jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One possible reason is that highlighting funny or bad examples of taxpayer-funded research is valuable political fodder [1]. Plus, at least one wing of American politics is extremely against publicly funded stuff in general. Although I was happy to just discover that there's an apparently bipartisan "Golden Goose" award given annually to government-funded research that sounds silly but has proven to have meaningful applications [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award

[2] https://www.goldengooseaward.org/history
Where did I say it ended war or hunger? You’re confusing economic impact with impact for an individual.
wait a second, I was told all I had to do was learn to meditate, read the stoics and take cold showers.
> Could a COVID-19 vaccine (or any vaccine for that matter) have contagious immunity? In other words, is it possible (at present or in future vaccines) for the safe variation of the virus (or whatever the delivery agent) to be passed from person to person?

If a vaccine used a virus that was both live and contagious but somehow safe, its not impossible; of course, there’d also be a risk of it mutating to become unsafe.

The actual vaccines for protection against COVID-19 that I know of don’t use a delivery mechanism where that is possible; that’s certainly not something, e.g., a mRNA vaccine could do.
Not very practical but pretty damn cool. Thanks for the share!
The problem is other people are also trying to change the world: lobbying for more military spending, killing environmental legislation and Green New Deals, building media empires to undermine democracies, etc.

The answer is more democracy and less rich people calling all the shots.
Maybe the different in processes means that their diploma, medical license, and other certifications means they've been effectively whiteboarded already and do not require re-testing along those same lines.

Would be interesting to consider if it's possible to administer a whiteboarding exam on programmers once, and then consider them solid on the concepts tested if they pass. And if not, then why? Does that mean whiteboarding as it is practiced now is insufficient? Because it certainly seems like for engineers who switch jobs every 2-5 years, they have to be whiteboarded again even if they've had prior experience, even at larger corporations known for rigorous interview practices.

It's as if this industry lacks confidence in its own employment standards, unlike the medical, legal, and other accredited fields.
A striking proof why communism did not work...

Meanwhile in a Land Before Time Mr.Spock bagged the Bilbo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9KKyZ5d3h8
> but if you are not drawing from a fixed pot (eg. your personal savings)

Profits from another business, in and itself, are technically also from personal savings.

But yeah, maybe our story doesn't subscribe to the purest form of bootstrapping.
> Does it come with package management yet?

No. There is the Windows Store (all or most Metro apps, GUI) and things like NuGet for Visual Studio, but that's not what you're looking for. There are third-party solutions.

[EDIT: See sibling comments; W10 adds one.]

> Can I easily avoid DLL hell these days?

DLL Hell is no longer a concern. It's not a matter of avoiding it, it won't happen except perhaps in very unusual edge cases I'm not familiar with.

> Can I add my own local repository and use it to maintain a fleet of workstations, making sure they always have the same configuration no matter what?

You can do this. This is one reason Windows is so big in enterprise.

> Is it easily possible to connect to a Windows machine and administer it from a command line/scripting environment?

Yes.

> Can I disable the GUI and use Windows without tying up resources for unneeded functionality - i.e. no graphics card required?

In Server 2012 onwards, the GUI is optional.

> If its not onboard, can I validate that 3rd-party with signed keys? Is there an onboard key agent that will make this possible?

I am not 100% on what you want, but yes, Windows executables are commonly signed and that is integrated with the OS.

> Is there an easy way to get a compiler onboard without requiring registration and so on, or does it ship with development tools already set up and configured?

Windows does not ship with a compiler or other developer tools installed. You can install Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition, which has all the features of Professional Edition, for free and without registration (afaik - I'm doing it right now, so if I'm wrong, I'll edit). You can of course install all the free-software development tools you want. Most tools support Windows reasonably well.

> Are these tools usable without requiring GUI involvement - i.e. remotely?

Yes, although most people don't do so. I've only fiddled around. I've heard that manually fiddling with msbuild is actually more pleasant than using the GUI.
I think it would be great for anyone who is visually impaired to have such functionality enabled by default. I imagine it's configurable, usually everything in Windows is, even if you have to hack through the system registry to configure it.
Spartan will reduce Windows to a set of signed device drivers.

(Context: http://www.wired.com/2012/04/ff_andreessen/2/ )
Here is the product website with three promo videos on it:

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us
Well, we have good wired connections here in Gaza from Paltel and other companies but our phones only have 2G because of the political situation. The main problem can be with the electricity going off for long hours but we have alternative solutions: generators, batteries, etc.
Dark pools & internalized trades are sort of worrying too.
> The confusion here probably comes from the past tense phrasing.

Possibly pedantic, but, that's the simple conditional (which, in this particular context without an explicit condition, has the implicit condition of "in similar circumstances"), not the past tense.
And yet, by staying where you are, your revealed preference is that you value you living there higher than the claimed 'better lifestyle' and foregone grants, subsidies etc...

