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Hi geoff - seems like you are pretty knowledgeable here. I have to disagree with "seems forecasting actual rain is not very hard if you have enough current data on the state of the atmosphere" ... Who told you that? accuweather meteologists?

Rain is not easy predict, especially long in advance. Just taking things with a grain of salt here. If you truly believe that forecasting actual rain is not very hard, please start a new weather forecasting company and give it all you got! However i'll tell you, it's not that easy. Just because a computer model 'runs' does not mean it correctly modeled the atmosphere. All models are imperfect bud and those imperfections get amplified by 10x when trying to simulate earth+atmosphere systems
I've had two cards with 18 month interest free promotions recently. If you invest the cash you would have normally used to pay the card off, than that's a free 8-15% gains!

Kills your credit score due to high utilization until the promotion is up and card is paid off though
And most of these videos aren't from riots, but protests or curfew violations.
Got bad news for you man. 16T in value doesn't come from ML. It comes from inflation and printing money out of thin air. The world has limited resources at the end of the day. When one industry does well, it's at the cost of a different industry.
The law of diminishing returns applies here as well. The first 5000 steps are much more important than the next 5000 steps
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Can they?
Diamonds are a practically useless product (except in science and the industry) based only on the social signalling [0] they give to their owner. And this signalling is due to their high price.[1]

De Beers created the demand artificially for engagement rings so they are pretty much done,I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
So is there "no benefit" to taking 20K steps a day versus 10K?
That's where I assumed "master" came from. But it still doesn't fit, because a master copy is normally static. The master branch in Git is anything but static.
I can already imagine the head of some white supremacist programmer or sysadmin exploding when they are forced to rename branches because of this. These kinds of actions are meant to send a loud and clear message that racists cant hide anywhere. It’s not that gits master branch is reated to racism, its about reaching the minds of the little brained supremacists. I can even see some hackernews “contrarians” which are just closed racists complaining about the issue, and their up and coming slave master defender Paul Graham complaining about it on twitter: yOu cAnT eRaSE HiSToRY and give supremacists free speech he will say, to look like an intelectual.
You may be thinking of public goods, like healthcare, fire departments, etc.

I advocate government provided universal healthcare. That cost is just table stakes for a civil society.

Insurance is more properly relegated for elective decisions, where a person's interests are not (yet) universally shared, and they want to hedge their risks.
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Thanks for sharing! I've just started diving into CPython, and it's cool to see how you accomplish this
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The technicality in six point font is the risk you're not allowed to take because it would cost you more. The whole point of it is to spread this risk out as broadly as possible for the cheapest price possible based on known risk. Known risk requires some boundaries.

(I'm not talking about trying not to pay legit claims that clearly are within the threshold) but the reason these boundaries are there is so they can accurately price the risk.

It would be much more expensive to get a policy that covered "everything" without the fine print, but you certainly can. It's just out of most people's price range.

That is not to say I think insurers are acting in good faith all the time, just that I empathize with the actual purpose of insurance and the complexity of the risk calculations for insurance actuaries.
When I first learned about MySQL replication in 2000, the terminology of Master/Slave seemed really odd and a bit shocking.

20 years later the terminology is still peculiar to me. Even though it's an accurate representation of what slavery is, it is a poignant reminder of a human condition that has sadly not disappeared.

The slave database, as a read-only data store, has no agency and can only follow the master database. Yet it's the workhorse for all heavy queries, especially those part of reporting for various execs. It has no value except as a means to reduce load of the master and to save it's rear end in case of corruption... yes there are many parallels.

But still, after 2 decades, I'm not sure that this terminology is essential to the world of relational databases. "Leader/Follower" or "Primary/Replica" could convey the same data concepts without resorting to a comparison with slavery. Perhaps a wording update might be in order here.
> "Oh well I guess its just really hard." Is NOT an answer.

Why are you distorting my answer?

Look, I can rephrase it for you: it's also not surprising that there aren't 700 videos of scientists molesting women on arctic research stations.
People love such broad generalisations. Just notice how prevalent "Eating after 18 will make you fat" is.
No, it's not. It's actually a way of shorting something, you are effectively betting that the covered entity will fail. If priced appropriately to risk and the value of the entity, it can be thought of as low-risk hedge, but it's still a bet.

In The Big Short, for example, when they wanted to short the housing market, the structure that banks set up for them was effectively an insurance policy. They had to pay a huge fee every so often, which represented the equivalent of an insurance policy payment, but in the event that the value of the market dropped below some threshold, they were entitled to a payout...which is exactly what happened.

