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I agree. I've done the same thing in works of art - used art as a vehicle for communicating philosophical concepts. Which is fine, but there's no rigor there, no defense of the concept, no detailing the implications. There's no need, because I'm not creating or defending philosophical concepts, only sharing them.

I recently wrote a song called "Everything Is Made of Love", which lifted pretty heavily from Spinoza. The song works well, but it no way makes me Spinoza's peer. More recently, I've been reading some of the Frankfurt School thinkers, and their idea of art as a means of expressing revolutionary (in a political sense) ideas. I looked back on a play I wrote/produced last year in that context, and was very pleased to see how well I expressed the ideas of Marcuse et al, manipulating pop culture in order to criticize society on other levels, even though I wasn't really cognizant of the Frankfurt School at the time.
Better targeted ads for some truly unequivocally beneficial things like scholarships might be a good thing, all else being equal. But:

1. Targeted ads requires enormous machineries of surveillance and file-keeping. Having too much information in closely related form is akin to having too much uranium in close proximity; it causes problems all of its own almost just by merely existing.

2. Ads in general, even the beneficial ones are, by definition, distracting from whatever content we were trying to read. See: São Paulo’s “Cidade Limpa”.
I feel like this isn't well-enough understood in my circles. Many people I know and talk to about it seem to think that organic means no pesticides, which is indeed far from true.

Interestingly enough, something similar came up when we were looking for car seats for the first time, years ago. We were trying to limit flame retardants, which was(is still?) almost impossible. The best we could do was contact manufacturers and ask them what they used and how the fabric is made and flame retardant applied. At the time there was one pretty new, really expensive car seat company that basically implied that their car seats had no flame retardant at all, which wasn't true because otherwise they would not meet standards, and a bunch of popular bloggers and (at least minor) celebrities were promoting it as chemical-free, when it really, really wasn't.

In the end we found one brand that was OEKO-TEX certified and actually told us what they used and how they used it, which was about the best we could hope to get.

How many people know what pesticides their organic foods/producers use? I hardly know, and I care about this stuff more than just about anyone I know.
It's not quite what you're asking for, but Treeverse represents the conversation (including replies) as a tree https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse (disclosure: I wrote it)
Monzo started the first new bank in the UK for a while. It appeared laborious and they are losing £30m/year but I think they will be profitable.
I've never had metheglin, but I've tried a few different meads after reading about it and was deeply disappointed. As far as I'm concerned, that hyped version of mead is a fictional drink.
Ok, thaks for sharing.
How about re-using / hacking intel's ME (Management Engine) for this type of fault tolerance?
okay, let's start one. we just need to find a few hundred million.

any takers?
I have a hankering for tomacco myself
Those with the hammer, one looking within and the other out.
Forget it, damage is always as fun as improvement.
Permanent state of Rasputin -- I can do that just as well.
Just more easily passive, can also deal with mistletoe.
Now I'm angry.
Breakthrough allows amputees to feel a prosthetic belongs to their body
Business owners have a big incentive to keep you: They don't want you to leave. Hiring a replacement is time consuming and expensive.

Employers don't like hiring and interviewing any more than employees do.
Here somebody claims superconductivity above 200 Celsius.

http://www.superconductors.org/216C209C.htm
I think the bizarre thing was that someone (allegedly) posed as a researcher in an attempt to get a different researcher to back down.
The Eyes Have It: DeepMind’s AI 3D OCT Scans
Scrolling worked fine for me.
Sorry, missed this. I'll try to explain. A real computer doesn't actually have an infinite tape (memory) like a canonical Turing Machine, it's actually a finite state machine with a vast amount of possible states that we conveniently think about as analogous to a Turing machine, hence the the halting problem is actually solvable (just not in practice) for real hardware.

Given content that can be expressed in two languages in a text of finite length, you could in theory enumerate all the possible translated texts.
My preferred behavior would be for CFN to not barf when rolling forward. In other words, to be able to assume control over a resource that already exists.
A Harvard Scientist's Test for Heart Attack Risk, Wants to Give It Away Free
More than 1M people default on their student loans each year
Phoronix now has Windows 10 vs Linux tests:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-l...