(not a personal attack, just an observation - usually lots of 'grass is greener' talk in this sort of threads, but still urban centers grow at the expense of so-called 'low CoL areas')
Pretty sure the title is make THIS website, not make A website.
One of the authors of Lasagne here! Lasagne is being built by a team of deep learning and music information retrieval researchers. Keras seems to share a lot of design goals with our project, but there are also some significant differences.

We both want to build something that's minimalistic, with a simple API, and that allows for fast prototyping of new models. Keras seems to be built 'on top of' Theano in the sense that it hides all the Theano code behind an API (which looks almost exactly like the Torch7 API).

Lasagne is built to work 'with' Theano instead. It does not try to hide the symbolic computation graph, because we believe that is where Theano's power comes from. The library provides a bunch of primitives (such as Layer classes) that make building and training neural networks a lot easier. We are also specifically aiming at extensibility: the code is readable and it's really easy to implement your own Layer classes.

Another difference seems to be the way we interpret the concept of a 'layer': a Layer in Lasagne adheres as closely as possible to its definition in literature. Keras (and Torch7) treat each 'operation' as a separate stage instead, so a typical fully connected layer has to be constucted as a cascade of a dot product and an elementwise nonlinearity.

Layers are also first-class citizens in Lasagne, and a model is usually referred to simply by its output layer or layers. There is no separate "Model" class because we want to keep the interface as small as possible and so far we've done fine without it. In Keras (and Torch7) the layers cannot function by themselves and need to be added to a model instance first.

For now, all Lasagne really does in the end is make it easier to construct Theano expressions - we don't have any tools yet for iterating through datasets for example, but we do have plans in this direction. We plan to rely heavily on Python generators for this. The scikit-learn like "model.fit(X, y)" paradigm, which Keras also seems to use, only really works for small datasets which fit in memory. For larger datasets, we believe generators are the way to go. Incidentally, Nolearn ( https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn ) provides a wrapper for Lasagne models with a scikit-learn like interface. We may also add this to the main library at some point.

Lasagne is not released yet - the interface is not 100% stable yet, and documentation and tests are a work in progress (although both are progressing nicely). But a lot of people have started using it already, we've built up a nice userbase and a lot of people have started contributing code as well! We're currently aiming to put out the first release by the end of April.

A non-exhaustive list of our design goals for the library is in the README on our GitHub page: https://github.com/benanne/Lasagne
In the old 3-stage ARM pipeline, the instruction reads pc (as with all registers) during the execute stage, which is 2 cycles after fetch. ARM froze this definition for compatibility, so it's +8 for ARM and +4 for thumb despite not using a 3-stage pipeline anymore.
$200/month for 5 days/week daycare for one child... Here in South Africa.

I'd chalk it up to "cost of living" differences, but I'd say there is a whole lot more to it. Certifications, licenses, insurance, minimum wages. All these things affect the price, so we can't entirely compare the prices as apples to apples.
Decimal magnitude?
I agree with you but this is not logical:

> I want to run around with my kids, go to the gym (I enjoy my time there), jog and play soccer (twice a week). I like being active and my life would be much poorer if I had to give it up just to stay at a "healthy" weight.

Running around with your kids and playing soccer doesn't increase your weight, it decreases your weight (unless you have zero muscles and zero fat). That woman was probably not trying to decrease her weight, she was trying to decrease the amount of calories she had to consume.

And do you think that 110lbs at 5'6'' is extraordinarily low? Seems pretty normal to me.
The entire stack? WTF?

Responded to with worry about NFT's being able to express themselves.

LOL.
>>It isn't. Government has no need of it. Taxes are essentially shredded and deleted.

That is not what happens to tax revenue. I recommend you look at a government budget, and see the source of much of the money spent.

>>If you tax employment directly, private firms offer fewer jobs because there would be insufficient money in circulation to employ everybody (wages are insufficient to purchase output due to the tax take). The public sector then hires those who can no longer get jobs in the private sector.

Private firms don't offer fewer jobs when you tax employment. They offer less for the jobs they offer when you tax employment.

Government can hire people because it can offer wages competitive with those provided by the private sector, and it can offer those wages because of the funds it acquires through taxation.

Governments have no need to tax employment to hire workers. This is trivially shown by jurisdictions with no taxes on employment and many government workers.

>>Government is largely service based rather than goods based. What it needs is people.

