skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, according to this thread, WebDAV is alive and thriving.

CalDAV and CardDAV are certainly alive, but I think they're in a pretty horrible place.

I run a Radicale server, which seems very nice, but configuring clients is a nightmare. Every client seems to require different settings, and work to differing degrees.

The native Contacts/Calendar apps on OS X were the worst. They connect, work for a few hours or days, and then permanently break. I have to delete and re-add the accounts over and over again until eventually the same settings suddenly work, and they work for some hours or days, and then break again.

Thunderbird consistently works, as does Android's DAVdroid, but other clients I've tried have been almost-hit-or-completely-miss.

emacs –– EMACS –– has terrible support. This might not sounds like much, what with it being a text editor and all, but this is exactly the sort of place where it usually has 15 different implementations, 2 or 3 of which are really nice. Instead, it's riddled with XML parsing errors, the biggest CalDAV client deletes all of your TODO entries, and there doesn't seem to be a single CardDAV library. I take this as a sign that those protocols are not being widely embraced.

That said, when they work they are truly fantastic. I don't particularly care about the underlying protocol, but I pray that CalDAV and CardDAV support gets more consistent and more popular.
Off Topic, but I really love OpenAI's blog design and how they present content in each blog post. It's very much visually appealing.
Sorry to say this but that sounds like radio? Though also there are audio books nowadays.
Yeah, I definitely limit my Amazon shopping to inexpensive goods. TVs, expensive electronics, computer components, etc are all purchased elsewhere.
I'm still used to typing ifconfig just out of muscle memory, but ip seems to very loosely match

"ip a" will be matched the same as "ip addr" or "ip address"

Learning that made me much more accepting of the new command
The summary mentions that fasting is used to deplete glycogen stored in the liver.

Doesn't moderate aerobic endurance exercise do the same thing?

If you regularly go on long bike rides, will you get the same benefit?
> I would be very wary of a company who claims this legislation is onerous.

... and elsewhere ...

> On the other hand it also was not very hard for us. We are not a creepy company.

> This is not to say that preparing for GDPR didn’t take us 100s of hours. It did.

A company who it didn't affect much, spent 100s of our hours? I think it would reasonable to call that onerous.

The different & fair question would be if time was justified.
Can someone shed light on what are the requirements for someone to start offering breast cancer testing services? Is there any certification required for the same in India?
Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein Charged with Rape and More
The slices thing seems to follow PEP8.
I don't disagree. Most times, I would prefer the decisions of how people get the things they need are made by a network of people with incentives to provide and profit rather than central planning. However, if the situation is dire and the incentives create a deadlock, I think thought-out, extraordinary measures to help people are warranted.
My first suspicious would be a new set of dyes. The first synthetic dye (mauveline, which is even a bit violet!) was discovered in 1856, and sparked a revolution in colors.

I found this paper, which analyses a Monet sea painting (https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/8356/) and says

> Nine different pigments were found on the painting. Many of the identified colors were modern pigments that became available only late in the 19th century as a result of scientific advances in pigment chemistry. Although similar colors were available in a natural mineral form, they lacked the vivid color of their manufactured counterparts. The use of these new synthetic metallic oxide colors by Monet accounts for the brilliance of his paintings. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-micro...)

The nine pigments are lead white, vermilion, cadmium yellow, chrome yellow, lead chromate, viridian, emerald green [copper acetoarsenite], cobalt blue, and French ultramarine.

I guess of these, lead white, vermilion, and french ultramarine have been used historically, but the other six were first synthesized in the 19th century. One could imagine that having access to cheap bright colors influenced art...
Let's call this product "iPhone mini". With a good name for it, I'm sure we can convince Apple to do it.
> the only requirement being that these statements are non-contradictory.

> That makes mathematics just a subdivision in philosophy, in which statements about statements must be (axiomatically) derived exclusively from a completely explicit starting point.

The main problem with philosophy is exactly the reason which makes above wrong. A global definition of 'contradiction' is not possible, Nor is even something that resembles a consensus to a sufficiently strong degree to make it meaningful.

This is precisely the reason why you can have radically opposing schools of thought that are simultaneously existing. The trivial example being mathematical empiricism or coherentism, both of which directly oppose the axiomatic approach you've provided, from different angles.

A more absurd example is to say it's never the case that all philosophers would agree "P and not P" is not true (including the sentence itself), let alone it being false (i.e. negation as failure), because the value of "P and not P" is dependent upon your theory of truth and no global theory of truth exist without G.E. Moorean appeals to common-sense.
Talking about "the good ol' days", with mass ammount of resourses we have today, it seems that "we" don't try to make things as efficient as possible, since we dont have to.
https://joinpeertube.org/en/

https://d.tube

https://www.bitchute.com

https://github.com/Tribler/tribler

https://view.ly

https://lbry.io

https://lino.network

https://flixxo.com
Changing by not changing.
> As soon as you go down to an empirical level, you find that no mysticism is necessary

There are plenty of things that cannot be observed. There are plenty of things that should not be observed. There are plenty of things that can be observed but cannot be understood well enough to achieve the goals we want.

