% of the population growing all the food.

Growing part of your own food is a good idea. We should all plant some potatoes this year – a not so laborious way of producing nutritious food.
While the ecosystem is vast, being probably about a million square mi., the flooded region and surrounding area is small.

The mountains would trap the moisture locally. So even three, four mountains over the desert would be untouched.

As to Egypt, it would be restoring the Sahara to the lush green area much of it used to be before humans came in.
I made a request for data access on February 12, and I still haven't heard a word from these asshats. Don't hold your breath on them actually honoring the request. I realllllly can't wait for CCPA enforcement to start this summer, though I know privacy invasive tech companies are lobbying to have enforcement delayed.
Thanks for your feedback. I would be using Fedora, so a pretty up-to-date distro. I don't mind a bit tinkering, but don't consider sys-admin stuff a hobby :). So I am very keen on reports, how far the support for this hardware is, as it would be bad, if I end up not really being able to use Linux after buying the machine for this purpose.

But your report is encouraging, especially that the fans are not too noisy and the battery runtime is as expected - no laptop runs long when on full steam. But for casual use, the time you are getting sounds good - more than enough. I don't need the ultimate runtimes on battery, as long as it is quite a bit longer than the 2 hours Ars Technica got. So you have me definitely tempted :)
Presuming one follows through on this, how can I trust that I am in fact opted-out?
I wish articles like this could afford production-grade hardware to test on. When you’ve run large Fibre or SAS arrays in the past on enterprise hardware it’s hard not to see gaps in the testing methods/setup. Sequential writes metrics ARE important when doing database backups. SATA (even nearline) and SAS disks have vastly different performance profiles so I would expect optimal configuration would be different. What about SSD vs. spinning? What about different rotational speeds? Were the disks aligned properly? How does performance scale with increasing the number of threads requesting I/O? The setup in the article really only applies to certain prosumer/small business requirements. I guess I’m not the right audience for the article.
I'm struggling to think of high end software RAID solutions. I suppose backblaze pods are all software though, but I haven't personally worked with one; I'm not sure if they're primarily designed for capacity or performance. Through enough spindles at a problem, though....
I was going to say that the watermark is too obtrusive ... I don't have a problem with you getting a bit of attention in exchange for the time it takes to curate the collection but it's too big and in a bad spot.
You are oversimplifying.

While these numbers are indicators, they are non-representative samples. Different communities spread the disease to different demographics.

A CFR of 0.4% is still huge, especially if it is very non-uniform and would mean 1.2mio deaths in the US if it saturates.

And if that isnt enough for you, we still don't have reliable information about long term effects of an infection. It could end up being persistent like herpes or HIV, make people sterile or reduce lung capacity and or increase chance of cancer.

With these, possibly small, risks, it is ethically incredibly irresponsible to allow the disease spread through the whole population. You cannot gamble with a conceivable downside like that.
> 1. If you need multiple WP instances, you'll need to duplicate that setup with read replica + load balancer

Don't forget that wordpress is not stateless. It'll need write access to its code directory, which complicates scaling. AWS has EFS which support up to 1000 clients, but at that point you'll probably better off rewriting your website with something else that easier to scale on the cloud.
I suppose authentication & authorization would complicate things a fair bit, but yeah this should at least work for white-listed, public queries. Thanks.
Now all they have to do is make sure the correct image displayed for the story
World after Coronavirus: A free online conference
NYC has 30x the per capita death rate of Santa Clara county.

Santa Clara county only being 15% as infected is not consistent.
I find mathematics to be the most beautiful thing in the universe, because it is the only thing I can truly think of as being perfect in every way. Existing only as an abstract concept, it still manages to find its way into every single aspect of our lives.

Two completely remote civilizations will still have the same mathematics. Sure one may have a more developed understanding, but if both civs wondered about how to get the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, they would both end up with Pythagoras' theorem. The only thing invented in math is our language and representation of such concepts.

Many people believe that mathematics becomes invented the further up you go like pure mathematics and I can understand why this perspective would come through, but take the example of G.H. Hardy who famously said “The Theory of Numbers has always been regarded as one of the most obviously useless branches of Pure Mathematics”. It could be argued at the time that these branches were simply invented mathematics because there was no practical application of it, but 30 years following his death came breakthroughs in cryptography. All of a sudden, this was no longer an invention. Calculus is not seen as an invention but a discovery because of all of its insane number of applications in physics and other areas.

Many areas of math that have yet to find practical use will always come under the scrutiny of being 'invented' but that simply isn't the case.

I firmly believe that all areas of mathematics are practical to the universe and its wonders (and therefore discovered), whether or not we can achieve a level to use such mathematics (or experience it) is a different matter.