Sure enough, many of the benchmarks feature dramatically better performance on Linux. Michael also writes:

"The Windows 10 vs. Linux tests were done out of opportunity with having that Windows installation around without giving it too much thought, but on this 2990WX launch-day it's been surprising to see some of the performance results from some of the Windows publications. Had I known how poorly Windows 10 works on current high core count NUMA environments under some workloads, I would have certainly ran more benchmarks. But that will come in another article then as well as possibly looking at the Windows Server 2016 vs. Linux performance on the 2990WX to see if Windows behaves better there for this NUMA box. So treat this as the introductory article and more Windows vs. Linux benchmarks will be on the way as time allows."
The most effective "shrinking" of ML models that I've seen (very limited experience, YMMV) is through "pruning". Searching for "arxiv pruning" is an excellent starting point, and a couple of those papers include metrics for accuracy vs size and the tradeoffs therein.
Right, I was just pointing out that OPs case is in the minority of tax filers and that making this option available would benefit a lot of tax-filers and wouldn't prevent OP from filing their taxes as they normally would.
Or a Mac IIfx... "Wicked Fast".
Could be an honest mistake, except that the authors are defending it, which rings the alarm bells. Not even getting to the spoofed email...
For those like me who don't know what Furby is:

"Furby is an American electronic robotic toy released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics. It resembles a hamster or owl-like creature and went through a period of being a "must-have" toy following its holiday season launch, with continual sales until 2000. Over 40 million Furbies were sold during the three years of its original production, with 1.8 million sold in 1998, and 14 million in 1999. Its speaking capabilities were translated into 24 languages."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby
> In 0.25.0 we tried to improve the inferred type of unions of sibling types. Although it worked well for the compiler itself, some codebases out there exhibited some combinatorial explosion of unions due to this change.

What is a union of sibling types? Why would improving type inference require unions to be _generated_? I skimmed the PR referenced in the changelog, but it assumes domain knowledge I don't have (I'm only nominally familiar with Crystal).
You don't have to guess :) About 26.5 million had losses or gains from sale of property (of which stock trades is the simplest case).

Stock trades are also reported to the IRS, although the basis often isn't.
The Spy Who Licked Me–Inside the CIA’s Cat Espionage Fail
At some point, Google started doing really aggressive increases in their captcha difficulty based on IP trust or even outright refusing to let people try and solve them at all. Since there's going to be a large overlap between IPs that Cloudflare force through the captcha and IPs that Google distrust, this means that anyone trying to access the internet through a network that Cloudflare has put on their evil list will probably find the whole web completely unusable. Of course, any employees testing the captcha feature will go though the easy path and not see the problem...
How Charter Schools Cook the Books
> By the way, the video itself is super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

Covering up your tracks, eh? Ok, we'll play along. Everybody click on the link provided by Jorge "Totally not into iron smelting more than anyone else" GT.
Intel actually is a chip manufacturer that has the best dev support for organizations. e.g. Intel is the biggest contributor for the Linux ecosystem. It is just their business model didn't work well for open-source consumer IoT device market which is driven by hobbyist and relatively small companies.
In principal it could, and this is why Brian Skinner wrote his note in the way he did, simply pointing out the facts. It is odd, however, that the two data series in question match at lower temperatures but not higher temperatures. It would be odd to be manipulating one portion of a series of data like that.
If they don't have a solution already, anything that schedules custom pharmacy mixes based on physician orders in a medical records system is worth millions. I wouldn't go so far as to connect it to an actual drug mixing system though -- let the pharmacists take care of that.

These are short-lived mixes that can't be stored for a long time, so must be prepared on-site.

Bonus if you can plug into an inventory system and get alerts for drug shortages. These can happen pretty regularly, on the order of six or seven times per year.

You'll write a lot of custom code to connect to that medical system API, and often there are surprise and sparsely documented features. That's mostly why you set a high price for it.

We did one of these and quickly saved the hospital millions because we had before and after photos of pharmacy waste generated. They weren't wasting drug mixes for cancelled orders any more when a doctor forgot to call/fax the pharmacy or the patient had been checked out/moved.

Before-hand, they were collecting this information manually with some cobbled together reports. It was nuts.

This isn't turnkey though. You will work for the money trying to sell to hospitals with bloated change management processes.
I'd personally like exactly the opposite. Get rid of all the pauses, but speak normal speed.

For me every time someone pauses I tend to "tune out" of what they are saying. Pause too often and I can't stand listening.
Also check out Griffin: https://griffin.sh
They are not struggling with QC, they are cutting corners and trying to sell cheap parts under a big markup.

Please remember that this is the same Lenovo that had issues with installing spyware to muzzle change from their own customers.

I was 10+ years Thinkpad user, bought T480s (over 2.5k euros) that had failing keyboard. I sent it back, and after 6 weeks got the same keyboard, only the key 9 is now collapsed, and as a bonus I can not enter BIOS anymore: computer just happily reboots now.