I don't find it controversial to claim there are limits to empiricism. The fact that we expect juries and judges to rule on incomplete information is a concession to that reality.

And because there are limits on empiricism, there are limits on science.
Have you run into issues where the "let's reformat the entire codebase" commit makes `git blame` unusable?
Steezle - local fashion marketplace app Kijiji/Tinder
This is a very good read. The only issue I really take with it the notion of the estimates constantly being correct, while later adding all of the other organizational factors that can create a change of course.

IMO that means that the estimates he's talking about being accurate are fairly short term.

Totally agree with him on a lot, especially only the developer working the task can truly estimate it. When you're talking about time measures, that's the only hope of them being accurate.

When I talked about story points reflecting complexity and not time, it was specifically because time is variable by person. If the team isn't creating a time estimate on a task, that's much less of an issue.
so just another deep learning wrapper, or does it do anything significant not already done by 10 other more established libs?
I'm not certain but much of that sounds like the kind of information GDPR doesn't let you use like that.
The strained analogy with fairies is obscuring your point. You seem to be using "meaningless" in a very unusual sense.

Whether or not non-empirical statements can be constructive or valuable is a separate question. Mathematics is non-empirical and strikes me as pretty constructive and valuable. But those terms are, ironically, so vague as to be almost meaningless in any case.
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I wonder if this in any way related to (causes, or shares a cause with) Mandelbrot's discovery that electrical noise on a signal line follows a Cantor set pattern? Or perhaps the motion of the particle is due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle? (If the exact position and velocity of a particle is not knowable in detail, then its path would have to have a fractal dimension overall.)
> As a result, Slashdot was renowned and reviled for its sometimes predictable and frequently appropriate inside jokes

One nice thing was Slashdot votes were categorized, and in your preferences you could add a negative modifier to "funny" comments and have all the repetitive meme stuff sorted to the bottom.
Sure. What I mean is that if they expect to correct this with some kind of "oh shit" alarm for the driver, 1.3 seconds isn't enough time to do anything helpful.

The whole thing is nuts. Imagine a human driver seeing the same thing the computer did, and responding the same way: they'd be in handcuffs.
Cheap water seems to give the idea it will always be cheap & plentiful. And rules preventing market pricing will perpetuate that notion right up until the day your faucet dries up.

Increasing tap fees are the closest thing to a market driver- although they have not stopped development, they have been rising. I think they are around $30k in my area.
Feeling creeped out doesn't mean someone is being dodgy.
> instead of just going to a shop, I now need to go to a bank, and then to a shop - I mean that's pretty obviously and undeniably less convenient for a start

On my way to work, before I get to the subway station, I pass no less than three banks with ATMs where I can withdraw money. You can even withdraw money in supermarkets without fees if you spend a certain amount of money.

> I have to carry a lot of little bits of valuable paper around with me - enough for an entire month of expenses in your opinion!

Possibly. I never said you have to carry around all of it at any given time. But I'd think that it's pretty much expected that you always have cash in your wallet in Germany.

> when I pay I have to wait for them to count the money, gather up the change, return the change, which I then have to count, compared to just tapping my card and going

That takes...a few seconds? How is that an issue?

> I get no protections such as insurance for my purchases

Protection from what exactly? Insurance for my groceries?

> I can't how understand how anyone can argue cash is more convenient!

In Germany it is. That's a simple fact.

> And how can you possibly argue cash is faster? Paying by card takes 0.5 seconds - I don't have to even look at what I'm doing I just wave my card and go.

Yes, contactless payment is also possible in Germany, depending on the stores and whether you have the right card. But the way it's implemented here doesn't make it that much faster in the end.

> Your articles talks about arcane things like inserting your card, paper printouts, signing with a pen - you haven't needed to do that with cards for a decade or more.

Oh, I guarantee you, it's not arcane at all in Germany, it's used every day.
>Does Amazon understand how to do cold warehouse storage and shipping of perishable goods?

Amazon prime now has been going on for years. I've had them deliver refrigerated eggs to me before. It worked great. But to your point they don't yet offer fresh produce. Hopefully soon.
To be fair, the headline is not that they reevolved the ability, but that they had to relearn flight. I was expecting it to say more that many of the strategies that were dominate for flight died off. I was guessing dominate air currents higher up, possibly something crazy like a change in dominate gasses.

Point being, same basic birds. Just new advantages steering dominate flight patterns. Not a new mechanism of flight.