I believe that at its core, mathematics is the universe. To say that we have invented it is arrogant and completely strives it of its beauty.
Wow the diagrams are really well done here. Really well-made and presented.
Saw a bunch of Amazon layoffs. I know they regularly hire and fire people, but this seems like a really shitty time to do that to people.
Is this deal something the SEC can throw the book at? I mean it's quite obvious that this is an inside deal with front companies to gut a public non-profit just less than 4 years after ICANN stopped being supervised by the Department of Commerce.

How is this legal and why isn't it being criminally investigated?
Email servers, electricity, the time spent setting it all up, the server room that stores the machines, the IT department that maintains the machines and keeps things running, the client hardware that the employee interacts with...
Not exactly the same but 2-dimensional beings on a curved surface can discover the 3rd dimension using math, we did this proof in a differential geometry class.
hmm probably have to watch the video more thoroughly it seems like you're estimating/guessing the actual dimensions without a new source/angle to compare for the depth aspect. showing my ignorance here -- trained, I guess it depends on margin of error/does it matter, it seems pretty accurate

anyway this would be great with regard to reducing camera count if you're not relying heavily on LIDAR or "physical time to flight" sources of measurement
Some of the folks on vents would have survived anyway. Probably fewer than survive with.

But I don't know, severe permanent lung damage guaranteed, delirium and dementia likely, and the misery of the treatment itself, all for a 1-in-5 chance of surviving (where survival is measured only at 30 days)?

I'm not saying nobody should be allowed to make that choice -- they should -- but I don't know that I would.
You seem to be protesting that the bird invention is nonsense, and no more meaningful than random letters. Regardless of the answer to your question, I think you might be overlooking a different point.

Here is my invention: a new piece of jewelry, a double ring, which you wear on both a finger and a toe at the same time. This is a realizable physical object that (presumably) has never existed before. Is it a discovery?
Coinbase is still actively hiring: https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions
Old people, those in the middle of a chemotherapy and many other people at risk aren't going to work and hence won't die in front of their coworkers.
I think a useful dichotomy is between whether an intellectual product's existence is possible without the existence of the person who created it. Copyrightable works typically could not exist without their creator. Only Prince was capable of creating When Doves Cry and only Jane Austen was capable of writing Pride and Prejudice. But inventions share with mathematical discoveries that they can (and often are) created or discovered separately by more than one person.
Novel Coronavirus 2019 and Anesthesiology
My massive level of cynicism on this subject makes things like this seem completely unsurprising. I generally feel that the Binney and Snowden revelations served to normalize knowledge of being systematically monitored by big brother. This common knowledge of being watched is absolutely necessary for a surveillance state to function as intended. The gold mine of private data made available to them via National Security Letters and other such mandates to provide access. Surveillance capitalism is not really about capitalism at all but thats just my cynical side again.
JAX is absolutely what I would recommend if you were trying to implement something usable in the long term and wanted to go beyond just learning about CUDA kernels!

Looking at the JAX documentation it's _much_ better than the last time I saw it. Their tutorials seem fairly solid in fact. I do want to point out the difference though. You're conceptually operating at a very different point in JAX than in NUMBA.

For example, consider multiplying 2 matrices in JAX on your GPU. That's a simple example with just a few lines of code in the JAX tutorial[1].

On the other hand in the NUMBA tutorial from GTC I mentioned earlier, you have notebook 4, "Writing CUDA Kernels"[2], which teaches you about the programming model used to write computation for GPU's.

I'm sorry I was unclear. My recommendation of NUMBA is not so much in advocating for its use in a project, but more so in using it and its tutorials as an easy way of learning and experimenting with CUDA kernels without jumping into the deep end with C/C++. If you actually want to write some usable CUDA code for a project, keeping in mind JAX is still experimental, I would fully advocate for JAX over NUMBA.

[1] https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/quickstart.ht...

[2] https://github.com/ContinuumIO/gtc2018-numba/blob/master/4%2...
Hmm, that's an interesting approach and I guess it's pretty common (and seems blatantly, embarassingly obvious in retrospect!). That gives me a lead to look at what the standard practice is, and also a rough phrasing to search for on google. Thank you!
If I need to explain to you how we know that the Earth is not flat, then I should just end this conver
Quibi, day one: This phone-focused TV service isn’t that bad
You should check out ynab and /r/financier
Actually end-2-end CTC models are very good - Wav2letter, Jasper, QuartzNet - all these models are much better than DeepSpeech2.
I can't really blame gcc for that one, since the most straightforward way of using signed integer arithmetic would yield a negative value if the result is bigger than INT_MAX, but it would be very weird that programs would expect and rely upon that behavior.