Just because it's gambling doesn't mean it's risky or not properly risk-assessed.
It's obvious that you've never even shot a gun before. Pistols aren't particularly accurate in a shooting range even if you take lots of time to aim. With a moving target, adrenaline, and all the other factors in an actual situation, you're going to be lucky if all your shots even make contact with the target.

Where do you aim if you want to "shoot to incapacitate"?

No such place exists on the body. Even using small, low-powered rounds like a .22 rimfire short carry extreme risk of death no matter where you aim.

The answer is more simple. Don't pull out that gun unless what the person is doing warrants death. I don't know that attempting to apprehend a DUI is worth killing someone over. If you're responding to a domestic violence situation where someone's running around with a knife though, it's likely that a gun isn't a terrible consideration.

I think the real issue is getting in the competitive zone. "I'm not going to let this pero beat me" instead of considering if the cure is worse than the disease.
I really liked Orkut. Damn google.
While we're being pedantic, it's a graph, not a tree.
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No. There is zero benefit to the shopper and extreme fraud risk.

Also, plaid apparently is in the process of being acquired by Visa, so an article advocating against credit cards is an interesting career choice.
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European forces do not police cities where 18 people get killed in a day(Chicago just set a new record).

Normal summer weekend you have at least couple dozen people shot(not by cops, so you never hear about them)
The phrase is "we've always been at war with Eastasia", and it is known because it resumes the core theme of the book. 1984 was written in 1948. There's a reason why it is in the school curricula, but sadly to be forced to read a book obviously creates a bad predisposition.
Good books that philosophically shed light on human nature are timeless.
Even as an ambitious and educated outsider, the stuff you're looking at is almost certainly not representative of most research in those respective fields. When weighted by pages, most research is boring and truly only of interest to the few dozen of specialized researchers in that subfield.
Or just use a different browser/Firefox-profile which still has uBlock Origin installed but with only the default filter lists...
Another thing OP does not mention is normalization: The German character ä can be represented as a single character in Unicode, but it can also be represented as the letter a followed by a combining diacritical mark. Both will be displayed the same way.

I guess most Germans are not aware of these differences and would expect that Ctrl+F treats them the same.
Within a year or two, Apple ARM parts will trounce x86-64 performance-wise.
Howdy, seen you posting before. I would be warey of any crowd sourced data. So now we have average american Joe running a weather station that feeds directly into our state of the art GFS model? What if joe forgets to maintain his station? How do you assert quality control?

I just am skeptical about this all. cant trust users phones to provide input for mission critical weather forecast models (GFS). Peoples lives depend on this information!
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there is the 10,000 sentences method for aquiring a foreign language.
Having lived in the U.S. for a couple decades, I can confirm that a fundametal aspect of American history, culture, and education is about standing up for civil and individual rights. This has been true since the founding of the country, that numerous movements and protests were necessary for social progress. Americans are taught this from an early age, that we must fight for our rights.

It's also true that authoritarianism runs deep in American culture. Its military and police force have been complicit in shameful crimes against humanity around the world and within the country.

The challenge is that this situation (and the corruption that enables it) has been systematicaly organized and developed over (at least) the past century, and is part of the reason for its wealth and privilege. Clearly, the overclass is not willing to give up its power, and will resort to the same old strategy of oppression and manipulation.

As sad as it is that protests against police brutality are met with even more brutality, it is a patriotic duty of Americans to right the wrongs, to express anger with the systemic issue of racism and violence against peaceful citizens, and to demand change.

As an American who grew up with the ideal of "America the beautiful", my hope is that the protests don't stop there. The illness runs all the way to the top, and the whole world is waiting for the U.S. to grow up and actually behave according to the principles that it claims.
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Coming from a household where people took this step count goal religiously, it genuinely has no impact on your health. Obviously more steps is better but 10k is just an arbitrary number thats easy to market.
We agree. I was pointing out how it is different than if you saw it at the office. The brotherhood term is very relevant. Not sure why I was downvoted.
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This is an outrageous comment. It makes no sense, you seem to think nothing should improve.. If you see a single food system causing disease over and over, like what happened with mad cow disease, we should stop it.