I believe that this will be studied in schools as a lesson on good brands being destroyed for short term profits.
USEFUL (!!!). Will definitely use the next time I can't decide on where to eat
Nothing happens, and I see this in the developer console:

ReferenceError: WebAssembly is not defined

Does this need some kind of special browser?
The IRS administers and enforces the income tax laws beyond the parameters of the laws passed by Congress and signed by the President as well as beyond the parameters laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Moreover, the IRS’s own internal procedures, manuals and literature itself indicate the IRS knowingly deceives the American public about the scope of its true income tax authority.
I'm saying that many people have tax returns that are not easy to file but should be. My stock transactions are just one example.

As soon as return free filing becomes an option, intermediaries will pop up to automate IRS reporting for many other taxable transactions (think Square for plumbers and business credit cards for automatic business expense deductions). Even those who have simple returns are wasting half an hour a year.
What a driverless world could look like.
Tearing down Product Hunt's email marketing (case study)
Were you able to reproduce this effect on analogous 55mph/65mph roads? Are you sure you aren't just used to driving 75mph on highways in general (ie you're not from Seattle), and found speed limit signs that actually matched?

Driving through rural areas you must have experienced the sudden ~30mph sign, signifying a town coming up. Did this "drive what you feel" approach line up there too? When the town was at the bottom of a hill?

For context, I've done around 25k miles cross-country non-interstate. I've concluded that what the individual states choose to sign as the general maximums has more to do with local culture and politics than with general terrain.
It sounds like all the same protections and uses you get with USD. I get the impression Coinbase may be moving in that direction if they haven't already.

What advantages over USD are there for using bitcoin to buy domains or items from amazon?
Show HN: Kieli, a minimalistic LSP client for Python 3.4+
To be fair, combining some of the HN comments:

$ python
Python 3.7.0 (default, Jul 22 2018, 21:11:34)
[Clang 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.2)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import unicodedata as ud
>>> ud.normalize('NFKD', '''It's a kinda ascii-art thing that 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔫 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔣𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰. 𝕆𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕔 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖.
...
... 𝙸𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝?''')
"It's a kinda ascii-art thing that lets you answer hn comments all fancy like this. Or like this if you want less gothic more outline.\n\nIsn't unicode great?"
>>>

You'd hope a screen reader would have more effort put into it than a 3 second read of a HN thread?
Not normalise, just set the rules you want to apply. Internationalised domain names suffer this issue, so cribbing their fix probably would work for you - pick a script, restrict allowable characters to it.

You probably never want to allow unrestricted use of any character set for a username, even ASCII - otherwise I could take the username 'bjt2n3904 '.
When you announce room temperature superconductors, you sure as heck better have found and fixed every single error, including dumb ones like excel copy/paste errors. You touch that topic like you touch cold fusion.

And besides, if it was something as simple as that then all they need to do is release their data. They haven't.
Lenovo’s New P1 Workstation Packs Xeon, 64GB ECC RAM, 4TB SSD into 0.7 Inches
So instead of spending time on researching only deduction part let's force poor people spend time to do entire process.
It's almost like Twitter isn't intended for this sort of communication.
So do Germans who want to get from one city to another exit the Autobahn and drive on surface streets to avoid the de-restricted sections? Of course not.
iirc, it was removed/postponed to make reaching 1.0 more obtainable
Or you buy good graphics card and you blow CPU out of the water. But it is true for render engines like Arnold or Corona CPU is main thing. For cycles get gpu.
Anything on the Food Pyramid

https://i.stack.imgur.com/RAOEu.jpg
I sent you (Dylan) an email, but openly for discussion:

I'm building a product around an interactive learning system. Users train it themselves, with our assistance as needed. But I don't want to ship a puppy that will piss on your rug... and it would be great if it already had some useful skills and intuitions out of the box...

So I want to carefully anonymize that data by hand, and retain it for training models that all customers can benefit from. (I also want to train models to recognize PII, but only to assist humans in doing the task; no amount of error would be considered acceptable for this.)

I honestly don't see any problem, but I had a security consultant nearly spew beer on me when I got to that part, and insist that I drop that line of thinking.

I need more advice on this.

(The only other path I can think of is homomorphic encryption... but I would not want to retain it in the the case where the original is deleted...)
That's not what the evidence shows.

Also, it goes against traffic design principles, even in the US. (see: 85th percentile)
This is similar to college students who study “consulting” as a discipline. Certainly there are important things to learn about consulting strategies. However, if you aren’t a subject matter expert in the field you are consulting, I don’t want to hear it.
The U.S. Becomes an Oil Economy
>And as said elsewhere, avoid "predatory" journals - they ... don't give credibility

worse. They taint what credibility you have. It’s like buying a degree from a degree mill “school”.
Windows version has way better performance, but it doesn't support mods so nobody cares about it.
For some reason, in the French language itself the same distinction eventually appeared.