(Which, yeah, I guess that is all part and parcel of evolution...)
...while loyalty cards, points, and systems are thriving... old population and retailers unwilling to take over the transactions fees. Dont’t make any philosophies out of it. The same reasons why the internet is so shit in this country.
Mac copied/cloned Xerox; Microsoft licensed Apple's UI.

Apple sued Microsoft, but lost the lawsuit because Microsoft legitimately licensed Apple's UI patents; except for a few minor elements like "trash can" icon.
Good luck proving we're not in compliance.
This video showing the hearses from just one of the flights bringing back bodies to the Netherlands is so powerful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NF45JfUkk

We (the rest of the world) must bring Russia to justice over this.
> Which specific EU country would have jurisdiction over an interaction which took place in the US?

OP’s country. The "place" that interaction took place in is irrelevant here, unless the company "doesn’t specifically target its services at individuals in the EU"; OP is citizen of an EU country so the GDPR rules apply.

(edit: rephrasing)
You should wash the eggs before opening them. If you cook them in boiling water without opening them (except for the prick at the bottom), I don't see how washing them beforehand would make a difference.
Well, I'm not qualified to judge Pearl's integrity.

I would note that Pearl is not necessarily the first or the only person to note that modern machine learning has problems associated with it, problems often described by "correlation is not the same as causation." We can see actual practical problems appear when machine learning systems are deployed in situations they make definite judgments affecting people's lives based only on factors correlated with a condition. In the extreme, if X,Y, Z factor are associated with someone acting criminally, are we allowed to arrest the person without a crime being committed? (etc).

So Pearl has some credibility stepping into this "breach" with his (perhaps sell-branded but) more mathematically grounded and statistically sound approach. Of course, the problem is no statics really gives a "sound" way to unambiguously predict a future datum only from past data. They Bayesian does describe how to make sound predictions when you happen to know prior probabilities, a view that "kicks the can down the road" as others have mentioned.

The thing is, in contrast to math, AI has involved a group of models, theories and ideas which have all broadly moved forward across the decades with their stars rising and falling but few being utterly discarded. This is because little to nothing can be proven and moreover, because despite presented alternatives, they intersect like fat Venn Diagrams if considered only formally (though as specific programs-of-research, they may be exclusive). Moreover, publicity is one key to a given approach getting more concrete implementations and ultimately getting funding, more researchers and chance to go the next generation. The relative speed of a neural net on a GPU might well be a key to this sort of model showing promising practical applications. Is this speed inherent or are other models waiting for optimized implementations? If such an optimized implementation is possible, it would require a specialized programmer and hence funding.

And this means? Well, I'm not sure what it means. Perhaps one could deduce a correct model of machine intelligence if one could determine and correct for the biases which currently drive the process.
I don’t see how that could be a problem. If Apple the hardware manufacturer asked Apple the App Store owner to change that rule, I don’t see why they would not do so.
Any good tips on marketing our SAAS?
Don't worry, all of us are in that boat. 1/2 the time is spent keeping the book away from him.
Robert Lusting has cery intersting book on this, and more specifically the influence of fructose sugar in diet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y
Exactly. The most basic/outrageous example: anyone in the EU who installs Apache and leaves it in its default configuration which logs all page visits indefinitely is now a criminal.

Spin up a DO/Linode/etc. instance and apt-get install apache2? You're now theoretically liable for a 20 million Euro fine.
Wouldn't it be sufficient to regulate outcome? I.e. mortality rate per passenger mile? Then, hypothetically, an AI company might be able to dispense with a lot of physical safety devices by taking advantage of the lower reaction times of a non-human driver.
To be fair, a lot (all?) of philosophy is very old. Many new developments are to improve the detail and precision of philosophical terminology.
The GPDR still doesn't allow for sites to gate access based on a user allowing their data to be harvested. It was done like this explicitly because of the way every site turned the cookie notice into a click to continue box
It's bad when other people do it, you know.
Ohh I didn't know the EU just outlawed internet ads, TIL I guess. /s

I can't stop laughing at the stupidity among americans
OT: Teach him sign language and he can tell you he wants to eat the book long before he can vocally do the same! I recommend starting at 6 months.
Swarm never executed and Mesos has Zookeeper/Java baggage.
Fast Forward 10 years: "and that's how decentralized internet was born"
I wouldn't put it past Trump to run the wall down the middle of New Mexico.
have you tried low or zero carb diets? I have found that I can much more easily go without eating on a high fat high protein diet.
You're welcome!

I would not really consider MSNBC and alike to be particularly progressive or left-wing myself, that would be something that Sarah Palin would believe, with her screams about "lamestream media". Among the clearly partisan publications though (AmCon has it right in the name, after all) they are quite good.