Abstractly, people need land, so government can trade access to land for services rendered for the public, i.e. for employment with the government.
Have you tried Typed Racket https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/quick.html ? You can add static type, and the compiler will complain if there is a mismatch. (The types are also used by the compiler to make optimizations of the code, so compilation is slower than (untyped) Racket, but the final code may be faster.)
Aldous Huxley wrote about this in Antic Hay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic_Hay
Axum is an excellent web framework. I'm writing a tutorial ebook here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/demo-rust-axum/blob/m...
My premesis for any time I try to predict Elon Musk's motivations are: 1 his primary goal is to advance humanity, and 2 he is partially a Randian Objectionist.

I also make the presumptuous guess that his actions are often aimed at making money to fund his endeavors to venture into space etc.

He doesn't have the ability to fund his plan using the tax dollars (productive wealth) of a whole county's people, so to fund his goals, he skirts the laws to gain capital via various speculative bets.

I theorize that his absurd behavior is a ruse. He knows what he is doing. He plays the role of idiot rich kid to get people to underestimate him.

Based on these premesis, I theorize that his reason for buying Twitter is to either as a vehicle to fund his humanity aspirations. Whether it's a long term investment, or some cash grab, I don't know. I'm not knowledgeable enough on the financial probabilities of Twitter to make that call.

Working from the assumption that is interest in Twitter is part of his plan to advance humanity, I would say he wants it for it's user population. He wants to stear them from the toxic community which they sometimes are into something more productive. Think of the changes we've seen at stackoverflow in which they have tried to steer communication into a more friendly place for new members. I could imagine changes to the Twitter ui that would encourage users to reflect upon the words they are about to post.
Allow edits to the post, or allow the author to append short updates to it, or something else, but I think the rate limit is an interesting thing and worth sticking with at this stage. It's a principle that once you break would be hard to reestablish. The main risk is that slow posting probably means slow growth, and that is a reason to add some kind of exception -- but try to make it limited it, imo.

Maybe new users can make secondary posts, and as they post more and connect with people, you guide them somehow towards 1/week. Sort of reversing the traditional pattern that new users might need to be rate limited when they first sign up, instead what you want is for established users to post slowly.
My instinct would be that since it's a significant case, folks are interested independent of Meredith
I honestly don't know. It could be a consequence of the way the test is set up, or how the total score is calculated, or maybe the code was optimized better than other frameworks were.

You read see the source of the tests here: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...

The SQL code seems quite optimized (manually compiling database packets instead of using a library). Most code seems quite static and very small, so it's probably very quick. I don't think you can actually use the framework like that in practice, though.
I don’t think that’s true. There are plenty of stop signs in Sydney. Way more than give way.
The thing about that is it's hard to not have anecdotal evidence about a phenomenon when the item of study is an illegal drug. That doesn't mean there is no effect though and this one seems very logical. Also not exactly the same but you don't need to try it with schedule one psychedelics this can be noticed with things like alcohol
I was looking at a webpack-based project I'm working on the other day; one of the packages was literally just a single line exporting a regex literal.
Companies shouldn't be held to lower standards the larger they are, which would be the natural consequence of your line of reasoning (the larger the organization, the less likely it is to understand its own actions.)
Thanks for your questions!

We feel strongly that quantitative testing is possible, and is something we're currently exploring.

As far as measures to prevent the patient from scanning too soon––the testing flow within the app includes a timer, during which the test would be processing. Only after the timer is finished does the camera open, enabling the user to scan.

In terms of addressing/identifying red flags like recurrent UTIs, advanced infections, etc.: after the user receives their test result from Scanwell, they have the option to receive treatment via telehealth from our partner (Lemonaid Health). Lemonaid collects additional patient info including symptoms, past infections, etc. In some cases (i.e. pregnancy, postmenopause, signs of an advanced infection) treatment via telehealth won't be possible, and the patient will be recommended to seek in-person treatment.
The underlying problem is the perceived benefits vs 
 just a small adjustment of facts 
. Been going on since humans started businesses.

This is why whistleblowers deserve protection above and beyond normal lawsuit situations, because there's almost always a big incumbent on the other end of the deal who still wants the story squashed.

More calls for transparency, more calls for public offices to be held accountable, will always be needed to push back against the tide of influence from all the money floating around.

Good for Stallone for quitting and reporting, and I hope this gets way broader coverage along with every other story like this.
Thats a good point, you're right Google does have at least some version of autonomous
I had some issues with long strings, like 5000 or greater. What length string were you using?
Any input from beginners who have dipped their toes into this? Is the content explained fairly intuitively or in a way that is simple to understand?

I'm also curious - for those in the know - is the pursuit of knowledge regarding reverse engineering something that has proven valuable in a job or is it primarily an academic pursuit? If it has proven valuable, how so?
Use, love, and support[1] borg.