In regular language, you would call porc the meat that comes from a cochon, and bœuf the meat of a vache.

It's not as clear cut as in English, as a bœuf is also an ox, and you can also call a pig a porc, but I think it indicates that the linguistic distinction between an animal and its meat is indeed at its core a dehumanizing process, it might just have been helped by the French-speaking rulers of England, but it still happened in France eventually, more recently and without exterior intervention.
There is absolutely no way you'll remember this but years and years ago--when I was maybe 13--I found Katahdin somewhere online and was absolutely enamored by the idea (I can say with a lot of confidence that it's what sparked my interest in programming languages/compiler research). I think I contacted you for help installing and using the project. You were one of the nicest people I've ever met for having the patience to assist me with something you had probably put down for a couple of years at that point when I probably understood 0% of what you were saying. Anyways, I remember at the time you had just listed Mersey Burns on your website. It's super cool to see that it's still something that you're doing and that it's been a success. Just wanted to thank you again and congratulate you on this :)
I didn't downvote you, but I didn't understand your proposal. Are you suggesting prohibiting anyone from serving on more than one board, or from joining a board that already contains someone who is also on a board they're already on?
Well, they have a speed they're comfortable with, AND an amount over the limit by which they feel (legally) 'safe' at.

All this proves is that they don't want to go much more than 10 over the limit, AND the speed at which they feel safe is at least (but maybe higher than!) 80mph.
Turkey's financial crisis might be canary in the coal mine for global crash
Like Google and Facebook?
This was short, honest, and really refreshing. I'll have to read more of him.
Same author wrote _True Names_, which pre-dates the internet and yet nails a bunch of internet crime concepts (it's not about black ICE it's about someone doxing you, etc). Some sci-fi authors had a vision of the future, Vinge went on a 3 month vacation to the future.
https://exif.tools/http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/SunOS.tfs.pdf
Nvidia's BFGD: Everything we know so far about their Big Format Gaming Displays
GCC and clang do. As a matter of fact, MSVC does too, to some extent (CGTHREADS option, iirc).
Superconductors.org is an old and well-known sham.
My experience with writing is that edits feel much larger while you're making them. But when you take the final version and actually diff it to the original, and take into account e.g. moving rather than deleting and rewriting text, then the differences are actually quite small.

The main exception is when you literally throw everything away and start from scratch. The odds of writing the exact same words twice are basically nil. But I'm not sure this should count as "editing" in the same sense as when I'm doing word-and-line copy editing.

I haven't done a rigorous comparison with code, but it would be interesting to take a tool like Moss and see how similar it thinks the code is after <N> revisions of the source.
I listened to an episode of Freakonomics I believed where the (now former) CEO of PepsiCo said that it was harder for her to promote a woman because people would think that she was promoting them based solely on gender.

Can you imagine the uproar if Obama had appointed "too many Black people" to positions of power? He would have been called the "first affirmative action President". He was already being accused of being "a secret Muslim trying to bring Sharia law to the United States".
Even if this is true, most people don't know how boring their taxes are until someone tells them. So the argument is that by making it easier to falsely believe no special cases apply to them, more people will file their taxes incorrectly.

You might predict otherwise, or you might think the cost is outweighed by the benefit to the people who really do have boring taxes.

But I think the argument makes sense.
Whereas, at 79mph, the stopping distances are positively miniscule!
https://exif.tools/https://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pd...
Fuel economy should be listed in fuel volume per distance. (I assume it is not partially due to automobile/petroleum industry pressure.)

1. 10 gal/100mi -> 8.3 gal/100mi

2. 8.3 gal/100mi -> 6.7 gal/100mi

3. 6.7 gal/100mi -> 5 gal/100mi

4. 5 gal/100mi -> 3.3 gal/100mi

5. 3.3 gal/100mi -> 1.7 gal/100mi

Of course, vehicles with better fuel efficiency tend to travel further (not a lot of tractors driving across country or whatever). So the priority should be (a) get the least efficient vehicles off the road entirely, (b) reduce total miles driven, (c) switch long distance trips away from grossly inefficient vehicles, (d) improve efficiency of other vehicles.

Increased petroleum/carbon taxes in places where people drive inefficient vehicles would be a big help (possibly offset by some kind of subsidy so the change doesn’t hammer the poor, ideally universal basic income or the like).