The red box contains rags that are only good for making you scratch your head and go "umm, cam people really be that dumb?". I would not consider those to be news sources at all. But the orange box has some quite popular left (and right)-wing sources like HuffPo that are involved in "unfair interpretation of the news" -- I'd think being there is already quite damning. At the same time, I have heard of HuffPo and DailyKos; Haven't heard of Democracy Now! will need to check it out.

I think you also need to make a distinction between primarily news and primarily opinion publications. I would expect both AmCon and, say, Mother Jones to apply their own interpretation to the news, but I would expect both to be honest about news and in their reasoning (well, most of the time anyway). I would not expect either to make up news to match their agenda, which is something that pubs in red and orange boxes often do.
This would have been a great comment without the "Cool story bro".

The salesperson could have convinced the grandmother to buy a "Sinclair iPhone by Timex", assuming it was packaged into something roughly phone-shaped. The problem here isn't the appearance of the product.
The south west is a damning indictment of big government short sightedness. The army corps of engineers diverted all these rivers to create irrigation, and now you’ve got all these people populating a region that wouldn’t naturally have been able to handle that kind of population.
I was curious how they implemented the side-effect checking, so I dug my way from the dev tools frontend eventually into v8, where it turns out to basically be a bunch of whitelist checks over bytecode and builtin javascript methods https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/e48d9788a4ef21d3bfffbc691bb02c...
Ah, nice. Might be something new, unless I missed in 2 years ago when I was there last time.
There’s a Crypto-Mining Machine in Every Home in Caracas
What if - hypothetically - you came up with something safer then airbag & seatbelt? Even if all your customers found it to be self-evidently true that it was safer the only thing that would matter would be if the regulator thought it was safer. A regulator who is likely controlled by the incumbents.

Now with something like car safety it's easy to say - no one will come up with something like this or if they do then the regulator will immediately allow it. But what about something like Internet privacy? I think it's more likely in that case for the rules like the GPDR to be used to protect incumbents by keeping out competition.
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You have a responsibility to your users, be they EU or not. The fact you consider "they keep sending it to me" means that you are not considering the whole privacy issue. This data is not yours to do with as you please. Yes they send it to you -- but you are listening, You are the active party here. There is a duty to protect your users data.
So lets unpick this. You think you're not doing anything dodgy with your users personal information. However you feel that their information is your information and users have absolutely 'no real reason to tell us to delete it' (apart from, you know, it being their information). Then you top it off by taking a screeching right turn and saying 'future is going to be creepy ... get over it'.

Riiiight. You sound like the perfect person to be handing my personal information and I would trust you to take full care of it.

Not.
Texas's governor, Greg Abbott sued the federal government to stop climate change regulations.

Then when Hurricane Harvey hit, he said the federal government needed to give him over $100 billion for the cleanup.
Real philosophy is a very subversive endeavor at the moment. Perhaps it always was. It's something for those who love knowledge, but not for those who expect any public recognition.

If you take the entire history of philosophy, it can be summed up as a discipline which inspires thoughts and questions. In a way, it's like a form of entertainment. I'm not sure it necessarily involves knowledge.
You're focusing on the enforcement issue, and I agree with all the points you've listed here.

My concern is that they're even trying to make this claim, and that so many fans of the GDPR think it's a reasonable one.
It only seems to be unique in that apple may be the first there.

Obviously everyone is going to move to it as it’s availability increases.
One thing I've noticed as a trend in children's books lately is that a lot of them are "novelizations" of single episodes of cartoons. For example, you can find a bunch of Star Wars Clone Wars books, and it turns out each book is an episode in the series.

I discovered this because we got my kid the books first, which I read to her a bunch of times, and then one day we sat down to watch the show together, which I'd actually never seen, and realized that the first two episodes I'd already read to her as books.

What was really cool though was that she had a much deeper understanding of those first couple episodes than the subsequent episodes, and actually preferred the books to the show.

Anyway, my whole point is that my single point of data seems to support this research -- that she processed better when read to.
Houston and Dallas are not really in arid regions, so water problems there are probably more political than anything else. Sante Fe and Phoenix on the other hand.... I don't know what they'll do.
> You wake up with a stuffed nose and immediately rush to the doctor's office?

So that may be the difference here, because I have a septum deviation, which means that my nose is permanently somewhat stuffed. But when I have temperature and feel sick, I absolutely go to the doctor every time. There's a few things that a doctor can do and I can't that can distinguish between "just a cold" and something more serious. For example, I cannot look into my own throat or into my own ears.

Your other comments indicate to me that this may be a cultural difference though. In Germany, it's normal to ask a coworker who appears to be sick to go to the doctor. Everywhere I've worked so far, there's a shared awareness that working while sick is a huge cost on the entire team. That goes for managers, too: They know that when e.g. a workplace accident happens and the person causing it was sick, the insurances are going to be asking a lot of uncomfortable questions.