If you see a single restaurant chain use horrible ingredients for humans, trans fats, far too many preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, over and over, you should never eat there again. I've personally cut out mcdonalds, and the fast food garbage restaurants. It doesn't mean every restaurant is bad, it means some restaurant models are bad. I still eat shawarma, I still eat indian and thai, and my family still owns an italian restaurant where we also don't try to poison our customers with horrible ingredients.

If you're comparing police to restaurants, then let me ask you, then on a scale of Taco Bell to El Buli, where does the current american system police system lie on the scale? I'd argue it's more like at the dumpster outside of your local mcdonalds.
The Unix flavor wars were in progress, so as a response they had another interesting innovation, which was a complete set of executables for each different flavor, including I think Domain, BSD, and SysV variants.

Each flavor had some bin directories with a text oriented symlink like /usr/$OS_FLAVOR/bin (I forget the path) but the interesting thing is that symbolic links were always resolved per process, every access, using the environment.

Oh and they also were waging the windowing wars at the time, so they tried to support all of X10 and maybe X11, as well as that Pad arrangement.
I work a lot with MFA products, and despite newer technologies such as FIDO/FIDO2 simplifying MFA for users, I still see there's a place for the classic smartcard-based authentication. It has far greater Enterprise support, works easily in non-Internet connected networks (which there are a _lot_ of), and the certificate use cases extend beyond just authenticating.

And, now that COVID-19 has pushed a lot of businesses to remote work, there's a greater need for MFA-enablement for these remote access solutions, and quickly.

Our blog has an announcement post too, which may help you understand how our product works too: https://blog.congruentlabs.co/introducing-signata-enterprise...

Feel free to ask me any questions here or on our blog post.
> The ones they checked with now have a clause that says they will not be responsible for any payout should the insured, at the time of buying, already knows or reasonably deduces that the flight can be delayed anytime.

I think if burden is on insurer, then insurance can get away with any payout. They can always claim you knew weather is bad. So after all, insirance career is a big winner here.
You're looking at a giant list of videos that people think are unjustified. You can go through and weed out videos that you think don't belong there. You can even submit pull requests to more organized compilations to remove unsubstantiated claims.

Your use of "unjustified" is entirely subjective. I don't know what your specific threshold is for justified violence against peaceful protestors, and it's a waste of time to try and guess what that threshold is. It's a waste of time for us to filter the data, only for you to then point out two videos you disagree with and ask everyone to repeat the same work over and over again.

All of the raw data is available to you in a list format. If you think there are errors, then fork the repo, file a pull request, or create an issue. Make your own list that demonstrates your point.

https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/issues
good advice. Although running WRF locally, what are you a madman?

I would suggest looking into simple predictions. One of the first ones you learn in school is just basically just repeat what happened today. So if today was sunny, tomorrow sunny. Stupid, simple but decently effective. Except during transition periods between air-masses (when weather is changing).
> What did she know that she could use to predict that a flight would probably be delayed?

At least in the USA, information on previous flights (on time / delayed / canceled) is public. Routes are pretty fixed. Combined with weather forecasts, that is probably enough information to turn a profit.

I guess from the article she had "insider information", but I'm not sure why that would be necessary to use this scheme?
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This is overbroad.

Many people are acclimated to low levels of dehydration and do not feel thirsty when they should.

Setting an imprecise, but safe, target number is helpful.
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> no additional cost

The additional cost was an enormous step up in seek time and read time, which for some games manifested as load times everywhere, and for others meant a herculean effort in managing asset streaming, per the fascinating Andy Gavin talk that Ars published a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
The causation might also be the other way round. People who a really sick (and with a high chance of dying) might not walk around as much as healthy people.
Except that there are rules and regulations and laws about food safety, and restaurants regularly do get shut down by the health inspector if they fail to pass muster, and customers have plentiful ways to share their bad experiences and other customers will take them seriously and the restaurant will lose business as a result of their shoddy practices. In other words, there is no comparision: this system actually works decently well, all things considered. Regular folks can have high trust that, either they are eating at a clean establishment, or if it's not clean, then it will be dealt with.

Compare that to the opaqueness of police misconduct/brutality internal investigations, or how frequently even the bad actors that are known to have done wrong, are still granted their pensions. Where is the equivalent payout for a restaurant owner who doesn't follow health rules? Where do you see other restaurant owners banding together to defend a restaurateur who's had their misconduct exposed? Where do you see something equivalent to "qualified immunity" for the food industry?