On the other hand, even the function "unsigned mul_mod_65536(unsigned short x, unsigned short y) { return (x * y) & 0xFFFF; }" which the authors of the Standard would have expected commonplace implementations to process in consistent fashion for all possible values of "x" and "y" [the Rationale describes their expectations] will sometimes cause gcc to jump the rails if the arithmetical value of the product exceeds INT_MAX, despite the fact that the sign bit of the computation is ignored. If, for example, the product would exceed INT_MAX on the second iteration of a loop that should run a variable number of iterations, gcc will replace the loop for code that just handles the first iteration.
On the contrary - detecting selection bias of this sort can be very difficult. Do you measure it using a questionnaire? You might ask your subjects "Do you think you previously had COVID-19?" But what do you do with that response data? Exclude everyone that says yes? Then you're skewing one way. There's obviously no population data to match that response with like there is for general demographics such as race and age.

Many studies are only as good as their sampling methods. A good sampling method will alleviate concerns of selection bias.
> It really would look bad for NASA if SpaceX then does manned missions that NASA can't do.

that's been the case for almost a decade now. just replace spacex with the soyuz rocket.
I doubt this image is showing the true raw data (a):

https://github.com/cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark/blob...

If you take the dark image (a) from that and balance its color, the information that is present in it simply cannot contain the text from the book covers and so on. In fact, it's full of JPEG artifacts despite the image being a PNG. It would be useful if they presented a histogram equalized image of (a).
>No backing up your messages to the cloud like WhatsApp or having them loaded from the server like Facebook Messenger.

Their old product QQ has it, the reason they didn't do it on WeChat, I think it's because they have no other choice since:

-They have to make WeChat "presentable" internationally, they means they can't appear to store it since they are beholden to China.

-They need to convey a message that they aren't watching you, but in reality their system needs to be monitored by Chinese police real time[1], since that rules out the option of E2E encryption, the only way is at least appear to be hands off.

[1]https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/12/27/dont-call-xi-the-b...
You can't prevent it from being built, but you can prevent people making a profit on it
I have noticed a higher frequency of this happening in the past year. I'm happy about it, there's no need to put an additional box around most items that already come in a cardboard box.
You shouldn't be downvoted - with a big recession/depression looming, link rot and many sorts of repositories shutting down are a big issue that will slow down the pace of research.
Huh. It worked for me just now, with this very article. The one catch is I need to go into private mode.
Charlie Munger: ‘The Phone Is Not Ringing Off the Hook’
Permission isn't needed; fascists don't ask for consent.

If it really riles you up, which it should, you should go and pressure your legislators into creating legislation that prevents them from doing what they're doing.
It is far more credible that Wuhan hit 3% infection rate (that's about double the PCR testing rate of the evacuees) than Santa Clara county, with an order of magnitude lower death count, having a 2% rate.
See post above. There is no good way for compilers to handle that case, but gcc gets "creative" even in cases where the authors of C89 made their intentions clear.
It would be good to get a comparison of a brightened version of the sample image compared with the CNN version. Right now the sample image just looks black, but if you scale up the brightness you get an image that looks more like the higher ISO image. That would be a better comparison since it shows what improvements the CNN gives over naive techniques like just bumping up the pixel values.
They show fine for me using uBlock Origin
China Raises Wuhan Death Stats by Half to Account for Reporting Delays
Petition to Appoint Elon Musk as King of Earth
If you have a set of N drives all purchased at the same time, they are going to all have the same approximate bathtub curve and could start failing at the same time.

I had five Seagate 7200.11s (terrible, shitty drives in many ways) in a RAIDZ1 pool. One failed, I started a resilver. Another started failing during that time. The rebuild slowed significantly due to the second failing drive. ZFS resilvered eventually then the second drive failed completely. That was at only 26k hours or so. I think a third started acting up shortly after but I was already replacing them all.

These were only 500GB drives, and the chances aligned on two of them....

I only use RAIDZ2 now (and I don't use Seagates).
Yes, I'd agree with all of your points really. You can see in my reply below that I was mostly advocating for it's use in learning the concepts behind GPU programming, so you can skip delving into C/C++ if you're uncomfortable with that.

If I had to pick something today to use for arbitrary GPU acceleration in Python I'd almost certainly opt for JAX instead, but I haven't seen the kind of tutorials in JAX that exist for NUMBA CUDA.
That book is big enough to visibly distort space-time on its own.

I'm impressed that the reader learned the math on his own. And, uh, what's my excuse?
Another caching layer in front of the GraphQL server could work. Apollo Server is mutually exclusive with a zero code solution like Hasura though.
I would love to see a proof of it if you happen to have it!