skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the early Intel GPU efforts were hillariously bad partly because they licensed someone else's GPU...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub#Poulsbo

There /still/ isn't support for this closed platform on Linux/etc based systems due to a combination of (now) outdated hardware, very few systems in developer hands (even lower interest), and the lack of performance even with proper drivers* (I don't have a good citation for that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_(microarchitecture)

It didn't help that the power requirements fell very solidly in to the uncanny valley between 'crappy, but very low power so we can forgive it' and 'good, but uses lots of power'.
As a former low GPA student, I thank you.

> I have frequently noticed the best employees I’ve hired are not the top students
> I actually never ask about education

How do you know they are not the top students? Just from chatting over lunch, etc?
3. Click the "web" link underneath the title link.
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I'll know I'm living in the future when I can buy a BigDog at REI.
> With read-only OAuth access, there isn't really any value to attackers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fappening
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Our vax cost $500,000. It's not something you just get more of :-)
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Lack of sleep is linked to a miriad of health problems but I’m not convinced it’s a causal factor for Alzheimers.
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> Google is bad at doing literal, verbatim string searches these days and all I want sometimes is like Google 2005ish era search, just PageRank based and no modern machine learning, etc

You can get most of the way to this with the verbatim option, but I think they make it difficult to make the default.

> By using the Verbatim tool Google will not make the following changes:
•	Personalizing your search using websites you have visited before;
•	Including synonyms of your search terms;
•	Automatic spelling corrections;
•	Searching for words with the same stem e.g. “Shopping” when searched for “shop”;
•	Finding results that match similar terms to those in your query.
So what would you call the meaning of the low GPA? It is clearly meaningful to you. How would you describe the candidates you’re rejecting with this heuristic? It could mean anything from “i can’t read” to “i dropped out to form a business”.

I don’t see any value for the gpa beyond preparing students for performance reviews and identifying whether or not they give a shit about the material. And why would they? High Schools teach few real life skills and a lot of bad habits. Even in college, you’ll learn more (in some cases) by skipping class and building things.

Without context, gpa is not a meaningful metric
https://www.codemag.com/Article/1807051/Introducing-.NET-Cor... might help with Readonlysequence too
> There is even a Russian proverb on the topic: “Smiling with no reason is a sign of stupidity.”

No there is not. There is a saying that "laughter without a reason is a sign of a fool" ("смех без причины - признак дурачины"), not smiling. I doubt any American will consider unreasonable laughter to be normal.
Yeah good point, though probably one could make this point by showing statistics about how much tax is due versus paid. I’m sure the numbers are stark.
i suppose you mean you want to do that with code, and not using a tool ( because my first search would be for command line tool or automation software using a combination of pdf to jpg then crop then export in pdf).

You could parse the pdf for that bit of text then simply recreate a new one with the correct size. But it depends a lot of how that label is printed ( using one block for the whole label or one per letter). Basically it's a lot of work or not depending on the number of cases you need to deal with.

I know python has a python miner library, you may want to try that
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This is getting quite irresponsible and sad.
The reason nothing too terrible(apart from election tampering) has yet happened is simply because the current market demand for developers prevents us from engaging in malicious behaviour.

However, once there's a market downturn, this data will be used for criminal purposes in no time. The malware industry in east european countries with good engineering talent exploded in the 90s after their economies collapsed.
But who cares right?

I feel like this level of naivety towards powering interoperability with brute openness today is just plain stupid and will lead towards a backlash or risk all out witch-hunt against developers and intellectuals in general.
That risk is becoming unacceptable in my opinion and it is worth it to start regulating a bit our profession.
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Not sure if it's intentional, but it looks like your sign up and submit application form got mixed up. The application requires a work email or specifically a not gmail-domain-email to apply.
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$1.2B is around 100x their market cap.
"fractional reserve banking" would be the case if Coinbase lends more than it holds in their accounts. That's impossible with bitcoins.
That is a really good observation. Microgravity environments have an issue with the lack of sediment settling, and while the current centrifuge system are effective, it would be really interesting if you could separate the precipitates without spinning everything.
> Are these permissions strictly enforced?