[1] https://liberapay.com/borgbackup/donate
Why wasn't the "auxiliary" memory the actual solution? Most of the video was about not having enough memory to add guards/monster for combat but guards were added anyway after finding extra memory and yet that fact was largely glossed over.
> without the most populous nations (for instance, the USA) at the top of a list like this politicians can downplay the seriousness of the threat

That doesn't make any sense. First, it's not desirable in any way for the US to be near the top of that list. That's a per capita list (for obvious reasons it's better for small nations to dominate that list) and the US has a spread out and very low population density compared to most nations in eg Europe. Having a high population nation doesn't inherently correlate to being near the top of the per capita infection list.

Population density is not your friend when it comes to a highly infectious virus spreading in the population.

Countries in Europe vs the US on population density:

The Netherlands 12x, Belgium 11x, UK 9x, Germany 7x, Switzerland 6x, Italy 6x, France 4x, Poland 4x, Spain 3x.

The US also has no primate cities, whereas Europe has ~25 of them (hyper population concentration). Most nations in Europe have a primate city that dominates the nation in terms of population, acting as a massive potential infection supercenter.

It's entirely unsurprising that smaller European nations with high population densities vs the US would have higher infection rates per capita.
>even apple

The agreement only lasted a few years. If Apple were to use a new material for production that requires to be sold in 40M Unit per year ( iPhone Pro ) they would have tested it in small patch for production in Apple Watch. ( Stainless Steel, Ceramics, Titanium )
Why do people go here and just post lies like this?

This absolutely IS what is happening, here is a press conference from the Us Army Corps of Engineers from two days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfCKuy5HH8&feature=emb_titl...

Look, I don't like Trump, I didn't vote for him, but it takes a pretty ridiculous warping of reality to say that he isn't taking this extremely seriously, isn't deferring to experts on this, and honestly isn't doing a pretty good job.

What more do people want? I wish we had a time machine and could go back to November, I'm sure everybody does. But we don't. What matters is what we're doing RIGHT NOW, and right now the things that I see happening all seem like good things.
No, writing doesn't improve my mental state. It improves my actual life and that improves my mental state.

I mostly like writing anyway, so you aren't criticizing me anyway. That doesn't mean I can't criticize your criticism.

Just because you don't understand why people do what they do doesn't mean their reasons are neurotic or invalid and they should go do something else.
He only knew them for three months and it was a long time ago. I can't remember the names of some people I knew for much longer than that, 30 years ago, nevermind in the 60's!

Hell, I can't even remember names of some people I worked with and saw every day for about a year and a half, 6 years ago.
> But the snapshot-model also doesn't really make a lot of sense for merges. It's a snapshot of what then?

It's a snapshot of the final result.

That's the beauty of the "commit as snapshot" model: each commit always contains the final result of the commit. It doesn't matter if the commit is a normal commit with a single parent, a merge commit with multiple parents, or even an initial commit with zero parents. It doesn't matter if the parent commits are unavailable (shallow repositories). It doesn't matter if the parent commits have been changed (grafts).
I am aware of the lower limit. The existence of which means we should also have an upper limit.
Data on every user was not leaked. IIRC it was only (heh) some ~500M records.

I've been on FB since 2004, and my data was not in the breach. Stuff like this reminds me that I still need to scrub my profile. I really just want to keep the account open so I can receive event invitations.
Misleading. Neuralink has not shown something impressive , however it's not comparable with consumer supposedly-EEG devices, but with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainGate .

Those things are still in the basic research stage, and it's been really hard to make them work properly. Neuralink is not even leading in research here, but i don't think they expect to make consumer grade anytime soon either. OTOH, all sorts of multiunnit recordings and optogenetics stimulation is possible today - if you're a mouse.

I wonder why consumer-grade doesnt pursue the more feasible goal of reading from a motor nerve. I wish i could train myself typing by thinking of finger movements.
The difference is whether or not it was intentional. If someone can bring everything down accidentally, the system is broken.

Ditto if they can bring it down intentionally and cover their tracks so no one finds out who did it.
Cool, but I think price is a little high.
Nope - this started Jan 2011

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20027546-17.html
Wouldn't the examination of the hydrophobic qualities of their bodies reveal more than their raft configurations?

Is the hydrophobia of their bodies a function of their mass, thus the preclusion for the water tension to break?
Or you could shoot yourself in the head and save the web from more low quality content spam.
Fresh hardware is a test. It should be a drop in the bucket and a no-brainer but its very often not. When it goes bad, its a huge red flag. If you get even the slightest bit of "well we can't really approve something like that without this or that managers sign-off and then the 30 day procurement process from an approved vendor..." head for the door.

I've seen companies burn 100 hours of $150/hour employee labor in order to save $50 on a mouse. You don't want to work there.
Thanks, but I hope no one catches on to all these shill accounts of mine ;)
Linux tops in many fronts when it comes to security, costs and flexibility, etc. Personally I use Ubuntu.