In other words, this is a great example of a reasonably well-functioning market. If regulating the police behaved much more like regulating the food industry, that would actually be fantastic. In many ways, that is exactly the goal of the protests, to bring a similar level of transparency and accountability and high standards to policing, as most people already expect and has long been standard for the food industry (in developed countries).
The thing is, the majority of Macs sold are laptops. It doesn’t make sense for them as a business to build a strategy around what’s best for desktop machines.
Just because it's not traded doesn't mean it is not a financial instrument. You are paying into a pool of money that promises to pay you a certain sum of money above your contribution if something happens. That is defined by a monetary contract. It's a financial instrument, by definition.

Just because the insurance companies have higher capital requirements and treat customers differently doesn't mean it's not a financial instrument.
I bet 10 whole beers that you will get downvoted by the hn closet racist mob. Apparently their fuhrer PG thinks statues for slave owners are a good thing - just follow his twitter and see how much he is leaning towards the danger zone. Calls himself a contrarian, and thinks racist ideas are freedom of speech and the world had too much liberalism. Puke.
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> You could watch 100 videos of disgusting malpractices in restaurant kitchens and begin to think you should never eat in a restaurant again

What about just thinking that restaurants need serious reform and accountability?
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Check out Cliqz Autoconsent: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/autoconsent

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This library is primarily used by the cliqz browser in order to automate user-consent, and make a cleaner browsing experience. There is also a standalone addon that can be installed in Firefox.
Finding copies of long out of print books.
Well, either you gain immortality or the effect plateaus off.

But seriously, to my understanding, if you walk just because you want to stay healthy, statistically 10k is a good baseline.
I hate when corporations are like "how can we pretend to care without doing anything of substance".

I know that some asshole with a fountain pen in a board room came up with this idea.
Expected the answer communicated through song.
I got my gmail back when you needed an invitation to sign up. At that time, everyone was excited about the huge amount of free storage space they gave you.

This is so completely unlike gmail. I'd bet that it is intentionally expensive: no digital hoarders, nobody on the fence about it. You have to love the way it works to be willing to pay that much.
Where in the GPT models is the conscious (or even subconscious) thinking, comprehension, understanding, relating to experience, imagination etc, etc, you know: actual intelligence as a human would feel and use it, general or otherwise?

Tic Tac Toe, Chess, Image Classifying, Translation, Go, Sentence Construction, etc.; We are creating phenomenally impressive calculating worm-equivalents, but nothing human-level, or even remotely so.
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I understand that Han unification in Unicode has resulted in the same character encoding distinct glyphs, depending on the language in use.

So there would be a Japanese Kanji that looks similar to, but distinct from, a Chinese character. And both would be encoded as the same character in Unicode. And that character would look one way when included in a Japanese document and another way when included in a Chinese document.

If the document contains both Japanese and Chinese, and the character appears in both parts, would a Japanese user expect to find both occurrences when entering one of them?
Having an overwhelmingly market share in a declining low profit margin business is the definition of a Pyrrhic victory.

No one cares about PCs as a business anymore.
It seems clear that were limited by access to data and computer power. That has largely changed. However, the hard part has always been around deciding what question to ask and how to score the result. This requires domain knowledge and a scientific process (conjecture, measure, analyze, repeat). There is no magic bullet just better tools. Someone still has to define the problem and solution. Just look at IBM Watson and what a failure that is. They did okay on Jeopardy because they spent years optimizing for just that. Jeopardy could have changed the way they wrote clues by including irony and other language constructs and the humans would have done fine and Watson would have bombed.
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Could be that the relevant information is a good indicator it will be delayed without actually saying it will be delayed. Arguably still a prediction - just one with much better odds than an outside observer.
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For non Europeans, this is referring to the time restricted fasting movement, where you don't eat after e.g. 6pm (aka 18 hours).

There are a lot of fads in weight loss, probably because there is so much variety amongst us. Some people can simply choose to eat less while at the opposite extreme some must have gastric restrictions surgically installed in order to lose weight. We must each discover what works for us.

I wonder if it would make a good business for a more holistically thinking company to develop an approach which helps test people for what would work best for them. I wonder how that testing would occur, or if it can be done at all.
I suppose that makes more sense than main, but it still begs the question: given that there is no actual slave reference to remove, and discounting the questionable necessity of removing such a reference were one to exist, what's the problem here?
That is not what I said
We need a device like a mask or helmet which can encrypt our voice before put it to the internet. Just like a VR glasses.