Yes, each of those items corresponds to an OAuth scope. If you try to make an API call for data that isn't covered by the OAuth scopes you have access to, you'll just get an error.

Developers can add broader OAuth scopes to their apps at any point, but if they do then all their users will need to re-authenticate and will see that the app now requires additional permissions.

C.f.: https://developers.google.com/gmail/add-ons/concepts/scopes
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Brilliant idea! I have been renting for the past 15 years and for a good chunk of it in between of two stretches of 3-4 years, was in the same building. Would have been great if I could have made some savings off of those stays! Excited to see this being rolled out :)
No. For this app to get access to your email you would have to click through a prompt saying "this app can read all of your email". The profile, email, and OpenID scopes are just profile info. Still sometimes more info than is needed by the relying party (you don't really need to know my gender), but tightly scoped and enforced by any OAuth provider.
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From an end user perspective I want control over what I have installed, and where it is installed. I want to be able to install multiple versions of an application, I want to be able to put that application on any volume, I want to be able to put that application on a thumb drive and run it on a different PC, I want to be able to install the latest version without having to wait for the repo to be updated, I want to be able to install applications that aren't in the repo, and I want to be able to do it without library conflicts and version mismatches. I have never in my life seen a package manager that can do those things.

From a developer perspective I just make appdirs anyway, because to me part of what makes personal computing great is being able to make an application and distribute it myself without having to kowtow to 200 different package repositories.

>Whatever the drawbacks of package managers, that seems like the only sustainable model if you remotely care about security.

If your OS doesn't give you any application sandboxing features whatsoever because its stuck in the idea that permissions apply only to users, then maybe. Most of the shared libraries you'd care about security patches for should be part of the base system so appdirs don't have to include them. Of course, that means actually having a stable and well defined base system. On the whole, however, I think people who make this argument should probably be using OpenBSD if they claim to care about security so much. Like I said, it's a tradeoff, you don't have to agree.
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The continued failure of efforts to remove amyloid by immunotherapy is provoking a lot of diversity in theory in the Alzheimer's community. This is economics 101: theorizing is cheap, running trials is expensive. Expect to see more of the cheap thing than the expensive thing.

The challenge in Alzheimer's disease is most likely that it has several mechanisms that are all of similar importance to degeneration. Get rid of one of them and benefits are obscured by the others.

The most likely list is amyloid aggregation, tau aggregation, neuroinflammation (covering microglial dysfunction, persistent infection), energy metabolism issues (covering mitochondrial aging, loss of capillary density, etc), and vascular dementia.

So therapies are needed that can address many of these issues at once. An example is the approach of restoring drainage of cerebrospinal fluid, e.g. at Leucadia Therapeutics. That should reduce all metabolic waste in the brain by restoring a normal sink for amyloid, tau, and anything else that might be an issue along the way.

The amyloid hypothesis seems unlikely to be wrong; there is extensive evidence for amyloid aggregation to cause tau aggegation to cause neurodegeneration. It just isn't the only problem: certainly vascular dementia (present to a clinical level in 30%+ of Alzheimer's patients) is severe enough to question whether it is a major problem in those trials that reduced amyloid and failed to greatly improve dementia. The other big plausible issue is that amyloid is the early stage of Alzheimer's, while tau is the later stage - so messing with amyloid levels is not the way to go for late stage, severely impacted patients. Still has to be done, but it if picking only one, then tau clearance is a better bet.
What it really comes down to is that the Challenger exploded due to man's folly in exploring outer space. /s
I'm Russian, and I parse "смех" as equivalent to "laughter" and "smiling". Yes, they're technically different words, but a person who smiles without a reason looks equally as idiotic as another who laughs without a reason.
A tad misleading, they filed to issue up to $1.2B more of their almost worthless stock over the next 3 years. They haven't actually raised any money. Here is the filing:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040792/000121390018...

I'm not savvy enough to give it a full Matt Levine treatment so hopefully he will soon.
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The change on my iPhone (on max temperature) is very noticeable.
I am skeptical; prove that it proves such a thing.

Might it not actually be easier to prove that the Python code sorts than that the Idris code proves sorting?
I mean, was the alternative to construct them on site? Is that what would have happened if not for the political pressure? It seems likely that they would have been manufactured SOMEWHERE requiring transport, no matter what.
What you're missing is that bikes, and especially ebikes, are far more viable for transport than most Americans think. In Copenhagen for example bikes are actually the primary mode of transport, outnumbering cars on the roads. Bikes are literally the fastest way to get around in many places.

There are a number of reasons it doesn't work well in the States, but broadly it boils down to a) fitness levels, and b) cultural values, that is, spending on car infrastructure helps American car manufacturers, American dealerships, and American car owners, whereas diverting money to bike infrastructure benefits liberal hippies or something.

ebikes directly address the fitness problem, and there are various technical reasons why they have not been viable until now, mostly boiling down to an improved Li-Ion supply chain. That said, a good ebike is still very expensive, and the ridesharing model works here for the same reason that people spend $15 to take a Lyft downtown instead of buying a $25k sedan they own.

The infrastructure problem is harder, but perversely, these services may be able to crack that one too. Uber/Lyft are quite famously adept at strongarming local governments and just in general the political system is more responsive to moneyed interests than hobbyists. Were bicycling to go from liberal hippie pasttime to Real American Business™ that may resolve the political will to improve the infrastructure. Now adding a bikelane is supporting American innovation and jobs (somebody has to charge those bikes) rather than diverting resources from them.
If you have ssh access to a friendly server you can use shadowsocks. It is easy to set up (no certificates and mucking with firewall rules like VPN), and works perfectly, at least for me.
Well, maybe compressing water does not force molecules to align this way, bu enough pressure will cause water to align in a crystal lattice (not normal ice but something exotic like ice III, ice V, or ice VI).
It's fractal, I think?

Novel technology becomes optimized and ubiquitous and newer more complex technology is built on top of it. Then the same happens to that tech.
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> "It wasn't built with the idea", but yet you can do that, because of the UNIX philosophy of chaining commands together. So I think if you're calling it a "hack", then you fundamentally disagree with the UNIX philosophy.

I disagree with the fact that the unix philosophy hasn't been updated since the 70s and text parsing is still considered the height of chianing applications together. I call it a hack because that's exactly what it is.
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Probably because many people here missed out on all that easy money.
That wasn't OAuth-related though, the attackers just guessed or brute forced their iCloud passwords.
Yep, I'm looking for a way to do that with automation somehow, either code or even a command-line tool, just not manually with a GUI.

My issue with JPG conversion is the lossiness factor introduced there; I'm trying to avoid that.

There should only be one case: a single label on a letter-size page surrounded by a lot of whitespace. I'll check out that miner library; thanks!!
EDIT: The obvious retort is "what about microwaves?" After all kitchen microwaves operate on the same frequency as your home WiFi. Your desktop microwave acts not by harmonics with the rotational frequency of water, a common myth, but by that that effect I mentioned of smaller frequency back-scattering and thermal agitation. Your counter-top microwave emits 1kW of power into the food put inside it, which is 100-1,000x as much as your cell phone antenna puts out. And it does so inside a closed cavity instead of an omnidirectional antenna. At that power and with full absorption, thermal effects are no longer negligible.

That's why, for example, technicians working with cell phone tower and microwave antenna installations turn off equipment before standing near the transmitter. They do take proper safety precautions. But the concern here is cooked meat, not some abstract radiation or bio-poisoning thing that will cause cancer 10 years down the line.

The concern over cell phone radio emissions started in part due to the large amount of anecdotal reports from those technicians of insects suffering die off near transmitter stations and migratory birds flying straight into the things, killing themselves. But we shouldn't be surprised -- these insects and birds have large organs meant to sense magnetic fields which operate as crude radio antennas, making them actually sensitive to the EM radiation being put out. But this really isn't any different than, say, deer getting trapped by bright headlights on a dark road, and we shouldn't take it as evidence that the same mechanism might be affecting human beings.

Then again, if you for whatever reason have a conductive surgical implant anywhere near your head or pocket, I wouln't suggest using a cell phone or laptop (on your lap). The concern is not great, but that does put you in the same situation as those insects and birds. I wouldn't be worried about the devices used by poeple around you though (1/R^2 laws and all that).
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